Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1947 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published k*wr, Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office a* Secund Class Matter. J Ji. Heller Preaident A R. Holthouie, Sec'y & Bua. Mgr. Dick D. Heller ... Vice Preaident Subscription Rates By Mall In Adams and Adjoin tng Counties: One year, |6; six months, 13.25; 3 months, 11.75. By Mail, beyond Adams and Ad lolnlng counties: One year. |7; 1 months, 13.75; 3 months, 12.00. Single copies, 4 cents. By carrier. 20 cents oer week. Tills country h as much in need of box cars as pleasure cars o— o This is one of the meanest, nastiest, darndest. wettest springs ever recorded. o- — As for incandescent neckties, they may help some of the boys to find their way home. o— o — if the rains continue, we may have to gather up the species of soybeans, oats and corn and seek refuge m a modern Noah's Ark. — o o Romance is O. K . and a certain amount of glamor may be Justifiable, hut we draw the line nn a rural friend who says he's looking for a glamorous cow. — o —o On top of the airplane tragedies. highway fatalities and drownIngs, the old weatherman had to add his bit with tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma. But at that, it’s better than having bombs over th»- world. o— o — Life has become much safer for children, according to a recent survey made by a leading Insurance company. The health of children has never been better and tlie death rate, age 1 to II is at a record low Penicillin and other new drugs get much credit in reducing pneumonia deaths. o o— To get more business. Improve your stock. The railroads have heen slow to act on this advice; but when they have done so. they have been repaid. The Pere Marquette put in streamliners on its Detroit-Grand Rapids run. 152 miles and patronage has been 86 per tent more than that for the old type trains. Even the coach riding passengers like comfort. Q „ 0 The block long gray granite mansion of the former Charles M. Schwab along Riverside Drive, in New York, containing 4<» bath, rooms, a gymnasium, swimming pool and a kite hen big enough to serve hundreds is to he torn down. In its place will rise an apartment building which will house some 60b families. The first World War produced many millionaires and stone mansions, but from the second global conflict the need is for more ordinary living places and apartments.

The Baby Born a Cretin

By Herman N. Bundesen. M. D, HPKHD rcwniljitor of all the body's activities is the thyroid gland. Located in the neck, this gland secretes the substance which not only determines growth, but also sets the basic pace for all vital processes. Now and then a child is born with a la< k or not enough of this secretion Such children grow very slowly both physically and mentally and are known as cretins. At first the baby may appear to be normal but a doctor's experienced eye will note that Its tongue is unusually large and that It nurses feebly. These are often the first signs that cretinism is present, latter, of course, it will be apparent in the failure to grow properly. Proper Treatment But here Is good news. If this condition Is properly treated, or If the thyroid gland begins to form enough of its secretion, all of the evidence of the 1 previous deficiency may disappear except, per haps, the child tnay be under normal height and may be slightly backward mentally. During the proper treatment with thyroid extract, the growth of the bones may go on rapidly enough so that the child may reach normal height for hi* age Few cretin*, however, attain normal

It we had a totalitarian or collectivist or socialistic government, we would still be ruled by men who would be, first us all, politicians. But the beauty of our ' kind of government is that we can , always vote for a change, if we . don’t like those In office We are : still the bosses of our national destiny. In those other types of . governments, the people are stuck for life with their rulers. The tulers, backed by a tough police force, kill or Imprison anybody who makes a squawk Here we can yip. vote, change bosses and change laws to our heart's content. • • -o—o — While house construction has slowed down here and throughout tiie country, the federal bousing expediter takes an optimistic outlook on the 1917 prospects. He says that it is possible to build 1,038.000 dwellings this year, including 760,000 permanent homes. Already 610.0n0 homes are under construction and another 150.000 can be started and completed by fall. If there is any way to keep the housing program going, every effort should be made to provide the needed housing for veterans and newly married couples With another million homes, the country becomes that much stronger. — O 0 farm land values, that have increased 92 per cent in the last few years, are to be studied at a Washington conference next week. It is to be attended by farm leaders, bankers and government officials and has the backing of the President. Though the rise In agricultural land values has been troubling many economists, there are evidences that it is already halted While there is a prospect of farm income turning downward. it is the object of such conferences to avoid too drastic a drop in agricultural prosperity. The basic economic well-being of this country depends on its farm health and we must realize that > the real foundation of the United States is farming. o o i A University of Pennsylvania I authority announces the deslpher ; ing of a 5.000 year-old clay tablet > whicfi shows that the ancient i Mesopotamians were thoroughly familiar with psychological warfare. The strange hieroglyphics reveal that an old-time king conquered another tribe after his i first dire threats failed, when he i changed his tactics, sent them : gifts of food and promised them i freedom from war. They promptly got rid of their own despotic ruler and joined him. Few nations fight for the sake of war itself. They take up arms to achieve basic- rights: freedom, peace, food, shelter, happiness. If they <an be persuaded that such objectives are attainable without warfare, they pick the peaceful method.

