Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1953 — Page 4

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\'. As host to the Bermuda conference, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill will “pinite * up” the bill for the Big Three party. Britain may be getting « rea M y f° r another touch on Uncle Sam. H —o—o 1± - |1 The corn kiig title still remains in Indiana, Fljyd Hiner of Lewisville being crowned king of the International Show. And to stijn jiort the state’s claim of having -the best corn growers in the na- ; tion, young Jerry Lux of the famous Waldron farm family, was I ■ ‘i ’ I ' '. knighted as corn prince. Ji settles all the arguments where - the best corn is grown. . ' | |.■ | -—t -- o— - ? 1 J The bitterest fight ever seep \ in Washington is the current one between Secretary of State Dulles,, and Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Mr.; Dulles chargesithe Wisconsin sen- J' htor with “attacking the vejy hearts of U. S. foreign policy’’. ' President Eisjnhower indicates that he will support his secretary j i of state and the country may see . < one of the biggest upheavals ever ? to occur in the national capital. 4 f J ' o—O— \ | The sympathy of the people of this community is extended to ;; Navy Petty Officer Dwight Myers, ! stricken with meningitis and now 1 ' confined to, a naval’ hospital in * « Chelsea, Mass, '’he young Decatur 1 man. son of Mr and Mrs. Dwighf Myers, has a fire record of serv-' | \ ice in the navy, which barring ill- • ness .would have been advanced . 1 further. His- fri ?nds pray for his recovery. : - • p 0 i . ' .3 .’-"''it ‘ Attorney Gen eral Brownell has bee® criticized ,for bringing the FBI into a political argument. The country has great respect for i J. Edgar Hoover, head of the deI partmeijt, and it is unfair tc the I people fd “mens up” this non- | political agency with party straps . in Washington.' Politics should be ■I , kept out of .the law enforcement agency, a stand all Americans •will take in the present contro|Lr. ■ versy. ’-i Im I. ' 0- —Q • 4. : l - The tragic death of former Gov. Kim Sigler of Michigan focuses attention on the construction of television towers. The wreck of Sigler's- airplane is said to have been caused when itistruck a TV tower was in the course of construction. Was the tower light-1 cd? The investigation may proceed bn the premise that proper signals be carried these towers while the structure is going upward. Flasher lights ,may have

Decrease in Field of Vision Can Be a Sign of Social 111

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. < PENICILLIN and prevention ' are each a P-cjomplex serving to make syphilis a gradually de- ’ \ creasing crippller of our nation’s 1 health. Our kcal and national 1 health authorities deserve great 1 commendation for their work on i this problem. Great Backlog f It has been estimated that there is still, in the population of the United States, a backlog of , over two million persons who have J ' had syphilis and whose treatment, if any, has been inadequate f according to radical standards. This group of neglected may- develop blindness and involvement of tie nervous system rp in the future as a result of their p, syphilitic histo - y. ’ Many of these persons wait until failing vision starts before ft • consulting a physician, and then I 7 it is often too late to save their I vision. Many of these Individuals ft < complain of eye difficulties for as long as 18 moiths before doing anything about it. The First Sign One of the first signs will bs a ; V decrease in the) field of vision. In other words, they do not see objects to the side of them as well *as they normal: y should. Another <

