Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1945 — Page 4

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cost and those who indulge will ( pay. the freight. j —O-O— i Neither the "wets” or the “drys” 3 seem pleased with the liquor legis- ( lation of tlie recent session. Usual- j ly one side gets some satisfaction , hut in this case most of the com- . meats are critical. j o—o t The measure to provide for nomi- t nations of candidates for governor and senator hr primary election became lost somewhere in the legislative session,.so we will continue 1 to pick the ticket leaders by the 1 convention method. * 0-0 The 84th general assembly holds J the record for the longest session, ** ( extending twenty hours past the constitutional deadline, hi 1939 the session continued until four o’clock the next day but this is the I first time the lawmakers have hung on until nightfall. —o— Adams county citizens bought more than $108,006 w’orth of bonds during February, an excellent showing. There was no quota for the month but the purchasers did not let up on their efforts to thus provide a future Income and at the same time aid Uncle Sam. 1 -Q-—Q*- - ' The German government has been removed to Berchtesgaden, Hitler's Bavarian retreat, according to dispatches from Stockholm. They don’t say where the fuhrer has moved bait he probably won’t want to be annoyed by the details of keeping the ship of state afloat during times like these. —o— General Eisenhower has again For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopbuck on sale evening A.'

urged Gorman officers by radio to surrender, end the war and save further loss of life and destruction of property. Many of them have already done this and the Jack of opposition by the soldiers and the civilians in Cologne indicates the plea* are becoming, effective. O—o If Joe Goebbels goes home to Cologne some week end, he won’t know the old place and he will probably not be cheered as hero as in the old days. O—O-

i The Red Cross is on the job in 1 the flood districts of southern Ini diana, helping those in points of i danger to move to safer locations and rendering assistance by providing clothing and food. They are also on every battle held in which Americans are taking part and the boys know they will get the very best care when the.nurses reach them. O—o The old Ohio river and its tributaries have staged a roaring flood this week as the river rose to almost record depth, causing much damage and some loss of life. It is repotedi to be the worst since 1937 when a flood stage of more than eighty feet was recorded. The cold snap slowed it down a bit and perhaps prevented the most disastrous flood in history. O—o We should not relax our efforts in the highly important job of collecting all available waste paperall kinds — wrapping paper, paper bags, corrugated paper board, wastebasket scrape, newspapers and magazines. Failure to keep ■the mills adequately supplied ( threatens a continuing flow of sup- ] plies to our armed forces and will 1 seriously affect practically all civil- < ian uses of paper. O—O— Whether you like Winston i

Churchill or agree with him, you , must admit he has courage. He j is about the most active man of his years in the world. He has visited 1 c every front of the Allied armies, has traveled to every part of the | globe and ie still going strong. J This week he went up to the Rhine river, called on the Yanks along the Siegfried line and smiled when they told him he was in danger. —o The names of two more Adams county men were added this week j to the list of heroes who have given ' their lives that we may continue ' to preserve our liberties and the right to live without fear. Truman F. Kruckeberg of Union township died on the battle fields of Luzon 1 while Merle C. Dick whose parents reside in Decatur died in Germany where he was with the advance force. The sincere sympathies of the community are extended to the families of the boys. —o The 84th session of the general assembly of Indiana finally concluded at eight o’clock Tuesday night, nearly twenty-four hours late. Only a few of the members were present when Speaker Creighton rapped his gavel down and declared the session ended sine die. Just why the long delay ms not clear but evidently the clerks did not relish working overtime without pay for a special order was adopted to take care of the situation. —o The Laymen’s National Committee of New York, founders and sponsors of National Bible Week, will Institute National Sunday School Week, AprU 9 to 15, 1945. The sole purpose is to stimulate Sunday School attendance and support. Admiral Regionaid R. ’ Belknap, chairman of the committee, says. "U te time to popularize that fact that a boy or girl who attends Sunday School, who is obedient to hie parents and his teachers —is not a ’sfesy,’ but a real American.” • o