intelligence, but the earlier treatment for the condition Is begun, the better will be the outcome. Giving Thyroid Extract As 1 have mentioned, the treatment is the giving of thyroid extract Os course the dosage must lie carefully regulated by the physician. If there is some doubt as to whether or not the child's difficulty is due to deficiency, thyroid extract may be given to see If It is producing any benefits. But we must not forget that if too much thyroid extract is given, the child becomes irritable and nervous. Primary Objective The primary objective in the treatment is to bring back the normal growth rate. A good way to check on the treatment Is to determine the amount of a sule stance known as cholesterol in the blood. If enough thyroid extract is used, and then Is stopped, the amount of cholesterol In the blood rises to too high a level. According to Dr. M. Hurt* that and Dr. Nalalija Musulin of Boston. .Maas . If the child Is receiving thyroid, it may be a good plan to stop It from time to time and then to determine if the amount of cholesterol in the blood IncrsaMs It this happen*, the thyroid extract should be started again and continued x

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I Modern Etiquette i | By ROBERTA LEE I O—- — ■ — O Q Should all business letters be signed Tty hand in ink’’ A Yes; if the writer himself cannot sign the letter, it may lie signed by anothe person who puts his own initial*-. just below the signature. Q May one use paper doilies for the summer luncheon table in order to save laundering? A Yes. Q Is it all right to pile- several kinds of food upon the fork at onetime? A No do not attempt to take upon the fork more than one- kind of food at a time*. . . o O— O i Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE | O — n Washable Gloves It pays to wash several pairs of gloves at til— same time, as it is a saving in Ilin-- ami mate la's. The best way to launder washable glove- is to use tepid soapsuds for washing, tepid soapsuds for rinsing and in the la-t tepid suds add one- teaspoon of glycerin. Your glove- cchouid be perfectly laundered! Aluminum It is said that burnt -tains can be removed from alumium, or other unsoldered utensils of b ass, tin. or iron, icy placing it while empty over the gas flame or fire until red hot Birthday Cake can be need a-> holders for the candles ot u child's birthday cake. Each party guest will be delighted if his piece of cake lipids a ma shmallow and a candle

120 YEARS AGO I ft TODAY

• ■ **> H”jw <* . r ’'• *'' June 3 Clarence Chamberlain leaves Roosevelt field on an attempted nonstop flight to Berlin II J. Murtaugh. 25. dies in San Francisco. He wa s a member of the 11th C 8. Cavalry. French Quinn will gi'e the address at the county grade school commencement Wednesday The Decatur Catholic schools closed today. Commencement will l>e held June 7. Miss Lee Anna Vance | H vieitinz in Bloomington before returning home after teendlng college in the east. An independent baseball club Is being organized at Berne to meet all comers o Trade Ir. a flood Town Decatur o Km I "FATHER Os THE YlAff" «» title ronfdtfred on Warren R. Austin United States amNurnador to the United Nations, by the national Father's Day committee Austin a farmer senator from Vermont has.two (later national)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

* Despite- a sparsely filled calendar. several actions were taken late Monday and today in cases on the docket of the Adams cir cult court before Judge J. Fred Fruchte In the possession suit of Ernest Thieme against John Landrum, the court awarded the- plaintiff immediate possession and 111 rent. Henry It Heller filed a suit for the appointment of a guardian for Polly Reed In the suit of Von Reber against Agnes Andrews and others, the defendants. Harry Francis and Mary Andrews, were ordered to answer absolutely on or before June! 2. The defendants. William and Ethel Deßolt, were ruled to answer in the suit of Mary Adams against Uhaun.ey De Bolt and others. The court ordered a mechanic’s lien fondosed and awarded Carl Gattschall. doing business as Walter Plumbing A- Heating the sum of 148.71 principal and >35 attorney fees, totalling >83.71. in his suit against Floyd and Esther Hunter. 0 District Meeting Os VFW Friday Fort Wayne Scene Os District Meet A delegation from the local Llm-be-rlost post. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will attend a district meeting of the VFW ot Fort Wayne Friday night. Harry Martz, of this city, and district senior vice-commander, will lead the local representation to the- session, scheduled for 8:30 p.m. that night at Jim Eby post. The- regular meeting of the local post was held here Monday night with commander H V. DeVor in charge Plans for participating in the annual flag day exorcises to be staged June 11 at Hie B P. O. Elks lodge were completed during the session The flag day ceremonies will be stageci by the Elks members In cooperation with the Veterans of Foreign Wa s and American Legion (cost members.

