Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1957 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CXI. Ufc. altered at the Decatur, ML, Poet QMea as Beecod Oaaa Matter Dick D. Heller President J. H. Heller .— Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Kstcs* By Mail In Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, IM8; Btx months, 84.25; 8 months. FPJS. » Mall, beyond Adams antr Adjoining Cmbßso: One year, ; 8 months. 84.75; 8 months, 88.50. By Carrier: 20 cents per week. Single copies, 8 coots. *

Drake's well, which marked the commercial discovery of oil in 1859, produced from a depth of Just under 70 feet. Today a well produces from a depth of 20,741 feet. It cost 82.500,000 to drill. We congratulate Ralph Habegger, Decatur merchant on his acceptance of the presidency of the county mental health committee. Mr. Habegger is a good organizer and excellent manager. We are certain that with his fine assistants, the Mental Health society will do its share in Adams county. O* 0 —~ *. Labor, of Washington, D.C., reports that roughly nine out of ten big trucks inspected in a fourth nation-wide safety check by the Interstate Commerce Commission were found to have defects or deficiencies, especially in the braking systems. More than 11,000 trucks were halted and checked, with 88.2 per cent proving faulty* o o— An item which has increased in price pretty far out of proportion is motor oil. While most motorists have complained about the price rises in gasoline, ofl, which is needed less frequently than gas, has sky-rocketed in price to 40 to 60 cents a quart. It hasn’t been many years ago that you could buy a pretty good grade oil at 15 and 20 cents a quart. —-o Writing in Today's Health, Dr. William Bolton says that seven basic food sources will provide an adequate diet for a normal person: green and yellow vegetables; citrus fruits, tomatoes and tomato juice, strawberries and melons; milk and milk products: meat, poultry, fish and eggs; bread, flour and cereals; butter Ycfr fortified oleomargarine; other vegetables, including potatoes. ar- . . ..

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A rainy season is forecast followed by colder weather for the next several days. We need the rain if it doesn't “go crazy” and cause floods. O'—.■ O Coming to the week-end, have a good time and don't forget Decatur's Churches invite you. It's a great way to start the day and there'll be hundreds of your neighbors starting Sunday the same way by attending church. ——o o— We're fortunate here not to have a segregation problem. Steeped in tradition, of course, it's hard for southern states to acquiesce to the new law of the land and permit the mixing of white and colored school children. Nevertheless, it is now the law and should be observed. It well could mean the formation of a third political party, and it might be a Godsend for the Democratic party after a few elections. As it is now, Democrats are seriously divided on several southern questions and maybe now is the time to have the matters out for good. — -o— —e Delivery trucks, with their frequent violations of traffic laws, continue to menace our streets. Why a truck should be permitted to park on a red meter, or at a corner or fire plug or block an alley, we’ll never be able to understand. Why should they be privileged to violate the ordinances any more than an individual? If the parking meter laws aren't going to be enforced let’s take them out. They are a nuisance at the best. From what you See every day, anyone who cared to contest an arrest ticket could do so on the grounds that enforcement is voluntary and the smart motorist gets by without paying.

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• ■■•■■■■ 1 20 Years Ago Today ♦ September 21, 1937 — Mr Binaries Knapp, county probation officer, will deliver a talk to probation officers or northern Indiana at Fort Wayne Wednesday. Frank Wallace, Decatur, held blameless when his truck hit and killed a pedestrian on U.S. road 224 yesterday. Van Wert officials issue a “don’t hold” verdict. American Security Co. of Fort Wayne files suit against stockholders of American Security Co. of Decatur. Chief Melchi issues warning that stop signals must be observed or motorists will face arrest.. 1 Brick is being relayed in Seventh street from Monroe to Nuttman. Officials fear that abondonment of WPA may sound death knell for new school project here. Mrs. William Kohls is hostess to United Christian Missionary society. * Mrs. William Bowers and son Bill, have returned from a several weeks visit at Rome City. Trade in a eooC* town — Decatig

