Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1945 — Page 4

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' DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Bvwy Bvaatoc Iwxcepi Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at th* Decatur, tod, Post Office aa Second CUM Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Bolthonse, Sec'y. 4 Bub. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vtre-Prerident Subscription Rate* Single Copies 1 04 One week by carrier.- —— JO By Mali to Adam*, Allen, Jay and Wells counties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wbrt counties, Ohto, |4.W per year; U W for aft months; *IJS for three months; 10 m» for one moot'. Hlmwhere: 10.50 per year, 18.00 for six month*; H-05 tor three months; 00 cento tor one month. Men and women in the armed force* 13.50 per year or 31.00 for

three month*. • Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National * Ropreaentatlv* SCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, DL -a ... Anyway cold wave* at this time of the year can’t last very long. O—t> , Yea Berne Bears, go on to win. Take Dunkirk a>t the regional. You cajg do it. O—O— Wear a Red Crofts button. It sltUvs your loyalty and it causes otM-rs to think about doing their duty. o—o two more days to get your 1945 automobile tag and license and the state police will be looking for caqp carrying the old plates. y O— O Only three more weeks of winter according to the calendar and after the long hard winter we ought to have some real nice days. —O—O It is predicted that 800,000 new homes will be built in America each year for some time following the war. That ought to take care of all demands. —O—--of the legislature are wondering how they will get every thing done this week. Well, they probably won't tor tew general assembly sessions have concluded in any thing but a mad whirl. O—o If the legislature gets through with no greater loss than a few feet of plaster jolted from the ceiling some of the boys may feel their oratory was not sufficiently loaded with TNT, —O—O—There Were some upsets in the sectional tournaments over the state arid there Will be some more next week end. That’s what makes it exciting for the fans. It's like baseball, any thing can happen. —■o—O The Red Cross campaign Will o;>en Thursday of this week and the six hundred volunteer solicitors will be on the Job. Help make their work pleasant and as easy as possible. Whatever the hopes and ideals ami purpose of the Japs and the Nazis are, the cold facts remain that no nation can eontiliud io stand the teiTific poundiugß and losses they arc now sustaining. —o—o k— Mrs. Maggie Deedc, a Randolph county woman who is accused of beating her 82-yfearold husband to death after a quarrel, has been indicted on a charge of manslaughter. Perhaps we are in a period of '"Tarsan women.” i For i copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopback on sale each evening <€ — —

hi -m Congresemen Hook and Rankin publicly apologized for their cheep vaudeville performance the other day and the matter would be forgotten as it should, if hot headed partisans would get busy on prob- '■ lems of Importance. This i* no I itimc for '‘trifin’.” —o—o i Members of the legislature ex- ‘ press the opinion that at least one and perhaps two special sessions will hare to be held between now and the 1947 regular general assembly to take care of postwar problems. So we have that to look forward to. O—O— Sgt. Franc!* Andrews of this city has been awarded the Good Conduct Medal for his service in Italy and Sgt. Richard Jackson is one of the Twelfth Air Force in

the Mediterranean area decorated for efficiency, the group having make an 85% record the past three month*. Congrartulations boy*. O—o The Bears won the sectional ' tourual tournament and proved themselves the champs. < They will meet Dunkirk next Saturday in the regional at Hdhtlngton and are given a good opportunity 'to win. The tournament here was excellent in every way. Games were close, interest high, attendance excellent and deportment gvod. O—o Italian fanners in the rear of the American fifth arhiy are doing their spring weeding before their . spring plowing this year—weeding ( out. thousands of deadly land mines left behind by ithe warring armies. During the past few weeks Italian civilians, trained in a special minecJearing school dug up more than , 14,00 b mines. * —O_o— 1 Tax reduction after the war to 5 stimulate private business are la- j vored by Treasury Secretary Mor- { genthau. In his recent report to ; congress on the fiscal year ended 1 I last June 3tl. Mr. Morgenthau said: "Such measures arc essential to ( the realization of full employment t in a peacetime economy of free enterprise and competition.” | O—O—c The Ringling circus, "greatest t show on earth'' may not be able to go on tour this year. Six officials 1 who really run the show have been | convicted and 'sentenced to prison and it is stated that their places cannot be filled at this Unite. The men were found guilty of negii- ® genre in Connection with a fire t that took 168 lives at Hartford, fcofiii. laot July. O—o— Dr Julius Hirseh writ Ing for Barron’s Financial Weekly says that there will ofily be 48,000,600 Jobs in the postwar period and while he agrees that sixty million will be needed to continue extraordinat y good times, he believes it sounder to recognize the facts and not have to go through a. season of disappointments by shooting too high and iheeting failure, its worth thinkitog about. O—O A '.ohg time ago John Ruskin made this wise observation: “It’s unwise to pay too much but its worse to pay too little. When yon pay too much, you lose a little montey— that la all. When you pay too llWIe, you- Soitioilines low evetythiug, because lhe thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing It was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits ' paying a little and getting a lot—- ■ ft can’t be done. if ybtt deal with the loWirst bidder, it is well to add 1 something for the risk you run. And if you do that you will have enough to pay for something betteh” i . -b —— ' For insurance purposes, no policyholder is "alive” after he passes the age of 96. In the past 12 months eight clients of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. of Newark, N. J., passed their 96th birthdays and were paid the full face values of their policies—just as if they had

