Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 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 Claes Matter J. H. Heller Preaident A. R. Holthouse, Sec y A Hua. Mgr Dick D. Heller .. Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adame and AdjoinIna Counties: One year. $«; Six months, $3.25; 3 months, $1.75. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining counties: One Year, $7; 6 months, $3 75; 3 months, $2.00. Single copies. 4 cents. By carrier. 20 cents per week. t>o you remember back to IsJfi when we had heat waves and drouths in July? 0 o Indiana corn growers have 4,331,000 acres planted to the crop and the expected yield is 173,240,000 bushels, or about live million bushels under last year's harvest We hope favorable weather Improves the prospects between now and frost time. — o — The new presidential succession plan will not be perfect. Supposing. as at the present time, we don't have a vice-president and a foreign-born person is elected Speaker of the House. Under the constitution he cannot become President of the United States. o—o Congress may not be getting along too well with President Truman, but the latter is not faring so badly with the people. The recent Gallop poll reveals that 58 percent of union labor and 61 percent of the farmers favor his policies. 0 o — The summer term ot the Reppert School es Auctioneering will <»gvw in another two weeks. Students are coming front all -parts of the country and the sessions promises to be a lively one. Many of the school's graduates are top salesmen in their community with successful businesses already established. o_.p Practice runs and Instructions in the operation of the new fire pumper and truck are being given the firemen, which citizens will admit is a good thing. Eire fighting is a science and training makes for efficiency. Schools of instruction should be held frequently and (both the regular and volunteer firemen given the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the latest tactics in putting out fires and bolding loss to a minimum. The local department is on its toes. o 0 Parking Areas: Traffic, parking and the weather always remain trite subjects of discussion. However, a new slant on the parking problem is given in the following item from Maurice Early's column in the Star: Cities believe the parking problem is merely a congestion headache. But the Indiana Economic

Different Types of Arthritis

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. O. THE word "ai thrills" simply | means inflammation of the Joints. ( Medically, however. arthritis la much more complicatrvi than thia simple definition would indicate. In the first place, there are many hinds of arthritis. It may, for instance, tie produced by all sorts of different Kerma. The tuberculosis germ for one; the pnenmococcus germ for another. In the great majority of cases, however, we cannot find the culprit is any of the known dlsoase causing organisms. When this is true we classify the disease In other ways, because, until we know the type of arthritis present, propar treatment cannot be given. Rheumatoid Arthritis In the group of cases in which the cause for the condition in not known, we have what is called rheumatoid arthritis. In which the joints are swollen and painful and which results In deformities. Young adults and middle-aged people are subject to this type. Older people usually have osteo-arthriUs la which there is an overgrowth ot joint tissue, / Many persons suffer from a related condition known a* fibrositls which Is as inflammation of tW sapporting ttoroes around the joint. Others, according tc Dra. Philip fl. Hunch of the Mayo Clrnk. aud ®dkwsrd W BoUad of the Vulvaraky Ceinomia, may have what i* ** psychogaak, or meauuy

Council sees something far worse for cities In the years ahead if they do not find away of taking care of motorists who want to transact business in the hearts of municipalities. The council believes that Insufficient parking room will result in decentralisation of business districts. These business districts. with their high real estate values, pay the major part of the property taxes. If this value is destroyed by decentralisation, mayors of the future will wake up with real tax problems. o o— Shipping of oil and gasoline to Russia is not done by the government, but by the oil companies themselves, in keeping with the free enterprise system. Senator Lucas explained to the senate committee which is Investigating the so-called shortage ot gas in the midwest. Lucas told the senate that wartime export controls over crude oil, ordinary and 100 octane aviation gasoline first were lifted In September, 1945. The midwestern shortage is attributed primarily to transportation difficulties and the 730.000 barrels of oil shipped to Russia during the past six months is the equivalent of only three and-one-half hours of U. 8. consumption. The truth Is, we. Americans are burning up more| gas than the refineries can ship

