Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1945 — Page 4

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TUB Studebaker Company is pre paring a large single building for the manufacture of their 1946 automobiles and expect to be operating by October Ist. —o The wheat harvest is on in Kansas 4nd reports are encouraging. They estimate an average of thirty btlshels to the acre and a total of 100,006,000 from that state. o—o Cut the weeds. The frequent . Q rains have made them grow more rapidly than usual and unless chopped off now, mey will soon be going to seed, causing illness and certainly marring the appearance of the city. O—O The General E’ectric Company has purchased the Lickey property, 65 acres, in Elkhart and will erect buildings and install machinery for the manufacture of electrical appliances. The company ie expanding in. preparation for peacetime prdßucGon. " O—OI—(Hoss income taxes in Indiana totfled more than $46,006,000 for last*year and showed a five million dolur increase over the previous of thirteen per cent. Right or wrong, the system brings in the cash, eo necessary to operate state government successfully. .. O—O Afilams county will show an oversutScription of war bonds for the Mighty Seventh of about $700,000, on<Pof the most remarkable showingtf in the entire country. Bonds purchased last week will apply and the total is more than $1,800,000. Well dope, workers and subscribers. O—o Mail bags parachuted from transport planes may provide air mail delivery for thousands of America's smaller communities. Tests by Pennsylcania-Central Airlines demonstrated recently that, using a device juet perfected by research workers, low-flying planes can drop the bags within a few feet of a mailman waiting on the ground. O—O City Commissioner Phil Sauers is giving the parks considerable attention j’ist now. Legion Memorial Park is being beautified as are the othera here. These places of recreation are important for they provide playgrounds for hundreds

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oi youngsters who love the great uulduui». Yom cooperation In keeping them attractive, clean and Inviting is urged. O—O To be announced this summer Is one manufacturer’s new washing machine—which also will churn butter, make ice cream and peel potatoes! An agitator inside a cabinet will wash dishes and clothes in separate receptacles, and will power a mixing machine that turns cream into butter or Ice cream. The agitator also will run the peeler attachment. O—O With total assets of $7,870,483, the First State bank of this city shows a continued growth and reached a new high peak. The statement as of close of business June 30th shows reserves and undivided profits of $125,000 and cash and bonds of more than six million dollars. It's- an excellent statement that marks it as one of the best in this part of the state. O—O

■ Farmers have more than $9,663,- >. 000 in cash and deposits, $2,390,000 i- in United States savings bonds and ). over $1,000,000 in warehouse reg ceipts and other ready assets, the state chamber's publication points out from statistics prepared by the • U. S. Department of Agriculture. . Total assets of the agricultural in- - dustry in 1944 amounted to eighty--1 three billion dollars. O—O Agriculture is in a position to ast stat industry and labor in the rej conversion period by supplying a > ready market for goods and ser- , vices, according to a recent publi- [ cation of the Agricultural Depart- , ment of the Indiana State Chamber ofvCommerce. It points out that American farmers have accumulated more than $13,060,000,000. much of which may be spent on industry's products. O—O Suspension of the two Fort Wayne newspapers because of a controversy between the publishers and the typographical union is a serious thing. The public does not underetand the real points of . the new contract that forces the, ( situation, but it probably is a test i case on certain controls of man- : agement. Whatever it is, it is i hoped the disagreements can be i speedily settled and publication resumed. O—O Great Britain cast 23,060,000 i votes in last Thursday’s election, 80% of the registered electors . qualified, indicating the great in- ; terest manifested. The ballots will • not be counted until July 26th, the • system over there requiring that much time for gathering. Mr. Churchill exhausted himself in the grueling campaign and is taking* a ten-day rest to recuperate before > going to the Big Three Conference • at Potsdam, Germany. The wor'd • awaits the outcome to get a line on • whether the new administration ; will lean to the right, or the left. [ _—o—o What industry is doing to meet 1 problems of the returning soldiers, is illustrated by the announcement of the Texas Company that a spe- ’ clal leave of absence will be grant- ■ ed employes of that company who return from military service and ? desire to take advantage of tile f Servicemen’s Readjustment Act to 'f pursue studies that will benefit s them in their future association with the company. Also it will give financial assistance in the form of loans without interest in cases where the amount available under the law may be inadequate. O—o American manufacturers and businessmen are planning to spend a record-breaking $4,560,000,000 for plants, equipment and alterations during the year starting July 1 This estimate is made by the Com merce Dept, after a survey in which nearly 7,000 companies out lined plans. Such a volume of pri

