Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1947 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur. Ind., Post Office aa Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller .......... President A R. Hoilhonsa, See'y A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller ... Vlee-Preeldent Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $6; six months, 13 28; 3 months, 11.73. By Mall, beyond Adams and Adjoining connties: Ono year. 17; 0 months, 13.76; 3 months, 12.00 Single copies, 1 cents. By carrier. 20 cents per week. CLEANUP WEEK, MAY 6 to 10. o o The verdant landscape restores one's faith in sunshine. 0 o "■ All hands on deck? General orders are for a city-wide clean-up druing the week of May 5. o—o Now. that they have found the other Collyer brother, New York has cleared up a mystery, which seemed to be built around folly and a foolish idea of life. . - o — o— — A person obtains some Idea of the amount of money spent every day by the individual, when it is estimated that the three cent tax on cigarettes will raise 12 million dollars a year in Indiana. A lot of money going up in smoke. o—o The state highway crew has started to patch the Monroe and Second street intersection and other worn out spots over which state routes pass will be repaired immediately. It Is a good beginning to our street repair program. a matter which will require a lot of attention during the coming months. o o— Preaident Truman Is on the job and has conferred with his cabinet about soaring prices. The executive has warned the nation against sky rocketing prices, emphasising that if we go through a period of inflation, the resultant drop will be ruinuous. There is a • limit on what the public will pay and once reaction sits in, the trouble starts. o o The dosed season on fishing, except for bass, has been reduced 46 to 26 days, permitting fishermen to try their luck in Indiana streams and lakes up to May 21. The “experimental” decree is said to have been made because many lakes are overstocked with fish, to which the fisherman, says “prove It.” ■ v —o o — Why didn't Lewis, as bead of the miner*, arrange that his union itself publicise and correct the mine dangers he now so dramatically lays in Secretary Krug's lap? Can it be that his noisy accusations express his own sense of failure? Certainly auch outbursts do nothing to promote the

Child With tin Asthma Attack

By Herman N. Bmideiioa, M. 0. WHEN a child ha* an attack of asthma the noisy, difficult breathing. the coughing and gasping are likely to frighten |>arents beyond ait need. It is. indeed, moat distreasing to watch a child in the grip of one of these seizures, hut the seizure usually passe* without leaving any disastrous consequences. Such attacks do not usually come on out of a blue sky. There are often some preceding symptoms such as those of a cold. Which met hers may lean to recognize. Fortunately, according to Or. Jerome Glaser of Rochester. New Turk, proper treatment at thia stage may ward off the actual attack of asthma Thus it pays mothers whose children are subject to asthma to be on the alert for each symptoms Rut Child to Bed The first thing to do is to put the child to hed By so doing he may be protected against such things as dampness, change* in temperature .and muscular ezerelse which tend to aggravate the shortness of breath of an asthma tic attack. He may also be protected from house dust, tobacco smoke and other things which may bring on asthma. Dr. Glaser also recommends that the child be given some suitable type of cough mlzture con taining ephedrine, and other sub-

welfare of the families of the dead miners, nor help the job of establishing legal safeguards. i. o o l The Fort Wayne city council has finally agreed to put the ques1 tion of building the 27 million i dollar superhighway project up to the voters. The vote will be taken ' at the November election. Much 1 time could have been saved. If . the referendum had been submitted in the May primary, but months were spent in political maneuvering and argument O Q School board members and township trustees are working on the teachers' salary agreements, entailing the increases granted ( them under law passed by the lasi legislature. The state government will make up part of the minimum wages, but it is necessary for each community to compile its own budget and agreements. Most everyone agrees that the tachers are i entitled to higher salaries, but in past years they have been underpaid. compared to other proses- , stone and factory wages. o—o—i The past winter has been one of the most severe ever expert-1 enced so far as rural roads are concerned according to reports > from over this part of the conn-1 try. As a result, most of the highI ways need immediate repair if the ' large investiment in them is to be > saved. An old timer who knows i how to build and preserve roads I calls attention to the fact that in • some cases the macadam roads are being scraped too closely, thus • loosening the heavy stone which i 11 brushed into the ditches by cars and trucks. He has no desire to be critical, but wishes to be helpful > and suggests lighter scraping and added screening and roiling as i soon as possible. It's a serious proi position and one that should not • be lightly considered. t 0 —O I Back In 1682 England s Royal i Astronomer. Edmund Halley, an- ’ nounced that the comet everyone s was watching would return in 76 years. Checking previous references to It, he added that this mysterious heavenly body with a I tail length of 100,000,000 miles had been appearing regularly at t 76 year intervals and that he had . found reference to it as far back I s 249 B. C. So the world called it Halley's Comet. Its last visit was , in 1910 and it is confidently awsiti ed in 1986. There are other famous comets, some with the names of their discoverers. They all make [ repeat appearances. One, the i Great Comet, was seen last in i 1864 and is expected to be back • again in 2,800,000 years, while the i Holmes Comet comes every 6.9 ■ yean, and others almost as fre- > quently. No one of th*m is ex- - pected in 1947 within sight of i earth-dwellers.

