Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 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., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holtbouse, Sec’y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates Single Copiess .01 One week by carrier .20 By Mail In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells (nunties, 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; GO cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces *3.50 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, 111. Remember that federal income tav report. The deadline is March 15 th. I —o They say a fool and his money are soon parted' and there is a rumor also that there’s a lot of money in circulation these days. —o GIVE TO THE RED CROSS. EVERY DOLLAR MEANS HELP FOR SOME WOUNDED OR SICK MAN OR WOMAN OF THE ARM-1 ED SERVICE. O_ O Bonds are better than cash for I every resource of the United States ; is back of them. They bear inter- I est, grow in value, help to prevent I inflation and are easily the best in- 1 vestments in the world today. You I : can’t have too many. } i O—o t The Berne Bears made an excel- 1

leiut showing in the regional basketball- tournament. They won from Dunkirk after a thrilling contest and gave the strong Huntington Vikings a scare in the finals. Congratulations boys. o—o Buy a bond or two this month. Ji’s just as important as ever. Yon thus help to keep the victories mounting, bring the boys home sooner and do yourself a might good turn by building up a larger reserve. O—o The Detroit strikes have been Settled ams war products are again being turned out. That’s good and the threat of a coal strike should be cut off before the men walk out. This is certainly no time for such I things. —o The Yanks are in old Cologne and the battle of the Rhine is starting. Its the last big barrier. The entire strip of Germany west of the river has been taken by the Allied armies the past few weeks. It’s the first time an enemy army has reached the Rhine in 125 years. -—o—o The regular 1945 session of the Indiana legislature is now history but we are promised a special meeting of the law makers before •the year is over. That will probably last forty days which is the limit, since so many propositions were carried over. —o— Since the Republican policy committee of the legislature has decided that changes in the liquor laws are not necessary, we must assume that the laws as enacted several years ago by the Democrats were not as bad as the political orators and partisan newspapers implied. For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopback on sale each evening 4c

Congreesman Gillie says special occasions in oongrew are always bugbears to the members. There are only 600 seats in the house j gallery and since there are 531 members, each gets but one ticket tt to take care of the many who always apply. Dr. Gillie says each t such occasion makes twenty-live t. people mad at him. t O—O Grow a Victory garden this year 1 . if for no other purpose than to J provide your own needs. The situ--3 ation as to vegetables is critical * and President Roosevelt has issued i a call that we each put “two ’ shoulders and both hands to 'the I plow” this year. The plan is to i have 2,155,000 acres in gardens in 1945. O—O The Japs may be crazy but they are also fanatical lighters who stick it out to the last man and then he concludes with some wild effort to take as many of his foes along in death as possible. They have demonstrated lime and time again that they are not afraid to die. It makes them tough enemies. O—o When a volcano on Iwo island began erupting the Yanks quickly took advantage of the opportunity to secure hot food for a change. They shoved their cans of ration food into crevices of the mquntain and in a few minutes pulled out piping hot portions. Can't stop those boys. O—O Sixteen basketball teams are all i that's left undefeated of the nearly j SOO that started a couple of weeks t ago in the sectionals. These will be narrowed to four teams next Saturday when the eemi-linals are | held and these will go on to Indian- | apolis a week later for the big i show. The schools of this part of the state meet at Muncie next Sat- . urday with Huntington represent- t

ing the region. Good luck Vikings. —o-o — ; ] The Red Cross is the Mercy or- ‘ ganization that lightens fears and sorrow in an emergency that arises, i Just now while taking care of the a boys in every corner of the world s and on each of the Seven Seas, they are preparing for the flood season that annually brings disaster to the lowlands in this country, s They will be ready to do every ' thing possible to save lives and to assist those in dire needs. Give < liberally to ithe fund. (' o—O Here is how you can make a warwinning job out of your housecleaning job! One of the first tasks of a good housekeeper is to pick up t 1 scattered newspapers and tuaga- ‘ | zines and empty the wastebaskets. Save that paper! Paper products, made from waste paper, help to I , • i supply just about everything our ( armed forces must have to keep | fighting. —o The legislature amended the gross income tax law so that merchants will not have to pay on the 20% excise federal tax on furs, jewelry and cosmetics which they collect from the customer and automobile dealers will be relieved from paying on diecounled contracts of conditional sales. The idea is to prevent double taxation and there are no doubt other adjustments that will ease the slate tax pressure. These it is promised will be taken ■up at the special session of the general assembly. —o ! The seventh war loan campaign 1 will start next month and Secre- ! tary Morgenthau has announced a 5 goal of $14,000,000,000. That is the same total as in the sixth campaign hut 4he difference will be that exactly half of the amount is to be asked from individual purchasers.It will require more effort since the amounts of purchases will be smaller than when the major portion is collected from corporations and large buyers. It will be met of course and the educational part of the drivp will start April 9th when • 4

