Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1947 — Page 4

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DECATUR A DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By TH® DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated .dkEntered at the Decatur, Ind., “t Office as Second Class Matter J. H. rfejler .President A. tt. Holthouse Sec y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller -- Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties year, |6; Six months, $3.26; 3 months, >1.75. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining counties: One Year. $7; 6 months, $3.75; 3 months. $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 1 cents. Drunks are bores and their gift of gab is none the less boresome. ——e o Another legislative task which Congress overlooked is the abolition of hay fever. o h—' b•— I It pays to feed good cattle, as evidenced in an Indianapolis sale of 40 Herefords averaging 1,276 pounds for 35 cents a pound. That’s the prime price. 0 o The veterans are entitled to their money. They had it coming and the only mistake Congress made was not to pay them on the line when they were discharged from the service. o o Robert R. Young, the precedentbreaking president of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, disregards political taboos. He admits frankly that he would like to be President end doesn’t care on which ticket he runs. o o The need “for teaching youth that spiritual growth is the goal of all human history” is perhaps greater than ever before, President Truman stated in a letter endorsing Religious Education Week, Which will be observed throughout the United States and Canada September 28 through October 5. o o Two months from today the city election Will be held. It is important that we elect able and experienced public officials to run our city government, for the coming years will demand much in public service from' those serving in the municipal posts. Let's keep Decatur in progressive step, with good government, attuned to the times. o o Chronic traffic violators in Los Angeles must display on their windshields for 30 a days a large sign, “Traffic Violator." This is supposed to shame them into good behavior. Almost every driver has had an occasional brush with the law, mostly for illegal parking or going a few miles faster than the road signs advise. The chronic violators are an entirely different class of people, and signs will not have much effect on them.

Treating Fungous Infection

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. Fungous infections of ail kinds flourish in the tropics and in consequence, many of our service men returned with kkin diseases such as ringworm of the feet, ringworm of the groin and so-called jungle sores. Once established in the skin, the fungi or tiny parasitic organisms, which cause these ailments, are difficult to get rid of. A great deal of interest was shown recently in a report made by a Dr. A. J. Byrne of England. He offers what seems to be a very simple and effective treatment. By the use of organic compounds ol mercury, good results were observed in 50(i patients. In All Case* In all cases either phenyl mercuric chloride or phenyl mercuric acetate was used. Either of these can be applied as an ointment, a lotion or as a water solution. When the ointment was used, it was put on a piece of gauze and this was bandaged on the affected part for the necessary period of time. It was found that three or four hours?’ application was sufficient to overcome the infection in all cases of Ringworm of the groin ot the body. Red and Itching The affectled areas were slightly red and itching for about twentyfour hours after the treatment. At the end of that time, the condition be g ant a fodueota. began to fWe cat, gae is. Cvh to six days, the Skin ♦ks aerm«! is pearance. In a few? cases, a second

It is heartening news that 19 republics mte progresi* ed in agreement to where they ar fkjteady t<K©ght any armed aggression, from within or without, aimegwt the Western Hemisphere. Yet one could wish that dispatches from the momentous Brazilian conference had emphasized the aim as being to work for .jßace rather than to resist an enemy’s attack. o o Police Chief Miller and members of the force caution children to be careful in crossing the street at the school house corners. The goal is to prevent a serious accident to a child during the school year and in addition to the officer's endeavor in this direction, the student patrolmen will keep an alert eye at the street intersections, frequented by the children. Z o 0 The county councilmen take! their job seriously and are through in their checking of every item in the budget of estimated expenses in the operation of the county government and its institutions for next year. They believe in good government, economically administered and for public benefit. While everyone may not coincide with their decisions in allowing or disapproving appropriations, the members work conscientiously at their assignment. ——<o o►— Don’t say ultimately, say now. That advice comes from Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, urging the adoption of a world government. There is no time to lose, or destruction may come upon the world while it is still choosing its course. A preliminary draft of a world constitution, by a committee chosen for that purpose,' will sobn be issued. Its publication should start serious consideration of the plan, everywhere, by every citizen. 0 o The city council and officials have determined on the location of the proposed new electric plant by selecting an eight acre tract directly south of the Erie railroad tracks and on the west side of the river. Condemnation proceedings have been started and with completion of legal details, councilmanic action toward building the power house will bgei .nl tis power house will begin. It is proposed to have a switch track from the Erie extended to the site, thus eliminating truck hauling of upward to 25,000 tons of coal a year. The new plant will house the 10,000 KWH generator and other equipment that will give this city one of the most efficient municipal Electric utilities in the state. And the city must keep up with the demand for electric current from industrial plants, home owners and business concerns.