, | stances. If the nose is congested. I certain nose drops such as those containing ephedrine may be used. There are similar preparations i which seem to have a more lasting effect. Os course, such none drops should be used only as the pbysiclsn directs. They are best employed b*for<> meals and a* bed time, and they should not be employed more often than every four hours. During Winter Months During the winter months when the air of the roc«n may be ezceedlngly dry the breathing in of steam may be found helpful. There is a drug known as aminophylline which alee seems quite valuable In relieving the asthmatic symptoms. This aminophylline may tie given In the form of a suppository which is put into the lower bowel. Now and then aminophylline may cause sickness to the stomach and vomiting, and in such cases. Its use should be discontinued, if these measures do not relieve the attack an injection of epinephrine may be given under the skin. The parent sometimes can learn to do this. The use of the epinephrine should not be delayed too long since. when given early, it often completely stope the attack. Unfortunately there is no definite cure for asthma known but with the measures outlined many patients can be relieved of their I symptoms.

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O o I I Modern Etiquette I i By ROBERTA LEE O O Q Where dots a man take leave of a woman he has been entertaining for an evening? A. The man sew the woman to lhe door of her home and is sure (that all is well before he departs. |He must never leave before thei door has been unlocked and she has entered, nor should he express i any d>al e to outer if it :a very late- i I Q. What kind of stationary should be used for formal invitations? A. Plain while i*ap» r of good quality should always bo used for engraved invitations to a formal I affair. Q What are the most appropriate hours to make a formal call? A. Any time between 3:9b and 6:3b. —Q. o o I Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE | O O Metal and Glass Polish An excellent polish for metal and glass can lie made by mixing one part of wheat flour to five parts of potters clay. Apply with a t damp wollen cloth. Thia compound will also remove tar and grease from the glass and metal parte of an automobile. Burns A solution made of equal parts of Epsom salts and baking soda will usually give instant relief to a burn Ice Cream When serving Ice cream, if lhe nerving spoon is first dipped into cold water, the ice cream will not stick to it. I o —— April 10, 1927 was Sunday. p Trade In a Good Town —Decatur MASONIC Matter Masons, Friday. April 11 at 7 p. m. George W. Hamma, W. M. SSbStx

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Final Arguments In Poison Case Today Mrs. Lockman Case To Go To Jury Today Madison, Ind.. April 10—(UP) — A Jury of 12 men today awaited completion of final arguments beI fore deciding whether Mrs. Lottie i (Tot) Lockman. 63, was guilty of i a state charge of attempted pol- ' toning of the invalid woman she wa« hired to nurse. Chief prosecution attorney Silas ' Kiveti was scheduled to present the final summation argument in a crowded circuit court room. The case was expected to go to the jury sometime this afternoon. Kivett, whose rem irks were interrupted yesterday, said he would present detailed facts of how the white-haired defendant “attempted to prejtire" every state witness. He accused Mrs. Lockman of lying when she denied parts of testimony which indicated she used "profane and abusive" language in conversation with Mrs. Mayme McConnell, Dupont, Ind., housewife, to whom she is accused of feeding mercury. “For a person to lie before a jury Is admission of hi* guilt," said Kivett. His argument climaxed the three-week long trial of the housekeeper and practical nurse who has worked for doxens of families in Dupont. She steadfastly denied the charge. Mrs. Lockman. a widow, was the central figure in Dupont's sensational “poison mystery deaths” last August. Although she was suspected in the strange “sleep" deaths of three elderly persons she nursed, the state accused her only of attempted murder by poisoning the 57-year-oid wife of Forrest McConnell, a prosperous businessman. Toxicologists found mercury in the exhumed bodies of the other patients but tests did not show conclusively that It was the cause of death. Mrs. McConnell, who testified the first dsy of the trial. March 24. was in a Madison hospital in a “serious” condition. A chronic in-

valid. doctors said her latest illness was from the effects of mercury poisoning. Three defense attorneys wound up their case yesterday. "The state of Indiana has singularly failed to show that Ixxtti® Lockman has ever In her life had a grain of tterciiry In her possession," said Joseph M Cooper, defense attorney. He charged that authorities should “go further" Into the case In an effort to “some day . . . bring into this court the person guilty of this dastardly and cowardly crime.” Trade tn a Good Town —Decatur

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Take Adams County Man To Easthaven Sheriff Herman Bowman was to go tn Richmond late thlt afternoon i to admit an Adams county resident Io tho Essthaven hospital after the local man wus adjudged Insane in a court proceeding. CONFIRM i _____ (Continued From P.igr One) 1 atomic research. LiUeutiuU. 46-year-old former chairman of the Tennessee Vai- ■ ley authority, received the votes of I ’ft Republicans and 30 Democrats. 1 The votes against him were cast

by 26 Republicans and five Demoirate. Among bis supporters was senate president Arthur H. Vandenberg. R. Mich., and among his opponents was chairman Robert A. Taft, R . 0.. of the senate Republican policy committee. Taft ch.irg«<d that Lilienyial was too soft toward Russia and Coin muniam. As aoon as the Lllienthsl vote wan announced, the senate approved by voice vote the remaining commission nominees. They were Robert F. Bather, atomic bomb scientist; Sumner T. Pike. busineSH executive and former member of the securities ex change comtuiasion; Lewis L. Strauss, investment banker and|

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