Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1944 — Page 2

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Reveals Details 01 Last Clapper Flight Columnist Died In Collision Os Planes Advanci-d I'nited State- Ait Baa*. Central Pae ike F<-h ' il l*' A lust look at the Kw.ijalein Invasion area in the Marshalls may have cost Raymond Clapper his life. Pilots say tli sqnaJron commander flying the columnist appatently wanted t give Clapper mu, h« look at the il.imaio-d airheld on Eniwi-tok just before the fatal crash. S< iire.mt BiU.m Ft i» <>f Pittsburgh says tile Avengers had drill |» <1 th<-i ItOinhs and were maneuvering bark into formation Tin n the comrnandei peeled off f r unothi. dive over the hel l A< < oriiinc to othe- pilots. Ferris «a d. Ui< commander did not see another Avenge-i flying jrt“’ off hi* wing and la-low him Tin- plane* < li'teri and both crashed in the Eniv etok ac on No survivors were seen Ferrin the ia< man to talk to t ’iappe- !>• I>: • the take-off from the <u ier. said the columnist took with him a little brown bear, a goo.l lilt k piece The Itear. men t lotted in a recent column, was given It tn by hie daughtei Ntrvera) of Clapper's article* ate being sent to I’eail lla.b i for lute release NO CIVILIAN FOOD (Continue! From Page !• I to: It’ll Knut* n is -i high inking niliiat ity itu-nibt >! th house ways and means iiinimittie He says the committee intend* to devote th< ■ rest of the year to simplifying th< AT FIRST nx SIGN OF A C9b66 466 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE MOW

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' CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE It really was only one room, with its complement of bath and tiny kitchen. And there wasn’t a plact where even Stray could have hidden. But it vindicated me just the rame. For our flashlights showed us that the place had been used recently and vacated in a hurry. Th<- cushion* of a large studio rnueh under the window on the porch side were dented A would-be Navajo blanket lay on the floor beside it in n rumpled heap. A half empty bottle and two used gls’sc* the bottle contained a prepares! cocktail mixture—stood abandoned on a table. “Musta made a noise and seared •e?n away," the Inspector remarked “But you might b* right at that, about the man tiring Linwood. Would account for his late walks, aul not retell-cting where he >h<4tered that right in the storm: him meeting a woman on the sly. Tome to think of it. Hatch Mid Linwood and his wife didn't act like they was married, and he treats her just like all the other actresses. Beats me how they got away without u- meeting 'em,” he went on, more to himself than to me. “Must gone down am-ng the cliffs, or up through the woods. Like the murderer. Re member. you said nin the a wav from the inn and the theatre . Wv-ell. they*® a path al! around that clearing in the woods, and another cuts acron it by the big elms in the middle. Fact is, they's |>atha everywhere in thio place Too many fatten gill pulled out a. handkerchief and picked up the bottle with it gingerly. “You got gloves with you?" he asked. And when I nodded; “Hood! Put 'em on. You may carry them glasses for me. Looks like 1 got some fingerprints at last. Wam't any in that room over to the <4d tnn, outside the murdered man’t.’’ . • *lt you find fingerprint’ on the botlli or the glasses: what’ll you do with them?” I asked. •Trint the whole bunch at the theatre and find out whom they be long to." The Inspector smiled - going fatherly on me again. And — less I forget: what makes you think you eould swear it »»• Lin ' wood with Mr. Loring's girl? “Who else could it have been?” I countered. “Bill Parris and Orne Piuh<*n are out with Linda And ao’a Wells Colby—not that I ean see Sondra going for hsm-and all the ether actors are still at the theatre. So—wh« s left ? _, The Inspector seemed to accept lay argument. A ays ay, he accompanied me all the way to the Innafter stopping at h» . posit the precious fingerprints tow me I’d been a real help nefflee saying night- and premised h-d haveStraybackforasetatbcmoenl wa rows. aB full lacyvt w dedtxtfog. Undo eras henaw. dosotafl esc its bad s»« •a th. carpet grdl er what hare

fe f ■ml ■«. M \ / *»'artfrk - tsß™ Wwflrt ’ZJKIjC A OEYSCR OF WATER .hoots high as B-25 Mitchell medium bombers of the U. S. Fifth Air Force drop their missiles on Jap barges as they try to land supplies along the New Guinea coast. Such forays arc everyday occurrences since the Yanks stepped tip the tempo of their air-land<ea warfare in the South Pacific. An Forces photo. (International)