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vate capital expenditure would be nearly three times the prewar average—l 937 to mid-1940 — and should provide millions of jobs, i Nearly 30 per cent of the planned expenditures is for new plants. Largest gains over prewar figure* i are in the paper and printing, textile, apparel and leather groups. —o I 4 • 1 Twenty Years Ago I Today • ♦ July 9—Charles Miller purchases ‘ lot north of the Niblick .store and ‘ wil lerect a modern bakery build- ’ ing. Mr. and Mrs. Ct E. Holihouse ( leave for Los Angeles for an inde- < finite stay. Raymond Harting and Van R. , Grant en'joy 18 holes of golf at Van , Wert. July sale opens at Vance & Linn store with a big Tttsh. ( R. C. Parrish goes to Dayton, , Tenn., to attend the famous Scopes • religious trial. • * I Modern Etiquette I Sy ROBERTA LEE | « « Q. Would it be all right to talk with one’s neighbor at tthe table, when there has been no introduction? A. Yea; it is perfectly all right to do go, as it is implied that all persons present are “acquaintiances” and “friends, even if an introduction has been overlooked. Q. Should a man light his own

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cigarette first, and then hold the match for his friend? A. No; the American cuetom is to light the other person’s cigarette first., Q. What is a good complimentary close to a formal social note? A. “Sincerely yours,” or “Very sincerely yours.” o — > » I Household Scrapbook I | By ROBERTA LE£ | « « Mailing Container If necessary to mail a bottle of medicine, or other liquid, secure a heavy tubular ice cream container, and stuff it with cotton. It makes an ideal device for this purpose. Biscuits If biscuits turn out to be paler t'han they ehould be. add a teaspoon of sugar to the recipe when making them the next time. The sugar will help give them that golden brown appearance. Turtles Turtles should be kept in an acquarium in which there is plant life and sand. They may be fed vegetables, berries, and fruit. o DISPUTE_HOLDS AT (Continued From Page One) ing newspaper truck drivers expanded their picket lines at NeW York’s major newspaper plants today in defiance of repeated war labor board demands that they end the walkout which has tied tip distribution of newspapers with more than 8,000,000 total circulation.’ Ae the strikers began the ninth day of their walkout, the WLB planned to meet in Washington to discuss what steps it could take to

enforce its return to work orders. The strikers, all members of the newspaper and mail deliveries union, independent, voted unanimously yesterday to continue the strike until a new contract was signed. Joseph Simonn, union president, said he and other officers urged the 1,730 strikers to obey the WLB orders, but the men voted the continuance of a floor motion. The WLB has already threatened the drivers with the loss of the closed shop and retroactive wage increases, and other union benefits. 0 (Continued From Page One) 1 Manggar and Sepinggang airfields for land-based planes. One big Japanese coastal gun was captured intact 2400 yards iiortuwest of the Manggar airstrip. Another five-itich gun was taken northwest of Penadjam on the western shore of Balikpapan bay, where the Australians now held about a two-mile foothold affer their shore-to-shore landing last week. In northwest Borneo, units of the ninth Australian division made a threfe-miie gain along the railroad to Jeseelton to reach Membakut, 11 miles northeast of Beaufort. Planes of the far eastern airforces bortib’ed installations in the Celebes and the Malang airdrome in Java, today’s communique reported. Light naval patrols sank several enfertiy vOSSeis in the Halmaheras. Heavy and attack bothbers ranged far and wide over Formosa to bomb the Taien, Ryutan and Helto airfields, the Toko seaplane base, the Takad dock area, and the town

