Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1953 — Page 4

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-When the Red Men decided to acquire a new wigwam they also branched out on a reservation. 0 0— / Britain may be down economically, but Churchill and Atlee are not going to lei her be counted out. -—o The tidelands oil bill has 'gone to the White House for the PresP dent’s signature. _ The coastal states oil men are rejoicing, but a columnists reminds the country, "giving away tl\e vas£ wealth of the tidelands, reduces the wealth of the federal government". .’t ——o 0- - .< ■ 1 ;• J * - t Four persons in an auto accident in Blniomington and ‘ officials charge the tragedy to speed.’A young man was driving v. an importecT'car and crashed into an auto, killing two women and a daughter of one’of the victims and himself. The tragedy occur--red on Mother’s Day, which spread gloom over Indiana University campus, the women being guests of their daughters enrolled at the university. —_o In his bombastic speech against Britain, Sen. Joseph Me Carthy, the Wisconsin firebrand of the senate, not only criticized Prime Minister Churchill and Former Premier but caused embarrassment to our government. The Wisconsin Republican is not the secretary of state, nor does he fashion foreign policy. He has the right to challenge Britain, if British ships protect shipments to Red China, but his vitriolic accusations must be proved. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles are following one policy and are- responsible to the country for results. While McCat- ■ thy may receive cheers from his emotional oratory, he will injure the administration’s chances of bringing about agreements with the leaders in Britain. 0 0 If the Communists should decide to attempt another economic blockade of Berlin we will not be entirely unprepared tor it. We are stockpiling supplies of food. fuel and industrial! materials as a precautionary measure. While the Communists arc talking — peace they still have-dnne-~H(>ltiiiig-~TKar ”“Tndicattes any real sincerity. As long a_s_that-is4he case it is v wise to prepare for the possibility of a suddent shift in Red pOHby. West Berlin suffered a great deal during the last blockade and only the monumental effort of the air-

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A ' • J ' lift kept the city from being starv- • ed into Submission. Russia resents the possibility of German participation in the North Atlantic Army and signs are evident that a blockade might be imposed. We would be shortsighted and foolish not to make ready for such trouble. 0- 0 Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey runs hot and cold with his predictions on government financing. budgets and taxes. A few days ago he forecast a large deficit for 1954 and said it might be necessary to ask congress to raise the limit z on the national debt above the $275 billion mark. His latest prediction is that the budget should be balanced beginning in July, 1954. His uncertainty is upsetting to business. -—o—o Our Best Buy:— The 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, in 1803, has been observed. Without doubt, this was the greatest bargain the country ever made. For. $15,000,000 we acquired the area between the Mississippi and the Rockies, out of-which 15 states I ! i have since been? carved. The story is familiar. President Thomas Jeffersop wanted to settle complaints qver interference ■with American cargoes which were supposed to be transshipped at the | Mississippi's mouth Jfao Europe. His minister, Robert Bi Livingstpn, learned that France had secretly secured the Louisiana territory from Spain and would sell it for a song. Earlier b . i I I ■ I • French hopes of building tip a grept empire in the middle of North - America had vanished, and Napoleon feared that the English navy would seize Louisiana, and that the United States might join in the war pgPinst him. Conservatives of the day were horrified by the boldness of the agreement. Some were ready to have their states secede from the union because of the prospetive admission .of other states thous- . , : - _L-—| I ' ands of miles away from Washington. Others' thought the purchase unc o n tutiOn al, . .as—ktdee d did —Jeffersbn himself atfirst.—All arguments fell by the wayside? however. The Louisiana purchase set tpc United States on the road to beconiing a great power and ultimately, the world’s most powerful nation, instead of a grouping of a few Atlantic coast states. .... '-I. ■ I

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20 Years Ago Today a_p May 15 —Flood is doing great damage in Cincinnati area and at Indianapolis and other cities over the midwest. Louis Kunkel of Michigan City appointed warden of state prison. Df. M. T. Jay of the fish and game division is organizing a sportsman’s club for those who love fishihg and hunting. J. H. Heller is attending to business in Detroit today. Lester Grile Speaks At Rotary Meeting Decatur Rotarians were given a vivid insight into conditions in Korea at their weekly meeting Thursday evening, with Lester Grile. a native of Geneva, as the speaker. Grile. principal of the South Wayne school in Fort Wayne, who returned last fall from a tour of army duty in Korea, spoke interestingly of his experiences and S resented slides taken in Korea. T. Ray Stingely was chairman of the program. \ > The Rotary club will, entertain the ladies next Thursday night, with the meeting starting promptly Mt’6 o’block, because of graduation exercises the same evening at the Decatur high school.

