Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1945 — Page 4

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FEvery day brings us nearer to spring. The Ides of March come iftis week. O—O Thursday is the deadline for mailing in your 1945 federal income tax report. o—o tThe time has come to check on | how much money the legislature spent and how many bills of merit were enacted into laws. O—o Now a hay fever that comes in the spring is announced. Could it be the old fashioned spring fever that could only be cured with a fish pole and a can of bait? O—o

An underground report says Hitler lias admitted the war is lost ■and ordered every thing in Germany destroyed before “the Bolsheviks, Jews and piutacrats” ean d vide it. He ie proving his fanaticism to the very last. —o The Philippine government has presented. General MacArthur the Medal of Valor, highest award that commonwealth can bestow. The medal was created twelve years ago but the general is the first to receive it and no one deserves it more. —o That ten cents per ton levy on coal being advocated by John L. Lewis may become quite a problem. If he puts it over, look for other groups to make similar demands. The total would be quite a burden of additional indirect taxes on the public. o—o be no coal strike this year, basing his opinion on the loyalty of the miners who he says will not desert their nation in this hour of crisis. Now if John L. Lewis will second the motion we will feel greatly relieved.

If Germany has lost 12,500,000 men, dead wounded and missing, as is now reported from that country and that can be accepted ae being near the correct number, the end cannot be far off. That's about the total number estimated to be fit for armed service from that country. O—O Smoking in any form is considered sinful in Arabia which probably Recounts for the fact that Prime Minister Churchill didn’t remain rfnv longer than was absolutely necessary. The gentleman from Nfi. 10 Downing street likes his cigars and he wants them long and black.

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The war will not end until victory is complete and the fact that more men are bviup called and more nurses inducted, indicates ( that the leaders of the army and navy do not believe that is immedt late. Give to the Red Cross, buy bonds, keep on working. Let’s t finish the Job this time. O—o It will be interesting to learn some day just how the American captain got the information that ho could safely send a company across that .bridge over the Rhine. It must have been authentic for it worked and in a few hours thousands of Americans bad done what the German war lords believed impossible, crossed the river and established a bridgehead. o—o— Joe Goebbels has evidently either gone completely loco or has something UP his sleeve. He proclaims in his newspaper, Das Reich, that the war will end soon in a great German victory. He says, "the war has already exceeded its

climax and will lead up to a furioso in its final phase, then end suddenly and rashly in Germany victory.” It will be the first case on record where a victory wae won by an army demoralized and moving backwards. Governor Gates has signed the skip-election bill and it will become law. That means that present city officials in every city in the state will hold over until January Ist, 1948. Successors will be chosen in elections to be held in ’47. The new plan will restore the old system of selecting city officials in elections held for that purpose only and without the complications of county and state contests which it is argued detract from the real issues.

The Yanks have crossed the Rhine and are on their way to the interior of Germany. With reinforcement® going steadily it certainly looks like a march of victory but no one kuowns when the war will end and many of the humors and unofficial stories cannot be depended on. Americans are still dying in Europe and other parts of the world and we must continue every effort, even though the news makes us feel like celebrating and relaxing. —■o—o Sometimes we wonder what the war will do to the seventeen and eighteen-year-old lads who take part in the war. We believe it will broaden and help mofit of them. Isaac W. Sharp, national commander of the G. A. R. celebrated his 97th birthday at his home in Warsaw, Indiana, the other day. He is a splendid citizen, who has been successful and who merits the high honor of being commander. He was only 17 year old when the war closed in 1865 and is an example ol good Americanism. —o

You arc helping to ppeed victory it you are saving every scrap of waste paper. Paper products, made from waste paper, help to supply just about everything our armed forces must Have to keep fighting. And more paper is needed for essential civilian requirements. The shortage of waste paper in more critical tiffin at any time since the war began. Yon can help to meet this need, by saving not just some paper, but all paper. And, by bundling your paper in such away that the mills can use it quickly and efficiently, O—O Congratulations to the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus in adopting—and promising to enforce —a “No Smoking” rule under the big top when It opens tbte spring. Signs will warn against and fire marshals watch for lighted cigars or cigarettes, such as is believed to have caused the disaster at Hartford last July. But smokers must be watched: some will “take a chance”' and others will "light

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up” from force of habit. It is good that the "big show" has voluntarily adopted this rule and not waited for the law’ to act. And it is good that the fine old organization is to take the road again, in spite of its series of troubles. — Chrietlan Science Monitor.

