Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 13 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 aa Second Claw Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouae, Sac’y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-Preeldent Subscription Rates Single Copies. 1 04 One week by carrier — .20 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells counties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, |4.50 per year; *2.50 for six months; *1.35 for three months; 50 cents for one mont'. 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 forces *3.60 per year or *I.OO for three months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, lIL The “shake-up” in the Japanese cabinet was probably suggested by the earth shake that happened the same day. —o—o The merit system in Indiana is probably on its way out. It’s rather dipcult to understand when we reinefnber the speeches during the recent campaign.

—o—o Ripper bills are being pushed through the house and senate in Indiana to give authority and jobs to the leaders and workers. Merit fe being forgotten for the moment at least. Q J The lull in the European war theater over the week end was no doubt due to the work necessary to bring up supplies and otherwise prepare for the final dash to and through Berlin. —o Lalt Sunday was Empire Day in Japan and was observed by celebrations in Tokio. Only trouble was that they felt their empire was slipping when they compared their holdings with a year ago. —o The snow is slipping away and perhaps we won't have to worry about a big flood but there is still

plenty of it left in many parts of the country and a three or four day rain would bring great suffering. —o Il's hard to imagine the situation in the large cities of Germany as the Allied forces approach, take over and move on and if revolutions are not frequent, its unbelievable. Short of fuel and food and hammered from every side, human beings are sure to get panicky. Q—-O 1 ■■*- In Adams county last year 5,710 people paid gross income taxes co the state totaling 1137,000 and averaging $24.03. Wells county paid $143,000 or an average of $28.41. Adame county received more than a million dollars from the state while paying in $949,000. The figures are interesting. o—o To save several million miles of travel the WPB may force a division of baseball into east and west leagues for this seaeon. Winners could play it off before time for the world series. It won’t be the same or perhaps not as exciting but it will be better than no games at all to keep the fans interested in the greatest of all gaihes. The Japs who finally made a laet ditch stand in South Manila and Per » copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopback oa sate each evesdag 4c far, - ■ i..-

along the hay front are being steadily liquidated •» the Yanks move in from all directions. The Nips resorted to incendiarism and dynamite to cause as much destruction as possible as they continued their suicidal retreat but the victory it there will soon be complete. t The general assembly now had ’- the new liquor measure designed * principally to remove Democrats from control of this branch of the I government. Republicans think ’ they ought to have whatever proi fits are available from taxes and I licensee on the beer and whiskey ’ business and party leaders think I i they have worked out a measure that will place these agents in a ' position to pay campaign assessments. It’e a hot one boys, dou’t forget that. O—O Plans to make the annual Red Cross campaign in Adams county a success and to complete the canvas as quickly as possible and continue to go forward. The drive will open March Ist and will continue until every one has had the opportunity to subscribe. Out quota is $16,700. No other organiztion is so universally helpful and none deserve aid and support more. Theii nurses and doctors are always on hand when emergencies arise and during these war days the various departments of the Red Cross are performing wonderful deeds of mercy to the boys and to their

families. —o Governor Gates is no doubt realizing that many of the problems of bis office are not easy or pleasant. Just now he and his advisors are trying to figure out how they can , grant all the requests for additional funds for various departments of ( state, create some new ones and reduce taxes. It can’t and won't be done. When it’s all over the chances are that the balance in < the Indiana treasury will be sadly reduced and when gross income taxes decrease as they are sure to do after the war. it may surprise many how rapidly the forty or fifty million dollars now on hand will be liquidated. —o The Indiana state library was 120 years old last Sunday, having been provided for iu 1825 after the capitol had been moved to Indian-

