Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every EveaUii Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT 00 Incorporated Entered at the Decatnr, Ind., Post Office as Second Claw Matter. J. U. Heller.,/ - ....President LjR. Hol thouse, Sec’y. * Bus. Mgr Dflbk D. Heller. Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies $ .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells counties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wort counties, Ohio, |4.50 per year; 12.50 tor six months; $1.35 for three months; 50 cent# for one month. Elsewhere: $5.50 per year; $3.00 for six months; $1.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces $3.50 per year or SI.OO for three months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative - BCHEERER 4 CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. Start the month off by buying i Loud or two. It’s the very smartest thing we can do. o—u ■ ■ t S" Mattoon is enjoying lunch and diiuieroui again. The restaurants have reopened and everything i going lovely. Extra food lias been supplied through the DPA. . o—o ItV Weed cutting lime. Take a look at the vacant lots and some of the alleys and see how rank they are getting. Now is the time to chop tTem off so they won't go t > * seed. -0 This is the month for your second quarterly report to the state income tax division. If your income exceeded SI,OOO. you must j make such a return before the first | day of August. —o It seOins incredible that there are twenty five vacant homes on one rural route out of Berne. We have, the information of none other than Sam Nussbaum, who has dealt in Adams county real estate all these yeans, and Sam knows whereof he speaks.- Berne Witness. —o Eight thousand Axis prisoner; will go back to Germany this month, it is announced. Bet if they are honest they will admit they rather regret to leave the good old U.S.A, where life is the nearest normal of any place in the worl<|. ■ o—o 11. Earl Peters, head of the federal Housing administration tor Indiana, predicts that many new homes will be built in lhe stat? in the near future. Applications in hfa office prove that, he says, and as soon as material and men are available, he expects the greatest era of house building ever known, —o ■ Congress will not adjourn until action has been taken on the world charter. The work is expected to proceed rapidly and many believe will conclude before the end of the month. Few it any senators have so tar expressed intentions of voting against lhe approval or the charter though several are waiting to check it through carefully. " o—o The Goddess of Justice seems to

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have used unusually severe punishment in the case of William Bolds, a Chicago negro, who seventeen years ago was convicted of stealing $1.67 and a ring. Since then he has been shunted around between the insane hospitals and the prisons and has not had a day of freedom until the judge released him '4 . o r in passing on a habeas corpus writ, t He said it was worse than the procedureu of the Medieval age. Phy siclans had declared him perfectly 4 0 sane - o—o ’ In the seven war loan campaigns r in this nation, the people have > bought $102,000,000,000 worth of * these, the World's best securities. ) And the astounding thing about it * is that each drive has exceeded the former one. The remarkable show . ing made in the recent Mighty Seventh is lhe greatest financi il achievement in history anywhere. We are backing the boys ami we are winning the war. O—O According to Dr. Gabrielsen, director of fish and wildlife service, American hunters will have to be content with about 300,000,00'* shotgun shells this year, about half ito many as were available last season. When the Bulge offensive was on last December. WPB fixed the number at 120.001*.000. so the present allotment is more than double that. It is believed there will be a further easing up later ia the year, but it will come too laic for hunters in this part of the country. ■ .Q—O'— 1 Joseph Toole, 5?. died recently in Manchester, England, alter one of the most remarkable careers in the history of that land where birth counts so much. He was born poor, was a messboy, stre?t cleaner, foundryman and electric I worker. Elected to Parliament on the labor ticket, he became the Lord Mayor of Manchester and was recognized as one oi the great leaders of his lime. Such a sto>y would not be unusual news in this country, but in England where the caste system prevails, it was areal record. O—O The Inflation Bug: Tlie magnitude and global scope of the inflation problem are disclosed in a study, made public by the Life Insurance Companies in America of data issued by the League of Nations, the Federal Rtsiive System and the National Industrial Conference Boaid. The study shows that no nation has escaped the effects of th 1 ? inflationary forces generated by history’s first Trillion Dollar War. the only differences from country to country being in the extent to which these forces have been kept under control. Two nations —Greece and China have already experienced the devastating effects of runaway inflation. it is found. Many other countries, in Europe and elsewhere. the study states, are Strug gling with such problems as pronounced rises in living costs, rec-ord-breaking public debts, greatly inflated volumes of currency in circulation. vast spendable funds in the aggregate in the hands of individuals. severe shortages of goods, and disrupted or destroyed i transportation and production facilities. In the English-speaking world. ’ the study states, cost ’of living increases over pre-war as follows, based on latest available data: Canada, 18%; Australia. 23%; United States, 27.1 per cent (based on the price index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics); Union ol South Africa. 31%; and Great Britain. 31%. — o Fires destroyed 27.600 acres of forest in Indiana in 1914. The majority of the fires were started by careless smokers. The largest gift ever given an in stitution of learning—s34.7OO.DOt by John D. Rockefeller—was pre seated to the University of Chi I L *<o.

