Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1953 — Page 4

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The Arthur Murray schools of dancing did a 128,000,000 business last year. That proves the old adage of “paying tlje fiddler”. 0 0 A Chicago man returning from Florida still had S2OO in cash and a check for $8,584 in his billfold which he lost in Indianapolis. Many doubt that he took a Florida vacation. 0 o Assembling for a convention firemen had a real holiday in .West Chicago. A fire broke out when they arrived and with hose and axe they joined the regulars in fighting the blaze. The loss was held down to $200,000. - 0 o William “Bill’’ Oatis, who began his notable newspaper career in Marion, reacted to American 1 tradition a few short hours after he was released from a Slovakia prison. His request was for hot dogs — frankfurter style, which was readily granted. 0 0 Capt. Alvin Moorman, the veteran flier of 100 missions over Korea, chose the right location in cracking the sound barrier. Flying over Washington, he brought his F-86 Sabrejet down from 20,000 feet at a speed of more than 700 miles an houi*. Ear drums rumbled with the cracking of the sound barrier, an experience new

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CHAPTER SIXTEXav KELLY took a step toward me. fists doubled at his sides, and I slapped him hard across the mouth and shoved him down on the bed. “Now stop it,” I said, in a reasonable voice. He began to cry then, raggedly and bitterly. I lit a cigaret and the blonde got up on one elbow and stared at me as if I were about eight feet tall. “What were you and Janey working on?” I asked Mike Kelly. “You go to the devil,” he said, and wet his lips. “You dirty Fascist." Without changing expression, and still staring at me, he began talking vilely about Janey. “That’s enough," I said. The blonde was watching me, and she said suddenly, in a,tight worried voice, “Hey, Mike, cut it out." Mike didn’t take her advice, so I pulled him to his feet, slugged him as hard as I could across the side of the jaw and shoved him back on the bed. He went out cold, flattening limply across the bed. The woman was staring bitterly at me. "Some guy, some guy,” she said. “You didn’t have to do that.” “No, you’re right.” “You could’ve killed him.” “Sure, easily,” I said, and walked out of the room. The hallway was empty, and 1 stood there a moment, telling myself harshly to relax, cool off, stop acting like a jughead. When I calmed down, I walked down the corridor, glancing into , empty rooms, some of which had beds in them, and others were jammed with easels, mimeographing machines and filing cabinets. In the last room a syoung man in a tweed jacket was sitting on the edge of a chair, mumbling into a highball glass. I started to turn around, and then I saw the other man tn the room, a man who sat on the edge of the bed, staring solemnly at the young man in the tweed jacket. \ The man sitting on the bed wore a black overcoat, a black hat. and his face was round and expressionless as a full moon. He looked like Equity’s idea of a diplomat—a worried diplomat. He was the guy I’d met in Janey’s apartment. He stared at me, an embarrassed flush creeping slowly up his cheeks. “Well, wejl," he said, and a faint, Anxious frown touched his face. “Won’t you—ah—come in?” “Thia la most interesting,* I •aid. 1 He said nothing, just stared at me with those anxious, vaguely entreating eyes. — 1 “I mean, the way we keep runking into each other,” I said. “Oh —yes,” he said. J I stepped into the room. The tweed-jacketed you'ng man continued to mumble into his glass. “What did you want to see Janey Nelson about?" I asked the big man. “She wanted to see me,” he said. “About what?” He smiled again, uneasily. “I really don’t know.” j That put it up to me. I could beat it cut of m, may be. Or try

in the nation’s capital where most of the people are immuned to noise. 0 0When the new administrations took over in the state and nation last January, there were 26,113 state employes and 42,486 federal workers in Indiana. It would be interesting to know if the number has gone up ojr down. The federal payroll should be smaller with the closing of price control offices and other agencies which congress voted to abolish. \ 0 0 Native Hoos|ers generally are satisfied with Indiana, according to a census report. Os 3,810,930 native citizens oqly 957,790 pulled stakes to mc|ve to other states. The majority of these former residents settled across the border in Illinois. l California ranks second in the preferred list of states and Ohio third. Although figures aren't availably it is likely that the largest number of new citizen's to Indiana came from Illinois and Ohio. The state’s population is now close to four million and growing evqry day, if you follow the “new arrival” listings. H —0- i Two United States senators will make a junket to the Far East and to Europe to study the need fof' foreign aid, ostensibly

