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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Fabllahcd Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECAT UR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind.. Post Office as Second Claw Matter. /. H. Heller President A- R. Ho thouse, Sec y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vloe-Preelden*. Subscription Rates Single Coplea | .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Welle countle*, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, >4 60 per year; 12 50 tor six month; 21.35 for three months; 50 cents for one month. Elsewheru: |5.50 per year; |3 00 tor six months; SI.BB tor three months; CO cenu for one month. Men and women in the armed forces 13.50 per year of |I.OO tor three months. Advertising Ratee Made Known on Application. Natlcna* Representative •CHEERER A CO. 16 Lexington Avenue, New York 2. B. Wacker Drive, Chicago, ill. Keep right on buying bonds. It’s best for you and the country and the world. —o You can still buy that extra hundred dollar bond. Give a couple for Christina:. O—O Wish Santa Claus could bring us victories that would indicate the end of the war is near. It would Im- the best gift the world could receive. —o Those who used to declare they would rather have no cigarettes unless they could have their favorite brand now unhesitatingly say; "Give us any old kind.'* Christinas week is here and in the midst of the most devastating war in ail history then- are millions sincerely wishing for “Peace on earth, good will toward men." —o Have you »eut in your contribution to the tuberculosis association? They are making the annual campaign for the sale of seals to raise money with which to fight the disease. Os course you are buoy and have many other demands but this one is also very peceosary. Scud yours in this week. —o The hop- * and prayer of many relatives aud friends of Sgt, Harold Fea.-el are being offered this week. Harold wars seriously injured in France December Ist. He is a graduate of the Pleasant .Mills high school and is well known here. He has been iu the service more than two years and Went overseas last March, and in addition to the Purple Heart has been awarded the Bronze Ouk Leaf Cluster. -0 Twelve persons will lose their lives in accidents on Indiana’s highways during the Christmas holiday week-end, it was predicted today by Don F. Stiver, director of the state department of public safety. The prediction was based on this year's 111 percent Increaoc in traffic fatalities over a year ago, he said. o—o Here’s a aign of the times; Otis Kercher of Peru, district supervisor of the Farm Security Administration reports that more than half of those who borrowed money during tbs past nine years to continue farming have paid in full and most of the others are well paid out. Many of them have now established local credit and are getting along nicely. o—o—— Rainfall deficiency continued in Indiana tor the seventh consecu-

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tive month with 2.1» niches for .November. A report issued by the U. 8. geological survey in cooperation with the department of conservation and the state highway commission showed that precipitation for November was 1.16 inches below normal. Although rainfall was below normal during the month, continuing a trend existing since May, the water supply outlook is not as critical as tn October due to less consumption and evaporation. —o if the war news wasn’t so absorbing Hoosiera wouljj be Intensely interested in the senate investigation now in progress In Indianapolis as a result of the recent election. It is charged aud with some supporting evidence that thousands of voters, mostly Democrats, were denied the rights of voting last November. The hearings this week are being watched with interest by many, including a number who perhaps had most to do with the rulings. Senator Bail of Minnesota and Senator Green of Rhode Island are in charge. O—O — Germany staged a counter-of-fensive over the week end and made some progrew along a sixty mile front. While it will be repulsed it indicates the strength of the enemy even after the pounding they have received the past several months. While it may be one big last effort the chances are it is but the first of several similar offensive planned. With an army of five or six million men. still fairly well equipped and evidently with no shortage of materiels, the war now seems to be just at center. It looks us though it will require mouths of earnest effort to break through. O—O Ralph Gates will become governor i-aily in January, succeeding Henry F S< hricker who has performed a splendid Job and written fot.r years of history. Mr. Gates is well known here and has the ability to make good if ht doesn’t base his actions on politics iu preference to the good of the people of his state. He will have majorities iu both houses of the legislature and the support of the state officials. It’s up to him aud Hoosiers will watch his acts as he starts his administration with the hope he will prove a good servant of the people. O—O—— ~ Hurley the leaders of the Allied countries will soon see the foolishness of disagreement at this stage of the war. This nation has been fighting for au ideal and with the hope that it would not melt away into thin air this time as it did after the first world war but now before victory has been achieved, oilier countries are seeking advantage that entirely violates t’ae Atlantic Charter. Uulcm they recognize that this is a war to savfe civilization and mankind, the results may not be satisfactory. That would mean a third world war at a not very distant date. There ought to be some real thinking over the Christmas time. Smiths Top The List: The Smiths have done it again! In u list of 12 names which the War Department cited aa being the most common on the Army's roster, Smiths led the field with 72.00® claimants — the equivalent of five divisions or almost one percent of the Army roil. Considerably behind the Smiths, the Joiinmms came in for second placV with 48.500 clan members. Others on the list and the total number of men answering to each were: Brown. 39.000; Miller. 33.600; Joaea. 31.320. Davis. 31.000; Wilson. 26.000; Anderson, 24.500; Martin. 24.300; Taylor, 22.000; Hall. 15,170, and Lewis, 15.000. The total of the 12 names mounts to 385.390 men and accounts for about one-twentieth of the Army. The moral oi the story, according to the War Department, is that * -a ‘ ........ .