apolis. For many years it was housed in the state houee but a decade ago a new modern structure i west of the state capitol was built r and is one of the best in the coun- , try. The library maintains a lending service. Another advance is the traveling library, started a decade ago, by which books and i other material are available to re- 1 sponsible groups in communities lacking public library systems. The historical commission, the archives division and other agencies co-op-erate in furthering the service which preserves the heritage of Hoosterdoni. o—o— The war to (late has cost this nation two hundred and thirtyeight billion dollars, which is seven times the cost of world war one and we are not through. It no doubt will total three hundred billion or more. About half of that cost has been met by high taxes, a wonderful accomplishment. Os i course it has been expensive but ' wasn’t it worth it if we save our • country and our form of free gov- ; eminent? What would it have s cost if we had not spent the money i and thus kept the war away from the Western hemisphere? What has it cost Germany, Poland, Rust sia, England, France, Belgium, J Italy, Norway and the other countries of Europe? It seems to us that the cost has been slight when compared to the benefits. X o Because of the great amount of welding done by Army Ordnance mobile repairs shops, following combat troops into Germany, a i special school for welders has been | established in England to provide i additional skilled personnel. Al--1 ready more than 100 welders have - 1 been trained there.

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COURTHOUSE Divorce is Granted I, Judge J. Fred Fruchte granted a ] divorce to Beatrice Draper from her husband, Ralph Draper. The j court also granted Mrs. Draper the < custody of their two minor children, the father being permitted to visit ; them on Saturday afternoon. I In the estate of John Anspaugh, the executor, Frank C. Arnold, filed i schedule of pfoperty for inheritance , tax purposes. Report was examined and n<> inheritance tax is payable. The net value of estate was placed a>t $6,0T2.56. Petition ro close the estate before the expiration of one year was authorized by the court. G. Remy Bierly entered, bis appearance for the defendant in the divorce suit of Agnes Booth vs. Edwin D. Booth. (Final distribution of estate of D. C. Zimmerman wae filed by Joe H. Zimmerman, administrator. The distribution disposed of an estate with a gross value of $21,725.14 and a net value of $17,171.54, bequeathed to the widow and seven children.

Real Estate Transfers A. D. Suttles et ux to Virgil Wolfe inlot 45 in Decartur for sl. Hugo Bulmahn et ux to Edgar I Thieme et ux 8622 acres in Union j township for sl. Hubert R. McClenahan comm, to : William Lbby et al inlot 21 in Linn i Grove for $673.34. Paul E. Reynolds et ux to Joseph J. Fisher et ux inlot 822 in Decatur for sl. Emanuel H. Halbegger et ux to Andrew iiabegger et ux 80 acres in Monroe township for sl. Emma L. Vanderkar to Clara May I Larson 60 acres in Monroe township for sil. 'William P. Colchia to Anna Troutner part out lot 28 in Decatur for sl. (Charles A. Weber et ux to Walter J. Bockman et ux part out lot 28 in Decatur for stl. o . ♦ Twenty Years Ago Today ♦ — -♦ Fsb. 13—Floyd Collins is reported to will (be alive in the Fand Cave .mine and re»scuers continue their

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work. IW. Guy Brown is named dean of the Community Bible school. The bone dry bill withstands all attacks in the house when numerous amendments are offered and killed. (This was “Friday, the 13th and reports of bad luck come in from j over the country. Dr. C. C. Rayl called to Gary on account of the serious illness of Chester Johnson. Scthafer Hardware company announces tractor school to be held next Monday. —o- « • I Modern Etiquette I | By ROBERTA LEE | Q. When may a man drop the formal “IMy dear Miss Jones” in the salutation of a letter to a girl, and use “Dear Mary”? A. He may do so with propriety after the girl has begun addressing him by his Christian name. Q. If a person does not believe in tipping, is it good form for him to

Aww ' (i X Jw •• JBImQ * i : *Jit . / £ I WHEN SEVENTEEN INCHES of snow fell in the Boston suburbs, milkman i Duncan Muller couldn’t get his wagon through the drifts. He-unhitched , his horse, climbed on its back, and kept up his regular deliveries in the ' fashion depicted above. (International Smndphoto)

refuse to give tips. A. No. We are often forced to do things of which we do not approve, but is is better to conform to custom. Q. What is the best way for one to make the correction if his name has been mispronounced? A. it should be done smilingly and causally, without displaying any embarrassment or resentment. — o I Household Scrapbook i . By ROBERTA LEE | + ■ — —♦ Smooth Ironing Smoothness and glossiness when ironing starched pieces can be attained by stirring the starch with a paraffin candle three or four times while boiling,'and just before removing from the fire. Shoes For squeaking shoes, place the shoes in a pan of water at night, just enough water to cover the soles. Cake Cake can be kept fresh by tak-

