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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Entered at the Decatur. Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr President John G. Heller Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer i Subscription Bstos* By Mall in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, *1.00: Six month*, H. 25; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 30.00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 months, 12.50. Py Carrier. 30 cents per week. Single copies, 0 cents. * ' - - " - - - 1 Welcome To The New Pastor”" The Rev. Richard C. Ludwig, formerly pastor at Uvalde, Texas, will be installed as pastor of the Zion Lutheran church of Decatur Sunday night at 7:30 p. m. The Decatur Lutheran church, young in comparison with Friedheim and several of the other Lutheran . churches of this area, has had vigorous leadership for nearly 50 years. Many of its pastors have been outstanding civic- leaders. We wish to welcome Pastor Ludwig, and wish him continuing success in his new duties here. I ♦ ♦ • • • A Good Job A number of Adams county residents have been down to the state legislature in the past three weeks. They report that our men there are hard at work, and are doing their very best to do a good job. t Several important bills have already been passed in at least one of the two houses of the legislature. Among these is the bill to raise the minimum salary for teachers. This bill is largely misunderstood. Most teachers in the state are making well over the minimums. In Adams county the bill will have almost nd effect, as far as raising salaries is concerned. It will effect, and raise, salaries of teachers in places like Brown county, where the present salaries are not high enough to attract persons with a college education. Von Eichhorn, veteran member of the state senate, has already had a number of his highway bills passed by that branch of the legislature. These" measures are designed to protect the public from wily officials and sharp businessmen of the type who made a killing a few years ago here. Burl Johnson has also done some important committee work on numerous bills of great local interest. Both our own local representatives seem to be doing an outstanding job at the present time. pwwws Central Daylight Time WANE-TV Afternoon * ’ * 12:00-—Sky KingCHANNEL 15 12:30—Cartoon Express FRIDAY I:3o—Two Gun Playhouse Evening 2190—-Adventure Ilarade 6 :<)OOur Miss Brooks 3:oo—College Basketball 6:3o—This Day 1959 4 :3O—Jiaelng From Hialeah 6:4s—Doug Edwwrds-News :oO—Bowling 7:oo—Mickey Spillane * 7:3o—Hit Parade ■ $ 2 .. r t ßt!ln ?' 8:00— Ilawhide ’ & tric » ln 9:oo—Phil Silvers Slaw Z : !£“E e<>ple / re Eunn F 19100—Line-Up ' Bla,k SkcSJle 10'30—Person to Person » ; m “.'T'!’? £ lty 11:00—Million Dollar Movie 1? 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Worst Smog In Six Years Chokes London Suffocating Pall Threatens Death LONDON (UPD — The worst smog in six years choked London today with a suffocating pall that threatened death to persons with heart or lung conditions. The government warned that the mixture of smoke and fog was as bad as the December, 1952, smog that caused the deaths of 3,500 to 4,000 persons in four days. Continuing smog was predicted. Ninety per cent of the 1952 dead were persons over 45 who had previous records of heart or lung disease. The government since has established precautions against a recurrence. Advise Wearing Masks Doctors advised ailing patiehts or those who fall in the smog victim categories to stay home until the_air clears. They warned any going out of doors to wear masks. The fog, now in its third day, also was bringing a mounting toll of automobile wrecks. An 11-year-old girl was killed and dozens of motorists were injured in the chaotic traffic conditions. The daytime darkness also was used by criminals to good advantage. Derek Burgess, 27, escaped from a London prison by climbing a rope made out of socks. A purse snatcher robbed Mrs. Annie Pritchard of $lO and vanished a few yards away. Fog Blankets Roads The fog blanketed 40,000 miles of roads throughout Britain, slowed railway traffic and halted almost all airline flights. Hundreds of highway accidents were reported and hundreds of cars were abandoned by the side of the road. At Hampton Hill, 35 vehicles and a girl bicycle rider were involved in one pileup. The girl was taken to the hospital with a broken leg. Thirteen damaged vehicles were abandoned on the spot. At Eltham a driver wandered onto the wrong side of a dual ■■— .... . » •• ■ ' ■ ."

