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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By rug DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Poet Office as Second Class Matter I. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller — Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adame and Adjoining Counties: One year, |6; Six months, >3.26; 3 months, $1.75. By Mail beyond Adams and Adjoining counties: One Year, $7; 3 months. 33.75; 3 months, 12.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. Army Day will be celebrated on April 6, and the Indiana National Guard has forwarded an invitation to General Douglas Mac Arthur to come to the Hoosier state for the celebration. If the famed general accepts, Indiana will enjoy its biggest day. 0 Q The days of building great tun-1 nets are not over. The Union Paci- > I 1 sic is double-tracking its OmahaSalt Lake City line by boring ; through the Uintah mountains in | western Wyoming, a distance of

a mile and a quarter. The tunnel will cost 38,000,000, and will, it is hoped, be completed in the spring of 1949. ——lo o Champion corn growers and winners in the dairy herd contests will be awarded prizes at the annual achievement banquet on March 8 at the Pleasant Mills high school. Recognition will be given those farmers and dairymen who through hard work, accomplished outstanding records during the' past year in their particular agricultural pursuit. o o The city, meaning the people, owns two wonderful utilities. The ■ electric department turned out . 42,256,000 kilowatts of power and j the water department furnished 216,387,000 gallons of water during the past year. The increase in business reflects the growth in Decatur and community. Effort should be directed in making the utilities of further service to patTor s. While the Wallace candidate tor congress won in the Bronx special election, the victory is more or less shallow. The district has 96,000 registered voters and only 40,000 went to the polls on election day. Had the Democrats turned out, their candidate should have received about 45,000 votes, or more than enough to have elected him. o o►— We extend a hearty welcome to the high school players and students who will gather here next week-end for the sectional. As a means of focusing attention on an activity which is an important part of school life, this newspaper will issue a basketball section next

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Tuesday- Pictures of the team and stories of jtamefi played wil be published, a&ng with greeting: . from fans, who appreciate th< . school sport. o o Drawing for the sectional basket ball tourney, which will start nexi Thursday, have been made and the teams are wondering about the breaks, which sometime determine the outcome of the contests. Decatur is hapg>y to be host to the fans and players, and in view of our traditional hospitality, it’s probably superfluous to urge putting out the welcome mat. While the first round of the state's biggest athletic classic is primarily for the youth, oldsters also join in the spirit and anxiously await the results. o o * Eamon de Valera, the Americanborn Prime Minister of Eire, will be replaced by John Costello, a Dublin lawyer, who will attempt to head a coalition government. De Valera held power for 16 years and was one of the most forceful lead-

ers that old Ireland ever had. He i was the father of Irish Independ--51 ence, but recently ran afoul of | sentiment on the little Isle and the elections went against him. | Costello, a good Irish name, now has the task of forming a cabinet and keeping his country in swing. If he lets Great Britain get too strong a hold, there will be other I changes in the complex way of running government over there. o o Food and People: World population at present rate of increase will reach foui* and a half billions, or twice to- ' day’s figure, within 90 years, in j the opinion of C. Lester Walker, writing in Harper's Magazine. Dej spite optimistic assurances from advocates of such measures as intensive farming, erosion control, international crop rotation, and the like, the statisticians say mankind is headed into hunger. There is not enough arable land for present numbers, let alone future growths, these authorities say. The author points out that famine, disease and wars have not checked the earth's population increase. Europe will have 21 millions more this year than before 1 the war. Japan is adding a million more souls annually. India, with its hundreds of millions, could fill five earths like this one within 100 years if she couid reduce her death rate to the level of that of the United States. Population control, is not tjie cure. National cultures and religions are against it. If food scarcity is a serious threat of the future, we may be moved to work out some acceptable remedy, through atomic power or other science-