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< ♦ Twenty Years Aqo * Today * 'March 9 — The state senate passes the much disputed gerrymander bill 27 to 0, Democrats refusing to vote. (Large crowd from here will accompany the Catholic high basketball team to Chicago for the national tournament, March 19-22. The sectional tournament here took in total of $7155.60. Audley Moser elected captain of Yellow Jacket (basketball team for next eeaeon. J. D. French, principal of the Berne schools, is elected county superintendent of Wells county. iHomer Lower and son Joe and Lawrence Linn leave for Austin, Minn., on business. o I Household Scrapbook I | By ROBERTA LEE | ♦ « -Chewing Gum To remove drawing gum from garments, rwb spot with pure lard and then apply a quantity of soap. Follow >by washing alternately with water and turpentine. Asparagus When preparing asparagus, if the tough ends are stripped of the outeide skin, they will be found when cooked to be tender and palatable. | Pens When steel pens are clogged with ink dip them in a rather strong solution of ammonia wa'er. This softens the ink and it can be easily wiped off.

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♦ < I Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE | ♦ < y. Where should the host and the woman guest of honor be seated at the dinner table? A. The hast should be seated at one end of the table, the woman guest of honor at his right. Q. Is it good form to address a porter on a train by the customary name of "George"? A. No. If you find it necessary to attract his attention by calling him, merely say "(Porter”. ■Q. How should the word “honor” be spelled on the wedding invitations? A. The old-fashioned' spelling “honour" seems to (be preferred. 0 COORT HOOSE Estate Cases Report of inheritance tax in the John E. Zimmerman estate was filed. The net value of estate is slo',576.88 and tax due from Margaret Worthman. an heir, is $15.26. Man is Released The court has (been advised of the final release of Jack Keever from the Indiana reformatory, who was convicted in July. 1940, and paroled on June 29, 1943. — In the decade before the war. average annual shipments from Alasi ka consisted of $32,600,000 in canl ned salmon. $5,300,000 in other fish. I $2,600,000 in furs. $15,900,000 in ' gold, $2,400,000 in other minerals, and $400,000 in miscellaneous products. Exports totaled $59,200,000 I against $34,200,000 worth of im- ; ports.

COAL RESTRICTIONS (Continued From Page One) before May 15 with their regular retail dealers and 'accompanying it with an order, will be entitled to get. at least 30 percent of their normal requirements before Oct. I. However, this delivery will be made only if the consumers agree to take delivery of any usable fuel the dealer has to offer thepi. Dealers generally will be prohibited from delivering more than 50 percent of the consumer’s normal annual needs prior to Sept. 1. i 0 NEW AMERICAN (Continued From Page One) army group commanders. Gerow is 56 and known as a stickler for perfection in training. “You can’t throw spit-balls at the Japanese and the Germans,” he is quoted as saying once in explaining his preference for being out among his troops on the field. In the first world war he won the distinguished /service medal and the French legion of honor for his work in (Paris as officer in charge of purchasing and disbursing for the signal corps. Notable, -Bradley still is in immediate administrative command of the U. IS. ninth army, which was shifted to Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s command when the Ardennes break-through in December cut it off from Bradley’s sector. o Before the war 70 steamship lines operated from Beattie on various routes -to ail parts of the world. Waterborne commerce through the port over a 10-year period averaged 7,860,679 tons.

GIVE NOW GIVE MORE + Previously reported $2,830.37 Samuel Yager, 27 Kirkland . 26.00 Franklin Fruechte, 3 Kirk... 31.b0 Howard Bluhm, 21 French. .. 7.00 George Riugger, 11-12 French 51.00 Eli Graber, 11-12 French 35.50 Jay J. Yost, 33 Washington.. 26.00 T. R. Noll, 24 Washington.,... 12.00 Mrs. Dewey Gallogy, zone 4, Decatur 43.01 John Halterman, Decatur Business district,.l,loo.so R. P. O. E. Lodge 100.00 Knights of Columbus. w 10.00 Loyal Order of Moose 100.00 U. E. Local No. 924 10.00 Lorenz Eickhoff, 14 Preble. .. 25.00 Carl H. Heckman, 7 Root 15.50 Louis F. Hoile, 3 Root 14.50 Ed A. Bischoff, 3 Union 12.00 Calvin R. Liechty. 26 Monroe IS.OO Leo E. Engle, 1 French 14.00 T0ta154,481.38 Q MIGHTY AMERICAN (Continued From Page One) and Gladbeck. However, the spotlight of battle remained on the blazing Remagen bridgehead. The American first army was pumping a great flow of men and armor across the Rhine there in a bid to exploit the chance capture of tiie Ludendorf bridge before the Germans could rally in force. After a 48-hour blackout in which practically all details of the crossing were kept secret to capitalize on the obvious German confusion, headquarters revealed that the American ninth armored division under Maj. Gen. John W. Leonard, Toledo, 0., had taken the Rhine bridge. The Yankk swept down on the bridge from the west Wednesday afternoon. Panicky German rear guards fumbled the planned dynamiting of the bridge and fled back across the river, leaving the double-track railway span intact.