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED I Rhoda Marsh left her New England , home to crow the country to marry a man she hasn't teen for three veara. I Her betrothed Elisha Slocum is a missionary among Indians near Fsrt Cass Wyoming In St. Louis, which ' she reached with the Reverend J ere- I miah Shandy as her escort she faces the possibility of being stranded For Jeremiah Shandy has been unsuccessful’so far in inducing bis brother Jim. , a trading- agent, to arrange for Rhoda , • to go Wesr with a Dark train. Jim Shandy has plans more immediate to hta own benefit He is Involved In a scheme with Sherman Randall of the American Fur Co which ta the ; rival at Jim s employer the Rocky . Mountain Fur Co Randall wants to insure that his company will know the rendezvous oolnt at which the RMFC men will do their trading sos the trappers winter accumulation of furs He compels Jim to guarantee that an American Fur Co oack train will get to rendezvous first Caught tn a scheme of his own making Jim will get a mere 10 per cent of profits —or lose his life. Jim has -ause for further worry when he spots Morderat Price and Ree Semple who should be In the = mountains Instead of St Louis... . CHAPTER 5 "VOU ALWAYS was a danged I fool tn some things, Mord,” said Ree Semple. .—. Mordecai Price grinned. “1 never dumped a canoe over and lost a whole winter's catch.” Ree's grin was easy but his eyes tightened. So old Mord was itching for a fight. Well, he could nave it From the shadowy balcony Jim Shandy watched the two Mountain Men with growing unease. Maybe Ree had quit Hudson's Bay. and maytie he hadn’t What if he knew about the offer Shandy had rn&de the British last winter 7 He wouldn’t though; he was just a trapper, but he was shrewder than the usual run. And he'd been ali over the riverfront and around the fur warehouses for ten days. He’d been there when Shandy sent Big Nose Yenzer out with the pack train to meet the Rocky Mountain’s keel boat, which had gone upriver earlier with rendezvous supplies to be shifted to the mules and horses at the mouth of the Platte. Semple bad seen the miserable quality of animals Big Nose had. Another thing: Ree had seen Shandy meeting with RandaiL Shandy knew that a greenhorn in the mountains saw Indiana behind every bush, and maybe that was his trouble now, but by Old Ephratm those two below were enough to worry a man! He beckoned to a waiter behind him, and at the same time reached into his pocket. A little later one of Pierre Beauvais’s kin casually joined the voyageurs near Ree and Mordecai. The two Mountain Men had gone through a bottle. They got a second one. It would wind up tn s fight. Shandy knew: It always did when Ree and Mordecai got together over whisky. They'd rip up the prairie, and afterward they'd be thick as thieves again. ' The second bottle was almost gone when saw the spy the waiter had sent leave the voyageurs. A few minutes later the waiter came to report “They From the novel pubhkhod ty The M

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are making a quarrel now about who upsst a canoe in the Yellowstone River once—" -Hen with that!- Shandy cursed. “Is that all they’re talking about?” 'There was something about a Flathead woman who had been captured by the Sioux, and then the big one captured her from the savag-'a." •Tell that Idiot of a Raoul to get back there and keep his ears open." "Yes, Mr. Shandy.” The waiter hesitated. “Yeah, yeah," Shandy said, and gave him another coin. Down on the floor Ree said to Mordecai. T keep thinking about that canoe.” “Why’d you upset it?" “Maybe you’re right/' Ree said, and nis sudden acquiescence so stunned Mordecai tor an instant that Ree was able to get tn the first blow, a walloping, powerful clop that '-nocked Mordecai reeling into the startled voyageurs. They held him up instinctively, and Mordecai regained enough balance to kick Ree in the belly. Ree grunted like an enraged grizzly, then came Jtt Mordecai with tils arms flailing. As fist fighters they were fit to lick Indians only, who never used such a method of combat. After a few thumping blows they went to wrestling, a mixture of the backwoodsman’s butting tactics, the