out. However the oil companies should ,o*as» their oil fliljhuents to Russia. 0 o The vastness of America is appreciated In view of the govern inent announcement that farmers have planted 84,331,000 acres of corn this year, compared to last year's all time high of 88,718,000 acres. The prospective crop is expected to reach around 2,812.000,000 bushels, which is a little under the ten-year average, and some 871 million bushels under the 1946 record breaker. High waters, floods and unfavorable weather 'onditions are accountable for this year's lower acreage and estimated production. A late frost would improve the prospective crop, and an early freeae would further setback the yield. However, the government forecasters do not expect a failure, although the pro duction may not meet the demand, which Is one reason ascribed for higher meal prices next year. It takes about 2.8W.000.00V bushels of corn to teed the livestock on the farms. '

I produced." rheumatism. This disorder seems to occur tn people who I arc poorly adjusted, that Is. who suffer emotional disturbances. They, as a rule, do not have any objective signa of the disease but may go about with the back bent or walk peculiarly or with the joints in some abnormal position. It may be difficult at times to te|| fibrositls from psychogenic rheumatism. However. In fibrositls the joints are stiff and painful, while In psychogenic rheumatism the pains are not confined to any definite loca- , tlon. In fibrositls, there are aches, soreness, stiffness and fatigue, while in psychogenic rheumatism the patient ufay complain of burning, weakness and tingling. In fibrositls, the symptoms are 1 worse in the morning and late afternoon. In psychogenic rheumatism. the symptoms are. as a rule, continuous. The patient with psycholgenk rheumatism is better after rest and worse after exercise. The patient also often seems to become worse after treatmeat is made. He is, as a rule, not relieved by such paiade press; ng mediciae* as aspirin. it eaa bo seen that unless these various conditions are definitely di agnoued before treatment is startad. good results cannot be obtat> •O- since the tyM'segt w‘U vggy to a great extant in the different disorders. -a„ . •

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Modern Etiquette i By ROBERTA LEE I O O Q Is it correct to say. "This Is Hill Smith of the Blank Company" when giving one's name to a secretary over the telephone? A. It is preferable to say. "This is MR. Smith of the Blank Company." Q. When one is a house guest, should he go to church with the [family, even if he is not In sympathy with their religious teaching? A. Yes; it would Ise courteous to do so. y is it necessary that a girl send out announcements it her marriage engagement ie broken? A. No. ■ o TraSe lit ■ I.biml Taw a— limit!

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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE < J. EMMET sat down. ■ “Your mother died when you 1 were born!* 1 Diane was only impatient, at < first, then touched by the real dis- 1 tress harrowing her father's face. 1 She dropped down on the arm of < the chair, circled his shoulders In 1 an affectionate embrace. “Pail, you mustn't think about that! 1 Everything's going to be all right! 1 I'm strong as a horse. Maybe my mother wasn't; she'd worked so hard—" "She was such a little thing," J. Emmet said slowly. "Always laugh-ing-—she'd find something to laugh at when we didn't even have a meal in sight! She said everything’d be all right! I left her in Sacramento alone, to have her baby. I went up to Seattle—there was a chance to get into something that meant quick money. She wanted me to go—she wasn't afraid, she told me. If I'd bring her back a red dress she'd never had a pretty dress. 1 turned the deal and I bought the reddest dress I could find and I went back —I wasn't gone much more’n a week and—she was dead. She'd died that morning. In a charity ward. Alone."

Diane put her cheek against his. "Daddy, poor Daddy! Why didn't you hate me for it?” "Hate you? You were all I had of her. You were like her, small as you were!" Diane thought of what Paula had told her, now with no resentment at her father, but with the feeling that she had failed him in mt giving him an understanding and devotion that would have healed this sense of frustration. "You’ve never talked much to me of my mother. Dad. She was very young when you met her, wasn't she?" "Not eighteen.” His glance touched Diane, went around the room. "It was the under side of the world she grew up in! Gambling and carousing around her when she was no more'n a kid. She had to work behind her old man’s bar before she could see over the top of It From sunup to late into the night But she was good—you knew it when you looked at her!” "And you took her away—" urged Diane, softly. "Yes. Though God knows I hadn't anything to offer her. I | hadn’t been any better'n the men who hung 'round that barroom—not till I knew her!" “But you were happy—" He did not answer for a mo\ment; his eyes were narrowed, staring far. Diane, waiting, thought: "Perhaps it was too long a»o to remember." And did not want it so, she wanted to hear her father say what would prove that there was happiness that could be complete, fulfilling, never to be forgotten. That they’d had it “Yea Yes, we were happy." She said, fervently. Then nerhapa my moteer didn't mind dying! Haven't you ever felt like