anomer angle. I'he latter .Seemed more logical. At the moment I didn’t know what questions to ask. Even if 1 knew some questions I wouldn’t be able to tell whether his answers were on the level or not. “You like it h£re?” I said. “Oh, yes. Very much.” , • “Well enjoy yourself then,” I said, and strolled out of the room. I walked down the hallway to the front room. Music was still beating the walls and ceiling, and the hynotixed group about the record player hadn’t changed. The little blonde with the page boy’s cap had disappeared. 1 opened the door and went down to the street. It was Uiree-thlrty in the morning, and ho traffic or pedestrians in sight. I walked down to the nearest intersection and waited for a cab. One came along in a couple of minutes. - The driver was gray-haired, and looked tired and sad. “I want you to tail a guy,” I told him. “He’s at a party now in the middle of Sycamore street. Let’s wait right here till he shows.” “This gonna be a long job?” “Mister, 1 don’t know.” The driver wasn’t talkative, for which I was grateful. We sat in the darkness, lights out, and smoked our cigarets. I didn’t have much to think about, so I stopped thinking and kept ah eye on the block. It was in the middle of my third cigaret that my big friend appeared. He came down the steps to the sidewalk, looking majestic in his black clothes, and crossed the street toward a parked car. “That’s him,” I told the driver. Mr. Smith unlocked the door of a sedan and climbed inside. When he pulled out from the curb my driver let out his clutch, and we swung in behind the sedan, keeping about nalf-a-block’s interval. Smith turned onto Michigan boulevard where it was well lighted, and I caught his license number and jotted it down in my book. We stayed on the boulevard, which was clean and wide and empty at this hour, until we crossed the river, and there Smith turned ano led us down into the lower level of streets that flank the water. This is a daytime parking area, also used by trucking firms making deliveries to boulevard shops. 1 learned this later. “Here’s a break,” my driver said. Ke said this as another car cut in front of us from a side street, and turned tn behind Smith’s car. “Your frifend might have got wise with just us tailing him.” That car following Smith’s was a dark green Cadillac convertible, and I could see the shoulders of two men in the front seat. Fishermen getting an early start of the city, I guessed, heading for Wisconsin or Michigan. Smith was rolling now at a moderate twentyfive or thirty. We were passing loading ramps on our right, and stout concrete pillars op our left, and through them I could see the river, moving turgidly and silently in the soft starlight. Suddenly the car ahead gunned

with the idea of cutting appropriations. The expense of their trip will be paid by the government. Now If they /[were of a mind to save money they could have wHtten or cabled Adlai Stevenson who has traveled those countries and would have \ been glad to compile an informative report on conditions in India, Japan and other points of the world. One of the world travelers will be Sen. Dirksen of Illinois and the country already knows that his findings will be adverse to the aid cause. o- 0 A Question? — The Communists are spreading their control in Asia and so far this country has not done much to prevent the Reds from marching in on the Asiatics. Commenting on this world condition, the Journal-Gazette, analyses -today’s situation and then states these facts: “The Republican party was out of power when China was lost. It blamed the loss on the Democratic party. “Now the Republican party is in power and it is faced with the situation in southeast Asia. Is it ■ ■ , 'i ... J ' ready, willing and able to do any more T to prevent the loss of Southeast Asia than a Democratic administration was ready, willing and able to do to prevent the loss of China? “The fact is, of course, what it always has been that it is easier to hunt and find a scapegoat that it is to face up to such a large task. “If the GOP is possessed of any superior - wisdom, 'here in Southeast Asia is a chance to prove it’’.

its motor and pulled out to pass Smith. Its wheels whined on the concrete, and a plume of blue exhaust fumes swirled into our windshield. The next thing I heard was the clattering blast of a machine gun, and as .1 came forward on the,\ edge of my seat, 1 saw the Cadillac roaring on ahead of Smith’s car, and Smith’s car veering left toward the concrete pillars. My driver had picked up speed with the Caddy. Now he swore in a trantic, astonished fashion, and hit the brakes hard to avoid piling up into Smith’s car. I was slammed forward by the abrupt stop, and my forehead hit the glass partition between the front and rear seats of the cab. Red flashes shot through my head but 1 di d n’t go out, and through the technicolor effects of concussion, I saw Smith’s car carom off a pillar, smash head-on into the next and come to a shuddering, banging stop. I climbed out of the cab and ran toward his car, shaking my head to clear It and digging automatically and pointlessly for my gun. The Cadillac was out of sight now, but I could hear the roar of its engine blasting faintly through the quiet dawn. There had been no need to'hurry, I saw, when I reached Smith’s car. The boys in the Cadillac were pros, and they’d done an efficient job. Smith was sprawled across the steering Wheel, and there were bullet holes in his temples, throat and face. His moon like, impassive countenance was turned to me, sickly white in the faint light, and his anxious eyes were wide and staring, but they weren’t anxious now: they weren’t anything at all except two shiny points in the vastness of his face. “He’s dead,” the cab driver said. He had stopped beside me and J heard his heavy, frightened breathing. “They gunned him/’ “They knew their business," 1 said, f* i' \ “I’ll go round up a cop. There’! stairways a block back going up tc the boulevard. You wait here, eh?” if, ; . “Sure, I’ll, wait.” He turned and trotted away, and I watched him until he came to 8 flight of steps and went up them out of sight. I started off in the Opposite direction, running along the smooth pavement, with no other thought than that I didn’t want tc get mixed up in the routine of 8 police investigation. Not now. There was work ahead for me, and I would not get it done by answering the same questions over and over for the next twenty-four hours, i The cab driver hadn't got a good look at me. With any kind of break I should be able to fade out of this mess. [- A hundred yards on I came to a flight of stone steps and climbed them up to Michigan boulevard. Looking down the street, I saw the cab driver two blocks away, waving and calling to a uniformed cop who was coming toward him from the opposite side of the street. (To Be Continued/

