Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1951 — Page 4

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1 ■ ‘ ‘ rA • - ' i f ■ s The weatherman promises a string of these mild June days, punctuated only with a tew light showers. How good can a man be! o-—o Former Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson says this country is “just drifting” in the Korean war. And that seems to be what Mr. Johnson is doing. p o-- o | The Houston Elks club presented Gen. MacArthur with a sleek new Cadillac on his visit to Texas. That’s hitting a bigger jack pot than Inßiana Elks ever had even before the Schricker edict against gambling. /' o— —o—— The referendum among merchants on the Saturday night closing schedule almost resulted in a tie —29 to 28 against extending the hour to 9:30 p.m. Did you - vote? o o< The Business and Professional Women’s club, a civic and social organization, has redeemed its pledge in full/ to the Decatur Memorial Foundation for proposed Community Center. The club’s action is a demonstration in public spirit and will give the Foundation a nucelus in the collection of more funds for the next six _ month’s period. Payment ot pledges to the Foundation already exceeds sll9/000 and With continued from -the donors, the fuhd should be quite sizeable by the end of the year. Then real talk and planning for the building Can get underway. , - o „ o „ Fair Play:— « Americans have a great respect for fair play in sports. We try to foster.ip our young people the idea thaf Winning or losing is not the most important thing in any - contest, but that fairness and effort are the things which really count. We could well apply this admiration for fair play to other areas of life. Business and politics would be more satisfying and generally better it principles of fair play were always observed. A Honesty and fair play are ad' nidrable on the playing field, at the work bench or in the store, in public offices or anywhere else. People in any walk of life who play fair gain respect, whether or not they gain material success. More important, they are able to respect themselves. <■

•» - ■ i - - .lb. : ' ' - "■ i! | Operative Procedures Call For Spinal Anesthetic

DURING its off-year history, the popularity of spinal anesthesia has waxed and waned many times. Many doctors have beein enthusiastic for it at different periods, while others, just as numerous, have regarded it with a certain amount of caution. Among the things. which recommend it is the simplicity with which it can be administered. ‘A needle is introduced into th* 1 spinal canal and an anesthetic similar to novocaine is injected. This soon produces numbness over the area to be operated on and induces complete relaxation cf the muscles, a Very important consideration for the surgeon. Though this form of anesthesia does not put the patient to sjeep, it does absolutely prevent pain and its effects are almost iminedfate. Therefore, it is very handy for use In hospitals where a doctor trained in the handling ot anesthetics is not always available. Thus, both doctor and patient are assured of a good anesthetic without the dangers w-hich can result when those that are breathed in must be handled by ■ someone other than a skilled , ' anesthetist. ... ' Nevertheless, spinal anesthesia is no exception to the rule that ail anesthetics have their possible complications. In the \first •5 place, patients are likely to fear it to such an extent that, in many instances, even though a spinal anesthetic is successfully given, they must still be put to sleep.

P , I 1. jH ' r! : < President truman accuses * lobbyists of misleading the country in the fight against price controls. Everybody wants and is entitled to a profit, but unless controls are provided, prices will go so high, profits will be eliminated. It is better to have a safe economy than run-away inflation. Food costs are high and any effort made to bold priced at a sane level, is a step in th* interest ot families Who struggle daily with the dwindling dollar. I, ; '■ , —-o o Friends iq this city admire the leadership sos Charles “kiddie” Stocksdale, bne of two boys nominated for Governor-es Boys State, the short course in government sponsored by the American Legion. “Bridie’’ made his press ence known among the hundreds . of young Americans attending the. school and in the election run-off ' lacked Only a few votes, of being Hamed chief executive of Boys State. It was another demonstration that shis community is the J home of t|ie finest .boys in the world. I. -o— Dr. Ben Duke:— Because jof their human touch and persona! contacts with people the death of a phy|siclah is widely felt in any community that suffers that Ipss. V -The unexpected death of Dr. Ben Duke thus brings two-fold sorrow to the community, his patients and friends. /At 50 it was early fo\r him to die. He looked robust and healthy. Only his qlosest associates were aware of Uhe lurking that endangered his life, resulting in a cerebral hemorrhage that , • caused his; death. Dr. Duke lived here less than a \ score of years, but he was in active citizen and physician from - ‘.he very first day he set foot on Decatur soil. ~ The Decatur physician was a challenging personality, fluent and expressive. He was a lively raconteur and enjoyed the various fprms of repartee with friends, s: Professionally he was promiA neht and administered intelligent■ji a \ 1 , '! ly and deftly to his patiepts. \ The suddenness of his death strikes his; family Cruelly and it is; to his wife and daughter and j - 1 • : L. I \ • their loved ones that we extend heartfelt sympathy. ‘, I . ■ j-’-' : '

