Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1948 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publiohod aver? Evening Except Sunday By HIE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Poll Office ae Second Class Matter I. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y 4 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 Adloinlng counties: One Year, $7; I mouths. $3.75: 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies. 4 cents. The lion's roar wasn’t so ferocious. o—o 0 — 0 For those who keep tract of shopping days, the reminder is offered that only 22 days remain in which to ffo your Easter shopping. o o If disaster ever strikes a community, it’s the Red Cross that goes into action. Food and shelter are provided to victims, because the organization is ready to render service. Your contributions make this service possible. o o The Indiana state treasury will have a surplus of nearly 78 million dollars on June 30. This money should be reduced to lower property taxes, or refunded to loca|' communities. Why did they ever pass that three cent tax on cigarettes? o o Since the well-being of almost every person in the country may be affected by the success or failure of the Red Cross, I strongly urge the united efforts of veterans and civilians alike to make this fund raising campaign a success . . . National VFW Commander Corry. o ——o— — Why should Indiana and Nebraska ledd the country in increased highway deaths during 1947? Are our highways worse, or does the fault with the driver? In percentage, Indiana had an increase of 11.4 percent, running up a total of 1,109 fatalities for the year. Nebraska's increase was 23 per cent. It's not a record to be proud of and Col. Rossow, superintendent of the state police, commented, "This is nothing short of murder.” o o The county salutes the Hartford Gorillas as the sectional champs. The boys played a fine game and had the stamina to hold out during the final contest, which resulted in victory. The Commodores, as challengers made an unusual showing, proving their ability and 1 sportsmanship. This newspaper congratulatts the winners and as--1 sures them that the community will support and root for them as

Symptoms of Sleeping Si ckness

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. FROM time to time, public imagination js caught and held by newspaper stories of children or adults who “sleep” for months or even years, like the princess if the fairy tale. Unlike the princess, however, there is for many such people no joyful awakening, for they are victims of encephalitis or inflammation of the brain, a malady against which medical science has as yet no magic. There are many forms of this , disease, which is now known to be caused by several different viruses. It may also develop following other more common infections, such as measles or mumps. The most important and bestknown type of encephalitis is the one described by Dr. von Economo in 1916. It is known as lethargic encephalitis or sleeping sickness. At the present time, it seems to occur rarely, but widespread epidemics of it have broken out not only in the United States but elsewhere. This malady usually occurs during the winter season, and it is thought that it develops about ten days after the person has been exposed to it. It may attack persons of any age, but is most common between the ages of ten and thirty years. Unfortunately, the exact manner in which this sickness is spread has not been determined, but it does not seem to spread directly from one person to another. There are three stages of the disease: an acute period which lasts from a few days to several months, then a period during •which t£ere are few, if any. symp-

they meet Huntington next Saturday in the regional event. Let’s win it. ). ° ° One anniversary, falling in 1948, will probably not be celebrated, it This is the 600th anniversary of r ; the Black Death, the great epiit demic of bubonic plague, which be- * gan in western Europe in 1348, and in the next decade or more !" is thought to have killed 25,000,000 I. people. Bubonic plague still is found in Asia, but thanks to the war on plague-bearing rats, has been brought under control elsewhere. But if we think that the day of great epidemics is over, f we might recall the ravages of flu 3 that swept over .Europe and the 1 United States after World War I. The Washington family seems less of a historic myth when a flesh and blood member of the ■ clan appears on the American scene. So it was news when Doro--1 thy Anne Washington, a descendant of George’s half-brother Lawrence, received a master of science degree the other day. It was more news that she received this from George Washington University, which the first George had founded with a legacy of 20 shares of canal stock. The University is in Washington, D. C., and Miss Wash- • ington lives in Washington. Miss t Washington majored in zoology. 1 0 Oi— ’ < Benes Next? American diplomats and oiti- • zens generally are interested in the fate of Eduard Benes, presi- * dent of Czechoslovakia, deposed by t"he recent Communist coup. Benes, who speaks English easily, is well known and liked here; he has visited frequently during his long term as foreign minister after his nation was made a Republic following World War I. He served as president for three years until the betrayal in 1938, and again after the Nazis were routed, until the Communist overset. i It is conceivable that this ex- ! perienced statesman and his wife • may escape to England or America * to continue the fight for freedom t of Czechoslovakia. London and ‘ Washington, so long havens for i anti-Nazis, are again becoming J asylums, this time for those flee- < ing Communism. Stanislaw Mihol- j ajczyk, Soviet-deposed premier of Poland, recently purchased a home ' in Washington. His son is a stu- 1 dent at Oxford. ! Benes ffiay follow. Reports have it that he is in frail health. His lift, however, has been devoted to ; fighting for the independence of his nation; presumably he will not . stop now. Both in his official role as demoted president, and as a private citizen, the United States is deeply sympathetic with Btnes.