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CHAPTER 15 ONCE or twice 1 caught Lucille Patton looking at me from the corner of her eye. She didn’t say anything and I didn't say anything, __— She drove my rented car through the streets, came to the street that led to her apartment house, turned down, and, switching off the lights and the motor, coasted to a stop in front of the apartment house. •Do I come up?" I asked. •You do not!” I settled back in the seat and said nothing. She said, "All right, what do you want to know, Donald?" "What you know.” •Donald,” she said, “I just don’t know whether I can help or not, but here’s the situation. Our family never had very much money, but one member of the family, Uncle Aaron, went to Texas and got some land there that was worthless at the time he got it. He managed to hold onto it. He was living in a little shack house, trying to run a few cattle, and just hanging on as best he could and then—well, of course you know the answer. They struck oil. He became wealthy. His wife had died. He was a lonely man. He came out here to California. I was the only relative who had ever corresponded with him. I showed him around Sacramento, cheered him up, gave him as good a time as I could. He went back to Texas and wrote me several letters. "Finally he wrote and told me he’d made a will leaving me everything. That completely flabbergasted me. I wrote and told him Td been nice to him because he was a relative and was lonely, and I didn’t have any designs on his property. I told him he'd better look up the family and see if there weren’t some other relatives." "He did?” I asked. •He did. He wrote and told me a Beatrice Clymer was related to him, that she had a daughter, Yvonne, that they lived in Burbank, that he was going to leave me the bulk of his property, but he’d leave theipi enough to enable them to get along all right He said there were no other members of the family." "Go on from there,” I said. "What happened?" "(Mi, the inevitable," she said. "Some little babe out in Texas saw a millionaire bachelor on the loose and threw her hooks into him.” "She married him?” “She married him and he fell for her hook, line and sinker. So of course his wife formed a deep and bitter hatred for me. I could see that she was poisoning Uncle Aaron’s mind against me. The

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Lutheran Pastors Will Meet Monday Parish pastors of the Decatur circuit of the Lutheran churchMissouri synod will hold their monthly meeting at the local Zion Lutheran, church, West Monroe street, Monday afternoon, opening with a celebration of the holy sacrament at 1:30 o’clock. The Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, local pastor will be officiant. The Rev. Behning, Bethlehem church, north of Tocsin, and chairman of the circuit, will preside at the business meeting following the worship hour. Following the meeting of the pastors, a carry-in supper will be served at 5:30, for the pastors and their families. The Rev. and Mrs. Schmidt will be hosts for the meal and for the reception honoring the Rev. and Mrs. Roy Schroeder, new pastor and wife of St. John’s Lutheran church, Hoagland. A welcome gift will be presented to the Schroeders by the circuit pastor following the meal in the parlors of the Zion parish hall. If you nave something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. it brings results.

tone or the letters cnanged. He wrote me right after he got married and told me that it would, of course, make some difference in his will, but that he was leaving a third of his property to me. Then he wrote that he was going to leave all of his property in California to me, and the Texas property would go to his wife. Then, after a couple of months, 1 noticed that he was selling off all of his California property and reducing it to cash. Then he died and his will left everything to his wife, except this section of land out here in San Bernardino County, and that was left to Yvonne Clymer, his niece, along with fifteen thousand dollars." “Meaning that the mother, Beatrice, had died in the meantime ?" “I suppose so. Either she had died or had incurred the displeasure of Uncle Aaron’s wife. “Honestly, Donald, I try not to feel bitter about the. situation. I’d be a darned liar if I told you 1 didn’t care about the money. I don’t want to be rich but I would like enough so I could have a certain sense of security. A girl who has to pound out her living on a typewriter gets to the point somewhere along the line where she begins to wonder what would happen if she became 1 ill, if she got arthritis and had 1 to quit work for any reason. . . . : 1 don’t know how much Uncle Aaron was worth, but it was a 1 good hunk of money. If Td had a nest egg of a few thousand dol- : lars, it would have helped a lot.” “You’ll get married,” I told her. "That’s where your security I will come from.” "You were telling me about this Drury Wells and about his i wife who lives here, Donald. I What about her?" "Well," I said, "you have something there.” “Children?" she asked. "Two.” “And what about her?” “Well, she works when she can, , but her health isn’t good." "That's the point,” Lucille said. "I have a fear of surrendering ray. independence. Pve had quite a few opportunities to get married. I wasn’t in love so I didn’t get married, but a couple of times I was close enough to give the situation a lot of thought I know that someday I’ll fall head over heels in love, and When I do, I won’t think about the future at all. I'll just go ahead and plunge into matrimony.” “You have to go ahead and live your life the way it comes. Play your cards the best you can, and keep grinning. You can't crawl under the bed and hide from life.” “1 know,” she said. "Don’t get me wrong, Donald. I’m not hiding from , anything. The only

