Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 15 February 1949 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAIL\ DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller President A. R. Holthouse Editor C. E. Holthouse Treasurer J. H. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoin Ing Counties: One year, $6; Six months, 13.25; 3 months, 31.75. By Mail, beyond* Adams and Adjoining counties: One year, 37.00; 6 months, 33.7a; 3 months, 32.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. So far the title of the mystery melody hasn't been given and it was definitely answered that it wasn't "Toast to the Marines." Food prices are not as high qs they were six months ago. which makes it a little easier for Americans to remain well fed, at less cost. —*—o o When will employment start up- ' ward? The January report shows a new low in local factory employment and while no word takes the place of a pay-check, the bright side may be that the trend will be in the opposite direction next month. • —o —-o—Next week interest will center around the sectional basketball tourney. High school youths will gather here for the all-important event and each game will be watched with a "life or death" tension. Decatur is happy to play host to the players, their parents and guests and we join in extending a welcome to all. -—o o— The temporary husband plan as proposed for western Germany, will not work, the women say. They don't want anything to do with it and most of them believe in marrying for keeps. And a clergyman disapproved 'wi’h the admonition. "It Js out of the question for Christians." That advice should guide the morally minded person. o o Governor Dewey is going out of his way to keep his face in the political picture. The maneuver leads one to believe that he wants to run for the U, S. Senate in 1950, and if he should win then, his eastern friends will again trot him out for the presidential nomination. Our guess is that Dewey is finished politically and that he better ride out his years in the New York executive mansion. o o Collier's magazine prints a story about the slot machine racket and the author estimates that gullible Americans dropped at least three billion dollars in the onearm bandits last year. Legalizing the machiues in the state as a means of getting revenue to pay the bonus .would put racketeers

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By Herman N. Bundeten, M. D. I THERE is’a condition known as J infectious mononucleosis which causes enlargement of the lytnnh glands and an increase in the numher of white cells in the blood particularly those known as mononuclear cells, together with fever and. sometimes, a skin rash. It has been found that following an attack of this condition, symptoms consisting of fever, weakness, pain in the legs, and exhaustion may persist for many months In fact, these ayingtoms have been noted for several years after an a-nte attack of infectious mononucleosis. The outstanding symptom is fatogue. The patient fells exhausted upon arising in the morning, hut sometimes the fatigue begins later on in the day. The legs are weak and sore. Often, mental depressions, nervousness giddy spells, and sweating occur. When the patient is examined, the spleen in the upper part of the abdomen is usually found to be enlanrged: some en larged lymph glands also tnay he found. This condition may lie mistaken for a aumbtr of other disorders, among them being undulant fever, leukemia, tuberculosis. Hodgkins disease, lack of thyroid secretion, and disturbances brought on by the, change of life However a careful study of the blood usually makes it possible to diagnose the disorder accurately. A case recently came to my attention in * dia»nc-~ cf Its--*

in charge of the tax collecting sys-! tern, for gang war would be en-' gaged in among machine owners. I The state better keep away from the venture and follow the legitiJ ♦ ■ i mate way of raising tax funds, it I o o , r The much praised and malignr ed atom has been used to develop it a new clock which the Bureau of v Standards says will be more aecu-; x rate than any previous standard I of time measurement. In this case ; th e atom is not split, but is left intact and its vibrations are utilized. At present the standard by . which time is measured is the ro-; v tation of the earth. But the sclent- • ists say the atomic clock will be 1 j even more accurate than the earth.i l Present clocks are set occasion- ; ally according to the timing of the, ' J earth's turn. 'I o o -I Governor Schricker is holding' , > firm to his plan of not having a I lot of laws passed during the current session of legislature and is • guiding the law-making body to- i > ward solution of the more import- ■ ant bills. The primary bill may be- > come law and of course the as- : sembly is expected to pass a law O' ■ that will raise funds for the sold- I I : iers' bonus. These and a half doz- q etn other measurers rank first among those in the legislative hop-' n • per and with only three weeks re- *' . ri inaining, the assembly will have 'to set the law-making machinery! 1 in high gear to get approval. o—o The most disappointed communities last year were those which did not get to see the Freedom Train, or found its stay in their towns . too short for the number of citizens who wanted to visit it. Now j the House Post Office Committee • has voted a 33.ddb.000 aippropria- 1 1 tion to keep the train running for three more years. No sight could I be more conducive to patriotism j than the chance to view such price- < less documents as the original of the Constittrion or of the Declara- t tion of Independence. The one fear ( is that these priceless documents t may suffer from constant traveling. 1 o o ■ Terrified and hysterical listen- < ers to a radio program along the J lines of Orson Welles' end-of-the- t world-type, raided and destroyed • a newspaper office and radio sta ( tion in Quito. Ecuador the other i evening. Twenty persons were kill- j ed. scores were injured and the i army had to be called to settle the > ( mob. The program was a dramati- t < zation of H. G. Wells' fantastic nov- p el "The War of Worlds." apd it was < . frequently explained by the broadcaster that the whole thing was t fictional. However, fear seized the j listeners who evidently thought the end of the world was at hand. Hu- ( mans are funny and presumably it < i takes little prodding to incite ‘ wrath and frenzy. Such programs i should be barred from the air.