toms this period lasting for several years; then there follows a chronic stage, which may last for the rest of the patient’s life. During the first stages of the disease, there may be sleepiness with ■little fever. On the other hand, in some cases, the patient is excited and overactive, with high fever. Sometimes the disease runs a very rapid course, with extremely high fever, convulsions, and similar symptoms. In some instances there are mild pains, double vision, headache, and sleeplessness. In the chronic stage, there are twitchings and trembling. There may be some paralysis, convulsions, and changes in the personality, together with disturbances of sleep. Sleepiness is simply just one symptom—not the most common. It may start at the beginning of the ■ illness and last for the rest of the i patient life. Usually it lasts for a i few days, occasionally a few . months, and then recovery follows. ■ The thing to remember, however, i is that sleepiness is a very rare i symptom and, while dramatic and ■ even accepted as an aid in naming i the illness, it is still not too im- ■ portant. ' This condition has been made t the object of much study,' but more > information is needed concerning , the method of spread, as well as - ways of preventing and treating . this disorder. The outlook for > complete and permanent recovery i is not always good in this disease: ! hence, it is important to search ; for measures to pre’ent this dis- • order. ; I

, Leaders At Dairy Day Here Thursday

/£ If -i jS - J ’ Al WMsA ***s§»Mester G. A. Williams K. E. Beeson Dr. F. A. Hall Pictured above are three of the Purdue experts who will be at the Dairy Day school at the Decatur junior-senior high school Thursday. G. A. Williams will be in charge of the Purdue exhibit on artificial breeding; K. E. Beeson will answer soils anti crops questions, and Dr. F. A. Hall, extension veterinarian, will discuss Bangs disease in cattle and swine. —

0 0 I Modern Etiquette i i By ROBERTA LEE I 0 0 Q. Ie it necessary that a person state his reason for declining an invitation? A. No; while it is not obligatory, it is oftentimes a courteous thing to do, and probably will avoid a misunderstanding and resentment. Q. What would be the proper way to introduce Miss S-mith to Mrs. Brown? A. Say, “Mrs. Brown, may I present Miss Smith?” Or, ‘‘Mrs. Brown, Miss Smith.” Always present the unmarried woman to the married one. Q. Is it permissible to greet a friend if one catches his eye while in church? A. Merely smile; to speak or bow is unnecessary. o i Nebraska has some 30,000 regie- i tered cattle brands.

A u PR- i ~-a I Copyright, 1946, by Helen Reilly, F | I I Distributed by King Features Syndicato . ■■ • —J

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 1 HAT’S expression changed. Wor- s ry elouded her eyes. "I do feel 1 badly about Angela, about deceiv- 1 ing her. But . . she shrugged. "You know Angela. Wait and wait and wait—that’s what she’d say. 1 And even when she thought it was t all right, there’d be all sorts of c delays. . . . No. Stephen’s going 1 away, and when he goes, I’m go- t ing with him. Once we’re really j married, Angela won’t say a word. < I think she’ll be grateful that we < did it like this, without bothering j her. And I couldn’t bother her i now.” 1 Talking to Hat was no use, and i it wasn’t any of her business, but I it was odd, Catherine reflected, J how her cousin kept pushing her ] in the role of a spoilsport, a prig, i This time she wasn’t going to play. 1 “Well, it’s your affair,” she eaid 1 with careless friendliness. Someone was bounding up the ■ stairs. It was Nicky. The door ; burst open and he came in. His arms were full of bundles. He shook sleet from his shoulders. He was in high spirits. “Catherine, I hope you’re starving. Wait until I show you what I . . ." He started to put his load down on the table at the end of the couch, turned, and saw Hat He stopped talking abruptly. The light went out of his eyes. He snapped erect His mouth was a thin line. His gaze went from Hat to Catherine and back again. Catherine thought with a sensation of surprise, “Why, Nicky hates her . . There was a Small, sharp pause. Unconsciously, she tensed herself. Hat broke the uncomfortable silence with a little trill of laughter, fresh as running water. "Nicky, hello. You haven’t heard my news.” She told him. Stephen had a friend, a Judge who would sign the necessary waivers ... So she and he . . . Nicky’s black humor fled. His face warmed to life again. “Catherine," he dumped the last of his bundles unceremoniously on the table. Ignoring the clinking of bottles, the spilling of cans, he went quickly to her, took her by the shoulders. “Do you realize It? Do you?” He stuttered a little as he always did when he was excited. ‘lf Hat and Darrell would let us go with them, if . . .” Hat said from behind. “Oh, I see. So that’s the way it is. Two for the price of one ... Why not? There’s no reason why Stephen should object” •Then,” Nicky drew Catherine closer, smiled lovingly down into her face, “we won’t have to wait at all. We can be married now, right away, the first thing in the morning.” “Nicky,” Catherine said, "Oh, Nicky, don’t be foolish . . . The police wouldn’t let us leave the city. If we tried, they’d stop us. They’d . . - Hat interposed again. Propped against the arm of a chair, compact in hand, she snapped open the lid of the gold case and looked at herself in the mirror. Her eyes had dancing lights in them. “Don’t worry about the police, darlings, Stephan , < she glanced at the

