Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 29 February 1944 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening — Except Sunday by FrfE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Cntsrsd at the Decatur. Ind.. Poet Oflce aa Second Class Matter. I. H Heller Preaident A R Holtbonae, Sec y A Bus. Mgr. Disk D Heller Vice-President •übacrlptlon Rate* Single Coplea I .03 One week by carrier .15 By Mall In Adams. Allen, Jay and Welle count lea. Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert countlee. Ohio 14 50 per fear; 12 50 for six months; 11.35 for three montba; 50 cents for one month Elsewhere- Io 50 per year; 13.00 for alx months; 1165 for three mouths; 60 centa for one month. Men and women In the armed forces: 13 50 per year or 11.00 for three montha. Advertising Ratea made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 16 Lexington Avenue, New York 25 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. The annual Red Cross War Fund campaign starts today. Get your name down early and subscribe all you can. -0 Whether your <i.-teru is tilling up or not. we can't say but the St. Mary's has a g od flow of **Ur as a result of the melted snow and the showers. —o Don't get in the rush lor paying your federal income tax or tiling the report. The penalties on that count up rapidly. March 15th Is the last day. - o—o

■fhi campaign in Italy b tagged down by tli> weather but the Allied iQtXea are balding their own and! getting ready to push the enemy' back when a (tv day* ot sunshine tome. O—O If you haven't your 1914 tag on the ear. It may be wise to keep it In storage until you get one. This Is the final day for the old ones and the atate police will be on the Itak for violators. —o Th< Red Cross needs millions of dollars to carry on Its great work theie days. Please help them for they are giving aid to those we love when they need It. Help Adams county meet the quota of HMta. — o—o March comes tomorrow and spring is on the way. There will \ be some bluetery weather of course and perhaps some more cold but thu hack-bone of winter Is pretty well weakened and In three weeks spring will be officially on hands. —o—o Old Adams onunty made a magnit. <mt showing in the Fourth Bond Campaign with the total some It'Mi.tum over the quota It will help win the war and the peace and every man and woman in the service appreciates the fact we are wopponing th«n -0 — Tile report of Admiral Nunits shows that American forces put forty ship* out of commbwion for Japan in the attack on Truck recently At that rate, the enemy surely won't be able to keep up a defense of the strength that will be necesaary to stop the march to their shores

The bssketbai) celebration parade held here by the Decatur high school, winner of the 1944 sectional Uarnament. was the first “gasoUnefoss" show. The cars used were

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propelled by "boy power" to conserve gae for the armed forces. There was plenty of enthusiasm and every youngster had a good time, letting off steam and cheering for the Yellow Jackets. * —o Some thirty thousand Japanese, born in this country but friendly to their homeland, want to be sent to Japan to serve Tojo. They will probably be sent there but not In time to tight the country that has provided them more than they could have had in the East. We ho|>e that after the war they will ail be returned to their island for they are little good here and have no right to be enjoying the greatest land In the world. —o - Four Fort Wayne lads found an intoxicated man asleep on a bench ilia transit company baseinent. They though it would be fun to give him the "hotfoot" so they put papers in a bag, placed it under bis bench and set it afire. The man burned to death and the boys are being held It wax a cruel thing to do and the boys have perhaps ruin- < d their live* by what they thought was a prank. Rough Jokes are never a good thing to engage in. -0 More than 400,000 letters, each containing a sheet of 100 Easter

seals will be mailed to Indiana residents on March 9 by the Indiana Society for Cripple Children, according to J Frank McOcrtnond. Jr., state seal sale chairman from Attica. Proceeds from the sale, the one annual appeal for funds, will be used to finance the program been serving the physically haudiof the Indiana society which has capped in Indiana since 1938. The seal campaign in Indiana is c nducted simultaneously with the sale in forty-two other states. —o The Community Fund organisation is now nearing completion and the funds will be used to provide entertainment and education for the youth of Decatur, as tine an ideal as any body of men and women can have. The best way to prevent child delinquency is to keep them busy with things that appeal to them and permit them to use their energies. We are sure that this is the start of an improvement that will do as much good as any thing ever attempted here The directin'* will use their best judgment to see that the in- noy is invested to aid the greatest number and provide the beat that is possible. The unexpected death of Dr. De witt 8. Morgan, superintendent of schools In Indianapolis is a distinct loss to education in Indiana He has long been recognised as an outstanding leader in his held and

