Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1945 — Page 4

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If you have something to sell, try our classified columns. There never was a better time. —o The Girl Seoul® have observed their thirty-third birthday and .■started on another record-making year. O—O l ■—— Hurry with your subscription to the Red Cross. If you have been overlooked, send yours iu or hand it to the worker in your district. ■■ -O —o Reports are that a General Model has replaced Von Runstedt in command of the western front for Germany. Goebbels will no doubt describe him as a 1945 model. —o Now it is announced that stomach ulcers can be cured simply by ceasing to "work, worry and eat.” Might as well let the ulcers do the job-ae <to starve to death. —o It’s the Ides of March and spring is due in just one week. It may bcia. little early to make garden bujlits just the right time to plan it. * And we need Victory gardens (this year more than ever. o—o Indiana rivers are right now at a titage where a day or 'wo of rain will again bring a flood condition that will threaten homes and lives over a long stretch of territory. Last week’s peaks were just short of the 1937 floods. O—O a chance at the stale championship. Every one in the “Lime City" wants to go to the Indianapolis Coliseum next Saturday and there 1

ie a grand rush on for the 700 tickets allotted to each of the four winners of the semi-finals. —o The Huntington Vikings really kicked the dope bucket over in the semi-finals at Muncie, defeating the Kokomo Wildcats and the Muncie Bearcats. Not a sports writer had picked them to win either game but they displayed every thing it takes and now are fated as having o—o Johnny Appleseed died a hundred years ago on a farm near Fort and is buried there. His an unusual career. He devotthe last twenty years of his life <o planting apple seeds throughout this part of. the country. His real >afne was Jonathan Chapman. —0 —- 'fha Red Cross fund is growing daily iu Adams county and by the end of this week is expected to be near, if not over the goal. It’s the greatest cause you can contribute For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go <0 The 3topback on sale , each evening

to for its gives financial support to those who devote their lives to aiding those in direct need. . •it probably doesn’t make much difference how Hitler and Himmler, ► Goering and Goebbels feel about surrendering. No oue expects them to make such a gesture in any acceptable form, but the military leadere can and eventually will do so, in the opinion of the greatest students of history. o—o— Hitler is exhorting his people not to give up as they did in 1918 but the difficulty is that they don’t have much to say about it. He still believe® in his aims to rule the world and while admitting that “fate has turned against him" says if they fight on. they are sure to win. That’s optimism. O—o

Fort Wayne had another murder over the week end. Hayward Starnes, 35, ehot and killed Charles McEwen, 23, in an argument over 55 cents in a dice game. Such affairs are becoming so frequent there that they create only casual I Interest. Starues gave himself up after twenty-four hours and will be tried l for murder. O—o France has sent the United States another $40,000,000 for lendlease sent to North Africa, bringing the total to $153,000,000. We can’t help wondering how a nation, tom, partially destroyed and under present conditions, can raise suf- h ficient money to meet their own a requirements and make such pay- a ments but great countries have a g way of coming back rapidly if giv- f en an opportunity. v

Os course you don't have to buy bonds or turn in scrap paper and tin cans or help the Red Cross unless you want to. That’s the disbetween this nation and others where they tell you what to do and if you fail you get the prison cajjip or firing squad. That’s' why we are fighting, to preserve our rights to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Thank goodness most of the citizens of America want to do the things that will help bring a complete and early victory. O—O— After all we have heard and read about the postwar return to normal life and a situation that will take care of every one, we still believe it will be largely up to each local community. The more effort we make here in Adams county the better it will be. Let’s go on with those plane for better sewerage, a disposal plant, better water facilities, new parks and swimming pools and let's plan business to take care of as many employes at good wages as ie possible. Then if we add to that whatever aid is forthcoming from slate or federal sources, we will be going places. o—o

March and April are the two months set aside for the Geueral Eis-enhower-Boy Scout nation-wide waste paper campaign. Every Scout or Cub who collects 1,000 pounds of waste paper during the drive will be awarded a handsome General Eisenhower campaign medal. He will wear that medal just as proudly as his big brother wears a medal won on the fighting front. Each unit which gathers waste paper averaging 1,000 pounds per boy will receive a used shell container di>rect from the battlefield carrying a citation from Geueral Eisenhower himself. —IO—O Decatur is fortunate to have the Aeolian Choir and such a leader as David Embler and the wonderful talent Included in. the capt that gavte the excellent concert at the Catholic school auditorium Sunday afternoon. It was delightful and high class from the Choral Invocation to the “Bells of St. Marys’’ aud the crowd that packed the big ball enjoyed every moment. We

