Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1948 — Page 4

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DgCATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THW 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 Mail 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; I mouths. 13.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. Mrs. Sears not only got her man, but a Rocke-feller. u o Nearly everybody gave the ■weatherman the laugh, because he missed the week-end prediction for a cold wave. o o The pedestrian still is of the opinion that elevated sidewalks < would be the biggest single im- < provement in any town. <

Veterans in college will have their allowances increased on April 1, single men receiving $75 and married men $lO5 a month, with extras for those with children. While the former payment to G. I.’s was not skimpy, the increases will cover some of the boost in the cost of living and make it possible for students to complete their college education. President Truman signed the bill last Saturday. o o- — In another ten days the assessors will begin their work of listing personal property for taxation purposes. It has been agreed that valuations on used automobiles will not be boosted out of reason, even though the cars might bring a higher price on today's market. Next year the story would be different. We should use care in our assessing of property, get every improvement listed and attempt to arrive at fair values. When prices drop from the inflated postwar levels, the food producers of Indiana are not liable to suffer as they did afte'r the First World War when the blight in agriculture finally embroiled the cities also in the big depression. In the war period of high prices and large crops, the farmers in Indiana between 1940 and the first of last year reduced their mortgages by $67,000,000. This is in contrast to the First World War period when farmers bought high priced land and many of them lost it. ——o o The Olympic games have a great and honorable tradition reaching back into remote antiquity, to a considerable extent setting an

Common Childhood Infection

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. ' WHENEVER a child, particularly a girl, has a fever whose cause is not apparent, both doctor and .parents should suspect pyelitis. This is an infection of that part of the kidney where the excretions collect before emptying into the bladder and it is one of the most common of the infections of childhood. Both boys and girls are affected, but the disorder occurs about ten times more often in girls. Besides fever, the sudden occurrence of bed-wetting is suggestive of the disorder. In babies, the only observable symptoms may be vomiting and diarrhea. (For these reasons, whenever such symptoms occur, a microscopic examination of the urine should be made. If pyelitis is present, the urine may contain many white blood cells, as well as a small amount of albumin, which helps make the diagnosis. It is also important to determine the kind of germ producing the infection since it may lite due to such various organisms as the colon bacillus. Staphylococcus or Streptococcus and treatment depends on the kind of infection present. It is suggested, if the infection is due to colon bacilli, that one of the sulfonamide preparations be given at once. The drug is given, as a rule, every four hours, day and night. Os course, plenty of fluids should also be administered aad th® treatment continued for from tour to sis days, depending upon

example for American sportsman ship, and for sportsmanshii 'throughout the world. It has beet a sad experience, therefore, to ob serve so much bickering and ,plaii ugliness in this year’s wintei games. National pride is a natura and desirable thing, but not wher it is achieved by exaggerated es fort to win everything at all cost. Isn't it possible for athletics in general to assume and preserve a spirit of sportsmanship, whether in victory or defeat? o o The Pennsylvania town of Latrobe had a worth while increase in population with the birth of quadruplets to a factory inspector and his wife. Floods, danger of war and other irksome problems gave way to the nursery story on the front page of newspapers, the country extending congratulations to the couple of the town’s most famous children. The father, who it is said earns $1.20 an hour in a metal

works, dazed, but not overly wore ried, said he would find some way n to support his three baby daugh--5 ters and one son. If Latrobe is the [ right kind of a community, and it . no doubt is, the populace should t see that the family does not have . financial worries. 3 O 0 A Test Case: ) It will be helpful if the section I of the Taft-Hartley law intended to restrict the political activity of unions can be brought to test in the Supreme Court. The process ■ has been starred in the indictment ■ by a federal grand jury against Philip Murray and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, charging i them with wilful violation of the act. The charge is based on an indorsement in the C. I. O. News of a candidate for Congress in a Maryland election. Mr. Murray is correct when he says that more than his right to i issue political statements is involved. If Congress can make a law prohibiting a labor publication from expressing an opinion, can it not also make a law prohibiting other trade publications, or women’s magazines, or daily newspapers from participating in . election discussions? If Congress i can make a law preventing the use of labor union dues for political purposes, can it not also make a law preventing the use for political | purposes of dues of the American , Legion, the National Safety Council, or the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals? If the question reaches the Supreme Court, its decision will help to define more clearly the line between constitutional authority to : i regulate elections and the constitutional guaranty of freedom of i speech.

