Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1952 — Page 4

PAGE FOUR

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO n INC. *“*•*?? Decaiur, Ind.. Post Office as Second Class Matter ? lc s D ’ Preaident i * Hothouse __ Editor *JL H. Heller Vice-President Chas. Holthoiue , Treasurer _ Subscription Rates: By Mail in Adams And Adjoining Counties: Ono year, $6.00. 7“ months >3.25; 3 months, $1.75. .By M»i’. beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $7.00; C months, $3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By Carrier, 25 cents per week. Single copies, i cents.

Most people are more interested in getting rid ot the ragweeds than they are in looking for grassroots thai the political speakers talk about. - —.O Television fans are no doubt happy that the big are oVer. Now they can go back to baseball games, wrestling matches and the commercials. ■ V —-o——o . . See the tractor pulling contests at the Free fair. You will' enjoy them and you may be. interested, in what they can do. i Hoosief deer \ hunters should mark November 6th'! 7ttj and Sth .on their calendar. Those' are three days it will be legal to hunt venison in this state. The frequency of the demands for a poll of the votes of various states seemed to indicate that a lot of “people who can’t get \to Hollywood want to get on television. , ' ’ \ / The traffic problem at the free / fair here this, week will probably require the attention of numerous police officers if accidents and serious jams are to be avoided. Please help all you' can and obey the signs and signals. '■ o— —o ”, Sentiment seems to be growing in favor of the of can- . didates for president and vicepresident by a national primary. t j Since the near explosions at the recent conventions many leaders axe working on plans for that • means of nominating national of- , ficials. — O —-—o—— ‘ 1 The conventions are over aftd you can get a good rest now’. The--campaigns will warm up in September and get hot in October, we predict. Be sure to take an interest in politics this year. Its a privilege to vote in free Antmica and its' one, that you should > never give up. ' — _ \ 0 G -—_ We extend a hearty and sincere welcome to the men fronj every part of the nation and from Canada who are here, to attendi the Reppert Auction school. If you give close attention to instructions ’ and the 1< ssons as’taught you will £ surely We hope you enjoy your visit to Dricatur and we are sure you will'. 1

Special Needle Biopsy Helps | To Diagnose Disease Os Liver •

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. < AN operation sometimes has to ! be performed just to find out the exact nature of a diseased organ, so the doctor can give the proper treatment. This has often been the case with liver disease. j A new method of testing the ( JUver tissue with a special needle j Is: now helping patients — and | doctors—avoid this type of operation. It is known as needle biopsy. '. \ j Varied Causes Liver disease can be muzzling ' to a doctor, because it cin come . from many different and varied i causes. It can be due to an infection, a tumor, cirrhosis, or : hardening of the liver. A blood vessel disorder is a possible cause. Sometimes a heart condition may also contribute to liver disease. These disturbances can sometimes be detected from a jaundice, or yellow color of the skin and eyes. However, jaundice may also be due to gallbladder disease, or perhaps to a blood disease. Sample es Tissue The needle method has been perfected to help sift but these different causes of jaundice and liver-disorder. A special type of needle is carefully inserted into the liver to remove a sample of tissue, which is then studied under the microscope. The patient need not be put to sleep ito do this, a local anesthetic under the skin being all that is necessary. A correct diagnosis of the disorder can be made in as many as 85 per cent of the leases. . This test is not without some danger to the patient, but if done