■ - > *• ' iw W*. wPv" pH’ ' 9r * / a W t * ■RHi .. < ? J i .fl yw. c* e a. A— a . - **■ ea SMaftSu.' * ONI Os THt OUTSTANDING HEROIS following the crash of a DC-4 transport at LaGuardia Field, N. Y., was Edward McGrath, 43, of Jackson Heights. N. Y. Pictured at Queen* General Hospital where he 1* retting, McGrath, on* of the first to reach the burning plane and rescue some of the passenger*, tell* Nurse Ruth Dalzell all about it (International)

Monthly Report By Service Officer

699 Services Given By Office In May A total of 699 services were rendered veterans and their dependents by the’ offices cd Dwight R Arnold, county service officer, during the month of May, according to a report made today. The services Included 214 personal Interviews. Following is a list of the others: Hospitalization, six; hurial allowance, four; headstones secured. seven; repeat Interviews. 82; claims against VA. 29: out patient treatment. 31; terminal leave pay. 17; education, academic, 28; apprentice and on-the-job. 21; rehabilitation. two; flight training--13; Insurance. 49; loans, 16; USE. 8; Indiana employment security. 12; federal agencies, two; return of war dead, seven; bank, six; housing. ftfc; WAA. 34; civil service. 11; veterans’ organizations. 24; Red Cross, two; legal advisors, three; welfare, seven; pensions. 21; allowances, eight; war bonds due. two; individual employer, six; miscellaneous, four; calls in. 85; calls out. 81; letters In. 61; letters out. 55. Mr Arnold reminded veterans that August 1 Is the last day for a veteran to reinstate service Insurance without an examination and September 1 is the last day to make application for terminal leave pay.

K. C. Lodge Plans For Annual Picnic Annual Event Will Be Held July 6 Plans for the second annual picnic of Decatur council 861. Knights of Columbus, tn be held Sunday. July 6 at 12:30 pm. In the Pete Mvers woods, one mile south on Mud Pike road, have been launched. Severin 11. Schurger, lodge lecturer. today announced a number of committee members to he gin plans for the picnic. Following is the list: Food and refreshments: Clarence Heimann. Jerome Deßolt. Cyril Heimann. Francis Heimer. Herald Gage. William J Miller. Leo Alberding. Fred Foos, Herman Miller, Mark Schurger. John E. Meyer. William A. Miller. Jerome Reed. Richard Walters, Edward Vian. Charles Otnlor. George Trh-ker, Charles Miller. Francis S> hinitt. Robert Rumschlag. Louis Widpcrt, Cletus Miller. Bernard Staub. Entertainment: Fred Schulte. Leo Ehinger. Richard Hess. Robert Ostermann, Andrew Appelman. Jerome Braun, John Moore. Other committees: Herman Knapke, James lx>se, Edward Gase. Herman Gcimer, John A Kintz. Clem Baker. Harmon Gillig. Raymond Meyer. Cyril Becker. Robert Holthouse. Sam Bentz. Anthony Murphy. Harold Niblick. — -0 -X Coincidence Terre Haute, Ind. (VPi—lt was only a coincidence that the Terre Haute police department put its new “paddy” wagon into service on St. Patrick's day. 0 Family Profession Portland, Me. (VP) During the past five years, all four daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Rene Corriveau of St. Francis have been graduated from the Maine General Hospital’s nursing scho<M.