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Twenty Years Aao > _ 'Frib. 27 — Benatore return from ; Dteytbn to Indianapolis and the ees- j sion rte®iines work under a promise i from the gerrymanders. Tile Lenton season opens with a , sermon by Hie Rev. Father Joseph j A. S»imet«. Trot, and Mrs. G. W. A. Luckey ; of Watehiiigtou, D. C, visit Dr. and; Mis. J. 8. Royerm .Mr. Luckey wa-s formerly siiperifitcndeut of schools | here Don Huneieker goes to Blooming-: ton td enjoy a weekend at the Sig-' ma Chi-hotffie. iMfes Nuomi Harkletes is home froth Mike Blaker's school at Ind-1 ianaplois for a few days. ißili to give each Spauish-Ameri-' can and World War veteran S3OO . bonus passed the Indiana house. —— — Q~~ e_ ♦ ■ I Modern Etiquette i I By ROBERTA LEE '♦ I 4 Q. When lu'Tteons have sent flow, etw to a fnheral. would it be all right to send engraved cards of thanks to Utiain? lA. White this is usually done, I

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[ personal notes are far better. These I | notes can be very brief. Q. Is it al! right for a person to ; ! remain an hour when making a I formal call? 'A. No; the prescribed time for a I formal call is twenty m miles. Q. Is it proper tor cite to greet > fellow guests in the diningroom of j , a hotel? tA. Yes; it is never out of place j ! be friendly. i—o I Household Scrapbook ! I By ROBERTA LEE | | Fern Fertilizer ■Use sodium Chloride eight parts. ; potassium nitrate four parts, mag- ' nesititn two parts. Mix and bottle, j Dissolve a teaspoonful of mixture in la quart of water and water the ' fern atbotlt once a week. Electric Iron AHtr using an electric iron it : should be carefully covered to pro- I tect it from dampness, and the cord j should be disconnected at all times that the iron is not in use. ■ 'Letnou juice is all that is neves- ‘ sary for loosing the cuticle anti for | •brigliteniiig aud cleaning lhe Luger j I nails.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE i Aggie's left eyebrow cocked and he touched his Vandyke. These ■ were the words of a querulous old 1 man—an angry and alarmed old ' man. They might be, also, the words of a shrewd man, who relied on attack for his defense. Aggie 1 tried a counterattack. “Speaking of snooping, Mr. Waite, where j were you the night Calder was • killed?” The other man started glacially. ! “You do not hesitate to assume any t prerogatives, I see! I haven’t the 1 remotest intention of answering. But I do have every intention of finding out how you learned of my absence. This is my home. You’ve invaded my privacy sufficiently!” “Were you—by chance—in the oeHar of the club?” Aggie had counted upon the statement to have some effect. Waite’s reaction, was, however, an enlargement of that expectancy. The old man began to tremble. His face contracted into an expression of fury, of hate, of miserliness and ffear. His pince-nea flickeringly mirrored the electric lights. “Curse Sarah!” he finally croaked. “Curse the blabbing old fool! Get out of here!” Aggie turned to Danielle. “Come on ” But the girl stood still. “Haven’t you forgotten to call the police?" Aggie looked at her, smiling faintly. “So I have!” “Get out!” Waite repeated. In a hobbling frenxy, he rushed across his living room and snatched a vase from the mantel. He raised it “Get out of here, I say!” Aggie nodded toward the door. “We’ll phone from Sarah’s.” The voice at State Police Headquarters was toneless. “Dr. Davis found dead. Medicine Lodge on the Upper Lake Road. We’ll send somebody at once." “The servants are waiting there for you,” Aggie said. “I’ll be at my aunt’s house.” He hung up. , The room was flooded with light. Danielle was busy tucking Sarah into the inglenook. Chillie apprehensively took theit order for more coffee. “They’re coming,” Aggie said unnecessarily. Sarah instructed old John in the method of setting a match to the fire laid on the grate, although John had ignited a thousand in the same place. They wanted a fire for psychic comfort — not warmth. /‘Now, Aggie," she said, when she was satisfied, “tell me.” | Aggie glanced at Danielle. / She dropped into a chair, stretched out her legs, and nodded. •Shoot, Aggie. I’m all right now.” For fifteen minutes, Aggie talked. At the end of that time, he had given his aunt a complete description of the scene in the Davis garage. During the recital, Sarah kept touching her swollen neck with a tentative finger—and jerking it away. She seemed, nevertheless, to have taken a new lease on ,Uf«i unburdened of her secret, she