Severe headache is very oP.en another complication and Is a cause of much discomfort in the patient who has had spinal anesthesia. Th< severe headaches occur in about one out of six patients. Conditions such as meningitis and adhesions in the spinal canal, may also occur from spiral anesthesia, and there are instances on record where it has caused partial paralysis. At the present time, spinal anesthesia is not used as often as it was a few years ago, the ieason being the possibility of grave complications. Nowadays, most' hospitals are using (physician anesthetists and, .in their hands, inhalation anesthesia has prpved far more t uccessful, with fewer bad results. \ jlowever, in certain cases where long anesthesia is required or where a lung ccndition makes the patient a bad risk for *an inhaled anesthetic, it be advisable to use spinal anesthesia. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS K. V. Ti: My feet perspire. Is there anything tiu.t /can be done for it? 1 Answer: One who has excessive perspiration of the feet should see to it that the 1 eet are bathed daily, and that Clean stockings are worn every day. In addition, a twdnty-five percert solution of aluminum chloridJ, dabbed on the feet every two or three days, might be us<jd. Th;s will decrease the perspiration. *.

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o I Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE H '< 0 — H 1 Q. When one entbrs a restaurant carrying several packages, /where should these bundles be placed? , A. If there is no check room, , place them on a vacant chair at . the table. If the restaurant is d crowded, then place the packages ] under your own chair. ! Q. Is ft necessary to apologize ] for writing a letter to a\ friend on \ the typewriter? 1 A. No, there isn’t any reason to apologize. Many people today write , all their correspondence on the typewriter./ excepting the most , formal social notes. , Q. Should a wi)fe receive her husband’s guests at a stag: party? A. No, it is betternot.This is an ■ “all-man party,” the husband is, the host, and he should certainly be one to receive his guests. —j.— V' The masculine > name Eugene means “of noble birth.” ■■■ "" ■ 1 ■ " - »■" 1 ■

KILL'ES“3«NDNESS FRED DICKENSON .

CHAPTER THIRTY -FOUR FRAZIER FARWELL glided into the room. He held a black I automatic close in front of him, the bore on a level with McGann’s stomach, and an evil smile lay on his lips. McGann met the eyes that drilled into his with full; 1 knowledge, ' Farwell’s pupils had ‘shrunk to pinpoints. The calm of .powerful drugs showed in-the unwavering muzzle of the gun. ! “You couldn’t just let it go, could you?” Farwell said. His tone was an a single key, the voice thick. “They would have said she killed herself because she was sorry for what she had done. Everyone would have been happy. But you couldn’t just let it go. Oh, no. Not you." McGann looked into the 1 \ tiny eyes, not moving. He said quietly, “More killing won’t get you out of this. You’re a dead man. Let the girl go." The muzzle came up a fraction of an inch. “We’re all dead now,’* Farwell said. He chuckled, changing his voice and McGann felt a 'cold chill as Ronnie Tompkins seemed to speak. “I w ant you to prevent my murder, Mr. McGann,” he said mockingly. “But, of course, I asked you to do that once before and you failed. Now you can’t even prevent your/' own!" •> The glass of the study window shattered as Wexton came through with the flying splinters. Farwell whirled and the crash of the gun blotted out the shivery tinkle. McGann’s left hand Closed on the hot barrel, wrenching it free with a single twist The pinpoint pupils shot one fearful look into his and then McGann felt his right fist lashing out and the crunch of jawbone against knuckles. . Falwell bounced off the wall and crumpled crazily. McGann gave trim a single glance, stepped over Wexton, who still lay where he had fallen, and knelt beside Chary. A movement flung aside the deadly cloth and then he bad her in his arms at the open window where the fresh breeze tore the fumes from their faces and the stars dimmed in the first streaks of light Dink Wexton finished talking to rewrite and put the phone back on Tompkins’ desk. He fixed McGann with a stern eye. “Twenty minutes,” he said. “That’s all I ask. Then you can call anybody you - want"- J A \ j W McGann grinned. “Fair enough —if Chary feels all right" “I’m fine now,” she said. He was holding the automatic down at his side, and he walked ’over and kicked one of the logs jn the fireplace so that it blazed up brightly. F r ajz ie r F a'r we 11 slumped in the chair in the comer. His shirt collar was open and his hands were bound behind him with his necktie. He didn’t look up. The'windows brightened with arriving day. The first takes of Wexton’s story would be through the desk now, chattering linotypes

