Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1952 — Page 4

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The house lias passed a bill/ of rights for Korean veterans, 36|i to 1. No more deserving bunch of veterans ever earned it morejJ 0 r—O~ y $ ’ _ A four lane highway from Decatur to Fort Wayne ought/, to prove a life saver as'well as a great convenience for travelers. ~~ ° t°— ■ 4 . The "Ole swiihming pool? is open .again and the youngstei s'are enjoying it every ininute they ean spend there. We bught to have a couple of more pbbls. < c .[ .• —o—o— Mr. Eisenhower probably has a slight headache already and* he is just beginning to “srriell powder” in his race for the presidenciy. Quite a difference, telling ’em ito and asking ’em to. < - -h -o—o — Perhaps what manag'ement'and employes of the steel companyneeded was for the supreme cqUrt to tell them where they stood, Indications for an early settlement ar? brighter than for some time. —o—o / | 'Quite a fightiri’ guy, old Jersey Joe.. Most sport writers thought he had to win in the first few rounds or lose to'Charles, but he stuck it out and won on points. He can’t keep it up forever. > i t * O o J, Father’s day approaches arid the average dad hopes they won’t make too much fuss about it until they inquire about his bank balance but, its probably alright to Singt “Everybody \ works at bur house but my old man?’ How you betting on the outcome of the Ike-Taft battle. EJitlxer could tfjin or they might deadlock, it as Smith and McAdoo djh in the Democratic contest inf 1Q24 when they battled a month andwound tip. by choosing an outsider, Jbhn W. Davis so be care-\ ful about placing bets for a little while. ■jj!' —o o—i? Thirty-five men and'as many I tractors gathered this week one | day; at. the farm of Raymond Daeger on the Ohio state line. Mr. - Daeger has been ill the past two years" so the neighbors gathered, took their own eats an\d did a big days work preparing rind seeding S 3 [acres. Its wonderful to live in a land composed of people like 4 ././ . •' ;■/ i V ■/ ,; /

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t By HERMAN N. BUNDBEN, M.-D. r DRUG addiction should be considered a symptom of disease. The drug victim is really suffering from a severe emotional disorder, and needs treatment instead of punishment \ ' This particular disease is so very serious because it usually attacks young people, and is difficult to discover and cure, but It is not hopeless. The majority of drug addicts range in age from 17 to 25 years. According to estimates, there are roughly 55,000 addicts in the; United States, and over a fifth of are teen-agers. r Warped View of Life It is believed that those who fall prey to narcotics have a warped view of life—a more or - less frustrated and defeatist attitude. The more emotionally unstable a person is, the more likely he is to start using drugs and become an addict. . This disease also spreads. In a' Way that resembles an epidemic., One addict may contaminate large numbers of youngsters, and they in turn may contaminate others. . I At present, real “epidemics’ of drug addiction are found only in large cities. But there is good reason to believe that it may become more widespread throughout this country unless more effective ways to prevent it from spreading and easier methods of curing drug addicts are discovered. Treatment Hard to Get T In spite of the great need for - cure, it is difficult to feetadequate L '.treatment at nresent It Is very L ' .-a h J < ! | ■■ '