the severitj’ of the illness. For three or four days after the drug has been stopped, the urine should be examined to find out whether or not all of the germs have disappeared. Then, in about two weeks, another examination should be made just to make sure that there is no recurrence of the infection. Should a recurrence take place the treatment must be repeated. If a second relapse occurs, an X-ray examination of the. urinary tract must be made to make sure that th<|re is no condition causing blocking of the flow of the urine. Often, when such a blocking exists, surgical treatment is required to relieve it. The blocking may be in the form of a narrowing of the ureter which leads from the kidney to the bladder. Now and then there may be a stone present. In those instances in which the infection is due to the Staphylococcus, penicillin is employed. Another drug, known as calcium mandelate, may be useful when the infection is due to colon bacilli. Os course, in each case the doctor will decide which preparation should be used as he determines the type of germ causing the infection. v QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A. B.: I have had acne for six years. Is there any way of getting rid of the scars? Plastic operation is occasionally of benefit. Freezing with cartsn dioxide ucw also has been employed with value in some < caaas.

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I Modern Etiquette i By ROBERTA LEE I 0 0 Q. What are the duties of a per son who assists her hostess at a tea? A. She should see that the guesta are served should remove their plates, cups, and napkins when they have finished, and try to drawall the guests into conversation. Q. What are the exceptions when a woman guest should rise to acknowledge an introduction to a man? A. When the man is her host, the guest of honor, or an elderly man. She should also rise when being introduced to an elderly woman. Q. What is the most popular closing for a business letter? A. “Yours truly” or ‘ Yours very truly.” o o o ! Household Scrapbook I I By ROBERTA LEE O n Saving Coal One can economize in coal by purchasing an ash-sifter and sifting the ashes regularly. The .partly burned coal that has fallen through the grate bars can then be used again. Sometimes a ton of coal can be saved from an eight-ton supply. Finger Nails Finger nails that are hard or brittle can be softened if they are immersed in warm olive oil every night. Or, try rubbing a little Vaseline petroleum jelly on them every night. Enriched Ivy Ivy growing about the house in water will be nourished considerably if you keep a small chunk of charcoal in the water.

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Feb. 17 — Effort is being made to organize an old home week permanent club here. They will try to get 1,000 members at five dollars each. Governor Jackson is freed from bribe charges because the statute of limitation haa run. Leading Republican newspapers demand he resign but he refuses to consider such a move. H. B. Hoffman named director of the Dunbar band at Berne. Ed Coffee, Paul Graham, Ferd O’Brien and Clarence Beavers are welcomed as Rotarians by the club. Albert Scheumann, president of the Adams county tuberculosis society, is attending a meeting of the state organization in Gary. o A human can distinguish more than 17,000 colors with the naked eye in daylight, according to Dr. David L. Mac Adams, color vision expert. A I’l’Ol X I’MESIT OF EXEC CTOR ESTATE NO. 4407 Votive In hereby given. That the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the estate of Bertha Christener late of Adams County, deceased. 'The estate is probably solvent. Emil ChrinteHer Executor 2, lU4X, C. >l. MuMelman, Attorney Feb. 3-10-17 MASONIC Master Masons tonight at 7 . o'clock. Walter Lister, W. M, z Medical Test Proved This s Great to Relieve MONTHLY FEMALE PAINS Are you troubled by distress of female functional monthly disturbances? Does this make you suffer from pain, feel so nervous, weak, high-strung—at such times? Then no try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms! In a recent medical test this proved remarkably helpful to women ttoublad tils w»y. Any drugstore 'rtYOIAE. PINKHAM’S

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16 Attend Rotary Sponsored Training A party of 16 Adams county 4-H club leaders attended the Rotary sponsored leadens meeting in Wabash Monday. These leaders were: Ervin Schuller. Wendel Long, Hugo Boerger, Ben Gerke, Stanley Arnold, Everett Rice, Don Raudenbush, Harve Ineichen, Charles Burdge, Mrs. Alton Corson, Mrs. Clarence Mitchel, Mrs. Russel Mitchel, Mrs. Lawrence Grote, Mrs. Thelma Bilderback, L. E. Archbold, and Anna K. Williams. These leaders had their noon lunch with the Wabash Rotary club .members.

