Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1944 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Bunday by FHE DECATUB DEMOCRAT CO incorporated Entered at the Decatur, lad.. Post Office aa Second Class Matter. /. H. Heller President A R. Ho thonae, Bec'y. A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vlce-Prealdent Subscription Ratos Single Copies f .04 Dee week by carrier .— .10 By Mall In Adama, Allen, Jay and Wells countlee, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, s4iu per year; 1160 tor sin month; |L36 lor three months; SO cents tor one month. Elsewhere: 66.50 par year; 13.00 tor sin months; 61.66 for three months; SO cent* tor one month. Men and women in the armed "cress S 3 60 per year ot |I.M tor three month*. Advertising Rate; Made Known on Application. Nation** Representative BCHEERER A CO. ID Donington Avenue, Now York 2. E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. Just exactly one week to conclude your Christmas shopping. You can do best in the local stone' where stocks are Mt ill excellent. It's lime to hurry. Reporta this week are that highways throughout the north half of Indiana and Ohio are slippery and dangerous. In many places the snow drifted so badly that the roads were im|>a -sable and a number o( schools were closed. Drive carefully. —o Jos< ph Grew -ays he isn't sure what ought to be done about the emperor of Japan when the war is over and that it can't be decided until we get to Tokyo. H's O. K. with us but we don't believe this country will every be happy doing business with the old buy. —o According to a t eport by Don F. Silver, retiring director of public safely in Indiana 78% of Hoosier motorists now carry adequate public liability and pro|H-rty damage iim lira nee. Before enaclment of the new laws governing this only 33% of the car owners possessed casualty insurance —o PLEASE Bl Y A BOND TODAY. You still have lime to buy that extra hundred dollar bond. There are plenty of Christmas trees and the prices vary from two bits to seven bucks. From what we hear about the shortage a tax on cigarettes to help out in Indiana wouldn't bring In much revenue. They are getting too scarce. —o The fourteen billion dollar bond campaign will go over. Fuel is Its already over so far as the total is concerned but the subscriptions have come mostly from corporations while individual buying is far from the quota. That doesn l help much so far as preventing inRation or from a point of showing the proper interest iu winning the war - Liii —o When Japan suffered a severe earthquake some twenty years ago this nation sent her millions to relieve the suffering. Whatever the results in the recent shake, no one has yet tried to organise such a movement in this country. That nation Jost her best friend when she attacked Pear! Harbor and declared war on the United State,. —o—o — - - How bad Japan thinks she need* the Philippines is proven by the fact that they have lost eight or ten convoys in trying to land troops For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopback I on ole \. each evening AC I I

on Leyte Island. That means that many thousand men have drowned or been killed and they have lost more than 60.000 on the island, while some 70,000 others are trapped and arc being annihilated. They have little regard for life it aecms for many of their movements are foolhardy and haven't a chance. O—O Sgt. Bob Andres ot Geneva is one of the heroes from Patton's third army in Germany, holding the Purple Heart or multuple citations for bravery who will be sent home on a thirty day furlough as a Christmas present. The men have all recovered and the trip is a recognition of their services. Can't Imagine a more acceptable or delightful Christmas gift than to thus be lifted from a fox hole to go home. O—o The grand jury has returned an indictment charging itrval Johnson with the murder of his wife, with counts for both first and second degree. It will be tho first murder trial in some years here and will ' attract no little attention. The defendant will be given a fair trial as provided under the laws of the great state of Indiana but society must Im- protected and that now beeoinea the duty of the prosecuting attorney. O—o Nubbins Hoffinsii, the three-year-old Cheyenne lad whose Christmas celebration was held November 19th because his physicians extended no hope that he could live lo December 26th. is home again and chances for his complete recovery are excellent. Au operation performed In a Denver hospital to correct a congenital bladder ailment Is said to have been successful. The im-ideiit has brought pleasure to millions who have been interested In the little fellow s buttle. -0-— The unofficial election returns give Roosevelt 25,326 302 and Dewey 21.816,128 votes. Four states have not reported the final and official vote yet but the figures are near the correct totals. The prohibition candidate, Mr. Watson of California, received a total of 61,828 with Indiana giving the highest total. 12 574 which waa four thousand more than he received in his home state. Socialists cast 68,000 votes and Solicits t-Labor 42,000. The president’s plurality exceeds three and a half million. Congressman Vinson has a measure that proposes boosts in salaries for members of congress and the senate and to put it over has included an increase of the president's salary lo 6100,000. He argues that with present taxes the chief executive only has 627.000 left from his $75,000 annual salary. Mr. Roosevelt no doubt smiled when he heard that for we doubt if money means much to him. He is wealthy in his own right and certainly would not urge an increase of his own income when trying to hold the line against Inflation. — O O The Revere Copper and Brass Company has published a primer coastaining instructions to be uned as a reference by local organisation, and clubs for planning a postwar program of improvements. It contains illustrations and layouts that are practical and is the result of several yeans of effort on the part of high grade engineers. It should prove valuable to all service organisations and city administrations interested in keeping up with the inarch of progress iu the years to come. Copies are to be sent to beads of various grouf*. it is announced. O ..ii..-.-City of Foots Cambridge. Mass. —i UP) —Critic Van Wyck Brooks reports that In posbClvil War days Cambridge was «o thickly populated with literary men that when one little girl said to another. ’‘Your grandfather la a poet, la he not?" the natural reply could be ouiy. "Why. yea. MUI yours?" 1