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would be working on it. The Blade would be standing op its head, a gaping hole waiting folr the replate. Minutes ticked by. > Wexton, at the desk, examined his hat and ppked a pencil through the hole ih the crown. He glared at the man in the corner, held it up for McGann to see. “Ruined this Stet-son-type hat,” he said. “With malice aforethought,” he added bitterly. ’ . _ Chary smiled at him gently. She was relaxed in the chair near the fire, her feet up under her, and she was still quite pale. “It'll be too small anyway/ won’t it? I mean saving our lives and getting the first story and aIL Will they give you an Oscar?" “Two of ’em.” Wexton pushed the hat- to the back of his head. “Siamese Oscars. Joined together by a belt in the back.” The stereotypers could even have it now, and the pressroom standing by, ready to roll The papers would flash out, still damp, with the banner screaming, SOLVE TOMPKINS’ MURDER! McGann had walked over to the window, looking out, with an occasional glance at the motionless figure ct Farwell. He turned back to the reporter. “It’s time to spoil O’Callahan’s beauty sleep.” Wexton sighed. “You wouldn’t consider locking ' this guy up in the basement and printing the confession in daily installments, would you?" 1 “It’s -a wonderful idea. But I like this part of the country.” He gestured. “Do your duty?’ Wexton started to dial SPring 7-3100. I “It’s so cozy here I hate to do this. But I guess if I don’t I will never know how you figured it out.”' • • • Dejputy Inspector O’Callahan showed white, eVen teeth and pulled the chair closer to Tompkins’ desk. “I hope you can prove all this/’ he said. “We only know for certain that Farwell shot a hole in; the hat of Mr. Wexton here." ' 7 ’ I “That’s a crime," McGann pointed out. “Discharging firearms within the city limits." “There were extenuating circumstances.” O’Callahan turned his smile oh the reporter. “Wexton was in it at the time." Dink nodded. “My friend.” McGann looked around the room. A uniformed man stood beside Farwell, whose wrists now lay handcuffed in his lap. The disc jockey gazed at them with smouldering hatred His pupils were beginning, to widen as the effect of the drug wore off, A few more hours Without a dose, McGann thought,;; and they wouldn’t be able to muffle his singing. He said, “Stop me if I’m wrong, Frazier.” He beckoned to Dink. “For the next ten minutes you’re going tobe Ronnie Tompkins, dead and alive. Til play Mr. Farwell’s role butl won’t try the voice.’’ - J . \