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CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Wes’s expression was irritated. “Sure. Could have been an outsider. Somebody who never had a thing to do with the people here—and was unknown here. Unknown —” he broke off and brightened—“except for the fact that he practiced that shot out by the summer house! So —likely—not unknown. I’ll have a look at those marks in the morning —get an expert on such things—l” “I’m something of a dendrochronologist, myself,” Aggie said, touching his beard. “Dendrochronology is the science of telling dates by tree rings. But we can stretch it to include telling seasons by bark growth over knife stabs. The marks were made last winter." “Winter?" “Yes. I didn’t deduce that—exactly—by the regrowth—though if it had been winter before last, the bark would be pretty much healed. I’m telling it by the height from the ground of the tree with the big > knot and the height of the marks—both of which heights I gave you. As you ean see, nobody could have stood on the ground and thrown a knife through a knothole twelve feet off the earth in a slightly downward direction to a tree twenty feet away." “Snow!” said Sarah. "Drifts!” "Exactly. Somebody on snowshoes, probably. Not practicing to throw through a window. Just ambling around—coming on the two trees—realizing the setup was a test of skill—and making a lot of tries. I should say, not tries—but superb shots. Know anybody who can throw a knife like that?” The trooper looked guiltily at Aggie. “I—well—l think I could myself. I was a crack at it when I was a kid.” “Nobody’s here in the winter except Jack,” Sarah said. “What about Jack?” Aggie asked. The trooper shrugged. “Search me. He’s an athlete. I’ve seen a lot of him—winters. He’s swell com-* pany. Smart” “It’s silly, anyhow,” Sarah said. "He’s such a—” “ —lamb." Aggie supplied her word. “I know. Well, he was here, anyhow. Does he ever go away from here—in the winter?" “Certainly,” Sarah replied. “He gets a whole month off—for one thing. His vacation has to be in the winter. He goes down to New York to buy things for the club during, the winter. Various people from Parkawan substitute for him. The club was closed last year—for several weeks—in January or February. Jack had the flu. He was in Parkawan hospital.” Aggie nodded. “In other words, anybody could have been throwing knives in trees here last winter! If we assume that the person who tossed a knife in that tree was the murderer~we can probably assume —just assume—that he was up here last winter on some errand connected with the whole business.” —

Lenten Meditation* (Rev. 1). H. Pellett, Union Chapel United u M oicuiien) “RELIANCE UPON GOD” r Ps. 46:1. “God is our refuge and strength, St help in trouble.” ery P r 'H«t God is our refuge! The word refuge is ‘ niß , h K the Hebrew, and in translated hope, refuge, shelter \ B& a place of shelter from danger or distrss. God is our \ hope, our protection, our comfort. How much our , just that today! Not only so but God is also our strenrti always present when we need Him. ' *> lll >»Mi|® Many of our men in the armed service of our conn, B ’ learned Wy bitter experience that when armaments f.Jtiw ' and fox holes fail, that God still is our refuge. \y ( ’- > on the home front have really learned that secret too’r ’•B • the greatest need of this present day and hour is, reli y .'n- lWl>ll *w l i II Citron. 7:14 offers a solution for our ills. ‘'lf my pe O n| oll i are called by my name shall humble themselves, and nr seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then Jif 5 , ai#l ß from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal thei i That is reliance upon God. Real reliance on God ity, confession, a reaching out after God, and a turning fB wickedness. If you want God in a crisis, better seek ma ti . B ' during the calm! t><lHi|M« i K