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millions of persons in .payroll cavings plans will be asked to enlarge their participations. — ♦ ♦ i Twenty Years Aqo I Today (March 7—Alvin Neuenschwander is named manager of a new furniture factory at Berne. ITourna'inent ibasketlball scores: Berne 31, Pleasant Mills 4; Decatur, 22, Ossian 15; Lancaster 39, Hartford 21; Decatur 27, Berne 17. Final—Laircaeter '25, Decafur 2d. J. Clark Mills, state bank examiner, takes change of the Fanners and Merchants bank of Geneva. A Rtproduca pipe organ is installed at Ada.me theater. IE. Fritzinger elected chairman of the Republican city committee with Oscar Teeple as secretary. The Geneva Water company issues $34,000 worth of stock and will u<se the funds to build a water system there. Q ♦ ♦ Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE | ♦ — ♦ Cane Chairs To restore the elasticity of the seat of a cane chair, turn over the chair and with hot water and a sponge wash the cane so that it may be thoroughly soaked. Buttonholes Two rows of stitching around a buttonhole will strengthen it, and no longer will there be the annoyance of having the buttonhole tear at the edges. Fruit Slicing Try tiising the slaw cutler in the

ilKjtth ■ Vi ' . • ' j*x ~ *WWB£fr£/*, - y t'K % SryaSLz ■ y<B®R* . •: . v f ’•" ’siEtaW’ \ \fw \ < xA x IX V f f l -’ t ~ £ ■ iitiwi *TWPin" * .a ""y * iw '- ~ T..... * | l-B;’ : . i A GERMAN WOMAN, her belongings piled high in a wheelbarrow, walks down the middle of a muddy. ’! road headed for the safety to be found in the rear of the fast advancing Allied lines. Foot soldiers on her right and vehicles on her left pay little attention as they continue on their way to Calcar. 8e clogged have.become sum* of these highways of war, that one Allied official reported i.t looked as if the German army was purposely sending civilians to impede the Americans' advance,

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same manner as for cabbage, regulating it to the desired size of slices. ♦— , —♦ I Modern Etiquette I | By ROBERTA LEE ♦ ■ * Q. What would he a good way to send invitations 'to an informal luncheon, and how far in advance should they be sent? A. The hostess should write a short .personal note, which should be mailed about a week in advance. Q. Next to whom should the bride’s mother be seated at the wedding feast? A. She should be seated at the left of the bridegroom’s father. Q. In what manner should a birth be annouiHoed? •A. A birth announcement may Ibe by letter, telephone, or, telegram. COURTHOUSE Estate Cases Final reports were filed by Walter J. Bookman as administrator of the Vivian estate and Iby Frank Johnston, administrator of the Noah Johnston estate. The will of Clara Katherine Miller, written of Fell). 10. 1945. was Differed for prolbate in the circuit court. She devised that $250 he paid to Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary’s church, for masses for the repose of her soul;' that her tiwo elaters, who in religious life are known as Sisters M. Basille and M. Etheldreda, l}e given SSO each, and that residue of