I emia was suspected, and of course ( ( the affected person was panic j ( stricken since leukemia is a fatal . disease. However, careful blood studies showed that he had infec- i tious mononucleosis. 1 The blood examination shows ! that .from one to seven per cent of ’ 1 the white blood cells known as monocytes are of abnormal form. , After staining, the abnormal ceils ’ have a peculiar blue color. I It has been found that infectious mononucleosis can be treated satis- 1 factorily and the symptoms relieved by using an extract made from the adrenal glands located above the ( kidneys. The extract is given by , mouth and is taken on arising in i the morning. After about the sec- 1 ond week of treatment, there is rapid relief of the symptoms. As ’be symptoms disappear, the spleen be j comes normal in sire. ( Persons who have had an attack of infectious mononucleosis should i remain under the physicians care 1 until all symptoms clear up. so that i if this disorder becomes chronic it may be properly treated QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A. K.: My gastric analysis find ing is 31’. Boes that mean 1 hare | an ulcer? What may be the cause? | | Answer: It is not clear what is 1 meant by gastric analysis of 34" I J presume you hare an excessive | amount of acid in the stomach Such a condition is frequently ore * sent in cases of ulcers; however , the excess acidity may come from' other catuio. I

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CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE MARK put his thumbs ostentatiously in his armpits and patted his chest with bland approval. "Ladies," he crowed, looking at Donna and her mother, "regard me well 1 have arrivect" “I know it," Donna commented briefly. "I let you in.” "Oh, 1 don’t mean just getting here. I have attained the heights of the immortals. I have instituted a marriage." "Nothing particularly unique about that,” said Donna. “There’s plenty unique about this one. However, 1 will descend to your factual level since you insist Sammy and Red Islip are going to be married and 1 am the vice-president in charge of church decoration. So 1 measured the church. Sammy met me there. We measured it together. When I think of me holding one end of a tape measure and beauty personified holding the other end— Excuse me, till I catch my breath.” "They aren't going to be married until next year,” objected Donna. "Oh, yes, they are. They’re going to be married as soon as they can prove they are healthy enough. And at «ny instigation. 1 am the overgrown Cupid sticking arrows into them. I am decorating the church. 1 am helping paint Red's apartment, too.” "Do you mean they are going to be married right away, Mark? They can’t. The apartment will blow sky-high without Sammy.” "Ah, so your little Comintern is! dependent on a Staliness, is it? I thought all you comrades were equally high-minded, pure-souled and—excuse the commercialismefficient" "They can't run it without Sammy,” Donna said. “Not for a minute. Maybe that is what she, was going to tell me when I cut > her off. How come you know so ■ much about it?" "1 am their confidant I am their adviser. Also, 1 am their ’ painter and their furniture heaver and their church decorator.” “Well,” Mrs. Collwell remarked meekly, "1 must say I am rather glad she is getting married. To somebody else, 1 mean. Alan always said a beautiful wife made an unhealthy husband.” "Os course Red isn't married yet, but so far he is in the pink. The positive pink. Tain’t funny, Magee.” "Mark," Donna broke in abruptly. “if you wanted to locate somebody in another town very quickly, how would you go about it?" Mra Collwell laughed. “You might as well be an old married man, Mark. That's the way wives chuck things at their husbands when they're in a tight place. ’lf you were where 1 am, darling, what would you do about it?' Many's the time Alan used to hear that. And he always had an answer, too." Mark observed with acute amazement that there was venom in the glance Donna threw at her mother. Venom! In Donna’s velvety eyes! And toward her mother! “I suppose I'd send a telegram,” he said carefully. “1 mean if you have no address. And if you aren’t sure which town he's in. Oh. you may as well know. It's Dad. He's out West again and we want to get bold of him right away and we don’t know where he is. We want to get hold of him—quickly, Mark. And desperately." "Where is he out West? Chicago? He was there last week, wasn't he?" “Yea. He went back Tuesday'

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A. The girl should return all presents to the senders at once, with notes of explanation. Q. Is it good form, when introducing two persons, to say, "This is my friend, Mr. Wilson"? A. No; this would imply that the ■ other person is not a friend.