had appeared frequently before educational groups In every part of the United Stales. He suffered from hypertension several month* ago but had recuperated and returned to his duties. A second attack • few days ago proved fatal Sunday. Dr. Morgan wm loved and highly respected by every one who knew him and wm tn touch with the spb odid work he bad done for the schools. Funeral services were held thie afternoon from Shortridge high school in Indianapolis. He was M years uid O—O Rev. J. H. Klausing. 74. fur nearly tea years pastor of the Lutheran church at Preble, died at bis home on Uucoin Highway near Fcrt Wayne Saturday. He wm well known in Uds country aud wm respected and loved by those who knew his earnestness and sinter Ity la ht» work. He came to thi* couaty ia 19*0 aad served aatii 1949. going to Big Rapid* Michigan, wad retired tn I|2- moving to AUen coMty. He organised Use 2Lou Latberaa church here aad for m*era! year* aervad M paaui of both that church atui Prable. The focal chweb Loauaued to grow aad to out of the .umig rMH* a

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Twenty Years Aao Today ♦ ——* Fell. 29 -Decatur won the first game at the district basketball tournament defeating Portland 29 to HOver Tun acres of beet contracts have been secured lu Adams coun- I tyA "leap year baby girl born to Mr and Miw. Ed Coffee. W. Guy Brown appointed member of the- Adams colunty board of guardians to succeed the late E. X. Ehlnger. Col. Roy Johnson has conducted 100 successful sales the past year. Mlm Fanny Hite entertains her Bridge club. o . - — — Hot Water Bottle To make a substitute for a hot water bottle, and <>ne that will hold the heat, take an electric light bulb wih cord attached, turn on the light and wrap a piece of flannel around I’Upholstered Furniture Place a wet doth over the furniture to be cleaned and heat it. Change the cloth frequently. This beats out the dust which dings to the doth. Inflamed Note An effective remedy for an inizations of Decatur Funeral services were held from Concordia in Fort Wayne this atternocn.

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flamed nose is the frequent use of whitch hasel and pure alcohol. ■ oI Modern Etiquette i | By ROBERTA LEE Q When dining out. on what nixed bill should one apply the “ten percent*' rule? A If the bill amounts to (2 AO or more If leas than this, the up m«y be just as much as one wishes to give. Q It a man and bis wife are signing their names to greeting cards, whose name should come first? A Whenever the titles Mr aud

Mrs are used together as a name the Mr. comes first. Q. What time should a ball begin? A. Usually ten o'clock, but dancing seldom starts before about tenthirty. ■ O Wild Ducks HU Rice Crop Beanumoal, Tex — (UP) — Wild ducks are playing havoc with the rice crop tn Jeferson county, according to farmers ft seems duck hunting is prohibited between sundown and sunup and the birds hide out during the day aud when sight cunts swarm over the fields