I Modern Etiquette I | By ROBERTA LEE | ♦ , < .MODERN ETIQUETTE 0 Q. When a 'bride is writing notes of thanks tor gifts to friends who do not know her husband, should the notes be signed with both names? ■A. The signature may be her name only, but the note should say, “Howard and ’ deeply appreciate, etc.” Q. In 'What way should a woman persent a letter-of introduction? A. She should always mail a letter of introduction, whether it is addressed to a man or to a woman. Q. 'Should a girl precede or follow her escort into a restaurant? A. The girl should go first. 0 ♦ » I Household Scrapbook | f By ROBERTA LEE < . » — Fresh and Salt Meats Salt meat should be rut in cold water, while fresh meat should be put in .(boiling water, except who* making soup; then fresh meal should 'be put into cojd water and brought slowly to the boiling poini

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Twenty Years Aqo * Today < (March 12 — Heiber Humbarger and Robert Krick severely shocked iby i? 300 volts of electricity while erecting an antenna in front of express office near Erie railway. They are taken to hospital. President Coolidge again names Charles 18. Warren to be attorney general and senators are mad. Cecil Blair, attendant at Standard Oil station at Five Points, held up, kidnaped and robbed of s6l. He was freed east of town. The .'Decatur fire department called to 'Magley where Finley Bryan’s poultry house is destroyed by fire. ‘Many from here attend the New York-Celts vs K. of C. basketball game at Fort Wayne. 0 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 stamps N 2 through 32 valid through June 30.

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 1. Shoes Airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 Id book 3 good Indefinitely. Always present book 3 when making purchase as stamps are invalid if removed from the book. Gasoline No. 14 coupons now good for four gallons each, through March 21. B and C coupons good for five gallons. Fuel Oil Period 4 and 5 coupons valid through Aug. 31, 1945 have the following values: I unit, 10 gallons 5 units, 50 gallons; 25 units, 25l gallons. All change-making cou pons and reserve coupons are now good. New periods 1,2, 3, 4 coupons also valid now and goo< throughout the heating year. Stoves All new heating, cooking an, combination heating and cooklnf stoves, designed for domestic use, for installation on or above the floor and for the use of oil, kerosene, gasoline and gas, are rationed. Certificates must be obtained from local board. Used Fats Each pound of waste fat is good for two meat-ration points. — o As much as 1.577,565 pounds of tin scrap have been collected in one month from the tin can salvage at army service forces installations in the eight western states of the Ninth Service Command.

GIVE NOW GIVE MORE + Previously reportedsss6l.sl Berne Business (partial) 170.00 Union Twp. Womens Club... 5.C0 Marion Michaels. additional 29 Washington 1.00 Roy Hook, add. 10 Blue C 5.00 Mrs. Harry Essex, 2 Decatur 155.00 Mrs. A. Baker. 15 Decatur 24.00 Mrs. J. R. Denney. 16 Decatur 30.19 Mrs. 11. Shroll, 1 Decatur (partial) 83.50 Erv Lochuer, 2 French 24.00 Walter Browning. 22 Blue C. 16.00 D. C. Wagner, 25 Wabash ... 15.00 Chas. Christeuer, 9 Monroe.. 11.30 S. D. Habegger, 16 Monroe. 11.50 L. Bultemier, 2 Preble 5.00 Arthur Bieberich, 22 Preble.. 17.00 Arthur Koeneman, 11 Preble 21.00 Herman Kiefer, 23 Preble 15.25 Henry Lehner, 7 Union IS.OO Richard Bleeke, 17 Union 20.00 Alva Railing, 30 Union 24.50 Harvey Sell, 9-10 St. Marys.. 10.00 John Bailey, 18 St. Marys 12.00 Wm. Kohne, 4 Washington 16.00 K. Parrish, 19 Washington 12.00 Robt. Colchin. 27 Washington 13.00 M. H. Bultemier, 5 Root. 27.50 Paul H. Gallemier, 6 Root. 9.50 Chas. Hoile, 13 Root 1150 Otto Kukelhau, 10 Root 42.00 Arthur Hall, 15 Root 15.00 L. Beckmeyer, 27 Root. ... 10.00 H. Henschen, 15 Kirkland. 13.00 Dan Fiechter, 33 Kirkland 34.00 Lloyd L. Byerly, 36 Kirkland 84.00 Totals $6,496.75 0 — Red Cross Clothing Distributed To Needy Manila. P. 1., by Cable. — Mote than 60 tons of clothing and emergency supplies have arrived on Luzon, comprising the first shipment of nearly one million garments being sent to the Philippines by the American Red Cross. The supplies were distributed immediately to civilian and military casualties in and near Manila through army civil affairs section under the Red Cross supervision.