riverman’s gouging and biting, and the Indian’s snaky use of legs. They went to the floor in a rolling crash that swept two dragoons off their feet. One of the soldiers took affront. He leaped up arid kicked Mordecai tn the ribs. Ree promptly pulled the man’s feet from under him, and Mordecai dived into the dragoon’s belly with his knees doubled up. That ended the first phase of outside participation. Then Ree threw Mordecai over his shoulder with a jolt that was enough to wrench the arm from the shoulder socket ot an ordinary man. As Mordecai flew into the densely packed crowd, his hard body bowled over several spectators. Shock and concussion did not improve the combative natures of two onlookers who slammed their heads together try. tng to spring clear. Outraged, they began to pummel each other. Their friends joined tn. A Spaniard who had received the impact of Mordecai’s flying feet leaped on Mordecai’s back as the Mountain Man was rising. The Spaniard was an excellent rider, but he had boarded a bad steed. Mordecai hunched his shoulders and reached back to get his hands around the man’s neck. When Mordecai twisted and threw his arms forward, he sent the luckless Spaniard sailing into a group of rlvermen who promptly began to pound him. and then one another, after certain blows went astray. A muleteer then declared for tacmillan Oct Q 1968 Steve Fruee. Dis

bank’s manager. Benjdmin H. Evans, who dashed after the fleeing bandit when the teller, Mrs. Helen Cabbage, and another cashier, Mrs. Peggy Phillips, set off a burglar alarm. Detectives said. Weiner readily admitted the robbery because he was heavily in' debt. His debts included a note at the bank he robbed, and he had received a “final notice” of overdue payments. Police said Weiner was carrying the loot and the toy pistol when they arrested him moments after he was stopped by Evans. The bandit gave the teller a note written on a blank check which read in part: “Hana over the money in the till and don’t say anything until I’ve been gone two minutes. This gun is loaded.” The bank was robbed twice in five months in 1953 of a total of $34,000.

the honor of Spain and leaped into the tray against an American dragoon. Some ot the voyageurs began to tight each other, tor whatever nonor was in that The small ares quickly spread into a general conflagration. Bemused b, the-activity, Mordecai turned nls nead to watch a man flying past mm. Ree, grinning nappily, was tending oft occasional elements ot spinning humanity that came whirling out ot the general brawl, and bellering tor more action. He whacked Mord on the shoulder. "Looks like they al) swallered grizzly hair, it does. 1 wonder what started it?” "N« way of telling—now,” Mord said. They beat their way back to the bar. The canoe business settled — until the next time —Ree and Mordecal began to discuss gambling and the combats around the room began to diminish. It was then that Jim Shandy walked over from the toot ot the stairs, ignoring Ree. He said, “Tm tickled to see you, Mord, old boss." Shandy had been a trapper, and be could still talk the language. But he didn’t smell like no trapper any more, not in them fancy duds. It Just didn’t make sense to Mordecai that a man who had been out there could feel right about staying in St Louis the year around. Still, Shandy was a Rocky Mountain man, and always had been, and he was one of the big ones here at this end of the business. Mordecai shook hands with him. ft might have been a-mite hasty, the way Shandy asked. “What are you doing here, Mord?” Mordecai explained where he’d been. •a see!" Shandy said heartily. ‘•Then you’re aching to get to rendezvous real fast, huh?” "Got time.” The whisky and the fight had loosened Mordecai up considerable. "Yeah, I reckon you have.” Shandy acted like something was sticking in his craw, but he was assy enough about ordering up another bottle of whisky. TH tell the watchman to let you into the warehouse when you want to sleep.” He walked off real sudden. Ree padded across the floor and peered from the doorway. When he came back, he said: "He went up the street with that woman and the old preacher. Who are they, Mord?” . , , "No Idea. Let’s get some doin’s started. This here place don't shine no more, Ree. Let’s head for the Rivermen’s House.” -. Carrying the bottles, they went out. Ree tot out a war whoop. 1 can tick any five men In the Rlvermen’s House, if you can; handle just one of them!" SC®.** ”* Neither of them paid any attention to Raoul, the Creole spy who was following them at a discreet distance. t fOonCktaed Tomorrow! itrfbutod br Etag Features ByrrilrsSa

