Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 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., Poet Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller. President A. R. Holthouse, Sec*?. A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies $ .04 One week by carrier .30 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells c unties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, $4.50 per year; $3.50 tor six months; $1.85 tor three months; 60 cents tor one mont'. Elsewhere: $5.50 per year; $3.00 tor six months; $1.65 tor three months; 60 cents tor one month. Men and women In the armed forces $8.50 per year or SI.OO for

three months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 16 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive. Chicago, 111. It’s only ten days to spring ac eordipg to the calendar eo cheer up o—o Don’t let the red birds fool you it ieii’t spring as long as the ther momctors register thirty above. —o ’it's Red Cross season and the campaign in Adams county is moving along. Please give liberally to this great cause that even greater aid can be rendered to those who need it. —o special legislature session won't be held for some time for it requires conferences of various committees including the policy group and they will have a lot of customers who want special legislation. O—o Save your kitchen oils and fats and turn them in to the butcher, save waste paper and tin cans so they can be gathered early next month. Never was it so important in this country that we save every thing we can. —o If peace comes to Europe and the threatened coal strike is averted, a lot of people will feel like relaxing but the less celebrating we do, the better it will be. There are still tough days ahead before the world settles down to normal existence. O—O The Chicago Cubs are at French Lick for spring practice and other big league teams will arrive at Muncie and Terra Haute this week ready to start training. The weather man has not cooperated so. far but the teams will be there and i <3»dy as soon as old Sol has disposed of the snow and mud. O—o The feeling that Hitler was all wrong and that his ideas have wrecked the Homeland seems to be growing throughout Germany. Riots are occurring each day and the cry ‘‘down with Hitler” is being heard frequently. Even the Gestapo and the military police cahnot check the outbreaks. When it gets strong enough, the people 41H take over. O—O The semi-finals are on in Indiana hftsketba.il games today and to night. Four winners iu as many centers will be left to go to in flianapdlis next week end to decide the championship. The fans ii this part of the state are watchin e Huntington and Auburn and sev eral of the state sports writers give the latter a chance, listing then among the big four. . u - For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to • Th® Stopback on sale each evening _ 4c

When the war is over there will be more than three million young men who have been trained by the army as pilots or other aviation skills and it is estimated that more than six million young men and women will bo potential .plane fliers, Looks like a good field for airplane manufacturers and salesmen. O—o Fort Wayne is agitated again because of a brutal assault aud attack on a young lady, in the downtown section of the city. She will recover but evidently only because she was found soou by a nightwatchman. During the pas.t year three youug women were murdered in that city and not a single arrest lias been made. The public thinks its strange. O—o

With the exception only of Indiana University which was authorized by the state board of education. June 27, 1922, Io give correspondence courses leading to high school diplomas, no correspondence school in Indiana or outside Indiana, is allowed to give courses for high school credit. Only commissioned high schools can legal’? grant high school credits or diplomas in Indiana. O—O The cold weather came just in time to prevent a repetition of the 1937 floods in the Ohio valley. At Cincinnati the stage reached seventy feet. Nine lives were reported lost along the 1,000 mile stretch of river from Pittsburgh to Cairo and 30,000 families were driven out of their homes. One of the big postwar projects in this country will no doubt be flood prevention that will prevent these annual disasters. O—O Penicillin, the new drug developed since the war began, will soon be available in drug stores where it can be obtained on perscriptions. The WPB announces that .the supply has been increased to a point where this can be done without iuterferrlng with the requirements of the armed service. The new drug has many uses and lias proved to be one of the most valuable medicines developed by research during the war. O—o Ted, 23, and Hallman Schindler, 24, eons of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Schindler of Berne have been made captains, receiving their appointments ou the same day, February 23rd, and in the same outfit. They are with the Fifteenth Air Forces in Italy. The brothers have been together constantly since enlisting more than two years ago and have many missions to their credit. Each has won the presidential unit citation and the air medal with two oak leaf clusters. The Schindler boys have sure made good. O—o • Keep your fingers crossed aud keep on doing every tiling you can for the war but it begins to look like the final chapter may soon be written in Europe. Thousands of people across the Rhine are displaying the white flag indicating a desire to end war and with that situation the .military and even the Gestapo will find it next to impossible to defend the Fatherland. Across the r'ver the Allied troops will move rapidly and the only thing left for those who do not want to quit fighting is to seek hide-outs iu the hills aud inpuntains. Q_O More than a million Germans have been captured by the Allies on the western front in Europe since the invasion began. Add to that several hundred tliousaud killed or wounded and it is not surprising that the German leaders admit a weakening of their Hues. Their Ibsses on the eastern front are reported twice as high so from five to eight million men must be out of action. The fact that tlje Hitler forces continue to present a real

