Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1959 — Page 4

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— ■■■ ■■■«» ■ ■■■■■.■■ ■ ■ DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Otflbe m Sedond Clart MMtaf Dick D. Heller, Jr President John G. Heller..Vice-President Chas. Holthouse—— Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Batea: By Man In Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, te.OO; Six months, *4.25; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, *8.00; 8 months, $4.75; 3 months, *2.50. Py Carrier. 30 cents per week. Single copies, 6 cents. For Parents A number of complaints from young people, parents, and even from the staff itself have been heard recently concerning the Decatur youth center. The center is the most popular single place in town for teenagers. .It has, in addition to a business manager, two part-time employes who work with the young people, run the coke stand and help manage the place. Parents have been wondering what can be done to help the young people plan better activities, develop a sense of responsibility, and grow in their leadership ability in the community. In the first place, parents with young children, approaching the eight-year-old group and until they are 10, can help in the cub scout and brownie program for young boys and girls. But these two groups are not “babysitters.” Parents are asked for full cooperation, in holding den meetings, and in organizing the youngsters. For those over ten, the boy scout, girl scout, and 4-H program is essential. But parents must volunteer as leaders and committee members. The few persons in town willing to act as leaders need your help. — At the present time a new exploring program has been developed for young men interested in driving, sports cars, airplanes, jets, and rockets. This group has only one post in Decatur at the present time, and any organization willing to help sponsor another should contact Steve Everhart immediately. But even if 4-H and scouting activities are operated to their maximum capacity, the young people will still want more activities, more to do. The Decatur youth center is one of the many other activities available. We suggest that the teen council, administrative group for the center call a meeting of those who use the center’s facilities. Is there a bigger demand for, say, informal bridge, pinochle or other card games for those whose parents want them to play? Would some like to learn the latest dance steps? Or learn to square daucfv? Stage more tournements in cards, ping pong or pool? Dance contests? At present there are no parents working with the young men and women at the center. How about the youth council asking adults in the community to help them learn skills in dancing and other areas? Parents or adults really interested in young peo- ~ ... pie, interested enough to give one night a week or one or two nights a month, could call Dick Linn, center manager, at 3-2520, and volunteer in a specific field, so that when the teen council wants some advice, they will know who to call. Responsibility, leadership, and community dignity are things that every young man and women of high school age can develop, if only he or she will. The youth center will be glad to help, if only those who earnestly desire to improve will use it. But parents should understand that the common- , ity center, like the school, is not a dumping place for their children. The parents have the initial responsibility for children. If they feel that they cannot handle everything themselves, they should organize groups together that can. he accomplished in building a better Decatur and a better Adams county if we all prayerfully consider our own efforts, and improve them, as well as point out mistakes that others make. "l ■■■■■ -I’.!! .. . - - -

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Rush County Youth Wins Sweepstakes Announce Winners At Corn, Soybean Show A Rush county farm youth, David Geise, route 2, Rushville, won the grand sweepstakes of the 1959 state junior corn and soybean show at Purdue University. The event was held in connection with farm science days. Geise won the grand sweepstakes in, the ten ears produce of hybrids division. Reserve honors went to David Stanley, Rushville. Carol Steward, route 8, Greensburg, won the sweepstakes in the 10 ears of hybrid seed. Lester Freed, West Point, took the sweepstakes in the shelled produce of hybrid, and Matt K. Maish, route 3, Frankfort, won the„ champion soybeans sweepstakes. Doris Kinnett, route 1, Milroy, Rush county, took reserve honors in the 10 ears of hybrid seed. Henry Milburn, route 2, Ciller, was reserve winner in the shelled produce of hybrid division. Dale Lehe, Goodlaqd, Jasper county, won reserve honors in soybeans. Ronald Russell. Muncie, won sweepstakes in the shelled produce of single cross with Joyce Hiner, route 1, Lewisville, Rus>\ county, reserve. James Miller, route 3, Crawfordsville, took sweepstakes in the proluce of single cross division with reserve going to Davjd Stanley, Rushville. Johnson Douglas, manager of the seed certification service, said nearly 100 entries for the junior show were received. Judging of nearly 200 entries in the senior grain show has not been completed. Cold Trial BUFFALO, N.Y. — (UPI) —Two policemen picked up a very cold trail and followed it about a mile before they nabbed Lee James, 18, for stealing two overcoats. TTiey arrested the youth after followinghis footprints—jp the snow. — =—