her estate be shared by her other brothers and sisters, John A. Miller, Beier. C. Miller, Casper Miller, Elizabeth Eiting and Mary Kohne. She namiii'aited Theodore F. Graliker as the executor of her estate. 0 * ACTIVITIES OF ADAMS COUNTY | 4H CLUBS ♦ ♦ Tractor Project Chalmer Miller and county agent L. E. Archbold visited the Jefferson and Wabash township high schools on Monday to discuss the tractor maintenance 4-H club project, with boys 11 years old or older. In the two schools at least 54 i’oys came out to listen and showed considerable interest. These boys were invited to attend a county meeting in aceompanyment with their dads at the Lincoln school, Decatur, Wednesday, March 21, at which time slide pictures will tell the story of the tractor maintenance project. Adult leadership has always been a major problem in 4-H work and this is being solved with the assistance of the machinery dealers and rural tank trqck drivers. To date the fol-. .Howipg firnm; and individuals have signified their intentions of giving leadership: Milton Hanni, Petrie Oil Company, Mr. Foor of the Dierkes Auto Parts, Ed Affoider and Son, Reinhart Bleeke, Arden Moser. J. L. McCrory, A. J. Moser company, Less Sprunger, Farm Bureau, Berne, Steffen Implement company, and Mollenkopl Farm Equipment company. Merry Maids The Monmouth Meiry Maids 4-H Club W >ll have one of its

GIVE NOW GIVE MORE + Previously reported *1075.20 Zion Lutheran Church. 10.00 Spanish War Veterans 10.00 V. C. Elzey, 3 Monroe 9 00 Richard L. Fields, 21 Hartford 10.50 Ernest Ziegler, 23 Hartford.... 25.00 M. B. Glendening, 33 Hartford 38.00 S. A. Watson, 34 Hartford 20.50 Jacob Stucky, 5 Wabash 19.00 Harry Moore, 21 Wabash 19.00 Reuben Gerber, 4 French 50.00 Josiah Myers, 4 Blue Creek.... 13.00 Roy Miller, 18 Blue Creek 23.00 Herman Hinck, 31 R00t26.00 Berne, business houses 810.00 Cloyce Crozier, 22 Uni0n34.37 Lowell Long, 16 Wabash 25.80 John A. Meyer, 31 Monroe 29.50 Rudolph Fuelling, 4 Root 17.00 August H. Witte. 2 Root 21.00 Henry Drayer, 3 French 41.00 Roy Hook, 10 Blue Creek 13.00 Delnier Wechter, 3 Blue Creek 30.50 Arnold Simon, i Hartford 13.00 Raymond Becher, S Wash 18.00 Frank R. Braun, 5 Washington 26.00 Marion Michaels, 29 Wash 9.50 Decatur 1.0.0. F. Lodge 10.00 T0ta1*2,444.87 —— o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur most successful years if the enthusiasm shown to date is an indication. The following committee of adult leaders have agreed to cooperate in directing the club's activities: Mrs. Alice Howard, Mrs. Lloyd Daniels, Mrs. Robert Johnson and Mrs. James Moses. Enrollment will be taken at the Monmouth high school Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Girls attending the St. Peter's Lutheran school will be contacted and given opportunity to enroll. Girls may enroll in the following projects: food preparation, clothing, canning, baking, garden, victory and junior leadership. After enrollment is completed record books and project material will be secured for all members and the organization meeting will be held.

