Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1945 — Page 5

FEBRUARY 1,1945.

Market Reports v. A( I>HfcPQRT OF LOCAL I markets for I jUkl'T, MURRAY A CO. kind* of livMtock fit * .JKir, Berne, Cralgvllte, and Wlllohlre - jgKck received every day Kntll 12:30 p. m. r . and no commission [ Phone 301 February 1. ,00 lbs _ 114.40 MO IB 1135 .... K lbs 14.25 '49 iiv lbs 1315 It* 12T5 ■ 13-85 LiK ii.oo , . r. - 10 00 ~s@r -•■■•- ii.oo - 9.00 e.oo J KBpIESALE SGG AND BKtrY QUOTATIONS I Furnished by pKtur produce co. Phene 380 Krccted February 1. ; s v*.sErotlerg end fryers— 280 HeßV#Wringers 28c ns 22c rKers and stare 140 “sKI GRAIN MARKET Kk elevator co. Khected February 1. K« subject to change ’ during day. '-fIU delivered at elevator. No. ißd Wheat H-66 v&. A Wheat - 1.65 Ko, 2 K' and Old Corn 1.60 it:; amt Soy Beane 2.04 ISC Bi Soy Beans 1.86 y a «■ Beans 2 10 Ha.-«Kv Oats .77 SKL — 2.00 .....1.00 ■»: .03 per bushel less. Kir .04 per 100 lose. ■ so b. farm imKnapolis LIVESTOCK Kpolis, Feb. J — (UP) - rrtgsrt 4.500; market lully ?'“«Sgi6" to 400 Jba. 14.80; JOO s ®bs 1350 tn 14.80; sows ■ “liK.OO tA 14.05. CgtK 1.3R0: calves 400; low good Bchoice steers 16.00; bulk &&»'.'> good steers 13.50 to nAnnion and medium steers r’i iKtrs 10.00 to 13.25; medgoood rows 1) 00 to ” "-Kilters and common 8.00 to « canners 6.50 to 7.75; to 50 higher, top bulk Kd aud choice lambs 15.25 .K, medium to low good la.oo. ■IGAGO LIVESTOCK <'mK. Feb. I—(UP)-dWFA) Ifog® 10-000; early clearance. ■feaiKl choice 160 lbs. and over. 14.75,Kim;; 140 to 160 Ibe. 14.26Ko dand choice sowe 14.00. C»tK 5,500; calves; SOO; fed ■Kd yearlings steady to wi’ij'K other classes fully steady. stcweK with cows and ibulte ao &**iy et<er run; bulk steera : IWS®O; top 16.75 on weighty best yearlings 16.25; most -■-*K3.50 to 14.75; cutter cows « Siß instances more: fitrictly ijmisKef cows to 15.00; weighty bulls t 0 13.25 aud be-f «4->K<"j; vealera firm at 15.50 4.000; fully steady with li ' ! .TOng to 15 tentb ' \W losc: ’ >ait soo(i al ” 1 ! wooled western larnlm ; hnv good and choice load lot fed lambs held toward ‘B yyayne livestock Bpm, Ind., Feb. I.—(UP) -Kock: „ market steady; 160-400 K-70; 150-160 lbs.. *11.25; lbs., sl4; 130-140 lbs.. lbs.. $13.50; 100-120 "“■gKSs. ®K) $13.75; Stags. $11.50; ' bimbs, $15.50; ewes, K— —*■ - 0 — ».|. B, . nfc Certificate hereby given that W? Lucille Anth Howell , K ’ Petition In the Circuit i.ivi w A " 1UI ' County, Indiana, to time and place of her February, 1»l-'>. O. TROUTNER V the Adams Circuit Court ■ _ o _ ’j- 1 ’- 1 of Executor wsasg Mtaie ivo. jvto jJMK ’s hereby K tv«n, That , <1( . .... ■ ] 2‘ 11 bus Is-en appointi-d Ex- ' mK- K ’, ma - te ° r Farah A. ; fcW’.K*’’. late <>f Adum* Counc<l - T'h'* estate is probably Jj' l '' v nb< rg<..r, Executor < ■’."‘crer, Attorney 33k ’• Jan. 18-25 Feb. 1 , 1 K ei ‘ ,0 Protect Its staff from , :,' L Bf I ;*' dangers of the st rec!" be encountered durB*’ l,our - tbe Mutual Benefit ’ Bp'atice Co. of Newark. N. .J., iviu’B 8 in the offi( ' e in 1860. The still continues.

