Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur. Ind., Poet Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec'y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies $ 01 One week by carrier — -20 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells counties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, 14.50 per year; $2.50 for six months; $1.35 for three months; 60 cents for one mont'. i Elsewhere: $5.50 per year; $3.00 | for six months; $1.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women In the armed farces $3.50 per year or SI.OO for three months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. Buy those February bonds now ■ and help Adams county again make I a showing unexcelled any where in j the country as we have been doing. | —o—o Manila will have to be rebuilt a- : a result of the tires and set off by the defeated Japs. That will probably be done much more

rapidly than will Tokyo. —o It is much better that the heavy i ■;-uows slip oft a little at a time than . Ao hold off another mouth anil go off with rains for even rttch “sew-; e:> as the Mississippi and Ohio; r've.s couldn't handle that deluge. —o The Japs are frightened and their leaders are now saying so. They did not believe it possible; that America could do in a decade what has been done in two 01 three years but they are becoming | convinced now. —o Coffee stocks in this country are .said to be much larger now than when rationing was lifted a year ago. So it's foolish to buy and hoard all you can for it is better

when frosh. There is no intention | of rationing it according to the. OI’A. o—o Gasoline, fuel oil and other | petroleum products may be cut] further for civilian use. Demands, from the military organizations are. increasing and until the demand for gas in Europe lets up we may , expect further rationing. —o—o Clum Baker found a roll of bills . amounting to $73. He advertised] it and the loser was so pleased

that he gave Glum a twenty dollar• reward. It was a hue attitude of j honesty and appreciation on thej part ot each and every body is happy. o—o The war on the western front in . Europe may seem to some to be going a little slow but consider the fact that we have taken 865,000 prisoners since D-Day. last June 6th. Thai's more than the total losses of this nation tn all theaters of war and including army, navy, air forces, submarines and ail Others. —o They tell ut> in times of peace to prepare for war so its just as wise in times of war to prepare foi peace. If all the people in the world would learn the Golden Rule and decide definitely to follow it, we would eliminate hate and selfishness. Then what a glorious world it would be. For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopback on sale < each evening 4c n i—-

I One war correspondent predicts ! a third world war within ten to thirteen years. We imagine there will be those who would want such a thing but we don’t believe it I possible. The war making nations ’ jwill scarcely be able to prepare t| for another war in that time or in thirty years, especially if the peace I loving nations conclude a sensible peace aeUlßinont. t o—o Frank Sinatra wants to go to II war and will if the physicians on I Governor's Island off New York, ! will O.K. him physically. He was I rejected a year ago because of a i punctured ear drum and is rene w - I ing his effort. The great singer i wants to be a member of the tank ' corps and to do his full part toj wards winning the war. Maybe the j girls have a right to rave over him. —o—o— The best wishes of the people of i tills community will follow Gene j McCann and hie family as they leave here for Madison. Indiana, to make their home. They are held in highest esteem here when | they have resided the past twelve. years and have taken part in nun - i-rous community campaigns for, the general good. Success and j good hick and happy days. O—o Hitler would like to be president j of the new German republic. We i don't know how he would run there ; but in many oilier nations over th.-

world where his ideas of dictator--1 ship have caused suffering, such an ] arrangement would be most uu-, j popular. He wottldn t click v<ty | well, we imagine, in Poland, Holl-. ; and. Norway or some of the other. , everrun countries. -0 A lot of people believe we have too many laws and don't need any more, that there is too much regulation of private affairs, federal and ; tate. But evidently membens of, congress and legislature fee! they I have to present new laws to prove their services are needed. Ninetyfive percent of the 750 now pending in the Indiana general assembly could probably be tossed out the window without much inconve iieuce to the people and a big financial saving.

—o j There is merit in a bill in th? i | legislature, presented by Murray i I and Henley. It would enable coun-| ty welfare departments to send to the James Whitcomb Riley hos--1 pita! at the Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, for ] treatment crippled children of parj ents financially unable to pay part : of the medical and nursing cost. ' Under existing law county welfare i departments are authorized to com- ' mit to Riley hospital only children of indigent parents, the cost being

charged to the eouutiee. o_o The birthday of a great Ame.'-j ; lean, one of the greatest, Abraham' i Lincoln. 16th President of the j I United States, will be observed! : Monday- He was a real commoner I who was born in the hills of Ken-I lucky, grew to manhood in rural Indiana, moved on to Illinois where he became a lawyer and entered politics to become the Civil War president. His debates with Douglass during and before the campaign of 1860 are recorded as among the beat in American history and his Gettysburg speech is a literary gem. Abe Lincoln had common sense, was honest, brave and lovable and he wrote a great chapter of history. His assassination in 1865 brought sorrow to all the civilized world and the memory of few men has been more ’ sincerely memorialized throughout the years. His wonderful career will continue to be a lesson to the boys and girls of this country as long as civilization lasts. o The difference between kitchen | mat’cKes and the safeties is this: in the kitchen match the “eye” con- ’ tains the phosphorous necessary i for ignition. In the safety match i the phosphorous is absent: it is in | the strip ot sandpaper on the box ►* or paper book. ,