in . two aliens of bread, and stick-1 ing against the freshly cut surface of the cake by means of tooth-| picks. — —o I FRED W. BRAUN Uul v/p C h has been a long fime since I have said anything about home safety, but here is a suggestion tor you housewives who may be en ertaining your friends. At the next meeting of your club, test members knowledge of home safety by giving each of them a set of questions on home safety. Have each member check the answers she thinks cor j rect, then award a prize to the, member with the highest score. Here are a few suggestions for your home safety quiz with the correct answers below: 1. Burned matches should be disposed of by: a. Throwing them into the garbage can. b. Throwing them into the waste basket. c. Placing them in a tin box oi other metal container. 2. Knives and other snarp instru-: ments should be: a. Placed neatly in a drawer of the kitchen table. ib. Placed in a protective rack, c. Mixed in with silverware. 3. Remove articles from top shelves of cupboard by: a. Placing box on chair and climbing on box. ib. 'Stepping from chair onto counter and reaching from there. c. Using a sturdy kitchen ladder stool. 4. If your clothing catches fire: a. Run screaming from the house. b. Roll up in a rug, blanket, or coat, with arms across face to prevent inhaling flamas. c. Call the neighbors. 5. When you sew: a. Leave scissors, needles, and pins strewn aibout the house. b. Pick up pins, needles, and scissors (before your youngsters do. 'Answers: 1. c; 2. b; 3. c; 4. b; 5. b. MASONIC Stated meeting, Tuesday. Feb. 13 at 7 p. m. Called meeting, F. C. degree, at 8 p. m. Fred P. Hancher, W. M. 36-b2tx

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 11 Danielle came quietly, but Aggie I * heard her at a distance. She walked I ■ quickly, and she was breathing hard. She saw the canoe, and stopped dead. From his post under the hemlock branches, he observed that she was glistening with perspiration and that her bathing suit] showed signs of haste in underbrush. A shoulder strap was broken. Threads were pulled. Her smooth hair was, for once, tangled and untidy, like the hair of a determined tomboy. She swung her eyes searchingly, saw him, and inhaled sharply. Aggie stood up. “Hello. I noticed 1 your canoe — beached here — and came ashore to investigate.” Her eyes were hard emerald. “Still—following me!” “Not at all. Hadn’t the faintest idea you’d be here. Chance.” She came a few steps closer. She | was no longer alarmed. She noticed for the first time the interesting! fact about Aggie’s physique—considered it boldly—dismissed it. She said, “Will you help me put my canoe in? I’m tired.” “Certainly. I’ll paddle you back, if you like—and tow your canoe.” “All right” He pushed in both eraft. Danielle dropped down on the bottom of one

and held the other. Aggie’s eyes I searched the shore. “Looking for ■ a vine,” he explained. “Something for a towrope—brier—grape—” , “Tear up my towel.” 1 He hesitated and then followed the suggestion. “Sarah,” he said, “would be in a tizzie over waste like this.” A short time later, they were moving down the calm lake. Danielle sat amidships, leaning against a thwart. Her canoe towed on a painter that looked like a kite-tail. She studied Aggie without especial interest and certainly without much emotion. He said nothing—waiting for her to talk. “You really weren’t following me,” she said at last, as if it were the result of a thought train she had spoken aloud. “Nope. I was trying to get away from people." “Why?” ' His eyes were candid. “I don’t like people—much. This kind, I l mean. And they don’t like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former." j “Or vice versa. If you liked them, ! they’d like you. That’s what my mother used to say to me.” There was another long pause. “I presume you know,” she continued, “that I’m not particularly popular around here either. Especially with the women. With a few of the men » —it’s different.” “I don’t know anything about you- Sarah told me you weren’t married—” She cut him off by laughing short-

