Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 13 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 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, $7.00; 6 months, $3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. This newspaper office will conform with the Good Friday closing hours and every effort will be made to maintain the usual press time schedule, as near as possible. o o Again, the Red Cross Fund has gone over the top. Reaching the goal was never in doubt, but it's gratifying to know that the people in the county support this wonderful organization, year after year, with contributions so that its services can be continued. 0 o Farmers are working from daylight to darkness in the fields, turning over good mother earth for new crops that come with the season. The outlook for another good year is bright, agricultural authorities predict and the farms in this county will continue to rank with the best in management and production. o o James Forrestal, who recently retired as Secretary of Defense, is suffering a physical breakdown, due to fatigue from over work. No one who has watched the former defense chief doubts in the least that he worked untiringly for his country. First to occupy the newly created aftd allimportant civilian post, Forrestal blazed the trail for unification of the armed services and gave bis strength to the task. The country hopes for his recovery. o o Birdless hats for women are the aim of Mrs. Charles C. Marshall, president of the National Life Conservation Society. She is trying to forbid the use of the plumage of egrets and birds of paradise on women's hats. Such a law Is on the books of New York State, but the industry won a year’s suspension to use up stock on hand. Now they have got a second suspension of three years through the legislature. Mrs. Marshall may have better luck than Edward Bok, one time editor of the Ladies Home Journal. Ke campaigned against the use of egret plumes but women learned for the first time that they were fashionable, and the sale boomed. ’

Pink Eye? Let Doctor Tr eat It

By Herman N. Bundcson M. D. THE eye is such a valuable and delicate part of the body that it I should never be neglected. There is a troublesome form of i inflammation of the lining mem- 1 brane of the eye known as pink eye, which is a contagious conjunctivitis. The affected eye appears slightly 1 red, and a small amount of discharge is found on the lid margins when awakening. These symptoms may become worse with much more inflammation and a thicker discharge. Then the eyelashes maybecome matted together. There is some pain and discomfort and. sometimes, some itching. Pink eye may be brought about by infection with a germ known as Kock-Weeks bacteria. However, the inflammation* may be due to the I Staphylococcus or to the pneumo- i coccus germ. In these cases the j symptoms are much worse. In treating these disorders, doctors have found it is important never to bandage the eye when it is discharging. Silver preparations. | such as sliver nitrate, also,'should not be employed, nor should yellow cxlde of mercury be used, accordinc ‘ to many eye specialists. The eye should be kept washed . out. Mild solutions of silver preparations followed by washing with a lukewarm boric acid solution seem helpful in most cases. It may be necessary to put a local anaesthetic into the eye prior to treat-1 m*nt in order to ward off pain. fcnictto drcfj hat# bets u-td .

The House Appropriations Committee has recommended that the operating fund for, the Voice of America be increased. This is the agency which spreads authoritative information about the United States over the rest of the world, by means of radio. The Voice has come in for a goodly share of criticism from time to time, and seems to have profited by it. There is now rather general agreement that it is doing an important job in telling the American story to peoples who ought to hear it. o o The Hoover report charges the military departments with "Startling" waste and extravagance. President Truman has sent the commission’s findings to congress and already senators and congressmen are airing the affair. No doubt there is great waste in the services. Much of it is gross carelessness, because the military heads operate on the basis that they are not responsible to the ■ people for their mistakes. Senator Byrd, the watchdog on gov- | eminent expenses promises full investigation and chances are the I army and navy budgets will be | reduced. o o Investments: For some time the stock mark- | et has been in a lethargic condi- I tion, with relatively small buying ! and selling activity. This has ■ been a source of concern to busi- ' ness people for various reasons. For one thing it is more difficult , to obtain money for the risk of I a new business venture or ex- j pansion. As one remedy, the New York ] Society of Security Analysts rec- j ommends that the market try to 1 reach people with modest means, who ordinarily do not buy stocks j and have no acquaintance with j them or the market. Such people I could supply new capital. As another remedy, the Society suggests that speculation should be encouraged. The risk of money in a business, they say, j is speculation, and that risk is ! clearly necessary to the develop- | ment and growth of business. On i the other hand, speculation of the 1 sort generally associated with the 1 stock market hampers any effort to draw people of small income into the market. They cannot see their way clear to invest in ! stocks the value of which may ! fluctuate widely and continuous- i ly because of speculation. Both these suggestions have merit, but are they really in conflict? If stocks are to be sold to people who do not now buy them, the selling campaign will have to include proof of the value of taking risks in capital ventures.