and rail yards of Taito. _ in mopping; up operations In the Philippines during the past week, 3,824 enemy dead were counted and 386 captured, MacArthur reported, those figures were not far below the onea for the weeks of tough fighting preceding the end of the campaign as announced last week. United Press Correspondent Ralph Teatsorth with the sixth division in the mountains of northern Luzon, reported the Yanks were within 5,060 yards of the town of Kiangan, former Japanese 14th army headquarter*. o— RED ARMY RESUMES (Continued From Page Ono) SHAKE warning Germans of the penalties for disobeying Allied law>s. Howley went to see the Soviet deputy commander here, Maj. Gen. Nikolai .Barinov, who then issued orders that Red aimy trops were not to pull down any more SHAEF posters. But the Russians went on governing the entire city, while the American and British military government setups had nothing to do except organise their new headquarters. Howley said that the food coming into Berlin, although controlled by t.he Russians, come from Berlin’s regular food sources —70 per cent from Brandenbzurg province and 80 per cent from northeastern Germany. Much of it. he tfaid. was Wehrmacht stocks captured by the Red army. The Anglo-American and Russian concepts of occupation of Germany are widely different, and that is one oi the problems here. The Russians encourage politics, while the Americans and British prohibit it. The Russians do not have non-frater-nization rules, such as the western Alfies have. Such differences in methods naturally contribut to the complexity of all three trying to govern one city at the same time. o UNDER ORDERS (Continued From Page One) Its position in what were still nominally enemy waters was a closely-guarded naval secret, but its mission was not. “The present mission of this powerful task force is to wipe out Japanese air power and shipping,” a spokesman aboard McCain’s flagship announced bluntly. Carrier planes from the task force, he added, will team up with

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REAB THIS FIRST: * Everyone thought Agatha Brown waa an old maid, but she had been secretly married tor 25 years to Prof. Otto Halder of Western college. She had left him in World War I because she learned he was a traitor. The girl she called her niece. Clementine, really was their daughter. Not even Clementine knew it Everyone Who covers the professor again is going to enttemw* but she had considered killing him as the best way out of their dilemma. Estelle Blossom, a student who claims spc was engaged to marry the jwofessor, accuses Clemantine of the crime. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STOAT) CHAPTER TWELVE •1 DIDN’T bring you here to trap you by matching your hairpin with the one I found on the floor, Kiss Brown,” said the lieutenant “Miss Blossom may be convinced you are guilty, but I am not However, she told me you spent considerable time with the professor. I Wanted to ask you if he ever mentioned an enemy, of made a guess on the identity of the person who has been trying to break into his laboratory. Anything you can tell me how may be very important to us, because Professor Halder was stabbed not more than two hours ago. The murderer cannot be far away.” . "Humph!” snorted Agatha. “Don’t lie. It’s her you suspect! Clemantine, don’t tell him a thing ttritn you get a lawyer!” "I have nothing to tefl,” Clemantine protested. The detective’s face flushed. He ; banded the two hairpins to one of his assistants standing just outside ; the door. “Here, Q'Brien, put these in separate envelopes. Mark this second one the property of Miss Clemantine Brown." , His jaw was harder than ever .when he turned back to the womeh. ,“I can’t force .you to answer my Sestions. You have the right to rese. But time is valuable, and I [need help. Please, Miss Brown, do you think the professor had ahy enhmieS*" "I—l don’t know. He was workling dh some invention for the government. There were guards around his laboratory.*! suppose he was l "What was the nature of his invention?” I “He never said.” [. Wt’li sddn know, i’ve sefit 'for the college president. He’ll be AWfe to ten iiS.” ■ ; Agatha spiffed. "Hi’s jfatt a stuffed shirt." ; ; The detec.tive frowned. "At least, i Maybe he’ll talk, which is more than you women seem willing a©." . i 'Why not, question ifass Blos-