9 ® ii I Modern Etiquette i ( By ROBERTA LEE 8 0 . 0 e—— Q. Is it good form for one to say to a person, “I have forgotten your name.”? t- A. No; this is usually very unflattering. It is better to carry on 1 with the conversation as well as d you can. avoiding the use of names. e Q. Is it all right, for a dinner guest to rest ope hand on the table 8 while talking? A. While it isn’t exactly “bad . form,” still the best place for the hands at the table, when not in r use, is in the lap. Q. is it all right for an employer r to reprove a servant in the pre- ’ sence of others? * A. No; this is extremely ill-bred. ■ Any such criticism should be given privately. _. o O o ' Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE O n Testing Eggs Hold an egg up to the light, and if it appears clear it is good. A stale egg will present a thick appearance. If it shows a black spot, take it carefully out in the yard and bury

it. • Ink Stains After doing home-work children usually have ink on their fingers. To remove these stains rub with a cloth moistened with household ammonia, and rinse in clear water. Book Bindings The leather bindings of books will be kept in better condition If the doors of the bookcase are left open and the air allowed to reach them once in a while. o>—

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Feb. 20 — Most highways in the county are blocked by snow drifts. Retail price of foods dropped one- i half percent in January. The Commies defeat Berne, 491 to 43, and Yellow Jackets win over I Portland, 54 to 29. Mrs. Leo Kirsch, Miss Neva I

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SYNOPSIS Catherine Lister is engaged to Nieky Bray, recently discharged from an army hospital, but is disturbed by the secret knowledge that she still loves Stephen Darrell. Her romance with Stephen had ended abruptly two years before when she bad surprised him with her cousin, Hat La Mott, at his cottage located near her Aunt Angela Wardwell’s country estate. The sudden death of Angela’s husband, John, had occurred shortly after. Catherine still cherished her uncle’s silver leopard desk ornament which had been his Christmas gift to her that year. At the Wardwell town bouse, Angela announced her coining marriage to Mike Nye, who had long been a friend of the family. Catherine noted the stunned silence with which Hat and her brother Tom, and his wife, Francine, at first greeted the news. From the window she saw the same strange man she had seen the previous evening gazing at the Wardwell honse. That night Mike phoned Catherine saying he had something urgent to disease with ber and she left immediately for his apartment. There was ao response to ber ring, bnt finding the door unlatched, she

entered. To her horror she found him 1 slumped across his desk . . . dead. ' Suddenly the lights went out and she 1 ran to the haUway, headlong into the tenant from the adjoining apartment. When the police arrived it was evident they suspected her of the erime, though Inspector Christopher McKee, head of the Homicide Squad, seemed inclined to believe her story. Angela disclosed that she. Hat, Tom and Francine had visited Mike earlier that evening. When Hat admitted a compact found near Mike's desk was hers, Catherine was stunned, for she recognised it as one which had been in Nicky's possession a few days ago. He had said it belonged to the wife of one of his friends. CHAPTER ELEVEN McKEE hadn’t failed to notice the antagonism between the cous,ins. He filed it for reference. As early as that a certain formlessness about the crime troubled him. It was simple in essence. Michael Nye, a wealthy man and a painter of distinction, had been struck down wlile seated at his desk in an attitude of ease. He either knew his killer well or thought he was alone in the apartment The ’weapon with whicl. the blow or blows had been delivered had not yet been located. It could be any one of dozens of objects on the premises, wiped clean of fingerprints and restored to its accustomed position. He wanted more background information, a lot more, about the dead painter and all these people. It had already occurred to him — as it had occurred to Catherine, fleetingly—that there was a slightly odd flavor to the family gathering in Nye’s rooms that evening. Michael Nye had met them all, the woman he was going to marry, her niece and nephew and her nephew’s wife, earlier in the day. That he should want to be with Angela Ward well again was understandable—trit why the others, so soon? There was a suggestion of conference about it, of business afoot, something that had to be settled, then and there. } Where so much was the slightest hint of the unusual was ■ < W “This visit of