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hope they will continue to function and to give as many entertainments as possible. The choir is the outgrowth of a group of eleven people from the General Electric plant who organized in 1942 to sing "just for fun." It is a part of the famous Gecode Club and has grown to more than fifty member® including a twenty-voice men's glee club, a 36-voice girl’s ensemble, two trios, three soloists, an octette and a twopiano team, all par excellence. f ♦ « I Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE : ♦ : * Q. When trying to reach someone on the telephone, and the person is not there, should one ask t.Jiat he call, or should one call again? A. It is better to have your name and number aud ask that he call you. Q. Is it wise to -wire or write in advance for hotel accomodations when going on a vacation? A- Yes. it is wise to do so, to avoid ipcssilhle disappointment; and one should ask for a prompt reply. Q. What would be considered the supreme accomplishment of a. hoe-

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A. To give a perfect dinner. o —— ♦ ♦ I Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE Boiling Milk When scalding or boiling milk for any purpose, first put a small amount of water in the kettle to -be used and heat it before adding the milk. By doing this the milk will not burn nor stick to the bottom of the kettle. Table Covering Try using linoleum instead of oilcloth to cover the kitchen and laundry taibles. It will last much longer ana will be far moie satisfactory in every way. Mirrors Never use a linen cloth to'clean ■m'irrohs or window glass, as it sheds lint and causes streaks. o ' Twenty Years Aqo I I Today J March 14—Many go to Fort Wayne to attend the regional basketball tournament. ■John Everett is named manager of the E'verettiHiie wholesale grocery. lEd Ahr and son sell team of Belgian horses to Stanley Brothers- of

Providence* 11. I. for $550. Walter Camp, famous football coach and author of the “Daily dozen exercises for keeping well,” dies from heart attack while attending convention of coaches. ISt. Mary's river is out of banks aud the heavy rains continue. E. W. Kampe sells stock in Daily Democrat and will locate in South Bend. 0 — —. Fire Strikes Twice Kansas City, Kan.—(UP) —The Kansas City fire department spent a busy afternoon here recently fighting two fires in the same home. Mrs. Lillie Hodges discovered the first firo in the basement, of her home at 3:45 p. in. and called the fire department. Firemen extinguished the blaze and left, but at 5:45 returned to fight a fire which had broken out in the bedroom. | Famoushreßew MONTHLY t FEMALE - f MISERY (Ako Fioe Stomachic Tome!) Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Is famous to relieve not only monthly pain but also accompanying nervous, tired, falghstrung feelings—when due to functional periodic disturbances. Taken regularly—lt helps build up resistance against such distress. Pinkham's Compound helps nature! Follow label directions. Try it! COMPOUND

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CHAPTER FORTY-ONE Aggie asked old Mr. Waite where Jack was and got the usual, irritable response: “How should I know! In his room, I guess.” Aggie took the staircase in agile, noiseless bounds. The floor above was carpeted. There was a transom over the door of the end room, painted black to keep out the hall light. In the hail, on a small mahogany table, stood a vase of artificial flowers. Aggie removed the vase and carried the table to Jack’s door. He stood up on it gingerly; his face came level with the painted transom. He moved his head until he found a crack in the paint and pressed his eye close. The partial view of Jack’s room was adequate. It was in feverish disorder. Two bulging suitcases stood on the windowsill and another, nearly full, was on the bed. A revolver lay on the bureau. The professor restored the table to its place and knocked on Jack’s door, ft sprang open. Browne stood there in a shirt, tie, and gray slacks, with a fedora cocked on the back of his head. When he saw that it was Aggie, his face relaxed. He even smiled. “Something I can do—?” Aggie stepped toward him. “Take your hat off, Jack. You’re pot going anywhere.” Browne backed into his room. “Yes, I am! Downtown! An errand.” His voice rose. “Don’t come in here!” His muscles twitched as he yielded ground—twitched with the restrained will to grapple with Aggie. Professor Plum kept coming in, and Jack kept backing until he bumped against his bedstead. Then he tried to turn. Aggie, one hand in the pocket of his jacket, said, “I wouldn't go for that revolver if I were you.” Jack sat down on the bed, his face shiny, hisxhest rose and fell jerkily. His eyes had a look of frantic speculation which subsided as Aggie did nothing more sinister-than to push back some magazines on a desk and sit on it. Jack said, “Why are you coming in here—like this? Suppose I am getting out? I can’t stand this job any more! I hate the people! The orders! And this summer has been too much—already! My nerves are shot to pieces I” The professor continued to stare at him. He was now a little closer to the bureau than Jack. “The trap door,” Aggie said, “is in your office. You cut it yourself, I presume. And dug out the steps.” Jack said, “Are you nuts? What trap door? What passage? My office? I’ve hardly been in it all evening.” Aggie’s face was like that of a judge listening to testimony whereby a prisoner was hanging himself. Jack blustered. “I don’t know what you mean! Get out of here!” Aggie kept a hand in his jacket pocket. “You know I’ve got Hank.” Jack said, “Hank who?” But he was slow in saying it.