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SALE CALENDAR I MAR. I—Ben F. Shroyer and Fry A Sons. 2 miles . ,>t all ,| . | north of Decatur or I mile north of Dent lilui)1 .*■ General farm sale. Roy Johnson, auctioneer. MAR. 2—M. A. Noble &L. E. McCormack. 3 miles e;i t am ] p. ■ south of Bertie, Ind. General farm sale g e i|i n ’“W Suman, auctioneers. ■ MAR. 2—Harney L. Steffen, 6 miles west of Decatur on V. g ■ 4 miles south. Roy S. Johnson. Am t. M MAR. 2—Harvey L. Steffen. 6 miles west of Decatur on I s. and 4 miles south, or 6 miles east of Bluffton on <', l[c ,■ 124 and 2 miles north, or 6 miles west ami 2 miles nor( M . Monroe. General farm sate. Roy S. Johnson, atu-iion—B MAR. 2—Mrs. Iva Spitler, 4> 2 miles South of St. Jot. Indiuna ul stock. Feed. Machinery. Wendell Savage and J. p fl mann —Auctioneers. fl MAR. 5—H. A. Moore, 7 miles Southwest of Clinton, Ind. Wdi ■ proved 112 Acre Farm. J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer ■ I MAR. s—Mrs. Mae Ayers, 1 mile west of Highway 127 awl i; fl south of Highway 81 and 2'4 miles south of Ohio City fl Wert'county, Ohio. 300 acre farm and geimial f.irn''J Roy S. Johnson, auctioneer. s [ MAR. 6—D. D. Clouse. 1 miles cast of Decatur or 1 milp north >4 mile west of Boho, 1 mile south of R< , l( l x (l 224 « eral farm sale. Roy S. Johnson. Auetiom, a i MAR. 7—C. C. Schafer & Ralph Bluhm, 2 miles east of I>•■< atur onnfl 224, then 2'-i miles north. Registered Hampshire Liii s fl Roy S. Johnson, auctioneer. M APR. 7—lvan Lantz, Hicksville, O. Fair Grounds Sd|] to Horses ami Complete Line of Riding E'luiinmin. .i pfl mann, Auctioneer. 3 MAR. 9—Cecil Hook, West edge of Hicksville. <.). (' :r,p|,|. llu fl out sale. Wendell Savage and J. F. Sanmann, air ijimefl MAR. 10—Mrs. Paul Graham, 215 W. Jefferson SI. Decdur. llufl hold goods. Roy Johnson —Auctioneer. I MAR. 10 —Alanzo Hatcher. 6 miles Southwest <>t lib ksvdlc. ofl Improved 64 acre farm. J. F. Sanmann. Amt | MAR. 12—Alva Adams. 1’ 2 miles South and 2'- Wes' f Shenvooti ■ Improved 16<» acre farm. J. F. Sanmann. Auct s MAR. 13 —Donald Burkhart. 6 miles east and 4 miles south of Berfl Closing out sale. Roy Johnson, auctioneer. | MAR. 14 —Mrs. Homer Mills, 4 miles north and >, mik e.eioffl ton. Roy Johnson, auctioneer. a i MAR. 15 —Jesse Sheets. 4 miles east and 3 miles north es l><-caiu; I rbad 101. Cattie sale. Roy Johnson, amtiom-ei | MAR. 19—Albert Riehle, 3 miles east and 4 miles north of bt-eJ Closing out sale. Roy Johnson, auction) - | MAR. 20 —Ed Hurst, I',-i mile north of Monroe on road 27. Closing fl sale. Roy Johnson, auctioneer. 1 MAR. 21—Lloyd Chambers. Van Wert, Ohio. Guern-mv caul)' dispfl sal. Roy Johnson, auctioneer. | ■ MAR. 22 —Myers 4 Short, 4 miles west and 1 mil' north of (lenew Guernsey cattle dispersal. Roy Johnson, am tioneer. |