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ly. “No. And I’ve had the veryii finest offers. Bankers and brokers, i young doctor friends of my dad’s, I kids in college, and middle-aged mil- i lionaires. Park Avenue and Newport, Palm Beach and Los Angeles. | I’ve turned them all down and I don’t know exactly why. There’s something the matter with the men. I With all men, these days. They aren’t rugged. They haven’t cour-1 age. Oh, they have plenty of nerve. It’s not that. It’s courage where women are concerned. Maybe they I were brought up wrong. Bad mores, bad environment. The thing that makes people call America a ma- | triarchy. Too much respect for women—in the worse sense of reI spect. A girl—wants a man in this I world who can run her when she I gets in a crisis with herself—and I have yet to see one.” Aggie paddled complacently. “It I couldn’t be—anything the matter with you?” . ! “No. It couldn’t. Not funaa- ; mentally. Oh—superficially — yes. I , I’ve become disappointed about liv- ' I ing, and maybe bitter, to some exItent, and certainly I’ve become a I pretty serious troublemaker—if it’s »j possible to make trouble for people I who don’t eare whether they get , married or not, or stay married, or 1 get divorced—people without any

real feelings. I do it deliberately. . I like to see dopes squirm, some- 1 times, and I don’t mind admitting it. 1 Everybody likes it—but most peo- j pie are too darned soft to say so.” , Her expression concentrated into one of slight surprise. “Funny. I don’t usually talk like this. And , you heard me say this anyway—to , BiH.” He shrugged. “I’m sort of . neuter, I guess.” She stared at him and she, too, shrugged. He went on paddling, slowly. She didn’t seem to be in a hurry. She had been trying to tell him something about herself—to alibi her actions with Bill Calder, no doubt —but whether she had been trying honestly or not, he was unable to discern. He said in the same casual tone they both had used, “What were you un in the summerhouse for?” Her head turned toward him quickly. Her muscles were tense. She relaxed bit by bit. “I wondered when you’d ask me why I was up there. What makes you think I went to the summerhouse? 1 haven’t even thought of it for ages.” '“A guess,” he said. “If you'd gone around the lake, you’d have started from the boathouse. There’s only one path up where you were besides the circuit around. One near 'where you landed, that is. Looking for Hank Bogarty?” “That’s supposed to make me jump, isn’t it? You’re fairly adroit, Aggie. Not just erudite, the way you were as a kid. Clever. And you have a marvelously fresh memory of the geography here. One

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might almost think you’d rew* it recently.” He raised his eyebrows. Mas aptitude.” She thought again. “Aisfi stooging for Wes Wickmas!ll there something odd about a death that the rest of us is» know? Should we be frightened I what?” “What do you think!” “I think—if he was aurM either you did it—or I ought be you something. One of the tn Aggie chuckled. '‘Nothing* I logical than for a fusty pedsN to rush fifteen hundred milestf I the continent, kiii a mau iieL I gotten existed —kill him iuga ly, not to say miraculously, *•] trap —and then hang arwnij I premises like the proverbnl I inal who can’t resist the of his crime.” “Our house,” said Dam®’ I ply, “is nearer Garnet Knobby* I be a quarter of a mile than F • That night —around nuM» ■ heard somebody choppmff ■ away. The wind blew them II down —for a minute. ’ ~ i “You might have memioM ! the inquest. High school bop t build animal traps in -he®® r the night.” 11 “1 thought of it

—that night—our lights vw went to Mr. Waites hou - to see if I could get a eoupM’ lights. Mr. Waite wasnW* at seven— and not at ele “How many Waites a* “Just one. Him. two. He eats at the club < sidered. “Does Saraa-*® —worried— about anytW', .“Her mumps. Idunn*H “Mr. Waite is. F. ath a —with Sarah and J® - that wire from Ha"kßog “What do you know shook her g*** ing. He vijited here born. Before you Miner. Prospector. money- Borrowed the others — and P al ‘■•t r-,,51 workinrlhe msh'. Danielle looked waited for that--He had a call " LthH sultation. He left ■ 0 > evening— and he didn f a little while before J I’d just let him #1 his key—and gone „ when you came with Sarah’s X-ray plate into his 0■ anticipated his nex 0 emergency ek D »d> check, hadn t it. A* • I don’t know what it He dropped that. (To be DlMrWulfftf by f