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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evenln* Except Sunday By IBH DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter 1. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y & 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 Mall, beyond Adams and Adjoining counties: One Year, $7; I months. $3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies. 4 cents. If Winchell is right, will he be the next secretary of state? o o Top o’ of the mornin’ to all those who wear the green. o o 0 Your Red Cross depends on you and your contributions make possible the rendering of service to individual and community. o o —— The threatened coal miners and meat packers strikes will not help to convince others that Democracy works. o 0 Speakers with the large audience commanded by some radio commentators should think twice before pouring oil on international flames. News is one thing. Responsibility in handling it is also important. o o The Lobaugh case becomes more puzzling and one wonders if the confessed killer outwited the “truth serum" tests or actually committed the crimes. Chances < are Lobaugh's execution will be deferred in view of the new de- i velopements in the macabre case. 1 o o ' I The Marshall recovery plan now 1 gees to the House, following the 1 Senate’s approval, 69-17. Senator 1 Vandenberg, the leading, if not 1 the only statesman in the Repub-lican-controlled senate, pushed ' aside Senator Taft’s amendment, and it will be seen if that latter's proposal finds a following in the house. If the United States wishes > to put recovery in action, it better i be done before April 18. 1 o- —-o l Thirty persons met death in the ' < airliner crash in Alaska, enroute ’ from Shanghai, China to New 1 York. These cross-continent flights 1 are O. K., but it appears that an 'improvement can be made in 1 navigation. The plane crashed in- ; to Mt. Sanford at an 11,000 feet ' elevation, the top of the mountain extending 16,000 feet. Someone miscalculated the height by 5,000 feet, which is the answer to why the tragedy occurred. o o- — During the first week 6f April,

A Stubborn Disorder to Cure

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. ONE of the most annoying and uncomfortable of disorders is pruritus ani, or itching around the opening of the lower bowel. In many cases, it is also one of the most difficult to get rid of. Os course, its duration will largely depend upon the cause in the individual case, as well as the kind of treatment given. Where it is simply a matter of improper hygiene, proper cleanliness will result in the disappearance of symptoms. Other types of cases present more of a problem, as. for instance, those which are due to allergy or oversensitivity to some food or beverage. If the food to which the patient is sensitive can be discovered, the only which remains is control of the appetite. Once offending items are eliminated from the diet, the trouble will clear up. In certain cases, the use of alcoholic beverages may be a responsible factor in this type of case. Then, too, a few persons may be sensitive to some article of clothing or to some medication which has been applied to the skin area. Allergy, however, accounts far only about one. case in twenty. It would seem that the most stubborn cases—those where the condition has lasted for a year or more—are largely due to a fungus or yeast-like infection. A careful study of scrapings made from the skin to determine the type of fungus present may be helpful, since the treatment to be user! may depend upon the kind of fungus caus

jng the difficulty. In mild cases Os itching in this

a momentous contest bet Vermont and Ohio is to be settled. Gov. Gobson of Vermont and Gov. . Herbert of Ohio will meet in Char- , don, center of the Ohio maple syrup industry. Blindfolded they will taste samples of each state’s '■ syrup, and state the one they like best. The decision is calculated to end forever the long rivalry between those states as to which makes the best syrup. Then Indiana can challenge the winner. o o Since 1941 five times as many civilians have been disabled through accident or disease as there were military personnel injured in battle during the war. In 1943 Congress set up the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation with branches in every state. Already 200,000 disabled persons have been helped in OVR clinics or hospitals. About that many are receiving treatment currently. It costs about S4OO in federal funds to train a handicapped person to help himself. Statistics show that the average annual income for the successfully rehabilitated is $1,700. Therefore this program js profitable both for the recipient and for the taxpayer. —o—o— Military Presidents: At last a general has been found who is willing to run for President. < Marshall and Eisenhower have re- ’ i fused, but MacArthur is ready. £ What has been American experi- t ence with military Presidents? Professional soldiers should be , distinguished from cilivians who r took part in the nation's wars. Washington, Jackson, the two Harrisonsii Pierce, HayeS, Oatfield, Me- c Kinley and Theodore Roosevelt all _ had military experience, but did not make the army their life work. Only two Regular Army men became President, Taylor and Grant. While Taylor died after only a little, more than a year in the presidency, he had already shown , an unfamiliarity with political management, and a military insistence on having his orders obeyed, j that was making trouble. A head- I on collision between North and ' South was looming, which veteran statesmen like Henry Clay were trying to stave off by compromise. Taylor opposed compromise; only his death made its passage possible, and postponed war for another ten years. Grant's presidency was a tragic failure. He, too, was ignorant of political management, and his reliance on friends made his two terms unsuccessful. These are ominous precedents for MacArthur.

area, the condition will clear up quickly if the area is washed thoroughly after each bowel movement. X-ray treatments will give relief temporarily or. in some instances. almost permanently. In other cases injection into the skin area of an anesthetic or pain-re-lieving substance gives ease for about a ten-day period. Alcohol injections in this area may produce a permanent cure, but only when they also produce destruction of large areas of the skin. This treatment is quite painful. and, as a rule, the doctor does not consider it advisable. One treatment which seems to bring permanent relief in severe cases is the cutting of the sensory nerves to this area. This Tnay be done by making incisions through the skin and packing the cut surfaces with a material called oxidized cellulose. This material controls the bleeding and keeps the nerve fibers separated, while the skin itself remains healthy.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS S. M. D.: What causes cold sores? Answer: Cold sores, scientifically . known as herpes labialis. are due to infection by a certain type of virus. They frequently occur in | association with such diseases as the common cold, pneumonia, malaria. and meningitis. It has been found that one X-ray treatment will tend to prevent the recurrence of this condition in many instances. In many cases, further attacks are prevented by vaccination against small - pcx every two or three weeki for a few moiiths.