I in some cases and the benefits may I be remarkable, but this does not happen in all cases. Some patients show a reaction to the penicillin I and cannot tolerate it. Sulfonamide preparations also have been employed in certain ' | types of conjunctivitis or inflam- 1 mation of the lining of the eyeball.' When all of the discharge from 1 ! the eyes has stopped, it might be I a good practice to bathe the eyes I both night and morning with a so-' lution containing both boric acid 1 and line sulphate. When the eye becomes inflamed. I immediate examination by an eye ■specialist is advisable to determine the cause, in most cases, the disorder may be a mild one which can i he cleared -with simple treatment.' On the other hand, it may be a severe form of conjunctivitis which often requires that the patient be j put in the hospital. Os course in all cases, the disorder should be treated by a physician. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS X. C.: How can free kiss be re-; moved from, my legs? ■ Answer: Freckles are due to ex- ■ cessire pigmentation of spots in the , skin, t There is not much that can be done to get rid of freckles. Various bleaches have been used, out the pain and irritation that they cause are far more troublesome than the freckles themselves. I suggest that you forget about . tiu

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I I —■ H.IIW — CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE "WHY should your secret mar- ; riage to Judge Lander break pur friendship, Ingrid?” Molly B. asked. "My love for you can’t be . uprooted by something that happened years ago. You have been a tower of strength to me. I think I you were wise to keep the matter i to yourself. What good would tell- | ing have done? Try as I might I not to, I would have been aware ' all the time of the past relations between you and my legal adviser. That’s why you stole your own papers, isn’t it?” "You knew that?” "I didn’t know it until this minute. I suspected it Why and how ! did you do it?” "Someone phoned me that the i Judge had threatened a person with unpleasant publicity unless he produced my papers. Although the warning was in a strange voice, I heeded it I suspected that the j marriage certificate was what he i wanted. The morning of the Flower Show, after you had gone to the cottage, I came back. I had j found the combination Debby had j lost tfie night before on the balcony where someone had dropped i it I opened the safe, removed my I papers and a few of yours, as a blind—they are safe, Molly 8., and I in my haste forgot to replace the loose-leaf book.” "Was that nightmare yell part | of your program?” "Yes, Tim. I told you the other ■ evening that I really heard footsteps on the bat .ny and screamed to frighten whoever it was. It con- ! firmed what I had been told, that someone would try to find the papers, that is why I took them the next morning. Forgive me, Molly B.?“ "I have nothing to forgive, Ingrid. I—" ■ “Mr. Mortimer Dane," Scragg announced from the threshold. Had it been anyone but he peb would have suspected a touch of pride in the butler’s voice. The tall ruddyfaced man in coarse brown tweeds pushed by him into the room. "Where is my sister, Madam Stewart?" His voice was aggrosi sive, his eyes snapped nervously. Molly B. placed the cup she still I held on the low table beside her, Ingrid dropped back into her chair and stared at him wide-eyed Sophy Brandt and Mark Taylor, still on the piano bench where they had remained as if frozen through Inl grid's story, regarded him with ' the surprise they would have be- ; stowed on a Martian who had 1 dropped through the stratosphere. Tim Grant stepped behind Molly B.'s chair. | "What’s the idea, bursting in I like this, Dane?** he inquired. "Take it easy. What’s up?" "Excuse me, Madam Stewart So many terrible things are hap- ■ ening to girls that when Stella didn't appear today, 1 went haywire.” i "Did she spend the night at I home?” ■ "Yes. The maid reported that | her white evening dress was tn her room and that she carried breakfast to her about noon. She was to check some accounts with . me, said you had given her tlje ! day off. I knew she would sleep • late so didn’t expect her much before one o'clock. Then 1 waited and waited. Phoned this house twice, thought you might have unexpected work that detained her. When after dinner Scragg said she wasn't here, hadn’t been here today, 1 came to look her up.” He drew his hand across his damp forehead. "Gosh, I'm scared. Sure she isn't here?” • "Yes. Mort.” Molly Burton Stewart's voice was gentle. “I heard that she dined at the Country Club across the lake witn Burkq Romney last evening, perhaps he knows what plans she had to. today.” I "111 get him on the phoae—”

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Monday on a charge of ’drunken driving. Richard A. Braun, 20, Decatur, ; was fined $1 and costs in J. P. i court Tuesday. City police arrested I him Tuesday for speeding.