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I Household Scrapbook I | By ROBERTA LEE O . r» Shoes Some people have the habit of keeping their shoes in the boxes in which they are delivered. This la a bad practice. Shoes require air to preserve them, and they should never be kept In an airtight box. Cleaning Class It is an easy task to clean window* and mirrors with a cloth dipped in two tablespoonfuls of household ammonia to two quarts of water. This pill also give the glass a polish. Bouillon Always keep a can of bouillon or consomme in the house. It can often take the place of stock called for In recipes.

of it that you can’t bear the next moment to come, let alone days and years, to make it different—” She stopped, because her father’s eyes were on her searchingly, and she was suddenly aware that her words must have sounded very odd to him. She was startled herself that she had spoken them. Her father made a move to get up from his chair. "When is it?*’ he said brusquely “What?" "Your baby." Diane laughed. "Not till spring. So you're to forget all about it tor the present" J. Emmet glared around the room, as he had when he came in. "You’re to have someone in here to do the work! You're to have nurses—" "Os course!" Diane conceded, smiling, her fingers on his arm propitiatingly. "It’s absurd for you to be cooped up here! If Bill won’t live on Oak Avenue, I’ll buy you a house! Big enough to turn ’round in. I’ll give it to you when the baby's born. He can't make you refuse a present at such a time. What street would you like to live on?" Behind his bluster Diane detect-

ed a yearning, familiar, now that she recognized IL A long time ago it had been toys, and they, standing before a window filled with ; them. Then it had been schools, "Say what sch<xjl you want to go , to!" Vacation tripe, here and there. Or merely: "Need more money?" i She remembered it had been on i his face when he suggested that she go to London with him and ■ Paula. And since she had married Bill and had refused to take any- > thing from him there had been i hurt mixed with the yearning. Un- , derotanding it now, she was moved by it i "The only house I’ve really i wished I owned is one I saw out ’ In the country." She told him . about it, and about the afternoon * she had first driven out there, > about the boys in the swimming i hole. He had sat down again in > the big chair and she again on the > arm, and she leaned against his i shoulder, conscious of a new and * pleasant feeling of elcMeneas to ’ him. He shook his head. He didn't apl prove of her choice. "Ridiculous! I What'd you do, buried off in the i country?" "I know—what would I do?" Diane laughed to admit it was quite absurd. She changed the sub- - ject "What's this about your go- , ing to New York for the winter? , Paula said something-" f "Oh, a big deal I have on. Got t to stick close to a certain lot of r bankers and lawyers down there.” t "What is it, Dad?" Diane'never b had had much curiosity over her I father's various business enterprises; she put her question now only to divert her father from her own affairs. He chuckled. “Youll know, soon * enough! This town'll buzz with it. J W fijfl wasflw wig some of

July 12 Mr. and Mns C. E. Bell and son William return from a trip to England and Belgium Members ot the Decatur Moose Ridge and their families will hold their annual picnic at Sunset park July 24. Mrs. Amy McConnehey Peterson. 65, dies at Auburn. Guy Brown, who is attending Ball Slate Teacher's college In Muncie, Is one of the cast to give "Taming of the Shrew" July 11 Jesee Leßrun is building a mod!ern home on South Third street. C. C. Schafer gives address at Lions club meeting on beautifying Decatur. Jolly Juniors The Preble Jolly Juniors held their sixth meeting at the home of Shirley Brandt. The meeting was called to order by Margie Mentor, followed by the reading of the minutes by Marilyn Kiefer. The roll call was called and eaeh mem iter answered with "A Imok of Adventure." Mary Ann Ewel then gave a demonstration on “How to make a round button hole." The next meeting will be July 17 at 1:30 p.m. The meeting was closed with the 4-H pledge. Gann* were played and refreshments served by Shirley Brandt

