Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1951 — Page 4

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The average housewife wouldn’t object t 6 a “price war on meats, apd neither would the man of the house. - ■ O 'I Margaret Truman Is not a sppilr - ed child and least of all is not uppish. Vacationing in Europe other Americans, the ' young lady is having a lot of fun taking in the sights. After a hectic sightseeing day in London she XJ wound up with the ordinary tourist’s complaint of having tired 'feet. ■ | —l—ip o i I ■ M Young Senator Blair Moody of Michigan is proving himself a statesman in the national capital. He knows his way around and has a~ keen insight'on public service. He seems to be a worthy successor to the late Sen. Vandenberg, - i although he probably“WTll not become the senate leader on foreign policy, due Ito the seniority rule* ' \ i *'■»'-! — ?■ |V S' ;! that prevails in congrss. ’ . '. — c o Completion. Os several new ij * , ' ■ 8 buildings and extensive rentodeil ing of up-town business rooms attest to the steady growth of the city. Excavations for the huge building program and revamping v? of railroad switch tracks at the y "Central Soyai- Ctfmpany site! lead construction. The modern building being erected for; the Bultemeier Construction Company > on Thirteenth street, between the Erie and Nickel Plate tracks is about completed. Finish- -- ing touches are being placed on f the Zion Lutheran Parish Hall on Monroe street. The Ivan Stucky' 1 building on East Monroe street ' has a new face of colored glass and other modern improvements. Several new homes are going up, but the oity^could use 50 more. ■' ■ I ' VI ■ Nearly everywhere you look, you Fee evidence Os a growing city and busy, people going ahead with - . - faith in .the future. f < —o—« When Gen. MacArthur disagreed' publicly with the President he did so with dignity and soWier,ly courtesy that allowed even . uk those who disagreed with him to retain the high opinion in which tljjey held him. His 'persuasive power was not lessened by the fact that he did not deem it nfeoessnrv to use smear tactics. From another] school of thought caipe a lettdr written by a former junior naval officer, in which he took\ ‘ 1 I - ~I • 1

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HYDROCEPHAL.US, a disease affecting newbArn infants : and babies in the first year of life, is r.oiMiiarly known ’as water-on-the brain. This descriptive name is amazingly accurate, for thp conuitioii consists in an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the brain pavities. Normally, the ratio of formation i < and absorption of brain fluids is delicatejy balanced and there are three little openings between the brain and the spinal cord to per- ' mit i its freft' $ circulation. Thus, h -is easily seftn that hydrocepha las may be to eithe rof two causes, excessive formation ,ot fluid or obstruction of the openings which permit its escape .into the spinal canal, t Symptoms are the same in bot.i ’ cases. As fluid accumulates, presA sureon the delicate structure of the brain is greatly increased, with the result that the brain becomes thinner. With ever increasing pressure, the skull itself ; begins to give. The bone suthres separate and the head itselfj enlarges. In the end, the brain becomes a thin, enlarged sack jv bulging with fluid. First signs are observed when the soft spot lon the top of the infant's head becomes very tense er bulgy. There is vomiting, aijd the child is extremely irritable. The eyes may bulge and. after a while, there is nental retardation. ' X-ray examination usually makes a positive diagnosis. ' ' Treatment usually requires surgery. A surgical -procedure y is pometimes employed in which the

I :?■ • i violent difference with the foreign policy of the government and used the weak defense of name calling. He referred to Congress as “senile and ignorant?’ to the secretary of state as the "red dean?’ and to the Ihte President Roosevelt as “insane or Communist.” Small wonder that the letter- , writer was dismissed from the Navy. It is safe to say that the President, congress, the secretary of etate, Gen. MacArthur and other officials act in a manner which they sincerely believe is for theft national welfare. Name calling is a little ijike the situation ,in Russia wher® a political dissenter is called >n “enemy.{rf the worker.? We siust protect the right to differ im America, and differences- should! be reasoned and dignified. » ■ —oj-o— Teacher Shortage:— A critical shortage of elementary school teachers threatens the standards of ouf educational syslem, according to a report read before the Education Writers Institute at Colombia University. The report said] that the demand for teachers in the primary grades for next year w|ll far exceed the supply, and pointed; out that the rising birth rate? World War Il will make matters qven worse, unless something is done. Among the suggestions for. remedying the situation were raising salaries to meet competitive offers which people'in the. elementary education field receive, improving working conditions, and making people aware of the contributionl of teachers who give children their first lessons in schdbl. No educational level is more important than the. primary, where children learn to read’ and write and get their start toward acquiring learning. Educators and interested citizens in general are. aware that to i^aintain' good schools more is needed than good buildings and well-written textbooks. People of high character and ability must f>rid the teaching profession attractive from the standpoint of What they can accomplish and from the other points of view which make a job desirable', for 4 VA i ’ - | those who work at it. T. Ji ■I < It i ■ . J 5