■'/- : J / ' !. [that. No wonder the people from 1 all over the world would like to become a part of it. M m ’ I I.; -O— o i —« Delegates from every county in Indiana are gathered in Indianapolis today for the Republican convention which will nominate statp officials and select delegates to the national convention. The race for governor seems the most exciting, with Mr. Craig apparently Iteading the way but with trie two senators and other leaders who prefer Taft to Eisenhoiver trying tp conclude a deal. It ought to be interesting. Off The Streets:— For the first time in many years Decatur’s annual Fait will be moved from the uptown.streets. This year’s event which Will be held from July 28 tp August 2, inclusive, will be Staged at Jlanhapark”, at the wesbbdge of Decatur., ; The Fair is sponsored by thq Decatur Free Fair Association, a division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, and will have many liiore opportunities to grow. In addition to the usual street fair activities, such as a midway; free acts; concession (stands;rides; shows and limited exhibits, this year’s event I will incliide iqany more agricultural shows including cattle, hogs and other'livestock. Roy Price, wpll known Adams county farmer general chairman, [and Walter Ford, executive/secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and also .secretary ofi the Fair, already have completed preliminary plans for the end-bfrJuly show. ' .5 ■. Numerous • committees have been named and many already are working toward making the first qft-Street Fair a good one. These men tpid woriiei? merit our sup- • port. j A Fair of this type gives in- • J it . - , . -s- 1 L. dqstry, agriculture, and everyone who.desires an opportunity to display their accomplishments. If t his year’s. Fair is a success- it is repsdnable to believe that a race tiaik will be added to the- other t / : , . ' ■ > * j facilities ait the park and that De- • :i -’4 .■ V. • •' '■ \i c .' ' catur and Adams county j again Will have one Os the (op agiictiltural and industrial/ .shJws of \t ;■ ■ « ■’ * northern Indiana. ’ ‘ « • J I ■■

hard to make sure the victim will receive the right treatment, with the prolonged supervision needed to cure him completely. One of the few ways of doing this is to have an addict convicted of a felony in the federal court It is strange but true that a patient who voluntarily enters a hospital for treatment is seldom helped to a great degree. Those . who submit themselves for | cure leave, and usually do, during the early stages of withdrawal, when the reaction is severe and often agonizing. b . Preventing Addiction What can we do to help pre- " vent drug addiction? can bay more attention to their children’s habits and problems. In the schools, teachers can discuss the facts about drugs and!prevent the curiosity that turps so many children into addicts.; L Physicians, churches, patents, schools and playground staffs must all work together to educate children to the horrors of drug addiction, and help wipe ou| this scourge before it spreads ahy further. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Mrs. P. B.: What causes a child to have extreme weakness in his arms, in spite of the fact that the muscles are extremely well , formed? ■ ■■. \; Answer: Jt may be that the ch|ld is suffering from a form of rrtusdular dystrophy in. which there is some wasting of the muscles even though they " may; appear to be well formed. This can \ only be determined by a careful, examination of the muscles and ■ nenes.. ,; r ■ iP t.' J ' J ■

0 — < 20 Years Ago TODAY o— n — 0 tJune 7 — The bonus army in Washington has now passed the 8,000 mark. \ ! Milton Girod, Menno Burkhalter, W. A. Well^ t Clint Soldner, C. E.’ Bell and' Avon Burk go toilndianapolis as delegates toy the RepubTican state convention, opening tomorrow. Tlie county eighth grade comfencement will be held at the Decatur high school gym Saturday with 305 to receive diplomas. Rev. Arndt of Fort Wayne will ilve tpe address. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., deserts the drys and now’ favors a repeal referendum. 1 , President Hoover signs bill approving a billion dollars to balance the budget. The primary election in Adams county cost $3,322. ”4- ■ Clayson Caroll * elected grand knight of the Knights of Columbus. . , t 0— o i Household Scrapbook J BY ROBERTA LEE 0 T 0 \ Banana Dessert A good dessert can be prepared by putting three ripe bananas, through a ricer. Mix with sweetened whipped cream that has been flavored with a few drops of vanilla. iServe cold in tall glasses. Put a macaroon in I the bottom of each glass. y\A Hemstitching The; drawing of threads in hemstitchi;ng''will be easier if they are first gone over with a wet brush that has been rubbed over a bar of soap. \ V Aluminum Tea Kettle Try 'polishing the aluminum tea kettle with kerosene, and i| will look like new. '\ g o o ! Modern Etiquette | I [BY ROBERTA LEE I 0 —t o Q. M.v grandchilren, who range in ages from two to ten, call me by myi first name. In this correct? A. The practice of little children calling grown people by first; names is always shocking to good> taste. -Some “pet name,” of course, is quite all right. Q. Is it proper to write an anonymous letter of protest or criticism to a newspaper qr to a col—4-—

