Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1945 — Page 4

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Don't be too bard on your newsboy. When the paper is l‘ a,e > its d<it always his fault. —o—o—~ There is still time to add a February war bond to your collection and it’s a wise investment. —o—o is the deadline for getting your 1945 license plates and driver’s license if you are going to use the old bus. o—o Don't forget to send in your federal tax report before midnight of March 15th. Uncle Sam needs the money and it will co®t you more to delay.

The sectional tournaments are over and the fans are now trying to dope out what will happen at the regionals next week end. Its a great game. A measure which has passed the bouse provides that each county can fix its owa closing hours for bare and taverns. According to reports that was about the only concession made to the advocates of local option. —O—O— It's dangerous to serve iu lawmaking bodies these days, it seems. In Washington a couple of the representatives got patches on their head and in Indianapolis the next day the plaster patch cluttered the floor.

War casualties for the United Stales have passed .the 800.000 mark and of that number more than 167,000 have been killed. The cost of war is terrific and the waste is abhored. Surely no one will even attempt to interfere with plans to prevent future conflict®. —O—9 The Republicans arc taking over the liquor business in Indiana and are welcome to it. No one knows just what the new law will be but you can bet your last lead nickle it will be a long ways from perfect. The original bill uqw carrier some forty amendments. —o—oThe basketball tournament held here was again a successful sperm event that brought pleasure to hundreds of youngsters and their parents and ethers. They, all had a good time, we hope. UongratulaHions to the winners and to the others the hope they may do better next year. —OO—

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by the Indiana house of the geperal assembly fell and several of the majority leaders narrowly missed being injured. Superstitious folk immediately saw >4 the incident a warning from "up high" that the •team roller methods used to defeat the prohibition measure was receiving notice. O—Q— Well, the legislature got rid of one thing that, wao probably worrying a lot of folk, especially those who have to keep the inumorable records now required by federal and state laws. The house promptly killed the proposal to require deduction of gross income taxes from wages and salaries as is done one the federal income taxes. It would probably have made the state some, money but the people are tired of regulations. —o

Turkey has finally declared war against the Axis but did it with fingers crossed after they got the ultimatum that unless they did so they would not be permitted to have representation at the world security conference to be held in San Francisco in April. They have played “hot and cold” and while they may get their feet under the peace table, it is possible they won’t have much of the "white meat” passed their way.

That western front iu Europe is the toughest battle spot in the world because of- the defense barriena built up over many years and extending twenty to forty miles deep. Os course the winter weather has slowed the allied forces but it has also made it more difficult for the enemy. Our great advantage when the skies are dear is our supremacy iu the air. As the snow and rains let up aud that's expected coon, the planes will be out in force as they have the past few days aud the campaign should then be short. —o Thousand's of business meu, big aud little, are planning for the post war days and we hope the dreams all come true, but we wonder if the days after this biggest war in history won’t be very similar to eras following previous wars, regardless of effort. The thrifty aud the careful people will be the winners in the long run. Os course there will be many opportunities aud many people will profit but always good judgment will be required. So watch your step, buy bonds now and save them and be careful how and when you invest.

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A law just enacted in the Indiana legislature will save money for the farmers who wish to set aside land as classified forests since it eliminate® cost of surveying. There are 2,811 tracts of 'this kind in the state now. Survey costs kept many farmers from taking advantage of the law. During the war it was difficult to get the services ot a surveyor. Under the new law an airplane picture of the land to be classified can be taken and the surveyor can chart the plot at his desk. Henry F, Schricker, whose record as governor of Indiana will always be outstanding has announced he will never again he a candidate, for office. lie issued a

statement recently in which he said: “From now on I intend to do my duty as any citizen should in future elections. I just want to be a good private in the rear ranks. i will not desert the party which has been good to me. I nhall do my bitBut I believe that. I can best serve by retiring from both candidacy and from leadership.” Mr. Sqbriclter has assumed a position as vicepresident of the Fletcher Trust Company at Indianapolis and will work at that job as couscientously as he has at all others he has held. Good luck, tie pry. Have your Shirts laundered by experts at Decatur Laundry and Dry Cleaners.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Danielle asked a perfectly natural question—but one that dumbfounded . Aggie. “How much gold did they have?” “Good Lord! I didn’t think to ask!” He came as close to grinning as was possible in the little darkroom. “Where’s it hidden?” He was on the point of rebuffing that, also, when he saw her eyes dilate with horror. They were looking at the floor; they had kept moving back toward it since she had entered the room; what she was seeing there made him whirl from the cupboard. It was a ghastly thing. Under the blanket was movement She pointed and shrank into a corner. Her mouth sprang open. “Don’t yell again,” he said fiercely. He bent, and whipped back the covering. Dr. Davis’s hand had relaxed its hold on the knife and was slipping across his chest in a movement started, possibly, by the weight of a fold of the robe. That ■was all. Under the robe, such motion had been hideous. Revealed, it was shocking enough, but not devastating. The arm slid away from the knife, down across the ehest, and flopped limply on the concrete floor. Danielle had covered her face. Aggie knelt by the corpse. He touched the skin of its face. It was not ccld. Cool, but not cold in the way of yesterday’s death, or death hours old. Rigor mortis had not set in. Not yet. “We’ll get out of here in a minute,” he said to the girt He reached again for the blanket and his eye fixed on tne protruding knife hilt. A good knife—engraved. And initialed, he perceived, as he bent close. The initials were in fancy script: - *II. H. B.” Hank— Henry—H. Bogarty. It was—in all likelihood — the knife that had pinned the calling card to Sarah’s door. The knife he believed Calder had found and taken. Aggie gazed at the door that had been locked, and the high, small window. Then he pulled up the car robe again. He rose and took Danielle’s arm. “This has been rotten for you,” he said. He led her out into the warm night. “Your father killed himself with Hauk Bogarty’s knife. He must have seen Calder that night! It begins to look as if—after all—!” “Yes,” she said. “I don’t know what you're talking about—but I know what you mean. Father did it.” “Unless—” He was walking toward her house. “I better see how Sarah’s coming along by now—if youSr phone’s working again.” “It isn’t eut of order.” “It was. Old John tried to get your father before I came over.” They went into the Davis house