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fighting, front in the face of such losses is almost unbelievable, but ! they do. o Twenty Years Aqo Today iMarch 10 — Stockholders of the Farmefns and Alerehants 'bank at Geneva twill meet 'March 16. A. P. Flynn buys $11,1911 bond issue for the Farlow drain, paying premium of $260. A Ford car owned by O. V. Dilling of Kirkland tqwuship destroyed by fire. United States senate rejects the nomination of 'Charles B. Warren to be attorney general. State of Indiana pays Julius Haugk $40',000 for his stone quarry near Pendleton after a long .controversy. 'Wind storms cause much damage throughout northern Indiana. O * ♦ I Modern Etiquette i I By ROBERTA LEE Q. if a person does not intend to go in costume, should he accept an invitation to a fancy dress ball? ‘A. No; a person should not accept any invitation if he is not willing to enter into all the festivities in a sincere manner. O. Would it Ibe correct to say. “She is going to entertiau her daugliter-in-laiws”? A. the correct phrase is “daughters-in-law. Q. Is it necessary for one to return calls of condolence?? (A. No; it is not required nor expected.

; w HSt '■ ww \<-? . , . .. . > . ....> , ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE BEEN SHELLED at a number of places, forcing detourx, the Hitler super highi ways in Germany afford the Yanks excellent roads on which to move up. The Yanks who entered j Col name and now' threaten Bonn moved over such roads as these, pictmrid from the air near the city ~ —'

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I Household Scrapbook * By ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ — Hot Pans A small, short tin shovel can ibe purchased for ten cents or a quarter. Flatten out the sides of the shovel and it will make an excellent device for lifting hot pans from the oven. Glass Tube 'When a glass tube is necessary 1 for the patient who cannot sit up i to drink from a cup, a stick of macaroni will serve satisfactorily as a substitute. Loaf Cake When making a loaf cake if one does not have a tube pan, try a round paper mailing lube. Grease the tubs and the cake will not stick. Q COURTHOUSE Marriage License Russel W. Steffen, mechanic and Alice L. Schwartz, both of Bluffton. Estate Cases Hearing on the inheiitance tax report in the John Anspaugh estate was held. The net value of estate is $6,57'2.56. 'No tax due from the heirs. 'The petition of Fern MdDonald, administratrix of Floyd H. McDonald estate to sell U. S. bonds owned by the decedent was filed and allowed by the court. Real Estate Transfers The consideration mentioned in the following transactions was sl. Fanny Ray. Adimrtx., to John Fortney, inlots 2, 3 and part of 1, in Pleasant (Mills. -Dolores B. Byerly to Mary Catherine Spangler acres Kirkland tp. IMary Catherine Spangler to Lloyd L. Byerly, 89 acres Kirkland