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN I PICKED up my bat and coat from the cloakroom and followed the big oby out onto the sidewalk. The doorman waved an arm when he spotted us, aadacar, a big Cadillac that had been parked down the block, moved up and stopped at the entrance of the canopy. The doprman removed his hat and opened the rear door of the car. | ./ •; “Thanks, Jerry," the big boy said. "Your welcome, Mr. Moore.” There was no talk on the way to Mort Ellerton’s place. I tried a gambit or two to be sociable, but Eddie was staring out the window and the big boy was smiling at his thoughts. I lit a cigaret and sulked, too. Ellerton lived in a vast expensive tribute to Free Enterprise. The building, which covered a square block, faced the lake with an air of sturdy entrenched wealth. This is where we send our hoodlums today, I thought gloomily. Once it was to Alcatraz, Holmesburg, Sing Sing. Gangsters used to hang out in pool rooms, wear white fedoras and run from the cops. Now it was different: they lived on Lake Shore Drive, belonged to the best clubs and tn their spare time could be found judging stock at horse shows, or passing out medals at high school sports events. A hell of_ a note. The trouble was that politicians shook them down because they were vulnerable, but that worked to the hoodlum’s interests! nobody is bigger than his banker, the hoodlums soon realized. When this soaked Into their skulls they started. using the politicians as errand boys. We entered a vast, echoing lobby, and were whisked up to the eighteenth floor by a nice-looking youngster tn a green uniform. Ellerton had a butler, of course, a hard-faced man who looked as natural in striped trousers as I would In a ballet skirt. He left us in a white-paneled foyer, and came back in a few minutes to tell us we could see Mr. Ellerton. I followed the big boy into a large room which had in it, among other things, a grand piano, a brooding monster of a television set and a ten-foot bar that was dwarfed by the proportions of the room! and also two persons, one of whom I took to be Mort Ellerton. The one I decided wasn't Ellerton was a dead-pan blonde of

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Monmouth Principal To Be Named Soon A successor to Gail M. Grabill, newly elected Adams county superintendent of schools, as principal of Monmouth high school, ■ will probably be named in another Week, August Selklng, Root township trustee, stated today. Selklng said that he had interviewed 17 applicants for the vacancy and that at present he was screening all pppli-’ cations and would be ready to name a successor in about a week) Trustee Selklng also said * that he expected to name a science and chemistry and a girls’ physical education teacher, which would complete his teaching- personnel f<Jr 1953-54. Included in the applicants to date are two Root township Instructors. Several of the applicants are well qualified, Selklng said, and “this makes it hard to fihaily decide on the principalship.” | J__— NOTICE TO BinpKRS School Huh Body S Notice is hereby given that; the Board of School Trustees of; the Township poratlon, on Monday evening, June S. 1953, at 8:00 P.M., 1). T., at the school Office, will receive sealed bids for the purchase of a fortyeight passenger school bus body, the’ bld to include the mounting Os the bus body on a chassis furnished by the bus driver. ; The Board of School Trustees reserves the right to reject any? and all bids. t_ ‘ Signed MhiNNO AUOSEfUROEK,? Sec. MAY 15—22 i

about twenty who was lying on a sofa beneath a picture Window which filled one end of the room. She was reading a magazine, lying on her back with her long bare legs crossed, one foot swinging in slow syncopation with her giimchewing jaws. We didn’t rate a glance trom her: she read on; frowhing slightly, her swinging silver sandal reflecting a flash of light trom the reading lamp. Mort Ellerton was on his feet facing us, a big man with a round, fleshy face, and sullen irritable eyes. He wore a brown sports coat, beige shirt open at the throat and cream-colored gabardine slacks. “Well, what is ft, Nickey ?” he said to the big boy, the one the lackey called Mr. Meore.

"This character wants to talk to you,” the big boy said,, grinning. 'i “So what’s funny about that?” Ellerton said, in a hoarse, angry Voice. He looked mad. Also he looked as if that were his normal state of mind. The smile slid off Nickey’s brpad face. "He was talking about Janey Nelson, boss,” he said. "He said he had some ideas about it, and wanted to talk to you. I thought you’d want to see him/ I “All right, what’s your pipe dream ?” Ellerton snapped at mb. “I said I was going to find oift who killed her,” I said. "What’s your interest in the deal?" "She was a friend of mine.”, "Well, she was a friend of mine, too. We’ll get the one who strangled her, my boys or the cops. Don’t you worry yourself about it.” "I’m not particularly worried,” I said. “Why’d you come to see met* “I heard you were a friend of hers.” ! • ~ i .

“Yeah?, Who told you that?? “A reporter named Terry MitchelL” \ i "He’s got his nerve,” Silerton said, laughing shortly. “It’s a ’she,’ “ I said. EUerton waved a pudgy wellkept hand impatiently. > “All right, let’s get to the point. You got some ideas about who killed her?” very specific. I know however that her brother is a junkie. 1 thought that might be worth looking into.” I j 1 . I There was a strange little silence in the room then as Ellerton looked me over carefully. “I think you’d better listen to me,” he said. “Wefll take care of Janey’s murder. Get

