Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1948 — 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 as Second Class Matter J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller — Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mall in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $6; Six months, $3.25; 3 months, $1.75. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining counties: One Year, $7; S months. *3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. Those new blue and white plates should be put on your car within the next two weeks. o o I Most people will agree that the only advantage of a cold wave, is that the change stopped the floods. o o Miss Margene Bauer sailed right through with her speech on the U. S. Constitution and won the district American Legion contest. Congratulations and equally as good , luck in the zone competition. j

o o Fort Wayne made a nondenominational religious census and it was found that 20,000 citizens were not affiliated with any church. The number seems large, since we are of the mind that nearly every person belonged to a church. However, in percentage, compared to an estimated population of 125,000, it is not so astounding, for church members are in the great majority. Would the same ratio, approximately 16 percent, hold good for the non-church members in Decatur? —o o— Do the Rough Riders deserve an anniversary stamp? Congressman Harlow of Arizona thinks so, and has introduced a bill to this effect. Next July will be the 50th anniversary of the charge up San Juan Hill, the most famous exploit of this volunteer regiment organized by Theodore Roosevelt. The commander was Leonard Wood, an army surgeon who later became chief of staff, governor-general of the Philippines and a candidate Ifor the Republican presidential nomination. Stamp collecting is a hobby and no doubt the philatelists will welcome the issue. o— ■—o In many respects President Tru- ■ man has many of the virtues of Lincoln. The present occupant of the White House has the common touch, the meekness and sincerity of the sixteenth president. He finds similarity in his job, with an |

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By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D., AUTOMOBILE drivers would be inclined to scoff if told that a great many traffic accidents may be due to nothing more hazardous than the wearing of a tight collar. Medical men would not. They are convinced that there is a much closer tie-up between the two things than anybody has suspected heretofore. Here’s the way it works! Within the neck there is a group of nerves known as the carotid sinus, which is so sensitive in certain individuals that any sudden pressure over-stimulates them. Since these nerves regulate the rate at which the heart beats, any irritability in them will be reflected in the heart's momentum. Not only the wearing of a tight collar but the mere twisting of the head may cause such a sudden slowing of the heart in sensitive individuals that fainting occurs. The condition is less alarming than it seems—unless the patient happens to be driving a car at the time he faints. In these cases a really serious or tragic accident may result. In the ordinary way. however, the attacks are never fatal and the patient usually recovers, even when no treatment is given. In mild cases, discovery and elimination of the practices which bring • on the attacks is sufficient to banish them. Sometimes, it is necessary to use sedative drugs for a while. In those instances where these measures do not produce a cure, surgery may be attempted. To niy surprise, I discovered quite 1 ' recently that I am one of those persons who have a sensitive carotid sinus. I was at the Mayo Clinic for my semi-annual checkup, when Dr. Harry S. Smith asked me to sit down and tip my head tack. Then he pressed his tbymb just below the angle of my jaw.

unfriendly congress, while trying to bring union and understanding with the people. I. o o t Australia, like other countries, is short of dollars, and is now 1 abandoning its negative remedy of t cutting imports in favor of a positive campaign of increasing exports to the United States. This does not mean that there is any surplus of the goods on the export program. On the contrary, there is a marked shortage of woolen cloth, knit goods, steel and steel products, which are among the items to be sent abroad. This drain on the Australian market will go on for a six months' trial i period. It is interesting to compare methods carried out by different countries in the attempt to get dollars with which to buy machinery from the U. S. Theoretically, at least, these products in turn will start manufactures rolling, and in time the dollar balance may be restored. Careful study by economic experts results in one country stripping itself in

order to increase exports, while . i • another encourages imports for a t healthy home market. One policy ( ‘ is for a short haul while the other i ■ is for a long pull. Time will show - which policy is the better. i o o 1 i For Children: s February's extra day this year t is to be World Children's Day. ' 'U. N. Secretary Trygve Lie asks , that everyone contribute his leap f year day income to the estimated 400,000 undernourished children in war-ravaged lands. A recently formed committee, United Nations Appeal for Children, sponsors this idea. Understandable confusion exists in the mind of the public because of the number of overseas aid groups both privately supported and backed by individual governments or the U. N. The State Deparment's American Overseas Aid organization, appointed to correlate this country’s many voluntary relief undertakings, joins the U. N. children's aid committee to form AOA-UNAC. Through this 1, combination contributions will be i received at headquarters opened at 39 Broadway, New York. It is almost impossible for stay-at-home Americans to visualize the ! plight of war’s child victims, the vastness of the material and spiritual backing needed by them. To bolster them is a fundamental step in any peace effort. In their thin | hands lies the world’s future.