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, SYNOPSIS Dark. depressive reooda have recently engulfed Gray Austen, and Rena, bis bride of less than a year, is greatly worried. Is ne brooding over his lame leg. grained along with glory in the war? is he vet grieving for his first wife, long dead and gone? Rena ponders tier as she walks her dog along a New York street. She ie start leid when young Mr. Ordway, their neighbor, steps out of the shadows to gteet her That night at home. Gray Austen flies into a fury when he discovers his wife holding a slim little paper-.bound oook in her hand. She had taken it from the shelf at random, ■didn’t! --ven notice the tjtle* It was just some story about an ancient-crime, but it caused a final rift between them. Terrified. Rena leaves the house. Ordwav. their neighbor, who happens to be out in the street as she runs along It. aids ner tn reaching Henry Gamadge. noted, bibliophile detective. Listening to her story. Gamadge decides to hide her in his home. Frantically Gray Austen endeavors to locate his missing bride. Wary of the police, he too contacts Gamadge. CHAPTER FIVE GAMADGE got home befofe noon, to find Clara once more setting forth. She said: “The group’s letting out, and I'm off again, and I do wish Nanny would get back. This is killing me.” “Where’s the baby’s nurse?” “Upstairs with him, naturally.” “Can you give me a few minutes m the library? I have something to talk over with you.” “I’ll have to take a cab, then." “They won’t turn the child into the street. Just get hold of Miss Brown, will you?” “We can’t send heir for Henry, she’s been on her feet—” The nursery-maid, however, was running lightly down the stairs from the top, floor when Gamadge and Clara emerged from the eleU vator; Gamadge said: “A wordwith you, Miss Brown, which I think will interest you. I’ve just had[_the pleasure of a talk with I your husband in the public library.” \ _ : , I Clara exclaimed and seized hold I of Rena’s arm. Rena was gazings at her, unable to speak. •‘lt’s. ail right,” said Gamadge cheerfully. “He hasn’t a notion.” “Hasn’t a notion!” Clara was incredulous. "You mean It was a coincidence, or something? I don't believe it.” Rena said in a faltering voice: "He must have found out. And I Was; so sure Mr. Ordway . =. ■ “He hasn’t found out,” said Gamadge, “and Ordway didn’t tell. Come tn and have some sherry.” ' . Rena, on the chesterfield, drank sherry and listened to him; as he talked color came back into her face, she leaned against the cushions relaxed,, her hands lay quiet. “He wanted to make out that it was a chance encounter,” saidiGamadge( “said he saw my name on

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one of my library slips. But he was lying, he didn’t see it; so I thought it was ethical to meet him on 'his own ground—he was asking for it. 1 did assure him, though; that I wouldn’t be able to find you;! Have some more sherry; I know it’s-a shock, it was for me too.” *• “But I don't understand .. .” ’[ “Perfectly simple. He’d read my book, as, you told me; the brother did know something of what I’ve done, you say he gets around,” said Gamadge smugly. “And they couldn’t simply ignore your exit* that’s true enough. The servants would wonder. And Austen does want to find you, you know.” She nodded. “But quietly, no publicity. Oh, so quietly: so he took a shot at me, But >the clumsy fool thought It would be more effective to do it like this, in his own indirect oy. So he must have hung around outi side the house, and seen me leave; and driven down to the library after me.” - *1 “He has a car,” said Rena. “He hardly ever drives it. Jerome deeS all the driving.? “Well, your Husband drove this time, and I to!ok\ so. long to get« through at the flies that he had' plenty of time to park and come in and catch me looking up titles in the catalogue room.” , fr "But if he saw you leave—l left too!” "Serena,” said Gamadge, who liked her old-fashioned name, “you know why we put you into that uniform. It’s the best disguise on earth, with that veil around your face and your hair under it” “And thank Heaven you’re in it," said Clara, "for. with Nanny off to go to that family funeral* all I could think of was resting my feet" Rena almost sobbed: “At least I can think I’m earning my food." "If Nanny weren’t getting back on Sunday night we’d make you go on slaving for us.” f "I can’t believe it yet Coming here and telling you, and nobody saying I was crazy and ought to go buck.” “Imagine your remembering me, 7 said Rena, “as soon as I reminded you about Seaton’s Aunt” "Besides,” Gamadge assured her, “it’s a very interesting case. Right up my alley.” I ; “I thought it was very strange there; but—” * . ”Oh, very interesting,” repeated Gamadge. “Those books.” “Did you—” “Ho, I didn’t; I fumbled among murder cases all morning, and I never got within a mile of Mr. Austen and the pneumonia.”