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♦- — < LOCAL OLAMIFIBD ADVERTING RATE* Minimum for Em IhmtUm Wg Oh Thn% Fw Wort s&♦ AMltlonal Inwrtlona Par Wort, For Day. 1< Every athar day Inaerttlono, double tho rate (par wort) l< Card Os TMalra ana ObituarlM, Voftwa, Roaol» tloaa- ._|l Monim, run momi atylo |1 Notion C«P Haada, HL body 60< (l»pi«*idoep,onecolMm) Insertion Deadline Copy must be tn office by U a. m. Monday through Friday. Saturday deadline is 9 a. m. for SALE RA UUS-OwM. th. «'rttag auppllM aad flxtaroo. Uhrtck Btm Phont HI, 40-ts B WUm-ihgad-leaa of your needs ta tho line at electrical supplies, large or small, wo can ripply you. Including wire, heatlig elements, switches, fixtures, ete. Arsoid E Klenk. 226-ts frbit §aLK— 7 room modern house, 9 bedrooms upstairs, one bedroom downetaira. Located ne„r bustness district. Walter J. Bockman, Phone 3. g 4-ts Fdft SALii —Wheat Straw. Win. Reichert, Monroe. 9t27x FOR SALE —7~room all modern houao in Monroe. Hand and soft water plumbing, built in cupboards, nearly new furnaee, well located, elose te school and church. Swarts Realty Service. Phone 1398. g 23-ls FOR SALfi—Jameoway oil and electric brooder stoves, peat litter, Wayne Feeds and Decatur Quality _U, S. approved tested chicks, order chicks now for'March, April delivery— see DECATUR HATCHERY. 22-8 t iliit READY for spring planting. Freeh stock Michel-Leonard seeds by the bulk. Schafers. 25-3 t FOK SALE-—Car of alfalEa hay, In town today. Burk Elevator. 264 t FOR cow, fresh; pair of black mares and a halt-set of harness. Page MHch, s’i miles eaet of Decatur. 26-3tx EOR SALE—Folding cot with niattress pad. Phone 809. 26-3 t FOR SALE—Get your rotary hoes, cultipackers. manure spreaders, tractor buck rakes now. Only a few more left. One used tractor disk. Craigville Garage. b 26-4 t FOITSALE - Ladies Elgin wristwatch with two diamond chips. Phone 361. g 27-3tx FOR SALE—l~Holstciirbull calf, 4 days old. Haney Bucher, Prehie, Indiana. Preble phone 1 on 3. g 27-3tx FOR SALE — thoroughbred, serviceable, Holstein bull. Mile west and 46 mile south Magley. Craigville phone 15 on 7. 27-3tx FOR SALE—Dark bay mule, weight 1350. age 14, sound. 1% north, ’-i mile east Tocsin. A. Werliug. ’ Itx FOR~SALE — Coppice - and Shepherds; young Fox dogs and many other breeds of dogs aud puppies. Harry Reed, 1 mile north and 1 mile east of Bluffton, Ind. Craigville Phone. 2741. Fdlt BALE — Airsteel eoltapsibba I baby buggy. Phone 776. g 27-3 t; o— — BUDGET-SUBMITTED (Continued From PM» 1) institutions would get more than 14,000,000 I’M) above the current biennium appropriations. An additional $1,500,000 (M) in round figures—would be appropriated above current figures for various other departments, boards, commissions and divisions of etate govermneuL •Provided tliat the legislautre approved the budget aud made no further ap'proprlati'ous. and it no uu-1 expected receipts came in, the general fund balance at the end of the next buuuium would be about $37,000',000 CM) compared with >♦3,000,000 (M) at the end of the laet fiscal year. Legislative observers pointed out, however, that the present assembly was likely to be approved of numerous appropriation 'Mils which would cut the general fund balance ( comsidcrabiy 'below its present level. To counteract the drain on funds, ( the legislators were expected to de- . vise ne wrevenue measures, among ■wltljsh may be increased taxes on liquor, beer and wine, and possibly cigaieta. — i CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat, Jltiy, $1.61%-%: July, $1.54’5; Sept. $1.53%: Dec.. $1.53 '%■ Corn. May, $1.11%; July, $1.10%; Sept. $1.09; Dec., $1.07%. Oats, May, .66%; July. .61% bid; Sept., .58%; Dec., .58% bid.