o Tom Lutes Uninjured In Auto Accident Tom Lutes, of Winchester' street, escaped injury about 3 a, m. today when his car careen ed out of control one mile west rs Hick’s Corner and went into a field, narrowly missing a Oree and utility pole. He reported the accident to sheriff Herman Bow*1 ■w —o ———— —— Anger punishes itself. , The quickest way to get on your feet is to get on your knees

its natives hadn’t thought of it!" She did not press him to know more. She said: "Dad, why do you want to make more money? Why don’t you stop working and you and Paula play—" "Maybe, when I put this through." He got up. "Paula wants to sell that house we’re in—it’s lonely with all those rooms and just the two of us. We've talked of going back West” He looked around for his hat and Diane picked it up and put it in his hand, giving his hand an affectionate squeeze. "Will you call on me again, Mr. Tarrell ?” He looked at her, his first concern on his face. "You're sure everything’s all right?" She kissed him, pushed him toward the door. As he reached the door he turned and thrust a piece of paper into her hand. “Get yourself something," he growled, and went down the corridor toward the elevator.

Diane opened the paper. It was a check for a thousand dollars. She regarded it with dismay—Bill would be furious—and was inclined to run after her father and return it to him. Then she folded it “Poor Dad.** Her eyes were misty as she went to the bedroom and put it away in a drawer of her bureau. Later, looking down at her stiver, spread out to be polished, she thought: "My mother didn't have anything like this! Or pretty clothes Sometimes not even money to buy food—and yet Mm was happy with my father!" She recalled what she had said to her father and remembered the morning of her and Bill's homecoming, of dinging to Bill, a nameless fear at her heart "Bill, it was so perfect!" Those weeks had been. If their boat bad gone down, that last night on the sea— But she drew quickly back from the thought No, no! Happy as she was she wouldn't have wanted to die! She would have dung to Bin, cried out: "We ean’L we ean’t! We’re too young! We've all our Uvea ahead of us!” It was the living that mattered most whether you were happy of not And somewhere tn it there was a secret Her mother'd known it Paula knew ft Bill's mother, she had to admit Probably millions of women. But she hadn't found it and she sighed as she gathered up her knives and forks and spoons and put them away. She did not tell BUI about the check She did not teU him of her father’s call Her father's anxiety was too closely linked with his memories to laugh at and laugh she must, if she spoke of it else Bill would begin to worry that she might have inherited some constitutional weakness from her mother. Not would it sound too well to BiU that her father did not want her to have this baby! Not when with each week his own family was more actively pleased and proud. ‘ A (To Be Cnstianed) • •

* K J|V jmg' W Ml®"" ' fl| ■ *■ : ... lt*:. &. ARMY INOINiIM are evacuating the Illinois area Inundated by the break of the Chouteau-y>>® Venice levee near St Louis, Mo. Swirling waters are shown spreading out along the Surfat? Highway 66, immersing the new Chouteau creek bridge. f7gfernsho.uJS o!a J<

Taxi Driver Tells Story Os Slaying Girl Killer Forced Cab Driver To Aid Urbana. 111., July 12 (UP)-A taxicab driver was scheduled to tell a coroner's jury today how a beautiful blonde forced him to boost her through a window so she could fire a fatal shot Into tavern owner Glenn Tilton. 40. The cab driver, Robert Lewis. 26, Champaign, said Betty Jean Gruver. 20. a former night club hostess, hired him to drive her to Tilton's tourist cabin north of here Wednesday afternoon. Miss Gruver has confessed to murdering Tilton. Lewis told authorities that shortly after the gir) went into the cabin. he heard a shot "She came running out waving a gun and canying some clothes,” he said. IxiwU said he took the clothes away from her and threw them