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• Household Scrapbook 1 By ROBERTA LEE « ♦ Table Surface When paper has become stuck to the poltehed surface of .1 table, soften it with a little olive oil, and then rub with a soft cloth. This will remove the paper without leaving | any mark. A Laundry Hint If colored clothes and overalls are starched from the time of their | first wash, -the starch will prevent the dirt from getting into the fabric and the sun will not fade Hie colons. Baking Place a saucepan of boiling wa- j ter in the oven when baking rolls | and bread. Tiie steam will keep the ! crust smooth and tender. — o • © I Modern Etiquette I | By ROBERTA LEE | Q. Is it all right for a gueet to i remain for awhile, following an in-1 formal luncheon?

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A. Yes. for about a .half hour. Os ■ course, if some special entertaini ment has been provided for the as--1 ternoon, he should remain. Q. Would it be all right to ask a girl to dance when she is sitting along the wall talking with another man? A. No; a girl who is sitting out a dance with another man should be I left alone. Q. Where should the napkins be placed at a formal dinner? A. On the service plate. | o Twenty Years Aao I* Today « July 3-Two children lose their i lives when their playhouse burns. They were 'Dorothy Beidler, 5, and her brother Harold, 4, of near Berne. iDr. Luther Boyers of Berkley, j I Caiit, visits his parents here en I route home from a trip through I South America. Phil Scheiferstein receives brokI en arm in fall from hay wagon, Ed. Bosse is assisting at the J. i T. Myers clothing store.

Mr. and Mns. C. D. Lewton and daughter. Miss Eloise, go to Rome City for a few days. W. A. Kunkle, Sr., of Bluffton attends Rotary meeting here, 0 ♦"COUNTY agents J COLUMN Barn burning from spontaneous combustion of hay is a real possibility this year, states County Agent Archbold, unless extreme care is observed. After hay fe in I lhe mow it should be observed I closely for the next '2 months.' iWarm moist areas on top of the hay fa the finst warning of spontaneous combustion. This area is caused by vapor or steam rising from the hot spot farther down in the mow. As the heating continues, this hot spot becomes larger and hotter, and more vapor is given off. •When hay in the mow heats to 150 degrees F. it is entering the danger zone. At 160 degrees F. it is in real danger. At 175 degrees F. hot spots or fire pockets may 'be anticipated. At 185 degrees F. the ■hay should be removed and a pump-