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som?" Agatha suggested. "She seems to be strangely familiar with the professor’s doings. For example, how did she happen to learn about the stabbing—at this hour of the night?” "Tve already told all I know,” said Estelle, icily. Darkey nodded. “Miss Blossom tried to telephone Professor Halder . . he looked at his watch . . . "about an hour and a half ago. When he didn’t answer, she started looking for the janitor, then sent him here to see if anything was wrong." "Oh—the janitor found him ?” "No. The janitor discovered the door was locked on the Inside. He heafd the professor groaning-. He tried to break in, and couldn’t, so he called us. He was badly frightened. We had to saw through the bolt of the door in order to get ip.” Clemantine started at him, wideeyed. "YOU—you mean the professor was stabbed to death in a locked room?” "He was stabbed here all right, but not to death. We didn’t even think it was a bad wound, but he died in the ambulance on the way i to the hospital." “But how did the man with the ■ knife get into the room if everything was locked?" Lieutenant Larkey threw up his hands. He turned to the plain- • clothesman who had escorted Clemahtine and Agatha. "Cassidy, you keep the ladies pacified. I don’t stand up well under cross-examina- • tion. And I want to give this room ! the once over again, in private.” • Cassidy grinned as his chlel > stepped back inside the room and i shut the door. His grin vanished I quickly, however, and he was deadly serious as he faced Agatha, Cle- • mantine and Miss Blossom. “I was the first one who got here r when the janitor called. I found . when I sawed my way in, that [ every bolt in that room was throwr > and locked on the inside, even the r windows and the transom. Thai showed that Professor Haldei - knew someone was after him.” “You—you’re sure,” inquired 1 Agatha, "that the murder couldn’l ■ have thrown one of the bolts shul after he left the robm?” - "Not unless he was a magician.’ “Nonsense!” declared Estelle "You make it sound as though the t professor was alone in that room e he; wasn’t. You : found s haitpin. Miss Brown was, in there a before the room was locked, waiting for him!” t, Agatha cried, "You take that e back, or—” ? ClemSntme grabbed het arm mear i- it file’s upiet She doesnt knovs

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e what she’s saying.” 111 i “Oh, I don’t?” - e ’ “Upset, my eye!” snapped ids 1 tha, who was glad of any sort vrivi f argument to make her forget a n shaking of her knees. “She Is 15 ’’ shed a tear/’ s m( Cassidy and his partner, 0?. c a moved in together and shove! ’a. - women apart “Ladies’ Taba easy!” Cassidy pleaded. 1. “Sure, ’twas a mistake to 1 you here,” observed O'Brien, "fly J t your voices down or you’ll be ag 1 s wakin’ the whole place!” um “Maybe you already have,". sidy whispered. “Someone’s OORI e up the stairs.” rt ' e tip around the corner and vest e the hall panted a heavily-built t, gs . 0 Seemingly he had been - from bed and had hastily pc e coat and pants that didn’t < qh The open neck of his shirt j ca{ - without a necktie. His f ace vest - lined with deep worry, an ,g g; a goatee trembled with his brti ~ >0 ’ f I'essness. ;, It was the first time Agatov* 1 seen President Hill of the fi-J 00 e shocked out of his correct f tJieu y ity. He looked almost human-ttle “Horrible! Horrible! I cantjjtet e lieve it Why, only a few bjy; '- ago-” ,acl His voice, weak from “ c s windpower, was drowned by jggj 1- noise of another railroad train, i- coupled with a serie? of (1 ' a ' ; ~ ? u the nearby tracks. , • t O’Brien grimaced. “What a••• «« for a dormitory!” n Ordinarily President Hill ’ig n have made sharp reply. The "iftty sf were a sore spot in his hf e - 1 iy 1 d liked to point cut that d would do nothing about themi. I- tonight he did not even no *‘ c l4en i- remark. f * “Yeh!” put in Cassidy, “'f 1 ® e few hours ago’.. I • what?’’ i, “We had dinner together. '■ J 00,,; it me he had conquered the la irds n Acuity that had been holding M e invention. He was so confi-- ou j. it dated. Tomorrow he was goW r deliver it.” “And where is the inven- 1 >« d Shure it wasn’t in the room, 't O’Brien. it “Probably in his laboratorj —- Cassidy shook his head- ” talked with the federal flea b. there. They say the last P> 1 ’ Dec e his machine, whatever it " >rn: i. missing," 1.17 a “Oh-h-h!" Estelle put a’ itg . e, Aef face. There was no doubt < $ emotion this ume. Wai Clemantine gasped, 1H it ful!” Dr. Hill went white. “The 1. tion already may be in the n °f America's enemies!” K (To Be ÜbnUnued) ■