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ci . . * Twenty Years Aao Today * i ~ ■ ,Eeb. 10--Prizes wor S,"O w:., ■ be awarded tomorow in the Junior; Boy and Girl contest foi last year. ■ The county ripeJlir.e bee will h< held March doth and tor the first time the contestant' will write he words. Workers are wi bitt ten I <•: o: Floyd Collins who is trapped in a. ] Kentucky mine. J. E. Garwood of Ge '.-iduie. Alonfana, former resident here, is visiting at the Fred Schafer home. IHomer Ruhl elected president of the Mens Brotherhood of the First Christian church. o ——-— ♦ — ♦ Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Q. If one is a novice at golf and

j friends who are skillful at th " | game invite one to play with them. | should one accept without an apolI ogy? 1 A. It would be far better to deOline the invitation. ■ xplaining why. Q. When a bus-band leaves for business in the morning, should he , bid hi-s wife good-by? iA. Yes. and greet tier courteously 1 when he returns in the evening. : Q. What is the correct dress for ] : a tall? | A. Evening dress for women and ! formal evening dress for men. I Ttiiig oil for use in manufacture I of linoleums, paints, varnishes and I like products is one of the newest I Florida industries.

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I Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE The Dustpan V. n ca.i avo- 1 s- >.»!’■ c-t wli.n i using th.- dnetpan by ii-'iiding 'he I hollow tin handie to a right angle , ; wi r h the pan and i-teei t-ny dis-1 I carded broom handle. Ironing Board Newspapers make an excel! nt | padding for the ironing board, pre-] I sered -by many women to a blanket.j Crocheting Try usina a funnel when crochet-; iug. It prevents the wool from kinking. The funnel can be hung on a convenient nail. OB 0

Tr, () p I of the Decatur Girl Semite worked on the., various badges, after which the business I meeting was held. •Fiancee Morris, scribe. The Girl Scouts of troop II open-1 led their meeting with the roll call {and cite pledge to the flags, after' I which Mrs. Olson introduced the I new scout leader., Miss Agn-s Nel- . son. and the assistant .eader, Mis. Nelson. Following the Ibu-siness ; meeting, the girls played games. -Betty Rose, scribe o — The jvay to kill an enemy is to : love him into a friend.—Lincoln.

Ration Calendar Processed Foods Blue stamps X 5 through Z 5 and j A2 and 112 valid through March 31. Blue stamps U 2 through G 2 valid • through April 28. Meats Red stamps QSR 5. S 3 valid through March 31: T 5 through X > valid through April 28. Ya and Z 5 and A2 through D 2 valid through June 1. Sugar Stamp No. 34 valid through Feb 28. Stamp No. 35 valid Feb. 1 and ■ remains valid through June 2. Shoes Airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 in book 3 good indefinitely. Always present book 3 when making purchase as stamps are invalid if removed from the book. Gasoline No. 14 coupons now good for tour gallons each, through March 21. B and C coupons good for five

gallons. Fuel Oil Period 4 and 5 coupons valid | through Aug. 31, 1945 have the fol i - lowing values: I unit, 10 gallons 5 units, 50 gallons; 25 units, 25t I i gallons. All change-making cou i pons and reserve coupons are nov | good. New periods 1 and 2 cou ] pons also valid now and goot throughout the heating year. Stoves All new heating, cooking an. ' combination heating and cooking I stoves, designed for domestic use, j tor installation on or above the I floor and for the use of oil, kero- ] sene, gasoline and gas, are ration- ; i ed. Certificates must be obtained I from local board.

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN Sarah looked up from her soli- < taire. When she saw it was Aggie, she beamed. “This," she said, I “is about my two millionth game. Not one has come out. yet.’ She gathered up the cards, absently reached for a large candy box on the table beside her chair, and bit into a chocolate. Her face immediately puckered and tears filled her eyes. She snatched up a glass of water. “Strawberry!” she exclaimed. “Tastes like nitric acid! It's killing me! Take these candies away before I forgei again! What happened? Who were you talking to —just now—outside?” “Captain Wickman—Wes Wickman.” “Well! Go ahead! Tell me about the evening! What was Wes doing around here, anyhow? Somebody get burglarized during the winter? Speak up! Here I sit— starving for conversation —!” “He was here,” Aggie answered, sitting on the ottoman at Sarah s feet, “because Jim Calder has been killed.” He watched his aunt react. She lost color—not much, but some. She thought for a long minute. “All right. Tell me.” It took him an hour. She interrupted with short, breathless interrogations and exclamations, but she checked her own excitement in or- ■ « i* ‘ 11 _ Xi' L . L. zs m

der to let him talk. When he nn- . ished, she said flatly, “Jim, the idiot, just blundered into that trap! I’ll bet on it! Now, tell me more about Danielle and Bill Calder.” He began to tejl ner as much more as he could think of. But he realized that either Sarah wishfully thought Jim had died by accident and wanted to reinforce the wish—or else she had some other reason for deciding to avoid that phase of the discussion. What reason, he could not guess. After he had exhausted every other detail of the evening, she skirted the subject of Jim’s death once more: “So Wes told you not to tell anything to me, eh? Scoundrel! And you’re two people’s stooge, from now on.” “Two?”