Relates Method Os Obtaining Water Jess Sellemeyer Os Los Angeles Writes While Decatur has been discussing the feasibility ot installing water softeners and individuals have been battling with home-made means of softening city water for washing and other purposes. Jess O. Sellemeyer, former Decatur resident, who now resides in Ix>s Angeles, furnishes this newspaper with a leaflet that explains how the "city of sunshine" trains Its water supply. The story is Interesting and proves that water is the greatest us all natural resources which man must have, even at great cost and through various means. The 4x>s Angeles method is to get its water from the melted snow. The story goes on to say: "The paradoxical remark that suow is more important to l»s Angalea, the 'city of sunshine' than perhaps to any ether city in the United States is true even though the average citizen rarely ever sees snow here—excepting on a clear day at this time of year when he looks at Old Baldy's whit, mantled top in the distance "The reason for this seeming contradiction is that law Angeles' major water supply is derived from the melting snow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains some 350 miles to the north ot the city. "Not only is snow itself important, but it is important also to know how much ncow there is each soason and. precisely its water content. This information enables the department of water and power to forecast the amount of water that may «Ih- drawn from the northern watersheds aud to adjust operating conditions so that its facilities may be put to the most efficient use "Thia all-lmporant work is done

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SYNOPSIS Syria Verne, de luxe model, was the victim of a fatal bullet fired as she answered the telephone in her penthouse apartment to which she returned soon after midnight following a quarrel with Pierre Sturgis, art photographer. Argus Steele, author and erstwhile detective, is reconstructing the events of the evening before. He and his friend, Ellen Curtis, a model, were in the swank Penguin Club. During a brief absence of Ellen, Syria had entered and was greeted by Argus as an old friend, the one-time Lucy Callahan who sang in the fearsome Dance- Martinelli's case. Argus has just remarked that Syria would make “a good Mau Hart** CHAPTER TWO

“I haven't become a spy, you dope! I'm a model.” 1 “Oh! Do you work for Roger Flagg?” “Yes. And I’ve posed for everything from soup to nuU. You must’ve seen some of my pictures. Don't you ever look at the pretty girls’ pictures in the ads?" “That's the only part of the ads I notice,” said Argus, “but I've been away. America. I've only been back tn New York a couple of days. Am 1 forgiven?” “You are forgiven,” said Syria. “Just recently I signed a Hollywood contract Bow do you like that?” The drinka arrived. Argus raised his glass in a toast “To Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model!” he said and drank. Syria smil, A “Where are you living these days?” Arno asked “Oh, I have a little penthouse.” She reached casually for her bag. Argus raised his eyebrows. “You must some up and see my gargoyles,” she added. “They'll have to do until 1 get some etchings.” She removed an oblong case from her bag and extracted a cigarette. A large, aquare-cui diamond sparkled on her ring finger. “Are congratulations in order?” Argus asked, indicating the ring, “or ie that just a little trinket the Duke threw over the transom?” He hold a match to her cigarette and lit one for hinuclf. Syna smGed. “Like.it?" she aaked. “I picked it up when I waa abroad. But I'm not engaged er anything." “Not even — anytkfaeF* Argus shook bis bead. “How did you like Europe?” “I adored it Os course, I wss worl-ing moot of the time.” Argus glanced again at the ring. “Yea, 1 cast understand that," he Mid. “Nice work if you can get it! Haven’t you changed something, though, since the old days? You look so diff. r< nt - attractively different, of course." “It's my hair. Remember, I used to be g Mender “How could I ever forget that! You were a blonds with lovely green eyes. Lot me Look." Argus leaned over. “Yep," be said, “still the saase beautiful green eyes." “SUU the same persuasive fight talk.” aha chided him. “How’s the slew*hing business, Argus? Were pra working on a ease while you were la South fimsrifaf “I'm solvjag my cases on paper these days, my swiul I'm now a writer o< detective stories. Don’t tail mo you haven't read the Cose o/ ths Cntfißg CocJww'ekf " “Ob. 1 ase. Getting focal color south of the border. Nev I don’t

