Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1954 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT PuMtahed Every Evening Except Sunday By '■— THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Poet Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. HeMerPresident A. R. Hblthouse Editor J. H. Heller — Vice-President Chas. Holtbouee Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $8.00; Six months, $4.26; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $9.00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 months, $2.50. By Carrier: 25 cents per week. Single copies: 5 cents.

.. Pay your fall taxes by day, November 1 or you will have to pay the eight percent delinquency fee. 0 0 The coming session of the legislature could stop the battles over daylight saving time by putting Indiana on Eastern time, which might be a more satisfactory method. > 0 o Only about fifty shopping days left before Christmas. Don’t put it off too long. Take advantage of the lay away plans in the Decatur shops. You can save money and get what you want. —ft- - It looks just now at least that Senator Burke and Governor Lausche will win in the Ohio election November 2. It has been a hot fight with the whole list of Republican big wigs getting in. 0 -o—_ The Lincoln school parentteachers association will hold its annual fall festival at Decatur high school gymnasium immediately after the Callithumpian parade next Thursday night. The big event, always colorful and entertaining is open to the public. ft ft— Edison lit up the world and millions hope the administration in Washington will not take any action to make it.harder for the people in the "darker corners” to take full advantage of his wonderful gift ft ft Havq you contributed to the Decatur Community Fund? By so doing you take care of the many activities. More than two-thirds of this money is used right here v aL home. .Your one contribution takes dare of nliie Worthy agencies. Be as generous as you can. 0 4) President Eisenhower rang the bells at a couple of brown stone fronts in New York City the other day and the reporters made a big play out of how Democratic he was. It was we presume a play tor the votes of the ordinary voters and an effort to please Governor Dewey. . 0 o Decatur merchants are going all out to make Thursday night's Callithumpian parade the greatest of all. Prizes for masked couples, individuals and also for marching bands have been announced. All persons of the area are invited to attend the annual parade. . 0 o This is the final week of the campaign as you will hear in public addresses over radios and television and one week from tomorrow you will have the wonderful opoprtunity to vote. The people in many countries do not have that opportunity. It's a wonderful privilege. Be sure to take advantage of it. ft. « Senator Von Eichhorn of this senatorial district is going to make a real effort in the, coming session of the legislature to • 0 (Household Scrapbook | BY ROBERTA LEE j ft- • Split Cuticle If the cuticle grows very tightly to the M*. and when pushed beck causes hangnails, mwwsage ft with a good cuticle cream vr Vaseline

November 2nd we urge YOU to vqte f *M democratic CANDIDATES! » 0 A but whatever ygur choice r lease be sure to vote: y 1 JjßfW ADAMS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE W M * ' l»r. Ilarrx Ikhble. Cl>;.m >■...■■ ~ O. W. |». Macklin. Tic;i->. **• <fll SBBW

settle the time question in the state by again introducing a bill to place Indiana on eastern time. He thinks it's wrong for various counties and cities to be violating the state law. More power to you Von. 0- 0 Five or six counties, including Adams county, which make up the Fort Wayne area, will wrestle this week with the time problem. Fort Wayne, and it is presumed most of Allen county will go on eastern standard time October 30, 'Ofc.--, It appears likely that Adams, Wells. Huntington, DeKalb and Whitley counties would follow by advancing the docks an hour. Noble. LaGrange and Steuben already have the fast time. ■ —ft 0 The Daily Democrat and the Citizens Telephone Co. will join next Tuesday night in furnishing local, state and national election ' news to all interested persons. A telephone tape recorder will be used and you are invited to call number 3-2171 any time tor the latest election news. Twelve trunk lines will be used to take care of calls and after one minute of listening, the phone will auto.matically cut off. This will enable more people to keep up with the latest news. 0 : 0-' ■■ ■■ Van Wert voters will again decide whether or not they favor an SBOO,OOO bond issue to build a modern hospital. They have been fighting the .problem for a number of years. This year they are trying to raise $200,000 by popular subscriptions to be used in addition to the bond issue and they have passed the half way a nacessary improve- - meat in almost every county in the midwest and always a hard one. to kolve. It will be interesting to know how Van Wert County responds. _—o—ft Indian Summer:— Irt all its glory that autumn time known as Indian Summer is here. The only trouble with the beautiful fall days and crisp nights is that they don't last long enough. Soon, the multi-colored leaves will fall and the cold winter winds win greet us. There are three popular automobile tours in southern Indiana this time of year. The most popular of these tours is a trip to Brown county. Thousands of motorists have made the visit in the last few days. >Two other beautiful, but less publicized trips are a drive along the Ohio river to Madison, across the Madison bridge and back to Cincinnati on the Kentucky side of the rivpr. The third popular tour for autumn scenery hunters is a drive to West Baden and French Lick. All three trips are popular and for a shorter tour we would like to suggest a drive to any of the northern Indiana lakes where the trees have turned a hundred / shades of red, brown and yellow. i Jelly to soften it, then push the cuticle buck gently, using an orange stick with cotton wiupped around it. Creamy Caramel* A pinch of yeast powder added to the cii-amel mixture after it has ■bagun to boil will make the caramels smoother and more creamy.