Reckless Driving Charged To Youth jjohn Joseph Braun, 17, of De'q|tur, was charged yesterday with reckless driving and will be arraigned in justice of peace court ■ftiiday. i .. . . . n ' i That’s Logical / •COLUMBIA, Conn. (UP) -- A woman driver was being questioned about an accident at Katzman ■■Oprner. She told the state policeman the accident could have been avoided If the male driver of the other car had stopped and waited qhtil she made up her mind which iyay she was going. Leaves Souvenir GARY, Ind. (UP) — Raymond [Moore reported to police someone •dole his overcoat. It wasn’t a complete loss though. The thief, ap'pgtently. shorter than Moore, cut off the coat tails and left them behind. \ |■ j i The Gila River, An southwestern ■United states, has a drainage area .<>( about 13,000 square miles. 4 .——

“Could it really be that?” I' ‘That’s all we have so far.” 1 Clara said: "You’ll get on with It, now you’re so thick with him.” ; "Yes, I’m going up there to discuss it with the Austens at five o’clock this afternoon. I’m dying to go. -He made himself very pathetic, Serena; sad story, and if you hadn’t got to me first I might have shed tears over it.” « "Perhaps I ought to be shedding tears over it,” said Rena. “Because you were fooled into parrying a man you didn’t know? feut it’s puzzling," admitted Gamadge, with a frown. "Very puzzling, the whole thing.” “Oh, why didn’t I really look at those two books! Clara, don’t go.” “I have to,” groaned Clara, getting up. "You can’t go,” said Gamadge, addressing Rena with some sternness. “This new development requires a lot of new\ strategy, and we’d better get down to some questions and answers. Question one: why did he marry you at all?” The big chow came into the room, acknowledged company with a waft df his tail, and retired to his favorite corner out of the way. Reha followed him with her ©yes; when she met Gamadge’s again her face Was clouded with perplexity. ■ “ “You don’t know either,““said Gamadge. “You’ve asked the question of yourself a hundred times. Why marry you in the first place, if you weren’t the kind of person he.could go on being civil to for more than a few weeks? You know, Serena, it wasn’t a rash, precipitate kind of marriage, cooked up on the spur of the moment over cocktails in a bar. You didn’t go into it hurriedly and flightily. A month —that’s not such a abort time; Clara and I knew our own minds in less than a month, I can tell you.” meant it to be forever.” “Yes, and you didn’t change. You wouldn’t—anybody could tell you wouldn’t, Just by looking at you. And you stuck it out until he turned dangerous, or went out of his mind. He got just what he thought he was getting. Made no complaints afterwards, you tell me; didn’t lament that he was disappointed in you.” hung on to you, wouldn’t hear of separation, qnd now wants you back. You didn’t change, I say; but what happened to him?" “1, thought his leg ... the war ..." ' (To Be Continued)