’ r . V.?! ! Pete Cloherty of Massachusetts perhaps prevented a firein . convention hall and a stampede that might have resulted in a gi]eat disiaster. Some one 1 had Dissed a lighted cigarette into a bunch of ' -T\ newspapers and they were soon abaze. Pete saw them, grabbed a microphone from Governor Byrnes and calmed, the people by Celling them' it was nothing t pilous. Others came to his aid aftd prevailed on the throng while hutting out the fire. It waS quick tl inking and came out alright. _ o . oj Ready For i j The Democratic National Co th vtnlion nominated Senator John J. Sparkman of Alabama for Vicei president Saturday afternoon about 3 o’clock. resolutions thanking every body who had aided in making the e|"ertt a Vi ry stressful one and adjourned, i/ |r I Their ticket swill be Stephenson £ Sparkman, Irated by political leaders as a very strong one and recognized by the Republicans as well as Democrats to be political foes to be reckoned with. ■ Mr. Stephenson \has served, as governor of Illinois the past four years and has established ft. rec j ord as one of the best ift the nation. He has long- been a student of government and his hum » ble speech marked hftn us a leader who reajizes the importance Qf his position and who will fight to gain another great v'ictoiy in he' was- decidedly the choice Os the •• convention and from the minute o <■ “ Ifi ■ I 11C was nominated by his friend Governor Schricker lof Indiana there was no doubt or the result. ' '4' | ’ 1 ’i ■ ■ illt ' His running \ mate, John J. Sparkman of Alabtfliia has'been a nit inlier of the. U.p. senate aj numbiM years ami ranks high as an .able, far seeing land c||eful leader- his lamination lends strength to the ticket and more that- brings together t lift party which has feuding for several years, Democrats may well feel proud; ? ” I of these men who will as ri’esi- ! 4\■ ■. i .n- M dent Truman and many Others predict be well out in froftt whejt the votes are counted in yX’ovi mber.

carefully it should cause very few complications. It is not undertaken it there is any disturbance in blood clotting. An Aid in Hepatitis The test is especially « helpful in severe types of liver infection, or hepatitis. In these cases, it is important to ascertain the progress of the disease, and to find’ whether or not improvement is taking place. This can be readily and easily learned by a needle biopsy of the liver. Thus, a new method of taking small samples of tissue has it much easier to diagnose many puzzling cases of liver enlargement «nd jaundice. questions and L. P.: I have a cousin who suffers from hookworm disease. Gan you tell me something about ht? Answer: Hookworm is a condition which affects people in the tropical and southern temperate zones. The symptoms are laziness, weakness, loss of physical and mental ability, loss of weight, and anemia. To ascertain whether or not an individual has hookworms, it is necessary to give him certain drugs, such as thymol or carbon tetrachloride. The stools are then sifted through cheesecloth and the worms found, if present. The cure for this disorder consists in the use of thymol or carbon tetrachloride. In all cases, the treatment for this condition should be carried out under the direction of a physician, since the drugs used must be given in the right amount in order to prevent poisoning from them. ,• L.

| 20 Years Ago I TODAY I o — o July 28 — Secretary of war Hurley orders General Douglas Mac Arthur to “clear and surround with U. S. troop®,*’ the area of the “bonus marchers’’ riot in Washington. D. CThp legislature passes measure reducing salaried of all government unit employes of Indiana it) percent. W.l Albert Rossman, 32, his wife and <kne son. and his parents. M?» and ;Mrs. W. A. Rossman, werp killed when a train hit their airto last night near ('oluihbns. Mt 1 . Rossman had taught the St. John school north of Decatur the past 12 years and was very popular, Adplph Hitler is urging the e|tiZens of Gerriiany to unite tinder the Nazi flag. He spoke to an en thusiastic crowd of 160.000 last night in Berlin. Ma|or Uermak Chicago sails Ehrope on a vacation. I Modern Etiquette I I BY ROBERTA LEE j 0 Q. Should a married woman, whether her husband is living, or deceased, always be addressed soJ cially las Mrs.- James J. Johnson? A. Socially, Mrs. Mary Johnson is in extremely bad taste.for both a wjfq and a .widow-. In business or a jpro'fi ssion. “Mrs. Mary” Ms usually unavoidable., but she should' never be so addressed in social life. Q. 1$ it proper to take chicken orfchojps ftp in the fingers when eating? * f I A. (*hicken and chops are not finger | foods, except at a picnic. Anyone who has learned to eat property can, with a little practice, cut alii the\meat from the bones without waste. } \ • Q. How s should a divorcee sign her liable if she retains her exhusbahirs surname? A. slie should use the surname of her j fonder husband, prefixing her maiden name; as, "Mrs. Helen Carter (Johnson.” 1