night He finished things up in Chicago on Saturday, Then he was going to SL Louis and Minneapolis— both of them—but nobody knows where he was going first nor how long he was going to stay. He isn’t at any of the hotels we know about and nobody has heard of him. Now how would you go about locating him?" “Well, it it was very important to reach him quickly, I think I'd get a good detective agency on the job." "How would you do that? We don't know anything about detective agencies in those towns. And we’re not sure which town." “Well, from here—" Mark spoke slowly, measuring his words, trying to catch a flash from Mrs. Collwell’s eyes and tailing—"well, from here, I’d line up the best agency m New York, 1 think. They will have their own contacts in all those towns. They would check all hotels, and tailing there, the high-class rooming houses. That would be a starter. Naturally they would check hospitals and police records, warding against possible accident Is it .hat sort of thing you had in mind?” “The hotels first How long would it take for a detective agency to check all the hotels in both those towns?” “If they put enough men on, they should cover tl>e ground by morning, 1 should think. Do you have to have him by morning?” "We have to have him the first minute we can get hold of him. Will you take me to town, Mark, and line up the detective agency ?” “We don’t have to go to town. I can do it from i. jby telephone. I'll use the company’s name. After all, that podnership should be worth something.” “Wil! you do it, Mark? Right away? Tel) them we do not care what it costs." Mark looked scarchingly at Mrs. | Collwell, who did not meet his eyes. “Is it as important as that, Mom ?" he asked. “Do you need him tomorrow as badly as that?” "Donna docs,” she said quietly. “Personally 1 don’t think it will do a bit of good but, if Donna wants to try it, it’s perfectly all right And we shan't mind the expense.” “Mother doesn't care!" Donna cried furiously. “She doesn't care! She is the one who—” “Donna persists in thinking it was my idea, Mark. It wasn't But if she thinks so— Well, you can't help thinking what you think, I suppose.” "Is -he sick, Donna?" Mark asked uneasily. "What shall I tell these people when I call up ? What are they to do when they find him?" "Nothing. Just find him. Wire us his address and keep an eye on him. Never let him out of their sight for a minute. Not for a minute." . “Your father will not like this, Donna," Jean warned her quietly. “I don't care what he likes! 1 do: 1 like it either! Please phone, Mark. Phone quickly. And we don’t care what it costs." "Do you object to it, Mrs. Collwell?” he asked. “Is there any reason why I shouldn’t?" “No, I do not object And there isn’t any reason why you shouldn’t, since Donna wants it But Alan won't like it'* “Mark, listen to me! Don’t pay any'attention to her. MotherMother is out of her mind. Dad is too. Listen, Mark. My father went out there and isn't coming back. He's going to commit suicide. Mother knows it She let him do it That's why I’ve got

Q. Where should the monograms be placed on breakfast and luncheon napkins? A. In a corner of the napkin, and, of coprse, the napkin should be folded in such away as to display the monogram. Io 0 20 YEARS AGO TODAY o -- 0 Feb. 15 — Two hundred and fifty Wells county taxpayers file remonstrance against proposed dredging of Wabash river through Adams county. The Rev. Louis Rocca, of Fort 1 Wayne, raps our system of educai tion in talk to Decatur Rotarians. The Decatur school board is buying 75 tons of coal. Decatur second basketball team defeats Bluffton seconds, 38 to 22. Dr. N. A. Bixler goes to Columbus, Ohio, to take post-graduate course in optometry. Portland teachers visit Decatur schools today. 0 0 Household Scrapbook | | By ROBERTA LEE > fl . ; Hands To soften and whiten the hands, mix one ounce of glycerine, three ounce's of bay rum, % dram oil bergamot, and apply. Qr. rub well at night with olive oil and wear sleeping gloves. Stains White stains on mahogany tables, made by placing hot dishes on them, may in most instances be removed by rubbing the spots with a