! township. i David Dubach- to Doleu-E.-Rut- ' ledge inlot 128 in Berne. Naomi H. Sprunger to Frieda ! Lehman, inlots 332 and 333 in : Berne. Frieda . Lehman to Cliffton H. Sprunger, inlots 322 and 333 iu Berne. Daisy M. Robinson to Frieda Lehman. 4u acres Jefferson tp. Frieda Lehman to Alvie P. Teet- ! er, 40 acres in Jefferson tp. | 'Daisy M. Rdbinsou to Floyd L. Rupert, 38 acres Jefferson tp. Alphus M. Davis to Victor F. Bob lenlbacher, 20 acres Jefferson up, David L. Liechty to Jacctb L iechty, 60' acres Monroe tp. Susanna D. Leichty to L. Reuben Schwartz; 60 acres Monroe tp. David Moser et al to Pauline Muselman, 'ls9’/a acres iu French tp. Pauline Muselman to Mahala Moser 159 acres in French tp. (Rosa 'Roth to -Menno Martz 80 acres in Rartford tp. Charles Brodibec-k to Herman F. Thieme, 40 acres Union tp. iMai’tin Thieme to (Paula Thieme. 40 cares Union tp. 'Dale M. MdMillen, Jr., to Hugo ' Bulmahn. 120 acres Preble tp. iLillie J. Thomas -to Roy B. Thomas, SO acres Hartford tp. Thurman I. Drew to Deal Camp- ■ bell, SO acres Union tp. 'Richard N. Alien to Mary V. Hel- • ler, inlot 19 in Decatut'. I Bank of Geneva to Russel Moore, 84 acres Hartford tp. 'Russell (Moore to Edward H. i Stahly. 2 acres Hartford tp. . ILoren C. Burkhead to Phillip i Nugslbaum, 1 acre Washington tp. , Charles C. Martin to Erwin D. Bixler, SO acres Hartford tp. Clorence Clapp et al to Edgar i. G. Mutschler, inlots 59 to 66. and j 105 to 108 and I'2o acres in Root 1 tawnship, $12,009.

G/VE NOW G/VE MORE 4® Previously reported $4,481.38 Psi lota Xi Sorority 50.00 Mrs. Paul Kirchenbauer, zone 5 Decatur ■ 23.05 Wilma Merriman, 6 Decatur 8.50 Mrs. llarve Shroll (partial zone 1 Decatur) 28.00 Robert Uitnan, 33 Union 8.90 Simon Thieme, 19 Union 25.00 Fiorian Geimer, 28 Union. 21.00 Elmer H. Beineke, 27 Preble 18.00 Henry C. Miller. 15 Preble ... 23.00 John S. Gresley, 12 Preble. 27.00 Walter Johnson, 27 St. Marys 13.50 Otis Shifferly, 3-4 St. Marys 31.75 Lee Speakman. 19 St. Marys 10.00 Ben McCullough, 28 St. Marys 21.00 Wm. Grandlinard. 33 French 35.00 Martin Kipfer, 9 French.. 32.00 Lewellyn Lehman, 34 French 9.00 Daniel Bertsch, 15 French 22.33 . Wm. Fuelling Jr. 10 Root 16.00 Gustav Fuelling, 9 Root 11.00 Milton Fuhrman. 18 Root 16.00 Berne, additional (partial business) 190.00 C. M. Foreman, 17 Blue Creek 7.50 Work and Win Class, U. B. church 5.00 Women's Society, Baptist church 5.00 John H. Kraner, 34 Wabash 11.00 Dewitt Burk, 32 Wabash 11.09 Sherman Kunkel, 21 Root .. 12.00 Lawrence Fuelling. 11 Root.. 21.00 Otto Fuelling, 24 Root 18.00 Clarence Busick, 1 R00t... 20.00 Ed N. Tonnellier, 29 Rdot 10.00 Floyd Baker, 5 Jefferson 7.00 John Corey, 6 Jefferson 20.50 | John M. Amstutz, 8 Jefferson 9.00 I C. Haines and D. Kuhn, .... 9 and 10 Jefferson 36.50 Ralph Christy. 22-27 Jeffer.. 27.50 I Joseph C. Fogle, 30-31 Jeffer. 21.00 ' Paul Habegger and Wm. Christener, 14 Monroe 22.00 Edwin C. Bauman, 19 Monroe 24.00 Rufus Inniger, 20 Monroe 29.00 | Henry Nussbaum, 21 Monroe 25.00 : Otis Sprunger, 28 Monroe. .. 41.00 Oren Moser, 30 Monroe IG.OO John R. Ludy. 36 Monroe 42.00 T0ta1555,561.51 o — Because men do not fortify justice, they justify force. —Fosdick.