This is the classic test for sensitive carotid sinus and I responded in the classic manner, passing out then and there. In a case like my own, forewarned is forearmed. Anybody who suspects that he may have such a condition, should have an examination made at once, particularly if he drives an automobile. The real danger lies in those cases where the condition is not known to exist until after it has shown itself in a sudden and unexplained fainting attack. Sometimes, it is true, the loss of consciousness may be preceded by weakness, dizziness, spots before the eye, pallor and excessive sweating, but attacks may also come out of the blue without any previous warning. During an attack, the breath comes deeper and occasionally convulsions occur. As a general rule, however, unconsciousness lasts ■ only a few minutes. This disorder occurs more frei quently after middle age than in i youth and is more common in men t than in women. A diagnosis can usually be made from the descrip- , tion of the attacks or by use of the > test I described earlier. i The number of attacks and then i severity will depend upon the sen- - sitivity of the carotid sinus and ; upon the causes which bring on - the attacks. Persons who have this condition I should avoid stooping, if possible 3 and sudden turning of the head, i They should not look upward or make other movements which II cause constriction of the neck. f; While the condition is not sers ious in itself, it carries with it such j I grave danger of accident and pro- - duces so much discomfort that it - should be promptly treated either 1 with BhenebafbitaJ drugs in mild o or nerve cutting operations m those which ate more severe.

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9 cJVTQ'** * o I Modern Etiquette ‘i | By ROBERTA LEE I 1 0 0 Q. What advances should the two families make as soon as a marriage engagement has been announced to the immediate families? A. The mother and sisters of the groom should call immediately on the girl and her family, express their approval, and extend a sincere welcome to the girl. Then, within a few days, the girl and her family should retuAi the call. Q. If the coffeee or tea is ex- <

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i s s SYNOPSIS Catherine Lister is engaged to Nicky Bray, recently discharged from an army hospital, but is disturbed by the secret knowledge that she still loves Stephen Darrell. Her romance with Stephen had ended abruptly two years before when she had surprised him with her cousin, Hat La Mott, at his cottage located near her Aunt Angela Wardwell's country estate. The sudden death of Angela's husband, John, had occurred shortly after. Catherine still cherished her uncle's silver leopard desk ornament which had been his Christmas gift to her that year. At the Wardwell town house, Angela announced her coming marriage to Mike Nye, who had long been a friend of the family. Catherine noted the stunned silence with which Hat and her brother Tom, and his wife, Francine, at first greeted the news. From the window she saw the same strange man she had seen the previous evening gazing at the Wardwell house. Mike insisted on celebrating with luncheon and they went to a nearby place where Hat bad promised to meet Stephen. The night before Stephen had come to Catherine’s apartment in search of Nicky and she had told him what Nicky had told her . . . that he was dining with Dick Blanchard, a friend from the Air Force. She is shocked when Tom inadvertently disclosed that Blanchard had been killed in a train wreck the week before. That night Mike phoned Catherine saying he bad something urgent to discuss with her and Lhe left immediately for his apartment. CHAPTER EIGHT THE CAB slowed, swung into Central Park South. Catherine looked at her watch when she got out a few doors west of the Plaza. She was on time. She would get hold of Nicky somehow when she was finished here. . . . She mounted steps and entered the lobby. Mike’s studio apartment was on the top floor. She got into a small red-and-gold self-service elevator pushed the button labeled 10 stepped out in a small square vestibule and rang Mike’s bell. He didn’t answer at once. Sh<