>■ IB TFF ’ '- - j ~ From the novel published by Macmillan Co. C l ® sß V t Steve Fraaee. Distributed by King Fyturea mu •7nn,. l . ¥ ,-r' 4, " z i iii ’

WHAT HAS HAPPENED I Rhoda Marsh left her New England | home to cross the country to marry a man she hasn t seen tor three years. Her betrothed. Elisha Slocum, is a missionary among Indians near Fort Cass Wyoming in 3t. Louis, which •he reached with the Reverend Jeremiah Shandy as her escort, she faces the possibility of being stranded For Jeremiah Shandy has been unsuccessful so far In inducing his brother Jim a trading agent, to arrange for Rhoda to go West with a pack train. Jim Shandy has plans more immediate to his own benefit- He .is In-, ~ vnfvod in a scheme with mreman Randall of the American Fur Co., which is the rival of Jim’s employer, the Rocky Mountain Fur Co Randall wants to insure that his company will know the rendezvous point at which the RMFC men will do their trading for the trappers' winter accumulation of furs. . . . CHAPTER 3 rH SHANDY watched Sherman Randall’s face, afraid of the old man’s tremendous knowledge of what went on everywhere tn the fur trade During the winter Shandy had made the same proposal to a minor official of ’ the Hudson’s Bay Company, and had been turned down flat. It might be fatal if Randall knew he was second choice. “Your pack train has already started," Randall said. Shandy nodded. • There was plenty of time later to tell what he cared to about the train. “All this assumes," Randall said, "that we can beat the Rocky Mountain pack train to the rendezvous by a sufficient margin to get the trading done ahead of all competition." “Yeah. When we come to an agreement. I’ll tell you how that can be done,” Shandy said. This early in the bargaining there was no need to tell, them about the miserable quality of horses and mules in the Rocky Mountain’s pack train, a deficiency which -Shandy Had carefully arranged in advance. He had greatly underestimated Randall’s shrewdness and Bogard's efficiency. Randall asked, “Didn’t you tell me, Bogard, that the Rocky Mountain train had about the poorest collection of animals you’d ever seen?” Bogard grinned. “The clerk. Big Nose Yenzer, had a fight with Shandy about that- Shandy tried to convince him it was the best he could do.” Randall watched Shandy with gentle amusement. "So it would seem that we can beat your pack train to the rendezvous on Wind River without any great difficulty, thanks to your selection of the pack animals.” Shandy felt a cold uneasiness settling Inside him. He was over his depth with this pair, but he presented a wooden expression and stuck with his bluff. “You might not find that the rendezvous is on Wind River.” s “1 think we will,” Randall said. “I think I would have heard about any change, no matter how secret you claim it was.” “You’ll have a lot of goods sltFrom th* novel published py The M

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d d THOMMON -' of dackson, Teno., RECEIVED hS CHANGE FROM ft PURCHASEft HALF DOLLAR, ft QUARTER AND-A NICKEL, ALL MINTED IM 1895, BEING NOT ONLY HIS BIRTH YEAR Tt BUT ftLGO THAT OF ft Y\ FRIEND WHO WAS WITH HIM / TRIAL BY TIGER WAS ONCE f THE CUSTOM IN SIAM/ ■ IMI Igß THE PLAINTIFF AND THE DEFENDANT <ERE PUT TOGETHER AND A W O . TIGER. LET LOOSE UPON THEM- RESEARCH BY IF ONE WAS SPARED ME WAS DR. JAMES t. fIUNCKEL. . CONSIDERED INNOCENT/ REVEAIS A RELATIONSHIP 4 ‘ BETWEEN lUMORS IN PLANTS AND F X ANIMALS— It a? L/n7v.-~. .., w <■* C«pr. «W by t ** i ** 4 **•_ **** ■<*** J »