452 Resolutions, Bills Pigeonholed Only 107 Measures Out Os Committee INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Only 107 bills of the 559 introduced in the Indiana Legislature moved out of the committees to which they were assigned during the first three weeks of the 61-day session. Although the session is onethird over, 452 bills and resolutions still languish in committee. Many of them never will see the light. of day. They are pigeonholed—but good—victims either of disfavor of committee members or of the lack of time to study their merits before sending them to the legislative floors for consideration. Through Wednesday, the House had received 327 and the Senate 232 bills and resolutions. Os the 327 in the House, only one had passed both House and Senate and had been signed by Governor Handley. That was the measure appropriating the money to finance the legislative session itself. Twenty-six others passed the House and went to the Senate, oi were defeated. Fifteen moved past second reading, and 15 past first reading. Os the 232 Senate measures, 16 had passed and were sent to the House. Eight others moved past second reading and 26 past first reading. In the House, the 270 bills not reported out to the floor yet were divided somewhat unequally among 43 committees, an average of more than six bills per committee. In the Senate, 182 bills were still in 39 committees. Normally, committees receive bills whose subject matter coincides with the name of the committee. Since some of the standing committees are largely procedural or technical, there are committees which have few if |py bills and others which have more than the average of more than six in the House and more than four in the Senate. Deadline for introducing new bills comes early in February. When the flood of new bills slows, committees will have more time to work on those already introduced, and the pace of action will speed up.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED Rhoda Marsh left hei New England home to crow ihe country co marry a man she hain't seen for three rears. Her betrothed. Elisha Slocum, is * missionary among Indians near Fort Cass Wyoming. In St Louis, which she reached with the Reverend Jeremiah Shandy as ner escort she faces the possibility ot being stranded For Jeremiah Shandy has been unsuccessful so far In inducing tits brother Jim a trading agent, to arrange for Rhoda toigo West with s oack train. Jim Shandy has plans more immediate to his own benefit. He is involved tn a scheme with Sherman Randall ot the American Fur Co.. which is the rival of Jim's employer, the Rocky Mountain Fur Co. Randall wants to insure that bis company will 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. Caught in a scheme of his own making Jim will get a mere 10 per cent of profits —ot lose his life. Jim has cause for further worry when he spots Mordecai Price and Ree Semple, who should be in the mountains instead of St Louie. He thinks of another scheme. . . . — CHAPTER 6 SPRAWLED on a pile of tanned buffalo robes In the Rocky Mountain warehouse in the black of early morning Mordecai Price didn't hear the fellow coming until he was almost beside him. He grabbed tor Old Belcher, his rifle. It should have been beside him In Its beaded case, but it wasn’t there. He felt for hts pistol. It was gone and his knife was gone too. The man said, "Mord! Mord, you asleep?” By then Mordecai had rolled over against a stack of baled goods and was on his kneea He kept feeling tor tils rifle, trying to remember something about it, even after it came to him togguy mat it was Jim Shindy standing there in the darkness calling to him. “Mord. wake up!” Mordecai grunted. He was as much awake as he was likely to be for a long time. It must have