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f RURAL CHURCHES * • . —■» Rlvarre Circuit Gilbert A. Eddy, pastor Mt. Vietery Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. Cluyce Crosier, superintendent. Class meeting, 10:30 a. m. Gregg Knittie, leader. Evangelistic service. 7:30 p. in. Rev. C. M. VanGundy. supeaker. Revival services all next week Pleasant Grove Sunday School, 9:30 a. tn. Warren Harden, superintendent. W. M A. services. 10:36 a. m. Alvina Hsrkless, president Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Fred Bittner, leader. ML lion Sunday School, !):3u a in. Jim Beobout, superintendent. Worship service. IV:3P a. tn. Sermon by the pastor. U. B. C. E. services. 7 p. in. Aldine Beobout, president. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Louise Bunner, leader —o Union Chapel Church of the United Brethren in Christ D. H. and Celia Pellelt, paatois Sunday School. 9:30 a. m. Thur-, man I Drew, superintendent. Morning worship. 10:16 a. in. Sermon subject, "Christmas, Then and Now.” Pageant rehearsal. 1:30 p. in. Evening worship. 7:30 p m. — Christmas service sponsored by tlie Women's Missionary society and the Otterbein Guild. This is "Family night" and every one is invited. Prayer service Wednesday evening at 7;30 p. m. Pageant rehearsal following prayer service. o — Monroe Methodist Church E O. Kegerreis, minister Morning worship. 9:3u a. in Sermon. "Christ and the Church.” Church school. l<»:30 a. in. Lesson. "Christian Living at its Peak. ’ Youth Fellowship, 6:30 p. m. Topic. "VuderstandiUK Overselves." Leader, Joyce Ann Amstutz. Evening service. 7:30 p. in. Sermon. "The Christinas Spirit." Tuesday evening. 7 p. tn. — 10 o’< lu< k hi ict.itioii under . leadership of Youth Council. Wednesday evening, 7:30 p. in. — Mid-week prayer and Bible study - Acts, chapter 22. o Willshire Circuit—U. B. Church L. A. Middaugh, paelot Willshire 9:30 a. m.—Sunday School. 10:30 a. m. —Class meeting 7:30 p. in. Wednesday—Prayer meeting. St. Paul 9:16 a. m.—Sunday School 7:00 p. m. —Christian Efaucaver. 8:0o p. in.—Preaching rervlce. 7:30 p in. Tuesday—Prayer meeting and Bible study. Winchester 9:3U a. in.— Sunday school. 10:30 a. m.~ Preaching service. 7:30 p. m. — Prayer meeting. Thursday. o ■ ■ Antioch M. B. C. Church Located 3 miles west on 224 and one mile south of Decatur Robert Mcßrier. pastor Sunday School. 9:30 a. m. Worship service, 10:30 a. m. Evening service. 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. 7:30 p. m. Go to church Sunday. '■ o —— Monroe Friends Byron tower. pastor 9:30-10:30 a. m. — Sunday school. Wm. Zurcher. superintendent. 10:30-11:30 a. m.—Morning worship. These. "Unoffered and unanswered prayer.” 7:30 p. m.— Evening service. "The Prayer of a Concerned Man." Wednesday. 7:30 p. m.—Mid-week prayer meeting. Friday. 8 p. m.—Victory prayer band. o —i Calvary Evangelical Church F. H. Willard, mintater Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. James Darr, superintendent. Prayer meeting. 10:30 a. m. Mrs. James Darr, leader. Mid week service Thursday. 7:30 p. m. Message by the pastor. o Pleasant Valley Wesleyan Methodiet Church Noel H. Winterholter, oaetor Sunday School 9:30 Morning worehip 30:30 Preaching Service 7:30 Prayer Meeting Wednesday ..7:46 There will be a Chris'man program combined with a missionary service directed by Mrs. Raymond Harrison. This Missionary and Chririmae program will be Sunday evening at 7:39. Have Christ in your CbiWtmas this scosou. — -o— There are about 3«% million telephones In the U- 8A soldier requires about a ton ot food each year. New York City mamlaiua a 1 force of 11,100 firemen.