Auto Breaks Through Ice, Driver Escapes . Dr. Edward Peck, well-known local veterinarian, narrowly es- , caped Saturday morning when his car went through the ice in waistdeep watef on a county road near 1 Pleasant Mills. 5 Dr. Peck was reported driving back towards Decatur along the gravel road parrallel to the river : on the north side, approaching state road 101 and the covered bridge when he approached a ■ large, iced-over area. Local resi- ■ dents reported that they warned ■ him not to drive across it, but he started across. About halfway the ice cracked and deposited the car in the waist deep water, where the current rocked it back and forth. 1 Unable to open the door. Dr, Peck left through a window and then returned later to carry out some of his equipment. The new-model car is reported still in the icy water, as wreckers cannot approach It "

ting out on the prairie, with no' I buyers,” Shandy said. 1 "We could, tn that extremity, i take everything on to Fort Cass.” Randall smiled. ’Tm beginning to I wonder if yon had any proposition i to offer. Mr. Shandy.” > Shandy was sweating now They were trying to steal his idea 1 right out from under him. He was 1 betraying his own company, and 1 if Randall had his way the betrayal wouldn’t return Shandy one cent. But the toughness that had carried him through ten years as a trapper asserted itself. Scarcely realizing It. dropped all the false airs he had tried to assume 3|nce being elevated to high position in St Louis. , “Think you’re so smart, huh ? 1 You figure 1 didn't know you was Blackfeet at heart I got a hundred big California mules ready to leave here tn two hours’ time. I’m thinking they’ll be three days gone afore you can gather goods and load one pack horse. They’ll overtake the Rocky Mountain train, and then who’s going to beat who anywhere?" Randal] and Bogard studied Shandy carefully. “The gentleman has a point perhaps," Randall murmured. “You’re damn* right I have!” Shandy whacked the table with his fikt. “Now. do we get down to business or not?” Randall’s iynx-sharp eyes peered at Shandy with a hard, unreadable expression. “You do better when you revert to your former ways. Mr. Shandy. Yes, let’s get down to business, but first—Just one guarantee.” “Yeah?” Shandy asked suspiciously. “Your personal guarantee that our train will beat the Rocky Mountain's to the rendezvous, wherever It may be.” “I’ll give you every chance to do that, but I ain’t taking your train through, if that’s what you mean.” Randall looked down on the barroom floor. He spoke to Bogard. “What’s Ree Semple doing in St. Louis at this time of year?” “I hear he deserted the Hudson’s Bay Company." Bogard looked uneasily at his employer. “I don’t know just What he is doing.” “You should know a little more about Semple’s business here, Bogard, don’t you think?” . “I’ll find out,” Bogard said hastily. Randall turned back to Shandy. “No, we don’t expect you to take our pack train through, but I insist on your personal guarantee of success." “I’d be a fool to make a promise like that!” Shandy protested. “I’ve given you the idea. I’ll help you, but I ain’t guaranteeing nothing,” “I’m afraid you must,” Randall said quietly. The unease that Shandy had thrown off for a time returned ilacmlllan Co. C 1958 Frazee. Di*

z: COURT NEWS Marriage Application Patricia Ann White, 18, route six, Fort Wayne, and Jack Leßoy Zehr, 20, route three,' Decatur. Complaint Cases A complaint for wrongful death has been filed by Alice Mae Beitler, administrator of the estate of Howard Beitler, deceased, against the board of commissioners of the county of Adams, Wendell L. Abbott, Gerald W. Vizard, and Mabel I. Vizard. A summons was ordered issued to the sheriff of Adams county for the defendants returnable February 10. A complaint on a promisory note has been filed by the Credit Industrial company against John G. Gordon, doing business as Western Auto associate store. A summons was ordered issued to the sheriff of Adams county for the defendant returnable February 10. Estate Cases The final report in the estate of Courney O. Shoemaker was filed. A notice was ordered issued re-

