Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1946 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Fubliahod ®very Evening Except Sunday By TUB DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entarod at the Decatur. Ind, Post Offteo aa Second Class Matter J. Il Heller Preaident A. R. HolUoum. Bnc'y. A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller .. Vice-Prosident The OPA Is opposed to pike boontn on butter but Utoan wko produce It feel different. So It seeias the Question to be decried is whether we want butter at more per pound or prefer doing without -O Iri* violations will result in arrant a. The police are making u special effort to find suepecta for robberies recently coimuitted in this county. Every clue is being followed. -0 We wonder why if Charley LaFollette feels hia party is so wrong, he continues to run on the ticket. Evidently he doesn't like the G O. P. leadership and they don't t-eem to care a "fig about him. —o Senator Morse, Republican of Oregon says his mail has been tremendous since President Truman made his appeal to the |>eople and these letters and messages favor the chief's program nine to one and art- opposed to Senator Tuft's position ——o—o There can be little argument that something is wrong in America when clothing is not available. We have the wool, cotton end other materiel, we have the plant.-, we ibave every thing but the will to do what we ought to lie doing. —o President Triwnan will give his report as to the state of the nation io congress next Thursday and the world a waits it as well as every citizen of America. Its bis message to the new congressional session and should mean muoh to the future happiness and well being of each and every outdoe Bishop, trie Greenwich Village wag. notes that the Republicans are chagrined because the Pearl Harbor quiz didn't make FDIC the scapegoat The fact-,, he says, Show a si-ape-elephant. The various probes remind us of Will Roger's taunt, 'some of the Invest igatora would look for bones in animal cra< kers " —Walter Winchell. O O Strike* may Interfere seriously with communications effecting the distribution of new*. If telephone and telegraph workers leave their Jobs, it will be difficult and perhaps Impossible Io secure the happenings of the world. Newsitapen- will of course use every mean? possible to keep you posted. OO Only all out of l<*o student preparing to teach plan to become elementary instructors, according to a survey Just completed It also shows that school enrollment is expected to continue to increase the neat ten years Mure than 2,0(>0 new- teudeis will be needed in Indiana next September. according to the present outlook -—o—o Due to tiie weaklier and to the fact that such a small umoimt of waste paper has l»een available Ihe last one or two cciHectionr, Sieve Everhart. supervising director of the Hoy Scout campaign, ba* announced that no more paper drives will lie conducted until spring Save your waste paper tor the boys and watch for announcements of Mie exact time for the next coßetAJbn. ‘1 J I • Reports filed and read at the annual meeting of the Adams county Red cross aasoctatlon shows that every department of that organization of mercy has performed splendidly the past year. C. E. Bell

la president of the chapter and It being aaairied by many who place service ahead of every thing else during times like the present They appreciate the support being given by the public and promise continued efforts to meet every requirement to render Red ('ns* aid when and as needed —- Those 5,000,000 house? that Uncle Sam was going Ui build right after the war. for war veterans and olh era. are not yet noticeable on the horizon As weeks pass, and people, think things over, it becomes more evident what a whopping big Job that is. and how the enterprise is going to run into years, or even decades. This is all the more teaaon fur getting started soon. oriablisliing a good puce, and then keeping it up year after year until the task is (Inimhed or as nearly so as such a long-range performance can ever Im* -0 Evanston. 111., is known through out the United States for Its marv I elous safely record. It did not have 1 a single traffic fatality during 1945 That was no accident, tto streak i of luck. It was the result of ■arcful planning for years, pin. enforcement. The Evanston Plan wa» introduced in 1929 by Frank Kii-ml nationally prominent traffic i-xprit | It did not work automatically. Constant effort, improvement and police supervision made it effective The Illinois city wastes little tim<Haying lag with parked cars It apots iu«-n where accidents incur rnd sees that they do not happen again. Signal running has been stopped by alet police patrols. (> -O — “Before you invest. Investigate.” is the tim ly advice passed along by T L. Wheeler. Ohio State Extension specialist In the boom per. iod that followed the oilier war, farmers lost a lot of money lnv< sting in packing houses that never got around tu packing. oil stocks and other promotion scheme- Promoters are getting ready new hoaxes wilii which to harvest other people's money. One reported kind, taking advantage of the warexcited interest in science. consists of trick gadgets supposed to perforin wonders us various sorts. A gun-shy attitude and a firm grip on the purse are reliable defenses against what seem Kilning. Country Gentleman —O OCoach of Year:Bo McMillin is tiie years outstanding football coach, according to a vote of the Football Writers Association ThU is due in girt to liis success in giving Indiana University its first Ihg Ten champiotibip in 15 year- Bui it i.- also justified by his record in 1920 of putting tiny Centre College ' TinPraying Colonels'* on the map with a cluse game against Harvard, followed by a victory the next year. From Centre .he went to Geneva, carrying victory with him. and using such strange but successful tactics as putting the 250pound man-mountain Cai Hubbard, who later became one of the professional greats, at end, us all places. At Kansas State hi- oddities included a live-man backfield and no right tackle. In the next few years Bo ehould give the other Big Ten coaches *» good deal to think almut. People Wont News:Onc: of the big cities (Cleveland) went through the last week end in away it doesut* care to repeat, There was a newspaper strike in progress, a proceeding which deprived the community of nows in general, leaving nothing but the comics and features printed early in the week to fail back on. Yet even this concession failed to work well. And incidentally it looked as if a long-doubtful principle had been discovered. From the general behavior of the public.