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I Household Scrapbook ! By ROBERTA LEE O n A Fire Screen Tc make an attractive tire screen, form the frame work out of heavy picture molding, into which is placed a sheet of glass for the panel. This will afford protection from the heat and at the same time will give the pleasure of seeing the fire. Recipe File Pasting the picture of the dish on the reverse side of the recipe card, whenever possible, makes a most attractive recipe file; and you are not liable to forget the suggestions for garnishings. Egg Yolk The raw yolk of an egg will not become dry if it is covered with milk or water. o When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE UP IN Brookfield, sixty miles to the northeast, the occupants of the big white house at the head of the hill were getting ready to dine. By half-past seven, they were all in the long drawing room to the left of the hall, drinking cocktails. Catherine had only taken half of hers but she felt slightly drunk. The lovely spacious room with its fine pictures, its period pieces and shimmering rugs, was swaying faintly. She kept watching for the source of the sway, couldn’t detect it. Nicky was at her elbow. He said something and she answered him absently and fished the olive out of her glass. It was hunger —that was what was the matter with her. She had had nothing to eat for almost twentyfour hours except those two wretched little sandwiches when she first got here. It was emptiness that was making her feel so peculiar, as though there were a wound-up machine under her ribs and it was spinning faster and faster and the room knew it and was responding to its vibrations. Stephen Darrell was there, in a distant corner, beside Hat, glancing over the pages of a magazine with her. dark head bent, long legs crossed. Catherine had shown her surprise openly when she came downstairs and found him in the hall.

He said, "Hello, Catherine.” lazily, | explaining for*general consumption that he had tried to get to New : York, couldn’t make it and had conic on to his shack here in ; Brookfield. Brach ?en would have to wait for his Buick. "Tliat'll teach him to neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Casual friendliness was the note he had struck with her. It suited Catherine perfectly. The machine under her ribs kept on spinning. There was nothing to warrant it. Angela, still tired and rather remote, but looking better, was sipping an old-fashioned and talking to Francine about household matters. "Now that we’re here, we might as well stay a day or two. . . Tom and Nicky were arguing horses and jockeys. Finding her. dull, unresponsive, Nicky had sauntered over to the hearth. It was all usual and quiet and unfrightening, down to the step in the hall preparatory to th? soft chime of the temple bells that would announce dinner. Her uncle had brought the bells back with him from China. Mrs. Barker’s Anna, subbing as a parlor maid, was familiar with the ritual of the house. The chimes didn’t ring. The step ! wasn’t Anna's. Instead, a man in a topcoat walked through the looped amber hangings draping the tall rectangle of the doorway. The newcomer was Inspector McKee. Heads were raised, turned. Everyone stopped talking. Catherine looked at the ■ Inspector, and the machine under her ribe ran down and stopped. The wind had died. The room i was a vacuum. There was no sound in it anywhere. The Inspector had

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March 16 — William Sutlief, 16, killed in motorcycle accident on South Thirteenth street. Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie Deam will be held tomorrow at her home on Adams street, with the Rev. Harry Fernthiel officiating. I Peter J. Baumgartner, 74, well known Berne business man, dies from dropsy. Thirty-two Republican editors of Indiana bolt Watson and form Hoover club. Mr. and Mrs. Giles Porter move from Columbus Grove, Dhio to Findlay, O. Col. Roy Johneon goes to Lancaster, Ohio to conduct a sale. ■ o —- -— The term “Camaflauge” :s a vert’ old one. It was used by the American Indians when donned war-| paint.

come to a halt just over the threshold. He spoke. His voice wasn’t loud. It reverberated in the perfect stillness. “Good evening . < , I’m glad to find you together." He was carrying a box. He put the box down on a sandalwood table near the door. He untied a string and opened the box. The thing he lifted from it was the silver leopard. He put the leopard down on the table beside the box. He took an envelope from an inside pocket, took the bearer bonds out of the envelope. He looked at Angela. His gaze circled the others, too. It returned to Angela. He said, “I’d like you to prepare yourself, Mrs. Wardwell. I’m afraid I have shocking news for you . . And then he told them. The leopard was only a weapon but —they all stared at it, a lump of silver transformed into a bludgeon, raised high and brought down crashingly on living flesh and bone not once, but twice. Mil chael Nye wasn't the first victim. No. McKee said, ’Tm afraid your husband, John Wardwell, didn’t die ■ of a heart attack. Mrs. Wardwell. > His death was murder.” Pattern repeated to infinity. It was like looking into a succession ■ of mirrors, Catherine thought, and . seeing always the same group of