War Os Nerves' By Lewis On Operators Plays Traditional Game Os Waiting Washington, June 3 —(UP)— President John L. Lewis ot the United Mine workers (AFL) today began a waiting "war of nerves’’ against soft coal operatom. He gave the signal for his traditional collective bargaining "waiting game" by sending his 200man wage- policy committee home and failing to appear personally for the resumption of wage talks with southern coal operators. Lc-wD broke off negotiations last Saturday with northern and western ope store representing 75 percent of the industry. Those pro ducers -aid liis "unresnnablc” wage ~missowu ~ 9 *° •xstov ) 9 (-J fumi «oc« /hiuk» HOT • .$• \ hni stuff jf OamOl v S VUIAOt ? » i / LOUISIANA 1 MOHiOt* TORNADO that swept through plantation region in Arkansas h it 32 known dead, at least 165 persona injured and hundreds homeless. Curved path of the storm (see arrow I narrowly missed the south edge of Pine Bluff, a city of -40,000. {lnternational

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CHAPTER ONE THE OCCASION for the traffic jam outside the Tarrell home was the wedding of Diane Tarrell to Bill Arden. Even the sidewalks were crowded by the curious. "Let ’em stand,” said one of the policemen detailed to the event “ -risn’t like it was a fight.” "Not yet, anyway,” answered the other, cheerfully. So the women and some men continued to stand and to stare expectantly at the lighted windows. It was the daughter of J. Emmet Tarrell getting married behind that blaze. Some said he was the richest man in Grandharbor. others that it was mostly Huff. That he’d started as a stevedore on the docks at San Francisco, that he’d made his pile smuggling. No. he’d struck gold in Alaska. No, It was tin down in South America. He had come to Grandharbor only two years ago and its citizens, Inclined to modesty in their claims for their city's opportunities, were still figuring why and for what. A few talked about the way he’d bought this house, one of the finest on Oak Avenue. Oliver Matthewson of the Matthcwson Paper Company had built it, ten years ago, and then his company had gone under and he had put it up for sale, with everything in it, even the paintings he had collected and one of them a Romney. And up had stepped J. Emmet Tarrell with the cash practically in his pocket. He’d kept on the Matthcwson servants and moved in as if It were no more than going from one hotel to another. His wife, not the girl’s mother but a second one, and the daughter had ridden up in a taxi around five o’clock of a winter afternoon and two hours later had eaten their dinner off the Matthewson’s dishes, cooked by the Matthewson’s cook and served to them by the Matthewson’s butler. The younger women talked about the girt. Some had served her in various eating places, where, they contributed, she was always with a lively crowd of young people and the life of it; others had sold dresses and hats and gloves and such to her and eould say with authority that she didn't care how much anything cost All had seen her face frequently in the Grandharbor newspapers, snapped at one or another gay young affair, in every kind of garb from a scant swimming suit ta an all-envelop-ing fur evening coat; some had read about her in the local newspapers' gossip columns, which made her as near a glamor girt as Grandharbor had. A few talked of the bridegroom and agreed he was a lucky devil, marrying into 3. Emmet Tarrell'* money. He was a lawyer; they needed to marry money. The Arden family, wasn’t It that’d been in Grandharbor since its beginning! Weil, it all proved that tlus was a country of opportunity! They waited patiently and In good-will through the May evening for Diane Tamil and William Arden to come down tinder the awning, when for a brief moment they'd feel one with romance and glamor and youth. They could hear the strains of dance music and see dancing figure* pas* the window*. The ceremony itself must be long

demands had left the partis "very wide" apart. Lewis met with his policy ,„ tn . mittee late yesterday. Ho sent them home with Instructions to be „ n call to return on 21 hours non,. In the past he has done this | y in negotiations. Usually, he d not cull them until an agreement is near or a breakdown and etrikare imminent The deadline for new private contract this yea i June 30. the day the government returns the mines to private ownership. UMW vice president John J. O'Leary led UMW southern <| t ric-t presidents into the neg em tlons with the southern producer he said only that Lewis would not lie present today. The southern operators reported ly hoped to win u more detailed listing of union demand for a new contract to today's talks. J • o Cruel Killer bought Erie. Pa. (UPi— C. T. Comstock has offered 1100 reward for the arrest of the person who killed his cocker spaniel hy severing it tongue. Comstock valued the dost >SOO. ■ ‘9 Si/ 1 ’