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CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE “Sarah, do you remember any other cellar space? Anything they might have covered up? Anything the fire itself might have covered up?” queried Aggie. “I think there was some. I have a vague recollection it would be around in back—say, where the sun parlor is now. There was a note about it in those plans—and the old foundations were all in dotted lines. The Sachem House was rectangular—” Aggie clapped his hands. “That’s something 1 If we could find two opposite corners—” “And it was smaller than the club.” Aggie thought out loud: “Which means—if there’s still some unexplored cellar — the old entrance might have been in a place now outdoors. Now if I were Hank, and if I were being kept underground—and if I had a spring or a rivulet or even a sink-hole in my prison—one that ran in and out—l’d muck up the spring in the hope somebody would notice the muck. But—suppose the place was rock? Old oak beams overhead, say, and perhaps a mess of roots coming through cracks in the stone ? There’s a lot of sumac around the club. Suppose I had a pot or a pan—Why I’d boil up the wood and the roots, if I could! Make a brown stew and pour that in the spring.” The professor swiftly pursued his theory: “I’d tear up all the paper I could—and add it too. The rocks around here are ferrous. I might put some of them in, if it were possible to stew anything. Then—if the tannin in the roots would act at all on the iron in the rocks, I’d get something really good. Tannic acid and iron salts are the basis of the earliest inks. I’d keep staining that water and I’d keep praying that eventually the police would investigate.” Sarah had listened—with mouth open and gray eyes very alive. When her nephew stopped talking, she exclaimed, “Aggie, that’s the first thing a soul has said about what Hank might do that sounds like him! What put you on the track of a stain in Upper Lake?” He sat down and covered his face with his hands. “Mrs. Drayman. She wouldn’t swim in it.” i _ Sarah frowned. "Lots of excavations hit springs. As far as stewing up a mess of roots and rocks — wouldn’t it smother him to make a fire?” Aggie shrugged. “We don’t know.” “He was an engineer —of course—” “Exactly. So he’d know about the rocks. About the iron in ’em. And he raised silver foxes—so he knows about fur and tanning — and tanning involves using tannic acid—that’s what the word comes from.” “I wish I could remember,” she said, “some spot on those old draw-

Lenten Meditation! (Rev. Paul W. Schultz, Zion Luthvian ( , “ONLY ONE ROAD TO II :v ■ Text: "Neither is there salvation in an/ ct: none other name under heaven given. Snw. tb ci« we must be saved.” Acts 4:12.

A common expression heard among many people is that we are all headed for the .-.;iin. 'J.'' 111 heaven. This is quite idealistic, but no on, there are various and devious roads or faiths t., j,,-; M ’ i,|ll| se heavenly home. There is but one road, one n.,ni. " s lb dation for salvation, and that is Jesus cur 0111 throughout all time millions have relied upon other roads. ' lli,ni, .s It. has always been a rock of offense to m.nn p- E is only by faith in the name of Jesus ami 1 |j ; U l Sa| merit. Many accept the principle that every " lllH a! certain faith, but that remaining true and ioy , lar religion will bring salvation. The heath, u. ' |iai! the Christian will be lovingly embraced by , eternal salvation. ' All this is but wishful thinking and a „ , tioii. It is the meiltul fantasy of ail those who " li; '" Jllce by character and self-merit and who have n..,,.,. ~.( 1 1 truth from God's own Word nor believe that ,!<■. ;. the name, the road, the foundation id' ntanf ml . mlm'' heaven. Scripture teaches but one ti ne (tod. om-i \,. V j,” illlw one hope, one faith, one church, one road to "‘/’m that all may find this true road. ' ' Ol

