Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1945 — Page 4

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Join the March of Dimes parade. Give to this great cause —lighting infantile paralysis. o—o You can invest $75 in a V S. r bond now and draw down SIOO when it matures in ten years. At the same time you will be helping win the war and save every thing s .. you have. * The Republfcans who are trying to figure out how to handle the -’liquor business so it will provide some profit for some of the “deserving political workers” and still satisfy the public, really have a job. It just can’t be done. O—O•— There are probably interesting days in Warsaw. Poland, where the Russians have taken over after five years of control by the Nazi. It is reported that half the people there have died or been killed and the entire city neede rebuilding. O—O

These are probably interesting days in Warsaw, Poland, where the Russians have taken over after five years of control by the Nazi. It is reported that half the people there have died or been killed and the entire city needs rebuilding. —o Now the world awaits the meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin for much depends on decisions to be made at this conference. The end of lhe war again begins to look near and its perhaps not teo early to talk about the kind of a peace we will have and •how long it will continue. —o Holders of “C” gasoline ration •books must get along on the amount allotted them, according to a- new OPO ruling. They will not be permitted additional gas even though they show the need for it. In other words they must set up their requirements when their ration cards are issued. —o—o—- — national committeemen and a number of party leaders will meet in Indianapolis Sunday to make political plans and there is a hint that some changes may be made in the committee dpgpnizati-on. Sinfce some forty commentators and jgpecial writers will attend the meeting it looks like they expect something more than mere routine. —o Donald Nelson is charged with deserting his fireside after becomings nationally prominent, by

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bls wife Helen who charges that he deserted her in December 1940. Since then he has been quite prominent lu affairs here and abroaJ. was headi’of OPA for a year or two and but rcenlly has represented this nation in China. Too busy to bother with domestic tie 0 in Chicago. A demand for a constitutional convoMtiou, iu tadikna ip again, being made by those who think the old basic laws should be streamlined, it doesn't seem so difficult to amend the constitution these days and it is probable ’he people of Indiana will decline to undertake writing a new one. at least during these trying days. -0 Colonel Elliott Rooeevelt, a son of the president, shipped a "big shaggy dog” to his wife at Antioch, California by air transport. Seaman Leßoy who was enroute to Antioch to visit his mother was a passenger on the transport as were an army sergeant and a seabee. At Memphis more freight was loaded and the men had to be taken off. The incident of course made good headlines, due largely >o the prominence of the CMlonel. Explanations are now being made and Leßoy is making the headlines with photos. We love our gossip. —o Old timers and perhaps some not so old will remember the

Frank Merriwell dime novels of (the early part of the century-. Frank wae a mythical athlete who always won in sensational feats of skill, like hitting a home run with the bases full and the score tied or running eighty yards for a jtouclidoA4|n. |His popularity died, out with the coming of the movies but the “daddy” of the thrillers, Gilbert Patten who wrote under the name of Burt Standish lived until a few days ago when he died at his home in California at the age of 78. -0 When a main pipe in the water system broke at Portland the other day, the entire city went thirsty for many hours while repairs were made. Few of us realize how important water is until w-e are without it. In the neighboring city almost all was forced to cease. Factories were closed and restaurants could not serve their patrons. While these are difficult times and repair parts are hard to get, it was never more important that inspections be made regularly and breaks in water mains prevented if at all possible. —o

Houee wives in this country turned in 169,614,000 pounds of fats whijlh was 56.000,000 more pounds than the year before. That sounds good until we discover that for some reason there was a decided let-down the last five months of 1944. Now urgent requests arcbeing made that we renew our efforts for the greace is needed more now than ever before. The fact that It takes more ration points to buy meat now than a few weeks ago may shorten the amount of kitchen oils and fats but remember that for each pound turned in you get two points. Please do your best. -0 Van Wert county will put on » one week “paper holiday,” starting Monday and continuing until February 2nd. The Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the movement and all merchants have agreed To cooperate. No goods will be wrapped and no sacks used except when absolutely necessary for sanitary purposes. Merchants and business men will go through their records and discard all sheets of paper that are not needed. Shoppers are urged to carry baskets or containers to cooperate in the effort to save paper. School children will assist in making the next paper drive tljcrp the largest I an far.