Regular Legion Meeting Monday All members of the American Legion are asked to meet at the Legion Monday at 8 p.m. Fred Bieberich, commander, said today! Several important decisions will be made by the membership Monday night, and plans made for the annual membership drive. A report will be made on the three visitation* made by the" post this month. Bieberich especially invited members who have not attended any meetings of the organization to come and take part. —_ a—- — 0 I Modern Etiquette I I . BY ROBERTA LEI I 1 ♦ Q. May a girl ask a service man, who is a stranger in her city and who is coming to visit her, to stay for a few days in her home, or should she ararnge hotel accommodations for him? A. If she is living with her parents, this is perfectly proper. In fact, a would be inhospitable to send him to a hotel if you have a spare room available. Q. Is it proper for a girl to take a gift to her future mother-in-law when she is going to spend a few days with her, and it is their first meeting? A. This is not expected, nor is it usually done. Q. Should a young married woman identify herself over the telephone to a social acquaintance as “Mrs. Hayes,” or as “Dorothy Hayes”? A. As “Dorothy Hayes." * —— " ' | i Household Scrapbook I • BY ROBERTA LEE | 9 0 Dyeing Before dyeing or tinting curtains run a few lengths of white cotton thread through the ends of the curtains and dye. them at the same time. Pull out after dyeing and use these threads for darning or hemming. A Painting Hint When painting around the sash of a door or window it will not be necessary to get paint spots on the glass if a piece of stiff cardboard is held against the glass where the brush is being used. Ink Stains A new ink stain on a tablecloth can sometimes be removed by spreading candle grease over the spot, then washing jhe cloth.

thing is that I did want to tell you how i felt about the whole thing." “Know anything about the woman who married your uncle Aaron?” “Not a thing. She was considerably younger than he was, and the wedding was very sudden. No engagement or anything. They just up and got married. 1 think he met her in some hotel. She was a hostess. She knew her way around, and she sure knew what she was after.” “You have all those letters from your uncle?” “Yes.” “Keep them,” I said. “What do you know about Yvonne Clymer, anything?" •Td be catty if I said what I’ve heard. I don’t know the girt I wouldn’t know her if I saw her. She isn’t actually a niece. Some sort of a grandniece.” “Okay," I told her. "Til check around a bit" “Has what I told you helped you any, Donald?" “frankly, no. It gives me a little background. That’s all. The main thing is that there’s something phony about the setup with Drury Wells, but that doesn’t as- , feet the validity of the Bedford will. There may have been a bigamous marriage, or the parties ‘may just have been living in sin. 1 don’t know.” "Donald, you aren’t married?” "No.” . "Engaged ?* “No.” She was silent for a few seconds, then she said, “I’ve enjoyed the evening a lot, Donald. I wanted someone to talk to. I don’t have anyone to confide in, and heaven knows why I started i telling you all this. The only thing is, I ... I liked you. I liked you from the minute I first saw you standing there with the car door open, and at that time I thought you were some sort of a masher. . . . I guess I was just lonely tonight Let’s quit talking about business, Donald, and concentrate on saying good night. . T . “Now, Donald, that’s all I know:, except that I like you and you passed your examination with flying colors. ... If you don’t take too long kissing me good night, you'll have time to take this car back to the rental agency and catch the last through plane to Los Angeles with thirty minutes to spare.” She was right on the theoretical schedule, but practically things didn’t work out that way. I nearly missed the plane. Yvonne Clymer Wells has made Donald plenty of trouble, though not as much as Drury Wells is about to cause him. Continue the story here tomorrow.

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THE PLEASANT MILLS high school band, under the direction of Mrs. Helen Ehrsam, practioes for its first concert, which will be given Monday night for the Pleasant Mills parent-teachers association. A full schedule is already anticipated for the band, which tied Geneva for sixth place in the parade this week at the Bluffton street fair. The band mothers spent the summer raising money to support the popular school activity.—(Staff Photo)

Local Paper Acclaimed Start Os The Civil War 1 '