been in operation in this particular case, but the press stories of the tragedy did not mention the fact. While striving for better highway safety, we are in the age \ that also has to consider hazards to air travel, \ 0 0 ' Knowledge of nutrition needs to be more widely spread. A study of 75 rural families in Louisiana showed that meat was provided in sufficient quantities, but that there was a. shortage of fruit*an4 vegetables. More regrettable, the housewives questioned were quite satisfied with what they were giving ytheir children, and held out no prospect of doing better even if they had more money. A common attitude revealed in the surr vey is stifl widely held, that any filling food will meet all the necessary requirements: Many may not have heard of- vitamins or of the necessity for proper balance in the diet. 0 0 h’ Leo Child of Findlay, Ohio, was ;; one of the leading citizens in his state, individual with high ideals and business ethics which ■ 1 made him a successful and outstanding industrialist in Ohio. J Through his manufacturing interI ests in tipis city—h 4 was president | of the Krick-Tyndall Tile Com- | pany—Mr. Child had more than . a local acquaintance. He was admired fqr his sterling character and business principles which also were infused into his various : manufacturing operations. He lik- .? * , ed Decatur and her people. He built a modern tile plant here ■ supplanting destroyed by fire in ttm mid-thirities. His death is a lo|s to the business world and to his host of local friends. I UK |— 0—»— ■ _ Ph|l Sajuer has so many friends fn this county that concern over his condi ion following serious injuries he received in an auto collision is felt in every home in this community. A sales, representative for Burk Elevator Co., Phil was a victim of a highway mishap near Hinsdale, 111. As active as Phil Ijas been all his life and hs jovial as he is every minute of the day it is .difficult to imagine him confined Ao a hospital under in anesthetic. He suffered a triple fracture of the left leg and other injuries which will “lay him up” for a while, but Phil has a zest for living and will be around again to greet his friends. We send him greetings from every nook and corner in Adams county and wish him full recovery. ,

early sign may be sluggish pupils which dd not contract readily when exposed to light. The pupils also may appear unequal and irregular. This disease can be easily detected by a simple examination in a doctor’s office. Penicillin, given in large daily dpsages, and continued for' a 25 to 33 day period, may be sufficient to arrest this syphilitic process and to keep it from affecting the brain and eyes. The treatment is successful in a number of cases. Persons with syphilis who have not had adequate treatment, or who already have eye symptoms, should have an immediate examination by their physician. In this way, penicillin may be used in time to help materially the afflicted person. QUESTION AND ANSWER P. T.: What causes fast and irregular heart beat? Answer: A fast and irregular heart beat may be due to various causes. It may be due to just a nervous condition; it may be due to an extremely over-sensitive heart or may be caused by heart disease, such as rheumatic fever ot coronary heart disease. High blood pressure may also be a cause. Anyone with this symptom should see his physician immediately lot diagnosis.

o o I Household Scrapbook BY ROBERTA LEE 0 O Smelling Salts A good smelling salts can be\ made by taking one ounce of ammonia, or rock volatile, breaking it into small pieces, putting in a bottle and covering with eau-de-cologne. Let it stand for 4 or 5 days before using, Salty Soup If the soup has been made too ralty, put a few slices of raw potato into it and boil for a few minutes. This will freshen the soup and take away the salty taste. Grease Spots on Carpet Make a paste of boiling water poured on equal parts of magnesia and fullers’ earth. Apply this paste while it is hob, then wipe it off when dry. ; v U 0 | Modern Etiquette | | \BY ROBERTA LEE I 0 0 Q. Does a woman who is marrying for the second time wear white? A. She does not wear white, nor does she wear a veil. And the simpler the ceremony, the better taste it displays. The most sensible woman marries inconspicuously at home or church with only intimate friends and relatives present to witness her second marriage ceremony. Q. Is it all right*for a hostess to serve her guests with the same dish she has served them on a former occasion? A. This is quite all right, and particularly if she knows they enjoyed it. ' Q. When a woman is w-earing gloves, is it necessary for her to I remove the right one before shaking hands’ ■■ Ajo.- f '