:In doubled strength. What Randall wanted was a guarantee secured by Shandy’s life. The American Fur Company had a bloody, ruthless record. Its own employees hated and feared the company. Sometimes engagees who had served their contract period with American started downriver from Fort Union with a letter of credit for their wages —and disappeared mysteriously. Killed by "Indians.” Give an iron-clad promise of performance to an outfit like that ? And yet Shandy knew he had to. There was a fortune in this deal. “AD right. Til give you your damn’ guarantee!” “Splendid, Mr. Shandy.” Randall’s voice was toneless. “Now, what’s your price?" __ Based on the number of packs of beaver plews traded at rendezvous In previous years, SIOO,OOO in furs was about right for this year, Shandy figured. The furs came pretty cheap, considering the ballooned prices of trade goods. Forty per cent at the gross profit was the figure Shandy had in mind. He looked at the cold, lifeless face of Sherman Randal] and knew he’d never make the figure stick. It was this year or never; Shandy guessed he could come down a little. "Twenty-five per cent of the gross profit" “So?" Randall tried the punch again. “Though I’ve never been up the river, I understand it’s sometimes worth a man’s life to transfer from one fur company to another.” • « Bogard smiled. “Not to mention an agent selling out his own outfit in an underhand deal.” “You two don’t scare me one bit!” Shandy said angrily. "Take it or leave it!" “Let’s not even speak of withdrawing," Randall said. “You especially. Since you’ve already given your guarantee in the matter. Ten per cent of the net, Mr. Shandy, a month after our train returns from the rendezvous." “Hell,” Shandy cried. “That’s robbery!” “Take it or leave It," Randall said. “I’m sure it will be quite enough to get you a long distance from SL Louis.” . “What if I don’t want to take your miserable figure?” The bitter old eyes watched Shandy With cynical humor. Shandy realized he was in the American’s hands now. He’d put hunself there. If he tried to back out, the least they would do would be to expose him. The most they could do would mean his life. Ten per cent wm robbery; still, it was a lot of money, and a man would be alive to spend it If he didn’t take it, American would send a train out anyway. “You agree?” Randall said. Shandy couldn’t speak for anger. He nodded. (OontiMUfd tomorrow) » stributed by King Feature* Syndicate ■ ■ ( ... -

Youths Invited To See Film Wednesday All Decatur youths are invited to attend the special showing of an outstanding Christian film, “Going Steady," at the Church of God Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The plot of the film covers the problems of "going steady” and how a Christian boy and girl cope with them. A social hour in the fellowship hall will follow the film. turnable February 13. In the estate of Howard Beitler, the proof of mailing of notice to all interested persons was filed in the matter of determination of inheritance tax. The schedule to determine the inheritance tax was filed showing the net value of the estate to be >1,725.01 and that there is no tax due , The supplemental report showing distribution and petition for discharge in. the estate of William Kessler was filed. The co-execu-tors were released and discharged. Sureties on the bond were released. The final report was filed in the estate of Fred R. Tonnelier. A notice was ordered issued returnable February ,24. The inheritance tax appraiser’s report was filed in the estate of Gottlieb Werling. A notice was ordered issued returnable February 16. A petition to transfer the automobile title was filed in the estate of Gerhard Zwick. A petition to sell personal property at public auction was filed. • In the estate of Fred Albert Ribkee, an assignment and bill of sale by Clarice Carney was filed. The inheritance tax appraiser’s report in the estate of Anna Ostermeyer was re-submitted to the court for hearing and determination, showing the net value of the estate to be $270 and $7,933.28 outside of the estate, and that there is tax due in the sum of $385.16. • The schedule to determine the inheritance tax with reference to the county assessor was filed in the estate of J. Manley Foreman. In the estate of Theodore Heuer, the schedule to determine the inhritance tax with reference to the county assessor was filed. The final report was filed in the estate of Sarah Roth. A notice Wks ordered issued returnable February -13. .... ...... . . ■ ' a The schedule to determine the inheritance tax without reference to the county assessor was filed in the estate of Adelaide Gass.