er standing by to supply water. At 210 degrees F. the hay is almoat sure to ignite. The county agent’s office hae a hay probe thermometer. It is available to anyone wanting to take mow temperatures. oACTIVITIES OF i ADAMS COUNTY 4-H CLUBS Monmouth Merry Maids The Monmouth 'Merry Maids held their fifth meeting recently in the Monmouth school. The meeting was called to order by the president. After the 4-H song was sung the roll was called. During the meeting, members practiced judging the different classes of dree<es, lunch boxes end cans of tomatoes, which were brought by Miss Williams. After the meeting was adjourned, members spent the hour baking and sewing. •Refreshments were served by •Dorothy Crosby and Marilyn Boerger to the following: Miss Williams, Mrs. Daniels, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Howard, Carol Kirsch, Jeanette Fuhrman, Mardella Schueller, Maryann Owens, Thelma Daniels, Gwendolyn Rice, Joan Fuelling, Phyllis Gerke, Daisymay Davis, Arlene Fuelling and two visitors, Maryann Chapman and Merilyn Grotrian. Preble Jolly Juniors The 'Preble Jolly Juniors held their sixth meeting at the home of the vice president, Ethel Schmiege. The meeting was called to order by the vice president followed by the reading of the minutes and roll call, which was answered with a sport. The 4-H pledge was repeated and the 4-H song and other songs were sung. Marilyn Ruth Koehler was elected to participate in the county clothing judging contest ou July 11. and Virgene Selking will take part in the food preparation judging contest on the same date. •Members who attended the meeting were: Mary Ann Ewel, Marilyn Kiefer, Virgene Selking, Margie Menter. Margaret Selking and the hostess. Ethel Schmiege. A lunch was served by the hostess, following the meeting. The next meeting will be Friday, July 6. at *1:30 p. m. at the home of Margie Menter. 0 Treaties never make peace, nor do military victories usher it in. Any decent world We ever get must be grounded in. buttressed by, and held together with, intelligent, undiscourageable good will.—Fobdick.

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'READ THIS FIRST: .’ Everyone thought Agatha Brown was ( an old maid, but she had been secretly married for 25 years to Prof. Otto Halder of Western college. She had left t him in World War I because she , learned he was a traitor. The girl she called her niece, Cle- < mantine, was really their daughter. Not even Clemantlne knew it, and everyone who had known it was dead 1 —except Professor Halder himself. 1 Now, in World War 11, Agatha dis- < covers the professor is again going to sell one of his invention to the enemy. Afraid he will tell their secret in re- ; venge if she turns him in to the FBI, , she decides to kill him rather than uncover his perfidy. Deep in her heart : she still loves him. and she hopes that if he dies the world may honor him as a martyr. <NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) ' ■ CHAPTER EIGHT AGATHA WENT back upstairs after lunch to the little room she called her laboratory. It was the only place where she could be alone, to think. This laboratory was the direct result of her romance with Professor Halder. It was here she worked out experiments in which she had become interested long ago as a student in his laboratory. In this laboratory she clung to the long dead past, although until last night she never would admit that it was dead. What she contemplated was murder—and it must be murder that could never be traced back to her. It would be more of a shock to Clemantine to learn that her “Aunt” Agatha was a murderess than to learn that Professor Halder, traitor to America, was her father. Agatha had no idea how to commit murder. She never read murder mysteries. The nearest she had come to the real thing was the attempt Otto had made on her life. His idea seemed clever—the use of dry Ice which left no trace after it evaporated. . There was a large block of dry ice in the laboratory refrigerator. Agatha removed it and sawed off a chunk as big as her fist, being careful not to touch it too long with her bare hands. It was so cold it could easily give her frost bite. She laid the unwrapped chunk on her work table and watched it •moke. Despite the warmth of the room, it evaporated very slowly. She saw plainly that she could not use it as Otto had done. j In the small closet the huge Hock of dry ice he had used gave off enough carbon dioxide to prevent the inflow of fresh oxygen through the cracks around the door. It had built up a slight atmospheric pressure inude the closet, that pressure

Red Cross Planning Christmas For Vets The American National Red Cross looked months into the future today and announced plans to bring Christmas cheer to American servicemen around the world, the local chapter was advised. A million and a quarter individual gift boxes will be sent overseas for distribution to servicemen In front-line units, camps, and hospitals. Each box, In traditional Christmas design, will contain two packages of cigarettes, hard candy, chewing gum. milk chocolate with a special sugar-coating capable of withstanding extreme temperatures up to 120 degrees fahrenheit, memorandum book and calendar, identification folder, waterproof pocket case, miniature atlas, comb and case, pencil, six printed postcards and booklet of short stories or mysteries. Groups and individuals desiring to help America’s fighting men who may be in hospitals at Christmas time may send supplementary packages to them through the camp and hospital committee of their local Red Crass chapter. In addition to the individual gift j boxes, the American Red Cross will