o — r 20 Years Ago i Today ft - — -0 October 25 —The Hauptmann trial set. for January 2 at Flemington, N. J. , County clerk David Depp receives 12.175 ballots from the stale commission for the November election. ■j ,Tlie American Legion in national convent inn at Miami. Fla., adopts a resolution asking congress to adopt a war veterans measure. The vote was 987 to 183. Mrs. Mary Adeline Voglewede 82. widow of the late HenrT Voglewede. died this morning. Mrs. Helen Suttles of Decatur selected as a member of the'Ohio State University glee club. Court News . Marriage Licenses Richard E, Butler, 22, Lima, 0., and Mary Ellen Frey, 21, Fort Wayne. Richard W. Gordon, 24, Decatur, and Waneta L. Routt. 23. Decatur. Irvin C. Elsass, 23, Mansfield, 0., and Joyce Elaine Eaton. 22, Ashland. O. J ■ Estate Cases A pet it ion to correct a legal ■ deception has been filed in the Emma A. Johnston estate and sustained. A report of sale of real | estate has been submitted, examined and approved. A partial inventory of the William M. Lenhart estate showing $5,800 in personal property has been filed, examined and approved. t ——— —r Modern Etiquette BY ROBERTA LEE H——— —0 Q. When playing bridge, is it constidered proper for the player wCio has won the bid to pass his hand over for his partner's inspection before he begins playing? A. While this is sometimes done, It is exceedingly rude. In some

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE SLOWLY and cruelly the world crept back, leering at me, chuckling gleefully. And the people. I muttered tn protest, wanting to return to the wonderful silent world, but something wouldn’t let :i. o l¥ n ed. .my eyes slowly., cautiously pushed mjseiF'to'my knees, and squatted on my haunches, like a cave man before his puny flickering fire. My head pounded, and I explored with my fingers, found a lump behind my right ear. 1 swayed and lost my balance and fell sideways. With a great effort 1 pushed myself to my feet and stood rolling against the walk Below me the light from the front room ot Judy .Kirkland's house cast a glow up the stair well. Judy Kirkland, Dr. Anthony Mazzini, Sandy Hollis—they ' were all down there, 1 thought, gathered at the toot ot , the stairs like parents on Christman morning, and as 1 went down the steps they would sweetly sing a jolly carol. I lurched tor the steps, but 1 stopped, swaying. I wasn't ready to face them yet. Not yeL 1 turned slowly around, peered into the darkness. The bathroom was the middle door, I remembered that- 1 groped along the wall, found the door, ft stood half open, and again I smelled the soap and the delicate perfume. 1 found a wall switch, flicked 1L 1 flinched and blinked in the onght light. An old-fashioned bathroom. Metai wash bowl, enameled tub on legs. Medieval But the water in the tap was cold. It felt very good splashing over my head. 1 soaked a towel, rubbed my face, and looked in a mirror over the bowL 1 winced. Straight black nair, too long as usual, because 1 was a week past due at the barber's, black whisker stubble tinged with gray, foggy blue eyes, dark pouches beneath them, deep lines around the mouth, wrinkles in the torehead. Some face! Gently 1 pressed the wet towel to the lump behind my ear. No blood, a neat Job. 1 dropped the towel and lurched out to the halt The stairway gaped like a hippopotamus' mouth. Get control of yourself, Bennett. Take a deep breath and throw out your chest Walk firmly to that stairway. Go down and see what is going, on. Assert yourselt. You're the law. Almost. And this la pretty shady business, dark stuff going on here. Sinister. Yellow speck on a key. A clue, Bennett Hah. 1 went down the stairs very slowly, my hand on the ran: "I felt remote, superior, above the sordid sins ot the world. Pure,