I through Aug. 31, 1945 have the following values: 1 unit, 10 gallons 5 units, 50 gallons; 25 units, 25i gallons. All change-making con pons and reserve coupons are now good. New periods 1,2, 3, 4 coupons also valid now aud goo< throughout the heating year. Stbves All new heating, cooking an. 1 combination heating aud cooking stoves, designed for domestic use, for installation on or above the floor and for the use of oil. kerosene, gasoline and gas, are rationI ed. Certificates must be obtained from local board. Used Fats Each pound of waste fat is good for two meat-ration points. ——— Q Just Like a Brother Muncie, Ind.—-(UP) —Pvt. Denzil M. Edwards wrote to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Edward?, that he returned from a field trip in Belgium one night more tired than he had ever been while on duty, only, much so his disgust, to find someone in his bunk. Too tired and weak to argue with ithe “intruder,” Denzil said he found himself an empty bunk. When he awakened the next morning, he went over to his own bunk to check on the “intruder." It was his own brother, Gale, whom he hadn’t seen for 16 months.

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Professor Plum shrugged and swung his foot. “Everything pointed to you—” Jack seemed to make some sense of the discussion. “Oh—Bogarty! You came here to accuse me of that! Aggie, old man! You’ve known me since I was a kid I You know that 4—” He smiled with considerable assurance. “Just because I took this moment to decide to beat it! You ought to know me better. If you’ve got something that’ll scare the truth from somebody who is guilty of all the horrible things around here— I’ll—l’ll do anything I can! Stay here, even. But you’re barking up the wrong tree.” Aggie sat still on the desk—save for his foot—which went on swinging. “Speaking of trees—they had a lot to do with it Two good-sized ones—chopped down to make that deadfall to put Calder’s body in. Two others that showed me how Dr. Davis had been killed. A tree that the broken phone wire dangled from. Some high-up scars in the apple tree, convincing me the murderer—had been here last winter. You were here then. And it had to be somebody who was in the club a lot. Somebody who could know about the old Sachem House foundations. Being here every winter—you could explore them.” “Anybody could!” “Yes. That bottle of hock. Somebody—following me the night I was down in the wine cellar and trying to leave ahead of me in a hurry—could have knocked it out of a bin. It could have landed standing up. You weren’t down there that night? You didn’t hear me going through the lobby — and follow me — and rush back and change into pajamas?” “Os course not! Beth saw me when I came downstairs that night—" “You didn’t do it, then?" “No kidding, Aggie—!” “Funny. I thought you did. I thought Bogarty came in here with that fox in a cage. I thought he told you he’d left his calling card pinned on Sarah’s door by his knife—and I thought he got talking about the old days and probably about his plans to get some money. I thought he realized you were close to everybody here and let out something about the fact that his old friends had a lot of gold he had mined for them. Had it hidden. I thought you’d dug out the old secret exit during the winter—just to relieve your boredom. I didn’t know how you’d found it. And I thought that you were half crazed by the start of another season. A season of being ordered around and patronized by people who were still rich—while you were poor, and your father was a suicide, and your mother was dead." “You’re wrong!” “I thought—hearing there was a cash deposit around here—a big one —you went nuts, slugged Bogarty —and hid him down below with the

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idea of making him disgorge t«» dope about where the gold was. I thought, whqn you got back up, saw Calder playing with that fox 1 its cage. I thought he’d just amsW in here after leaving Sarah’s house to get a highball—or something—“l tell you, Aggie, if somebodyM all this —!” , The professor waved his MM “It was my impression that Bogarty told you he hadn’t yet seen anybody. But there was CaM fooling with the fox—so Calder could report that Bogarty M reached the club. I supposed t» Calder opened the cage to pet tM fox and it bit him and escape! f dog ‘the size of a fox’ -you «■ once. That was smart! Disarms “I thought you hit Calder »» something, too. Then—as W it — you turned out all the d lights and put Calder in HanklO and carried him up on the , road. You had all night to b “* that deadfall and run that car in Upper Lake. But you found « Bogart y didn't know where the W was! And you couldn’t turn 10 “ T though i—you watched « citement about Calders dea Bogarty’s absence grow, hop ng of the people who owned the I would make a move to , Calder was dead and Sarah mumps. I presumed you d P tabs on Dr. Davis and Waite. I’d imagined Davis went doff his wine supply one day, ting you know it—and you him. That led you tothe b’ j J probably watched him work combination. Only - Dav wine down there any ' u|| realized that he could f the thief, if you moved was in that safe. He kne J seen him go down to the «. he might reason t,ial ; heß h» could know he d gone there had no wine. “Maybe there was som item —but you knew Da. J spot you somehow, and> J£neW *• you had to kdl him. koU twb« was already trying to w , (j killed Calder —, bcca “ s ® Afo «* doubt followed him enO g ureS o! that he was taking P especially everything—the dead*—and developing themi thii room. You bad a knife like one—” . hit Aggie’s hand ca ” e . °a hunii’l pocket. Browne fl ,aclle ’A e it knife landed his side. Jack picked it UPPlum went on talking- - t ve i! pretty sure it was you- it bone on the cellar ' w heny»“ slipped out of the fox c-, c e carried the cage to the i burn it. There s my ,oursesame type as Hank ■ all I’ve said is guessm o . garty is able to of course.” ~ I. (To be