(Those interested in the history of Adams county are invited to help form the new Adams county historical society Tuesday night, September 24, at- the Decatur public library at 8 p. m.) . ■/ How was Decatur informed of the start of Civil War? There were no radios, television sets, daily newspapers, automobiles, or • even trains in the county at the time. Fortunately, French Quinn, noted Decatur historian, carefully preserved the local record of the Civil War. Much of this material is still in documentary form. It is hoped that tnose interested in the history of Civil War will form a committee of the new county historical society to delve into the great wealth of material which has never been systematically assembled and recorded for history. The main newspaper in Decatur in 1861 was the Decatur Eagle, forerunner of the Decatur Daily Democrat. Copies of this fine old weekly, with its editorial views very plainly stated, are still maintained by the Decatur public library and the Decatur Daily Democrat. How was the war announced? Blazing headlines across the front page? No, the blazing headline was the product of a later era. The Civil War was announced politely by a single column head on the second, or editorial page. the most read page of the newspaper in those days. The headline read: The War

CHAPTER 16 \VZE KEPT the office open on W Saturday mornings, closed the doors at noon. Saturday afternoon Bertha and 1 usually had an hour’s conference and programmed work for the following week. Bertha liked to check over the books and the bank account every week and see how things were 1 talked Into the office right on the dot of nine o’clock Saturday morning. Bertha wasn’t in as yet. 1 told Elsie to let me know the minute Bertha came in. She came In about ten minutes past nine, and as soon as she entered her office, Elsie tipped me off. I walked into Bertha’s private office and said. “We open up at nine! o’clock. Where have you beeh?” Bertha looked up at me, opened her mouth, tried to say something and couldn’t. Her face gradually got the color of liver. Finally she found her tongue. “Where have I been? Why, Donald Lam, you pint-size, you’ve got a nerve to ask me where I’ve been. Where do you think you’ve been? What’s the idea of not letting anybody know where you are? I put in all day yesterday calling every baby-faced siren who had ever made a pass at you. trying to find out where the hell you were. “You’ve got a nerve ducking out and not letting anybody know where you are. What do you think I am? A hired hand or something? And then you have the unmitigated crust, the absolute utter gal) to come barging tn here and want to know where I’ve been!" “The office opens at nine o’clock,” I said. “I was here waiting for.you.” She got so mad she started sputtering. “Oh, well," I said magnanimously, "forget it. I understand that when you own a business, you’re not supposed to be a slave to it After all, Bertha, we both have to take a little time off once In a while. Just let it go." Bertha said, “You little squirt! You’re just doing that to irritate me. You’re trying to take the wind out of my sails. And you’ve done it! You know me well enough to use those brains of yours to tie me all up in a knot before I can get started. Pm so damned mad at you and yet, underneath it all, Pm sort of halfway proud of you.” “All right,” 1 said to Bertha. “Now tell me what happened yesterday that was so important" Bertha’s lips came together in a thin, tight line. "Donald, it so

Begun! ! — ATTACK ON FORT SUMPTER!-First gun fired Friday Morning, April 12th. at 4 O’clock, A. M.—THE HARRIET LINE FIRED INTO —CHARLESTON FILLING WITH TROOPS — WAR! WAR!! WAR!!! — Telegraphic Correspondence between Gen. Beauregard and the Secretary of War, of the Confederate States. Three columns of very interesting telegraphic reports from Charleston on April 13th and 14th follow. They include many facts about the starting of the war now little known. The editors of the Eagle had adamantly opposed the election of .President Lincoln, because they believed he t would lead the country into a needless war. They expressed their feelings at the announcement with the following editorial (A. J. Hill and T. Adelsperger were editors and proprietors at the time): ‘The storm that has so long threatened us, has at last burst upon us. In consequence of the determination of the Administration to provision Fort Sumter, th* forces of the Confederate States commenced the bombardment at an early hour Friday morning last. The particulars so far as we. have received, also the correspondence between Gen. Beauregard and L. P. Walker, Secretary of War of the Confedej'ate Stobjfc, may be ‘found is another column. “The news of the commence-