application for a period bf three hours was necessary. In treating ringworm of the feet, the spaces between the toes are thoroughly cleaned and all the dead skin removed. Then a powder of the phenyl mercuric chloride with calamine is applied if the area Is very moist. When drying has occurred. the ointment is applied twice daily. Recurrence of Ringworm Recurrence of ringworm of the feet usually takes place because of a fresh infection, or it may be due to reinfection from the patient's own socks and shoes. To overcome the latter, it is suggested that the socks be soaked for an hour before washing in a solution of the phenyl mercuric acetate, while the shoes are sprayed inside with an alcoholic solution of the same preparation. A Compress In treating the jungle sores, a solution of phenyl mercuric acetate is applied in the form of a compress. After twenty-four hours this is removed and a compress of salt solution put on. In some cases, skin grafting is necessary. It should be understood, however, that any treatment with a poisonous substance, such as phenyl mercuric, acetate, should be given only ugder a doctor’s supervision. Expert knowledge is needed to gauge the exact strength required to get results without causing damage. When this is available, it would appear that the use of mercury compounds say otter & quic k and safe ♦ay trfafing rtnff*srm tnfßecions ■

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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE “DR. CHRISTOW returned to The Hollow at 3 a. m„” announced the inspector, again without emphasis. “Was it really as late as that?” Veronica sounded quite amazed. “Yes, it was, Miss Cray.” “Os course, we had so much to talk over—not having seen each other for so many years.” "Are you sure it was quite so long since you had seen Dr. Christow?" 'T’ve Just told you I hadn’t seen him for fifteen years.” “Are you quite sure you’re not making a mistake? I’ve got the impression you might have been seeing quite a lot of him.” "What on earth makes you think that?” "Well, this note, for one thing.” Inspector Grange took out a letter from his pocket, glanced down at it, cleared his throat and read: "Please come over this morning. I must see you. Veronica.” "Ye-es.” She smiled. "It IS a little peremptory, perhaps. I’m afraid Hollywood makes one—well, rather arrogant.” “Dr. Christow came over to your house the following morning in answer to that summons. You had a quarrel. Would you care to tell me, Miss Cray, what that quarrel was about?” The inspector had unmasked his batteries. He was quick to seize the flash of anger, the ill-tempered tightening of the lips. She snapped out: "We didn’t quarrel." "Oh, yes, you did, Miss Cray. Your last words were, ’I think I hate you more than I believed I could hate anyone’.” She was silent now. He could feel her thinking—thinking quickly and warily. Some women might have rushed into speech. But Veronica Cray was too clever for that. She shrugged her shoulders and said lightly: “I see. More servants’ tales. My little maid has rather a lively imagination. There are different ways of saying things, you know. I can assure you that I wasn’t being melodramatic. It was really a mildly flirtatfaus remark. We had been sparring together.” "Those words were not Intended to be taken seriously?” "Certainly not And I can assure you. Inspector, that it was fifteen years since I had last seen John Christow. You can verify that for yourself.” She was poised again, detdched, sure of herself. Grange did not argue or pursue the subject. He got up. "That’s all for the moment, Miss Cray,” he said pleasantly. He went out of Dovecotes and down the lane and turned in at the gate of Resthaven. • • • Hercule Poirot stared at the inspector in the utmost surprise. He repeated incredulously: "The revolver that Gerda Christow was holding and which was subsequently dropped into the pool was not the revolver that fired the fatal shot? But that is extraordinary.” "Exactly, M. Poirot. Put bluntly, it just doesn’t make sense.” Poirot murmured softly: "No, it does not make sense. , . . But all the same, Inspector, it hfis got to make sense, eh ?■’ I The inspector said heavily, pTiat’s just it, M. Poirot. We’ve got to find some way that it does make sense—but at the moment I can’t see it The truth Js that we shan’t get much further until we’ve found the gun that WAS ■uaad. It came from Sir Se.’Uy’?