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CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT "Beth,” Sarah went on. “Beth was asleep in bed, I imagine. Bill too, and Martha. Bill and Beth hated their father. I don’t know that either of them hated George Davis. But—again—if George had found out that they’d committed patricide—” “When asleep in bed!" the trooper muttered. “Try and disprove that one!” “Jack Browne,” Sarah continued. “Calder had done plenty to that boy. Caused his father to kill himself—which is supposed to have brought about his mother’s death. Deprived him of his inheritance. Jack—of course! He was up at the club all night. Asleep?” She looked at Wes. “Asleep,” nodded Wes,, “so he says." “And old. John,” she went on. “Calder even robbed old John! And where old John was, from the time I went to bed that night—till 1 woke Aggie at four — only old John knows. And there are a good many other people here who—l” There was the sound of a car in the drive. It stopped under the porte-cochere. Beth walked to the screen door and leaned into the living room. “Bill and Martha and I are going swimming,” she said. “It’s hot as a baked brick! We’ll turn on the boathouse floodlights — and probably collect a crowd. Want to come?” “Maybe later,” Aggie replied. Beth smiled at Wes. “How about you?” “Thanks. I’m leaving. I’ve still got a lot to do tonight.” Beth said, “You be sure to come, Aggie. Do you good to dunk your beard. Bring Danielle, if you like. There’s a light in her living room and her coupe’s in the drive.” Aggie flushed. Wes stared at him with incredulity. “You aren’t toying with that heartbreaker, are you?” “Certainly not!” Sarah snorted. The trooper went to the door. “W’ell, I’m going. I’ve got to look up some men in a tavern about twenty miles down the line. They think they saw a guy like Bogarty buying gas, on the night in question. While I’m at it, I may push on to catch a blackjack dealer in Saratoga who believes Bogarty put up at his aunt’s tourist home in western New York. It’s been like that—for a long time.” He grinned. “Thanks a lot, Aggie, for all the help." The professor waved his hand. “Incidentally,” he said, “just to keep the record straight: Where were you the night Calder—and so forth?" The trooper stared with well con•ealed amusement. “I was about three miles the other side of Garnet Knob, watching some yokels open

Lenten Meditation M (Rev. Robert J. Hoevel, St. Mary's Catholic C| lU| , . “TRAVELLING COURAGE"' 1 ■' Life lends itself to many descriptions | t h I( , Shakespeare, life is a drama enacted on a W((1 j|^K( all play our part. St. Paul sees life as a cana iii"v i ■ <!■ all athletes. Other inspired writers of Scriptm ~ I ;i || ij Z. 11 with all of us as pilgrims. The drama conclude, ivh,, drops, the game ends with the final gun. th. j,,,!,' 1 ' the destination is reached. Just a.- a poor actor"-. J failure, an untrained athlete burns out before ncior'v " la!lla; itB so a careless traveller wanders astray . ’ ' 1S The road that leads heavenward is a strairjH t . ... ing path. As we trod along, if we are to ii-.i. b ( , u heaven, we need the absolute courage of out eoiivi,.|i ()n esllUa,i <ill be urged on by sterling, supernatural ideals ,\t •;r b ,iu we are confused by the boulevards of sin an.| t 1 s i, v ,' 1 . ISecl ' ol ’.^W 1 evil which destroy the likeness of God in man. (tut Wl ,' ''s| Ses our goal if the beacon of faith illumines our way ; \. U '.\ r, hope draw us to God, and the fire of genuine diarity wi-L" of God. burns within us. generating our enei , 11 s|l,v, heavenward. i w wi® ■ IM I < RM: J ■ -ijl ■ W J W sk '■ * I 1R * ’ - s RR kx t- ! MR’ x ?iR' - lICR Iff ft ’ * JiR *u'lßr AFTER MONTHS of pounding at the Japanese enit ire with his and planes, Adm. William F. Halsey, Jr., comma? • -r of the Fleet, takes time out on his leave in the United States to try marksmanship on a domestic “turkey shoot.” S - above, he hibits one of the birds that was a victim of his shotgun. Loyd, right, pushes his hat back on his head after the It*; This is a U. S. Navy photo.