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

nr XW / I 1 V' LOUIS (LEPKE) IUCHALTU, New York gangster, above, and four other men are scheduled to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison, Ossining, N. Y„ Thursday, March 2, in tne greatest mass execution in 23 years. Buchalter, Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone are to die for the murder of a Brooklyn, N. Y.. shopkeeper. Vincent Sallaml and Joseph Palmer are to die for the slaying of a detective. Attorneys for Buchalter are seeking a postponement of the execution, (latetattiooal) by crews of snow surveyors on skis. At this season of the year these intrepid fellows begin their journeys into the High Sierras. The course takes them along a ISOmlle crest at elevations of 6.000 feet to more than 11.000 feet above sea level. Loaded with packs weighing about 60 pounds, party members leave headquarters and heed for base camps along the survey route. Base camps are located within a day's ski travel of each other and are provided with food, bedding and essential equipment. A single survey may lake from three to ten days, depending on storms, snowslides and general weather conditions. Far back in the mountains the surveyor depends entirely upon

have much time for reading.” Syria drummed on the side us her glass with pointed vermilion fingernails. “Ever see any of your old pals— Sergeant Grange, for instance?” “1 don’t see him very often,” Mid Argue. “He's an Inspector now.” "I guess the reason I remember him is because he liked to paint. 1 never could figure that one out. Those were the gay old days. Argus. Remember how Grange used to say he'd raid Dancer’s place some day. and then I toll him I’d pose for him if he didn’t?” "I’ll never forget it,” Mid Argus. “I never saw a man so sorely torn between two temptations.” He laughed. “Yes,” Syria agreed, “but his conscience got the better of him,” Sh. regarded her drink reflectively. “Ever see Dancer Martinelli anymore?” “Nol” she said quickly.

WEI vheS F ; I i\ // _ F \ Syria introduced them, “Oh, Pierre, this is Argus St«ek-N f s®!

"I’ve heard rumorv that the D. A. is taking a personal interest in some of Dsneer’s past activities,” Argus remarked. “Really?” “It doesn’t seem to interest you much,” be Mid, watching her closely. “I always thought that you and Dancer were .. “I didn't have much sense in those days,” said Syria. “But that’s all in the past I have a new sort of Ilfs to live now. It wouldn't help for people to know that I wm once connected with a—a gangster.’* “No. I suppose not.” “Are you alone?” Syna asked. “I have a red head around some place,” Argus Mid. “She went to powder her nose about fifteen minutes ago. Here she cesses now.” A tall girt with hair like a new copper penny threaded her way jauntily between tables until she was abreast of the bar. There she stopped and looked around. The bartMvWf nodded bi* hend toward Syna Verne's table. “Over here, Ellen!" Argus called The red bead sighted him and cam* over. knew Syria Verne? Ar»us; “We worked together this

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.■■l'- 1. S Where’* my drink!'' m “I drank it You long. i’ll oru«r beckonsd the waiter. jH "1 in waiting for Syria uni med "I whut s ki< i • < him" foJMM at a long :..n wnttKiiMft ly -•.-Id* : ■* heM ta hen at 8:30. I’.ifolM now.” ■ “1 didn’t naiue tiat knew one another,”uidDfi|M ing at Su ek and Syria 9 “We practically grew in a manner of speaLag.MLM Syria!” Argus aaked j A thin man with a fog MM head crowned with a hat f yellow bn. teuk. limped up to the tsiklM not rem ved the gray that hurg in v 1 his lank body, and U urrdiM

tered. Mown fcU ,*7'.'Via• A eigaretU dangbi lips. -Pierr«!' , en«J s £ r “L < “I'm »orry tot***' ruo.Eit<'n: M . “Oh. Pierre. “ — Mr. Sturgi* them. hat to hr* other h»rv* /jl hi right. Tl»em^’* It Mt cold and W -Ha»eadnr.k , J* •“Thank* a W- W well have to leave rtf** * Cartan want “ J ?L atf* dinner at a n*» » /mind.” he told a inoyed. but m*d Shadniriiedbe Arr■>• wa» rear** Mw< i her with - r »i»* ae she eonld aay “ hUB ' book. Call me’ Pierre wa. aayiW «W Ellen and didnt ,**•*. >|M i. a whiaper sjna ad** need your hefr , nk<r taMf (Ta be cw*"®* —a*— 11 *” 1