WANTED SOWING MACHINE —•AU makes. Needles, oil, belts, parts. Boardman's, 445 South First' 27t24 We MAKE covered buckles, covered buttons, do hemstitching and make buttonholes. Mrs. Boardman, Phoue 411. 27t24 to repair. Uhrick Bron asi if WANTED TO RENT — For' 'research chemist, good modern home. Guaranteed rent No commission. Bob Heller, A Good Realty Service. Phono 170. 284ktf [ WANTED Girl for general office work. Pleasant, steady work. Good salary. State experience. Address Box 330 % Democrat. WANTED—Loans on farms. Eastern money. Low rates. Very liberal terma. See me so rabstracta of title. French Quinn. 88 T-T-ts WANTED TO RENT or buy, modern five or six room house by responsible, prospective new residents of Decatur. Refereucee. Write Box 333, care Democrat. 27-12 t AVANT TO RENT—Farm72O to 60 acres near Decatur. Cash rent. Must have at least 6 room house. Write, care Democrat Box 332. WANTED-Baby gate. Phone 776. g 27-3 t “MISCELLANEOUS" FREE ESTIMATES for roofingTsldIng and John Manville rock wool Insulation. Saves fuel, spells comfort, health, security. Boardman 445 South First 27t24 FAkMERS ATTENTION —We re move dead horses, cows, hogs, etc Decatur pheae 2000. We pay all phone charzes. The Stadler Products Co. 15-ts NOW HATCHING-Order broiter chicks now. Hatches each Tuesday and Thursday of each week from bloodtested parent stock. Large demand for broilers, order now! Free book on how to raise baby chicks. We have plenty xrf feed. Model Hatchery, Monroe. Indiana, opening evenings except Wednesday, phone 84. Real Estate and Insurance; Farm and City properties sold private or at auction. Jim Andrews, Harry Essex 119 outh 2nd St. License Bureau Bldg, front office. 18-lZtx GUARANTEED successful treatment, most stubborn dandruff cases. Blackheads removed with face massage. No appointments needed for any barber work. Open till 7 p. m. Archie Grice, 910 Russell St. 25-ts ANY ONE having repair “work at Geo. McGill’s is asked to call for it as soon as possible. a 26-3 ix LOST AND FOUND LOST — Number cancelled checks signed Hulda Shroyer, agent: drivers license, certificate of title for Olds 42. Reward Ed Mutschler. 26-2 t LOST—6SO-20 6-ply tire rim and tube, been recapped aud vulcanized. for International truck, school bus. Victory Byerly, Phone Cralg- | vllle. , 26-2tx LOST —Ration book No. 4. Arthur | Loshe. itx LOST—Gasoline stamps A and B| Cliff SteiuSr, 957 Dierkcs St. Decatur. a itx -“"FORRENT FOR RENT— Two-room apartment. Immediate possession. Phone 6144. b 25-3 t — oWOTICR -TO BIOnKHK N'rtice is hereby given Hist the Beard of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana will, until the hour of ?:0n p. in. on Monday February 5, 1945 receive sealed bids for furnishing six tons of 2-12-6 Commercial 1 Fertllixer, tile same to be delivered , to the Adams County Infirmary. | The Board re'>rves the light to ‘ reject any or all bid.-. By order of Board of Comiuiaslonti s Thurman I. Drew. Auditor Adams County Jan. 24-31 New Electric Line To Geneva, Bryant The Indiana Service Corporation is planning to build a new electric liue from Berne, south to Geneva and Bryant, which will stepup the voltage and improve the service. J. C. Hill, vice-president of the company, announced in Berne yesterday ■lt is planned to reroute the line, eliminating eome of the distance between the two points. N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST HOURS: 8:80 to 11:30 12:30 to 6:00 Saturdays, 8:00 p. m. Telephone 136 Evoa Examlnad Glaaaas Fltua