Spanish Range d ■iL. .. -nr , Copyright, 1951 hrtee E Well*. rATI W X*'**s JaT I ’ -r'~Di»tnbut«i Ly King Featulrs Syndicate. '..J —j»A i A-r. -A y.' ■ ; ■!— rrs-.T-r-r; .

t CHAPTER-THIRTEEN “MAYBE ft’sr* just another of Leonis’ slick moves,” Slim said hopefully. "It’d be like him to sell ariothet man’s land to some fool that wouldn’t know the difference. Looks like you need me more'n ever. I’ll sure get back fast.” "All right, Slim. We’ll meet you at the rancho alter we come back -from Loa Angeles. If we get a ranch, we’llworkit. If we haven’t —” He shrugged eloquently. "There’s a big fire somewhere off in the mountains,” Slim said as he kicked off the brake and shouted the horses into motion. The wagon gathered speed on the downgrade and soon disappeared around the bend. Hal arid Blaise had mounted and galloped along tile road. "Slinj said there was a fire, Hal, could be most anywhere, but I’d like to make sure.” They; wound through the mountains at a fast pace. They came out on | the final ridge and immediately saw the dirty gray cloud high against the southern sky. Hal cofild see it was a big fire, burning deeper into the distant Santa Monicas toward the ocean. He jerked around when he heard Blaise’S exclamation. The man’s eyes \were wide, his face stricken. “That’s us!” Blaisp grimly raked the spurs and rockettcd down the last slope. Hal raped to catch up with him and both rode at breakneck speed through the village and out into thp Valley beyond. As they watched, sudden bright flares and billowing columns of black sinoke marked where, big clumps jof sumac burned fiercely.. Over it all was the gray-yellow smoke of I the sagebrush, flaming along the mountain slopes. Already he could see the black carpet qf i*uin the fire left behind it. They reached the highway, plunged across. Blaise turned ihto the ranch road, racing up it to the narrow opening of the canyon, through the portal. He reined in, face suddenly white. The ranch house was bnly smoldering, hot ashes, the ctfimncy standing grim and black above the ruins. Blaise scarcely heard Hal rein in beside him, or the man's amazed oath. The corral was gone. Only the ’ d e*c rep' i t bunkhouse Leonis had returned an answer to his challenge. They turned toward that portion of the ranch yard that the flames had missed. HaNsearched the corral while Blaise went directly to the bunkhouse. He pushed open the door, saw that the dust on the floor had been undisturbed. He worked down the slope and at last stopped, calling Hal. "Horses, at least three of them. They stood here while the riders set the fire.” , \ Hal hitched at his gun belt, pass 1 . “That’s (good enough for me. I’d head; for Calabasas.” Blaise; stood silent, studying the

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

BEST KEYNOTE YETI ' ’ ' " ' ( 1 1 - v ' I IE - ' ' ■' fc I ST ■ ill fe zji/* -1 - V. ♦■ • ■ i ■ i i ,\ I ■ i' • .If-- |- r . ■ \ ’ O 1 . - ■■ j" - I I n»U4i»i n 111. I— .1,.,.,-. . , I. .. ..j,

I —7 — Sv INSERVICE JiA King Enlist® Richard E. Kiifg, ikoh of Mr. and' Mis. Fred King, former residents of Decatur, and now living in Portland, Ore., has dnlisted in the infantry and is now id training at a <amp in California. Dischar I r Cpl. Betty R. Cumings has received her discharge from the Wacs and is temporarily residing With parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Roebuck, formerly of Dechtur and now of Detroit, Mich. She has just returned from Japan, where she haft been (stationed. Her husband; Cpl. Ernest W. Cuiliingft is stationed in Gerpiany and ekliebA; to be discharged iii September. . * The color of northern pike vary with the locality anft water, tending to rese.mble theji color of flip, water, the weeds and the bottpni.