was very much her usual self. When her nephew finished, she said, “Hunh! George wouldn’t kill i himself in a million years! Too con- i ceited!” “But he did—apparently.” ; “With Hank’s knife? Non- i sense!” i “You think Henry Bogarty is ‘ alive—and around here—and killed him?” Sarah grunted again. “Did I say so! I just said—Danielle’s father hadn’t a suicidal streak in his bones!” “Then,” Aggie tugged his beard, “maybe you can explain how the thing was accomplished.” “I don’t attempt to explain! That’s your business. Or Wes Wickman’s. You’re a scientist He’s a cop. You’re supposed to be able to think! I’m merely a woman—who knows people. I say, somebody killed Danielle’s father! What do you say?” She turned to the girl. Danielle shook her head. “1 don't know. He must have done it. There’s no other way. There must be something—something else—besides the cache—” Sarah glanced from the girl to her nephew, with a strange, luminous expression. “You told Danielle?” His eyes were abstracted. “On the way back here. The salient points. I was thinking—” Sarah made a scoffing sound. “Thinking out loud, practically! I saw you look over your shoulder toward the hill! You were thinking about that gold!” “I was deciding I’d go up and check on it If you’ll tell me how to get to it—” Both women Were startled by that suggestion. Danielle looked at him with incredulity. Sarah was frightened. She spoke: “That, too, is Wes’s affair! It’s dark—three o’clock—and you can’t go poking around in cellars! Suppose—somebody else was thercl" “An additional reason for going! Besides, cellars are dark—even in daytime.” “I Won’t tell you how to get in!” “Then I’ll run up just to see if anybody is fumbling around there. If Dr. Davis was murdered—somebody might be. In a few more minutes, this place is going to be waked up by sirens and headlights. Attention will be on Danielle’s house.” He had risen. “I think this is an excellent time to be in that cellar. Besides—l used to play games in the wine cellar. It was fun.” Sarah glanced at the girl opposite her. Firelight emphasized the concentration with which Danielle was looking back at Aggie. The girl’s head finally shook and she said, “Don’t go there, Aggie. It might be—dangerous. And this isn’t the kind of business for a—a —person like you to—get into.” “Danger?” he repeated. “You mean—l should stay out of it because it’s dangerous?” Danielle nodded. “That’s exactly what I mean! After all, you’re a professor—not a cop. You can’t go barging into a cellar at night.”

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He seemed perplexed. “ButI’m keen to! I’d enjoy beating Hes to it! I don’t mind danger.” He noticed the way in which his aunt was regarding the girl. “Right, Sarah. Send her out of the room—and give me the dope. And — Danielle. Remind me to tell you about the time I was lost on the ice flos for a week—and a night in Cambodia—and one thing or another Danger! Good Lord!” Sarah grinned. Danielle went reluctantly into the kitchen. Sarah pulled her nephew close. “You might shift from that pajama top,” she said, “to a sweater. You look absurd.” Aggie started, glanced at his clothes, and blushed. In a whisper, she told him. Five minutes later, he left the house. The moon had vanished. Clouds covered most of the sky. In the east, a few stars still shone Through the trees, in the distance, lights twinkled at the Davis house, where the servants were queasily waiting for the police. Aggie cut up the hili toward the club on a footpath. The building would be locked. Jack Browne and the servants would be asleep on the upper floors. He did not wish to waken them. He came to the edge of the trees, moved from one lilac to another, and finally onto the side porch. There was not a light in the elu house. He swung out a screen, tne first window was locked; the tm* was not. Aggie raised it and we in. He smelled moth flakes »'» he passed the stuffed moose heat He used a flashlight once, for «« than a second, to find a“• through the tables and divans m the main lounge. In the same■ . ner, he passed through the i room to the pantry and from “• pantry into the steamy, ms. • tional smell of the club kitc ” en j ] _. found the door to the main ce > carefully opened it, entered, closa> it, and started down the step • When he was midway on we-, he listened. An automatic F was going somewhere be.< • made a muffled, rhythmic no.«. but, between its beats, ther minute silences. Aggie heard ing in them. This cellar had dows —opaque squares tha little light by da >’ “ nd fl i“ k erof night. He risked another flicker light. Anyone who happens t outside would have seen it had to get a bearing thro<£ place. He moved again in‘he —past the furnace and the ton coal. Ashes gritted under ' e ! A door at the end of the for Hc room opened into a c 0 ~ found its handle. Beyond t.. were no more windo * s \ s th n „ sff itch. on his light and locked t 1 There was dust enough • tiie webbing enough to sugge . f or passage had not been years. But the con^ e ‘ o f feet blurred with the evide - t(l9 going to, and coming from, wine cellar. . ; (To be continued)