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everyone should address) letters and packages to troops accurately and completely. The name, rank, serial number, organization. API) number and postmaster at the port of I embarkation should be included. | The Army is responsible for the distribution of 25,900,000 pieces of mail overseas) each week, and it'Sj hard to find the right Smith or| Johnson if the address is not cor-1 reef.—Hartford City News-Times. - ■ —o Trade tn a Good Town — Decsru*

y Proclaiminf « brief inter* hide in the rettlexsness of • troubled world, the glad tidings y ' j, of the Christmas season is wel* * S, corned by oil mankind. Although our loved ones end ; friends may not have the op* « portunity to enjoy this Christ* * Emos with us, may we not keep in mind that they ore with us ’ IT in thought. May they in some I ■■ unfathomable way realise that Awe ore thinking of them on . ■ this, the greatest season of all. From these consoling thoughts, , ■ it is our Christmas wish that ■ you may derive the greatest £ S amount of satisfaction possible , f during the holidays- . V- | Eoch member of this organ* — ixation joins in wishing you a ojoyous0 joyous Christmas. ■ X.l E 7 N C E ; E SR - G CITIZENS TELEPHONE CO, . *

NAZI GRIP ■ I'oTitliiued Froui f’awe f> highway < enter. One attacking column broke: open the en-my defense* along I ! the rngvar-Ka»*a highway and ! ; captured Dargo. if miles east off Kassa. Massed batteries of G< r- ! . man artillery and mortar* cover- ■ ing the mountain road were in the ' ' Soviet advance. A second Russian force moved in from the southeast to take I Movomelso. 12 miles from Kassa.! routing the 19th Hungarian regi-1 inent and capturing more than MW 1

prisoners, along with huge stores of arms and equipment. The Soviet early morning com- ! mutiique gave no new details on ’ the battle of Budapest, hut a Mott- : cow radio Itroadcast said Russian KUIlb W. I. Sll-lling Hie l',ll(l.:|>< i Vienna railway line and that the i lasi German escape corridor northwest of the Hungarian capitai had been narrowed to altout ! 15 miles. — .Q —■■ - > Commercial chicken hatching in I Kaunas during July dropped 43 peri cent from the same period a year ' ago.

PLANES BOOST (Continued From Fage tl no official word that the raids extended beyond the week-end, a Pearl Harbor dispatch yesterday described the offensive a* ‘'continuing." The revised total showed 41 ship*; sunk, all of them merchant ship* with the exception of a minelayer, and 61 damaged, including four destroyers, two destroyer escorts and | a coastal-defense vessel. The number of Japanese planes destroyed in the three-duy assault j remained at 269 aud those daman ed at 192. but American losses were j revised upward from 2<» to 27 air-, craft. Valencia, headquarters of the Japanese 35th army on Leyte, fell to the 77th division Monday after only light lighting, and the whole Ormoc-Valencla stretch” of the Ormoc-Pinampoan highway was believed in American hands. Q AXIS SOURCES H'onllnued From l*a*e l> —I I ll— ' ■ ■!» Ill—l,l- —■» —» ■ — es which attacked Omurn. aircraf and Industrial center on the Japanese home island of Kyushu yes terday, three were damaged. The Japanese complained that' bad weather Impeded their defenses! of Omura, which were "unable ti go fully into action," but claimed that the damage was on a small scale. CONCLUDE HEARING (itontlnueil From Pane 11 yesterday. Nothing sensational came to light I In the course of the hearing. How ever, if gross Irregularities were uncovered, the next step potentially was an Inquiry by the U. 8. district attorney and a federal grand Jury. But Democratic witnesses, many of them complainants still smarting from their alleged denial of the right to cast ballot Nov. 7, were unable to furnish the subcommittee i with specific information, and Re publicans on the stand stated under oath that reais’ ration errors which they admitted were made, i were caused by inefficient help and a record volume of registrations.