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PATTON'S ARMY (Continued From Page 1) over six milee eoutheaat of St. Vltih and a lialf a mile in Germany. The Third army puah had gained three to four miles since the attack opened west of the Our river. Neither side was using armor, but the Germans were trying to hold strong pointe with mortar, artillery and email anna fire. Field dispatches from Alsace revealed that Nasi Gestapo chief 'Heinrich Himmler’s "prestige” drive on Strasbourg was collapsing swiftly under a succession of hammer blows by the French First army that coat the enemy more than 5,000 killed and 2,500 captured in the past 48 hours alone. The French apparently had taken over the entire 50-mile front along the west side of the Rhine river and were rapidly caving in the big German pocket around Colmar as well as the two menacing enemy bridgeheads north and south of Strasbourg. 38 miles to the northeast. In the Ardennes, meanwhile, the American first and third armies continued their steady deployment along the fringes of the Siegfried line, bringing the German fortifications under direct artillery and small-arms fije. lUpwards of 100,000 troops from at least seven divisions were on the at’ack, ibuit. headquarters sources indicated the drive still was in the preliminary stage and that no major attempt to break through the deeply-esheloned Siegfried forts bad ! begun. The deepest penetration of Ger-: man soil were made at the north- • ern end of the first army line, i where the 78th Infantry occupied ! Kesternich, northeast of Monschau, 1 and a cluster of villages in the same ■ general area. The 78tih also pushed across the Roer river to take Widdau, 2% miles due east of Monschau and about five miles inside the Reich. ■Other first army forces closed in on the German border village of Wahlerschied, five miles southeast of Monschau, while six miles far-! ther to the southeast they drove almost a mile into Germany to the outskirts of Udenbreth. —o— — KOTRVf OF FINAL SETTLKMENT j OF ESTATE NO. 4033 Notice is hereby given to the ore- I ditors, heirs and legatees of Grant. ! G. Owens, deceased to appear in the Adams Circuit Court, held at Deca- | tur, Indiana, on the 10 day of Felb. ■ 1945, and show cause, if any, why | the final Setlemeut Accounts with the estate of said decedent should not he approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Russell M. Owens Forest E. Owens, Executors Decatur, Indiana, 1/24, 1945. Henry H. Heller, Attorney | Jan. 25 Feb. 1

SALE CALENDAR FEB. 7—Joe Robin, % mile east of New Corydon on State road 116. Close out sale. Jeff Llechty, Auct. FEB. B—Mrs. Addle Gillespie, farm sale, % mile west of Berne, state road 118. Frank Dellinger, Lester W. Suman, Aucts. FEB. 6—Mrs. Jacob L. Liec. ty, 2% miles north, 1 mile west of Berne, Ind. Close out sale. Jeff Llechty, Melvin Llechty, Aucts. FEB. S—John W. Diver, 2 miles south of Monroeville on state road 101. Closing out sale. Glenn Merica, auctioneer. FEB. 10—Keith Gerig, Hicksville, Ohio, Five room modern home. J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer. FEB. 12—Mrs. Irven Badskey, 5% miles Bast of North Manchester, Ind 156 Acre Farm, Modern Improvements, and Personal Property. J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer. FEB. 13—Charles A. Baer, Goshen, Ind., Highly Productive Fruit Farm J. F. Sanmann, auctioneer. FEB. 14 15 16 17—Lamb’s Department Store, Payne, Ohio. Complete closing out sale Large Stock of Merchandise. J. F. Sanmann, auctioneer. FEB. 15—Mrs. Marie N. Wilson Wieland, 5 miles east on 221 and 1% north. Farm sale. T. D. Schieferstein, auct. FEg. 19 —“Bill” Wedrick, 2 miles West and mile North of Argos, Ind Well Improved 327 Acre Farm. J, F. Sanmann, auctioneer. FEB, 21—Alpha and Florence Barkley. 7 miles Southeast of Decatur, Ind. Improved 87 acre farm and all personal property. J. F. Sanmann, auctioiifjer. FEB. 21 -The YOUNG ESTATE, Defiance, Ohio. Well Improved 160 Acre Farm. J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer. FEB. 27—H. A. Moore, 7 miles Southwest of Clinton, Ind. Well Improved 112 Acre Farm. J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer.