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serving as a perfect seal to suffocate her. But the professor’s bed- 1 room was too large. And it was not i as tightly closed as the closet She i would need more dry ice than she could carry. Better would be a cylinder of ' poisonous gas under pressure, to be 1 released through the window from i the ledge outside. < But such a cylinder would be dis- : ficult to transport, and the escaping gas would make a noise Otto i might notice. Such a method obviously would : indicate murder to the police, because they would find the gas cylinder. And how could Agatha establish an alibi and be there to turn the gas on? The dry ice would be better—if only it would work —because it melted so slowly she could be a hundred miles away before it was all gone. But she knew it wouldn’t work. Reluctantly she gave up the idea of copying Otto’s method. She wondered if perhaps she could use cyanide in a bottle sealed with dry ice. It could be placed under his bed, and the deadly gas would be loosed hours after she left. Trouble was the danger to herself if the dry ice was not a perfect seal. However, she toyed with the idea for some time, wondering if she could freeze a film of water over the dry ice as a more perfect cork for the bottle. She wet a rag and wrapped It around the smoking block of solid carbon dioxide. Within a minute the whole thing was frozen so solidly she had to pry It loose from the table. Such a cork with a core of dry ice might work, but she saw it would not help her establish a convincing alibi. Otto must be killed by some means that would indicate the murderer was in the room at that time—and she must be able to prove that, at that time, she was far, far away. A concealed gun? It would be found and Its time mechanism exposed. A knock sounded on the laboratory dodr. The anxious voice of : Beatrice inquired, “Agatha, is there ; anything wrong?” Agatha jumped. Was her eon- . duct giving her away? Did Bea- ; trice suspect? She invited, “Come in. There’s nothing wrong. Why did : you ask?” ! “Don’t teH me something Isn't ; the matter!” Beatrice asserted, i opening the door and eyeing the I confusion on the work table. “Look • out! You’re elbow's going to hit > that bowl of water!”

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Too late. Agatha slopped the wa- a c h ter on the work table and on th !aran scissors she had used in cutting the rag. . ictty "Don’t pretend you aren t ne.- gtr< vous,” Beatrice accused he: ’ “Where were you last night? What wgg happened? You don’t come up hereKoW and shut yourself up at this time IPOS of day unless something’s on you: WWE mind.” IjjW 1 Agatha picked up the scissors ifers and was about to pry the dry ic. ling loose from the frozen puddle and cj put it away. On second though . co she decided she’d better not draw j lg * Beatrice's attention to it. Beatrice might ask too many questions. ghe ’ e So she laid the scissors down or. d fu the wrapped dry ice and got up as calmly as she could and walked to the window. Looking out over the apple orchard her back was to her < sister. “As a matter of fact.” she • • said, “I was putting the finishing arln touches on an unfortunate ro- ed < mance. By now it is all over.” cord “Agatha! You haven’t been interfering again between John and Clemantine?” “Did I . . “Agatha, you have no heart.j Hoj think the way you behave tow art , 0( j them is hateful!” » W “And the way you jump R() . conclusions is terrific.” Agatns Jgr snapped. She returned to the wort table. No sense in trying to act toe calm in front of her sister • • ■ * must be natural .. . clean up J; „ “«t!i mess. _ She laid her hand on the seis- ads sors. Now everything was frozen gen together. , " S “Clemantine isn’t coming ba-- r .od after she takes John to camp. tivi Beatrice said. “!she's going straigh on to college. But if she writes me ead that she and John have split up— |O - c “On to college!” Agatha's hand. seemed frozen. “Clemantine to college. That’s it!” “What’s it?” asked Beatrice suspiciottsly. L “Never mind—only I must s'- Q Clemantine —tonight! And I’m g°* .a| ing to the college to see her.” “What on earth ...” “I can catch the 4 o’clock train m as I did yesterday. If I’m lucky 1 1 Fici make connections at Braxton. -- >th I’m . not—well, I’ll have to see e 'Gone With the Wind’ again.” > “If your trip is that important why can't you tell me about it? H “You’ll learn about it soon enough,” Agatha informed » er H "Where’s my small brown > UI ■’ 9 : case? That’s all I’ll need. Yes , ■ that’s all I’ll need!” (Io Ba Ceattoued) _ ■