happens that I’m frightened!” "What are you frightened about?" She opened a drawer to the desk and took out two lega'looking documents and passed them over. "Take a look at these.” 1 took one look at the titles. That was enough. In the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles, Drury Wells, Plaintiff, versus Bertha Cool and Donald Lam as co-partners transacting business under the firm name and style of Cool and Lam. I didn’t need to turn back the summons and look at the complaint, but 1 glanced through it Drury Wells had done a good job. He alleged that he was living at 1638 Frostmore Road, that the defendants had Intruded upon his privacy, had interviewed the neighbors in away calculated to plant In the minds of said neighbors the belief that plaintiff was a murderer,’ to undermine his good name in the neighborhood, that defendants had thereafter notified the police that the plaintiff had murdered the woman who was living with him as his wife, that as a result of this information. the police had placed a guard upon his house, had subjected him to notoriety, had forced him to go into retirement, had subjected him to annoyance and inconvenience, had Caused him great mental suffering, had damaged his health and reputation in the community, etc., etc., etc. , He wanted fifty thousand dollars’ actual damages, and one hundred thousand dollars’ punitive damages. I tossed the complaint and summons back on Bertha’s desk. “Wen,"’l told her, "you know the facts.” "I’m not certain I do,” Bertha said. "What do you mean?” "Well, you notice this allegation to there about you planting the insinuation in the minds of his neighbors that he had com-, mitted a murder.” "Go on," 1 said. “Well, of course, as soon as this thing was served on me, I tried to get hold of you. I couldn't find yoh. I felt the proper thing to do was to go out and get a written statement from this Mrs. Raleigh in which she would say that she was the one who told you about his having murdered his wife.” “What happened?" I asked. She said, ”1 took a friend of mine along for a witness. We went out tliere. Mrs. Raleigh said she never told you any such thing. Mrs. Raleigh said that you came around over there and

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ment of hostilities has everywhere caused intense excitement, in a measure swallowing up parties, and a manifest spirit of determination'to stand by the Administration is apparent. The news having been anticipated here caused but little excitement. War was considered inevitablefolly to protest against it. The sympathies of the people notwithstanding the unpopularity of the -war are for the success of the stars and stripes wherever unfurled. ’’Let those who have clamored for war rejoice that their object is accomplished—let them rally to the frey. For ourselves, while we hope our government will be able to triumphantly maintain itself in its attempts to maintain its integrity, and in the attempted enforcement of constitutional obligations, we can see nothing to gain, but everything to lose by such a course.” The three columns of news reports contained mostly intercepted wires from Confederate officers, explaining why they made certain moves. It is interesting to note that the Confederate General who ordered the firing on Fort Sumter did so because: “Intercepted dispatches disclose the fact that Mr. Fox, who had been alolwed to visit Major Anderson (commander of the Union Fort near Charleston, S. C.,) on the pledge that his purpose was pacific, employed his opportunity to dfyise a plan for supplying the fort by force, and that his plan had been adopted by the Washington government, and was in Ten intercepted telegrams are the process of execution." o given, plus many other interesting reports of the period.

asked her what she knew about her next-door neighbor having killed his wife. The neighbor on the other side said that you had asked the same questions, that while you hadn’t made any statements, your questions insinuated that Mrs. Wells might have disappeared aa the result of foul play. This is a heU of a mess! Mrs. Raleigh is scared stiff!" "What do you mean, scared stiff?” “1 mean she was scared out of a year’s growth. She couldn’t even hiccup she was so scared.” L said, “Did you tell her why you wanted to know what she had told me?” > "Ot course. W’hy else would I have gone to see her?" “You told her that we were being sued?” “That’s right.” "Before you asked for the information?” "Well, I wanted to be fair with the woman. I put the cards on the table.” "That,” I said, “was one hell Os away to go about it, Bertha. She’s scared to death of her husband, and the minute she realized a lawsuit had been filed, she wouldn’t give you the time of day.” , iX2 It "Well,” Bertha snapped, "she talked with' Frank Sellers all right, and she can’t get out of it that way.” ; I settled back to do a little thinking. “YouTl notice,” 1 said, "that he doesn’t state that the woman who was living with him was his wife. He states that the woman who was living with him as his wife. ... He was never divorced from his wife. ... You know, Bertha, the question of that telephone conversation with Frank Sellers is going to be damned important. Will Frank Stay with us on this thing?" "Frank isn’t going out on a limb,” she said. "He’ll testify that you told him a murder had been committed. He’s in a jam the way it is and he isn’t going to lose his job sticking up for , us.” - - - ---■■*■ '■ r “Well,” I Said, "this makes Corning an important witness. He was here at the time of that telephone conversation." “Donald, have they got a case?" she asked. “Not if we can get anybody to tell the truth,” I said. "But with Mrs. RalCigh running for cover— What was the address Corning gave us?" “The Dartmouth Hotel." "I’m on my way,” I told her. "Donald, he’ll pulverize you,” the little detective is warned. Continue this actionful tale of mystery here tomorrow,