Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1945 — Page 4

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- DECATUR DiiLY DEMOCRAT VibUched Bvery Evening Sunday By riffi BBCATC'R DEMOCRAT CO ’• „ Incorporated EnterjJ at the Decatur, Ind., Pos QTOee aa Second Claae Matter. J. H. ieller __.Prwlden A. R. JJolthouse, Sec’y. 4 Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller Vice-Pros idea ~ Subscription Rates Single-Copies 1 .M One jjgek by carrier — .2< By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells countie’s, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, <4.50 per year;. 12.5 u tor six months; <1.35 forjteree months; 50 cents for one motS.’ * Elsewhere: 15.50 per year; $3.00 for six months; $1.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Maa and women in the armed forces $3.50 per year or SI.OO for three months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative SCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. i" 1 The Ohio woman who seeks a divorce from hubby because he talked in his sleep must have htjjird something. o—o The members ot the armed forces art?; not riding the trains because they want to or because they are out for a good time. Why should we? nn , o—o rftl Everyone who lias done his best in the Mighty Seventh War Loan campaign can help further by continuing to buy as many bonds is possible. O—O D. Warner suggests that some wise guy invent a post war miracle that will give the average gardener. a "cast iron back with a hinge in it.” O—o The,, governors are holding a fiveday conference at Mackinac island. Well, they selected a good date for the event. If they gain nothing but relief from the heat, it will be worth the trip. O—o Senator Capehart is in favor oi accepting Japanese peace offers which would strip them of every thing but their home island. The difficulty with this is that the Minado aqd the President both deny that any such overtures have been made. O—O •w AVell, well, well. Jim Watson, fritter U. S. senator who led the tight against the League of Nations. is for the United Nation* Charter It must have been hard fiW him r to accept, but he lias and w® give him credit for his courage iwl announcing such a decision. w "When a big success comes late iltW mid is surprisingly unexpected. it is all the more interesting. Such a biography called Connecticut’ Yankee tells of a professor ol English who retired at sixty-eight ■and then became governor of his slate fqr four terms. 1 O——O-. — Thu- Mighty Seventh went over and totals will exceed the »ixjlt campaign, it is believed. The peo pit* of America realize that wc miSt win this war to save our wav of on, living and prevent anothei war, and they are backing the boys to the limit. —.f PLEASE! 1 After recxShg ths paper " please cave ft for your ’ Paper Salvage Drive. 1 ■ J • _ RIMEMBEI—fAM* H A #1 WAI JAATSKIAI SHORTAGII x9k *

Yanks from the Third Diviaiou found more than twenty-eight million dollars in gold in the basements of two houses in Bad Ga;>tein, Germany. It was hidden there by Von Ribbentrop. Bet the t boys wish '‘findin' was keepin’.” O—O—t The Willys-Overland Company ■ is getting ready to turn out 3,00'1, 1 or 4.000 jeeps for civilian use. They will start in August and will soon j be distributing these care that have I proven so handy during the war. Don't delay in getting a car user stamp on the windshield of your car. Sunday was the deadlin ’. and officials are now checking. Why take a chance on being haled into federal court and paying extra? It's the law and must be obeyed as long as it is continued in force. O—o The most unpopular guy in the world just now seems to be Dictator Franco of Spain. He played witli Hitler and evidently was loyal to him, while trying to fool the world into thinking he was neutral. The recent world conference took action and now Mr. Franco is not only being "cussed" by the members of the United Nations but by many of his own people. He will find the going rough and perhaps impossible before long. O—O We don’t believe that Germany or Japan can come back for another war in five years or even ten. We doubt if they can get ready in twenty, but we do not question ihe statements that leaders of the armed forces in those countries do believe they can eventually get reauy for a third world war. That’s why the United Nations Charter is ;niportant. If that is adopted generi ally and adhered to. they won’t be J able to join the rest of the world in a desire to live in peace. O—O We Must Lead: The United States should lead the world in the ratification of the United Nations Charter. It was an American proposal. It has the overwhelming support of our people. It was framed on American soil. No one wants it railroaded through the Senate. That is not the proper procedure. It should be debated fully and sensibly. But there should not be any long-dragg-ed-out delay such as sometimes occurs in the Upper House when that body seems utterly powerless to act. What the Charter needs is the faith and confidence of the world and the will of the nations to iwe it. The Senate should show that it has that faith and confidence and that will. The other countries remember that the United States Senate rejected the League of Nations after World War I and this rejection by the foremost of powers doomed the League from the very start. Those who geek to deny this statement deny the great strength and influence of America. As the Senate considers the Charter it should ever be mindful of the young men of our land who have died in the' two wars. The United Nations Organization I |is not builded on vague and dreamy idealism. It sprang from cold, hard necessity—the necessity for preventing World War 111. the necessity of saving the world from bankruptcy and complete destruc- | tion. It has been drafted by realistic men and placed on a realistic I foundation. Peace is a matter of life or death for millions now living and other millions yet to be born. We cannot be indifferent or negligent about a matter of so great concern. We must take action now while there is still time. No one can afford to be stubborn or antiquated when considering the future. I We cannot unlock the .future per-