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0 Brandyberry, Misses Fan Hammell > and Francile Lower attend the Psi I lota Xi convention at Indianapolis. 1 Indiana basketball five defeats I’urdue, 40 to 37. ,■ Revival at the United Brethren r church will continue another week. —o — > CIO Leader Enters Not Guilty Plea Pleads Innocent To Labor Act Violation Washington, Feb. 19. —(UP) • CIO president Philip Murray pleaded innocent today to government, charges that he violated the TaftHartley act’s ban on political activity by labor unions. Murray’s pleas set the stage for a test of the constitutionality of the act’s prohibition. His attorneys promply asked federal judge Alexander Holtzoft to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that itj is unconstitutional. Holtzoff set next Friday for orall arguments on the dismissal motion and scheduled March 22 for the start of Murray s trial. Murray spoke a firm, quiet “not • i

i.UUliaj opuau a aaxua, v-i— A-v —- - guilty” when arraigned before ; i Holtzoff. He entered the not guilty 1 plea for both himself and the CIO. ;, ' The government charges he and j i 1 the CIO illegally campaigned in.support of Democratic Rep. Ed-1 ■ ward A. Garmatz in a special Maryland election last summer. Murray made it plain at the time of Garmatz's successful campaign that he was inviting prosecution by the justice department in order that he might test the constitutionality of the political activity ban in the courts. The defense motion was present-' ed to the court by Murray s attorneys —Charles J. Margiotti, and former CIO general counsel Lee. ! Pressman. G Large Temple Oranges 59c dozen. — Hammond Bros, on i the highway. It Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

yours earner tonight, Mrs. Wardwell, was it for a specific purpose, to discuss anything in particular?” They had seated themselves by that time, at the Inspector’s re? quest Catherine was facing Angela, Hat was at the edge of her field of vision. Did Angela’s white immobility deepen? Did Hat's small hands cupped around a cigaret jerk ever so lightly? She couldn’t be sure, but there was certainly something. Angela wasn’t a woman to take refuge in words as a disguise or to gain time. She did now. She said, as though the question were important and she was turning it over in her mind, “Why, no, we didn’t come for any particular purpose, except to see MichaeL . . . As to what we talked about—l was to have gone to South America immediately after my mar--1 riage, and we would have been ! away for at least a year, so naturally we had to discuss details, ’ whether my niece," she indicated ! the girl at her side, “would join

us, whether my nephew and his wife wanted to take over the Sixty-fourth Street house . . .” McKee nodded. A marriage had been arranged and would not take place. This woman’s niece and nephew, to both of whom she was evidently devoted, would be the gainers by the bridegroom’s elimination. That worked both ways. So would Catherine Lister and Nicholas Bray, the man to whom she was engaged. He was standing beside the desk. He opened a drawer and took out a checkbook he had already examined. The last check, dated as of that day, was drawn to Nicholas Bray for the sum of five '. undred dollars. There had been no mention of a meeting between the two men. He read the notation on the stub aloud. “Can you give me any information as to when Captain Bray and Mr. Nye met, Miss Lister?” Nicky here at Mike’s—the checkbook was a large one and Mike wouldn’t have carried it around with him. Catherine’s heart hammered. She told herself she was being absurd. So Nicky had been here? Sowhat? Other people had been here too, Angela and Hat, Tom and Francine . . . “No, Inspector, I can’t tell you. I haven’t seen Nicky today.” She felt Hat’s gaze on her, ignored it. arid gave McKee Nicky’s address. It was then that the Scotsman produced the key. He sent it straight down the alley for thern, k strike over the heart of the plate. He did it idly, in a ruminative voice. He said, "What we have to consider—and-it’s why I’m asking your help—is how Mr. 1 Nye’s murderer gained admittance . to this apartment” It startled them. They didn’t know what he was getting at until 1 he elaborated. He said that ac- • cording to the Superintendent and . the Findlaters, not to speak of the i dictates of common sense, Michael ' Nye kept his fropt door locked, s So that* he had either admitted the person who killed him—or the > killer had a key. But he didn’t > | appear to have admitted anyone, f The findlaters asserted positively