Nor is it good form to refer to a woman accompanying a man as “the wife” nor “the missus.” Q. What reply should one make when being introduced to someone and he says he remembere a previous meeting? A. Be tactful enough to say, “How nice of you to remember me,” and try to recall the meeting. Q. Is it correct to number the pages of a social letter? A. No; in long letters the pages should be written consecutively.

collection al! right—at least there’s one missing—and that means that the whole thing is still tied up with The Hollow ” "Yes,” murmured Poirot "It is tied up with The Hollow.” "It seemed a simple, straightforward business,” went on the inspector. “’.VtU. ’t Sn’t so simple or so straightforward.” "No,” said Poirot "it is not simple.” "We’ve got to admit the possibility that the thing was a frameup—that’s to say that it was all set to implicate Gerda Christow. But if that was so, why not leave the right revolver lying by the body for her to pick up?” "She might not have picked it up.” "That’s-true, but even if she didn’t, so long as nobody else’s fingerprints were on the gun, that’s to say if it was wiped after use—she would probably have been suspected all right. And that’s what the murderer wanted, wasn’t it?” "Was it?” Grange stared. "Well, if you’d done a murder, you’d want to plant it good and quick on someone else, wouldn’t you? That would be a murderer’s normal reaction." "Ye-es,” said Poirot. "But then perhaps we have here a rather unusual type of murderer. It is possible that that is the solution of our problem.” "What is the solution?” Poirot said thoughtfully: “An unusual type of murderer." Inspector Grange stared at him curiously. He said: "But then—what was the murderer's idea? What was he or she getting at?” Poirot spread out his hands with a sigh. “I have no idea—l have no idea at all. But it seems to me—dimly—” "Yes ?” "That the murderer is someone who wanted to kill John Christow but who did not want to implicate Gerda Christow.” "Hm! Actually Wc suspected her right away.” “Ah, yes, but it was only a matter of time before the facts about the gun came to fight, and that was bound to give a new angle. In the interval the murderer has had time—" Poirot came to a full stop. "Time to do what?" "Ah, mon ami, there you have me. Again I have to say I do not know.” Inspector Grange took a turn or two up and down the room. Then he stopped And came to a stand in front of Poirot 'T’ve come to you this afternoon, M. Poirot, for two reasons. One is because I know—it’s pretty well known in the force—that you’re a man of wide experience who’s done some very tricky work on this type of problem. That’s reason Number One. But there’s another reason. You were there. You were an eye-witness. You saw what happened.” Poirot nodded. “Yes, I saw what happened—but the eyes, Inspector Grange, are very unreliable witnesses." "What do you mean, M. Poirot ?” “The eyes see, sometimes, what they are meant to see.” J ; ’’You think'that it was planned out beforehand ?” "I suspect “it It was exactly, you understand, like ;a stage scene. What I saw was dear enough. A man who had just been shot and the woman who had shot him bolding in her hand the gun she had just ThSt is what I ind Already, we fcjjgy &

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one particular the picture is wrong. That gun had not been used to shoot John Christow." "Hm," the inspector pulled his drooping mustache firmly downward. "What you are getting at is that some of the other particulars of the picture may be wrong, too." Poirot nodded. He said: "There were three other people present—three people who had apparently just arrived on'the scene. But that may not be true either. The pool is surrounded by a thick grove of young chestnuts. From the pool, five paths led away: one to the house, one up to the woods, one up to the flower walk, one down from the pool to the farm, and on? to the lane here. "Os those three people, each one came along a different path, Edward Angatell from the woods above, Lady Angkatell up from the farm, and Henrietta Savernake from the flower border above the house. Those three arrived upon the scene of the crime almost simultaneously, and a few minutes after Gerda Christow. "But one of those three, Inspecto?, could have been at the pool before Gerda Christow, could have shot John Christow, and could have retreated up or down one of the paths and then, turning around, could have arrived at the same time as the others.” Inspector Grange said: "Yes, it’s possible.” "And another possibility, not envisaged at the time: someone could have shot John Christow, and could have gone back the same way, unseen.” Grange said, "You’re dead right There are two other possible suspects besides Gerda Christow. We’ve got the same motive—jealousy—it’s definitely a crime passionel—there were two other women mixed up with John Christow.” He paused and said: “Christow went over to see Veronica Cray that morning. They had a row. She told him that she’d make him sorry for what he’d done and she said she hated Mm more than she believed she could hate anyone.” “Interesting,” murmured Poirot. "She’s straight from Hollywood —and by what I read in the papers they do a bit of shooting each other out there sometimes. She could have come along to get her furs which she’d left In the pavilion the night before. They could have met—the whole thing could have flared up—she fired at him—and then, hearing someone coming, she could have dodged back the way she came.” He paused a moment and added irritably: "And now we come to the part where it all goes haywire. That blasted guq! Unless,” his eyes brightened, "she shot him with her own gun ahd dropped one that she’d pinched from Sir Henry’s study so as to throw suspicion bn the crowd at The Hollow. She mightn’t. know about our being able to identify the gun used from the marks on the rifling." "How many people do know that, I wonder?" "I put the point to Sir Henry. He said he thought quite a lot of people would know—on account of all the detective stories that are written. Quoted a new one, "The Clew of the Dripping Fountain," whid) he Said John, Christow < self'hadibeen 'reading on Saturday and which emphasized that particular print." “But Veronica Cray would have had to get the gun somehow from Sir Henry’s study.” “Y«, tt wtreia mean premeditation." . _ Be Coatijjued'