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tals with the past's blood-rusted key.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 0 Twenty Years Aqo Today ♦ « July 2- John Yager and J. B. Meiber,o will leave Saturday for ■ Portland, Ore. to attend the national convention of the tB. P. 0. Elks. Rev. iB. N. Covert goes to Lake Chetak, Wis, to act as dean of young people’s conference for a week. Tomorrow will be auto day in Decatur. Ray Harris, contractor, starts improvement of the Decatur-Fort Wayne highway from here to county line. National league batters hit 12 home runts today and the American ; leaguers got 8. Jonas Cline is seriously ill at hie j home north of Decatur. 0 » * I Modern Etiquette I | 3y ROBERTA LEE | • • Q. How should a woman sign her name when she i>3 traveling alone and registers at a hotel? A. Miss Mary R. Jones or. Mrs. W. B. Smith; and do not omit the prefix “Miss” or "Mrs." Q. Is it impolite when a person is talking, for .the person who fe being addressed to let hi-s eyes wander around the room or to another person? A. Yes, it is very rude to do so. Q. How many maids are necessriary for a hostess to have for serving ten guests? •A. If the best efficiency is desired. two maids are necessary for ten gue-ts. o ♦ • I Household Scrapbook I | By ROBERTA LEE | ♦ - • Mildew When white clothes are mildewed put a teaepoonful of chloride of lime into a gallon of water. Dissolve thoroughly. Put garment in and stir until the mildew disappears. Rinse thoroughly. A<a [ chloride of lime bleaches do not use it on (Milons. Old Auto Licenses ■ If the old auto licenses are placed ! in a vide, one at a time, bent square across alrout six inches from one end. then covered with velvet, or - any desired material, they will . make excellent book ends. Painted Nails If the nails that are used 'for i hanging kitchen towels are painted . with white enamel the tapes will not 'become discolored with rust. o 1 Philippine Mining The commercial mining of chrome ore. which is used in the making of alloy steel, started c-.ly ah.mt 15 years ago in the Philippines. In 1938 j a round 14.000 net tons were exported, of which 60.000 tons were shipped to 5 the United States. 8,000 tons to Canada and 2.000 tons to Japan. One of the principal producing areas is the 1 iambales promo* of Luzon.

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wv* i A0 BY n r $ 2k | FRED W. BRAUN <- | 'There are two very good reasons ' for automobile accidents occurring .at intersections. According to studies made by experts, they are: 1. Those drivers who try to beat the other fellow to the intersection. t 2. Those drivers who race through intersections, gambling that no one else will enter at the same time.

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I . THROUGH AN OPEN HATCH (top), one of a group of Japs made prisoner 5 when their ship had been sunk is hauled from aU. S. sub by marines after the undersea craft had returned to its base. He is blindfolded for f security reasons. Four other Nips are led topside (bottom) past one of » the sub’s guns as they head toward the pier and eventual captivity. i These offiraal U. S. Navy photos. ' (International)

You will live longer if you remove your foot from the throttle and elow down before entering an interesection. AVhen you approach a green traffic signal, do not step on the throttle and race toward the intersection. You will live longer if you are prepared to stop should the light change. You can’t be too careful at intersections. o Marine School The marine corps has its own correspondence school and instruction in some of the arts, trades and sciences is given leathernecks anywhere they may be stationed.

CORONER at the inquest into the slaying of seaman Albert Kovacs, Theodore E, Steiber (above) of Bridgeport, Conn M has ruled that Mrs. Imogene Stevens, 24, is criminally responsible for the sailor’s death. She is being held in Fairfield County Jail in default of $50,000 bail. She is to be arraigned on a manslaughter complaint in New Canaan, Conn. (International) Democrat Want Ads Get Results

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I Everyone thought Agatha Brown was I an old maid, but she had been secretly married for 25 years to Prof. Otto Halder of Western college. She had left him in World War I because she learned he was a traitor. Now. in World War 11, she discovers he again is going to sell one of his inventions to the enemy. Still loving him. and hoping to save him from himself, she steals into his dormitory room at the college and begs him to be true to America. He tries to smother her in a closet, but she escapes. (NOW GO ON. WITH THS STORY) l CHAPTER SEVEN AGATHA AT first thought of going directly to the police and asking for her husband’s arrest. Fear stopped her. Otto would know who had told on him, and he would immediately take the revenge he had been holding over her head as a threat all these years. No, she had best catch the first train home and in calm surroundings lay out a plan of action. Her power to think was completely paralyzed now by her emotions. She was conscious of a terrible loss—and at the same time of relief. Subconsciously the possibility that someday she might go back to Otto had always lingered in her heart. Now that possibility was gone forever. Otto had tom himself out of her life. And yet she still loved him—not for what he was, but for what he had been. She couldn’t make sense out of it. He had struck her; he had flatly refused to give up his traitorous ways. No, she could afford no hasty decision. She must think this out in the quiet of her home. - | There was no train this late at nignt. At an all-night service station she telephoned for a taxicab, ■and paid the exorbitant fare for the 40-mile drive to Braxton. I At Braxton the train service was better, although the best she could get was a coach. Through the windows she saw the first glow of dawn appearing as the train slowed for Bardsdale. The milkman saluted her at her gate. “Up early this morning, Miss Agatha.” “Yes, very early." She was dead tired. She went to her room and climbed wearily into I 1. Her family must have found her there, because they left her undisturbed unftil almost noon. She wakened : groggy with the warmth of the room and the dreams she had ensured. i Still she had reached no decision. I Her sister's greeting held a note lof suspicion as Agatha descended jfor lunch. “By the way, I thought Miss Pierce moved from Braxton a month ago?” * “Miss Pierce?” “She was the one you went to visit last night—all of a sudden—if you remember.” “Oh-h, yes. I'm still half asleep. I didn't remember about her moving until I was almost there. I—l went to see ‘Gone With the Wind’ instead. Had to come back Yin the last train.” “What a silly waste of time. You’d already seen that picture once.” “A year ago," Agatha reminded her. “Where’s Clemantine ?" "She’s driving John back to his camp." ■ "Driving ? But why would she do ithat? He could take the train. We're supposed to save our tires.” I Agatha’s sister sighed hopelessjly. Semetimes I wonder if‘you’re human. Don’t you know what . _ — - • ■ —