tax structure. He adds that —a«far as congress >e concerned the new bill is the last revenue meas- ! tin that »ill he considered during • the present session. TWO AMERICAN (Contlnowi Tt no, Pms •) i>-.:l-' nr Kwajaleln Atoll A' lie moiii-nl. there's little to add t > the story of our successful t nava. if Paratnu1 -hito islat I 111 the noi'h'-rn Pai lint the Toky > radio has - bid Ki’iiethfng to »ay on th< s-t’i- | j., Ii desi i i-bi-d th« American bomha. ilui'-nt as ail "attempted

eaphiiutd when I knocked and pecked in, attracted by n streak of light under her door. “So 1 made them stop at the first roadside place we came to for dinner. And afterwards we came straight home.” That meant: Colby, Paulsen and young Parris had been in Fern Cove aft. r all. and one of them could have been the man with Sondra. It was highly improbable though, 1 divided while getting ready for b' >i, at the ungodly hour of not-qu;te-ten. Sondra wouldn’t look at I'olby. Paulson wouldn't look at Sondra. And Bill Parris—? For one thing: Sondra was ten years older than Bill Parns. For another: why should he scheme to get Loring's fortune in this roundabout manner when part of it would come to him in the natural courae of events ? Or—would it ? He wasn't actually related to Loring. Only his stepmother was. Perhaps he was planning to cheat her, the same way that she was trying to defraud Linda. The problem was altogether too complicated. My head was begming to ache with the puzale of it and 1 resolved, for my own sake, that it had to be Linwood I'd heard in the cottage, and so to bed, grateful the day was over. Presently I slept. Not very deeply though. For suddenly I found my self sitting bolt upright in bed. Wide-awake, and straining my ears for a repetition of the sound that must have wakened me. It didn't come. I could hear nothing but a silence so profound it seemed like a wall, and was on the point of lying down again, convinced I'd only heard some fellow guest coming home late—that is, late for Fem Cove. The illuminated dial of my traveling clock said eight minutes past eleven—when it came again. A scuffling noise, and a suppressed groan—in Linda's room. I turned on my bedside lamp and was out of bed, across the room and through the bathroom hall in one movement, pounding on Linda's door. Calling: “Linda! Linda! What’s going on ?" and pulling the door open at the same time. Linda's room was pitch dark. It took seconds before I could mak< out the outlines of the furniture, la the faint light filtering in from my room. And something else—samething swaying in the middle of the room Two figures, dose together in what looked like an embrace and was not. One light—one dark ... I called again: “Linda! Linda! Who's that with you?” and made a dash for the light switch beside the door leading to the outer hall. The essaying group dissolved. Te light figure collapsed. The dark owe —a tall mar w ithout a far-leaped upon me Flinging me away from the switch with a force that snapped my head back against ths wall aad Made stars explode all around see. Seat there wart hurried two. A deoc stemmed Another. And than ail nesee soared aad easy the loud, “bearing stUbos. of the Maiw tvmmtr ni<bt remained. yo« •« Hrtt. UsSa?* I ’*»’'< ***•» ask tree • great ms A moan aaswaeod.

' rt.nk," and add>-d the boast that the Jap gairiMHl repulsed the attack within 2ff minutes The Japanese of courue. claim damage wa negligible At the > (Uihwes’ern corner of 'in- Pacific, on New Guinea, our fliers sank 34 Imrges and a coastal j .easel In striking at two major oases Wewak and Hansa Bay. And piane-r from the Solomons hammered an airfield at Rabaiil. Ne-s Britain On the New Guinea land front. Australian troops on the Huon peninsula are nearing a junc’ion With the- Americans Less than 1G miles separate the two forces. New American air action has