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• tiou la- an i-pl< 1 1 ■ A. It should always l>c acc-i-ptc d' in the* same form in which it m receivi-1 Q Bus a divorced woman the privilege to continue wearing her ring*? A. Vi-.-, tlii* is ■ ntireij optional ————u—- ———— j « • I Household Scrapbook I I By ROBERTA Lid Tablecloth* Tablecloths <an be kept in a in-lit condition for a much longer I line If they are folded in their creates <uc!i time after using. The Rockers Th<> next time the floor is wux ed. give the bottom* of all the rockeim a coat. The chairs ian then Im- moved without danger of scatchlng the floors. Winter Plants House plants should Im- placed

I in the batntub ouce in awhile uud • the shower turned on gently, so that they may gel moisture through their leave* as well u* their root* ♦ , Twenty Years Ago I Today j Jun. 12—Contract Is let for Improvement of Zener s grove south of town. Interest Is high in the cooperative evangelistic campaign in Decatur. Sister M. Adeii.i. former teacher in the St. Joseph schools, died at Hays, Kansan Monday evening. Col. Guy Pettit of Bloomfield. lowa here to lecture al the Re|v pert Auction school. Zero weather continues here. v Trad* in a Good Town — Docatur

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•oud, oliclals of the Christmas seal :ampx 1 < # *• Adams county an nounced today. AU proceeds from ths annual Christmas seal aalea are used , In the fiKbt o> tuberculosis and to provide free elinlcs and ot hol-

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wise carry on the fight against the “white plague." Tbs sale Is con ducted by ths Adams county tu bsrculosls association. Union Township To Form 4-H Boys Club Meeting Held Last Night To Form Club I'niun township soon will have a lioys 4-H club. This was deelded at a meeting of Interested farmers held in I'nion township Friday night and sponsored by L E. Archbuld. county agricultural agent and Mis* Anna K. Williams, home demonstration agent for Adams county. Three men. Charles Burdg. I'nion township trustee. Raymond Eichenbour, township president of the Farm Bureau and Bmjam In Gerke, have agreed to sponsor the formation of the new dub. whoHe membership will include ls>y* from the uses of Iff years Io 2'i years. At last night's meeting Mr. Archliold and Miss Williams outlined the work being done for the boys and girls and also the adults through the various organizations. The meeting was the ,11th of Hi scheduled throughout the county to c omplete all phases of farm organization The theme- of l«c»th speakers was the value received by the participants in club work. Mis* ' Williams gave a brief history of the 16 home economic- dub* now j operating in the county. She also told of the girls' dub work and rural youth dub now in progress and described the summer camp where- winners in various contests are taken each summer for a vacation. Mr. Archbold described the boys' 4-H work and also told of the benefits derived from the five-acre corn dub and cow test-