Young Boy Admits To Theft Os Money 13-Year-Old Lad Confesses Theft It was a mighty scared Ifttie boy who admitted to police last night that it was he who stole some money from the Mies Recreation office Wednesday night. In tears, the 13-year-old told two city policemen he “needed the money,” even though all he spent was 50 cents for a movie. (It came out that the actual amount taken was S4B and not $55 as reported earlier.) | The clean-cut looking lad was found out when police found a set of footprints in the rear of Mlet} alleys leading from the office. They matched those of the youth, who promised solemnly? he would never steal again. Accompanied by his mother, the boy was gently urged to tell what he knew; not a voice Was raised and no one got excited. And the boy finally cleared his eyes of the tears that overflowed them for hours. ■ > Later, when his mother was not with him, rhe youth remained at city hall while the necessary calls were made and Molly Mies informed police that he would prefer no charges and was satisfied to get money back. The boy was made to Know the seriousness of what he had dope and got a hint teat maybe things ■ wouldn’t turn out so bad, after all. ’ ‘ I One of the policeman bought the lad a Coke ahd . everybody settled down to watch the department’s pet turtle, Homer, pad frantically across the table. The bdy was obviously surprised at the treatment he god nobody hollered at him or scared him in any other way; the way cops are supposed tip act, according to the gang, was absent here with just a couple of good natured fellows trying to do their best for a kid who has a good chance bf growing up to bg a useful citizen.: It wap highly apparent to thp two policemen, and the reporter who looked on. that here was a chabce | to get the jbest out of police work . . and from the fleeting emile and obviously heavy heart of the little gipy who decided to turn sneak thief, maybe they hit the bull’s eye. At least there seemed 4o be a fine chance that several years from now this kid would not be facing the laty agaim , The chance was there, a chance tb demonstrate humanity of a necessarily callous and “hard” group of men. And they did not fail, and speiety is all to the better.

that? You got a trouble-maker look about you, and 1 don't like trouble m my town. "Well, two heads are better than one, I’ve been told," I said. "You’ve got the score,” the big boy Nickey. said. •. : " -'"Watch your manners," I said, glancing at him and grinning. “This is a high-level talk between me and the boss." He moved his arm as if to give me a back-handed slap across the face, and said a few ugly, vicious words. "You’re a wise one,” be went on, his lips drawn flat against his teeth. , “Go ahead and hit me,” I said. 1 was getting mad, and tlje anger was a pleasant warmth running through my body. "Knock me down. I’m waiting." J He swung at me back-handed, Shearing harshly, and I caught his wrist with my left hand and twisted it with everything I had; he went down to his knees and the profanity broke off into a gasping shriek. I heard Ellerton yell, “Drop it, drop it!” and I turned, stni holding the big boy’s wrist, and saw that Eddie was pointing a gun at me and twitching like a jitterbug. Everything was in motion—his lips, his blinking eyes, his jerking body and legs. Everything was moving but the gun and that looked as steady as if it were locked in a vise. "Drop it!” Ellerton shouted again, and when Eddie lowered the gun, smiling sheepishly, Ellerton stepped over and cuffed him viciously across the mouth. "What’s the matter with you, you crazy fool?" he shouted. "I wasn’t going to do anything,” Eddie said, staring sullenly at the floor. I let Nicky's wrist go and he got slowly to his feet, staring at me with narrowed black eyes. A lock of his hair had fallen across his forehead and he smoothed ft back in place without taking his eyes off mine. "We’ll try this again,” he said, in a low anguished vctce. ’ "Sure,' any time,* I said. "You’ve got a big mouth," Ellerton said. He was staring straight into my eyes, and it was a little like looking into the eyes of an enraged ape. The blonde on the couch looked over at us frowning. “What'cha fighting about?” she said. "Shut up ” Ellerton yelled. saw you hit Eddie,” the blonde said, going back to her magazine. fTa Be CoatimMMU. _

There was no violence, as has been the dase—and a kid remembers to his last breath that he was once slapj>ed around by a “bullying” badge-wearing gunman—and this kid Will spread the story that cops aren’t so bad at that. There were a couple of proud policemen last night? hoping against hope that the little guy will heed the law and not give in to such impulses again . . . and remember that -policemen are his friends and not persecutors. J I ■. —n —~r —' i AJPPOIWTMK.VT OF EXacITHIX i < ESTATE NO. 4NHO hereby' Siren, That the undersigned has been appointed Executrix of the estate of Otto Ehlerdlhg late of Adams County, decerned. The estMe is probably solvent. HILDA EHLERIMNG Executrix May 34. 1953 FIERD L. LITTEREih Atttrney MAY. 15—23—29 'J BOARD OF REVIEW NOTICE Notice of meeting of the couinty Boarjl of Review for the county Os Adams, Indiana. Notice is hereby given thkt the county (board of review for the county of Adams, State of Indiana, will meet at 8:30 o’clock a.m. on Monday June 1, 1954 at the office of the county Assessor for reviewing assessments and the valuation nt real and personal property of said county assessed for taxation. ■FRANK KITSON, Auditor of Adams County. MAYIS—22 „ . I I J t ; j , ' Trade in a Good Town —Decatur

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