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SYNUl’bis to ms home in Denfield. Cunn., after a lOrtg absence in Mexico. Philip Haven, a writer, tlnds his young niece. Liboy. who also served as his' secretary, missing from the house. Believing that she may be visiting her cousin Kit in New York. Haven phones the tatter s apartment only to learn that Libby had not been there. Kit hastens by tram to the Penfield bouse where she and her Uncle Philip, and her Aunt Miriam, a neurotic, are joined by Hugo Cavanaugh, an attractive young attorney who once had courted Kit. out who' had switched his affections to Libby. Search of Libby's room reveals a note, urging her family not to worry, promising that they shall hear from her soon. An unfamiliar cigaret butt In the room might indicate that Libby had had a male visitor. Kit's thoughts fly to classically handsome Tony Wilder whom Libby had met at a party tn New York, how she d seeded completely overwhelmed by that god-lffie young man s charm. The next day Kit returns to New York, hopeful of locating Libby, a trail which leads her at last to the abandoned apartment of Tony Wilder in Greenwich Village. Here she is startled to find Hugo Cavanaugh prowling through ' the rooms, "looking for clues, he says. Tips from a charwoman and others, lead Kit and Hugo to the lush up-town home of Eleanor Oaks, a bizarre middle-aged former actress, whose horsey poise vanishes when Kit bluntly sta’os that Libby may have eloped with Tony Wilder. CHAPTER SIX KIT AND HUGO didn’t speak In the hall or in the elevator. i They quarrelled under the canopy outside the revolving door while they waited for a cab. “Say it]” Kit said. Hugo said: “All right. What was the point of antagonizing that woman?” “All I could think of was Libby, and that you were taking too much time—" Hugo picked it up from there. “And that 1 was basking in the warmth of Miss Oaks’ passing interest in anything in trousers while you sat by attracting no attention at all." | Kit was stung. “That will cover it, Hugo. It s terribly nice to feel I’m understood.” He said: “You believe in using an axe. But that's not the way to handle women comfortably settled without portfolio ip Park Ave. apartments— particularly when they turn out to nave criminal records." At her sharp glance, her “What?’’ he nodded. "Ex-actress. Not Broadway— Newark and Poughkeepsie, I remember it quite well; you’re a little too young. The wife of Eleanor Oaks’ leading man died under suspicious circumstances. 1 think it was sleeping pills. The husband was convicted and got life. She got off. We’ll have to—” He stopped talking. His eyes were riveted on a car standing at the curb near the comer. It was a yellow convertible with a black top. He left Kit, went over to the commissionaire, talked to him for a moment, and came. back. The yellow convertible with the black top belonged to Eleanor Oaks. They gazed at each other. Eleanor Oaks had lied about the degree of her intimacy with Tony Wilder, as she nad lied about not knowing ms address which she had given to Kit earlier. She hadn’t lied to them, she had lied for the benefit of the man she called Sweetie, who had come silently and suddenly into that room up there. “It would be interesting to know who Sweetie is,” Hugo murmured. Kit didn't answer. She was starCopy right. IMS. L9oC. by Belen Reilly, b

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Court News Plea Filed Glen Baumgartner, Florence Baumgartner vs Aaron Schwartz, Motor Cargo, Inc., Ralph Raymond White; complaint for damages; plea in abatement filed. Attorney: John L. DeVoss, plainiiff. Under Advisement Kloyd Kelley vS Walter Clem; on account; case taken under advisement. Attorneys: David A. Macklin, plaintiff; Custer & Smith, defendant. i j Trade in a Good Towu — Decatur |