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■■■ II I I - ■ ■ — ' CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Beth was still paddling lackadaisically offshore. She pushed into the shallows. He took her place and she sat against the backrest. She eventually broke his extended silence. “There is pollen on your bathing trunks. By that I deduce you’ve been walking in a field. There is only one field nearby—the one around the gazebo. Did you find out anything of sinister import?” Aggie smiled. “Maybe.” “But you’re not telling?* He shook his head. “I think,” Beth said, in a different tone, “I won’t take up Sarah’s invitation to be house guest You’re quite right, Aggie. I’m not your type. You’re not mine.” She sighed. “You tell Sarah, will you ?” Aggie was jolted from his, abstraction. “What?” She smiled. "Never mind. I will.” Beth added, later, “Ralph is the very right sort—after all—l suppose.” She was surprised when he looked up. “Ralph? I want to ask about Ralph. I mean—what he’s like?” “He owns an accounting firm. His whole life is an open—ledger.” “He took care of the accounting tnd of your father's business.” "Some of it,” Beth replied. “The honest part.” “He knows about the other part. Remember the crack he made the night Wes cross-examined the whole club? What was it? About ‘Some people report their incomes and others bury them.’ Do you think he knew about—the gold up here?” Beth looked thoughtfully into Aggie’s eyes. "No doubt ha knew Father had other accounts and other funds. Ralph doesn’t tell me much about his business. Typically American man-of-affairs with his, ’Don’t bother your pretty little head.’ And he’s right, Aggie. It would bore me. Still—” “Still—what?” “He’s enormously ambitious. Ralph likes money. I know he’s worried about my estate. Just his practical point of view. Looked at—from your angle—it seems different. Ralph’s ambition might turn to cupidity, his cupidity to crime. Still — it’s hard to picture him — standing over a victim—with a dripping weapon—isn’t it?” Aggie thought that Beth was a fairly detached person, on her own account, inasmuch as the picture connoted her own father in the role of victim. He said, “If it were easy to imagine a killer doing the deed, it would be a cinch to catch them all. If I asked you, ‘What does a murderer look like?’ you’d be hard put to make a successful answer.” “That’s right A murderer — might look like ... me.” Aggie grinned. “Let’s hope not. So—you have no idea that Ralph was aware of the stacked gold ?” “Not the foggiest.” “Was he ever up here in the winter ?"

Lenten Meditation 1 (Rev. R. R. Wilson, First United Brethren Church w “FORTITUDE IN SUFFERING” I ‘‘And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sann I unto God: and the prisoners heard them." (Acts 16‘asf 3 ' 8 * 1 V Paul and Silas, for their Lord's sake, beaten with sB stripes, cast into jail, feet fastened in stocks, confined in ness of the inner prison: this, surely, was enough to i,, ,‘ lar W stoutest soul, yet they lifted their hearts to their heavenly and sang unto Him. Do we suffer today? Rave I. ones in the armed forces? Is our burden so heavy W(J >. ’’ luv t« what to do? Let these two men teach us a lesson, ji.,,"* they sing in such conditions? Dy completely forgetting surroundings and lifting their eyes to the heavens. »| L heir ß mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.'' ' Concerning our Savior it is said: "And when they had | hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives." (Map Jesus knew He was about to be offered up, yet He sang a h 1 I In adversity and suffering, let the heart §ing praises to q oil B will be the best medicine to destroy the germs of discourage “ s l

Bemedalled Sergeant Harlingen, Tex. (UP)—On his left sleeve, M/Sgt. Raymond K. Potter, now stationed at Harlingen army air field, wears: six service stripes, three overseas stripes from World War I. five foreign duty bars from World War 11, and six stripes representing his rank as a Master Sergeant. Over his left breast. Potter is entitled to wear: the Victory Medal with three stars, the Mexican Border service ribbon, the American defense ribbon, and “enough good conduct ribbons to fill a trunk.” o Ration Calendar Processed Foods Blue stamps X 5 through Z 5 and A2 and B 2 valid through March 31. Blue stamps C 2 through G 2 valid through April 28. Blue stamps H 2 through M 2 valid through June 1. Blue eitamps N 2 through 82 valid through June 30. Meats Red stamps QSR 5, S 5 valid through March 31; T 5 through X 5 valid through April 28. Y 5 and Z 5 and A2 through D 2 valid through June 1. E2 through J 2 valid through June 30. Sugar Stamp 35 valid through June 2. New stamp to be validated May I. Shoes Airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 in book 3 good Indefinitely. Always present book 3 when making purchase as stamps are invalid if re- j moved from the book.