over. It wasn't likely Tie bride'd . stay on. { But Diane was staying on. With > the sweep of her veil and her long i satin train crushed under one elbow, she was dancing from one , partner's arms to another's, her \ eyea under dusky lashes, deeply blue, her Bps parted on a delight I as breathless as a child’s. "It’s too good a party to walk , out on. Isn't it?” she had said. Not , to Bill, but to Danny Carver, who v.t\s claiming her most frequently. “We've all of our Ilves to live together, Bill and I!" J. Emmet Tarrell, coming down the wide stairway from a visit to his room to reinforce himself with a nip of Bourbon, saw her dancing in the hall below and paused to watch her. Like her mother, he thought, with her taffy-colored hair and her spirits. An old pain twisted his heart. It ought to be her mother, dressed up and having a good time down there! But It wasn’t. The nearest she'd come to a party dress was that red one taken to her from Seattle and she’d never worn it— Then over the pain rose a hard satisfaction Some wedding, this, for their girl, with everybody who was anybody in the town down there, dancing and eating and drinking his champagne. Diane in no hurry to go off, either! His hand tightened on the polished banister. He didn’t want her to go off. She was just a kid. She didn't know anything about men, for all she’d had most of this town's young men trailing her these last two years. This Arden maybe was tho pick of them, good-looking and good habits, as far as he knew, which wasn't far, considering it was only five months ago Diane’d met him, bound to get ahead tn his law, everyone predicted. But. hang It, that way of his of looking so granite when he didn't agree with you! That wouldn’t go so well with Diane who’d always had pretty much her own way of things. It hadn't with him, when Bill stqod as firm as a rock against his plan of the two of them coming back here to live. And his going on with Dis allowance. Where was the young man now ? J. Emmet’s eyes sought and found him, not among the dancers, but in view of the library beyond the hall, where guests who were not dancing were gathered in little groups. He was standing with his mother and father and the Matthewsdns, with a look on Ms face of controlled enduring. His father and mother had it, J. Emmet thought, the Matthewsons. Heck, the lot of them looked as though they held themselves above this sort of shindig—sheep thrown in with the goats, eh? J. Emmet Tarrell snorted. Well, neither the Ardens nor the Matthewsons could pay for a tea party now! But Bill Arden’s mother wasn t thinking of sheep and goats. She was thinking: *lt seems only yesterday that Bill was going off *° college for the first lime!" Os his room, at home, which would be empty, now. She held tightly U> her evening bag to keep her hands from going to Bill’s arm coming back on the twentieth? “Tee,” confirmed Bill, but in * preoccupied way. “Edi, you must hunt up

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•'.i t'said AL'.hn iS i 'TL . 11 love • ilk- -1 so often U A-: I they'll «iafl Di.irj ," si.e t-J-M *|B I <an t believe yoc w M “Aft-r old CanmipH it'" E.tthekfffl oi.lv on Bill’s bps; biM : 1 :• the dancers, MB® and impatient. ■ > His mother saw ’.ixfl • i ’on : hi” rJtkfl t r v- r for herby® girl he had chosen. ■ Allitlua Matthews™ r! th.- Tnmontz It W® . ril -t ths since sM’ti® ■ t< r. st’.c said. Shed be a J 1 a-v n vs of them Mfi® ba : Mania Tremontk® .veil at all last s—Mt J M inia Tremont la--I friend of Alutba® ..a-. And Aliith-a t*b® r.v, because it kef-J® • • -king of the load® of the curious twists J ]; IPs marrying the r.i® t !;e n an who had boupf® for that she'd never into I' again- 1' hM«*® to come; she hai with r- hn tance. To r » .:.c which had h** 9 ® tno pivsr-ssfons >0 taM® ~n , ! (divers and r.c’.rsf I. - I not spoken a of what was in besnj t. rrowod strength of him. Few men in, •<> reverses M not this J. Emmet IW«| half of the things were true. There was a resou#W| cymbals and a little ’•] hall. "I think I*’" '7J change," murmur*I « *■ Bill's best man »»"■ way through the crowding toward • Where’s Bill ■ He » ® to him. his and drew him tiV "She's going t° quet." went from®*** other. the It was part _f ( guests in the terrace Innocent. h „ the Directly * * rnai'to *’<■"• 1» hands. To 9 tended not to |tf!( poised, h«nt a, to<’ , ing. ove- * them and si"* 1 ? K dr 11 te C far fr° m fitted. W e ! the 9 looking her p j * Dian<- thWbt . hc [ x .t iir M r l vanished. W ~.<l Her hand nu. though it heM erring ■»”’ * ! p * r th* ,ls “ hurtl M straight t si* Then w«th a and ran up -..eur* -What a DP’ loudly. tbe br ’' 1