Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1945 — Page 4

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AdvertWng Rates Made Known on Application. National ncprcscn x«Eii vu •CHEBRER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 8 EL Wacker Drive. Chicago, DL Goebbels says the war is leading tip to a "furioso”, whatever that 13. Wonder what he calls the past three months? o—o {■lave tin and turn it in to the government. This salvage is badly needed right now. Make a special effort this month. —o Senator Willis and Capehart of Indiana are keeping up their record of voting "agin" auy and every thing that comes up. —o As reward for production suggestions, many of which accelerated the war program. General Electric Co. paid workers 8333,735 for ideas adopted in 1944. O—o The Red Cross fund is growing steadily as reports from the district workers continue to come in. We can complete it this week if we eaeh give a little extra effort O—o Contribute to the Red Cross this week. This money is needed badly provides many aids for million of men in service as well as taking care of any disaster in this country. —o - “If no man would marry a woman he’ didn’t understand, posterity would be immeasurably better off,” declares a sociologist. In an odd an(J. negative way, he may be right —there wouldn’t be auy posterity. —Cincinnati Enquirer. —o People living along the Ohio river from Pittsburgh to Cairo no doubt feel that one of the post war | improvements that should be made is either move the river or the cities. O—O u— The war manpower officials are enforcing the new curfew order which makes it illegal to sell intoxicating liquors in saloons, taverns, restaurants and clubs between 12 o’clock midnight and eight A. M. —O--Watch the Fifteenth American army. It’s a new one, with Lt.General Leonard Gerow in charge and Its taking and will continue to take a big part in the over-the-Rhiwe invasion of central Germany. Highway traffic accidents will increase as spring comes and the weather is more conducive to enJoyabla motoring, it will be well to remember that the car is getting Old, the tires thiu and the danger greater. O—o—- — McGill of this city, a jßuMaaelst mate, who has had ■* , ‘ wijm ' Iftr ft copy of the Decatur Dally Democrat Mie ifcStopback eacn even jug I

several years in the service of his ' country will have an interesting experience. He is one of fourteen men assigned as a public health ( group to aid in stamping out disease in Greece. He wilt be located t at Athens and an Immediate battle to stamp out typhoid, malaria, t tuberculosis and other diseases re- • suiting fr om war conditions will be k launched. O—O ' One of the nation's leading oil men, when asked his opinion as to the total of our potential oil reserves, said: "I do not have tho remotest idea, and neither does anyone else. But on the basis of past experience, it appear® that we have explored only about half the potential oil lands in the continental United States.” He then pointed out that the only way to find out what is in the unexplored part ts to drill holes and see.

O—O Hobart Creighton, speaker of the house in the Hoosier legislature is more interested just now in plans for the postwar period in the poultry business than in auy ( special legislation. He is one of the big chicken and egg producers I in the country with a half dozen 1 farms devoted to that work in the ’ vicinity of Warsaw. He is now delivering 130,000 eggs a week to the | Eli Lilly laboratories tn Indian- I apolis. These eggs are inoculated fl

in the process of developing typhus and influenza vacines. O—o “I feel certain that the rising generation everywhere will be obliged to reject progressively the conception of life based on a philosophy of brutal force, whether it concerns the individual or the State. Physical force must cease to be regarded as the criterion of juetice. It is my conviction that postwar life will restore the positive values that result from freedom, humanity and civilization.” — ' 1 HI / 'Edward' "Bene s, Czechovakiau statesman. -—O—O Next week end will bring the flual chapter of the basketball season for Indiana high school. The four winners of last Saturday’s semi-flnals will meet Saturday at Indianapolis and the two afternoon winners will go on at eight that evening to decide the state championkhip. The sport is as popular as ever in this part of the country and will continue so for it extends down to the smallest high schools

and provides clean and wholesome sport for thousands of lads. —o The hero of the recent surprise I dash across the Remagen bridge to "pay dirt” on the east side of the Rhine is Lteut. John Battenfield of Brentwood, Pa. He i& 28 years oM and before going to the army was an assistant in a bowling alley. His father describes him as one who is "rather shy but gets things done When he tries.” He certainly did a wonderful job when . he unhooked 'the wires leading to mines and set to blow the bridge up ten raindtCs later. He has lira de , his record and its a worth white , one. , __c_e>— The city of Tokyo has Buffered . heavy raids the past week and according to reports a "down-town” . area of 15 miles square, has been > practically destroyed by fires and . explosions. It is almost beyond im--1 agination and its probable that the j men who forced that nation to atr tack this United States now realize their mistakes. They thought this a "soft” nation that would not fight a and would be disorganized by j- strikes and disputes. They have discovered that a free people will fight to the limit to hold on to their rights, especially after hearing so much about life under dictators. Now Japan is getting the answer in away they understand. —"■—■•(> ' ' Farmers in the U. S. are expeet- | ed to harvest 431,690,000 pounds of 19 kinds of grass and legume seeds | this year, or almost 84,096,000 pounds more than in 1943.

