Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1949 — 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 Dick D. Heller President A. R. Holthouse Editor C. E. Holthouse Treasurer J. H. 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, $700; 6 months, $3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. Now it is down to the Big Four in Hoosier basketball. o o Old blustery March will have to give way to Miss Spring in another week. o o American Red Cross field directors at military posts and hospitals in this country and overseas provide needed service to members of our armed forces whereever they may be. Counsel and guidance on personal aid, and verification of the need for emergency leave are always available to servicemen and women. Your contribution to the 1949 Red Cross Fund Campaign will keep these workers on the job. o—o Speculation is rife that the Indiana bonus bill is not constitutional. It required the entire 61 days of the session to get the act through the hopper and if the courts hold the law unconstitutional, it is probable that a constitutional amendment will have to be submitted to the voters in 1951. Why not go ahead and raise the money and then just pay the bill, before the matter is tested in court. o o John L. Lewis was quiet for a few months, but with spring coming on, he has called out the miners for a two weeks lay-off. It can't be vacation with pay for the miners, since they already have enjoyed that privilege. The nation's coal pile is estimated at 70 million tons, which will run the country about 45 days and in the meantime, Lewis may order the men back to work. Presumably, Old JL, runs the coal mining business to suit himself. o—o Thomas Paine, the agitator who ts said to have won George Washington over to the belief that the colonies' grievances against Great * Britain could be solved only by revolution, is not generally regarded as a cautious man. However, a newly found letter, which came up at a New York auction sale, shows that in 1789, when he wrote this letter, he was far from rash. He predicted that America would be as powerful as England "in 1,000 years, perhaps sooner." What would Paine say now if he

Facts on Mushroom Poi soning

By Herman N. Bundesen M. D. ■ IT has been said that a little knowledge la often a dangerous thing, and health officers know only too well how true that is. It is not unusual for cases of mushroom poisoning to develop because persons rely on 'popular methods of testing mushrooms For example, sone people hare the idea that, among other things, if the mushroom is of a poisonous variety it will cause silver to blacken. This is by no means the case. And, unfortunately, the mushroom which is the most frequent cause of poisoning. is pleasant to taste and is not made harmless by cooking or ■by digestion. This poisonous variety is'kncrn as the Amanita phalloldes. eixperts quickly recognize, by the appearance of this mushroom, that it is different from the kind that can be eaten. For example, the cap or mouth Is marked -with dark green lines, and the stem is large. Vomiting and diarrhea, beginning eight hours or more after a person has eaten mushrooms Is evidence that poisoning has occurred. These first symptoms are followed after a few days by liver or kidney damage, such as enlargement of the liver, jaundice or greenish discoloration of the skin, tiredness and drowsiness. The treatment consists of eliminatiu; th? pobenouw lUbUatco b"

could be restored to life, and whet predictions would he now make? —o —o — Governor Schricker has signed ’’ the road fund bill, which gives the t state highway commission 53 per cent of all truck, passenger car r and gasoline taxes. The remainder r will be divided between the coun--1 ties and cities; the former getting [. 32 per cent and cities 15 per cent, s With the increases made in the truck and passenger car licenses, ; the state should receive some- • where near its former 60 per cent, while the counties and cities will get a bigger slice of the taxes for f road and street repairs. o o — The legislature passed a law > permitting cities to install electric garbage grinders in homes and the city of Jasper in Southern Indiana, proposes to be the first community in the United States to launch a city-wide program tor putting the grinders in every kitchen, if such a program is completed, garbage gathering and hauling would be eliminated. Installation of the devices would be financed by municipal bonds and liquidated through service chargee. The plan sounds rosy, but what about the problem of dumping all the ground garbage into the river? The health board would probably prohibit such a scheme, or at least require the city to install a sewage treatment plant, connected to all the sewers. As has frequently been said, one of America's biggest problems is the disposal of its garbage. o o Warning By Radar: The plan to set up a radar warning screen along borders and coasts passed smoothly through the House, the strength of its support indicating that Senate approval also can be expected. This is a defensive step which should be taken. We have radar, and might as well make the most effective possible use of it. But while setting up a radar screen we should at the same time keep its limitations well in mind. in a sense, the projected radar screen would be a kind of Maginot Line. It would only be useful, from a military standpoint, if a war actually occurred. It would not be of much help in preventing a war. If we may judge from ■ the experience of Pearl Harbor, ' where a warning system of com- I parable effectiveness was in ope- ! ration, it probably would not even prevent a successful surprise at- j tack. Its chief value would be, in 1 a war actually begun, in reducing the effect of attacks by air and increasing their cost to the enemy. The radar screen would be a good security measure. But let no one make the tragic error of thinking it would make us safe. The only way we can make ourselves safe from the next war Is to prevent it from happening.