I crawled to the door, groping for the light switch, found it.... The next moment the room was flooded with radiance, showing Linda in a heap on the floor. In her nightgown. Her eyes staring. Her hands nursing her throat. “He tried to—to strangle me," she Mid brokenly. “Who?” “I’m not—sure. Bill—l think." My ears were bu.xing, and the back of my head ached where it had struck the wall. “I'll call the Inspector* I said, tottering to the telephone and lifting the instrument from its cradle witn shaking fingers. “Get me Inspector Pettengill’s cottage," I told the night clerk. And when a sleepy "hello" eame over the wire a moment later: “Inspector Pettengill ? Please eome over right away. There’s been another attempt on Linda's life." Linda and I stayed where we were, motionless, after I’d hung up. Staring at each other, too stunned and shaken to speak or move. We didn’t even stir when excited whispers came from outside the hall door, and Inspector Pettengill’s voice said soothingly: “Now. now! Don’t get all het up. They ain’t been no murder far's 1 know. Your night clerk had no eall to get you out es bed, or listen in to what Mrs. Turner Mid to me on the phone." Then he was in the room, closely trailed by the Kilborns. Josie in a befeathertd pink wrapper, her head bristling with hair curlers under a twisted pink chiffon scarf. Frank's flabby bulk tightly encased in a resplendent red silk robe. I think we had honestly forgotten our undressed state—l know I had —until Josie reminded us of it with a squeal that must have rang through the whole house. I’m sure, to thio day, she wouldn’t have been half so horrified if she had found our dead bodies on the floor, as she was seeing us sit there in our nighties. “Land sakes alive, they's most nekkid!" Josie screamed, slamming the door in her husband's face and spinning the Inspector around with a quick above. Thon she picked up Linda’s robe from the foot of her bed. helped her into it—and into a chair. Rr .hing to my room and returning with clothing for me. she chattered efl the tian vapidly. About the possible damage to the inn: “If this ever tomes out!" And, what really had happened? Bow had the murderer—whoever bo was —got in? “The night clerk Mya no one come through the lobby ’eepttng the regular guerta. And they’rv all strangers and ue lot ten." •nspeetor let ber ramble on unchecked until ber eelf-lmpoeed task eras dene. He bad been aeanmng Us calmly. Onee we were betted into ear dreemng gowns, sad bad slippers on our feet, be esosrtad Josie out promptly. Using the occasion to tell someone in the hqH. in answer to an mdistinet inquiry: “Ayah. A’rcrjwoe that's up and arwerd Sr.grant Hatch!! *wwd ’em cat." «T< be oaatiausdi Perns>l S» Seas Sms. ouuawssw Bas iwasoSsMsas. gm

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taken place on the Asia mainland A communique from Chungking says IHierator bomber* based in China raided the Japanese ordnance plant at Bangkok. Thailand And in sweeps off the southeast China com’ they destroyed or pre '>abty destroyed 23.700 ton* of Jap shipping Th«- Tokyo radio claims that Japanese forces have penetrated behind British Mlles on the Akyab front of western Burma. The enemy broadcast -quoting a Home! agency dispatch — says its force, have occupied an important poiic and are pushing toward a British base of operations. The enemy also claims to have killed almost l.fflo Chinese troops and taken 38 prisoners from the < hnngklng 17th and SRth divisions One other note on the war against the Japanese. The Tokyo radio says one of its naval leaders. Vice Admiral Akfyama has been killed In action on what it i-allt. th* southern front.