part Os the brain that secretes,the spipal\ fluid is burned so that, o decreased amount of spinal fluid i is formed. It is important that casetf of hydrocephalus be recognized early so that treatment may be attempted before too great damage (pas been donie. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS M.C.: Will you please advise me the cause of and how to get rid of bad breath? Answer:A I bad odor to the , l.regth may! result from sucn things as infected teeth, bad tohsils or adenoids, or from an infection of the nose or nasal sinuses. The most frequent cause ’is > found in the teeth, where there may be cavities, or_ the condition may be due to lack of cleanliness lesultjng from insufficient care ' of the mbuth and teeth, and not , eating bulky foods, j \ i Particles of food which become - fixed teeth should be t removed 'With# dental floss,' or i they will cause a bad odor. Some- - times, infected material lodges - in, or in back dt the tonsils, or . particles of food will be found in crypts. These conditions also give i disagreeable, odor to the ' breath. ; Similar difficulties occur in in i sections of the upper part of the# 1 mouth or of the nose. Foul breath . .may likewise be due to constipai tion or dyspepsia. la any case where bad breath » Gtcprs, a 1 thorough examination should be made to determine the • cause. When this is found, the » condition can be quickly cleared b up with proper measures.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN McGANN pushed open the study door and felt around for an electric switch Yellow light from an overhead dome washed over the big desk, the leather chair behind it. His gate circled the room slowly, came to rest on the small throw rug in the center. He lifted , a corner of it,with his toe and studied the irregular stain before kicking ft back. His watch said 6:24 —almost the hour that they had heard the shot. Pure coincidence, of course. McGann moved carefully to the desk, noticed that the record-player bad been pushed to the wall near it, and sat down. J I v He pulled open the center desk drawer and looked at a hodgepodge of papers, pencils and pens, a letter opener. Some of the papers appeared to be monthly statements of various companies; there was an advertisement from the manufacturers of an abdominal belt—“ Lose Twenty Pounds in Five Minutes: Look and Feel Years Younger.f O'Callahan would almost surely have taken anything that was of obvious importance or might have some bearing on the murder. Later, Holton or an assistant would collect every scrap to be filed or destroyed. Thinking of Holton made McGann swing around and lift the cover of the radio-phonograph. There was no record on the brownfelt turntable. He drew a similar blank in the cabinet. The wall safe stood open and empty behind a drape. Holton must have taken the record of Tompkins' will with him. McGann pulled open the rightband drawer of the desk. That was where Tompkins had kept the gun and the cartridges. He wondered if the gun had been there on the night of the murder or whether the killer had obtained it earlier and brought it back. Wexton had said that police were unable to account for one cartridge. Where had it got to and whyT \> ( \' The phone was on the desk and without bothering about fingerprints any more McGann picked it up. The dial tone came on and he dialed the Waldorf and asked for Chary’s room. She said “Hello” in a small, cautious voice. "That’s a very trite way to start a conversation," McGann said. “It's been worked to death. But from you it sounds wonderful How are you doing ?" > “Oh," Chary said, her tone sharpening. “Well, it’s about time. Really, Mac, 1 expected to hear from you a little more often. I mean, how long—" J “Whoa," McGann said. “When I called this morning you were that happy child. How come?" There was a moment's silence. Her voice was friendlier. "All right, Tm sorry. But it U getting on to' dinner time —" McGann was sorry, he was desolate. There was nothing in the wide world that he would rather do than eat—providing that he could at the same time feast his eyes upon Miss Charity Jones. But duty was a stern master. He was at work. He said, “Call room service," "You mean I can’t even, go down to Peacock Alley?" "Na." The pause was frigid. "Look." McGann said, assuming a gay air. “Tell you what we'll do. You eat in your room and I'll come by and pick you up about ten o’clock and we'll go out."' --t-- —.