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March 2 — The American Telegraph and Telephone company is valued at four billion dollars. Mrs. Lucinda Elzey, 80, found dead in bed at her home thus morning. Bible class at Mt. Pleasant summer school will present the play. “The Path across the Hills.” on March 8 and 9. Mrs. J. C. Magley elected president of the Presbyterian Missionary society. Adams county sectional tournament opens here. Monroe defeats Jefferson, 21-15, and Geneva wine from Monroe, 27 to 12. o North Carolina is fighting fire with fire. A state warden has perfected a special flame-thrower for use in setting back-fires quickly when forests are threatened.

tiny jeweled watch strapped to a v slender blue-veined wrist, “will be t here in a few minutes, and Stephen J has a plan.” f • • • The thermometer had dropped I fourteen degrees since six o’clock, s and the night was bitter. Sleet 1 drove steadily from the northeast, t Pavements, roofs, houses, every- t thing that stood, as well as the s ground itself, was beginning to be v coated with ice. In the back gar- < den of No. 1 Lorilard Place, first- i grade Detective Krantz tried to insinuate his bulk farther under t the wretched protection of a vine- j stripped pagoda, cursing the day 1 he was born, and more particu- 1 larly the day he entered the Police > Department His neck had a crick 1 in it from looking up, his feet hurt, 1 wetness crept down inside his col- i lar, and he was chilled to the bone. , At nine-ten-and-a-half, the lights ; went out in Miss Lister’s apart- , ment. Krantz didn’t move. The men at the front. Detectives Benson, Steinbeck, Carr, and Aderholt were in better shape than Krantz. They were under cover. At nine-eleven, the street door of Number 1 Lorilard Place opened, and four people came out, the Lister girl and Captain Bray, Harriet La Mott and Mr. Stephen Darrell. The two girls had on heavy coats and kerchiefs were tied over their heads, Lister’s was red, La Mott’s green. The two men, carrying umbrellas, further shielded them. They walked to the corner, and hailed a cab standing at the curb. Stephen Darrell stuck his head through the front window, "Fare, driver?” “Where you goin’?” "Uptown.” “O. K. Get in.” They got in. The ruffianly individual reading a racing form by the inadequate light of the dash lamp, first grade Detective Carr, put aside his paper and started the engine. Behind the cab, creeping north up the Avenue of the Americas with caution, came three other cars, not pressing, but not getting too far behind. One was a limousine with a drunk in dinner clothes in it, one was a second hand hack with no passenger, and the third was a nineteen twenty-six Chevy with battered fenders whose engine much belied the wretched repaint job. The passengers in the lead vei hide debated a destination. They couldn’t agree on a movie. Proi posals and counter proposals. “Oh, no, I saw that It’s awful.” “Well, ; what about “Hands Down’?” > "Lousy.” "The review of ’Before ; Morning* was good.” , Divide and conquer—it was finals ly settled that Miss Lister and Captain Bray would try and get , seats for The Turret” at the Bel- > vedere, and Miss La Mott and Mr. > Darrell for “Going West” They . were to meet afterwards In the lobby of the Astor and go on for 1 supper somewhere. So far, so good. Carr dropped i the first pair at Forty-third and 1 Broadway. Behind him, the black > limousine sidled to a stop in front t of a fireplug, and the drunk wa- , vered unsteadily to the sidewalk, i fairly full of people in spite of the