up a still. So I haven’t any alibi either. Good night!” After Wes had gone there was a long silence. Sarah finally said, “I feel out of it, you know. Neither of you put the finger on me!” When Aggie did not answer, she turned to look at him. He literally had not heard. He was lying on the inglenook seat, with his feet hanging over the end, banging his forehead with his fist as if it were a door. Suddenly, the professor sat bolt upright. “Listen, Sarah! Don’t scream! I think your old friend Hank is alive—and I think I know where he is!” Sarah Plum looked at her talented nephew for a full minute with an expression of electrified anticipation. “If you’d care to enlighten a poor old woman who is about to explode with excitement—” Aggie gazed at her. “Enlighten you? First, I’ve got to enlighten myself. Then I’ll discuss things with you.” He started toward the front door and stopped as he reached it. “Be back in a few minutes. Remember—some time ago—you told me that you’d once found an old plan cf the original hotel? The—Sachem House ? The one that burned?” “Certainly. I found the drawings in the club library.” “You got ’em?” “Os course not! As soon as we’d decided to dig out that strong room on the quiet—l burned them.” “Big help,” he said. “While I’m gone—draw ’em—from memory.” “Draw plans I destroyed thirtysome years ago?” Her nephew went out, slamming the screen. He came right back. “Flashlight,” he said. “Where is it?” “Aggie, don’t be in such a dither! It’s on the bottom shelf of the bookease.” He crossed the room and picked it up. “You might try to catch Wes by telephone. Tell him I have another idea. And as for being in a dither—well, I don’t think Hank is dead—but he might be any minute or hour—now!” Plum ran to the road and turned in the direction of Upper Lake while he pondered the story of Mrs. Drayman about algae in the water. That algae idea pulled together a host of seemingly irrelevant ideas. Their integration represented a wild guess. But Aggie had confidence in it. A quick trip to Upper Lake was imperative. The "beach” pn that lake—where Mrs. Drayman preferred to swim—was a short, narrow strip of natural sand. Aggie trotted up to the beach and swirled on his light. The water certainly looked more brownish than the water of Lake. He Scooped up a handful and tasted it. No peculiar flavor. He hurried

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along the strip of sand to the mouth of a brook, wishing it was daylight so that he could define colors more j accurately. The stream gurgled I into the lake from a tier of pools shored up by mossy ledges, it was distinctly brownish. Since it was presumably spring-fed, the stream should have been crystal clear. Aggie thought that Mrs. Drap man would readily assume that a sudden darkening of the water oa the beach was due to “algae. Then Aggie plunged into til* woods and followed the brook up the hill. Now and again he examined it to make sure he was aso following the brownness in it. 1“ 8 brook threaded its way between trees and glacial boulders for an eighth of a mile and came to an end in a gravelly bowl. This cra ergenre represented the spring that fed tn brook. It was, in reality, the spot where the stream ceased to run Mj derground. The water in the bd« was even darker than the water farther down. . ~ On the bottom were myriad sum squares of torn-up paper, dipped into the basin and exam. some of the fragments. Paper f a notebook and from what uad p.-j ably been a tin-ean label. shone his light at the rocks and studied them, de mated the location of the sp • The clubhouse lay above b im > , eral hundred yards to the s W6St« « id He ran back to the lake SI ' UIC started for the road. On h he passed a small pier at wh . or three rowboats were moor d. A voice spoke from one of "Hello, Aggie!” n .... r He spun around. “Danielle, heard you were back' ’ - "What the deuce are you doing whizzing around in the woo s“What are you doing m al “Thinking. Just - j was going to come over t and Sarah, by and by. How “sn "Much better. Well, push on.” i» | “You’re in a terrible hurry. “Yes,” he said. “I am. He was already moving away the run. , When Aggie carnc(back tot ing room at Rainbo , found Sarah bent over a , of brown paper, with ape „ & ruler. "I take it,” believe somebody s hidden under the club?” „ g e “Yeah, I’m sure of it. looked over her shpmder. the way it goes. The p tbe wine cellar is perfect. eJ the passage to the strong )t >j] more north and less east. j do.” He watched her e make the change. I eah. (To-be coßtinued) f ffudßSm br sun i «*(.“ 10 810