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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 ocated near her Aunt Angela Wardwell’s country estate. The sudden death >f Angela’s husband, John, had scarred shortly after. Catherine still cherished her uncle's silver leopard lesk ornament which had beem his Christmas gift to her that yean At 1 the Wardwell town house, Angela an- ' nounced her coming marriage to Mike Nye, who had long been a friend of i 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 gating at the Wardwell house. That night Mike phoned Catherine saying he had something urgent to discuss with her and she left immediately for his apartment. There was no response to her ring, but finding the door unlatched, she ■ntered. To her horror she found him Slumped across his desk . . . dead. Suddenly the lights went ont and she ■an to the hallway, headlong into the enant from the adjoining apartment. When the police arrived it was evident they suspected her of the crime. CHAPTER NINE CATHERINE sat up. She straightened her jacket, pulling the sleeves into place. The direct accusation by Captain Pierson cleared rrelevant images out of her brain, made her able to think coherently. She leaned forward on the huge purple and white striped couch, ooked at Pierson steadily and isked a question. “It was the noise of that table’s ping down in there, and the lamp calling .to the floor and smashing, chat brought Mr. Findlater to Mr. Nye’s door, wasn’t it?” “That’s right.” “Then do you think I’d deliberately turn off the lights and run .he risk of colliding with something in the dark and so of attracting attention to myself?” Pierson returned her look stoldly. He was not impressed. There was no figuring what dames would Io when they got excited. Help :ame from an unexpected quarter. “It is an idea, Captain.” It was a new voice. Pierson swiveled around as though he had been shot. Catherine glanced up. A man in well-cut, well-worn tweeds was standing in the doorway fingering an unlighted cigaret. He was vegy tall, in his forties, with a long, clever, lined face, deep-set brown eyes under dark brows and thick dark hair white at the temples. It was the head the Manhattan Homicide Squad, Christopher McKee. Pierson’s eyes and mouth were circles of astonishment When he had last heard, McKee, a Commander in Navy Intelligence, was somewhere in the Far East settling up odds and ends left over from the War. The Captain jumped up from the chair he had been using as a judgment seat. “My gosh, Commander . . . Where °di*i you spring from?” , Inspector,” McKee said briefly. " I .’“ b? ck dgain. I was with the Commissioner when this

The People’s Voice This column for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of interest. Please sign your name to show authenticity. It will not be used if you prefer that it I not be. ♦ Defends The Den Editor Daily Democrat: ’m not skeptical or forward very often but after reading Leonard Foster’s letter in Friday’s paper I’ve decided to find out if the pen is mightier than the sword. I'm a teenager, standing with hundreds of others in defense of the Den. Every one in town says that we’re the leaders of tomorrow, but the Den, and the organization backing it are the only ones trying to teach us how to be leaders. At the Den we’re the leaders; the supervision is to aid us with our problems and to see that there is no smoking or gambling. We are the government and in governing the Den we are being taught the primary problems and ways of government which we will remember when we are governing this city and state or maybe the country. As far as entertainment goes, the Den and school dances are the only means of entertainment some of the kids have and I believe we should have more of them. As far as entertainment sponsored by the city, there is only one way to describe it; in the language of the teenager, “dead.” Decatur is one of the “deadest” towns, as far as entertainment goes, that I have ever seen. Without the Den this matter would be even worse. The times have changed since you were teenagers; the speed of everything has increased. Since opening of the Den, Decatur’s juvenile delinquency has dropped considerably; but close the Den and the kids will go back to running the streets. The church and the school are trying, but are not .putting forth their best effort. We are trying to do what’s right, but quit kidding