o o I Household Scrapbook I i By ROBERTA LEE | O n Stainless Ink When children wish to write (with fnjtl try using bluing mixed with a little water. If spilled, it wulj cause no injury to the clothing as it can be washed out with one washing. Chicken creole Chicken creole is made by using the left-overs of chicken and gravy. Cook rice, pick the chicken off the bones, mix with the gravy and use small bits of pimento. Heat in the double boiler, or the oven. Rusted Locks the key works jerkily in :the lock of the door, dip it in machine oil and then place in the lock and turn the key back and forth several times. It will soon work smoothly. o The United States produced 39,763,(100 bushels of flaxseed in 1947.

weatner. The chauffeur got out, too. Carr then dropped Miss La Mott and Mr. Darrell at Forty- | fifth emd Seventh. ' Street lamps reflected themselves i in the pavements, signs flashed, sleet flailed down. The brilliantly ' lighted lobbies were filled with j throngs of pleasure seekers, with j umbrellas and without, milling and ’ shoving and trying for place; the 1 watching detectives pressed nerv- ' ously closer. That was at approx- ’ imately nine-thirty-five p. m. i It was nine-fifty-two p. m. that , the first disastrous report, on Ste- 1 phen Darrell, reached McKee in ' his rooms at the top of a tall red- | brick house on East Thirty-seventh < Street The other reports arrived 1 in rapid succession. By ten, the i last was in. One would have been < bad enough, but four .. . Spurlos j versenkt. Darrell, Bray, Hat La i Mott and Catherine Lister had ’ disappeared without trace. McKee stared, narrow-eyed, at the wall. This was the thing he had been afraid of. Nothing he , could do could have prevented it Without warrants for arrest and detention—and that was out of the question at this stage—he was powerless. Surveillance was the only resort It had failed. Four people—one of them might well be a killer, and one, certainly, Catherine Lister, a victim—were on the loose. Sooner or later they would be caught Sooner or , . . The ■ Scotsman stopped stroking his black cat. Cinders, as though her silky coat burned him, walked on eggs to his desk, lifted the phone, and called the telegraph bureau at headquarters. • • • "Warm enough, Catherine?" “Yes, I’m fine.” “Here, let me . . .” Nicky bent over and tucked the rug more firmly under her feet The dark interior of the car was cold. Sleet drummed on the roof, slashed against the windows. The panes were coated with ice so that you couldn’t see very much. Catherine and Nicky were in the back seat, Hat was in front with Stephen Darrell, who drove. The going was treacherous. Catherine had no idea where they were, except that it was in the country. New York lay behind, almost two hours behind. It was a few minutes after eleven. She felt as though she were in a dream, ■ a bad impossible dream, and knew she wasn’t Weight constricted her , lungs, unhappiness pressed In heav- , ily on her. She resettled herself ■ against the cushions, huddled i deeper into her coat and went on staring at slanting lines of white- . ness through the black fan on the [ windshield. t I* the beginning she Ita4 hoped . that the project would fall to the . ground of itself, not that there was r anything particularly startling > about it All over the country, . hundreds of thousands of ex-serv-icemen and the girls of whom they i had been defrauded for months 1 and years were doing the ssme t thing, cutting the corners and t marrying in haste to make up for . lost time. But not in the saw cireumstancQ?. s . (To Be Continued}

List Honor Pupils At Pleasant Mills Honor Student List Is Announced Today The honor roll for the first period of the second semester at the Pleasant Mills high school was announced today by Hansel Foley, principal. There are 22 students on the honor roll, which is as follows. A's B's Esther Foreman 4 Aleta Ratcliff Marjory Merritts Rose Raudenbush 4 Don Sipe Robert Young 4 Barbara Wolfe Ruth Roebuck 3 1 Pat Gephart 3 1 Roger Bollenbacher 3 1 Lois Bauman 2 2 Margaret Luginbill 2 2 Phyllis Heimann 2 2 Virginia Railing 2 2 Dorothy Myers 2 2 Helen Railing 1 3 Mildred Deßoo 1 3 Charles Ripley 1 3 Ruth Gephart 1 3 Bill Sipe 1 3 Virginia Taylor 1 3 John Johnson 4 , o VFW Honor Degree Group Is Organized Installation Held For Decatur Degree The organization of Buggy 19, Pup Tent 23, Military Order of Cootie here has been completed, officials of the honor degree group of the Veterans of Foreign Wars announced today. State and district officials in charge of the installation stated the local unit is one ,of 'the largest original tents dver to be installed in Indiana. The organization will meet on the second and fourth Fridays of each month at the VFW hall. Donald Reidenbach was elected seam squirrel, ruling officer of the