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE At midnight, Gail and Lurienne retired to the ladies’ room where Gail kicked off her slippers and rubbed her aehing feet. "When is the wedding, Lueienne?” she asked. "A month from today—the last of October,” Lueienne said coolly, and turned away from the mirror. “You know, something funny happened today. Not really funny. Imean— I was kind of sorry for her. It was that redheaded nurse 1 had at the hospital, remember?’' Gail remembered. So Lily had made a scene. Lily knew, at last, that she couldn’t hope anymore. "She got rather hysterical, Gai). 1 wm petrified that father would hear her—he was working in the study—* Lueienne’a fsce was composed, but she was working rather desperately on her Jeweled compact She said all aorta of absurd things.* "She’s been in love with Ralph for • long time, Lueienne.” “Yes, she told me eo. She wont into a lot of detail*....” Lwiense’s face flushed. "She seemed to think that if 1 knew about her and Ralph, I d be disillusioned and break our engagement ... a* she eould have him.” Gail looked sharply at her young cousin. “Were you disillusioned?" A little," Lueteiino conceded. Bu J \°, u ’ v< •* to ** about such thing*. Ralph** almost thirty —I mean, he’s had to have tomebody until I came along.” Gail held her breath . "Why are you staring at me” Lueienn* demanded. Gail smiled, “Because I admire youso much, darling.” Because.she added silently, in my boots, you’d have forced Burke to marry you years ago. And have it out with his mother afterwards. It was almost two in the morning when Stephen took Gail home. I vo had a wonderful time," she Mid. "Perhaps the Number Two boy ton step up the ladder?" “I’m sorry... I’m a faithful, foolish woman, Steve.” "Lucky Gentry* They stood outside the door, tn the quirt street. She sighed, “1 ac tually forgot about Reyna Thayer and the trial for a littte white. New Its back to plague me.” " G,i ,V wh ? dont ,oa 9° P*ther and .talk to him about ft!" 2 «•*“»’« do that!" she said stiffly. Go crawling to Cassius MePlay politics the way Ralph Kramer did? Stephen didn’t understand, or ho would never have suggested it. "I suppose you’ll have te taae sides whoa the trial comes up,” she "1 don’t see hew 1 ean. I’d stake mg life on father’s integrity, and

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ing asaodstioß Al) pbasoe of agriculture* are worked Into the club programs and at the present time every township In Adams county has some club work In progress. There is not a aiugle case on record In northern Indiana,” Mr. Archbold concluded, "where a 4-H club boy has been convicted In a court." This statement wns made In connection with the explanation that the dub work wax a big factor In making better citizenship The meetings will continue through next week. Mr. Arehhold said, and by that lime all pnase* of dub work will be well on the way toward their goals. Mr. Kh-henbour. Mr. Burdg and Mr Gerke will start plan* soon for the formation of the Union township dub. It was said. Membership cards will be distributed to all eligible boys In the township and as soon as the club is formed, each member will select a project. The three meu will alternate in supervising the monthly meetings .. . 0 '■» i ■ ■ — End Partnership In Slone Quarries Meshberger Bros. End Partnership Harry and O-car Meshberger have dlsMlved partnership in the ownership of »ton and gravel quarries a*. Linn Grove and Columbus. Ind each of the brothers taking one of the plants. Hany Meshberger arquiro* the quarry and plant at Columbus and Osrai become* the owner ot the Linn Grove quarry aud plant, west of Berne. The former has been living ill Columbus the past few years and will be associated in the operation and management of the business with ills son. Rosar Meshberger. who recently returned to Berta- from the northwest, where he was employed hi a ship yard. The Meshberger Brothers formed their partnership in 1917. In 19.73 they purchased the BlueCreek quarry, the two plants producing most of the Ism stone u*ed In road and other construction pioject* in this unction of the country. The Linn Grove quarry la one ot the large industrial concerns l e u the west part of the county. The companies will retail their former names and th- policy of the separate bush>e.ji*e» will not be changed, the owners announced

I d also lick anybody whe’d question yours, So I’m on the spot? They were interrupted by the opening of the deer. Katie stood before them, monumental in a ted wrapper, bar hair dene up in curlers. Doctor Benton—* she said sxr" “ fUd you’re here! I vo been waitin’ up for you— I must’ve dosed off—* "What’s wrong. Katie!" "It’s that girl-that nurse! She called you up about twenty minutes V 0 7" “ eryin’ at »«• ttmo-i tried te get held of you—’’ " Y “ “•*" Lanahan?” Katie nodded and Gail rushed into her office, picked up her bag and wm baek again. “Did you find out where oh* was*” “Noma’m. She kept eryin’-" Well try her apartment first 1 know where aha Uvea. I treated her there once,* /» raced through the deserted streets, Gail thought tetter!?. I tosrthtag Hko this might happen. Steve partied the ear in front of the apartment hone*. The outride door wm unlocked and they hurried up the stairs. At Lily’s door, Gai! knocked erThere wm no answer. 11l get the superintendent,” Steve uid. "He’ll have a pass key.” "Wait! Lily-L.ly-’ There wm a faint eeuad In the room. , "Lily—it’s Gail Benton. Let me i.i— * The doer opened slowly. LUy Lanahan wm framed in the doorway. She wore a violet robe, her rich tod hair was in a wild maas over her tissue-white face. She looked st Gail blankly. And then she toppled to the floor. It wm seven la the morning, when Stephen and Gail earns down the wide hoepital steps and turned up the boulevard. Gail shivered. “Cold!” he naked. She made no attempt to ekes hor ".*? "I’m eold way deep inside of me. Steve, I want te ery—for Lily for all blind, believing women—" "Take it <tear» loteek h* hand botwoeahla. warming IL ,*® U aaid.’TaamwakasamaN....* He'd have had te da it. Yc* know how Ue hoepital trowae ea any eugom ti<m of scandal! But instead, she r**ponOh, Steve—you heard what Be reposted gravely, "I want him