tracks, then lifted his head and looked back at the smoke, now further away beyond the ridges. "Mayise it's good, enough for me, and you, Hal, but we need more —a lot more.” "Why, man—” "Proof for you and me,” Blaise cut in swiftly. "But .Leonis hogtied me once before; 'Maybe he’s waiting for us to come riding in to get his\ hide. I’m not going scalp-hunting without better proof. ~ Any three riders could’ve made these tracks, Hal . . Scorpion riders, pilgrims passing through, maybe some .of Vasquez’s if they’re in the neighborhood—or even Raikes and some Montanas riders. Who were they?’* i "Scorpion!” Hal snapped. "I’d back that bet,” Blaisp nodded, “But I can’t prove it. Leonis could kill us out of hand if we went after hi pi . . . what could we prove outside then! tracks? I’ll have hard facts before 1 jump hipi. I’ve had enough of guards and cells and stone walls.” Hal grumbled but subsided. He turned back toward the house and distastefully surveyed the; ruins. < , “So what do we do? Give up?” "No.’f Blaise said so sharply that Hal jerked his head around. “We can build a corral and live in the shack. We got the land —” “If Thatcher’U let you have it,” Hal snapped. ■ “We’ll check on that. Maybe it’s not gone. Scorpion or Las Montanas won’t, drive me out.” They rode grimly out of thP canyon and back along the trail that wound* down toi the Valley. On the spine of the last ridge, Blaise drew rein and his eyes coldly swept over the Valley, cortiing to rest for a moment on the low ridges that hid Calabasas. “Looks like no one was interested in the fire,” he said evenly. He folded his hands on the saddlehorn and leaned ‘forward on them. “Os course, it 1 was up in the hills and folks let ’em burn out?’ d ' ■ i •] “But your rancho’s up there. They knew you'd corrie back.” , ‘‘They knew I’d come back,” Blaise \ nodded. "Leonis knew it, the . Thatchers knew it. No one come.” ' \ ''M-’. /I' "They expected it,” Hal snapped. \ "Or didn’t care,” Blaise added. “There’s always that.” He striaigened and touched the horse’s flanks with hip spurs and set his face toward Los Angeles. Anger gradually left him, giving way to an ever-increasing mood of despondency. He had the dull, crushed feeling that perhaps he had been a fool and a dreamer all along,'that he faced too great a task against too many odds. Even this present journey appeared; useless. He would only find more, trouble in the distant Pueblo of the Angels. i .

Probe Strange Death Ot Woman At Gary ■ Suspect Foul Ploy J In Woman's Death ; GARY, Ind. UP —Police held a rooming house landlady lodpy for questioning in connection with the strange death of Mrs. Mathft Derdowski, 34, mother of two children. Police chief John Foley said Mrp. I)■ i dow.-ki, who was seven months pregnant, may haVe met with foul play, perlhiyts poisoning. ; Mt,s. Ann Kresnq, the laridlady, Hid', the young woman walked info pier nousb and collapsed at her feet before she could utter a wbAi. Foley said identifying labels had been removed from the dead wohiaii's clothing. She carried do Identification except the initials ‘‘F, O?’ qr “F. D.” on her girdle, i • Foley ordered chemical tests for ppibohing made by the Indianft trirhe laboratory at Indianapolis.

He sank deeper in his thoughts, picking oVer, the factors arrayed against him one by one, trying honestly to evaluate them and, even more, himself and his chances. J ' Then, unaccountably, his thoughts swung to Rennie Thatcher. He recalled how L she had looked on the stage, a tall and stately girt He saw her then as she had been at Las Montanas, still tall, now,lovely in jeans and shirt. She had looked so shocked and disbelieving when her father had accused him of being a murderer. And when he did not deny the charge, he could again clearly see the quick flash of emotion, gone in a second, and then detestation. It would happen a hundred times again in his life unless he found who had killed Chavez. He dwelt on that killing as he rode toward the mountains that cut the Valley from the coastal plain. Chavez had been a sneaking bully, a man who spoke loudly of his own worth, while; he ran off a head or two of his neighbor’s beef\j on dark nights. Blaise had lost a couple of steers and had trailed them to Chavez’s dls r e puta bl e rancheria in the shadow of the Chatsworth rocks. He had found the steers, and Chavez, bleating swift and fright--cried lies, all the bravado gone. Blaise had flattened him a couple of times and then kicked the gun from the man’s hand, when Chavez tried* to draw and kill him. Blaise had jerked the man to his feet. “You’ll draw on the wrong man some day and he’ll slap a bullet between your eyes. If I eVer catch you anywhere near my range or wearing a gun, you’ll be in bed .for a month.” - He had driven the stolen steers back to his rancho. There had been trouble before with Chavez; Paul Case and the others knew • of it. Leonis had undoubtedly known, too. Blaise’s lips curled artgrily as he thought how easy it had been; for Leonis to move quietly in. He or a Scorpion man had killed Chavez two nights later. The mari’s gun and belt had been found in Blaise’s rancho while he rode the hills. Leonis and some of the Scorpion crew had captured Blaise and taken him directly to Los Angeles and the jail. Paul, Melanie and, the others had testified for him, but the prosecution had used the known facts of the bad blood between Blaise and Chavez, the belt and gun to convince a jury. The judge had given a life sentence. It had been that easy. It had j taken ten years, innumerable appeals to the governor, and a great deal of money to get a pardon. But the murder stigma remained and it always would until Blaise found which Scorpion killer had shot Chavez. (To Be ContmuedJ,