t giving plenty of fluids and protecti i ing the liver and kidneys. i| The measures employed consist of washing the stomach and bowel three times day with a salt solution. and giving injections of glu- ' cose, that is. a sugar ami salt solution. into a vein. Vitamins K and • B-l should be administered for they i aid in combating the effects of the “' poison. • It is also suggested that a lime ' preparation of calcium gluconate be given by injection into a vein. It. 1 too. helps in combating the poison. ■ Within about six days, feeding by 1 mouth can be started in the foym ; of fluids, such as a sugar solution and milk. ! Recovery is more likely to occur 1 ; if violent diarrhea and vomiting begin soon after the mushroom is ' eaten, and if treatment is started ‘ early enough. Os course, no one, should eat any 1 mushroom concerning which there is any slapicion. ti i QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS t J. B.: What is a hiatus hernia? t Answer; Thia term usually refers i to hernia of the diaphragm at the . i point of the passage of the esopbafU The esophagus is a tube which ■ leads from the mouth to the atomI ach. The diaphragm is a thick rrnsI- cle. partitioning the abdominal cars' tty Iron the chut cavity.

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0 ft | Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE 0 ; 0 | Q. At a church wedding, on which side of the main aisle should pews i be teeerved for the bnde’s family I and the bridegroom's family? j A. The left side for the bride’s •family, and the right side for the j bridegroom's. L Q. What is the limit in knives and i forks when a table is correctly set? ■ A. Two knives (sometimes three), i i and not more than three forks. ■Q. Does the man or the woman make the first offer to shake hands I when being introduced? j A. The woman, always. However, j she should show no sign of hesi- 1 I tation should the man offer his I hand first j The world’s largest fresh-water • fish-packing combine is at Colei rain, N. C., where three herring plants can put up a million and a half fish a day.

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN FOR AN instant Ingrid Johnson sat motionless, as if Tim’s statement that her papers had been taken from Molly R's safe had stunned her. "My papers? Do you mean my citizenship papers and letters I keep there? How, when were they taken? Who would want them? Is anything else missing? Were the jewels or the money stolen?" "No. Whoever opened the safe—" “Was it cracked?" "No. Someone got wise to the combination. The thief apparently wanted only your papers and Roger Stewart's letters to his wife." ‘Those gone? Then they were what the safe-opener wanted, mine were red herring drawn across the trait Molly B. has told me that in them her husband indicated what he wished done with this property, eventually. Who would be the most interested person to know? That's easy. Henry Lander. He’s scheming to marry her to get this place. He’s not so much younger than she, as you—" "Not so loud, Ingrid. Voices carry in this clear air and it's hush-hush that the safe was opened." “Sorry. When did Molly B. discover that the papers were gone?" He told of the lost safe combination, of Debby's notebook on 1 the floor. "What do you make of It?" "It must have been someone in the house and r first offender or he—or she—wouldn’t have forgotten to put back the notebook. Come to think of it, I'm not so sure it was someone-in the house. Now, I'll tell you something. I heard steps on the balcony outside Molly B.'s living room early this morning and yelled." "You’re telling me. Don't you krow that you brought every guest in the house, except Sophy Brandt, to that door at 4 a. m.?" "Molly R didn't tell me that She honestly believed 1 had a nightmare and I let her think so. Between the first and second scream 1 would have sworn 1 heard footsteps going down the balcony steps. I’ve been afraid someone would come for her jewels, have begged her to keep the dog in her living room at night" “Where does he sleep ?" "Scraggs takes him to the service cottage. Cockj is a dear, but he runs away and then appears , at an unearthly hour in the morn- | ing and barks on the terrace to - be let In. I don't wonder Molly B. I doesn't want him in her apartment When the butler has him he barks under his window." I "Why didn’t you tell Molly B. about the sound you heard?" "With daylight came'the suspicion that I had had a nightmare, they can be terribly real No one else apparently had heard anything unusual Why worry her? Then I was caught up in the Flower Show-caught is tight, I • felt as if I bad been ebumed round