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I Modern Etiquette I I By ROBERTA LEE | > < QA When a girl is standing.talking with a man, and drops some I article Shejs holding, shouldn’t she make an attempt to pick it up? A. No; she should wait for the man to pick it up. Q. When, playing golf and there is a foursome just ahead of yon, how long should you wait before driving? A. Wait until all four of the players ahead of you are too far’ away for your drive to interfere. Q. Is it proper to serve cream with demi-tasse? A. No. o — « —♦ I Household Scrapbook I I By ROBERTA LEE • « New Potatoes When peeling new potatoes, or peaches, drop them in boiling water for a half minute, then plunge them in.cold water and the peelings will slip off easily and without waste. Disinfectants In burning a disinfectant in a

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room, the dish containing the disin-1 fectant should be set into another dish containing water. Linen Linen should be hung on the liue so that the weight falls on the warp threads, which are the threads running the long way of the cloth. Q_ 4 > Twenty Years Aqo Today IMarch 13—'William Shaffer, 5year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shaffer, is taken to Indianapolis for treatment at the Riley hospital for crippled children. He is third from the county. ißdbert Bra ( den, 9, injured when struck 'by automobile. Elmer Tricker buys the interest of bis partner, Frank Schmitz, in garage on First street. 'Calvin Lehman and several others from Hartford township circulate petition for a hard surface road from Geneva west. 'Chicago has had 279 deaths from influenza since March 1 aud 112 new cases were reported today in 13 hours. Friday the thirteenth aud heavy raius fall all day.

[GIVE NOW GIVE MORE + Previously repotted $6,496.75 | Ed R. McFarland. 15 Wash. 13.00 Al Rumschlag, 1-2 Washing. 18.S0 Theo. Ewell, 24 Prhble 27.00 Albert Heckman, 3 Preble. .. 25.00 Evelyn Oatermeyer, 4 Preble 18.00 Walter C. Oliver, 10 Monroe 14.50 Carl Hedington, 24 Monroe.... 21.00 N. C. Chamness, 25 Monroe.. 16.00 Albert Fox, 7 Monroe 14.50 Gale Cook, 12 Monroe 10.00 R. A. Boze, 7 Jefferson 11.00 H. M. Tumbleson, 19 Jeffer. 8.0(4 H. R. Mankey, 16 Kirkland. .. 29.00 I Fred J. Adler, 26 Kirkland .. 33.50 Young Peoples Class, Baptist Church 5.00 Mrs. Ralph Gentis (partial) 11 Decatur 142.50 Eugene FArlow. 2 Wabash.... 18.00 Rufus Huser, 3 Wabash 39.00 Roger Yoder, 6 Wabash 11.00

Sam Yoder, 7 Wabash 35.00 Leonard Sprunger, 9 Wabash 53.00 W. G. Amstotz, 10 Wabash 24.50 Lewis Seelschott, 13 Wabash 38.00 David Amstutz. 14 Wabash.. 24.00 Robert Gerber, 15 Wabash. .. 18.50 F. Hofstetter, 17 Wabash 27.50 Harvey Ineichen, 26 Wabash 19.00 Chester Roth, 30 Wabash 17.00 J. C. Augsburger, 2 Hartford 10.00 Walter J. Meyer, 4 Hartford 19.00 R. C. Augsburger, 10 .Hart... 17.Q0 Ivan Duff, 11 Hartford 17.00 John S. Steiner, 13 Hartford 19.00 Ralph M. Miller, 14 Hartford 37.00 Elmer Dubach, 15 Hartford.... 35.00 Harvey Garboden, 16 Hartford. including sls Union Chapel Ladies Aid 33.50 Lecter Zimmer, 24 Hartford 25.00 Harold Shoemaker, 26 Hart. 12.00 Grant Lindsey, 28 Hartford.. 11.00 H. E. Neuenschwander, 22-27 Frenchi 43.10 E. C. Singleton, 19 Root 30.00 Paul Becher, 30 Root 26.50 'Alfred Buuck, 10 Preble 1900 Theo Bulteinier, pt 10 Preble 13 o 0 L. W. Krutzman, 13 Preble.. 10.00 M. C. Blomerberg, 14 Preble 20.00 Mrs. F. Bohnke, 9 Decatur.. 178.50 U. B. Ladies Aid -5.00 D. Y. B. Class U. B. Church 10.00 School Canteen by Miss Worthman 16.55 City Industrial Basketba" league, sponsored by McMillen Co.. Kraft Cheese Co. and General Electric.. 208.91 Win. Kauffman, 32 Blue C... 7.50 A. B. Wilder, 16 Washington 23.00 Henry M. Cook, 36 Wash 25.00 W. H. Mcßarnes, 1 Kirkland 52.00 T0ta158,170.31 —o Road To Berlin By United Press The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Eastern front: 31 miles (from Zaeckerick). Western front: 274 miles (from east of Bruckhauser). laly: 524 miles (from Po Di Primaro river). I rheumatism! ■ SUFFERERS . JUST TRY I REINER’S f I J Proven (accessful for Xheumetim, A* k ■ cbntii, Neuricaj, Lumbeso, Muscular ■ ■ aches and pains. FRBE BOOKLET. g | KOHNE DRUG STORE |