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR PAGE AND Rufus came Anally for dinner. Diane had had difficulty in arranging it for Bill, under Wilbur Morrison's personal tutelage, was edging into politics, which necessitated his going to ward meetings; on the evenings he had free Page said she could not come. The reasons Page had offered were not wholly convincing to Diane and she suspected Page did not want to come. But for all her persistence in bringing it about the care she gave to the meal, the cocktails, the candlelight, the lovely arrangement of flowers in the center of the table, it wasn’t a merry feast. Some restraint hung palpably over them. Rufus and Bill started very soon talking of the fall campaign, disagreeing with spirit on certain candidates; Page appeared more inclined to listen to them than to engage in any talk on the side with Diane. Though Diane did not think she really was listening. Diane found herself slipping into secret thoughts. Os Rufus. Tonight, with Bill and Page present, he seemed no closer an acquaintance than he had been that first evening he had come here with Paga It was hard to believe they had had those little intimate talks together, not many, to be sure, but each so somehow important! She had a crazy impulse to break into hte and Bill's discussion, say: "Rufus, talk to ME!" Claim him. He looked different Better groomed, it was. Really amazingly well dressed and not a hair on his head out of line with its fellows! Living up to Page, when it should be she—- . "Well, those two don't act so madly in love," laughed Bill, after they had gems. "And Rufus certainly won't get anywhere with Page's father if he goes after Mayor Giddings* favorites!" "Page is going to New Orleans. In FebruaryDians said it indignantlv. "She is, is the? Di. m bet anything with you that those two never marry! Page won't hold out against her family." Diane pushed a chair back Into its usual place with a little violence. 'lf she really loves him—" she began, then stopped. “That's a funny thing to say. If she doesn’t, why ever did she get into this jam?" Diane did not want to talk about IL She answered a little impatiently and heedlessly: “Couldn't it be—second choice?" Bin regarded her with some astonishment. "What do you mean? That she was in love with some other fellow?" Then: "She never gave any hint of it to me! And 1 think I was more in her confidence than anyone." Irresistibly Diane laughed, laughed because BiU was so certain of it, but instantly bit her Ups on it. furious as herself. For a slow color was coming into Bill's face, a deep embarrassment

near the cabin. Police who found them later said they contained S3OO in cash and a check for $2,100. The cabin door elammed and locked when the girl came out. Lewis said. She tried to go back and when she couldn't get in the door she forced Lewis at gunpoint to go with her to the rear of the cabin. She looked into a window and saw Tilton on the floor, said. "She pointed the gun at me and told me to smash the window,” he said, "then she made me lioont her up so she could climb through." lie said he heard another shot and the girl came out and forced him to drive her back to Champaign. • . "This girl is one of the codleat people we have ever come up against,” police said. Investigators said the girl looked "like a teen aged bobby soxer rather than a murderess.” They said they found it "hard to believe" she was a cold blooded killer. Slates Attorney John J. Breese said she had signed a confession that she killed the tavern and tourist < amp owner for his money. He said she told police she saw Tilton flash “a wad of money”