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~20 YEARS AGO ° TODAY o 0 March 14 — Two unmasked bandits hold up the bank of Linn Grove and escape with over $2,000. J. B. Simcoke, former Decatur man but long time resident of St. j Louis, Mo., dies at the home of his niece. Mrs. R. D. Myers here. I Walter J. Krick, principal of the Decatur high school, goes to Chicago to attend meeting of the North Central Association. Max Kidd and H. L. Curtis go to Indianapolis to attend the state basketball tournament tomorrow. •Frank Hirschy’s Model-T Ford destroyed by fire while parked at the White filling station, Eighth and Monroe. The lamb crop for New Mexico in 1948 was estimated to be 947,000 | lambs, which was five per cent less than a year ago and nine per cent below 1944. • I

and round in a squirrel cage before the day ended—and I haven't thought of those mysterious footsteps again until now. I believe—" "Miss Johnson." Scragg’s sleek voice brought them to their feet. How long had he been behind them? How much had he overheard? “What is it, Scragg?” Ingrid inquired and clutched at Tim's sleeve. Was she o/raid of the butler? "Mrs. Carroll would like to speak to you on the phone, something important about the Flower Show, he said. She's holding the line." "More heartburning because of the prizes, probably, Tim. The next time I have anything to do with awards I’ll be older—a whole lot older. I'll answer at once, Scragg." “Very good, Miss." The butler hesitated as if waiting for her to precede him, then turned and stalked toward the house. “You don’t have to run, Ingrid," Tim suggested as he kept pace with her through the fragrant garden. “You could call the Carroll person if she hangs up, you know.” “Scragg was so solemn, his voice scared me, suddenly coming on top of your news." At the long, open window on the terrace she stopped. "How did he know where we were? Something queer about that," she added in a whisper before she stepped into the room. "Mrs. Sophy, what has happened?" Her concerned voice drifted out “You are crying." There was a muffled reply before Sophy Brandt came slowly through the open window and sank into a deep chair. Tim heard one sob and then another. "Anything I can do to help?" he asked before he seated himself beside her. She drew a iong ragged breath. “I’m afraid you can’t, Tim. Why, why does life have to get in such a mess when one Is old?" "Cheerio, lady, you’re not old. You and Molly R were classmates. Do you know of anyone, except teen-age bobby-soxers, who would call her old?" "But she has her work. I have nothing. I can't write or paint, I can knit, play the piano, but who wants that with plenty of youngsters to do it?" “You could run a house, couldn't you?" “Certainly I could run a house, but who would engage a woman my age?" "For Pete's sake, forget that age obsession. Some psychiatrist should start a movement to isolate the bug. It does more harm than the boll weevil by the loss to the world of experienced workera 1 would engage you. I had planned to ask you to live in my bouse and be my hostess." ’Tun." Excitement brought her out ot her slump. Even in the dusk of the terrace he could see her checks redden slowly, light

'♦ • | The People’s Voice | This column for the use of our I readers who wish to make sugi gestions 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 not be. • • Stamps For Veterans . An effort to supply the stamp clubs of the various veteran’s hos. pitals is being made. If you have any surplus stamps old postal cards, or envelopes, either domestic or foreign, send them to:F. W. Stauder PMCC Bureau Hospital Vets, . Box 631, Main Office, Dayton, Ohio. Attend Convention Os Rural Bankers Elmer Baumgartner of the First State Bank of Berne and county agent L. E. Archbold will attend the Indiana rural bankers annual con vention at Purdue Thursday and Friday. Mr. Baumgartner is vicechairman of the state organization. One feature of the two day meet will be having the convention delegates divided up into teams that will study a typical farm layout, then plan a cropping system for the farm. The cropping system planned will be the most intensive possible, consistent with good soil management. After the cropping system or rotation yields are determined, the groups will be asked to plan a livestock program that will utilize the roughage and grain. The last step in this work will be that of laying out the fields on the farm to fit the rotation. The above work follows the same plan that the Purdue extension department teachers in their farm planning school. With the help of John Dunbar of the farm management department and county agent Archbold, Stanley Arnold. Louis Schuller, Sam Yager. Phillip Nussbaum, Don Raudenbush, Harold Zeigler, Harry Raudenbush and Holman Egly have just completed such j a study on their own farms. ~ - X - - - -