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The first campaign to raise a five million dollar per year fund to fight cancer will be made in April and thats as important as any thing we will be asked to contribute to. Eric A. Johnson, a leading American, is the chairman and has started his plans. He says he was shocked to learn that 600,000 Americans are now suffering from that ailment and that more people have died from it the past three years than were lost in war. He has proof to show that world war two is costing 121,363 lives per year but some 400,000 persons died from cancer during that same period.

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i With sufficient funds expert medi-; I cal men believe that fifty per cent • i' of the deaths from this cause can ! • • immediately be prevented. Its a | -' worthy cause that should be sun-1 I ‘ ■! ported. II o J ; 1 i Twenty Years Aqo 1 ! Today , —J Jan. 20 — Adam Buettel, well. 51 known local tailor, has his hip frac-. i tured when he slips and falls on j ’ i the ice at the corner of Madison | • ■ and Second streets. j £. L. Martin is elected president' ‘ J and W. A. Klepper, vice-president j ! of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc.

William Her&chell, famed poet of the Indianapolis News, will lecture here February 24 under auepices of the Woman's Club. The radio fund’grows to $145.75 The famous Foyt Wayne typhoid fever case, Herman Bauermeister vs City of Fort Wayne and Pennsylvania Railroad company, will be tried here on change of venue. It has been-set for February 23. Damage in amount of SIO,OOO is asked. Roy Comer is being tried in Van Wert on charge of robbing the John Harmon home near Wren last June 14. — o—s It is a great mistake to set your own standards of right and wrong, and expect everybody to conform to them. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

• w T 0. if in a hotel and one wishes to phone for breakfast io be nerved in one’s room, for whom should one ask? A. “Room service, pleane. Q, Would it be proper to describe someone an “brainy instead ol “brilliant or clever"? A. No; this word is never used by any but the socially ignorant. Q. Would it be allright to give a dinner on Sunday night? A. This is seldom done, as it is not popular with most .people. -, —q. : t -♦ I Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Mashed Potatoes AVlien preparing mashed potatoes if the potatoes are sliced in thin etripe (the same as for French fried) instead of leaving them whole or merely nutting them in half, both time and fuel will be saved. Food Chopper H the food chopper slips when Screwed pn the tablets place a piece of coarse sand paper (rough side up) under the clamp and it will not w-ork loose. Washing Turpentine is one of the most useful aids on wash day. It will loosen dirt without the slightest injury to fabrics. o - A healthy mind is the result of clean thinking, true thinking, and hard thinking; therefore, think. A sorry spectacle is the eanger of two persons who have argued over something neither of them knows anything about. — o

COURTHOUSE Will Is Probated The will of Mrs. Marie Ehlerding has been probated in the Adame circuit court. It was written January 22, 1942. She 'bequeaths her estate to her five daughters, Frieda Bowers, Clara Hoffman, Marie Selking, Lydia Bleeke and Ada Krueckeberg and named the latter as executrix. Letters of administration were issued and bonds for $1,600

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ijtf CHAPTER” FORTY-SEVEN • For Alexia lay on the floor, her .legs in Nicky’s slacks threshing i angrily but futilely, for Anna sat on Alexia and she had the revolver II had thrown at Alexia in her hand .and every time Alexia would give a ■ writhe Anna would shake the revolver in her face. Anna was sobbing. .)»I managed to get to my feet. Just 'as I did so Drue came from some- ; where, took the revolver from Anna, land said, “Get up. The police are here.” it • When I reached the study, just as Anna stood up and Alexia, eyes like daggers in her white face, j sprang gracefully to her feet, Lieu- , tenant Nugent ran into the hall. He ! was followed by two state troopers. iDrue said, “Upstairs!” It As police feet pounded heavily on J the stairs Alexia listened, her hands clenched. Drue listened too, her face •as white as her uniform. But after ■a long moment Alexia turned and looked at Drue. Lights were on now ' in the study, blazing upon us. Anna, in a corner, was sobbing again, and listening, too. Alexia didn’t speak to Drue, however. Her eyes shifted finally to Anna, and she said with acorn, “Shut up! Crying won’t help. I love him, too. Or,” said Alexia suddenly, “I thought 1 did. I’m not so sure now-” | I don’t think Drue .heard it; her face was lifted, all her being intent upon what was going on upitairs, where Craig was. Anna i‘heard it, though; she said, still sobw OU knew he killed Mr- ; Brent He told me you were helping him. He said you thought lie was I in love with you. He said you would : do anything he told you to do.” i “W hat did you tayf” said Alexia in a strange kind o,f Whispering. “What did you say?” She walked alowly, gracefully as a stalking panther, toward Anna. Anna sobbed •nd looked terrified but stood her ground. “Yes,” she cried. “He said he’d told you to get hold of the Frederic Miller checks. He said if he had the checks Mr. Brent wouldn't dare tell the police who he was and where he'd come from.” “Waa he Frederic Miller?” demanded Alexia. fi “No, no. He only knew about the 'checks. He’d lived here—oh, for t years. He belonged to the bund; he . knew that Mr. Brent liked German ideas. He knew that he had given money to the Hitler cause. He knew ' you l-liked him—” it “Oh, he knew I liked him, did he?” sneered Alexia. “That’s very good,” she leaned toward Anna. “That’s very good. Because now he’s going to► find out hpw much I like him.” She whirled around and started for the door. you that Peter Huber killed your husband?” - Alexia stopped. Her small, lovely tewilsjy intent. She said fifi|lly, "How did you know?” “I heard what you said just now. i i,ini'< .. ... .