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CHAPTER FORTY Aggie shot the bolt He pushed the door open. Ahead was a long, downsloping passage. He followed it for a hundred yards. Its wills became rock. Cut in the wall, at that point, was a door; and on the door, another new bolt, as well as a heavy beam. He lifted the beam and slid the bolt This door opened out. Behind it was a chamber. The walls were rock. Ends of freshly broken roots spiked the ceiling. From somewhere inside came gurgling of water. Aggie's torch, moving across the floor, touched a heap of opened tin cans and an old chair—and held for a moment, on the opposite corner where a pool of water flowed slowly out of sight in a cavern no more than a foot high. The air in the place was tinged with a chemical amell, but it was not foul. "Mr. Bogarty!" boomed Aggie. There was no answer. He stepped into the room and moved his light. Then he held it very still. Stretched out on the floor—raggedly bearded and in filthy clothes—lay a man. At his side was a pail set on two stones and under it was an empty solidified-alcohol can. The man did not look like the Hank Bogarty of the photographs Aggie had seen—but it was Hank. Aggie thought for a moment that he was dead. Aggie knelt and took the man’s wrist Hank’s pulse was feeble. He had been there, Aggie thought, for weeks—supplied with food by his captor—and with canned heat, for cooking it There was a mound of candle grease on the ground nearby. Aggie thought for a moment, that exhaustion — fear — fun/ — shock—had prostrated Hank. Then he saw the real reason. Hank’s head lolled. On the side of it, toward the back, was a savage wound that had not healed. The wound was infected. Reddish streaks ran into Hank’s scalp and down his neck. Aggie considered two courses: Hank was a heavy man—and unconscious. To take him out would be a tremendous task—and a rough journey for the sick man. To leave him might mean that his captor would check up on the prisoner—and see the hole in the bricked win - dow. Aggie knew enough about Hank’s captor to shudder. Then, taking a deep breath, Plum rolled Hank on his face, wormed underneath him, wrapped his right arm around a thigh and seized a Wrist with his right hand. He picked up his light with his left hand and lifted mightily. Aggie went back up the passage at a running walk. He climbed the steps swiftly. To lift Hank up and ( into the old window seemed at first impossible. Then Aggie saw he could do it by removing more bricks. He worked with frenzy. The radio overhead was still going—the feet

Lenten (Rav. E. O. Kegerrefs. .Monroe Metlunii.i <■, ' iiureii) "PATIENCE AND GROWTH” ■ Mark 4:2B—"For the earth bringeth forth frji* n( K first the blade, then the ear, after that the full ° hrr u " corn m th: ear Our Lord had just finished emphasizing j] u . Hr cultivating a right, attitude (o the truth. He h ;u | those who came with a sincere desire and Wv| .,. \ V i l ] , i " themselves would be rewarded by continuous <li S( . 0V ? s ,!) who were indifferent would find themselves stripped es '? ties by which truth is understood and put He then proceeded to apply this principle to tl > H realm by calling attention to the mystery of growth in nature. Apparently He would have us apply {)ll '.'.'.• Vl|| «H|H patience that, in the spiritual world as well as in t] lt . n .’, Ves ''ittH, are forces which promote the growth of good hnn„i' aral, duce great fruitfulness in human lives. >es a ‘ M ' That patience He exhibited in His passion aHlt W turned the worst men could give him into Hie i.,. st tr> ’ for them—patiently. By so doing He has made the rH° Ultl of the world possible. His forces quietly and p.ii , forth the harvest in the field. Why then, should we not and quietly apply the spiritual and physical truth |t,. to the making of a better world? I, i - eclnla | DEMOCRAT WANT ADS GET mJ tfiSlrf'.'iltpt.aSiWii: a a ! Studio Pictures! H IE TAKEN IN YOUR g | OWN HOME. I 'MI | Also Enlargements I B » S | Made from your I I favorite snapshots. , I I*! 91 ® I I Phone 1403 For Appointment I » 3 a 9 John Deßolt Jr.l ■ ™ 1