people bound together inescapably. Lamplight, shadow, the gleam of satin upholstery, the shape of a hand, the curve of a cheek, caught and imprisoned and reproduced over and over again. The room was drowned in seas of incredulous horror. Angela gazed at the Inspector sightlessly. She fumbled for the edge of the table, put her glass down, her fingers clasping its crystal rotundity. “No . . . Oh, no.” There wasn’t any air behind her voice. Tom and Hat and Francine surrounded her. They stormed at the Inspector. "You have no right to . , “What do you mean ... I” Sitting stiffly erect, her breast raised, her hands clasping the arms of her chai?, Angela put an end to >L Her face was absolutely colorless. It was like moistened clay, a mask a sculptor hadn’t quite completed. Its definiteness was blurred. She didn't faint. She showed the same strength she had displayed when she walked into the Fifty-ninth Street apartment after Mike was dead. “Please . . . I want to hear . . ." McKee explained, slowly, carefully, and in detail. He told them of Mike's having removed the leopard from Cather- . ine’s apartment on the afternoon 1 of the day he died, of how he himself had thought, mistakenly, that ■ the leopard contained some sort of : secret opening. There was no openI ing. There had to be a reason why i Mike had taken the leopard. • “Then,” he indicated the bonds, “the stains on those were anai lyzed.” I Tom, Francine, Hat and Nicky 1 stared at the bonds. It was Hat

I Modern Etiquette i | By ROBERTA LEE 0 Q. When living in an apartment building where a doorman opens the door every time one enters, is it necessary to thank him each time? A. Why not? A courteous “thank you” costs nothing, and most certainly indicates good breeding on your part. Q. When a woman has been unable to secure a lower berth on a train, and some man offers to exchange with her, would it be all right for her to accept? A. Yes, and such a courtesy deserves sincere appreciation. Q. What should the host do while the lyrstess is receiving? A. The principal duty of the host is to be alert, and see that every one of the guests i£ being entertained. o Lenten Service At Reformed Church The sixth and final mid-week Lenten service will be held in the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The Cathedral sound film, “The Blind Beggar Os Jerusalem” will be shown. Mrs. Henry Neireiter will furnish the special music. The public is invited to attend. Following the Lenten service the confirmation class will be presented to the official board, parents and interested friends, in the social room of the church. Choir rehearsal in the sanctuary following the service. o Final Vesper At Lutheran Church The sixth and final of the series of Midweek Lenen vespers will be conducted Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock, at the Zion Lutheran church, West Monroe at Eleventh street. The pastor of the church, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, will speak on the topic, "The Power of the Cross.” The church choir, under the direction of Walter Nagel, will sing Bach’s arrangement of “Beloved Jesus.” The following services will be

who said with a sort of small gasp, “But those are the bonds that were missing . , . Where . . . ?” McKee slid smoothly over the method of their recovery. "They were found in Clearwater and delivered to me. W’e know nothing yet of how they got there. We do know certain definite things about them.” He indicated the stains. The stains were blood. The blood was not Michael Nye’s blood, it was blood that was much older. It had been deposited on the bonds at a far earlier date. The blood was human blood. He gave them chapter and verse, quoted tests. The leopard next. After Michael Nye’s death, it had been tested and specimens of Nye’s blood had been found in crevices of the carving of the forepaws. The examination bad stopped there. A second and more comprehensive examination was made. And under the round golden spots on the body of the animal other blood stains were found. They were blood stains that were older in origin and that coincided not only in age but in general characteristics with the stains on the bonds.

There could be only one conclusion. The leopard had been on John Wardwell’s desk on the day he died. Checking earlier on Catherine’s story that her uncle had sent the leopard to her as a gift, they had already established that, through Mrs. Bettinger, the caretaker in the Sixty-fourth Street house. In the course of her duties, Mrs. Bettinger had dusted the silver paperweight while Mr. Wardwell was out in the early afternoon on the last day of- his life. Tire bonds and the leopard were indissolubly linked by the tying blood stains, similar in both im stances. The bonds must, therefore, McKee said, have been on John Wardwell’s desk too. The rest was ABC. John, seated at his desk at an unknown hour on that distant day. the leopard at hand, a convenient weapon, a succession of swift blows by an assailant: blood had spurted on the bonds as he fell forward and died.

Angela Wardwel! said nothing. She looked exhausted. Catherine, Nicholas Bray, Stephen Darrell didn’t speak. Tom La Mott and his wife both spoke at once. “But...’’ McKee nodded. He had studied the available data on John Wardwell’s death on the way up in the car. “I know. Mr. Wardwell was found lying at the foot of the staircase in the lower hall, with contusions and a fractured skull attributed to his fall dewn the stairs when his heart failed, tie didn’t die there. He died, ts Michael Nye died, seated at his des!; in the room on the floor above. His body was moved after he was dead.” They fought that, with revulsicn and outrage. McKee let them go ahead. They could have it any way they pleased. The important fact was that John Wardwell had been killed, (To

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