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(Rev. Dwight R. McCurdy, Church of Go<|) ‘‘THE PERIL OF AN EMPTY LIFE’ Out in the country the other day 1 passed an emotv i It was completely uninhabitable. The windows were broke** siding boards were gone, the ridgepole was sagging, the i*' the paint was indistinguishable. The metal gutter was h J loose and swinging in the wind. The lawn was a tangle What is so forlorn as an empty, neglected house? John Mackay of Princeton says. ‘‘A supreme peril th I our generation. It is the peril of a spiritual vacuum then I of a hollow void in the souls of men.” And then I retnembenM words of Jesus recorded in Matthew 12; ‘‘When the unclean I is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seekin and finding none. Then he saith. I will return into my hou-,? whence 1 came out; and when he is come, he findeth it ’ swept, and garnished. Then goetb he and taketh with h? seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse first. EVEN SO SHALL IT BE ALSO UNTO THIS wS GENERATION.” Who can read this text without remembering aniont other things the Europe which Hitler and Mussolini took JU few years ago, a Europe which at the time they came to * had become morally empty and hollow. Because the religon m makes people love one another, be kind, honest, sincere and» forgiving and worshipful, to desire the well-being of all mJ! was gone, something else inevitable moved In. Nazism erm because vital Christianity was asleep. Nazism could never I gained control had not the power of Uuther, the evanzXJ Wesley, grown decadent. The w-orld is dying in its wandering search for a religion w > will fill the heart, satisfy the life, and challenge the soul o changing experience of the new birth is the only answer J emptiness of human lives. This experience can be found In j. Christ alone, but it js for ‘‘whosoever will.” ”

organization. Other officers are: Odes Gould, blanket bum; Herman Hammond, hide gimlet; Bill Fisher, sky pilot; Dick Lichtensteigev, shyster; Joe Martz, jimmy legs; Harry Martz, keeper of recorde; Arthur Franz, keeper of duffle bag; Sherman Gould, hungry cootie; Lloyd Reef, Earl Shoaf and John Bauman, tightwads; Herman Lyons, Maurice Teeple and Roger Christener, delousing crew; Bob Beery, pill pusher; Bob Williamson, shirt reader, and Arthur Hurst, Jr., provost marshal. Mr. Reidenbach stated that the charter of the organization will be kept open for a time yet and veterans who served overseas during wars of the U. S. interested in joining the group are asked to contact him at the VFW hall. 0 Florida has one mile of paved road for each 94 persons in its population, against the United States average of one per 183. We can make IMMEDIATE INSTALLATION of Iron Fireman STOKERS • OIL BURNERS Williamson Round or Square Furnaces For Gravity or Forced Air PAY NOTHING NOW and NO PAYMENTS need ba made until OCTOBER telephone mi for a fryo hpating survey and full information HAUGKS

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MINOR ACCIDENT j t (Continued from Pap? |) I items were valued at jg theft reported to officer W I 27 Hill. Otto Hoffman reported theft of mud flaps and a kd from his car, while it was K p, go on the lot at First and Mg J 1 ! $2 streets. . C A car driven by Harry Steels dg 14 of route two. of the Daily De® sm staff, was damaged this mon j® R when it slid into a parked a W B Madison and Third. Ownersl; i I the parked car had not beent kaa ® Hshed. L Officers reported severalt minor accidents, caused by icy pavements, in which th I volved motorists had not the accidents at a late hour. — o—-—0 —-—-■ I Comber yarn in the cottonifl tile mills means yarn made Isl \ long staple cotton from which ■ ’ short fibers have been 'com| ‘ 1 ■kO JOB JU s ■IM AMD A MfM BIV 80l plasuh I 41 All in one coat! j VsnrECTioN Paint-N PusW the amazing, new, oil-bate pans’* aaad-fini?h texture, brushet «*li! Over ail types of ioside walls. 0* ills and seals minor a® kolas, seams and patched spots.| griming— -oo undercoats—no ra3 aal odors. Six ixauiilul, wattoik pastel shades that dry « «IAMORO«S MEW ««»» WITH AEMAIKABLE £* s£! l Smith Drug Ct.|