ing across me avenue. She said: “Over there, Hugo, near the church. 1 think —yes, I’m right William is in that green taxi, the one parked behino the laundry truck. Kit, Hugo and William were in a little restaurant on 57th St. They were m a booth, where it was easy to talk. Kit and Hugo had joined William in his parked taxi across the street from Eleanor Oaks* apartment and come straight here. William nad been frightened at being discovered, and then defiant. Stammering, his plump cheeks ashen, ms near-sighted dark eyes blinking nervously behind his glasses, he admitted having followed Kit to the Kelveston St. house and then uptown. "1 waited in Grand Central until your train came in. 1 thought maybe you’d find Libby, that I could—could see her.” The way his face broke up at the mention of Libby’s name was pitiful. Kit was astounded. William was in love with Libby, and he had actually had hopes, until the other night. She studied him incredulously. He said that Libby had been so sweet to him during the last tew months, they had gone for long walks on week-ends and she had let nim take her places, to the movies in Denfield and to the women’s club dance. He had figured maybe that, tn time, it ne got a better job and made more money. The poor idiot. Kit thought compassionately. And yet the vanity of men. William had about as much charm as a turnip, and he certainly couldn’t support a wife. William nad another confession to make. He had been in Denfield on the night Libby left with Tony Wilder. Libby had said she wanted to see the new musical hit, “Tell Me Tomorrow,” and he had managed to get tickets for it “1 wanted to tell her; l thought she’d be pleased.” He must have Just missed her. She was gone when he reached the house. “What time was that?” Hugo asked, and William said it was a little after half-past 9. “Your aunt said she took a sleeping pill and was dead to the world. How did you get in?” “The front door was open.” “Do you mean open or unlocked ?” “It was part way* open and the lights were on in. the hall and the living room so 1 thought—" Kit thought it was easy to picture what had happened. Libby stealing down the stairs with Tony Wilder carrying her cases; she wouldn’t have wanted to rouse their aunt, had closed the front door softly and incompletely—you had to give the door a good strong pull to make it stay shut. Hugo went on interrogating William but be had nothing more to tell them. He knew his aunt was asleep: he had heard her snoring. He left after a little while to catch his train back, turning off some of the tights and closing the front door so that it locked behind him. ,No, he hadn’t seen anything of a fellow convertible on his way to the house. Hugo had called Denfield when they first came in. He went to the telephone again. There was no news. Kit reached tor her gloves ay azran;p.‘iK-"t ’wiLb RANDOM HOUSE, r

Guernsey Breeders To Meet Dec. 17 The annual meeting of the Indiana Guernsey breeders’ association Will be held Dec. 17 at the Purdue iMeinorial Union Building, Lafayette. The program will feature a panel discussion on new marketing trends in the dairy industry. Special awards will be presented, recognizing meritorious production Seats Will be reserved for the Guernsey breeders in the Hall of Music for the annual Purdue Chris tqaas convocation Thursday evening-

anq purse, "rm going to my piace and pack a bag and go up to Denfield. When Libby calls, she’ll call there.” She parted from the two men outside.' William said pleadingly, “If you do hear —when you hear, will you let me know at the hotel?” and\ walked off. Hugo put Kit Into a cab. He had to get to the office. “I’m going to have Eleanor and Sweetie looked k into. I’ll ring you later.” “George!” Kit exclaimed, sitting forward on the edge of the seaL "George ought to know—he was a newspaperman for years before he went into publicity.” Hugo stared at her woodenly and shut the door. When Kit let herself into the 90th St. apartment, Anita Stewart was sketching clothes m the north bedroom. She often used 1L She was a painter of ability and before her marriage she had been in advertising. Left a widow with one child, a boy oti six, she augmented her income with occasional freelance work for the upper Fifth Ave. department stores. She was their nearest neighbor tn Denfield and Kit was fond of her. Libby hadn’t called the apartment. \ Small, slender, fine featured, Anita gave her smooth auburn head a shake, looked at Kit, and went on working with Angie Kay, the model Anita used when she could get ner. Angie was'a dear. Tati and incredibly thin, with an oval tace, upslanted eyes, and black silk hair m a chignon, she was married to a certified public accountant and had two children. She would arrive in a prosaic sweater and skirt after a round of housework and shopping and feeding the baby, change into expensive clothes and become in an instant too stylized and languidly expensive to* be real, sidling distinctively into the perfect pose. Kit had an idea. Angie got about among the studios, knew a lot, of people. She put her question. “Wilder, Wilder?” Angie said. “Handsome fellow, medium height, blond hair, Kit? Yes, I met him a couple of times. He was at Bolo's studio on a job. 8010 was going tc use him as one of those old gods— Apollo, I think it was. What makes you ask, Kit ?” Kit hesitated. ’’My cousin, Libby Tallis—” Anita gave her a quick sideways glance. Angie said decisively: “Wilder’s no good People don’t like him. I can’t tell you why, but 1 know tL That fellow's a wrong guy all the way through the alphabet.” Kit’s depression deepened. Angie went on, “Why doesn’t your cousin marry George Corey?” iKit stared blankly at Angie, getting nimbly out of a butterfly dress and into black linen shorts and a white sweater. “George?” she said faintly. J “Yes. I saw them together at the Pink Angel one night a couple of weeks ago and they certainly looked'—what’s the matter ? Have ’ I put my foot in It?”- \ v Anita laughed. “Angie, you’re an incorrigible romantic. All you have to do is to see a man and s girl together once and you have them married." (To Be Continued) Distributed by Kina Features S. ndicata I