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r ' CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR “But you told every body it was accident . . began Soper explosively and Nugent broke in with, "Who shot you?" Craig closed his eyes wearily. “I ' could have told you all I knew of it yesterday if 1 hadn't been drugged so thoroughly." “The girl had the revolver, too!" emphasised District Attorney Soper. I "Mr. Conrad Brent wasn't shot,’’ said Nugent. ( “Craig was shot—" “Miss Cable was not here when I was shot," interjected Craig. Soper paid no attention to that. He said. “How do we know she's telling the truth about the revolver?" •Why did she keep it, in that ease?" queried Craig. “Why, to clean off her fingerprints! Or perhaps she was excited. la-ft it in her room when she went to get the digitalis and forgot it. ,We found it; she had to explain it. And also she saw a chance to throw dust in our eyes; to suggest that Craig’s accident was attempted murder and thus, that the person who shot Craig and the person who killed Concad were the same." “No, no," protested Drue. “1 didn't. 1..I “I can corroborate Miss Cable's Story of the revolver," I broke in hastily. "Or at least part of it." But when I had told them of seeing • her return to the house from the direction of the garden they were not very much impressed. i “Could you see what she was carrying?" asked Nugent. “No, she was wearing her cape.” / "So you didn't see that it was a revolver?" "Not exactly. It had te be something small." i "But in fact you are not sure she carried anything.” I "Let’s get back to your accident “ aaid Nugent abruptly, addressing Craig. “Did somebody shoot you? If so. whot * "This is what happened. I was walking i t .lie garden; it was dark, no moon. There vu a rustle ia aome shrubs. I turned around, thinking it wan the dog. I stepped a little nearer the shrubs; anyway, 1 could see a hand. Barely see it, the ( »est was in the shadow; 1 think there were outlines of a figure. And then something hit my shoulder, as Jtf somebody had given me a kind of hard slap. I realized I’d been shot. 1 think I started for the shrub; 1 must have ealled for help. 1 remember stumbling and then that was all until they were carrying me upstairs. Beevena and Fete. Then Chivery came, I “But I didn't see anybody ch-arfy in tiio shrub; I just knew son,-body was there. I didn't even really see the revolver," he said. "But 1 imagine that Miss Cable found it and that that is the revolver she hsd ia ; her room. ? asked her to try to find te. I had a lund of lucid moment, the way vou do when you’re drugged. 1 a*k*d her to took for it Na- I