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*- NEW YORK.—No play can be too bad if Ethel Barrymore is in it but “Embezzled Heaven, by Ladislaus Bush-Feketc and Mary Helen Fav, which is based on a novel by Franz Werfel, comes as Hose to being a turkey as anytSnc the theatre’s First Lady has essayed. It’s a thin, frequently mSlsh. preachy andujmnwjj talized story of a simple old peasant woman who has devoted her life to the education of a nephew for the priesthood onty to have him end up as a necromancer at country fairs. The stdry is told in a prelude, wherein Miss Barrymore decides, bv paying for the education of her P sister’s son, to obtain the durance of a place in heaven Twenty-five years later the play i shows her in the kitchen of a 'castle in Prague. Her nephew, [who has bled her for every posIsible penny in those years, has written that he has been ap- ' pointed parish priest in the cook. s native village of Detva, and in (high excitement she leaves to f take her place by his side. t At Detva, in Act 11, a kindly young priest explains that she has been the victim of a quartercentury hoax. The stricken old woman refuses to have the imposter arrested, and through the i kindness of the young priest joins ’a party of pilgrims leaving for I Rome. In an audience with the | Pope she breaks silence and the f story of her hope for heaven and Fits embezzlement by her nephew i pours out of her. The Holy Father I listens indulgently and points out ?■ that a place in heaven is earned |by love and not through special | pleading. p - There can be no doubt or tne

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But I knew before that. At least I ‘ guessed.” f “When?” f “When I found a piece of paper t with notes about digitalis written i on one side of it and a few sen- i tences on the other side which Maud i had written. Peter Huber over- 1 reached himself. He had told Maud 1 Chivery about some Spanish jew- s els .. .’’ Alesia smiled thinly, “There were 1 no Spanish jewels. He told me. It amused him.” i “Really. I think he meant to i fleece Maud; and then changed his 1 mind. I don’t know why ...” i “He was after more money,” cried Anna from her comer. “He 1 was going to get money from Mrs. Chivery. But then he knew that 1 he could get more from Mrs. Brent. : He said she’d give him money ...” 1 “Anna,” I said sharply, “was that why he killed Mr. Brent? W’as it because Mrs. Brent would then be very rich, and he thought that she would give him money?” “No, no,” cried Anna. “It was because Mr. Brent found out that Peter was making love to Sirs. Brent. He found out that she liked Peter. And he found out what Peter was—and he said lie would turn ; him over to the police. Then Peter made Mrs. Brent get the bund . checks. He told Mr. Brent he had . the checks, you see. and Mr. Brent , shot Mr. Craig. He thought Mr. , Craig was Peter; that was because . Mr. Craig was in the garden with _ Mrs. Brent. Mr. Brent was going • to shoot Peter, maybe kill him, may-1 j be only wound him. He was going [ to get the checks back. Only he made a terrible mistake; he shot t Mr. Craig instead of Peter. Peter knew he could get the checks any I time because Mrs. Brent would do . anything he told her to do, she was [ so crazy about him ...” . “He’ll know now whether I’m in I love with him or not. He’ll know . now,” murmured Alexia, her face ■ suddenly venomous and no longer ; beautiful. b Anna went on as if she had not • heard: “Peter knew that Mr. Brent would kill him or turn him over to ’ the police. He said, ‘Old Brent has reached the place where it’s kill or _ be killed.’ He said, ‘I can’t count ‘ on the checks to hold him. I’ve got ' to act.’ And I said, ‘No, no, Peter. No.”’ [ Anna paused with a look of horror in her blank blue eyes. > I said,. “Anna—” sharply to com- , pel her attention. She turned her , eyec rather dazedly to me. I then • asserted slowly: “Anna, listen. He I came from that German submarine, , didn’t he? The one that was torpedoed off the New England coast about a month ago?” ; Alexia hadn’t known that. I saw her stiffen. Anna nodded slowly. “Why did he come here? Why do 1 you know to mush?” was my brother,” whispered r. Anna, twisting her hands together.