20 YEARS AGO TODAY J Uj-'i Vi • June 16.—Al Capone, public enNq. 1, pleads guilty to defrauding the government of S2OO, MMI In federal taxes and wHll be eentenced June 30. The memorial for .former president Warren Harding at Maripn, Ohio is dedicated. President Hoover, former president Calvin Coolidge and many;, fop officials attend. s \ Homer Rainey resigns as president of Franklin college to be come \ president. of Bucknell at Lewisburg, Pa. {president Hoover goes from Marion, Ohio to Springfield. 111., to dedicate the remodeled tqmb of Abraham Lincoln. \ ; More than 125 members of the Rerne Chamber of Commerce am| their wives attend a joint meeting of yie Chambers of Commerce at Fort Wayne. Julius Haugk is building h five room cottage on Monroe

street. Charles Brock To Berne Nursing Home Charles Brock, retired Decatur business man, today was as\a resident of the Bterne nursing home at Berne. Mr. Brock will make his residtende at the home. ■ ’ -——A— C < One Mfrior Accident Reported By Sheriff Bob Shraluka investigated one minor accident Friday M’hcn a car driven by Charles Butler, of route 1, crashed into the rear/ end Os a car driven hy Adam Reef, 808 North Third street. The accident occurred about one-halt mile east pf Preble U~U. 8. 224, as, Butler told the sheriff, he dozed niomentarily at {the wheel and came upon preceding car too quickly to Avoid hitting it Total damage was estimated at S2OO. On a clqar day/piqre than IJO i bodies of water can lie seten ftorn the summit of Whiteface Mountain in New York State’s Adirondaicks. 5

O’Callahan leaned back. "Go ahead.” Chary watched quietly. “Farwell arrived here early last Friday afternoon,* MoGann said. “He probably was under the influence of drugs but not so much that he didn’t notice the Pearsons come out the , basement door and hurry down the street. We know that they saw him. “Ronnie Tompkins admitted, Farwell to the house. I’ll theorize on the next part but I feel fairly safe in it. There was a quarrel, probably over the fact that Farwell had started Shirley Stanton on the use of drugs and was using any money she could get hold of to keep them both supplied. They needed it at $3,000 an ounce in the illicit market. "Possibly Tompkins threatened to cut them off for good and take Shirley out of his will” McGann stepped over to the desk and opened the upper right hand drawer. “Tompkins’ easy geniality was his own undoing. People like Farwell had unlimited opportunities to snoop around here. He knew about the gun. Half-crazy with narcotics and the fear of being cut off from an easy drug supply, he waited until Tompkins* back was turned, grabbed the gun and shot him. “The bullet took effect in a peculiar way.” McGann took Wexton by the shoulder, had him lie face down near the desk. “It killed Tompkins, all right, but it didn’t penetrate his body, as the medical examiner's report showed. It was stopped by the sternum. All bleeding was internal” O’Callahan nodded. “There was a post-mortem lividity of the left chest” a “Yes.” McGann straightened. “That peculiarity of the wound became mdre Important as other things fittel in. Anyway, Farwell undoubtedly stood here dazed for a few minutes trying to decide What to dp next “Perhaps he expected police to come racing up when some neighbor reporte 1 the shot If he just ran away, , the Pearsons would be questioned [when the body was found and rfeveal that Farwell was the last person known to have been with | Tompkins. “As his nerve returned, he decided that the closed windows and thick walls had deadened the shot and that it hadn’t been heard. He also discovered that Tompkins had not been bleeding onto the rug. Gradually the idea formed of having the murder seem to be committed at a later time when he would have somebody with him to establish his alibi.” McGann straddled the prone reporter, slipped his hands under the arms, and pulled him toward the servant? stairway. “He put the body in here where it was closed ‘ off and exceptionally warm, being careful to keep it face down. \ “Then he went about setting

Accepts Position ■I ) James A. Cowens, a June graduate of international College in Fort Wayne, has accepted an accounting position with Saylors Motor .company. He is \ the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyq Coweta, 609 West Adams street. Cowens was a member of the class of IHB at Decatur high school. He served 12 month* in the navy before beginning his training in the general business course at International College.