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“Trying to locate the gold cache,” Wes said. “Well, probably. And —if so — that person undoubtedly took great pains to make it appear that he—or she—was anywhere but in Indian Stones at the time. Probably ‘left for a vacation in Florida’— or what not That means—we’d have to check every alibi for everybody in the place for the best part of the winter. We’d have to check Hank Bogarty for the whole winter —out in Seattle—” Wes grinned. “We’re back to him again!” Aggie nodded, without annoyance. “What have you got? A knife, a calling card, a fox, an automobile, some veal bones that were in it. Incidentally—the veal bone I spotted on the cellar floor! What about it?” “Just veal,” said Wes. “No teeth marks. No fox signs.” Aggie chuckled. “I’d all but forgotten that. All right. You’ve got the deadfall and the bread and the honey, and so on. You’ve got a wine cellar, a bottle of hock, an open cellar window, a secret door, a secret safe that contains straw and some chips from boxes. You’ve got broken telephone wires, a missing million in gold and platinum that is real though absent. You’ve got a pair of shoe pacs that Dr. Davis dropped in Lower Lake. That is, if you’re the man I think you are, you’ve got ’em.” Wes nodded. “There was blood on them—a little trace in the leather. Same type as Calder’s —the expert s&ys.” “Good! Then — you’ve got two bodies—one with a*bitten hand—all extremely concrete and tangible things. And yet—you can’t even prove absolutely that either victim was murdered!” Aggie started to tick off names on his fingers. “First — Bogarty. Sarah vouchsafes he was an intellectual bearcat. He knew the gold was around here. He’s missing and is the number one possibility. Next —Davis was a likely suspect for killing Calder. Davis may have discovered that Calder robbed the mutual till. And someone else may have killed Davis. Besides, Davis had the best motive on earth for doing in Calder. Calder ran off with his wife. Davis had no sound alibi for the night Calder died.” Wes said, “He had one. So did Waite. I promised old man Waite I wouldn’t bring it out unless I had to—but I’ll tell you two—on the same pledge. Waite married a chorus girl in the early nineteentens—” Sarah drew a prodigious breath. “He did! And I never knew it I Why! That’s — that’s practically treason!” The policeman grinned. “He was ashamed of the woman. They had a daughter. The mother died—Waite had paid her bills and taken care of her. Took care of the kid—after-

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ward. Saw her once in a while- 1 although he never let her know he ■ was her father. He brought her to ■ Parkawan several years ago-| about ten, as I recall. She went to! school there — and married there.! The night Calder was killed-JM! was taken fearfully sick. Her hus-B band was away. She called Waite- 1 as an old friend. He called Dr. Da- 1 vis. Waite told Davis who the girl ■ was—and Davis went to her house. ■ Took an X-ray of her. Some sort I kidney stones. I found the plate ■ the darkroom. Checked it. Anyw JI —Davis got Waite’s daughter wean up—and Waite was mighty ■ iieved. The girl-no need of knowing her name —didnt | who Davis was, either. I’®! 3 - I to her. And that’s what u I doing between the time he left I ielle—and the time he came bacri with the X-ray plate! . I “How long was he at the gm' l home?” ~ Wes shrugged. “An hour. «> was there longer—came in , ernoon, in fact—but he lef two in the morning. A neighw came in; the girl wa ® BS * P » s . know what you’re going to say,« gie. An hour’s not enough. o’clock still left tune. Each his own car. Each nugh- P' have run into Calder after, o’clock—and killed him { ried him up on Garnet deadfall might even have after daylight I never coukM cide. It’s possible that Davis, coming back from t Q|, gency, might have stopped at t der’s house because -h---light on—and killed him ‘ M out and rigged up the dodge later in the day. a But you’d hardly thm^T*l” night such as they’d pu 1 "On the contrary. You think with equal logic; that, established such supe eXBC t either man might fecln ga jnit mood to carry out a scheme aga Calder.” „ . «t The trooper looked at Sar leave it to you.” “I vote with Aggie, ar “That gives us three PM b ' peo-ple-people with opportunity pie who had motives- nanieUe have had motives. Go rjldcrl -had both. Hated on Alone in her house. p attoß her that night at all. j asl[ei i was alone in his house, • him. His motive cou!d be Calder—or a desire to haV p7 herit and a plan to “ a yi B go ld and Ralph could have taken the Dr Calder could have f » u "J und oU tDavis could have a qU jnt later. He might have in that safe and dl s° found empty. He might even ha ~ a clue to the person who emp “Easily,” conceded Agg «• (To be continued) - DUUWuue M