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sincerity of all the writing of the S.! play, but it i s J| elementary terms!,,fl prosy and preaclZl sounds like a RibiJ'S for first year dren. Miss Barrel and magnificent «Jf making the cook a -3 only in flashes. £| man as the Pope u'| but talk, and thouthl supremely WeUhjjJ' a bit out of place, bjl plays the improbafel quently impossible J nephew with skill, bl : and the part itself ®1 - larded with ham tha-J ablest efforts the .-t ’ mains unreal. « i “Embezzled Heave'l , play, its good in>~ | • contrary, but its sirs ; course, Miss • it on the stage of Sj i Theatre for much i deserves. > Brock Pemberton?* “Harvey,” a comedv‘l z. Chase, at the 48th SM ? the other night to th- J -of tlie critics and thr 1 amusement of the atj .- shall tell you more a ’ week, because it op® s for our deadline, tn r every assurance that] a Fay, the vaudeville aril e comedian, has made,; d as, a legitimate actor, i v phine Hull, whom yott] r as one of the daily «■ t “Arsenic and Old Le, d cast, as well as Jane's J Janet Tyler, Jesse Seidel, Dora Cleinefi; e Kirk.

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“He changed his naiw lit T' to Huber. He came to jveni ter I came. He to school. He k-arnea ways. But he was at heart. And he wasiC, ” a—like a wolf. We iwt. . home, in the forests, «s the killing and' —she offic stared into space ar: : pr “so I was afraid. I te’iregii was afraid.” Jlinti Then Craig came and into the room lowed, closing lhe . heard sounds of other r*S| stairs and crossing the they w’alked heavily, ?■ •'•"_ thing walked between ’.-4? to 1 It was a man, liana:-} cal outside door closed, tk-.n Foil steps across the porch .'.[ng of an automobile. trig ' When the time camel ® police a dipping, a p;e« —j. and an empty medic® box was really uninip® the looked at it aimost njg € was in the pocket of Cn M . ta ing-gown, that night, found it and hid it- ’ BE! “It was probably marked Nugent. r r» _ “Then it was Pet “■« knocked me out?” asae-i-® Nugent nodded. or. your staying in » m ; have given him a sa»&oi upon you wandering 1-3™ hall. He knocked P'aW dragged you into thari had the empt? box perhaps intending to an along. At any have done so tc.en. T box, like the was planted. They intended to mislead. ■■ TPU gloves had been use'-.jgo added Nugent, looking They looked then at Sj a and the paper with Slaa-jil ; to Peter Huber on notes about digitalis 1 on the other side. H- w ‘ ’g a a definite link. Not P tos \fc > “When did you begu T g> it was Huber?” asked W was leaning back in W , chair, looking better to have looked worse; Pcitement but part 01'-1 general toughness, 1 of course, was siitmf: -p ■ beside him, and his » M her shoulder, so that ... counted for some of ea I replied, “Just beMgt to the cottage. Pe« r .® heard Alexia and n® •Jg musto havc Anna had brought j ■ M> he must have been ln , Anna had told Drue- J a] Drue's hand “’’Ls I stopped to note Wl 4t that Craig’s hand clo- n Drue’s small fingers- w (To be c ( ’ ncl ® B ;4cli