WHAT HAS HAPPSNED Rhoda Marsh left ner New England Home to :ross the country to marry « man she nasn t seen tor three rears Her betrothed Elisha Slocum m a missionary among Indians near Fort Cass Wyoming In St. Louis, which she reached with the Reverend Jeremiah Shandy as tier escort she faces the possibility ot being stranded For Jeremiah Shandy has been unsuccessful so tar in inducing dis brother Jim. a trading agent to arrange tor Rhoda to go West with a oach train. Jim Shandy has elans more immediate to his own benefit He is involved tn a schemr with Sherman Randall ot the American Fur 00. which is the rival ot Jim s employer, the Rocky Mountain Fur Co. Randall wants to Insure that nie company wilt know the rendezvous point at which the RMFC men will do their trading for the trappers winter accumulation of furs He compels Jim to guarantee that an American Fur Co. oack train will get to rendezvous first Caughtln a scheme of his own making Tim will get a mere 10 per cent of profits—or lose his life. . CHAPTER 4 JIM SHANDS felt oetter after a drink. Ten per cent was considerable money, he reasoned, and from now on ne wouldn’t nave to raise a finger to earn it. Once he had it tn hand, ne could light out for the East and be a gentleman. He was having another drink when doubts began to stir like a great worm tn his mind. Just what did Randall expect of him now ? How tar did that guarantee go? That thirty-day wait for his money after the American pack train came back with the furs was a bad thing. It was worse than that: •• was trickery! While the average trapper at * the rendezvous, ripping the earth up with hiS spree, would nardly remember who he had sold nis beaver to, men like Milton Sublette and Jim Bridger, with financial interests tn the Rocky Mountain Company, would be redeyed and roaring like Old Caleb. And there would be a few trappers like Mordecai Price who were so fiercely loyal to the Rocky Mountain and the outfit that packed goods to them that they would be ready to kill If they even suspictoned treachery. Damn Sherman Randan and his thirty days! He was sneakier nor any Piegan that ever lived. He was taking what Shandy had tossed in his lap, and figuring to let the Rocky Mountain Company tear him apart That was the reason for the thirty-day stall Maybe Rocky Mountain wouldn't find out, though, tt would be hard doing for Jim Shandy if they did. The fun realization of his own stupidity so enraged Shandy that ne could feel blood hammering against nis temples. He tried to crush the whisky glass in his hand. Everything had seemed so simple—and profitable —until he’d got down to dealing with Randall Bad as things were, they went even further to heU a moment later. Tab as a Cheyenne chief, Mordecai Price stalked into the barroom below. Shandy started like a man with Frets the ooval puMiahed by The *