| Household Scrapbook | BY ROBERTA LEI 0 — Mending Cement A cement for mending stone jars wash bojlerft, etd, and which will resist the action of hot or cold water, acids, and almost any degree of heat, can be mixed from litharge and glycerin. Mix together to the conslstency^Df' very* thick cream, or evert soft) putty, and apply. The article should not be used until the! chmen£jhas hardened, which will teqtMre from one day to a week, according to amount used. Make this only as, .required. \ ' Silver Fish When a cjloset or cuplmard is Infested witl| silver fish, you will know that dampness is there. If the closet Is naturally damp, sprinkle some borax around liberally to frighten them away. String Beans J. Every bit ;of string can be re-, moved from the beans if after thoroughly washing they are plqnged into boiling water for five mjnutes and then drained,

Dismiss Case I \ In the case of the state of Indiana vs Gerald V. Zimmerman for failing to provide, prosecuting attorney Severin Schurger, moves to dismiss the case, drop charges. Cat Adopts Pigeon" NEW BRITAIN, Conn/UP —Mrs; Anne Thompson found an injured pigeon and thpk it to her coffee shop. Mrs. ThonYpson’s cat tdok one look, then walked over and lovingly licked the bird. The two have been friends'since.

Moore’s House Paint Beautiful JL Colors And White \ Per Qg Gal. j J , 2[TI PHONE 3-3030 1 . 158 S. 2nd St.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN IT WAS late when Blaise and Hal arrived in Los Angeles and fill the public offices were closed. So they stayed overnight in a cheap hotel not far from the Plaza, sleeping fitfully, disturbed by the constant noise from the street below. , The next morning Blaise finally located the recorder’s map for the Calabasas section, found his rancho on \it. But the whole east portion had been broken off and Blaise’s lips tightened as he traced the records. U Finally he looked up, turned to stare at Hal, who shook his head, puzzled. Blaise read the record again. “The taxes went delinquent, and it was bld for purchase. It shows I was served with notice of intent to buy.” He looked hard at Hal. “But nothing ever came to the jail , . . nothing.” “Might be easy to get around that,” Hal said. \ “It was sold for back taxes, and then resold within a month to Thatcher,” Blaise continued. His finger stabbed down .to a name, pressed > hard. “But it wasn’t Leonis, Hal. It wasn’t him at all.” \ Hal shook his head. “Why would Mark Davis buy up tax land so close to Scorpion?” “I don’t knpw, unless it’s buy and sell on a quick deal. Thatcher’s the one that’d have to fight Leonis. But Mark Davis!” “And he filed notice to purchase the rest a few days before you came back.” Hal studied the book, then looked up at Blaise. "No wonder that jasper didn’t want you to go back to ranching. You sure jiggered up his plans.” \ Blaise signaled a clerk and questioned him about the entries. Within half an hour be had paid all back taxes on the portion left to his title and had filed a notlce of intent to redeem on that portion sold to Thatcher. "You got to pay for all improvements since the sale," the clerk warned, ‘Sand you got just a month to redeem. Your time’s up then.”. “Any .way Thatcher can refuse?” Blaise asked. > “None, unless you don’t serve him with this notice of intent. He must have bought it from Davis, knowing it was tax land.” Blaise and Hal started back to the Valley within half an hour. They took Cahuenga Pass through the mountains and trade down into the Valley. They Approached the stage stop where Vasquez had attempted his holdup and, once again, there was a line of saddled horses before the hitchrack. Blaise and Hal rode up and dismounted, Blaise idly noting there were many brands on the horses. He looped the reins around the rack and strode toward the building..