Chicago Fearing Spread Os Rabies Free-Roaming Dogs Worry Authorities x - CHICAGO UP — The possibility that rabies was spreading among free-roaming dogs here confronted authorities today after health officers fighting to save the life of ‘tMr. X” began the same treatment on a baby girl. The 8-month-old child, Karen. Brown, may have been infected with the dread disease when « mad a mongrel licked her face, health authorities revealed Tuasday. Harry Snarr, a 44-year-old Cherokee Indian attacked by a rabid dog recently, was in the ninth day of the 14-day Pasteur anti-rabies treatment and was given a “50-50 chance” to live. Snarr, who was unaware for seven days that the dog which bit him was mad, wae dubbed “Mr. X” during a city-wide search to find and warn him he faced certain death without inoculations. City health authorities praised an alert veterinarian for hi* “alacrity” establishing that Karen had been in contact with a mad dog. * \ The dog became ill Saturday aud was taken to veterinarian Thoma ; B. Crowe by its owner, Dock Carter. The next day the dog died and was sent to the bureau of sanitation for disposal after Crowe questioned Carter and learned that the dog had apparently bitten no one. *But then Crowe learned from neighbors hat the dog had been seen licking a child’s face. The veterinarian, reconsidering the dog’s symptoms, was assailed with the fear it might have been rabid. He telephoned Carter and they recovered the dogs’ body and sqnt its head 'o the health department laboratory where it wa, found to be rabid. Karen was rushed to the est/ health center for her first inoculation. The baby is in no danger now, since the inoculations began before the disease could incubate. VFW Plans Dance For Friday Night t Members of Decatur post 6236. Veterans of Foreign Wars will give a dance for all members, auxiliary members and their wives' aud sweethearts Friday night at 8 o’clock, it waA announced today. The party, admission to which will be free, will honor lhe local' post’s completion of its annual membership drive. The local drive has exceeded the quota set up by the state office. A well known ban 1 will furnish music for the celebration and refreshments will be served. No admission will be charged the committee announced. Citation awards will be presented the Deqatur post for its membership accomplishment at the fourth district meeting at Kendallville January 3, local post his been If Discharged From Navy Seaman Sheldon P. Daniels son of Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Daniels 6! 603 Marshall St. being honorably discharged from the U. S. navy at the U. S. naval receiving station. Norfolk. Va. ' New Address Richard Macke has received a change of address. It is: Pvt. Richard W. Macke U. S. 55418152. Hq. 'and Sc. Co. Class 291, 23rd A.E.B. Co. A. 3rd Armored Division. For-t Knox, Ky. Macke, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William of near Decatur, entered the Armed Forces June 11 and finished basic training the last of October. After a six day leave, he entered an eight weeks’ leadership school. \

JHHK < - . Mfr ' Jfefe .>/ 1 • ■ M V FEARING her daughter Catherine, 15. has been kidnaped, Mrs. Anna Bova weeps in her Medford, Mass., home. Catherine left home Nov. 14 to go to confession, and she has not been seen since. (International J