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SMASH TO ODER (Continued From Page 1) only a little more than 30. The Nazi command said reserves also had been, engaged against Soviet tank spearheads that had advanced as far as the fiternberg-Ziolenzig area 60 to 70 miles east-southeast of Berlin. Moscow dispatches said scores of Soviet air squadrons were defying snowstorms and generally bad weather to hammer the enemy day and night on the eastern front. Neutral sources said the rumble of guns already could be heard in Berlin and from an "unimpeachable military authority" in Brussels came a report that the German government was leaving the capita], "probably for Berchtesgaden," Adolf Hitler’s Bavarian home. The Brussels informant said, however, there was no indication that Hitler himself was leaving Berlin. Rather, he said, Hitler probably will remain in the city until the last possbile moment. Moscow dispatches also reported that Red armies had complet The World’s Finest Milking Equipment fiC• > rtstand!ng Features 1 klxnced Pall wifi Rigid Handle 1 FiHwed Air 3 Pry Pipe Um 4 PoppelType Volvo. aThi. vacuum lupplicr is obtainable with either a % H.P. electric motor or ■ gas engine, is complete and ready to install as received from the factory SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY Hugo Bulmahn Decatur, R. 1 6 miles northwest of Decatur.

ed the encirclement of Konlgsberg, captured five-sixths of East Prussia, spread out through tho Polish corridor toward Danzig and expanded positions north and ‘ south of Breslau preparatory to a full-scale assault on the Silesian ’ city. J “The doom of Hitler's 1,000year Reich remains a matter of } weeks, not months," jubilantly proclaimed tho Russian army f organ Red Star. "The whirlwind 3 Soviet offensive does not give the ' enemy a chance really to prepare effective counterblows in the s eastern areas of Germany.” I Red Star said Konigsberg,

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i s SYNOPSIS r “Aggie” is the familiar name for r Dr. Agamemnon Telemachus Plum, 34, professor of anthropology and a bachelor, whose Aunt Sarah, a marital matchmaker, has dragooned him into coming with her to ' Rainbow Lodge, the family I! summer home at Indian Stones. En I route she promoted the charms of Beth Calder. Upon, arrival, Aggie found a personal card: Henry H. Bogarty, impaled by a hunting knife on the front door frame. A telegram, signed “Hank,” announced his coming "for a new grubstake"; it was received at the lodge earlier that day. He was an ■ old friend of Sarah “Jim” Calder, a broker, called on Sarah. After a brief clash with Ag,gie, he left. Old John, the family butler, told Aggie that Calder had lost lots of money for Indian Stones investors. The ■ knife, left on the t porch rail, is missing. Late that night, Aunt Sarah comes to Aggie’s room, obviously ill, and he motored to Dr. George G. Davis at Medicine Lodge, nearby. The doctor’s daughter, alluring Danielle, answered his knocks with lighted candles, explaining that the power system is out of order. She escorted Aggie to the garage where her father was working in his photographic dark J room. Dr. Davis returned with Aggie. While the former was exi amining Sarah, Aggie from the porch saw a dog or fox. Dr. Davis announced that Sarah must be quarantined because of the mumps. ' Next morning, his aunt tells Aggie ■ that Calder’s son, Bill (whose mar- ■ riage to Martha Drayton was one I of Sarah’s matches) seems unduly interested in Danielle Davis; and she asks him to keep tabs on them. She also reports that Jim Calder ■ did not return home last night. Aggie is questioning his aunt. CHAPTER NINE “Look, Sarah. Have you got any reason to believe that Mr. Bogarty would do harm to anybody? Or that the unpleaeant Mr. Calder —my prospective father-in-law — would I snatch up a sheath knife and disappear with it, after—say—poking it into somebody? If you have, I think you ought to tell me.” Sarah considered. “No.” “I can bank on that?” “Well—plenty of people hated Jim. Even old John. Jim robbed him—virtually—and poor old John thinks I don’t know it. There’s a good deal of unforgotten injury and unrequited hate in every place that has been established for generations, and is as closely knit and as self-centered. But there’s no definite reason — no.” Aggie had risen. “Where are you going?” “Out,” he said. “As a matter of principle, I refrain from applying my undoubtedly immense analytical power to the problem of love triangles. Danielle versus Martha does not interest me. I don’t know what Martha is like, but I’d say, offhand, that this Bill was a fool not to have married Danielle, if he ever had the chance. It would have been exciting. But I will saunter around until I can reduce your worries about Mr. Bogarty, the missing Westerner, and Mr. Calder, the missing meanie. They bother me, a little. Telegram, knives in doors, people not showing ■ up, people vanishing, knives van-1 ishing—yeah. I’m going out.”