Legion Convention Winds Up Tuesday Commander Wilson Will Address Vets FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UP) — Indiana American Legionnaires voteil on reports from their resolutions committee today as they entered the wind-up of their 34th annual state convention. National commander Donald Wilson planned to address them after their decisions on resolutions dealing with rights of veterans. Election of new state officers will j be Jield Tuesday. 1 . VI

NOTICE TO THE POBUC '] This is* the way to get your CD Identification Tag FILL OUT THS ORDER FORM BELOW COMPLETELY AND \ MAIL WITH TWENTY-FIVE tfiNTS (STAMPS NOT ACCEPTED) TO CIVIL DEFENSE TAGS, ROOM 203, 777 NORTH MERIDIAN STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. " INDIANA OfRARTMtMI Os CIVII DEFEHSE ' IDENTIFICATION TAG ORDER FORM FLEASC PRINT PUIN4.Y •■- ' , ' A*»T «IMt 1 INITIO (v«mt *whh o« w.r.o . — . »iaw •• Y? (TATI coun Tv ; dl " B RELIGION, niA(t CIACLt CMC ■ >WTmu.l • CATHOLIC c HCAACN J » QTHCA |v| j- Stuo 2S< roa Tao. chain *«Tb mailino. Ma AC CHCCNO 0« MOHCvI DAOCAS PATAOLC TP» ‘CIVIL DCFtNSC VAfiS* Mail •aoca ano aavwcnto to NOH, maaaic. mncn li»V CIVIL DEFENSE TAGS. Ru 100 *•’ °A t * TV? N. McnToian OtnccT Vinoinia L. NCVCN iN.IAHAAOLIt 4 J®»N t>O«| > -- t PACTI ABOUT TOUR OFFICIAL ID TAGc -- ' 1 > 1. Each tag iuued is registered st State AND Comty Headqnartars. \ 1 Uffiag MMrgeacios, your I D tag will reproduce all iaforwotioa ’ thereon « fur setting up records -for aass ovacuatioM. | I. Your I D tag and chaw are nade of high quality stainless stoolit is indeptrwctable under slsmsL any set of cirrwetanreer- , they are heat and acid resistant, and ere iaperviowe to aalte deposited <n the skin. r, 4. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON BEING PROPERLY IDENTIFIED - IN AN EMERGENCY. Proper identification : ■•kes poonble the re-uniting of faniliea • fecilitatM rendering Mdicol attention - verifying legal and insuroMS \ claims - identifying deed and injured. \

He was but a few yards from the door when it opened and Faro Raikes stepped out. Blaise halted and Faro stood imrhobile with surprise. Then, without warning, his lips curled in a snarl and his hand streaked for his gun. Blaise acted instinctively. He threw himself to one side, his hand plunging flows to his holster. J Raikes’s bullet sang close and then Blaise’s Colt dropped and lined. Raikes looked into the black; muzzle and froze, his own gun half |ifted for the second shot. ;'j Hal; ducked under the rail, gun in his hand, staring in surprise at Raikes and Blaise. Thatcher and jlennie appeared behind Raikes. ’ Rennie’s eyes widened when she saw then harrowed in blazing anger. She pushed aside the foreman and came striding angrily to Blaise, completely ignoring j the gun. She stopped within a foot of him, regarding him with a contempt as stinging as a whip. \ “I wish I were a man,” she said in a quivering voice; “I wish I could meet you on equal terms.” "What did I dp?” Blaise finally caught his voice. “What did you do!” she said in acid shorn. She pointed toward the distant smoke. “I suppose you know nothing about that!” "Surje, but—” ■ "Oh, you admit it! Murder isn’t enough f°r you. Now you try to burn Us alive because we bought land you let ,slip out of your fingers!” - / “I burn, you out!” Blaise was thunderstruck. , Thatcher finally shoved Raikes aside and came storming out to Blaise. His shaggy brows knotted down and his lips quivered. He shook his fist in Blaise’s face. “You won’t get away with this, believe me! As soop as I reach a sheriff in Los Angieles, you'll be back behind bars. Arson will put you away where you won’t endanger anyone else.” “But I didn’t set the fire!” Blaise declared, “I had nothing to do with it." - Rennie tossed her , head, voice sharp and cutting. "Lies! See what good it does you before a judge . L . if you haven’t run out of the country before the sheriff comes for you. Come on, Dad.” They turned and strode to the hitchrack, and to their saddles. Blaise ran for his horse, snatched free the reins and vaulted into the saddle. The horse bolted in a swift race after the others. Hal yelled something that Blaise did not hear. Raikes jerked around in startled anger. He pulled his gun and, in a swift chopping motion, brought It down and fired. Blaise i heard the whine of the bufiet but he kept on, making no attempt to draw his own weapon.