can came through." He brushed < Pierson off. The Scotsman had been in the building only long enough to ex- - amine what was left of Michael Nye, and to scan preliminary re- : ports on the young woman found fleeing from an apartment with a dead man in it, and with no pres- , ent indication of any other visitor. He studied the girl caught red- : handed. She was very lovely. She was more than that. Other women had broad childlike foreheads, slen- : der springing brows, short straight , noses and beautiful eyes. That i they had been put together in ; Catherine Lister in a combination ; that was singularly compelling ; wasn’t the point. She had a quick, , leaping intelligence. She was lying stupidly. There was something wrong. She had said that she reached Michael Nye’s door at 10:00 p. m. or a minute or two after, that she heard voices in Nye’s apartment and that in her impatience, she opened the door and walked in. But according to his neighbors, the Findlaters, Nye was alone from a little before half-past nine on. The entire floor at the top of the house had once been a single apartment. The reconstruction of it into two was a flimsy job, the dividing walls were thin and anything but soundproof, and the Findlaters were at all times adequately informed as to their neighbor’s movements. McKee erpssed to the couch, ignored the physical recoil that crowded Catherine back against the cushions, and stooped. Taking her wrist in delicately blunted fingers, he exposed the dial of her wrist watch. And at once the ambiguity of her statement vanished. Her watch was just over a quarter of an hour fast. She had arrived at Nye’s door, not at 10:00 p. m. but at sixteen minutes of ten, and the voices she had heard weren’t in Nye’s apartment; they came from the Findlaters’ radio, which Horace Findlater had turned on at nine-thirty and off at nine-forty-five. He explained it, watching Catherine thoughtfully. It didn’t make her innocent. It did prove that as far as timing was concerned, she was telling the truth. And it opened new possibilities. They were tentative. He sat down in the comer of the couch opposite to her and began outlining them. The night latch, on when the police got there, although the door itself was standing wide, could have been slipped after the crime, by someone leaving the apartment in advance of Catherine. He said, “If so, if the door was unlocked when you arrived, the killer was then, at that moment, the moment when you rang the bell, standing on the other side of the door and about to emerge. He, she—whoever it was—beat a soundless retreat into the bedroom. The bed--1 room opens into the studio. A switch there controls the living room and hall lights. The lights ’ were turned out so that the killer could escape unseen. As he went through the front door, he probably shoved on the night latch. If that was done, it rather looks as though you were selected ae a vic- ; tixn . . .” i He didn’t say aloud. "By some-

yourselves, we couldn’t do near as well without the aid of the Den. The case of the Den and the teenager is just like the weather, every one talks about it, but no one does anything. I believe we should dismiss the case against the Den and the teenager and open a new case against the city and public of Decatur, especially those people, who look upon the Den with an air of suspicion. The Den shouldn’t be debased and criticized. It should be enlarged and the city government and public should aid and encourage ’ the youth .more than it does. But whatever happens, keep the Den. The Defense Rests! Gene Rennele o CHURCH NEWS First Methodist Evangelist Brookshire preached last night on going up to Bethel and dwelling there. He stressed the point of people making and keeping their vows. “Jacob made his vows and failed to fulfill. Every man in some way has made vows, but many times like Jacob fails to keep them. It was 30 years before Jacob finally came to the place where he fulfilled his vows. It Is high time for people to recall tneir vows and determine to fulfill them. A Hindu religionist said to Dr. E. Stanley Jones, your Christ is wonderful, but Christians are not like him. There is much backsliding in the lives of professing Christians. But people do not back slide and then ceane praying. But they cease praying then they backslide. The great need of the Christian world is for people to come back to Bethel and pay their vows. Jacob came to the point where he told his household, ‘Put away your strange Gods, cleanse ‘yourselves and worship the true God.’ It takes a ceaseless self surrender to the will of God to be a victorious Christian.” o Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