were still thumping—but Aggie did not feel safe in that place. When his task was ended and he' was ready to try lifting Hank again, Aggie heard a slight creak—a sound disoriented from the others. Instantly, he switched off his light and peered up in the darkness. He saw—some distance away, between two of the floor joists that made the ceiling—a long thin wedge of dim light that disappeared as he looked at it. Grimly,'he lifted Hank again and thrust his head into the hole. Fiercely, he levered the big man up to it and pushed him through. He plunged after Hank even before the latter had fallen limply on the other side. There was some sort of trap door that opened into the clubhouse. Under a rug, probably. And whoever had put Hank down there “hadopened the trap a little—had seen Aggie’s light—and closed it. The professor thought of yelling. But it might take the people upstairs many minutes to find him. In the meanwhile — whoever had opened the trap door would have ( come out, and around the club. Then what? The thing to do was to drag Hank ‘ to the hole under the sill, leave him . there for a moment’s reconnoiter- ■ ing, and eome back. The tunnel would have to be enlarged for Hank. i Aggie squirmed out. He stood in ■ the sumacs, panting, sopping wet ■ with sweat. He heard nothing. He ; waited, hiding against the side of ■ the building. Still nothing. He ven- : tured to erawl back and shine his . light at Hank—and the space under , the solarium. Hank lay still, breath- . ing rapidly. Aggie began to widen i the hole — and listen — and work again. Ten minutes later he ■ dragged Hank through it. Plum paused once more to con- . sider. Suppose he picked up Hank 1 again—walked boldly into the light I —carried him around to the veranda—took him into the club? But . . . . was someone waiting for him —out ondhe shadowy golf course—j with a rifle? Would there be a cour pie of shots—and somebody running , away in the night? ' It was better, Aggie decided, to \ slip along the side of the club with Hank, and into the lilacs, and t through them to where the sumacs met, and from there, down into the woods. He caught his breath and ’ struggled to lift the man. Then—a ! shadow among the black shadows— E he began to move. j Half an hour later, at the edge of the road in front of Sarah’s cottage, Aggie waited for a car to pass and went across. He kicked at ! the screen door, and Sarah opened J it. He staggered through the liv--1 ing room and into the butler’s t pantry where he stretched Hank on s the floor and lay flat beside the man, . struggling for breath. > The professor’s appearance — t dirty, sweat-covered, bramble-torn

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—and his behavior—were a test ol Sarah’s nerve. But she understood, at least partly. To have possession of Hank Bogarty, now, was to be in as grave danger as Calder had once been— and George Davis. She pulled the blind on the one window it. W pantry. She made a quick exanunition of Bogarty and said, “No * nr “ yet from Wes! I’ve sent as urgent a message as I could—to set them trailing him.” Sarah telephoned then .or an ambulance. When she came bactc from the phone, Aggie was breatting with less violence. He knelt over Bogarty. “Blood poisoning, oro® that sock on the back of his head. Ambulance coming:” “I told ’em,” said Sarah, that it they' weren’t here in ten minuter I’d shoot the driver.” "Somebody saw me taxing bin ■ out,” Aggie gasped. “Opened a trap door. He was— just where we-hg-ured—he would be. So they know—whoever it is—that I’ve got him out "That old exit from the hoteb he went on, “has a room off nbrook runs in and ? ut . cave—air comes up it—but I imagine sound travels very ia It’s probably crooked—like ani fler or gun silencer. Hank was there. He would have died • Sarah interrupted her neph® with, “Don’t think about it nn . Aggie. We’ll rush Hank to the hos- , pital—” ... ; “You—” he declared. Joa $ i in that ambulance—Go with Ha. . ' Take Ghillie too! I’ll send old ■ away with Windle!’’ 1 “You can r t stay here! Your h ’ isn’t safe for a second! she pro- ‘ Flurn left the pantry quickly. H« ; was in his room, changi • clothes, when the ambulance c am . The feet of men carrying , pounded in the cottage. ■' i murmuring siren faded aw-a n( ’ dirt road. Indian Stones' ; It took Aggie a con ® id f . to change. But, when he f ■ ■ . hurried downstairs ana • Sarah’s teapot. The station wage keys were gone. . i Windle and old J°h n . h3 , d p “® e { ure . i station wagon for their. P th( I He ran to the barn, dart s vintage limousine, and di ! the club - • lounge I Aggie entered the J na,n it 1 and walked through the r ■ was a quarter past etc • the usual crowd had thinne ■ & an( j; i late-stayers were still er , ■ Byron Waite reading a new ' Ralph and Beth a * tb ® ir is Mrs. '■ able game of table te i aU ghter , wasn’t there. Neither Browne. „ gl ndiu». . Duulliutea 01 KI»S r«‘“ B - i (To be continued