MONDAY, JULY 28, 1952

Units from four cities — Bloomington, Anderson, South Bend, and Fort Wayne •— shared honors in Sunday contests. Bloomingtoft’s Post, 18 won first place in the color guard competition, defeating Fort Wayne Post 82 which held it four years, including the last two. The Fort Wayners were a close second arid Richmond Poftt 350 third. Flirt Wayne! Post 47 edged Richmond Pps.t 65 in band competition, a championship Richmond Jield for 12 years. Anilerson Post 127 bested Indianapolis Broad Ripple Post 312, only; entrants in chorus competition. Among firing squad units. South Bend Post 303 was first, j Richmond Post 31-»9 secondand Union City Post 158 third.

He saw Rennie rein against Raikes and grab his wrist as he raised the gun again. Blaise pulled his horse to a sliding halt beside them. Rennie swung herself in between Raikes and Blaise. "You can’t stop us,” she said. "I’m not trying,” Blaise snapped. ‘T just ask you ta listen." "To a murderer!" Thatcher demanded. “An arsonist!" Blaise twisted around. “Don’t you believe in two sides to a story ?” Thatcher settled to the saddle. "All right, have your say." All three of them looked at Blaise, faces cold, eyes suspicions. He could feel their hatred. Ha took a deep breath, and told him he and Hal had first seen the fire on the far side of the Valley, and of the destruction done by the time they reached the ranch. “It was ahead of us then, over a couple of ridges and racing like a stampede. We could never have worked around ahead ( of it. It was burning straight south and looked like it would miss your place by miles." “Your place set afire?" Rennie asked in disbelief. s "Who'd do it?” Thatcher asked scornfully. "We thought maybe you’d done it,” Blaise said. “You don’t want to lose that land of mine you’d bought. I sure couldn’t bother you if I was burned out and had to leave.” “Why that’s the most Crazy, ridiculous thing I ever heard!" Rennie exclaimed. I "Is it ?” Blaise d e man de d. “Raikes or some of your men might’ve done it on orders. It’s no crazier than you getting an arson warrant on me." Blaise smiled tightly. "At least I waited until I could get a chance to find out. That’s more’n you’ve done.” She met his gaze squarely. A dull red crept up her neck and.into her cheeks. "You’ve got proof?" , “Ride to my spread and see,” Blaise offered, Thatcher slapped his thigh. “All right, wdAvilL Maybe We’ve been hasty.” He drew himself up. “I’m not a man to be walked on, sir, but I do think I’m just and fair. If you’re right, you’ll have my apologies." “Thanks,” Blaise nooded, adding cynically, "not that it rebuilds the ranch or proves that you didn’t order the fire set and it got out of hand.” “You have our s&rd for that!” Rennie’s head jerked up, her eyes flashing. "As you had mine back there at the station.” He shrugged. "But I keep forgetting I’m a criminal.” He reined around. She made a gesture of protest that Blaise did not see. She glanced at her father, who only shrugged and turned to follow Blaise back to the station. (To Be