of pennyroyal in the places infested by them. —-— o September 4, 1927 tfas Sunday. O~ : — Trade In a Good Town — llecalur NOTICE TO NON.-RflriiflEMS In the Adam« Circuit Court of Adnni. CoyfltX. Indiana. Cnuae No. t<Wl Strife of Indlntiri. County, SSi The State of IndlrittH on the relation of Elmer Gibson. .William M. Martin, A j <>»«<• Lon*. Kara Hone. Charles Stoltz. Hn.-J-y Buekinabam. Janie. Heath, George Sfoltz. William W. Hnhey, Kenneth Hou.er, Jaiira, Briggs, Andrew. G. Ilriggs. Alva Fensiemacher. Mfehartl Briggs. Hoy O. Hunt, Leona Lpng, Eva Long. Abraham Neuenwehwnßflrr, Anna Neuenschwriuder, Elisabeth Neiienachwander. Leonard Sp.-wnger. Robert Sgeleher. Edward fjfejeher. Homer Miller. Charles HnKegger. Eugene Kneuss. George Glasshurn, Homer ..Teeters. „ .an .Comni Isaloner of Coiiatnietlon. nnd Clenl T. Wntt". Plninflffa, ,TS. Board of Commlealoners Os Adamo County, Indiana. Frank Llnlger. Ell Dubach. Rale Moeen, ns members of the Board of Commissioners of Adnnis County, Indiana, Victor H. Eicher, Auditor of Adams County, Indiana, nnd John Bleefce, Treasurer of Adams Conriff. Indiana. Defendahta. Comes now John Augsbqrger as a member ot the Board of Commissioners of Adams Cdunty. Indiana, and files his verified motion to modify, correct, and set aside the judgement heretofore rendered in said cause on June 9, 1917, and setting out therein that the residence upon diligent inquiry is unknown of the following named plaintiff relators in said cause of action, towit: Cleal T. Watts and the executors, administrators, legal representatives, heirs, legatees, devisees, and successors in interest of Charles Stoltz. Andrew G. Briggs, and Eugene Kneuss, deceased, and that the object of said motion is to modify, correct, and sef aside srfid JiJdgrnent so rendered in said cause of action No. 16891 on the civil docket of the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana, as to the John Augsburger as a member of the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. It appears from said verified motion that a cause of action to modify said judgment exists against all of said plaintiff relators in said cause, that each and all of them are necessary parties to said motion to modify said judgment and that the residence is unknown upon diligent inquiry of each and all. of them. Notice is therefore hereby given Isaid CTeai T. Watts and the executors, administrators, legal representatives, heirs, legatees, devisees, and successors in interest of Charles Stoltz, Andrew G. Briggs, and t?ugene Kneuss, deceased, of the filing and pendancy of said motion to modify, correct, and set aside said judgment and that unless they be and appear before the judge -of the Adjimsl CTrc-ttitkC'OTrO at- the liourtA house! in,'the City off DeSatflr in the' State of Indiana, •on the 17th day of November, 1917, and answer or demure thereto the same vvlll be heard and determined in their absence. In Witness Whereof, 1 have .hereunto set my hamd and affixed the seal ot said coOrt in the office of the clerk thereof in the City of Decatur, Indiana, this 2nd day of September, 1917. Clyde O. Troutner — Clerk of Adams ITrcnll Court. Frank Gordon Ferrt L. Lltterer Attorneys. Sept. 4-11-18

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