> REPORT GREAT » (Ceettaee* rm i) drive through the outskirts of Peat. Soviet front dispatches made it clear, however, that the Russians had not yet achieved a decisive B breakthrough late yesterday either on that sector or southwest of the capital, where a massive'armored battle was In progress along the Budapest Ssekesfehvar railway embankment. Tens of thousands of Hungarian civilians were being mobilised Into , labor and combat battalions to defend the railway embankment, according to one Moscow dispatch which intimated strongly that the knoqkout of Budapest would come from that direction. The attibboniess of the Axis det tense traced to the German realization that the fall of Budapest would be followed swiftly by a Red army invasion of Austria that wodd be difficult to halt short of Germany itself. CHURCHiLLBACkS | tCoatiassd rrre rut t) leaders involve not only the Polish question but also the prosecution of the war in Europe, which, he predicted, can be expected to continue Into next summer with the benvie.it and costliest battles still - ahead. I He estimated that 6.000.000 to 7.000.000 Germans already have been killed in this war and predicted sardonically that many more would die iu the coming campaigns. State Committee Studies New Bills 1945 Legislature Opens January 4 Indianapolis. Dec. 15. (UP) The legislative polled committee of the 1945 Indiana general assembly studied a proposed state employes’ pension bill, discussed expansion of the legislative reference, bureau, approved the general provisions of a Haugs disease control measure and decided to employ two attor- . neys to help draft and check legislative procedure, at a meeting here yesterday. In the second meeting, the committee of 18 member'' moved nearer the formation of definite policies In advance of the opening of the 1945 legislative session Jan. 4. Qov.-elect Ralph F. Gates appeared before the group. emphasizing the importance of the development of a majority program "designed to eliminate controversial discussions on the floor of the legislature." "1 have great confidence in the leadership of the next legislature," Gales said, "it is a leadership of demonstrated ability. There is every indication thut the memborahip of the coming session will be responsive lo forward-looking legislation and that it will cooperate with the policy committee in a good program.” The committee adopted a resolution calling fur the appointment ot an attorney fur each house of the assembly "for the purpose of dialling and checking bills, amendments and other matters of legislative procedure , . . and to prevent the passage ot poorly drawn bills or amendment* and conflicting legislation.” The attorneys would receive S2O a day for the. time actually served. A subcommittee was appointed to>tudy a proposal to expand the legislative reference burtmu. Members were Rep. Hobart Creighton. Warsaw: Rep. George W. Henley. Bloomington: Sen. John Van Ness, • Valparaiso; Lt. Gov.-elect Richard T. James; Lt.-Gov. Charles Dawson * and attorney general James A. Em- ’ mert. -O' ■ > "This drive will not be over for’ any Hoosier until he has answered I > his own conscience in invewtsuent I of fight-to-the finish dollars," the | f chairman continued-

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Film Actress Death Definitely Suicide Lupe Velez Takes Own Death Thursday Hollywood. Dec 16 — (UP) — Lupe Velez, the professional hellcat of the movies, wanted a home with the man she loved and the baby she was to bear, and chose death to compromise, friends ot the fiery but lovable Mexican actress said today. "ft’s my baby," she told Estelle Taylor, former wife of Jack Dempsey. "I could have done away -with it. But I couldn’t commit murder and still live. I would rather kill myself." Forty minutes later, at I a. m. yesterday, the -34-year-old "Mexican spitfire" said good night to Miss Taylor and Mrs. Jack Oakie. wife of the screen comedian, put | on a pair of robin's egg blue silk pajamas, and took a lethal dose of sleeping pills. She tucked a pair of notes-—one lo her secretary and one to her sweetheart. Harold Ramond — under the nearly-empty Iwttle and slipped into the mammoth silk-sheeted bed. A little over five hours later, shortly before she was to see her manager about an appointment with a doctor, the secretary found her l>ody. Ramond. 27. an Austrian born French actor, said he was astounded. "t can't understand why she broke our engagement." he said. “She had iold me we were going to liave a child, and I was very happy. Then on Saturday she said she was not going to have a child ami asked for her ring back —the one she had given me to measure for a wedding ring. "I loved her very much and wanted to marry her. We just couldn't agree on the date." Autopsy surgeon Victor Cefalu said Miss Velez definitely was about to liecotne a mother Dr. Ed Gouraon. Beverly Hills police surgeon. said a preliminary examina —MSBSlie* I.—l 1.. ,I— HM ,1 „M mi .■ — . . . — 11. I, Barbequed Ribs Saturday Night White Spot Case Jack & Art. Mfrs. Monroe St. Arrived Today shipment of Kiddies newly sty led House Slippers Good quality leather, warmly lined, brown. A real value. ‘2-5® p. ir Other Styles 1.25 and 1.29. i Halterman ' Shoe Store — «