“’Taint necessary, Mr. Dane,” i McGregor assured smoothly as he 1 stepped into the room. “Your sis- I ter’s at headquarters. I’ve come i to ask you to join her at once, i Perhaps you can make her talk. ' There’s a little matter of a .33 i we found her hiding in the shrubs 1 this noon, we’d like explained. She i has refused to answer questions; we’ve held her, as 'twas a .38 that 1 did for Judge Lander, you may i remember. The gun she was hid- i ing, she says she was picking it i up—” he looked from face to face, ’ his eyes rested on Tim Grant— i "had an ivory handle.” Sophy Brandt’s shoulder struck i the keyboard of the piano with a : crash of jangled notes. There was a hint of smug satisfaction in McGregor’s expression as his eyes flashed from the white- , haired woman back to Tim Grant, before Tim and Mark carried So- ' phy Brandt to a chair. "I—l’m all right,” she protested. "I didn’t faint, really I didn’t I have a heart twinge occasionally and one caught me as I was listening to Mr. McGregor. What did you say about an ivory-han-dled revolver, Chief?” "Forget it till you're feeling steady again, Mrs. Brandt, don't fool with heart twinges, 'taint , safe. Miss Deb, I would like you and Mr. Grant to come with ui. It would be nice for Miss Dane to have another woman present" “I'll get a coat at once.” "Why not shoot along with I Dane, Chief?” Tim suggested. . "Miss Randall and I will follow in my car.”, "That goes with me," McGregor , agreed and wavqd Mortimer Dane ■ ahead of him from the room. The headlights of the roadster . set the frost-whitened trees and shrubs that bordered the highway . sparkling as if powdered with trij descent diamond dust as Tim drove I under a slate black sky with a few . blinking gold stars. Deb snuggled ’ into her mink jacket The crisp, . pine-scented breeze blew back her' short hair. In her hurry she hadn’t thought of a hat, she so seldom j 1 wore one. She lived over the moment when she had seen the ivory- ' handled revolver in the suitcase 1 in her room. Was it the same gun ■ Stella had been hiding or picking up from the shrubs? "1 suppose there are dozens of 1 ivory-handled revolvers even tn 1 this college town, don’t you, Tim ?” ' sh. inquired. 1 “1 wouldn't say ’dozens.'" “What would you say? Have ! you a theory about the one Stella • had? You haven’t spoken since ' wc started. Could you possibly be a little less wooden? I feel as it 1 I were riding beside a robot." • “Whoa, take it easy, Debby." “I'd like to talk, if you don't . mind. Aren't «e co-operatives in • the Beechcroft Mystery? I'm fast i getting the jitters, because, you ■ see, I saw that kind of a gun at home.” t “Where? When?" There was nothing wooden about the explot sive questions. i She told of the suitcase which 1 had been brought to her room and • opened by Sarah Allen. i "Did you notice marks or an s inscription on the gun?” j “No. There were three white ■ dinner coats worn that evening. 1 Whose bag Sarah opened has been ? the sixty-four-dollar question with > me ever since." "Did you take out the gun?” > “No. I covered it with the coat - as soon as possible. When it comes • to firearms I’m just a- little Victo- > rian-age girt I don’t like them." > “Neither does Mrs. Sophy, apparently, if the mere mention of i an ivory-handled revolver brings I on a heart attack. Ever hear of her having one before?” • i “No, but that doesn't prove anything. I have been at Beechcroß I for short vacations only during the last three years and she wasn’t there at the baa. See the

0- o' 20 YEARS AGO TODAY 0 4) April 13 — Funeral service held in New York City for Myron T. Herrick, diplomat. Col. Lindbergh pays tribute at the service. Commander Byrd's crew return from expedition to the Antartic. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Smith and son, of Columbus, 0., visit „ Mr. Smith's parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Smith. C. rt. Muselmun or’Berne, is selling stock in the Woman’s Farm Journal magazine. It has 100,000 circulation. The Rev. Ambrose Kohne goes to Gary to have charge of Holy Trinity parish while the pastor en- > joys a trip to Rome. 0 0 ! Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE 0 Satin Satin material can be renovated by rubbing over the soiled parts with a cake composed of magnesia and prepared chalk. Follow the grain of the goods, and allow to rei main for several hours, then rub off with a soft cloth. Fish Loaves A novel and appetizing topping for fish loaves can be made with chopped sweet pickles. Sprinkle the i