11 Assessors Meet i. Here This Morning s _ The various township assessors a and their deputies from Adams county met this morning in the offices of county assessor Albert Harlow to make plans for the approaching assessing period. Charles Leavell, representative of the Indiana state board of tax commissioners, spoke to the assessors and discussed problems expected to confront the workers during the period, beginning March 1. GALE-LIKE WINDS (Continued from t> ; creased their consumption of fuel: oil and gas as the cold moved east- > ward, and shortages of the two fuels developed rapidly. The Federated Cooperative Power Association of Hampton. la . I reported that its dwindling oil j supplies might curtail electricity service to ItOOtl farm families. The j power-generating diesels need a j I tank car of oil daily, officials said. I adding that they could get the oil ■ , if tank cars were made available I to bring it into the area. The weather was expected to I moderate over the midwest tomor-! ' row and over the east Sunday. Crop experts said they did not , expect the cold, which extended as far south as Arkansas, to damage wheat in the southwest. The wheat was exposed to the wintry blasts! A/ew /Sensatf'ofia// I / v CW SHAMPOO I WITH LASOLik / S^T 95< I 4-ounce >«SSS4| ► Holthouse Drug Co.

tnat his door bell hadn’t rung from the time Angela left at twenty-five minutes past nine until Catherine rang it at a quarter of ten. “The bell," the Scotsman explained, “has a particularly shrill clamor. We tested it for ourselves, and the people next door are very positive.” He went on to say that Mike couldn’t have known by prescience that there was a visitor standing outside his distant and locked front door and that therefore, as the evidence now st,ood, the visitor had to have a key. Angela roused at that. “No," she said positively. “Michael wouldn’t have £iven a key to anyone. He was—he hated having his things touched.” “That," said the Inspector, “is not what I have in mind. Mr. Nye needn’t have given anyone a key. But there was another way one could have been obtained. Mr. Nye’s own key was in the pocket , of his top coat When he came in 1 at shortly after half-past five this i afternoon, he threw the coat over ■ n /-vvvf- Lnll . *

a chair out there in the hall. Someone who was in the apartment earlier tonight could have taken the key from his pocket, used it to regain admittance unheard, returning the key to its proper place after the crime was committed.” Someone who had been there earlier that night—someone who had been there and who, after an apparent departure, had returned to do—what had been done. . . . The coldness in Catherine spread. She and Hat both started to talk at once, pointing out that Mike could have had any number of visitors. . . . It was the first sign of unanimity of thought between the two cousins. McKee agreed. The day elevator man who went off duty at seven, the other tenants, would have to be questioned. ’lcKee dismissed the subject. “Miss Lister, I want you to do something for me.” | “Yes, Inspector?” •T want you to re-enact what you did when you first entered this room tonight and found Mr. Nye.” When she first entered the room . . . Sickness -ose in Catherine like a wave. She made no protest. She got up, went to the archway, faced about, took two steps, turned her head toward the desk. A horror of the lofty room and what it had held was thick in her. Mike was gone; he would always be there in memory, sprawled across the desk, his silver head laced with red ribbons . . , "I wgs here. I thought Mike was In the studio or out on the : terrace. Then I saw him.” “Uh-huh.” McKee came to where she was standing, stooped until he • was eye level with her, straightened. •T see. Now, look at the desk, 1 please, at the objects on it. Is . everything the same as it was I then?" i Catherine looked, her mouth dry I The lamp, the blotter, the terrible . tonguelike stain zig-zagging crooks edly across it, the pen set, a cals endar, a small scratch pad to the . left; to the right—there was some- . thing missing. | ' (To Be Continued!