Hon showed she was to become a mother in about five months, ft wm this realization and the failure of Ramond to marry the Mexican actress. Miss Taylor said, which drove Miss Velez to suicide. Twenty Venn Aon I Today J 'Dec. 16- Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dunlap on the Decatur road. 4 miles south of Fort Wayne burn to death and the fourth bi proluebly fatally burned when

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CHAPTXR TWENTY ■and was there, too, little and indomitable in sweeping blsek with her pompadour rising high above tor narrow, sallow forehead, her eollar of boned white net lifting her little dark chin in the air, ana her •yes brooding and angry, watching the police, watching Nicky and Alexia— watching even me, fixedly. I don’t think a move or a look or a quickened pulse escaped her eager, antlike eyes. Dr. Claud Chivery WMn't there. Then I saw Dree sitting in a tall armchair, her hands around the arm of it, her white cap like a Crown upon her shining hair. She was pale; her dark gray eyre had a kind •f terrified stillness. I thought she tried to communicate with me, mutely, with her look, and 1 tried, mutely, to remind her of danger, and in the Mme fractional glance that I wm on her side. Then I felt that somebody was matching us and turned. It wm Lieutenant Nugent, his eyes narrow and thoughtful, more green than gray—which wm, m a matter of fact, a bad sign. He said. “Sit down, please, Nurse Keate. The District Attorney, Mr. Soper, wants to question you.” I oat down, and the long questioning began for me. It began badly and ended badly. The first thing Soper said was a flat, bald statement to the effect that they had found enough digitalis in Conrad Brent’s blood stream to kill him, and they believed it was murder. From there they went on to that inevitable conclusion. I told them exactly what I had already told Lieutenant Nugent, no : more, no lose. They questioned - Maud and Nicky and Alexia; they I sent for and questioned Peter Hu- | ber; they questioned everybody. ' Gradually the story built itself up —much of it by confirmation, for it wm obvious that they had already done considerable, less public, questioning. Conrad Brent had spent the previous day about m other days were Sent, except for his anxiety about s eon, two or three morning visits to Craig’s room and a talk with Dr. Chivery. This (according to Maud) was entirely about Craig’s condition. The Lieutenant alreaffy knew that Conrad had had aa interview in hie study with me and then with Drue after our arrival. I wm questioned again about that almost immediately. It was about his son, I told them firmly, and that wm all. There wm a speculative look in Nicky’s eyes m be turned to look at me, and Maud said abruptly, “That isn’t all, Lieutenant Don’t forget that Conrad wm furious because Drue Cable came here, and told her she had to leave. She wm to go this morniag. She—** "Yes, you told me that" eut In Nugent Drue's lips parted a little and she leaned forward as if to speak, but Nugent did not permit her to do so. “Now, then,” he said briskly, “there weee no callers yesterday except Dr. Chivery and myself. What about dinner?” I couldn't tell whether or not they had yet questioned Drue. It seemed logical that they had, but somehow I thought they had not. I listened anxiously. Dinner had been at the usual .hour. Nicky, Peter, Alexia, and

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the home is deslroyed by fire. F. E Christen, eon of Mr. and Mrs. E 8. Christen io elected chairman of the Prom committee at Purdue J. W. Meibeni leases the Madison ! hotel. The General Electric plant here ! is employing additional help. They now have 275. Martin Glynn, former governor of New York, dire from a heart attack (Mrs N. (’. Covertiale of Memphis Tenn, le visiting here.