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as the Q. 1$ fit permissible to pick up a chop Wbhe with the fingers, when eating the table? A. NWer. Jf one is not ahlev to extract?! all the meat' with tip knife and fork, then it shpuld be sacrifi<‘-ed. i Q. When a man is walking in the rtfio with a woman who is carrying an umbrella, should he I B% i < A ‘

"Definitely. The mad mazurka, r I'll brtelg my castanets." , “Wonderful!" Her laugh was t warm, relieved. "I’ll wait for you," > she shd, "until five seconds after . ten." . hung up. l "Hmm," McGann said. He re- [ placed the instrument in its cradle I and noticed the calendar pad on I the desk. It read Saturday, Oct. > IL Tompkins had been slain on Friday- Who had torn off the , page ? he Sdlnething had been written on „ the Friday page, he decided. A sharp pencil bad left a few faint j indentations. He tried to make them put tn the overhead light, decided be couldn’t and took it : overt tai the lamp under which be . had sat'for that first interview. The Rkrong bulb was still in it. j Holding the pad at a slant, he ■ could see scattered letters. There was a Chelsea numbet which faded out aad a rather plain... top. Holton? His eye quickened. Half- . way down the page was ah unmistakable Me and after it the letters Zl. nda ...Sunday ? Monday? But he bad been called on What bad caused the, change plans, trough* him to' the strange mansion earlier? Apparently satisfied that there was nothing else in the room, he turned! his attention, to the doors leading| out of it. There were three; qne into the art gallery, one into th* long hall and one in the far corner near the window. Had the kilj|r stepped, into the art gallary at;'the very monrient that the -second !| door was being broken down?;! If Kathleen Rogers had been telling the truth, no one could have gone down the first-escape betweefl the noise of the explosion and thi(.time she got to her observation frost. ' V r McGann tried the door near the windows It opened onto a little platforrp and an overhead chain threw thickly beams when he pulled it. It |yras a servant’s stairway, •; spiraling up and down and it was close ahd warm. He descended, striking matches after the turn, and coding out in an old-fashioned kitched where hanging pans threw back tgfe tiny light of the match. This, then, was where the Pearsons rented between birdwalks. Turning, McGann ascended the : creaking spiral A door opened i into the second floor hall The top 1 floor h£d a transverse corridor i with dobra opening into a storage i room, Into the rear suite where he had found Farwell and into the ' hall Visitors would never have ‘ been able to surprise Mrs. Pearson on the* front stairway with an < armful H solled linen. 1 McGann went back to the second floor and along it to Tompkins’ front bedroom. He opened and shut drawers- of the dresser, riffling : through? them expertly. Beautiful i brushes of mahogany and < silver,« bocks, ties, shirts, under-: i wear. the closet were rows of i shoes, ihU correctly aligned and < held st& by shoe-trees. Rows of i suits, browns, blues, plaids, grays. Tails and two dinner jackets. He < took the dinner jackets and < looked! kt them but neither had J been salvaged from the body— i there was no .32 mark with its rough brown splotch on the back, i Therewas a wicker clotheq ham- i per tn the bathroom. Mrs. Pearson c had not bothered to empty it be- 1 fore had clutched her legacy t to hef/bosom and taken off for Jamaica. Shorts, bandkerchiefs, t socks,? a couple of dress shirts, three btgsmess shirts. There; was a dark brown smear I on this front of one of the dress Is shirt* had McGann took it

offer to hold it? J A. Yes. k O 1 r-Q | Household Scrapbook j By ROBERTA LEK I ri* Castor OU '« The taste .of castor oil can be disguised by first putting a sinall amount of orange juice Into a glass, then the oil; add mota orange jujee, and finish hy stirring ia #a pinch of soda. Drink while it is' effervescing. Saving Fuel | . I• ; Do not try to shine the bottdipH of the pans. Os course they should be cleaned thoroughly, but. don’t try to make them glossy. A dull surface Iwill absorb more heat than u shiny one. Medicine Stains Stains that have resulted from spilled medicine Cjan usually he moved from fabric with alcohol. “OU]R TEACHERS” j There are a lot of teachers, ’ j Wbo are teaching just for pay; And th«fy never care, If children learn or play. But this is for a teachejf. I Who h teaching for our good',l To build a better America, ( The way all teachers should? ■V I c • i t She’s a teacher we’ll remeifiber, As the years slip by; j . She has left a heritage, That will never die. L ' ■ • ■ * - ' . Money ,ran not repay. But our lives will tell; As her loving care, ' \ To the world 'We selL Raymond McAhren.