Merchants Are\Jj Os Bad Check Ar 3 laical itH'ichauti *» r ,, day to be <>n t h , check arti-i r<lj of the state- and county on c harges of ’■ dulent <-be< im | U „ 23 or 24 ywr 4 of He was test reik»t*4i« ■ lhe name of G eR » (1 about five feet bright and s e .»h pounds When „,| was wearing a light bet. army o(f| 1(r , shirt, plain neckti* l and white spotted i«r B Reynold* ba* Is*' II menu store- atid chci/TJB central Indian* sn| n that he may la- hesdm totj •retina of the state U — ■ X ' JI ’i b * \ IMfl WIUIAM J. DA«T, Dstroitisn then Now Year s party oikug la Mill At the buabtsas cf * Ing I* IM*. Dart, with twetg in the clays and nights th! | lowed New Year’s sva, ckam four city busses, and thoofkl drivers and other mambsngl party have given up the cdfi tlon, the three couples an Uli it Dert is the son ot a «M business man ot Palm Spq CxL (InttnuOK VSE & & COLD PREFARATM Liquid, Tablets. Salve. Non I Caution use only a* directed-

They turned toward ths Zrtß lunchroom. •It’s fortunate we got thm time,” Gail Mid somberly, "orirtfl have hemorrhaged to death. Aiig is, 1 wasn’t certain even sfwr uM 8 her to the hospital and g»’«* I transfusion—* Stephen wm looking at Can sd | a new understanding snd rrt«|| Last night, he had seen her of her feminity, her beauty ace* I warmth, to become an ir.iirsawH for saving a life ■ The counter wm crowded Mrs. Zayte mw them and beciuteg them tea berth. Stephen ordw ■ ham and eggs, a great mourn <■ toast and wack coffee. Gail P»ddS up the heavy mug, bolding it *fl3 both hands, to warm her**!!. H She had Mvod Lily's life >• J the must solve Lily’s future * e • • Howard Thayer and his Wl! * at breakfMt when Gail was into the breakfast room Ho**" looked up from his paper tn * prise. Agnes nodded, frig ily "Good morning, my dear, B* ard Mid. “I auppoM you’ve eaM» talk about the nursery. Sit «• and have coffee with us." t . “Where is Lueienne?" Gul "She’s still Mteep,” Ar>*» * plied. “She got in very late J* night. Is anything wrong. Gail Gail steeled hersdf. Briefly * told them th* story of Lily U* han and Ralph Kramer. When she finislwd, Howard r* up, doMhing the newspaper m » hand. "Well break ths en?ag«r"‘ instantly,” hs Mid angrily, w I’ll sm that Kramer is never ai’.o*" in this town again I” “Don’t be too hMty.” That •* Agnes speaking; Agnes, the w'®' burner, being tolerant! about Lueienne! To give up ean break her heart.” She low** at Howard. “You had better t» to Ralph, but we must still f through with the plans for the »“• ding? Gail Mid slowly, “Last night. L>? Lanahan wm swayed by self-M«* flee, and considered hereeif onlyJ* obstacle to Ralph’s happine>> iw while she’s eonvaleeciug, she» P tag to have lots of time to herto 1 Time to read all about Ralph’* W I proaching marriage, time to see h» in the hospital. I doubt whether she’ll maintain her present effacing attitude. That ebould * Wm into crasUsraUon too.” d.r Mid, ‘ What do you advfee!” And suddenly ilw were pleading with her. The H««' Md p TV.y«w n "I’ll do my hetf," aaid. 1 *®nUnqsd|