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Eileen Burk, Mary Grace Zimmerman and Minnie -Moyer, Mrs. Jennie Fuhrman of iMarion, Ohio, arrives here to attend the Decatur commencement exercises. Purdue Scholarships l For Decatur Seniors Decatur high school seniors Jack Lawson, 17, and Dan Thqmah, IS, will attend IPurdue University next 'fall on four-year scholarships, the (pair announced jointly today. Lawsbn said he will major in electronic engineering and Thomas said he will specialize in phemical engineering. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings result*. }

Defer Judgment On Gambling Charges || One Club's Liquor Permit Suspended INDIANAPOLIS UP — The Indiana alcoholic beverage commission today deferred judgment on 14 clubs and taverns cited on gambling charges because it was their first offense. But the ABC suspended for 15 days the liquor permit of the Greensburg American Legion poston a first-offense citation because excise police found a slot machine on the premises. \ r - Commissioner Roscoe Mount said it was the ABC's policy to defier judgment on places cited for gambling unless a slot machine had been found or persons were in the process of gambling when excise police entered. MoUnt said the 14 establishments could hold their liquor permits unless evidence of gambling is fouhd again. He said he believed moist of them already had removed gambling devices. Mount said the ABC had taken a “definite stand’* on slot machines. “What we are after is syndicated gambling,” he said. He said places found with only minor gambling devices would get warnings the first time. Establishments given deferred judgments were: Moose Lodge. Hartford City; Disabled 1 American Veterans, Portland: American Legion and Moosie. North Vernon: Union Printers Craft and Bowling Association, Indianapolis; Legion, Lapel; Edwin F. Fisher tavern and Eagles Anderson; Elks Lodge. Kendallville; VFW, Frankfort; Eagles and Red Men Lodges, Greensburg; Eagles and Legion, Brookville. ___j I '‘ ■ . ? , " J If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results. \ .

Court News Withdraws Plea Earl W. Terrell vs Amanda Terrell; complaint for divorce; defendant withdraws plea in abatement; ’ hearing on temporary support and attorney fees set for May 21. Attorneys: Custer & Smith, plaintiff: Voglewede, Anderson & Whitted, defendant. Set For Trial Curtis F. Hill vs Dale D. Moses, Florence K. Moses & “First State Bank of Adams County”; ..cdmplainbto foreclose mechanics lien; cause set for trial May 25. Attorneys: D. Burdette Custer, hlain-, tiff; Lewis -L Smith & Ferd L. Litterer, defendant. Set For Issue . A. S. C. Corp, vs Grant E. Lyons, Irene Lyons; complaint to foreclose mortgage; case set for issue (May 27. Attorneys: Custer & Smith, plaintiff; Severen .I. Schurger, defendant. Estate Cases Estate of Marion Tinkham; executor report of sale of real estate approved; deed ordered delivered on payment of full purchase price. ' ■ \- Estate of Lizetta Knapp; schedule to determine inheritance tax with reference to county assessor. Estate of Martin Kirchner; letters testamentary issued to Mildred Buettner; bond filed for $5,000. I A API’OIXTMEVT OF KXKCI THIX KSTATH X<». 4NM3 Xotlce ia hereby- Klcen. That the undersigned lias been appointed Ex-c>-utrix\ of th-- estate of Martin, Kirchner late of Adatns County,* deceased. The estate is probably solvent. IHETTNEB Executrix Mav 19, 19'.:: - G. ItEMY BIERLV, Attorney 3/19—26. 6/2 If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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