looked at tt, rubbing his finger over it lightly. Blood? It was not ths shirt in which Tompkins nad met bis death, for again there was no bullet bole in the back nor was there even any discoloration there. Had there been some recent nightclub fight of which he nad not been told ? \ Tompkins wore formal attire frequently. Had someone even come to the bouse and clipped him, necessitating a change df linen ? He held the shirt in bis band a long time and stood pondering before dropping it back and closing the hamper. Thoughtfully, McGann selected a towel from the rack and shined his rain-spattered shoes. Kathleen Rogers had not looked outiof her window until she heard the* sound of the shot, so the killer could have come into the study from the fire-escape or one of the three doors. > \ / But the murderer could not have left by the fire-escape or she would have seen someone. McGann returned to the bedroom and brushed his hair with the mahogany and silver set. Therefore, the killer probably had been tn the house at the very time McGann was exam--ining the study or telephoning police. With appreciation, McGann selected a deep blue tie with an odd figure from the scores on a wall rack and substituted the striped one he had been wearing. He admired \the result in Tompkins' mirror. I So the killer could have slipped out the front door while McGann was gawking Out of the window or could even have left by the downstairs servants* entrance. To return as the well-known innocent bystander or spectator ? He found a clothes brush and removed the lint he had picked up in his brief spirited encounter with Hooker Hunyak; Whoever had killed Tompkins ■also had killed Shirley Stanton and furthermore bad known that the redhead was a morphine addict. There could be no doubt but that she was killed because of what she knew, or at least suspected. McGann closed the house and walked around the block to get his hat trom the Rogers’ apartment. This time there was no answering click when he pressed her belL He tried it three times, then selected a bell on the top floor at random and pressed that. When he got inside, a woman was calling down the stairwell, “Yes?" McGann looked up. “Did you order twenty-two sandwiches from the drugstore?” he asked. “What ?" j v • *i ' “Ten with and twelve without,?* “No," the voice said and a door slammed. McGann walked over - and pounded on Kathleen Rogers' door. There was no answer. Had she gone out or was she inside, now too frightened to trust the chain? He rapped again but it was no use. MsGann stopped in the corner cigar store ■ and got a pack of cigarettes, lie took out the, notebook and called the Rogers* apartment. There was no answer. It was 7:35. He looked up the number of Irma Nelson’s apartment in the East Seventies, and dialed that . When she came on he told her that he’d like to talk to her for a little while., FT “Darling." ehe said, “We’d love to see you!" "Who’s ’we’?" | “Just me and the goldfish." i “Put their blinders on,’’ McGann said. “I’ll be right up."

i 20 YEARS AGO I I TODAY | a t ; —o June 6.—The Rev. Joseph J. Hennes gives the commencement address £t Catholic high school on •’Live Right.” Al Capone arrested and released vhen he posts $50,W0 cash bond. Indiana now has over 100,000\ t nemployed meh. ? The state tag board approves the/ Schelmann 1 bridge . contract apd authorizes issuance of $25,000 in bonds. . Blds will be received June 30 for paving Estate road 27 between Berne and \ , The annual flower show at Van Wert. 0., will open tomorrow for one week. , - \ *••?*»••*••** wjKßy uxruwM 0 * . VW. Union Pals The Union Bals 4-H club held its fifth meeting recently. The meeting was opened with group singing and the pledges to the flags, led by Barbara Bleeke. ~ Sarah Frank and Kathryn Schaffer gave a demonstration on making pineapifle salad, after which refreshments were served by 1 Ruth Buimahn, Ix>rraine Haugh, Janice Baddenhop and Anna Schlemmer. Two women are the greatest money handlers in the I nlted States. They are the director oj »he mint, Nellie Tayloe Rosa, and the treasurer of the fJnited States], Georgia Neese Clark.

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MBSUIVICS Ronald Smith of Midland. Mtch., formerly of this/city, who was inducted into the army last week is stationed at Camp Chaffee, Ark. His address is: Pvt. Ron <£. Smith, V. S. 56-154-230. Co D. 34th MTB. sth Army Div. Bldg, 1509, Camp Chaffee, Ar|k. , '-' ■ I Tear Gas Backfires St. Louis — XUP) — A burgla • alarm at a local chicken firm did too good a job. It chased the burglars away apd also killed the chickens. The alarm was rigged to dispense tear gal. Thieves entered and set off the gas. They ran. Tin 135 chicks couldn’t— they were caged. All chicks were found dead the next morning.

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