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hurriedly. Aggie tried the phone. “Dead,” he said. “That’s funny. It was all right when I went to bed. I called a couple of people just before.” She switched on more lights and half smiled at the figure he made: pajama tops stuffed in his tuxedo trousers, pajama bottoms flaring below. “We’ve got to get the police," she went on. “And you ought to send for Dr. Smith. He’s the best one—in Parkawan. Sarah may still need attention. We can go over and raise old man Waite. It’s nearest. Golly! I feel sick and feeble.” Aggie’s eyes had been preoccupied. Now they fixed on her. “Do you know how the phone line comes in here?” “From the barn to the house. The garage.” “Have you got a flashlight?” “I’ll get one." With the flashlight, they went out again—by the back way. Aggie pointed the flashlight and found the place where two black wires were fixed to the house on glass insulators. He followed them in a long span to more insulators on the front of the converted barn and from there, around the side of the building, to a rear corner. At that point, the wires had been snapped from the glass. He turned the light to the ground and found the shiny end of one wire dangling from the maple tree. “Somebody yanked ’em down,” he said. “Must have had a long pole to do it with. Or a ladder. Or shinnied the tree.” “Why? What docs that mean?’’ “I couldn’t say. Everything I find out gets crazier and crazier. Was there a phone in the darkroom?” “No.” “The garage?” “No.” “But — somebody — took the trouble to .pull the wires down. Who? Why? Danielle, I think that somebody—killed your father.” “Behind a locked — bolted door? Or by climbing through a window hardly big enough for chickens?” She had spoken quickly, but she went on sadly, tWhy not quit all this? Dad did kill Jim—and himself. We—” She broke off. Aggie gasped convulsively. “Come on! We’re going to Waite’s —and fast! Suppose somebody got him—too—and even Sarah—!’’ He ran and Danielle ran behind him—through the yard and out into the road. Their feet pounded dully on the dirt and softly on pine needles. Old leaves in the Waite driveway made their running noisy again. They stomped up on the porch. But Mr. Waite was not d?ad. Aggie’s clamor j eventually raised him; he appeared 1 at a window, thrusting out a head • * » »’ • « ’4 X

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in a tasseled nightcap and bawlin; “Who is it? Stop that noise What’s going on?” “It’s me! Aggie Plum! Sarah sicker! I came to get Dr. Daw but—he can’t go. I want to us your phone!” The old man was slow to cm prehension and, even then, unwil ing. “Why don't you go to tn club and wake up that Brown puppy? Why bother me u> “ middle of the night?” “Come down here, you wans old idiot, and open the door! ’ Agf said. . . There was a long delay, wheat! old man descended he was dresse in trousers and a smoking jaeß and he had taken the trouble I comb his white hair. Aggie asKs the location of a phone and brush him aside. Danielle hurried mA gie’s wake, giving him the num" of Parkawan’s be.-t physician, a gie rattled for the operator a. barked another number. iM g was startled. Byron Waite, beau her, was still complainingThey watched Aggie while “ number was rung. “Hello- he “John! Thank heaven! Ho» Sarah?” He nodded his head, as old John could see him. J she feels like it.” He swung a ® toward Danielle and n “Sarah’s coming to the phon , did not turn all the way ba , & kept the corner of u ’ llb ? y , involuntary host, sarah. I vou to wake ail the serva.JL. them in the house! Lock eve y and window!” He paused to “I’ll bp home —ves —but I » 111 be home . Bocalji know wnen . . • ’ George Davis is lying on his t s floor with a knife heart! There's a gW'j 1 ”®,,, loose around here—and f to be careful. Yeah. turned. “That goes tor yoa ’ white-haired man acted with a look ‘ and no more. Now he «a•- j in front of Aggie calnJy « fto| His marble-blue eyeo f - a once more penetrating seemed to lack focus, c black case out of his 3 at . r , ;O a pair of go’d- I * ol ™®' 1 ? 111 ]/ his large nose. Da) ls he said. “Murdered.' , „ Ti)( “Suicide,” Aggie ieplied. is—l think so.” ... “You found him. « au * “ J <iui -” . ~•> uen’t I' o “How, may I a ... ■ , , rather presumptuous 3rt s to be poking into nilai;--».•••• concern of yours? On m-• • 3 _ casions you have a l’ pe [ d suspicious light— a ud 1 pjy spectacle of yo u , a j rushing about in Lie s ; -' ‘ is outrageous!” (To be cor.tii.ucdl . 1 PUUibu.eu uj> tUiU *