been the worst spree he’d ever been on. His head felt like it was falling off his shoulders, and the stupor that *ad ktept him from waking when Shandy came toward him was still as thick Id his brain as morning fog on the Missouri. He kept pawing the robes, feeling for his rifle; it was impossible that he’d lose Old Belchdr. Why, a man would liefer lose his squaw any old day than the best rifle gun that ever went west of the u. Mississippi. - “Whar at Is my rifle ?” he shouted. ' "You lost it gambling.” "That's a dirty lie!" Mord tried to get up to drive the lie down Shandy’s throat, but he fell over something and went fiat on his face. Gamble Old Belcher away? He’d never do that. Mordecai lay on the robes and tried to remember, and some of It came back. They’d gone to the Rlvermen’s Houses him and Ree. They’d had some fun there because Mordecai could remember throwing a man over the bar three times befoae the fellow quit climbing back. Somewhere they’d From the novel published to The M

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Jefferson-Jackson day victory dinner, an annual state-wide affair, will be held on Valentine Day, Feb. 14, in the Egyptian room of the Murat temple at Indianapolis. Pictured above, from left to right,“ are Albert O. Deluse, 11th district chairman. Eugene B. Crowe, treasurer, and Mrs. Leonora Bundlach, invitations chairman. JEdward -F» Jaberg is county invitations chairman for Adams county, and he hopes that last year s delegation of 16, largest in many years, can be exceeded this year. Sen. W. Stuart Symington will be the speaker. A reception for him will be held from ’3 to 5 p. m. at the Chateau room of the Claypool hotel. .

o —- C 20 Years Ago Today Jan. 90, 1939—Many electric and telephone lines are down here after a niglit of rain, snow and sleet. Capacity of the Adams county memorial hospital is again taxed, with 36 patients confined to their beds, and one temporarily placed in the sun parlor on the second floor. The Rev. C. M.-Prugh, pastor of the Zion Reformed church, is attending the Ohio pastor’s conference at Columbia, O. Fifty thousand persons are reported killed by an earthquake in Southern Chile. o : o Modern Etiquette | I By ROBERTA LEE | o - o Q. Is it all right to call another person's attention to his lapse in etiquette? A. If you do, you are also guilty of a serious lapse in good breeding. It is much better to ignore the errors of others and to act as if nothing had happened.

run into tstas winiarr. wno was having a celebration because he'd sold all bls mules to the American Fur Company. What did the American want with so many mules? Well, It didn’t matter. Where was Old Belcher? Wagb! What a night tor bad medicine It must nave been! Mordecai tried to pull a robe over him. When tls senses returned tn the morning, he'd find some way ot getting Old Belcher back. “Get up," Shapdy said. “You’ve got to do something." Mord grunted. All he wanted to do was sleep. Shandy jerked the robe off him. “This is company business," he said. “Hell with thfr company.” "She’s going upriver on that steamboat, and you’re taking her, Mord. It’s important” “HeH with her.” It must have been right after Ree cached off someplace all ot a sudden that Mord had lost % Old Belcher. Ree had got sort ot exclteo when ne found out that Blas nad sold his mules to the American Fur Company. Hell with who? “Who’s Aerf" “I've been talking about her for ten minutes," Shandy said. “Get up! There ain’t much time left You going to rendezvous this summer, or lay there like a drunken riverman?" “Ain’t going nowhere," Mordecai mumbled. Rendezvous. That was the first thing Shandy had said that made sense. Out at rendezvous whisky never stunned you like this. “Get up!” Shandy shouted. "I want to talk to you about Old Belcher." Mordecai got up then. He bumped against bales and stacks of goods as he followed Shandy to the front of the warehouse, where a candle was burning in a tiny office. Mordecai leaned against the wall. He was sicker than a dog. He felt like he’d been poisoned. “She’s got to get to Fort Cass by the middle ot July," Shandy said. “She’s going to marry a missionary who's coming down there to meet her." "Let her