Chinese Reds t ail 10 Wine Out Tibet Revolt

(EDITORS NOTE: A United Press International correspondent made a IMay tear of the southern 'Tibetan border to check reports of the revolt in the Chinese Communist domtanted nation. He Uved with a chief of the rebel Khamba tribe and spoke with many other refugees in border towns. They made it clear the Communists have ran Into extreme trouble in the ancient mountain kingdom.) By M. M. GUPTA United Press International KALIMPONG, : Sikkim (UPD— Communist China has failed to wipe out a two-year-old revolt in. Tibet with bombs and guns and is trying to cripple it through star- ’ vation, rebel sources disclosed here. . ~ Target of the Red action is the Khamba tribe of eastern 'nbet, one of the world’s fiercest fighting groups. Failing to best or even match the Khambas in tricky mountain guerrilla warfare, the Communist Chinese have resorted to iiuiiscriminate night and day bombings of villages and temples, driving the people from their land. Some ot the rebels have fled to towns along Tibet’s southern border with Nepal and the Indian protectorates of Bhutan and Sikkim. Others have taken refuge in mountain-top caves or in the jungles. Fight* Goes On But "the fight still goes on. “It’s a deliberate attempt to starve out our entire race,” said one refugee Khamba leader. “But this is not going to help them, just as their military campaign did not.” No authoritative figures on casualties is available, but authoritative Tibetan sources estimate that from 12,000 to 20,000 persons have been killed in Kham Province alone in the last two years. Chinese Communist deaths are estimated at from 7,000 to 10,000. “They have taken our homes and lands because we do not like them,” said one Kahmba rebel. "We go out now. But we come again and then they will know whose homes they are defiling in Kham. We shall never like them. Never, never, never.” Th Khambas began their resistance ,in 1956 with hit-run guerrilla tactics, isolated and disorganized. But by last summer they had refined their tactics and coordinated them in concentrated es-

the guilty horrors His medicine had gone bad. His treachery had been smelled out in advance. Before he realized what be was doing. Shandy nad moved back to a table farther away from the balcony ironwork. They’d sent Mordecai, that’s what they’d done.' Somebody tn Rocky Mountain had got wind ot Shandy’s talk with the Hudson’s Bay man last winter. Kill him! Then Shandy began to get hold ot nimseU. It could be chance that nao brought Mordecai here, when he be in the mountains. He saw Ree Semple starting from the corner They were old eompaneros, them two. Either one ot them would take a neap ot killing. The two ot them together made a bad fix of things. ‘»» e ; Mordecai Price had been In St. Louis one nour. and already the odors and sounds and the press ot civilization were stifling him. He felt edgy. During his years tn the mountains, ae’d sloughed off a part ot nis life that he could never regain. He didn’t want It back, and the feeling of not belonging had grown keener every time he returned to St. Louis. He was about ready to light out again. A thousand miles away, they were coming down from the high, dear streams, slouching along on their shaggy ponies, heading for the Big Meadows and the rendezvous. He could see the whole scene. smeD the air. look across the blue distance. And here he was tike a stranger among men of his own breed! They Just didn't shine, these strangers. Two voyageurs moved quickly to make room for him at the bar They knew a Mountain Man when they saw one. and he was a big one. with sharp gray eyes that peered hard at strange faces, as if evaluating them for treachery His hair was long and dark, nis heavy-boned face nard-angied. The buckskin coat folded around his lean middle reached almost to his hips and was so hard worn . that much of the decorative beadwork was gone. There was a , heavy Navy pistol tn his belt and , a thick-backed knife tn a Sioux ' case bling handy where he could reach it. Six feet four he stood in his moccasins. , . When the bartender poured the 1 first drink, Mordecai laid Old 1 Belcher, his rifle, on the floor 1 close against the bar. The voyageura took care not to put their feet close to the buckskin case. I Mordecai looked curiously at the glass of whisky, and then ' reached to pick it up. I The knife came down like a i hammer from the air. The point ; ’ot it smashed the glass and whipped the contents in a stream ; across the front of Mordecai’s ; coat. A big voice roared in Mordecai’s ear, "Welcome to St. . Lottis, boss!” The wide-eyed voyageurs bumped against each other in falli tog back from Mordecai as be Macmillan Co. C ISM Sure Frazee. Db -i''s - - ■' . — — 4