be glad this! Wy 1 neighbor asked yd z t 0 towfc * MWI a ni-, ghbor may No need n> tel h "▼I X * s((, p by to talk about the torun a war. Nonecu MfinvoUil S ' I our th War Loan and the share your your war, your lilx rt\ < stikt 3c I locality is expetted to play in it. Or, we’re all human and /nt a hrJetel he tnay talk at aVi ar Bond rally at given to "letting George in’l the high sthool. Chances are he’ll Only this ut *■'■ G'?l ‘f y° b u y morc Bonds. Will IFfc’w got to do it! Ard inbcffll i you look on it as a request for a dona- those Bonds, we re doing ountM I Lo mOB Thnwmd u w«Kk«id«auf«youa.th* tion? Or will you look on it as an Op- as big a aervice as we an ourngha|| X^h U «C'uJ*h^‘. J, bX' n ‘ portunity to build up the financial men and our country We ft hi * TAikAlulm honor to iw dupuyed wwk pndt Be reserve every business-like farmer or ing strength — personal liiutal X the first io yowr to 1 one. Boy sn nfr» Wac Bond today! rancher has to have to run his place strength—with which to meet ® I Facts about the Fourth War loan pMfi “ bl >' ? mevaabk probit «i I The man responsible for the Fourth War Loan drive in Ji j your community has full information about the several ♦ I types of War Bond investments available to you. Ask f .^Br f AinattLinn Wftrtll about all of them. One may suit your needs better than . ‘VHlcTnllfQ WOFTII ‘• •Jj another. You may find that you have been missing something And whether you arc aiked to buy exlra Bonds or i not take this opportunity to help your community reach its quota in the Fourth War Loan. Buyand buy to l_ the limit* you’d give your children And tM m You Got Vi Mora Thon You Invest Maybe you have a son off at war What vacation in the sunshine you kid Sme» Ew« Bond, 2W imatm <nm- a homecoming when he gets into his wife have so long deserved- The* pom-ted twni-«nnu*ib Then you ger bxk $4 for every |1 .nvened. ... ° B Buy w»r Bond, from your Bmk .. Pam <Mm ... Mail earner...« jeans and you've got those Bonds way to have these things 1$ to u* 1 ' Senes E Aur Sav.nqs Bonds to fall back on for the machinery and money ooa-. U. S. W'ar Bonds *• Vba itNo 8 - safest and most liquid mvcstin* r ’**nsoo* »ng in the foture. And how about the can make for these future needs-* VSO SOM education you've promised yourself worth Urovidrug for! TS 00 tea M r j.-i-w WCOO — •* Y*w ’Vw* • ,or f«r <••»*»’« ’•«•*• • Fir Vow Ckil*w I*— *" W'»' W MJY MMf WAk SAVINGS BONDS This ii an tjficial V. S. Troatiry under af Tremary Department and War Adverthing Council urSML BACK THE ATTACK! ADAMS COUNTY’S QUOTA $1,321,600 Thh AdverltaeuMUt SpunMred In Nnnor o( Adams Umrty’o Fighting Man by The Decatur Casting Co. The First Siaie Bank Burk Elevator Co. LANKENAITS Liffht Gray Iran Caotinffa Ueeal Banff laaumg Af«nt Coal—Gtaff Grain The naoto" ,tar ’ Kraft Cheese Company The Schafer Company The Krick-Tyndall Co. Central Soya Com*' MMWtaoturara of Oeiry Frodurti Manutectwora A JeMaro BrMa VUo—HaNew Llvcoteck Foods Bag Service, Inc Ashhaucher’s Pn Shop Cal E Peterson Stucky 4 C®--North Gaoonff Gt Ro.ftn 4 - Heatteg Memo F*"*** Thb te at offlesal V. b. Treasury adverthcMeal—gsregu* the aoa»ice» of TtMaury De>artntual and War Arfverlfoing GmmkiL

r General’s Wile Is 'I Private In Wacs I i 'I — Gen. Ogden's Wife Assigned To Texas i * > InfftMiapoila. Feb 8. (HP! > Pauline Oaden la Juat Private <»« j ■ den aa far aa the army la cnnivrni' cd. 1 But ahe ha* a one alar Reneral 1 wham ah* ta accaatomed lo order- ‘ Ing around once in a while. I The wife of Brigadfer-Uencral !> 1 A. D. Ogden hi* jnal been aaatgned ‘ to the Benrstrom. Texas, air banof the Ural troop carrier command. Tit 1.1 la announced by command i ( headquarter* at Stout Field Indianapolfi. i General Ogden now lx serving 1 overreaa with the engineer amphibian forcea. Private Ogden aay*

her husband I* pleaaed that she has made the family 1W percent armv Fifty percent of th* family (a made up by a* Idation Cadet Elba Ogden, who la stationed at Stuart Field West Point and l» A l> OR den. Jr who la attending a New York prep tchool before entering West Point. They are her sons An-1 that isn't all Private Off ilen also knows a threeotar general ' whom she calls by liU Urat name He is LieutenanHieneral Jacob Pevers. new Allied commander of | I'. S. ground forces lu the Mediterranean theater, her cousin. Being in the Wacs. Private Offden reports. mak,v watting mm h ■ easier. HOOSIER HERO (ConUanoa Vrom vaa* »* Roosevelt also presented the Congressional Medal Os Honor to marine crvps First l.teutenant Kenneth Walsh, credited with ahooting down 20 Jap planes in the South t

I Pacific The 29 year-old Brooklyn man already had won the Dlatinguished Flying Cross. For the second time, the senate has rejected the restrictive Taft amendment to soldier-vote legislation This means tbe senate may r, ve toward approval of the ad mlnisirstkm-backed federal ballot proposal. The Taft amendment—backed by a states' rights coal it ton of Repablli aba and wont hem I>«tno crats- was defeated. 45 to 41. ft would have authorited a federal Iwliat only for absentee voters whose Itome states failed to make a light weight ballot available upon application The administration Is backing the Green-Lucas Wil to authorize almost unlimited use of a federal ballot It pposeff the Tall amend ment on the grounds that it would be unfair to require each serviceman o make individual application for a state ballot. Besides, administration leaders said. « would he too mmbenionw- to administer.

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