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ings that was marked ‘Hit water here’—but I can’t.” Aggie grinned at her and returned to her side. He stared at her sketch. “This is my department—now — isn’t it? That’s what I’m brooding about. An archaeologist ought to be able to dope it. I’ve helped open tombs. I’ve directed the digging up of a whole city—a city more than three thousand years old. This joint isn’t a century old. How much narrower than the club was the old hotel?” “Maybe a third.” Aggie began to draw. “The front veranda—is on new foundations —I think. So the old ones begin with the club. They must have gone back over the spot where the rear drive is n0w....We11, Aunt Sarah, I think I’ll try to burrow under that porch tonight.” “1 wish I could go along with you.” “I won’t have time,” Aggie said solemnly, “to dig a hole big enough for you.” “Suppose somebody sees you burrowing under that porch ?” “Nobody will. I’ll start under the sumacs. It won’t take me long. The club’s full of people this time of night. Bright inside and dark outside. I’ve had plenty of experience —digging. Os course, if I knew where the other guy went in—” He shrugged. “Maybe he didn’t. Maybe Hank’s nowhere. That brook could have cut into some sort of minerals—or deadwood—underground—and stained itself. Somebody could have tossed in the paper.” He started toward the kitchen. “I’ll get a couple of tools—” “Aggie! If you find him—what will you do?” “Get him out—quick. And ask him who put him there.” “Don’t you tow?” He stared at his aunt. “Why, no. Do you?” She shook her head. “I thought you did.” “Hank ought to know,” he said. “Sarah, didn’t you say there used to be a hidden exit to the oid hotel? A place the gay blades used for a quick getaway when their irate spouses caught them week-end-ing?” “Great grief! There was!” Sarah sighed. “But that wasn’t on the old plans either, Aggie. It was just—a story. A legend. Your father’s father told me. Maybe fits father used it. I wouldn’t have put it beyond old Hilary Plum—to judge from the family records!” Aggie lay on his belly and dug like a beaver. Over his head was a canopy of sumac leaves. Filtering through was light from the club solarium. He could hear the thumpthump of the feet of table-tennis players. Somewhere in the building above, a radio was playing. The sill was partly buried, artd dry-rotted. The ground outside it was hard. But Aggie inched stead-

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ily into his hole and presently ta feet pulled out of sight. It wm pitch-dark under the porch. The thumping of the players was louder. Aggie switched or. his light. He could not quite stand up.. lhe enclosed area was fifty to sixty feet long and some twenty feet in width. The foundation under the cluo proper—the inside wall of the place was blackened. Evidence oi the burning of the Sachem House. There were, however, two squares of unblackened brick on that wall—where w’indows had been blocked up because the club plans hud for a porch over . thcm ; ii S searched the place for a .all . hour—with every iota of his trained skill—before he turned to them. Finding nothing that an archaeologist would consider sugges of an old door or a 1 idden passage. Aggie finally went up to one o two bricked-up rectangles. Aero • ing to his knowledge oi the and Sarah’s plan-rhe area ‘ those windows wa '■ lllf ' J , . No doubt it would prove to w mere black hole uni., r the o . He reluctantly pick lat th around the least firm-looking,bn£ When Aggie got it out ” hhlves-he removed ;’ n g r ’J h the fixing his eye and n J'S"', 0 h hole, he peered in. .' ; , e set himself to the .k mention of‘ bricks — expertly - and a 5 nn ’ as he could. The n.u-c m overhead was considerable. Behind those brick wasar .°?L lower than the out: i ■■■ S r0 ‘ with a venerable coat <.i wh'.c■•••■ on its walls. The noor a long-entombed blt \ el^ hes .at middle was a huge ?.'■ ■■■ - one side of which were s Pdown to a door. , . the Aggie seranibw'i |fasy window. 1 here v..... n • - he method of ingress save tn had made. He knew there g one—but he did net * ta j r)f aj look. He went down - j kcn edi to the door. It wasak o b acK and upon it was—a new g It had taken no more glance to reconstruct the d’etre of the stairs < s; ac hein Into this place, as the Tn uch of House burned, had been the water that had dm t trf. carried to the lire • . || en 9 gade. Into it, too, had X doO r sludge of ashes, covering and filling the stair well. Afterward, the chaired tions had lain naked > ■ s jte and rain for years c j u b had been purchased for of During that period. ew i dby the staircase had been drifting _ earth, iea i£” J c3 had things—if. indeed, had left a visible “ “ c ither by located the sta . n '"cqrah’s search, or —as in ‘ dag >* from an old document, ana out (To be continued' » CoD»rit>a. DibUibuUJ toy