Estate Cases The estate of David P. Steury is valued at the new figure of $19,383.76. The estate lot Grover C. Moser, bond filed for S2O,UDO. j Marriage License Harold F. DePue, 22, and Carol Thorndyke, 18/ both of Akron, Ohio. Court Rules The Central Acceptance Corp., vs Alvin Gutowitz, complaint on promissory note; the court ruled against the defendant in his motion that the plaintiff plead the note as evidence, and now causes the plaintiff to prove only that the note was valid in Ohio when made. ‘ ! j Real Estate y Transfers Chloe A. Price to Earl E. Dawaid, 288% acres in Wabash Twp. Earl E. DaWald to Chloe A. Price et al, 288% acres In Wabash Twp. James A. Bleery etux to Paul W. Zurcher etux, inlot 31 in Monroe. Ira' E. Mcßride etux to Lee F. Mcßride etux!, parts inlots 2 & 3 in Decatur. William S. Bowers etux to Anna J. Nesswald, parts Inlots & 248 and out lot 3 in Decatur. Anna J. Nesswald to William S. Bowers etux, parts Inlots 247-248 & 248 and out lot 3 in Decatur.

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’’ synopsis / Dark, depressive moods have recently engulted Gray Austen, and Rena, his bride ot less than a year, is greatly worried Is he brooding over his lame leg, gained along with glory in the war? Is he yet grieving for his first wife, long dead and gone? Rena ponders her problem as she walks her dog along a New York street. She is startled when young Mr. Ordway, their neighbor, steps out of the shadows to greet her. :■ That night at home. Gray Austen files Into a fury when he discovers his wife holding a slim little paper-bound book in her hand. She had taken it. from the shelf at ‘random, didn’t aven notice the title. It was just gome Story about an ancient crinrte, but it caused a final rift between them. ' Terrified. Rena leaves the house. Ordway. their neighbor, who happens to be out in the street as she runs along it. aldo her in reaching Henry Gamadge. ’ noted bibliophile detective. Listening to her story. Gamadge decides to hide her In hia home. Frantically Gray Austen endeavors to locate his missing bride. Wary of the police, he too contacts Gamadge. But all the while Rena is safe in the Gamadge keeping and now she is telling this famous authority on old books and scripts her story. Why had her hnsband been so horribly disturbed by the sight of that little book? CHAPTER SIX “LEG? Leg?” Gamadge shook his head at Rena’s explanation about her husband. “Not enough in itself. Not nearly enough. Why, this Ordway, you tell me, is disfigured for life; and he seems to be taking it coolly enough. Os course you’ll say that’s not quite fair, it’s a matter of temperament. That’s Just what I’m getting at. If he had the kind of character \that reacted in that way, if after five years he still has some kind of war neurosis, then . . .” Gamadge broke off to light a cigaret.. He sat back, smoked for a few moments and looked at her through the blue haze. Then he said: “If he’s still mentally sick enough to be so badly affected after so long an interval, you ought to have been told about it. That was a. deception, if you like! And he’ was aided and abetted in it by his brother and sister, who must have known.” h \ . ' “He never said anything.” “I don’t believe there was anything of the kind to say. That affair yesterday of the books shows that his trouble is based on something besides nervous disorder. He’s nervously disordered, all right, but that’s the result of a definite fear or anxiety. He put up a front for seven weeks, and then when he jihad you tied up and safe, he re- ‘ "laxed. But marriage . . . and that repeated pattern in wives. It gets me,” said Gamadge frankly. “It has me beat.” “Pqrhaps he would have changed sooner,” said Rena, “if we hadn’t been travelling around so much on the hb ney mo on. Afterwards I thought perhaps I would have noticed a change sooner, if—” “Where did you go?” asked Gamadge. f “We all went in the car—down through the Southem states." “All?” Gamadge stared. A ghostly smile appeared on her lips. “The four of us, you know.”