capital of East Prussia, was enveloped in flames, touched off by Soviet guns and Nazi demolition squads. Prisoners captured in the southern suburbs were quoted ne saying confusion bordering on anarchy reigned inside tho for- , tress city, crowded with 150,000 refugees. Q To provide postwar employment, electrical manufacturers of the U.S. are enlisting their hundreds of thousands of workers as volunteer salesmen-educators to create a demand for peacetime electric products after victory.

Sarah smiled with relief and a r certain small malice. “In the Plum , blood stream,” she said, “there's a (j gene of nosiness.’’ a Aggie remembered the clubhouse . foyer as accurately as he had the r living room of Rainbow Lodge. y Deer heads on the paneled walls. n Mounted fishes: A prodigal sires place. A desk—like the desk of a e hotel. A medley of furniture: Vic- : torian mahogany, rustic hickory " and birch, wicker and chintz. There were people sitting around in the foyer when he entered. Somebody J was playing table tennis on the glassed-in porch. Waiters were serving luncheon to the early cus- . tomers in the dining room beyond ’ the archway. 4

h ar 'iff '\ i. wj£F~ a r i/. y y y Hearing his name, three or four people in the room hastened from j their chairs to greet Aggie. i-

g Aggie walked to the desk, behind I which stood a man of his own age, a powerfully built man with amiable features and eyes that were attentive and at the same time somher, as if he had resigned himself “ to living with an indelible disap- “ pointment. He regarded Aggie pon litely, although with a shadow of a amusement at Aggie’s oddity, and Y he asked, “What can I do for you, e sir?” j The professor leaned across the 1 desk, tugged at his Vandyke, and ? said, “Remember, Jack, when we 3 sealed up the wasp nest with adhesive plaster and put it in Byron ■ Waite’s bureau drawer?” : The club manager stared uncom--1 prehendingly, “ —or —the time you and I rigged ’ up a bucket of water in the Patton - bathhouse so it would spill on old ■ man Patton — and then you went 1 back in the dressing room for the hammer—and got the water yourself?” Jack Browne gaped, “My Lord,” he murmured. “You’re not Aggie Plum? You can’t be!” “Then I’ve mistaken my own identity.” Jack gulped. “But—l Yeah — you've got the same color hair. It’s

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i that beard, maybe.” He raised his i voice, then, to a loud cry that turned i the heads of the older people. “Aggie! You old scoundrel! Weii come home!” i ’ Aggie chuckled. Jack started around from behind the desk. Three or four of the people in the roo* hearing the name, hastened from . their chairs to greet Aggie. He spent a few minutes talking with them—but, as soon as he could, tea ■ wandered away with Jack Brown*. ■ Aggie wanted to ask questions, but he listened diplomatically to Jack ' instead. “I suppose it would hurt your feelings if I said you’d changed. I mean—from what we all thought .you'd grow up to be like. You were

i energetic — and inventive — and—i, cockeyed. Neurotic, they’d have - called it. Now you look like old Pro-, e fessor Mossback. Hope it doesn’t - make you mad ? You ought to shave f off that beard for the summer. Nc - kidding! We have a lot of fun here - — summers. Winters — aren’t sc f much fun. Sarah told you about i me?” , “Sketchily.” Jack sighed. “I spend too muck > time feeling sorry for myself. I hac 1 the bright years of college and a lot > of Park Avenue—afterward. Ther . —Dad’s business blew up— and—” ! “1 know.” Jack Browne forged ahead as if . he could not stop himself— as if the circumstances kept running conI stantly through his mind. “Dad was i one of the many who went out of a high Wall Street window in ’twen-ty-nine. It killed Mother— eventually. I was broke — and the times were tough then. Remember? I tried marrying rich girls — but 1 could only get engaged. I was seriously thinking of following in Dad’s footsteps — when Sarah got me this job—and I've been up here ever since. Year round.” (To be continued) Copyright. 1943. by Philip Wylie; Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Ina.