JYIUi “His—and mine.” Aggie shook his head. He was' beginning to feel a great fatigue—■ 1 a reaction to the night and to the; aimlessness of the quandary in his mind. “I’m nobody’s stooge, Sarah, from now on. I signed up with you ■ to do a little trivial espionage. 1 ■ didn’t agree to poke into the death of a manifest rascal.” “You will, though.” “No.” “Why not?” He yawned. “Well, because I've already damaged myself enough, for one reason. Every soul at Indian Stones except Wes thinks I’m a top-drawer pud. And Wes won’t give me a good character, at my re- , quest; to do so would blacken your

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name and impute my senses. Another reason is, you haven t come through with all you know—or suspect.” “Me?” Sarah's hazel eyes were wide and innocent. Too innocent. “You,” he answered, rising from the ottoman. She didn’t deny ; t. The next day, it b. gan to rain at nine o'clock and it rained hard. There were occasional diminutions of the gray pall, but not for long enough periods to cause people to go outdoors voluntarily. Aggie stayed in. He unpacked his clothes and the contents of the rest of his peculiar luggage. He read books. He refused to go to the club for lunch or for dinner. He volunteered to play ■ cribbage with his aunt, but she was so piqued by his lack of co-operation that she refused any such solace. Dr. Davis came, and she sent for her nephew, but he was reported by old John to be immersed in a bath. She tried to persuade Aggie after dinner that people would want to see him; he told her that anybody who wanted • to see him knew where he could be • found. He went back to his treatises I at ten o'clock and made no further sound. Sarah, waking in the thin, black • hours of morning, saw by the re- - flection on the trees that her nephew • still had a light on. Still reading, z-v .....1.1i.. ..

.Or—more probably—holding up a bool:, and thinking. She grunted with the discomfort of her ailment and the discomfort of her mind and went back to sleep. The day that came after that night was sunny and hot. Old John j woke Aggie—on Sarah’s orders —I with the news that he was to be; present at a coroner’s inquest at: ten. John would have let him sleep through anything of so trifling a nature. And so would Sarah, if she’d had a mind to do it. Aggie ate his breakfast in a cross and silent manner. He shot the station wagon through the stone gates noisily, and was gone for three 1 hours. When he returned, he was still taciturn.

Sarah had a cold luncheon served to him in her room. “Death by accident,” he said. “Warrant out for whoever built that deadfail.” He forked up a mouthful of salad and she warned him it would drop on his beard. He scowled at her —and the salad dropped. “Most perfunc- ' tory thing you ever saw! Heid in a room in the City Hall in Parkawan. Doctor’s reports—death by blow from log. He died some time the night we got here, definitely. I. personally, believe that deadfall was put up at the same time. Or in the afternoon of the day before we got here.” Sarah gazed at him. This was a tidbit of news. “You do? Why?” “Plants!” he answered crossly.

"The plants the two dead treal on—and the plants trampleia there. Juices cii sticky. Il agine Wes not: d that, is notices most t BesJ Anyway, the d> ctors didita thing that the blow plain. They i a:, autopsy,» sisted on that. prints on the aeadiaii wwM thing. Smear—that's sJ-l cious—but i. >t cv-r.OiUsive. people wear gloves in Wes was w .. ;:.g them taMl other night. 1: ydidatgo» murder angle - - ;■ moretlUl Brushed it o. r “But, Agg:-, there! a*” of evidence ;t u-a? murder“Et tu,” he said, stangM “No. That'; the trouble. | but hints. V.' :.;.'was titers . I growing so to makeJia® .] for a man wall.mg oiiMIJ lean and .1;. ! brier reaily - : " i it festoone-: 10 , for an tranc; , Things like tsm. ! a perfect n.mder, , —if there i- 3 ? i dent, eithc-" .. lv pat. It I:.’-i to And yet—n- - <■' c3n . Calder was ' liked to ra: ’ saw Wes t' r a ' him if K'd l-urwdaßflWß ' this—this- .

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here—a quite V - garty/: andrigar . ’ Ga,,! ? 10 ‘S?S —and ’ pg#]® Bopart.v -- 1 . “You t d nie ' . \ .. . p me ~] ‘‘ ‘with crowded -\ 1U , word out ot a ing Jmi going tor “It’s too soon a- g Said ■