marry him." "Wake up, Mord! You’re the one that’s taking her there.” "I ain't taking no woman nowhere." By God, he had been poisoned! And somebody was going to pay for it His head was a little clearer when he got to the office. "This, la company policy, Mord. The government la always howling because ot whisky and corruptin' Indians. We’ll have something on our side when we can say the Rocky Mountain took a missionary across." Mord was unimpressed. It wouldn’t be the company taking a female missionary; it’d be Mordecai Price. He turned to go back to his bed. "You’ve got to do It!" fflumdy •aid. "It’s a big thing for the company. I’ve got orders to see that •he gets there.” ktacniiUaa Ca O IMS Steve Erasae. M

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Q. When a guest at a big wedding reception is ready to leave, should he seek out any oi the principals of the wedding party and ‘ say good-by and thank you? A. This is not necessary at a general reception. Q. Should a college girl introduce herself as “Miss Hall," or as ; “Shirley Hall”? A. She should call herself Shir1 ley Hall. ’ o o | Household Scrapbook | | Bj ROBERTA LEE | O — O 1 If you still use the old-fashioned kind of ironing board and you find that it has warped and become un- > comfortable for ironing, reverse the covering to the other side, and , in a short time the heat of the iorn- ■ ing will straighten the board. ’ Wicker Furniture To clean wicker furniture, brush 1 well with a stiff brush, getting the brush well into the crevices. Scrub ' with soap and water and set in the 1 sun to dry. i Trade in a good town — Decatur.

"You take her then.” Mordecai went on to the door. < “Afraid you can’t do the job, huh? Ree Semple says ne can.” “Good Let mm db it* “He's a Hudson s Bay man!" Shandy shouted. "Or maybe ne’a even working tor American." He was all upset. “You're going to * take ner, Mord. Last night you lost everything you own but your ctothea I even gave you a hundred dollars ot company money, and you lost that too." "They’ll get it back," Mordecai ' said sourly. , “Unless you listen to me, there's one thing you won’t see again—and that s you: rifle" Mordecai lurched toward .Shandy. “You got Old Belcher?" “1 got everything you lost. Followed you around like a brother. t- Wasn’t for tne. you’d be over the . levee with your belly knifed open. You was drugged, Mord." “You really got Old Belcher, ' Shandy?" , "Everything but your bosses. I'D give you the money to pick . up another outfit somewhere up the river. The boat is going to . Fort Union, but—” "Union!” Mordecai growled. “I I ain’t riding no stinking steamboat , to Union.” “You don’t have to. You can get off somewhere near Bad River, say, cut south of the Sioux Hills and go straight to the renl dezvous at Big Meadows. After three or tour days there, if you [ like, you can take ner on down the Big Horn to Cass." The first part of the route l wasn’t Mordecal's Idea of a quick way to rendezvous, trat he had , bigger details than that bothering i him. "That woman part — that . don’t shine with me at all, Shandy.” i "You ain’t marrying her. All I you’re doing is taking her to Fort • Casa She won’t be the first white i woman to cross the prairies, and she’ll get there faster than if she i was traveling with a big party. , Besides, there ain’t no parties go- . ing out right now.” . Mordecai scowled, trying to sort out details from last ntghL "Wimarr and Ree was talking some- . thing about a pack train going out right away. Why couldn’t . she—” i “Drunken rumor, that’s all," . Shandy said. It was hanging by a thin hair. Ree had caught cn . fast when he found out about the American’s deal with Wimarr for the mules. That was when he’d j slipped away to see what was goI ing on at the American ware- , house. — j Mordecai would have caught on . too, if he hadn’t been so drunk, and if Shandy hadn't hired a man t to dope h!s whisky. It still might , come through to him. Ree—there ' were ways to handle him, because t he didn’t care a whoop about the Rocky Mountain Fur Company; i but if Mordecai stayed in town - . long enough to get his senses back . he’d ruin everything. fOsnlkited Monday) ~ MSOmM br Kins Features triWtftii.