one wno Knew you cduld be made to fit the partmecause of that document in there on Michael Nye’s desk.” Voices spoke in the Findlater hall. One of them was a woman’s. Pain quickened in Catherine. “Angela,” she said with a small gasp, linked fingers twisting. McKee nodded. “We telephoned for Mrs. Wardwell.” A patrolman brought Angela to the door. She walked into the room. She came in slowly. A black dinner gown heightened her length of limb under a short black Persian lamb coat with mandarin sleeves. Her shoulders were erect, her head with its gleaming coronet of chestnut braids was high, but her face . . . Catherine’s heart ached. Angela simply wasn’t there. Her face was molded papier-mache with nothing behind it Watching her was like watching a ship cream through blue water with no one at the helm, no life on board. She had been stricken when John died, but she hadn’t been like this. John’s death was natural, inevitable. Mike’s was different. It needn’t have happened. Mike had been slaughtered . . . Angela stood still a few feet over the threshold as though the mechanism that impelled her had run down. She looked through lamp light at Catherine. “There’s —no hope? He’s—gone?" Her voice was as empty as her face. Tears stung Catherine’s eyelids. She didn’t need to answer. Her expression was enough. Angela dropped into an armchair, bent sharply forward and buried her face in her hands. Catherine started to get up and go to her, sank back. Sympathy would be the last strew. Angela didn’t collapse. After a moment, she regained her controA. She straightened and looked at the Inspector. “Will you tell me, please, what happened?” Ashes in her mouth, she no longer doubted. Her acceptance of tragedy, of an end to so much, was complete—and rather terrible. She must, Catherine reflected, have loved Mike very deeply. The Inspector was considerate with her. The facts weren’t. They were brutal. There was no shielding her from them. He put questions to her and she answered them quietly, describing Mike’s day, his arrival in New York that morning, his taking them all out to lunch. The party broke up around three. Mike had some business to attend to and she had gone shopping. At a little after half-past five, he had called her at home asking them, her niece Harriet La Mott, her nephew Tom La Mott, Tom’s wife, Francine and her, to his apartment for drinks and sandwiches. No one felt hungry after a huge lunch. They got there at around ~eventhirty..They didn't stay long.. To»n and Francine left first, then Hat. She herself had gone after Mike telephoned to Catherine. “He was to have called me later. When the police phoned, I thought . . ." Her voice stopped and she crushed a . scrap of white chiffon hard aglinst her ©outh. (To Ba Coatinued)

Two Accidents Are Reported By Police NoOne Injured In Two Accidents Here Two accidents, both attributed to unusual incidents, were reported here by city police this morning. A car driven by Mrs. Fary Andrews. 22, Decater, crashed into a parked car near Second and Washington streets about 4:15 o’clock Monday. The parked car is owned by Harold Teeter, also of this city. The lady driver, accompanied by her two children, said one of them started to fall from the seat and when she made a grab for the child she lost control of her auto. Damage was estimated at $35. Officer Roy Chllcote investigated. At 10:50 o’clock last night a car driven by Mark Schurger, 31, Decatur, crashed into a fourwheeled horse trailer, parked in the 200 block on North Eighth street. Schurger told Officer Chllcote that he was watching a train traveling nearby and failed to see the trailer, owned by Cloice Eicher. Damage to the car was estimated at SIOO and that to the trailer at $35. 0 Trade In a Good Town — Decatur I • : ■ < fOfSSI BALANCf IS THf BASIS OF cross eye CORRECTION! Over 15 years ago, a remarkable tmisctebalancing method for straightening cross eyes was discovered. Since then, the soundness of the Reconstruction Method has been proven by complete success tn ever 7,000 cases embracing all ages and degrees of cross eyes. Startling results are achieved in an incredibly short time—usually in one visit, in ONE DAY! Do a handicapped loved one or friend a great favor... send us their name and they will receive, without obligation mformattes which may change the whole course of their We. tltf •OOKLfl’** Feutatormetamon FnCC this Non-Profit Institution. Write — CROSS SYS FOHNBAnON 703 Commttnfty Bank BMs. Pontiac Mid Man

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