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Hampshire Bred Gilt Sili g Wednesday, Feb. 25,1941 i 1:00 O’clock (CST) Location: 6 miles South, 3 miles East and 14 mile 990 of Bluffton, Indiana; or 7 miles West of Berne on jfl 800 Road 118 and t/4 mile South. 40 — BRED GILTS — 40 g Offering consists of 40 Bred Gilts sired by some of|. H Oll leading Boars of the breed, and bred to Boars of meaty easy feeding type, from Sturdibilt and Gen Buci Roller Breeding. Bf 11 Cab Paul W. Goodspeed T OWN! I Auctioneers: — F. M. Hulick. Indianapolis, Indiana Ellenberger Bros.. Bluffton, Indiana. PUBLIC SALb I will sell at Public Auction on the Joe Mohr farm at the soot!#® corporation of Van Wert, Ohio, on Jennings Road; Mon., Feb. 23, W Commencing at 11 A. M., E.T. — ENTIRE HERD — .1' ] Registered and Grade Holsteins T. B. and Bangs tested. 30 day retest. May have herd for Bangs by sale day. (Registered) GERBEN BESSIE ORMSBY FOBES, born March® 1943, due to freshen May 21; OPAL RUBY CANARY, born Not.H 1942, pasture bred; JUNE PAULINE INKA, born June 13, 1941, <ll® freshen July 11th; SALLY PATSY, born April 22, 1943, due to frei® April 9th; KATE MAXINE, born April 16, 1943, due to freshen®' |L 27; POSY MAXINE, born Mar. 9, 1942, due to freshen April 18th; M®® AAGGIE BESSIE, born March 6, 1938, due to freshen March 30; SUZIE, born in 1943, open; SPOT CANARY, born in 1944, LINDA SALLY, born March 20, 1947; NANCY, 5 yr. old, fresh; BE*' B 11 yrs. old, fresh. CALVES: BEAUTY OPAL, born Aug. 4, 194";® SENATOR PONTIAE HOUWTJE H, born Sept. 3, 1947; 1 Met® mos. old; 1 Heifer, 14 mos. old; Holstein Bull, 17 mos. old. t Herd Bull, 2 yrs. old, out of the Lester Week herd. (Grade) Babe, 4 yr. old, fresh; Tuck, 2 yr. old, fresh April® Production records will be given day of sale. LaaT SHEEP: 5 Registered Dorset ewes; 2 ewe lambs; 2 buck la® eligible to register. HAY: Some,red clover, baled hay; gome timothy, baled hay. I FARM MACHINERY; Woods Bros. Corn Picker, 1946. rood Deere Side Delivery Rake; 1946 4-row Black Hawk Corn P’anter; S® Rude Manure Spreader; Beet Cultivator; 3 Section Spike ToothS® row, new; 1933 Chevrolet Ity ton Truck with grain bed; Glove unit, 2 bucket Milking Machine, used 9 months. Wayne Air sor. MISCELLANEOUS: Poultry Equipment—water fountains, brooder stoves; Steel Fence Posts; Electric Fencing and Insula;®® Tank Heaters; Galvanized Water Pipe, new, 1’ & 4’; Trailer rack and extra tire; 2 Electric Motors; 100 ft. of Rubber Hose; V Scales, new; 4 Good 600r16 Tires; 5 - ten gal. Milk Cans; 8 Feed and miscellaneous articles. TERMS CASH. Not responsible for accidents. < John Mohrl OWNEBI Roy S. Johnson —Auctioneer Merle Knittie—Auctioneer Fred Johnson— Clerk. Lunch will be served. Sale Inside. Real Estate Auction I 5 ROOM SEMI MODERN HOME I 810 N. 3rd Street Decat nr, Indiana Friday, Feb. 27 -1:30 p.m | Living room, dining room, kitchen, two bedroom: I and 1/2 bath. Basement under about of house. I Good foundation. New roof. One car garage and nice garden spaceThis is an ideal location for factory workers I is inside railroads, not so far from business district, I schools and churches. I Mr. & Mrs. George Fosnaugh Owners I D S. Blair, Auctioneer C. W. Kent. Sales Manager Sale Conducted by The Kent Realty Co., 4»e=ktur. Ind.

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