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BORNEO'S RICH (GoioUuued From Page One) The invasion marked the first time that Allied forces had battled in the Dutch part of Borneo since it was lost to the enemy in Janu ary, 1942. At stake was one of the world’s richest oil sources. The Balikpapan refineries, supplied by pipe from surrounding fields, turned out 6,000,000 barrels a year before the war. "I think today we settled the score of that Macassar Strait affair of three and a half years j ago,” said smiling Gen. Douglas * MacArthur after he watched the

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it means to be in love?” “Perhaps—l do.” “Don’t you realize that young man is going to war? Clemantine may never see him again. Wasting tires! I wish they could use mine!” Agatha ate her lunch in silence. She knew her sister would not understand. Her problem tortured her. She knew she must stop Otto quickly. His invention was nearly finished. She had a duty to her country that must outweigh any personal fears. She must not let that invention fall into the hands of the enemy. But if she acted so soon after her encounter with him he would be sure to connect her with his undoing. Out of revenge he would reveal the secret she had guarded so carefully from the world. Clemantine believed her mother was dead—but she was not dead. Clemantine must never know the truth: that "Aunt” Agatha was her mother; that Professor Otto Halder, traitor to America, was her father. There had been three Brown sisters originally—Agatha, Joan and Beatrice. Agatha remembered her mother as a pius woman, always helping others. She had no memory of her father. He had died when she was less than five years old. Beatrice had been the first daughter to marry and move away. Joan was less fortunate. She chose a husband who was unable to support her. Agatha, too, married—but kept it secret from all except her motlier. Joan, when her husband deserted her, came back to live at home. Agatha joined her, broken hearted over Professor Halder’s perfidy. Both young wives became mothat about the same time. Joan and her baby died. Clemantine lived, and was passed oft as Joan's daughter. Almost no one knew the truth. Even Beatrice was deceived. Agathat told her husband in hope of

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invasion from the bridge ot?? 8 light cruiser of the U. S. fleet. He referred to the battle of Macassar Strait w6S a handful of Dutch and AmeriE bombejs and Allied warships e|jS tempted to head off the fleet headed for the invasion®. Java. C Less Light Old, dark bulbs use as much( arg( tricity as do new ones, but imzhi I less light. Replace them with IE ones and use the old bulbs in the-LK tic, basement, or front entu,.^ 4 where they are used less often where the light is pot read, sew and work by. :l tagi

straightening him out, but it was® not effective, and' the secret went™ no farther. Mrs. Brown died 15 : years later, leaving the knowledge of Clemantine's birth only to the jg estranged parents. It was then that Beatrice decided H Clemantine should not be left in the y ■ care of “an old maid.” Beatrice Gal- jj t lishaw and her husband moved into eil the old Brown home whose owner- ■ ship was divided equally between the two women. The Gallishaws even wanted to'« adopt Clemantine, but Agatha put en her foot down firmly. "She’s been® like a daughter to me. I’ll not give her up!" S And that was the nearest Aga- a tha had ever come to telling the g truth to Beatrice. Now—it was all coming out—ths S whole mess. Agatha could picture S the headlines about Professor Hal- I der, the man she had once loved— M the man, God pity ner, she still B loved. He would be hated by every ■ decent American. And he would drag Clemantine down with him. 8 He would see to that, because he ■ knew what it would do to his wife. 8 No, Agatha could not let it hap- 9 pen. She would not! Professor Halder must not be al- M lowed to speak. But how to silence him ? How to ■ save his invention for America, and 9 his reputation for those who loved 9 him ? J She shrank in horror from the | obvious answer. . 1 But why not? This was war! ■ John Callahan was going out to ■ kill men not half as dangerous as ■ this traitor. Could she find the strength to | do it? Could she conquer her 1 heart? She must. There was no other ■ answer. She must kill him, as he 1 had tried to kill her. She must do it in such a way I that no possible clue could eve r I point in her direction. (To Be Continued)