•CB=aa====sx=====™=: Beth shrugged. “Os course—we all have been—at one time or another. House parties. We’d open a cottage for Christmas, sometimes, when we were younger.” “Last winter, by any chance?” “I don’t think any of the crowd did anything here last winter. Why don’t you ask Sarah? She’s the timetable and codebook of Indian Stones.” “I will,” Aggie said. The sun had set when Plum returned to Rainbow Lodge. Sarah was taking a nap. Aggie thought of going to his room to read, but another activity enlisted him. x He swung away from Rainbow Lodge on foot In the patch of fairly heavy woods between it and the club, he pushed through trees and underbrush until he reached a tiny, open place that was covered with leaves. Between the leaves could be seen the jaws of a steel trap. The trap was set—and baited. Aggie then strolled along the edge of the golf course. He had made four sets at suitable spots in the woods there—but they yielded nothing. So far, he had caught only one red vixen. He followed the lumber road toward Garnet Knob. There were traps under a log, the edge of the brook, in an old run, and beside a spring. The yield was nothing. Aggie made a mental note that it would be a good idea to take up the trap line s?on. His sets along Lower Lake were empty and he almost abandoned the idea of visiting the traps on the other pond- He went to them, however, and in the next to the last, he discovered unexpected success. The ground around that trap had been torn up. A silver-tipped black brush stood above a large stone beyond the bare earth. The fox came up standing—snarling and fierce—his leg held firmly. Aggie looked about for a suitable club and quickly dispatched his quarry. The dead animal was a large one. Its coat was rusty with summer and it seemed thin. Domesticated, he thought. Not used to foraging for itself. Which was why he had caught it, no doubt—and precisely why he had hoped to catch it. A wild silver fox would have been far more cautious than this one. But the fox itself interested Aggie less than the collar it was wearing. A silver-studded, black leather collar. On it was a plate with the familiar initials, in the familiar script. Aggie picked up the carcass and then—because he had compunctions about such things —he went back over his whole trap line—a distance of more than three miles — and sprang every trap. It made him very late for dinner, Plum left the carcass of the fox on the front porch—not without remembering that the monogrammed knife had been stolen from the railing right above the spot. He ignored Aunt Sarah’s voice until he

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'I ■' * I -IM I had telephoned State Police Headquarters and left word that he would like to see Capt. Wes Wickman. Then he went in, tousled Sarah’s hair when she started to lecture him about being late, and ate hungrily. , Sarah tried to get him to tilt “Fine sort of husband you’d maw: You’d come home to a poor, dear wife who had spent a hard day in the beauty salon and the department stores —and behave exactly as if she were wallpaper!’’ “That reminds me. Beth nixed your invitation to stay here. Sarah studied him. “Well. Th* ’ details. Come clean!" His face was bland. “Incompatr i bility. I’m too wild for her. Soma--1 thing.” , “I heard,” said Sarah, “that yo» i were out canoeing with her. Di 1 she propose? Notice carefully tha* . I didn’t say, “Did you “She had a stab at it. Told me ■ I was glamorous ... Talked hersed I out of it.” i "A fine girl, Beth. She a warm, 1 intelligent, brave—” . r “Mmmm. Beautiful. Good fig--I’ure. Fine dark hair. Well-educ»te . Magnificent carriage. Spirit Da. s Good golfer and tennis player, ter- , rific at table tennis, able swimm i —everything a man like me need if he had an extra hie to» t to his country clubs.” ~ > Sarah chortled. “At least—B - ant female in your c J asa , - haven’t run away from! in»’ f tome progress—for mea Aggie looked at her witt ey« a that were singularly- penetrau?' • “I know your game, 1 set down her coffee cupI “Honestly, I believe you - was Beth very disappointed. a “Search me. She started ttlW -about Ralph. They were thick «« 1 I arrived here. They might thicken ' UP Whe a n”they left the dining: r«J . he took a leather chair near the c r ter table and picked up the : nin F 1 silence, said: “We have d r clues—” he heard Wes Wick « i step on the porch— and . r we’ll have another, before longer! But it’s not enouf- - haven’t let our minds—oi ■ • inations—do sufficient wor r tried to consider everytninj by d a logic of things.” He leaned aroun e his chair. “Hello, Wes! Come Bring that fox, out by the stepsi will you?” . the ‘ The trooper came in, carrying ‘ fox by the tail. He he d it ; Sarah. “Your nephews • »m trapper, Sarah. I’d! have g i!ed 1 fifty to one he wouldn t have n this.” , . * «ft 1 “Bad bet,” Aggie said. thl j tame. Well, I see you brougni photos.” j (To be continued) I Cwrrltbt. IMI. 1» I DUUtbuU-J W xu» ‘