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\ \ Peeved We of Homewood addition would like to thank our Mayor for the wonderful way he fixed our streeisas everyone in Decatur knows, we have those exclusive cinder streets out here. And in the summer time they get a little dusty, then the dust bloffs in opr houses and in our food and messes things up /n general,then too we don’t have any side walks, so we walk in the streets, and our children must use the streets tb play in and they get kind of dusty. So we ask the mayor will he fix them, and he says, why sure, so he comes out and spreads oil all over everything, no gravel or anything, just plain old black oil. So now our kids don't have to play in dust, and we don’t have dust in our houses. Nope not any more. Now the kids, the rugs, the furniture and everything, else lokks like‘we all worked in the oil fields. Thanks Mr. Mayor we sure will remember you in November. Residents of Homewood Kenneth J. Secaur Enlistments Open For U.S. Navy ■ -/,./■ - . , The navy recruiting station in Fort Wayne announces that' mon who have already received their notice to appear for their physical examination or who have taaen theii* physical examination for selective service induction, can now enlist in the service of their choice. The new ruling states that from now until July 16, men can enlist up util the time they receive their notice to appear f6r induction. * The navy recruiting officer farther announces that there is no waiting list at the present time and men who are interested in enlisting in the U. S. navy are urged to write or contact the navy recruiting office in the post office building in Fort Wayne.

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Automobile Race Winds Up As Both q Drivers Pay fines The path of true love, tney say, never runs smoothly. | Sometimes it can not only be rough, but run at an extremely high rate of speed. > > / At least that was the case Friday for Andrew Schrock, 16, of route 1, Monroe, and Elizabeth Olalde, 16, of route 2, Berne. The couple, apparently, wore intent on getting married. The girt’s brother, Benito Olalde, 20. and her mother, however, had different ideas; j ! Schrock and (Maldo ppt tangled in a dual automotoilo raee that provided quite a bit of Excitement for pedestrians and o|her motor-1 ists along U. 8. 27. They were ultimately arrested by city police on Thirteenth street « Schrock and the girl- started out in one car, with Olai&e and the mother in the second. /They headed south on U. S. 27, Mid at times the cars were abreast witnesses said, as they speeded/ down the highway. They mase looping I turns \in the highway, then returned to Decatur where were arrested. ’ : / ■ Both were charged - with reckless driving and speeding, and Schrock and Olalde ekch pleaded guilty to the sephratP charges. Both were fined $5 and costs totalling J 15.75 for each | count, and both drivers had their licenses suspended by justice of the peace Floyd Hunter. Schrock could qot at first meet the fine, and was jailed tor about two hours,until it had? been paid. Elizabeth Olalde went;home with her mother. 1 11 ! -V

Arrive* In Korea MY. ana Mrs. Arthur H. BieberJich, of Preble, have received word that their son, Pvt. Donild L. Bieberich, has arrived safely overseas And is now in Korea, rfje has been in service since Januartf. His new address is: Pvt. Donala Biebqrich, US 55091314, 1234 Co. S. E., A. P. O. 613, % P. M., San Francisco, Calif. 1 —"fit v One of the problems bf censustaking among or superstitious peoples is the ancient fear that the counting/sf persons or goods pay lead to disasters, tne National Geographic notes.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1951

ySJf^7/i cvub l Wear Sheriff The Adams county rural youth met Thursday evening s at the Adams Central school for their regular meeting. Sheriff Bob Shraluka spoke to the group on /‘Highway Safety.” The safety film, “Miracle Paradise Valley,” was shown by Charles Ripley. Group feinting and mixers were led by Gloria Koeneman. The business meeting was conducted by the president, Henry Getting. It gras decided that the local club participate in the health sarvey that the county health council is planning for this talL/ | i Plans for a couflty square dance festival were discussed. Wavy Lehman, Paul Busse, and Boh Itnew were appointed to the nominating committee. ; L Recreation was led by Esther Sowards and Frits Auman. Refresh meets were served by Dave Ripley. The next meeting will be a “family night” July 12. ,

FRESH THIS MORNING I TRUCKLOAD Strawberries 3 5cat 5Qt5.6j.08 RAY’S WEST SIDE } MARKET 13th St. Phone 3-2930