- flame in her blue eyes. The diat monds on her fingers shot trides- ■ cent sparks as she clasped her ’ plump hands. t “Do you mean it? In your . mother's lovely house with its 1 choice equipment? You—you are • not just kidding me, are you?" The breathless, unsteady question I tightened his throat s “Now I ask you, Mrs. Sophy, ! why should 1 kid you? Here's the situation.” ) He told of his intention to have ■ his own home, that because of the r help the Center had been during B the war there would be many scientists coming to the college whom f he would want to entertain wheth- : er he were the Head or not, that > together they would work’out a B budget, that during the year since , his mother's death considerable income had accumulated which r meant they wouldn’t have to pinch J pennies: suggested the amount of I her salary and asked if she thought it would be fair. ' "Fair? It is too much, Tim. I b can manage a house that size with I one hand tied behind me.” • "We’ll let it stand at that sum. 1 Remember, you haven’t taken a crack at housekeeping since the I war, conditions are very different, ; 1 understand. There will be more , to it than managing a house. I'm ! likely to jump a bunch of guests B on you at short notice and with I service and food conditions as they • are you may have to hustle to provide both, then appear as an • unstampedable and gracious hostI ess. How about it? Want the job?" b "Want it? It sounds like heaven, i As to service I believe 1 can solve i that problem. My mind has been I running double track as you talked.- When will 1 begin?" ! The workmen will be out to- • morrow. How about looking over I the house in the morning and making a list of what we’ll need , to carry on? You'll find it a 'mess, i A lot of barrels of china, trunks of linen and some mirrored stuff were sent on from the New York . apartment, most of the furniture i was sold there. Til have the silver I sent from the bank. Is your answer still yes?" i "Double yea Til see that you , have the most perfectly run house t on the campus—always excepting l this-Sarah Allen is an expert. Shall I ten Molly R?" I “Sure. This isn’t a secret compact Well drive to the—" “Run to earth at last. Mrs. Soi phy." Deborah stepped through the open window to the terrace. i Little rivulets of silver glistened I on her short-sleeve pink dinner ! frock. "Sam Farr is looking for i you. Oklahoma coming up." b Sophy Brandt seemed Inches I taller as, with chia lifted, ahoul--1 ders back, she crossed to the winl dow. “He’U get me, what's more my ■ opponents won t see me for my ! smoke." Her laugh was unsteady, i “Life begins at sixty-flve. Tun." > I ?To Be Coittimri)

• Red Cross Fund You, too, con help through Your RED CROSS * =s dl GIVE NOW Previously reported ... $1,247.05 Rollie Barkley, Sec. 6 Union 13.00 John B. Faurote, Sec. 27 Wash. —- 14 - fio Dan Railing, Sec. 29 Wash. 400 Clement Lengerich, Sec. 8 ’t Wash. 3.00 y Henry M. Cook, Sec. 36 e Wash. 27.00 J- Loren Kruetzman. Sec. 13 <1 Preble ■/—- 5.00 e- Reinhard Werling, Sec. 27 1. Preble 15.00 Miss Wilma Andrews, Chr. :t Town of Preble 51.50 s ’ E. M. Webb, Chr. Town of ll Berne, Partial Business 238.00 L Krick & Tyndall, Factory 73.00 e Adrian Burke, Decatur 14 Business Zone No. 4 Parb tial 57.00 -• , Eastern Star Decatur .... 25.00 r I Weldoh Neuenschwander, e Sec. 4 Wabash ........ 8.00 s- Earl Sipe, Sec. 27 Blue e Creek 5.00 p Fred Marbaugh, Sec. 22 g ; Blue Creek 7.00 e Tillman Lehman, Sec. 14 Hartford 6.00 Harvey Lehman, Sec. 13 e Wabash 8.00 l». ” Total $1,806.55 •f • ■ it Fall From Haymow s Is Fatal To Farmer !■ I i-j Sunman, Ind.. March 14 —(UP) 1- — Funeral services were arranged h today for August Richter, 47, who died in a Batesville hospital yesterday. He was injured March 2 when he fell frem a his farm. Russian Wheat Crop Is Billion Bushels Washington. March 14 —(UP)— Russia harvested at billion-bushel wheat crop last year for the first time since before the war, the agriculture department reported today. • The crop was estimated at 1,025.- • 000,000 bushels'— some 175,000.000 bushels greater than estimated Soviet production in 1947. In prewar years. Russia normally turned out a crop equal to the nearrecord 1948 U. S. crop of 1,288.000,-! 000 bushels. In those years, 1935-' 1939, U. S. production averaged only busels. — 0 • Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE |0 o Fire Resistant Fabric Fabrics can be made resistant to fire by soaking the material in a solution of five parts of boric acid, six parts of borax, and 100 parts of' water. After soaking, the fabric should be squeezed out and hung up • I to dry. Hard Butter When butter is too hard to I spread easily, place a heated bowl ; upside down over the butter dish ’ for a few minutes. Heat the bowl • by putting boiling water into it. This will thoroughly soften the butter without melting it. Glue , To remove glue use lukewarm watef and it will dissolve. Spots of glue can l>e removed by soaking or sponging in vinegar. 1 j