trailer in the field. Isn't it brilliantly lighted for a trailer? The ’ G1 wife who lives in it is home- , sick. I intend to call on her and invite her to what Molly B. calls ‘the clinic.”* She debated for an instant if she would tell him of Ingrid's objection, decided against it ! “What an explosive evening, j First the news of Judge Lander’s ■ marriage crashed into the afterdinner calm, followed by Ingrid’s confession that she had been his j wife—and it's claimed that a woman can’t keep a secret—that she was the safe opener. My brain still buzzes round and round and round from shock." "What fool things women do." "May I interrupt for a moment to observe that all men are not Solons at all times?” "There’s something in what you say, Deb. Now may I proceed with I my reflections? Why didn’t Ingrid tell Molly B. that someone was after her papers?” “For the same reason, probably, j that I didn't tell her of the whispers I heard coming from the gallery bay. Why stir her up till I knew what —if anything — they ! meant? The Judge must have had a stranglehold on someone and Ingrid knows who. Weren’t you stunned by the announcement that she had been his wife?” "By the fact that she had been married to him, yes, but my moth- | er in her diary had declared that i she suspected a love affair between the two when Ingrid John- ! son came to Beechcroft to bo Molly B.'s secretary, so 1 was prepared in away. She had other suspicions of the Judge which I intended to follow up. He's gone. So that ends that.” “Will the facts we learned tonight tie in with the shooting of Henry Lander? Do you think if 1 had told of the threat I overheard the murder wouldn't have been committed?" | “Good Lord, no. Don't get that on your conscience, Debby. 1 have a hunch that that leads into an entirely different’ trail— Here we are at the Town Hall. Dane's roadster is under the light. 1 hope he will be permitted to take his sister home." “Just why have I come? What am I supposed to do?" she asked as they went up the steps. "Be a moral support for Stella. By the way, better not mention the ivory-handled gun you saw in the suitcase." "Don't worry, I shan’t speak. 1 talked too much when 1 told of hearing the voice of Judge Lander on the terrace at 4 a. m. and didn't everyone, you included, think me the victim of a delusion?” "Count me out, I’m sure you think you heard him.” He opened a door which had the one word POLICE in big black letters on j its frosted glass panel They stepped into a large, brilliantly lighted room which smelled of stale tobacco smoke. Stella regarded them in disdainful surprise, drew a compact from her pocket, and frowned at herself in the mirror as she reddened i her lips. She didn't look as ifrshe needed moral support, to say nothing of it The drab background emphasized her sultry beauty. She was wearing a skirt of brilliant green plaid with a black sweater and a broad silver belt Her hair hung to her shoulders in shining waves. Her crossed knees displayed her lovely legs in teige nylon with eye-baiting success. Mort Dane's arm was across the back of her chair while he talked to her tn a low voice She kept shaking her head as if protesting. Each time she moved the mast of silver bracelets on her left arm clinked. McGregor entered through a doorway behind the large desk on a platform. (To So Crmtwaed) * •

Red Cross Fund You, too, con help through Your RED CROSS GIVE NOW Previously reported ... $7,650.32 Mrs. Robert Freeby, Zone No. 11 Dec. Res. Add - 93.50 American Legion 250.00 Joe Heiman Sec. 32 Union 5.50 Adams County Hospital Employes - 20.50 Total $8,019.82 pickles over the loaf after it has been placed in the baking pan. Dusting Use a dampened chamois, instead of a duster, on the furniture about once a month. You will notice a great difference. 0 0 Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE •0 — Q. What are a few acknowledgements of an introduction that are | forbidden by social usage? i A. “Pleased to meet you.” "DeI lighted to know you,” “Charmed, I am sure," or any other such extravagant phrases. "How do you do' is the accepted form. Q. Is it ever permissible to use unmatched paper and envelopes in corespondence? I A. The paper and envelope should ■' always match, both as to size, qual- ' ity, and color. Q. When the bride has no near

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relatives, whom should she ask to perform the duty of "giving her away”? A. An old friend of the family is often asked to do this. Lafayette On Fast Time On April 24 Lafayette, Ind., April 13 —(UP) — Lafayette and neighboring West Lafayette today joined the growing list of Hoosier communities' going on daylight saving time April 24. Kokomo City Council For Daylight Time Kokomo, Ind., April 13 — (UP) — This city of nearly 35,000 was expected to follow the lead of its 2 city council today which recommended daylight saving time, from business establishments to club 9 socials, beginning April 24 until ® the last Sunday in September. The council unanimously passed 0 the “fast time" resolution introduc- " ed by councilman Lewis Keliar. M

I I I t (Rev. Ralph R. Johnson, Pleasant Mills & Salem Meth(Jjs , I FORMULA FOR VICTORY I "And He went a little farther, and fell on His face I prayed, saying, Omy Father, if it be possible, let thi f I pass from me: nevertheless not as I will but w I wilt.” Matthew 26:39. ' 8 * I There are to be found in this passage two elements why.■ may call the formula for victory. The first is prayer ani bl 3 second submission or obedience. a Apparent defeat will always be turned to victory it J remember prayer. Amid the storms of life we may try to nil I stand the elements in our own strength and succumb or w4| prayer and rise above the storm. In the hour of test and of ml 1 ness our Master fell upon His face in prayer before The Fitttl It was here that the strength came to go forth as a lamb to ij 3 slaughter, as a fulfillment of the redemptive plan of God | ' We note, however, that this victory came only as Christ m| mitted himself to the will of the Father. When He became r®.| lent, even unto the death on the cross, victory came and m|| * strength for the hour. J If we are to live victorious Christian lives, we must reMt«| the formula of victory, seek the place of prayer and be obeijl r unto the will of our Heavenly Father. j

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