Maud and of course Conrad had dined together. Drue was there, too, said Maud, but the other nurse (her eager black eyes went to me) wm on duty ao a tray wm sent up to her. But nothing happened at dinner; no one talked much; all of them ate the same food. So he couldn’t have been poisoned then. Tho evening had been passed much as usual. They had played bridge, Conrad, Maud, Alexia and Peter — Nicky had read and watched. During tho game there had been the usual talk of current news, the war, affairs at home; sometime during the game (no one remembered the time) Conrad had sent Alexia to get the dipping; the box of medicine had been in the desk drawer then. At about eleven they had stopped playing. Conrad had gone for his walk, the others had gone to bed. Dr. Chivery had stopped shortly after eleven (Maud told this, too; she was altogether more eageily informative than anyone else); he had gone to the room she alwnys occupied when she stayed as flto so often did at the Brent house, but he had not remained for long. He had walked to the Chivery cottage. “There’s a path, a short-cut,” said Maud, and Nugent nodded. “He told us he didn’t sec Brent?" said Soper to Nugent who nodded again. So I knew they had already questioned Dr. Chivery. Usually Conrad returned from Ns walk in about forty-five minutes; he walked very slowly, so probably he had not taken a really long walk. His coat, stick, and hat were in their usual place in the closet off the hall. His dinner-jack-et hung there, too, and he had put on a lounge coat and. apparently, gone directly into the library. "He liked to rest a little before going upstairs," said Beevens. “He had a nightcap or smoked a cigarette or two as a rule and then went to bed. He never wanted me to wait up for him; he locked the front door himself." Nightcap. Brandy? Well, they had taken away the decanter; they would know if there wm poison in it Nicky then created a small sensation by saying abruptly that he had seen Conrad return. “I was here in this room. I saw Conrad come in, lock the doer, remove his coat and hat and put on Ns lounge costs’* cried Alexia twisting around to look up at him. District Attorney Soper asked, “But look here, Mr. Senour, why didn’t you tell us?" ”1 didn't think it was important,” replied Nicky. “That’s all there is to it, you see. He didn't see me. I wm sitting over there by the fire, reading. He went into the library and after a while I went upstairs. That's *11.” Drue was looking at him steadily. “Are you sure lAat’s alls" pressed Nugent. “Did anyone—you. for instance, —go into the library?” There was a silence. Nicky smiled and examined the fingernails on one slender hand. “That's all,” he said with a kind of silky stubbornness. Nugent looked thoughtfully at Nicky. Soper did the questioning, his eyes suspicious, except when they rested upon Alexia, of whom to obviously approved and who did

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look I mint sav, lov'lyMK hclplcKH. N. back of her r tiouidy | r. the Hhadou of and Alexia ?:>• . ~,! y the nu.-t . shchadtonn.lt>;,> . crossed over , of her pump makn.little circles. After a while they sent for MS Huber who cam. . . . rjjt W) H» sat down not far fr .... n.e. ’ I '>' r - - ' .4 could Li t >ll. If consciou-ly, a- . . a rigarette, at, ; A . listened. Presently they q -,,1 h or ratio r MH her que-tim.mg, \\ ~ tiown-tatrs ' ' es in the library. ~tl ■ Yes. that was ngnt; h e - » Why had ho coi iie all? "I told you that. I'd to sleep, read.ng. I the window- or tur. ■; ■ MH and, when I nv,..:. ~ > . too warm I put t .p . . , turned of? the light ri -,| opened th.' door to f. ing I’d get ait irro tr. „ quickly that way.” As he did it he h. ar J a scream from stairs. H< ’d I: and ar he tin I had run along n.. . down the stain. j ( . o something sa « ■ , ■ ■ ; get a dres-h.g aand had com. ■ "Mr. Huber." ur ■I Attorney,'lcarefully; When ye:.; the nui ■' —doing anything t .- MI mean, d.dimt. them lat<> a hyr her hand? Think ba MH My heart cnn.'- ip in r.y 1 didn’t daic lo 1. at brue. Then I’, ter - . d | “Are you sure?” "Absolutely, They wc’s standing there. \\ !- < t f but he was dead. . sent Miss Cable b e u; 1 Craig, and m<-to t. . . 1 succeed in getting the doctor I couldn't find tho r. i n;><r; ■ upset. Anyway, a) 1 at r.i.ce was this jour, i of j . ; "Yes, yes. you ‘.old »• . said the District A" • ■‘Something failn g of a window break c a: '. '.re find anything that f< d is no window broker..’' Ho to me. ‘‘Mias K-ate. . thing else? Anyth.r.g that Sned last night bes .;<• r. Brent that struck yoj as —well, out of the way? Ur.'JM From tho way he -aid it. 1 quirk impres ior. ’bat everyone that. • d ■ cornftd. ar 'i \ It was one of fa: ■ « .., jokes that I u ,u’d a: in the negative < a I ' one else had d ■!.<> ■. . . '' at that point si with a wary g-.. • ■ • . trooper in the doorway. . (To be continued) 1 DHU J»s a. f i..a,..i