ne uiun l aiiawer ai viivc. one could hear voices inside. After a moment, she tried the door impatiently. It wasn't locked. She opened it and went in. The long hall was empty. The voices had receded, but she could still hear them faintly, a man’s and a woman’s. Walking slowly toward the living room, which like Mike’s studio, , overlooked the Park, she was hesitant and a little uneasy. Who was the woman with Mike ? She shouldn’t really have barged in like this. She paused in the living room archway. The voices had stopped 1 and what she could see of the room was empty. Mike and his guest must have gone out on the . terrace. French windows opposite i her framed the magnificent picture of the city to the north. She would wait for him, she thought, and went through the 1 archway. There she stood still, her ’ stomach crashing into her throat. Mike wasn’t out on the terrace, r He was there, less than twenty i feet away, behind the Kneehole desk that faced her, slumped forward across the desk, one elbow propped on it, his other arm hang--1 ing limply. His eyes were open. '■ The top of his head .. , t . The life within Catherine ceased r to exist E-en her breathing j stopped. Not Mike, she thought. 5 No’ Not like this. It wasn't possible. Shfe had been talking to him

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only a little while ago. There was i a whimpering sound somewhere in the room. It was coming from her own throat. “He’s just—hurt,” she told herself frantically, and whispered his name. “Mike —Mike . . .” Mike kept on staring into illimitable distance. He didn’t move. But something else did. A few feet behind him, long blue curtains of Chinese brocade masked the entrance to the studio. The curtains had been hanging straight, motionless, were part of the stillness, the utter cessation. All at once they stirred lazily, with a soft, almost imperceptible rustle. Catherine stood with her eyes nailed to the long graceful folds. There was someone behind them, someone who had done—that —to Mike. In a moment the curtains were going to part and whoever was standing there was going to come out . . . Shock, the mortal sickness of horror, had locked her muscles. Terror gave the use of them back to her. She began to retreat, step . by step, never taking her eyes from those blue folds. Without warning, , her foot encountered something, • some object, and she slipped, lost i her balance and started to fall. As . she did so, there was a click and - the room went soundless into » blackness, and stayed that way. r Catherine didn’t lose consciousness. But the fall jarred her and she remained as she was, down on one knee, arms out, shoulder 3 crowded against a bench, her mind B wiped clean of everything but fear, t The fear was terrible and over- • whelming. It was elemental. She I couldn’t fight against it. She was e alone here, at the top of the house, ■' shut in with Mike and with whor - ever had killed him. The killer n knew she was here, knew exactly II where she was, must have beer r > observing her from behind the curI. tain. She waited, crouched deej I- inside herself for attack, for a bullet to plunge into her flesh, foi ie hands to touch her, close arounc

her throat. 1 Nothing happened. No one ; moved, spoke. There was no sound. After a timeless interval, the instinct of self-preservation asserted itself laboringly. Her ears unsealed themselves. She tried to swallow, made it, and listened, frantically, to a clock ticking very softly, to wind, to the steady hum of traffic in the incredibly distant streets. Cautiously, with slowness, every nerve taut, she managed to get to her feet. There is a point at which terror doubles on itself and becomes desperation. She had to get out of here and get help for Mike. He might be still alive—she didn’t know, couldn’t be sure that he was dead. The blackness was the obstacle. In the blackness, she might run into the murderer—and both ■ she and Mike would be beyond ■ help. Fighting herself and blindness, hands outstretched, she forced her- ’ self toward what she hoped was ; the living room archway. It was. ■ She was through it and out in the ■ hali. The nail was also in dark- ■ ness. There the temptation to run . was overwhelming. She resisted it until She was fairly close to the 1 front door and then could resist ' no longer. She made a dash for . the door, bumped into a table, felt - it teeter. Wood, China, and glissi ware hit the floor with a resound-

u i Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE I O— — n Clothes Shine When a dress suit of dark serge becomes shiny with wear, sponge it with hot vinegar and press it in the usual way. No odor of vinegar will remain, the shine will disappear, and the material will be qiuch improved in appearance. The vinegar will not stain. Clean Hands Make a good hand-cleaning paste by dissolving 2H pounds of white soap in sta pints of hot water. As it cools and sets, stir in one pound of fine sand. The Teakettle Lime accumulates on the inside of the teakettle. To remove it, Boil a strong solution of vinegar in the kettle. Rinse thoroughly before refilling with water. o —

