Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 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 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, $7.00; 6 months, $3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. The city workers have been making an effective drive against tin cans and winter rubbish. The old town is taking on spring life and cleanliness. O 0 A book of instructions has at last been written for baby-sitters. What college will be the first to offer a course in baby-sitting, with credits for hours spent in this occupation? o o— The reduction in steel prices may revive the building industry, which has lagged the past several months. America must keep on building for its needs never will be fully supplied. And Decatur can use more houses. 0 0 Swimming is perhaps the finest sport in the world for those who understand it, but it is also one of the most hazardous for those not well trained, or lightly taking foolish risks, it is surprising how easily a strong swimmer can drown if he is careless. As summer nears, it is well to learn from wise swimmers and take no foolish chances. o o Holy Week will be ushered in with the observance of Palm Sunday, commemorating Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Appropriate services will be held in the churches and in many the reading of the story of Christ's Passion in the garden will take place. On Good Friday the Three Hours will be observed from 12 to three o'clock, during which all business will cease. Religiously, it is the most sacred period in the ecclesiastical calendar, evered and participated in by ail Christians. —o o Uncle Sam is really making some saving. The report submitted by Secretary of Defense Forrcstal, just before his retirement. states that at least $56,500,000 has been saved in the armed services since the beginning of unification. This is only a beginning. Reforms ordered by the former secretary which should bring further relief to the taxpayer’s pocket, but which have not yet got under way, include unification of recruiting services and facilities, and a unified medical service. So much of the federal budget has to go to ’ pay for war. past, present and • future, that savings like these ate extremely gratifying.

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Should the Gay Nineties be forgot? Harry B. Haines, newspaper publisher of Paterson, N. J. does not think so. A Gay Nine'ies Plaza, sponsored by him, has just been opened, containing typical features of everyday life half a century ago. The piece which started the collection was a horse watering trough which was about to be scrapped to permit a street to be widened. Thinking this a period piece which should be preserved, Mr. Haines got the park commission to provide space for it. Other residents contributed stepping stones, hitching posts and gas lamps. Perhaps other cities will establish museums for pre-atomic era traditions. o- — ~o — In 1944, following a health sur-’ vey in Newfoundland, minerals and vitamins were added to certain of the staple foods, chief among them white bread and margarine. Four years later it was found that malnutrition evident jn the first survey had been greatly reduced, although there was no significant increase in food consumption. There was a drop of almost a fourth in infant mortality, and the general death rate and the incidence of tuberculosis also were lower. These findings can be added to many others indicating that how much a person eats is less important than what he eats. o o Tragedy Lurks: The gaseous fumes that have penetrated basements in the uptown shopping district and spread to residences, remain a constant danger to life and property. Believed caused by leaking natural gas, gasoline or cleaning fluids, a week’s investigation has not solved the puzzle. Gas Company investigators are almost positive that the fumes do not emanate from natural gas. At least the Gas Company engineers and technicians have conducted an exhaustive investigation and the leak indicator used gives negative results. Fire Chief Cedric Fisher believes the fumes originate from gasoline or cleaning fluids poured into the city sewers. If such is the case the individual or firm using the mains is endangering the whole city. There is great danger of explosion from the fumes. Striking a match or turning on an electric switch might set off a terrific explosion. bringing death to one or many persons. Surely, no one is so cruelhearted or thoughtless that he wants to turn Decatur into a Texas City, Texas, or heap tragedy on the community like that suffered in Effingham. Illinois. from the terrible hospital fire. If the fumes do not come from the gas lines, then someone is guilty of dumping the explosive fluids Into the sewers. Stop it!

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0 q 20 YEARS AGO TODAY 0 o April 8 — The Rev. W. Stoakes is returned to the Methodist church here for his third year by the conference at Logansport. Harry Sinclair, oil king must serve three mouths in jail at Wa-: ington, D. C. for contempt of the senate, the supreme court rules. Burglars get over S4OO from the safe at the West End restaurant. Beginning May 4 no mail deliveries will be made in Decatur on