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turally I wanted to know who shot me; I wanted the evidence.” Soper’s cold little eye* practically lost themselves in suspicious wrinkles. “That’s not Miss Cable's story. She didn't say you sent her to look for the revolver.” f’raig shot a glance at Drue. “Didn't she?” h« said imperturbably. "Well, that's the way it was.” Nugent remarked. "The revolver belonged to your father.” “He kept it," said Craig, accepting the fact of the revolver's ownership without question, “in tile deik in the library. He never locked the desk; anything valuable he rut in the wife. The safe is behind one of those panels in the library.” “You mean anybody might have taken the revolver,” said Soper. “Obviously.” Nugent was looking thoughtful. He said, “Was the hand you saw wearing a glove?” “I haven’t th< faintest idea. There was only a kind of whitish outline." Soper said. “So you think the same person that killed your father tried first to kill you?” “I don't know,” answered Craig. “But I do know Mbs Cable was in New York when I was shot.” “How do you know that?” “Obviously she wasn’t here.” Lieutenant Nugent said abruptly, “It’s all right, Mr. Soper. She was in New York; I checked that and the telephone call to the Nursas' Registry office.” Craig went on quickly, “In any ease, it Isn’t likely that she would take a pot shot at me one night and the next night poison my fatlier because she wanted to see me and he opposed it. The motives seem mixed.” After a pause, Craig added. “She had no motive to kill my father. She doesn't want to marry me any more than I want to marry her.” “Do you mean to say,” asked Soper, glancing in Drue's direction, “do you mean to say that if Drue Cable, your former wife, came to you and suggested that you remarry, you would refuse her?” “At the risk of sounding unchivalrousCraig said coolly and distinctly, At that point, I declared, “Time’s up! The patient must rest.” Instantly Nugent stalked toward the door. But Soper said, “Your father was * rich man. Mr. Brent. W h®!. Bre llle ma ’ n provisions of his will?” “You’ll have to ask his lawyer, John Wells. Are you going to release Miss Cable?” District Attorney Soper tamed a fine magenta. “Release her! No! She stays here under guard or u> jail.” “But I need her." I sold quickly. I need her to help me nurse Mr. Brent." “You ean get another nurse," snapped Soper. "She stays under ~'uaidor in JaiL" Well, I didn’t want another nurse; Anna could give me any help I "MoM- Meant drew me into the ,k*U« Keate," he said in a tow voice, “Who was here in the

hall last night? W'h n som'thJ bumped against th* unr »r 4 went to look?" I “Why—why, no or."! That ii.okm some time (perhaps half an hoofl before) I saw Nicky in the haUa But not after the bump <>r thedoora There’s a dent—here." I put finger on it and he 1 iar iL I Something very rp.. • t in hit a topped me. But he aid only. ‘1 advise you to tell me. Think itl over," and went away. I When I entered hi« room again,l Craig was lying with hit ey«l closed. Trooper WiikiiH advanced! a little toward Drue who was still| at the window. "Wait outside," Il told him, and with an uncertain! look he did so and 1 dosed the door! after him. I "Are they gone?” Craig asked. “Yes.” And thin I sad slowly, “There was a glove on tne hand, wasn’t there?" His eyes flared open. He looked very straight at me for a Ung »■* menu Then he said definitely,' I don’t know what you're talking about." Which was about what 1 might have expected. “All right. I can't make you :< 1 me. But there's one thing yon* have to explain, if not to me, then to the police. You said—half as! • ? yesterday — ’there'll i>» ’* ■ rll(f doue. Tell Claud.' What did y* mean?" He looked at me through halfshut eyes whose expression 1 couldn't read. AnJ he denied >t fatly. , “1 don’t remember it I c 0.4 have meant any thing. Unless I was referring to the attack upon me. G« ahead and tell the police.” “I w ill," I said. And Drue whined around. Her hands were doutled up, her crimson m • »th ti<’*> “Craig, you needn't have bed teT met" she cried. “I didn’t,” he said. “You didn’t send me for the revolver .. “Oh,” responded Craig, “thatBut the rest of it was the tru’.a. wasn't it? I mean, you didn't r«m» here with the intention of—«• he smiled a little, though his <•)«• were very intent—-"of a tion? I’m sure you didn't. ■ smile left his lip*, but his eye***" still very intent, watching Prue. "It’s something neither of us want*. That's why I told them ... And at that instant Trooper WHkins knocked on the door. He w< •* apoiogcH* when I opened it- *? Drue had to go with him •“ ** same. .. . When the door closed behind Mb Craig closed bis eyes and lay »»•» quiet. Eventually 1 bestirred i self to my duties. Craig was res-y on the m p nd, in spite of rences which, certainly. «ere exactly conducive to •, i He was unexpectedly a j gave kirn a quick sponge beta # an alcohol rub, got him "• to ' pajamas and took a lo«b « dressing oa hie wound. (To be continued» «es«m<wM!E“*E2fie‘» ' I omnb.iM w Bsw