i Mark laughed aloud overi whelmed with relief. "Donna, you little fool," he cried. ’'Grow up and act your age. You know Dad ; Collwell wouldn’t do a thing like : that! Suppose he did have a row i with your mother! Suppose he did ' mosey off in a huff threatening i to do himself in! It doesn't mean a tinker's damn. For gosh sake! , Dad Collwell isn’t the type. He I isn't that sort. He’s probably i laughing himself sick over it by this time.” “Tell him, Mother!” Donna's voice was harsh. I "We didn’t have any row, Mark. We had a very pleasant week end.” “They—they sat here and talked about it for three days!” Donna cried angrily, “They went over his , papers and fixed things up wijh the lawyer and .played pinochle and—she didn’t even tell me!” Mark's troubled eyes went to Mrs. Collwell. “That’s right," she assented. "He decided that was what he was going to do and he wanted to do it as—well, as comfortably as he could. Comfortably for us, 1 mean. That's all. It's just that Donna doesn’t like it.” “Donna doesn't like it! Donna doesn't like it!” Donna rose to her small height and clenched both • hands at her breasts. “She sits there and sews on buttons and says Donna doesn’t like it. 1 tell i you she’s out of her mind!" "Sit down, kitten,” he said in a : voice meant to be soothing but which rang hollowly. “Cool off. , Be nonchalant Light something or other. I’ll phone. Personally, I think you’re all crazy, the whole kit and boodle of you. But it shall • never be said that I deserted a i sinking booby hatch. Now give me the dope. Let me write it down. Name. 1 know that De- • scription, I doubt if they'll need that since his hotel registration will identify him. As many opi eratives on the job as necessary , and cover the ground quickly. ExI pense no item. St. Louis or Minneapolis, you say? It would save , time and money if we knew i which." i “Cover them both.” Donna was , coherent again. “He was going both places." i “Right. There’s no chance he would be using an assumed name, is there?” he asked suddenly. , "That would be quite a comph- , cation.” i “Oh, no,” Mrs. Collwcll said i confidently. "That wouldn't Jit his plan at all He isn't going to dis- ; appear, you know. He wants them I to find the body and identify it. : Besides, he has business to transI act in both those towns. He will have to do that under his own ■ name. That is why Donna is so > anxious to catch him in the first • town, before he finishes up his l business and—finishes up. Oh, he'll be under his own name! I'm sure of that.” "AU right I’ll attend to it You [ go and fix us a nice stiff drink, , Donna. The jitters are catching.” “I always thought that was one of the nicest things about a husband," Mrs. Coilwell remarked • pleasantly. “He always thinks of something to do in an emergency. [ Lots of times, of course, things don't work out very weU and open , turn out very badly. But he always thinks of something.” Mark saw the tightening of Donna’s fist and felt momentary I panic that she was going to strike her placid parent. He caught her by the arm and whirled her about The kitchen, my love.” he said. “And make ’em stiff. I’ll tend to . my chore and you tend to yours.” > (To Be Continued;

cloth moistened with camphorated oil. Poached Eggs Try poaching eggs in hot milk instead of water, and see how much more tasty they are. They will also be more nourishing. Michigan Legalizes Colored Oleo Sale Lansing. Mich. Feb. 15 — (I P) 1 Sale of colored oleomargarine will become legal in Michigan 90 days after the close of the current state legislative session. The state senate completed action on the law last night, voting approval 21-7. The law had oeen demended by petition of nearly 200,000 citizens and became the first initiated act in Michigan's history. It cannot be vetoed by the governor. CARD OF THANKS We wish in this manner to thank our neighbors, friends and the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church for their sympathy and many acts of kindness during . , our recent bereavement. Hurst Family. '

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52 Monmouth Pupils Visit State Capital Fifty-two Monmouth high school juniors and seniors were in Indianapolis today on a one-day tour of the statehouse, the Circle and other points of interest. They left in buses early this morning with faculty members Noiman Robinson and Mrs. Ethel Dewey in charge. Mr. Robinson is a native of the capital and acted as guide. Among the objects of their tour were the Circle monument, the World War II memorial, Christ Episcopal church, a few of the large department stores, and the legislature. CARD OF THANKS 1 wish to thank the Adams county memorial hospital, the General Electric Co.. Very Rev. Msgr. J. .1. Seimetz for his consoling words. Gillig & Doan and all those who in any way helped during the sickness and death of my sister, Agnes ! Conter. Christine Conter I Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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Farmer Killed When Train Smashes A U f 0 I Edgerton, Ind., Feb. 15 _,. ■ Funeral arrangements wer? P '' i made today for Arthur You?’ ' year-old farmer north of h?' 35 was killed when his truck ? Wll > by a Nickel Plate freight t? 111 ■ Payne, 0., yesterday att ? 11 ■ Young apparently failed to s ?" • train approaching and drove ?' 1 ly in its path, authorities sai ? 1 was killed instantly. 111 Albert A. Abromson New Portland Mayor Portland, Ind., Feb. 15 __ (Vpi Albert A. Abromson started ou* »■ first term as mayor of Portlandt* day, filling out the unexpired > ' of mayor Fred B. Jones, who d« 1 two weeks ago. Abromson, who had been cit ' attorney since Jan. 1. 194$ ’ elected at a city hall meeting i a * ( night and took over his office ij mediately from acting mayor Hui Miller. He has two years and 1 months to-serve in the unex.im . term.