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tMf I fOkMH WIST POINT football star Glenn Davis is shown (left) receiving a hearty embrace from ■ j E.;zabeth Taylor, following Davis’ arrival at the Miami International Airport from Fort Dix. *• 1 . the evidence, in the form of a tpiudge of lipstick, la removed ffom Davis’face by the actress. (Inu^ 3

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1 Released From Probation John Henry Sprunger, of Berne, | 1 who was sentenced to three months imprisonment in the Adams county j I jail and three months suspended |' sentence on probation, has been re- , leased from probation. He was sentenced, last September 10 for o’oi taining money under false pretenses. < Estate Cases ' II Leona B. Gentis, widow of the ’ late Ralph 0. Gentis. who died Novi ember 6, 1948, has filed a renun ia- I , ition, and letters of administration have been'issued to Robert Gentis, I son of the deceased. Bond in the amount of $9,000 was filed. < .The will ot Eva -M. Long, of Ge- I neva. who died March 11. was filed * today in the Adams circuit court. I It names as beneficiaries sons How- I ard and John W. Long and a niece, j Gladys True. Floyd Aspy,' named ■ executor, renounced the trust. 1 Partition Suit Dropped The case of Charles X. Nibli.k j 1 vs Louis A. Holtliouse has been I dismissed on motion of the plain- ! “«• . _ '"•ire toToxpnjcru n t u,Jltio»:i! Appropriations Notice I" hereby given the titxpny- | .ers of Bern--French fo.»:mn!p. School Corporation, Adci.s co-nf», 1 Indiana. that the Board of Sehjbl Trustees of Bdrne-i'rench Township !School Corporation, at the School | Building located in the Town of Herne, Adams County, Indiairu, ot, I tha Itith day of Jlareli, rjtit, at the I hour of 7:30 p.m„ will hold a spec- I la! meeting to comider the folloniag I additional appropriations which said I , officers consider aeceshary to meet I the extraordinary emergency exist- I ing at this time: ! It Is contemplated and determined I to be appropriated and expended for I th- remodeling and equipping of I two schoolrooms for a school eafa- I I teria sums to be expended as fol- I lows: e From Opei lsl School Fung — ng- , nret Tax for Ctifeterln equipment ■•eh as taMen, rhnira, slot,», re- i frlaerator, dishwasher, sinks, illsh- *». cooking ntrnxlls. etc. i'otnl Cigaret Tas rt,.V ! 0.00 1 From the t uiunlatlie Building . Fund ns follows: < sr»eutrr-lmle)r nnd Mafertnls MtO.rs' I Itedeeorating Itmt.OO Electrical Installation . IKO.On 1 IMamMag .. :ii4».ito ( Achiteet A Legal 250.(X) Total < nmnlathe llotldlng ■ I Band ft Taxpayer* appearing at such meet- I jlng shall have a right to be heard 11 , th.-reon. The additional approprla? !ti ono as finally made I Iwi 11 b e ait<omat tca 11 y feiferred to the State Board of I, Tax Commissioners, which board will l ‘ ' hold a further hearing within fifteen days at the County Auditor'*! ; office of Adams County, Indiana, or I •< at such other place tin may be d«- , signaled. At such hearing, taxpay- I

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