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torts against Chinese Communist troops. Count on Surprise They claim that last year they destroyed more than 50 Red military convoys in ambushes and harassed another 50. Surprise is the main element in the Khamba strategy. Attacks are carried out at night and on difficult mountain roads. First they roll huge boulders down the mountain sides onto a convoy or Communist Chinese bivouac. Then they fall on the Red troops with guns and daggers, ’ shouting fearsome war cries. ’ Often the Chinese have been bottied up in a narrow pass with 1 the Khambas attacking from both ' directions. Kham rebel leaders 1 claim proudly that the Chinese Communist is no match for a ' Khamba in hand-to-hand fighting. ’ The struggle has taken a heavy " toll of both sikes, but the Khambas are particularly elated at 'their 1 successes against a supposedly 1 better-equipped and better trained ' 1 opponent. ’ Rebels here saw the next phase 5 of their operation as a two- ! pronged effort — to stir up the rest of Tibet against the Chinese ’ through propaganda, and to con- * tinue hit-run guerrilla attacks that 1 will keep the Communists from ’ getting too firm a foothold. ~ 20 Years Ago Today ) -o 1 Jan. 26, 1939-Joe Koors, Decatur, was reelected president of the ’ Adams county tomato growers as--1 sociation. Other officers, all reelected. are Otto Bieberich. vice ’ president; Frank Braun, secre- ’ tary-treasurer; Lawrence Braun - . and Lawrence Beckmeyer, direc- ; tors. — Melvin (Pete) Gallogly, of De- , catur, suffered a broken right forearm, chest and head injuries in a ; fall at the solvent plant of the CenI tral Soya Co. Christian Endeavor societies of Adams county wilb hold their anr nual convention at the United Bre--1 thren church, Ninth and Madison streets, Feb. 11 and 12. —-——- Robert Chronister, who risides - on the Trout farm south of Deca- - tur, reported to authorities two - armed, unmasked men robbed him t of $3 at his home last night. The Commodores defeated St. - John's of Delphos, 0., 20-17.

made a half-turn,. His tn If 9 streaked from its case and his wrist made a quick down Jerk as he threw the weapon. Ree Semple yelled, “Wagh!" but he had no time to move his teet before Mordecai'a heavy knife plunged into- the floor so close to Ree’s right toot that the blade was resting against the moccasin. "Same to you!” Mordecai yelled. '~~ The two Mountain Men grinned at each other, and then embraced like Indians, except that no Indian would have appreciated the pounding they gave each other. „ Grinning, the voyageurs moved back to the bar. “Whar you been all robe season, old boss?” Ree shouted. “Some around Santy Fee.” Mord picked up Semple's knife and tossed It high and spinning. With only halt an eye on it. Ree caught the weapon by the handle as it came down. The voyageurs looked at each other and shrugged, both in admiration and horror. “You look scrawny and thintiaired, Mord. Can’t stand wintering in the mountains no* more, huh?" “Was there, looking. When did Hudson's Bay find you was a pork eater and throw you out?’’ Semple grinned. “Quit em, I did. They was so honest I got plumb lonesome for being robbed every year at rendezvous.” He tossed oft his drink. "Rendezvous on the Green this summer ?" "Wind River. You know It" “Guess 1 heard, sure enough," Ree said. "You going to work all your life for Rocky Mountain — for nothing?" "What other outfit Is there?" Mordecai grinned. “Beaver is six dollars a plew, but whar does the trapper come off when It's all over?” Ree complained. Mordecai shrugged. "You’ve always had the gripes about that, Ree, since the first time 1 took you up the Big Muddy and showed you the difference between goats and elk.” That was a sore point with Ree. He didn’t like to be reminded that Mordecai had five more years' experience tn the mountahis, and that he had taught Ree how to place his first trap Ree glanced around the noisy room, as if to challenge any man who had overheard Mordecai’s remark. ’ B So you was the mother bear the flrst -year 1 was to the mountains,” Ree admitted. He threw his whisky glass over his shoulder and called for another one. "You stiD ain’t tarned now to make any money out of furs." “Have you?" Mordecai was enjoying himself. The whisky was mellowing his feelings of Isolation, and he always liked to Jaw -*■ with Ree. Like as not, before things was over, they’d have a good, friendly fight over that canoe full of beaver plews they'd lost yean before on the Yellowstone. 1 f Continued Tomorrow? istrlbiited by King Features Syndicate.