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“You and Gray Austen ana ms brother and sister?” Gamadge’s voice was full of something that half choked it; when she nodded, he gulped aS if unable for the moment to speak. Then he said: “I’ll be hanged. Looks as if they didn’t dare let him loose. Keepers. Is he really as crazy as a . . . no, and he isn’t crazy; not yet.” ’They explained,” said Rena. "Jerome and Hildreth do the driving, you know, Gray doesn’t care for it. They hadn’t had a trip for a long time], and they told me it would save Gray so much money if they went with us instead of going off later by themselves. He laughed about it; he said it didn’t matter to him, but as they didn’t have much of any income themselves they were careful not to be more of an expense to him than they could help. He didn’t care." “He wasn’t in love with you, Serena,” said Gamadge. “He never loved you, not as I understand the l word.\ You were fooled into that marriage, and I’m only sorry you ever felt the faintest remorse about breaking away. Now let’s leave fruitless conjecture and get busy on those books.” “Fastened together with pink tape,” said Rena. “Yes, they were a pair of something: and as you know, a pair is always mufch more than twice as valuable as a thing alone. Chairs, candlesticks, vases and lovebirds. But you don’t know why they were together, especially as ohe was in paper covers and the other bound.” “They were the same size and thickness.” i , “Octavos. And all you saw on the cover of the paper one, was the word ‘Case,’” “It must have been a- trial, Mr. Gamadge, because inside it was all questions and answers.” “Good. It was a trial, and we imagine that it Was a murder trial, and Mr. Gray Austen hadn’t known that it was among those other trials and cases on the shelves in the Sitting-room. He didn’t mind your reading the rest of them, yoU know; but when he caught the title of that one, he could have killed you for (as he thought) reading it I wish to goodness you’d noticed what the other book said.” “All I saw was one word in big gilt letters: ‘Summing-Up.’ ” “You don’t say.” Gamadge was much interested. “We didn’t get as far as that last night That'does make them a pair, doesn’t it? A trial and then a summing-up by the Judge. “And the bound book was all in fine print,“and double columns,” said Rena helpfully. Gamadge’s eyes wandered. After a pause for thought he sighed. “They’re hard to come by sometimes,” he said, “those verbatim reports of trials; collectors! items,

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some or tnem are. But so many are riot, and how can we ever♦ I wish we had an approximate date on them, Serena.” ?Tj told you they were old.” >t “Yes, but how old?” “Not really old,” said Rena. “Old-fashioned.” “I know exactly what you mean. You wouldn't see that kind of paper cover or paper or type now, but it wasn’t a curiosity. Not like this,” said Gamadge, getting up to take a bound file from a shelf, and handing it to her open. She looked at the gray, rough-printed broadside, and shook her head. Gamadge laid it down and took an old catalogue from another file. “More like this?” "Very much like it.” “Middle Victorian,” said Gamadge, "and a good period for reports oq trials. Lots of them were reprinted, you know, the best murders: Notable English Trials, Notable British Trials, and other collections, some right up w date.” “Some of those notable trials are in old Mr. Austen’s collection. I read them. Fascinating,” said Rena. “Welcome to the Society. I have the best,” said Gamadge, “and you’re welcome to them. Read them to the baby. Os course you were going to stuff some of them into a crack; that’s against you. But like your husband, you thought them insignificant and not worth reading.” “Won’t yours help at all?” Tm afraid they 'hurt our case, instead of helping it,’* said Gamadge sadly. T mean our case against Gray Austen for the murder of his first wife.”. She looked at him silently, and did not protest “Scared you badly, didn’t he?” Gamadge was biting his thumb. He released it, and mournfully shook his head. “They hurt our case because they’re old.” “Because they’re old?”. , “The things that scared him were old things, perhaps a century old., They didn’t know, anything about killing people with germs seventy-five or a hundred years ago; and leaving people in draughts always was a tricky unsatisfactory way of murdering them, and nowadays it’s easier to cure pneumonia. You know, we ll absolutely have to get after that doctor.” “W’olfram ? But he’s a very nice man.” ( ,7. “We’ll get after him, though, and the sooner the better.” Gamadge reflected. ‘TIT put Dave Malcolm on him; Dave loves a 4 problem, and he loves to make up stories: and he can work his way in anywhere.” “But won’t Doctor Wolfram tell the Austens that somebody was asking-questions about—” “Leave it to Dave.” (To Be