"You've got it all wrong, Di, if that’s what you're thinking! Page knew me too well to ever fall in love with me. We’ve been friends since we were in baby carriages." He laughed, but with some selfconsciousness. “She’d tell you, fast enough, that you were all wrong to say anything like that!" "But I didn't say anything, Bill!" “You didn’t eh? Well, forget it! Honestly, Di, you were the first girl I ever fell for. I was too busy studying while I was in college and afterwards, getting on with Dean, to think of girls!" "Wouldn't It be more romantic, darling, if you put it that you were waiting for me to come along?" Bill switched off the lights of the living room. "It wouldn't have been so. You were just the opposite of the kind of girl I thought I'd marry, when I married." "And what kind of a girl was that?" Diane teased over her shoulder, as she went into the bedroom. “Wen, I suppose one more like Page! She was the sort I knew— ■ He saw the expression on Diane's face alter, caught her to him, a little roughly. "What are you trying to make me say, Di? I love you! Isn't that romantic enough?" “It's—sweeL Bin." She kissed him. Laughed in his arms, and BUI laughed. But, later, from his bed. he spoke again of Page and Rufus. As if he'd been giving it aU sober thought "We don't want to get Involved tn it Di. The Winstons are too close friends of my family. And Mrs. Winston called me tn that night If Rufus can’t win Page on his own merits he’d better give it up." That's probably what he ll do— If he can't," agreed Diane, drawling it to sound sleepy and end this talk. Her small effort to help Rufus' cause plainly had not been a success. It wouldn't lead, m she’d hoped, to the four of them doing things together, making a solid front of alliance for Mrs. Winston to see. Page did not want it so, or Bill, who was reluctant to become Invoiveds maybe Rufus, hlmOTlf. "And Tm not sure I do, if Rufus is going to seem like a stranger!" She did not try to analyze the little feeling of loss she had. She did not see either Page or Rufus tor several weeks. Then, one day. tn Beider's, she ran into Page. It was close to one o'clock and she said: “Can't we eat luncheon together?" Page said quickly: "Sorry, Fve more shopping to do and I’m meeting Mother and Aunt Beulah. Aunt Beulah's hero tor two weeks. Some other day, eaU me some day— ■ Diane had seen the withdrawing in Page's manner, the instant they met She tot her go on, went, herself to a glove counter, wherd she bought a pair of gloves abstracted-

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I Tuesday at a busmtuX? I "She wanted the a 0 was out to get it," I "But she didn't get a her trouble." W In her statement, ts ■ she used Tilton s ova Xto > murder. She killed u j he refused to give her 4 .. bank roll. ( Lewis was relented gjfl Honing yesterday but to appear at the iiupi-gH has, Peoria, who wiul with Tilton prior to tteß also wa* ordered to — ■ Moose Family Pio»< On Sunday, Aug* « — 2 The annual family TB Adams lodge 1311. Leyii' ■ Moose, will be held at i O® Sunday. August 17. t® nonneed today Wesfef* been appointed entertainment commiKsjl interesting, is being planned. Service may not men true love always SMS3»r<

ly, her hand limp In sflj clerk's hold. • So Aunt Beulah ha! m I moned! Later it mifit whole clan. A little was mixed with her scar. er pity for Rufus. "j She was reading Rufsr - every day. Mostly it the integrity of Mv* T dings. She did not nag it was all about, but sheRufus for bolding to - C 4 tions. "It’s his suicide,” B 3: of one. “There'll be s ‘ landslide, in spite of tadw be out on a limb.” There was, on elects rd landslide BUI had preA'Ma. he took as a favorable ''lei own campaign, the aCjgj Morrison had told him g a very good impretoa-j. party leaders. But he C. satisfaction only brrf! J Diane and his father A few days after » ’ saw Rufus on the stiw’-i ■ along as usual. But he %-* her and, held by a sudri ! 1 able reluctance to on him, she did not hi- J watched him until he 4» a , from sight He hau i«* aI ried. Was It hla defeat tion—or with Page ? T Her father and Pauh^" going to New York to the bouse on Oak quently, daytimes, to _ i and those evenings occupied with some * 1M her father, to reawure |B( she was tn splendid i “I’ll miss them when she realized with , and deep regret for thejw i she had taken them b»M ’ many years. "I must lx to she thought • She met Lois and sionaUy for luncheon i or tea or a cocktail, W’-* ■ they chatted ' fun at the Hunt Club.»-3 ■ envy, but only as l on * I with them. - "Danny’s got an 1-F» - ( I an washed up with hun I thing, Di," Lois , when they were looked at Diane -i' awfully mysterious V| • he is down!" JI k "Oh, tell him I . Diane answered < ir ' • Lois was not never go anywhere w M r any of us in—” **« s "Just now I nP'erAj—- . Bill will have a free i I "Well, Danny d I time! That's quite the I da wilma added: i been taking Jo"” . where, since Dode, br • They’d planned W t i Diane knew. They her. But she on*? ds r can on Danny * hen T ! his leg!" uriß , H you didn't l«‘ c B I like than In—