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. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE UNSEEING eyes on the outside world, Timothy Grant reviewed the inquest. News of the murder had spread by the time Molly 8.. Deb and he had arrived, a crowd was streaming into the room in which the hearing was to be held. Reporters were scribbling in notebooks, photographers were focusing cameras. The result of the autopsy was read. Deb was asked th. exact time at which she discovered the body, to describe the voice she had heard at 4 a. m. Molly B. and he had been put through practically the same examination McGregor had used. There were questions about the party: had Judge Lander appeared disturbed at any time during the evening; was it known that he had enemies? After all the time spent and the questions asked the verdict had been, "Murder by person or persons unknown.” An impressive memorial service ha., been held in the chapel followed by burial in the cemetery where the great of the college lay. Now, after days of shock and speculation, life was returning to normal. That was right. Why should the lives of hundreds of students to whom Henry Lander was but a name—to many not even that—be shadowed by the tragedy? It was shadowing him. He couldn't rid himself of the suspicion that Mrs. Sophy knew more, a whole lot more, abopt the shooting than she had told; when it came to that, she hadn't told anything. That Sunday afternoon in the library at Becchcroft he had been so impressed by his hunch that in some way she was involved that he had gone to his room In the west wing to make sure that the ivory-handled revolver was in his suitcase where he had tucked it under his dinner clothes when he had returned from the Center. It wasn't there. What had become of it? Did Mrs. Sophy know? He hadn't made inquiries. It seemed wiper not to let the fact be known that it was missing. It would put whoever had taken it on guard. If Mrs. Sophy were aware that she was on his mind she gave no hint of the knowledge. She carried on smoothly, efficiently, so gaily sometimes that he accused himself of having gone nuts on the subject. Yesterday she had entertained for him two visiting scientists from Canada who had come to look over certain arrangements at the Center with the idea of copying them. Only e-ne fact kept his suspicion alive. Not once had she mentioned Lander’s death, not once had she referred to the bracelet and orchid which had been found in the badminton court that Sunday morning. The omission had a smiter significance which brought him back to his conviction that she knew something about it For the hundredth time he asked himself if he ought to tell McGregor of his hunch and answered as he had answered each time before. "No.” It was only • hunch. Why drag het into it? He hadn't a shred of fact with which to back it up. The missing gun might have been stolen by a servant. The chief had the reputation of being one of the keenest law enforcement officers in the stata, AjjpueaUy he had reeled

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! Saturday afternoons. I R. D. Myers sells interest in fur- ! niture store to W. H. Zwick and I son, Robert. A boom for James Patchell of 5 I nion City to be state commander i was started at the district convention of the American Legion held here. t i Masonic Followcraft degree Friday, April j 8 atl 7:30 p. m. S2b2tx Gene J. Hike, W. M. i Trade in a Good ‘‘own — Decatur

i the investigation with the dra- ? matic display of the purple orchid. 1 Os course he hadn’t. He was payr ing out plenty of line. Someday , he would give it a quick snap and 1 land his suspect. Meanwhile some--1 one was in possession of his re- . volver. He could inform the chief • of that without involving Mrs. • Sophy. He answered the buzz of » the interoffice phone. 1 "Yes. I'll see him.” He snapped ■ off the connection. • McGregor calling. Uncanny that . he should appear almost as if he ; had been materialized by his ■ thoughts. The chunky official chugged into the room. ! "Can you spare a few moments, I Mr. Grant? They told me in the ; outer office that your appoint- : ments for the day fitted together ; snug as bricks in a wall.” • "This happens to be a chink be- ' tween bricks. Sit down.” He waited till McGregor had taken the ! chair opposite his at the desk. . “What’s on your mind?" r "Any dictaphones concealed un- . der chairs or in the walls?" I "Nary a one. We leave that to > men in your field. This visit has t to do with Judge Lander’s taking f off, I assume." r "Sure, I haven’t had anything t eLe on my mind—hardly anything » else—since it happened. Looked as if I dropped the case pretty » sudden when I came up for air . with that orchid, I suppose.” , "It looked like a piece of un- . finished business to me.” t "Sure, I want them all to relax.' "Relax? You’re crazy. Do you 1 think any person in the college or 1 town will relax with a killer on 1 the loose ? I'll bet a lot of them -are asking themselves, “Who 3 next?'” e "That’s a cheerful suggestion. . They’ll forget. I just called on e Madam Stewart to ask if she r would give some parties for the I Gls and their wives to sort of pull t the college back to normal. That y poker-faced butler of hers gives me the creeps.” t "You've got something there. If t you're looking for a guy who isn’t t telling all he knows, watch him." "Says you. I'm no rookie in this t business, Mr. Grant We won’t o find out anything from anyone till . folks arc off guard.” o "What was Madam Stewart’s 4 reaction to the party suggestion?" e I "She was shocked at first, the -1 deceased being such a friend of • the family, then she caught on and e said, The Gls have had more than s their share of horrors, why should f their lives be shadowed? They are t making good in their studies, they d deserve all 1 can do for them.’ t Then she said that curiosity seckers were swarming over her place, n couldn't I do something about it? t I’ve put two men on the job to n keep folks off. The game house h has been sealed since the crime. > She'll give fotir parties, too many g students to have them ail at once.” "She is a grand person." e "Sure is, smart as they come. II too. I buy all her books, can't i- say I read 'em ail. but we village h folks have to stand back cf home y talent. She spends most ot her ? life thinking up mysteries, seems h a- if she ought to solve this one. g Do you think she knew Lander a was njarried?” i- •’Married!” Surprise brought t Tim half out of his chair. He sank e back with a thud. McGregor s grin d ttdicated supreme MUUcUoa at