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Feb. 16 — Fire destroyed the Foreman & Bierie barbershop at Berne and damaged the Clothes Shop next door. Damage estimated at 3,700. George E. Harshman of the state highway commission will speak at the annual meeting of the Decatur Industrial Association Tuesday evening. D. N. Erwin and Fred V. Mills appointed to make the new real estate valuations on Decatur real • estate. Fred Church and his famous boys’ choir of Fort Wayne will appear at the Methodist church here Sunday evening. The Rev. and Mrs. B. N. Covert and daughter Kathryn visit Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Horton here. Dennis Striker is a candidate for renomination as county commissioner. o Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

I ing crash. It didn’t matter. She was at the door, wrenched it open, ran on into the outer vestibule — and full tilt into a short stout man with a bald head, in pajamas and a bathrobe. It was Mr. Findlater from the adjoining apartment. She was telling him, stumblingly, incoherently, about Mike. A woman appeared behind Mr. Findlater, in a negligee, her hair in bobby pins, under a net. “Well, you poor child. Well . . . Come in here. Horace . . Horace didn’t answer. He was already at the telephone, calling the police. * * • "I didn’t," Catherine said. “I don’t know who did, but I didn’t He was like that when I went in. . . .” Her voice was too high and tight. She caught at fraying nerves, fought bitter, flooding anger at ineptitude, delay. Mike was dead —but then she had known that from the first moment she looked at him. Seated at his desk in an i attitude of ease, he had been struck II down by someone standing behind , him. He had died at or about the , time she was in the apartment, in : which he was alone, or appeared s to have been alone, when she ar--1 rived—and the police suspected her 5 of killing him. She had been shut up with them - in the Findlater’s living room for 1 more than an hour. At least five i sets of officials had questioned her r separately and in pairs, taking 1 down what she said, consulting to- •. gether, and returning to the at- - tack. While they fooled around e with her, Mike’s murderer was gets ting farther and farther away. She :, had tried to tell them so. It wasn’t >- any use. They wouldn't listen. r I Her latest inquisitor was from y I the Homicide Squad. He was a n I Captain. His name was Pierson. -- He was a big, ruddy solid man p I with a broad benevolent face. He 1- I wore white socks. Catherine didn’t >r like him. She thought him sly. d “Now, Miss, I’m advising you

for your own sake—there’s no use your getting excited.” Excited—was the man an imbecile ? Her mind was a battleground of dark images that came and went. Mike was there, with that terrible wound at the back of his head, and the unseen watcher behind the blue eurtains, and Angela who had been going to marry Mike, and who had been so quietly content, and Tom and Hat and Francine who hadn’t wanted her to, and Nicky, so strangely missing , . . She hadn’t heard from him in more than twenty-four hours. . . . She pushed tendrils of hair from a hot and aching forehead. Captain Pierson regarded her with satisfaction. She was about all in. As far as he and the rest of the boys were concerned, it was open and shut. The trumped-up story Miss Catherine Lister had handed them was full of holes. For one thing, she couldn’t have opened the murdered man’s door from outside. Although the door itself stood open, the night latch was on when they got there. If they could get her to break, if she’d come clean now, it would save time and trouble for everybody. “Look, Miss," he bored in impatiently. “You killed Mr. Nye. You went behind him while he was . at his desk - - .” “Nd." (Ta Be Continued)

CHURCH NEWS First Methodist The First Methodist church enjoyed a full day of inspiring services yesterday. The attendance at church school reached a high mark; the worship services both morning anti evening were we attended. Evangelist Brookshire addressed four services during the day. At an assembly of the youth as a part of the church school period Mr. Brookshire spoke on the subject, “Anchors of Life." He indicated in the storms of life people needed such anchors as. 1-duty (a) to God, <b) ourselves, (c) to others. 2—The anchor of character and 3rd, courage. It is Dial your radio to WFTW 1090, 4:55 P. M. every Tuesday. T

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