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NOBODY INJURED, no plans changed much is the ungrisly result of this air mishap, which shows Melvin Wirkus’ plane “treed” on nis mother’s farm in Marathon county, Wis. Wirkus, 27, from Chicago, was taking off to store (us plane at Wausau, Wis., airport, when the engine went dead and ne “landed” out on several limbs. Wirkus climbed out of the cabin and down to the ground and went hunting, as planned. (International Soundphoto)

Automakers Seeking Large 1954 Output Steel Producers Bank On Auto Firms NEW YORK UP —Steel producers are banking on auto production to pace their market next year, the magazine Iron Age said today. Steel industry salesmen might not be leaving Detroit with full order books, the national metalworking weekly stated, “but they certainly get their optimism bolstered.” - The magazine said automakers are “gunning” for big first half in 1954. They predict total production of 5-million or more autos in 1954, compared with abotit 6.200,000 this year. > I Auto companies—especially the Big Three. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler l —have scheduled very heavy output for the first quarter of 1954. it Baid. “If they are too optimistic and sales bog down badly in the first six 1954 months,” the publication warned, “the bright steel outlook will darken quickly.” Despite a spurt of “late” orders for January, it noted .some steelmakers are disappointed, by the limited volume of business booked so far for that month. “Hedging by scpqe big customers —including automakers—is disturbing steel producers about as much as low order volume,” Iron Age added. Inventory correction continues to be a dominant market factor since it is taking some plants longer than had been anticipated to work off heavy steel stocks. Big customers hedging on January orders insist they'll be back in the market in force for February and March. “So these months will be crucial," the magazine asserted. Iron Age said scrap prices eased again this week, falling $1 to $33.83 per gross ton. Steelmaking operations-rreflect-ing a strike on a supplying railroad in the Pittsburgh area—are scheduled at 87 per cent of capacity this week, unchanged from the week before. Trade in a trooa iown — Decatur FASTESTkNOWN RELIEF FOR GAS ON STOMACH THANK HEAVENS! Most attacks arc acid indigestion. When it strikes take Belt-ans tablets. They contain the fastest-acting medicines known to doctors for the relief of heartburn and gas sO< refunded by

Bell-ans. Orangeburg. N. Y.. ii not satis* PHONE 3*3196 Or 3-3966 fled. Get Bell-ans to-day. All druggists. 25r 100 Am Farm For Sale ■ . ■ ' ■ ' )■l■■ I 1 - < V Has semi-modern house; land is practically ail Under cultivation; 16 acres of growing wheat, to the purchasers; 28 acres of new’ clover; 30 acres of clover sod for corn. March Ist possession. \i : Farm is located 1 mile, east of Ohio-Indiana State Line and 1 nple north of Route 224 on a hard top road. A good buy at $225.00 per acre. Other farms for sale from $150.00 per acre and up. MERL KNITTLE, Auctioneer and Real Estate Broker VAN WERT, OHIO 1 PHONE 21871 I - ' k 71 ’ 7~’- .<• ■

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Naval Attraction STQNEHAM. Mass., UP — A sailor lost control of an automobile and crashed into a utility pole on Main Street here. One week later another sailor lost control of another automobile and crashed / into the same, pole. -THAT lootant up your cough from t ° <o,d ** very 1 P1 much quicker -reliovettorenett in throat ■ almott Inttantly 1 coughing FtfWeSMM r - allovt the tickle , yHE WOKID’S BKT COUCH SYKUP) CONSTRUCTION WORK Consisting of: • ROOFING •SIDING L • REPAIRING and • BUILDING t Get |t Done By Martin Huser & Son Route 1. Monroe, Ind. . - PHONE 6-6172 i K?— Patronize I ’; \ ' f Local Business SHOP at HOME L I , F WELCOME WAGON