'Ralph J. Morrow Dies Al Bluffton Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Ralph S. Morrow, 65, prominent retired banker of Bluffton, and well known in Decatur, died at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at his home in that city after a six months illness of carcinoma. A native of Linn Grove, he was a son of' Eugene and Margaret Simmerson-Morrow. He served for many years as cashier of the Wells County bank at Bluffton until its discontinuance. He was a member of the Masonic. Elks and Moose lodges. Surviving are a daughter, Miss Mary Jane Morrow, at home; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Hobart Frazier of Nashville; a stepson, Robert Cummins of Bluffton, and two sisters, Mrs. Jessie Studebaker and Mrs. Cora Powers, both of Bluffton. Several cousins reside in and near Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev. Matthew Worthman officiating. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery. Seeks Divorce D. Florine Hudson filed a complaint for divorce Friday from Tunis Bud Hudson. A summons returnable April 20, 1949 has been issued for the defendant. The couple was married April 6, 1942 and separated April 7, 1949. Bake Sale, Saturday, Apr. 9 City Hall. Antioch Church at Hoagland. It

the effect of his bomb. "Where did you get that phony information, Chief?” "From his will, probated yesterday. I've been watching for it, oftentimes you can get a lead from the way a man leaves his property. Except for a few legacies he left everything to the college to found a law school, apparently hadn't a relative, but»J there was a codicil in which he said that if a woman sayin’ she was his wife put in a claim for his property, nothing doing. She had left him a few months after they married years ago, and he divorced her for desertion. That isn’t legal language, but that's what it boils down to.” "Why mention her in the will If she was no longer his wife? Sounds to me as if he weren’t too sure of the legality of the divorce." "Yeah, I figured it that way too. Also that the ex-wife might have had something to do with his snuffing out. You may be surprised to hear it but I hate the word ‘murder,’ I 'j"-pass it whenever I can.” Tim remembered the hatred between the Judge and Mrs. Sophy. Could she be the divorced wife? Now he was crazy. She had had a husband and three sons, hadn't she? "There's another angle to it, Madam Stewart told me." Tim forced his mind to attention. "She said to ask you about the safe opening. You could tell it better than she.” He told of Ingrid’s scream, of her later admission to him that she had heard footsteps on the balcony, and had yelled; of finding the loose-leaf notebook on the floor by the safe; of the discovery that papers had been taken; of the return of the lost combination. "Hmm-m, know what the Norwegian woman's papers were?” "She said letters and her citizenship papers. I have an idea—” "Don’t stop. Go on. You can be a great help in this. Don't hold out on me." 'Then you don't suspect me of having shot the Judge?” "I'm not committing myself,” McGregor grinned. “In that case perhaps I'd better ; tell you that a revolver of mine is missing.” “Godamighty. How come?" Tim told when and why he had I carried the ivory-handled revolver, i of his discovery that it was not in I his suitcase. ; "Why didn't you tell me this ' before? Why? Because you've got ' an idea who took it, right?” "I haven’t, the faintest idea, ■ didn't know that anyone knew I had it with me. When I decided • to spend the night at Bccchcroft, s I made up my mind I would walk • to the Center after the party and ’ that I'd better pocket the gun, ’ there have been so many holdups la.ely.” . "You’re telling me. We’U go i back to that later. Loosen up. ! What's the idea you swabowed a ! minute or two ago?” r “I had an impression that Ingrid i Johnson, the Norwegian woman to . you. knew her papers were r stolen. It is only a hunch. I haven’t a bit of evidence to back I it up." t "A hunch has solved a mystery II before this.” 4 (Io Be Ccmtiaued) _

Local Lady's Father Suffers Leg Fracture Albert Eichman, Morocco, suffered a fractured leg in a fall from a ladder Thursday afternoon, according to word received by his daughter, Mrs. John E. Chambers of this city. Mr. Eichman, who visitt ed the Rev. and .Mrs. Chambers 1 here recently, was taken to the >; hospital at Rensselaer, where his > 1 condition is reported to be satistl factory. | Striking Students : Io Return To Class Settle Dispute On Ousting Principal r ’ Scottsburg. Ind., April S —(UP) l| — Students at Scottsburg high ' school, who walked out of classes '; two days ago to protest the dismis- ’: sal of their popular principal, en- ': joyed an official holiday today and promised to be back in class Monday. 1: Representatives of the student body, numbering nearly 300, parents and local merchants met with i the school board last night and I reached an agreement in the dis- ‘ pute involving principal E. B. Buti ler. A committee of six agreed to ; leave the controversy to the stud- ! ents' parents in a “referendum." ' j School board president Dr. Marvin 1 j L. McClain said letters would be 'I mailed to the parents asking their 1 i approval or dismissal of the board's ’. action. ’ | He added that the board would “abide by the will of the majority." j This means, he said, that Butler would be rehired if the majority .of the parents thought his dismlsI sal was unjust. j Butler, whose contract expires ■ May 27, was presented with a ! bunch of roses from his pupils yesterday. The yongsters walked out of

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