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cages,', it wxMild appear you are gloating over the hand, and in uny case it is a thoughtless delay of the game on your part. Q. When a man invites another man to luncheon or dinner, should ihe host give the order for both to tiie waiter? A. No; he Should aJIr-w bis guest to order first, and then give his. own order to tihe waiter. WheT dinii-g woman, she gives her order to Mtn, and he orders for both. Q."Wlhat refreshments would'be appropriate following a home wedding? A. This is more a matter of choice than of etiquette. Ginger ale, fruit juice, punch, or coffee’,’ wedding cake, and a few sandwich-! es would be all right.

like Lancelot. Step by step 1 went i down, down ... Sandy stood at the foot of the stairs, ner face a white blur. "Jun, what's wrong ?" she asked sharply. 1 pushed her gently aside and stood up straight and focused my .Pl- an. the divan bqaide Judy Kirkland- 1 staggered a little, supported myself against the stair railing, and 1 said distinctly, “What did you hit ms with, Doctor?” “Does it matter?” he asked quieUy. I pushed myself away from the railing and stood, erect. It rtiade me happy to realize that 1 swayed only a little and that the room was circling quite slowly. 1 said. "No, it doesn't matter, I guess. But why did you mt me?” "You should know," ne said. "I’m sorry 1 had to do IL" Presently ms- meaning filtered through my fuzzy brain and slowi ly I began to feel my pockets, one ; by one. Wallet, gum, silver pencil, : pen, comb, spare handkerchief, cigarets, matches ... It took me a little while to realize that the , missing item vyas Jqoy Kirkland's i confession. 1. nad known all along that it would, be gone, and 1 wondered wearily why I’d gone ! through the motions of looking. "Give it back," 1 said. “1 can't," the doctor said, and nodded at a big glass ash tray on a low table near the divan. 1 peered at the ash tray. It contained three cigaret stubs, and a Uttle pile ot black debris, the burned and crinkled remnants ot wnat nad been a sheet of paper. 1 pointed a wavering, accusing finger at Dr. Mazzini. “Burning evidence," 1 said. "Obstructing justice.” “Prove it," he said softly. Behind me 1 beard Sandy say in a strange voice, "Jun . . ." Ponderously 1 turned toward her, and 1 heard my voice saying, "And wnere were you. Miss Hollis, when the good doctor sneaked, up the stairs -and knocked me cold and took a paper from my pocket ?" “1 was in.the kitchen, making more coffee. 1 didn't hear—“ "Don t blame Sandy," Dr. Mazzini broke in. “She didn't know that 1 went upstairs. And you’d better sit down. 1 injected sodium pentolhal into the vein or your right arm. ft knocked you out completely tor about ten minutes, and it'll take a little while to wear ottj.We use it quite extensively tor quick and minor surgery.” He smiled. "It's harmless, and 1 had to be c, rthm that you would remain unconscious tong enough for me to do what I nad to do." He

Estella Haviland is Taken By Death Mrs. Estella E. Haviland, 81, died Sunday afternoon at her home in Geneva. Surviving are her husband. Charles: a sister, Mrs. Bess Green of Geneva, and a stepsister. Mrs. Fred Pyle of Fort Wayne. •Mrs. Haviland was a member ot the Evangelical Nlifted Brethren church. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home Geneva, the Rev. A. B. McKain and the Rev. Roger Lautzenheiser officiating. Burial will be in Wes' j Lawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home atfer 7 o’clock ! this evening.

I nodded at his bag on the floor beJ side the divan. "I used a sap first, i but 1 disliked hitting you hard enough to make certain you'd be out long enough.” "Thanks,” I said. “I've carried the sap since my interne daya-r-when 1 was on accident duty in Cleveland,” pe said. "Handy gadgets." 1 said. The room seemed to have stopped its interminable circling, and now just the floor was moving, up and down slowly, like the deck of a schooner in a lazy off-shore swell "It won’t do you any good, though—burning her confession. It she wrote it, she’ll tell it.” “I don t think so,” he said quietly. "Writing a confession with the intention ot suicide is not the same as contessing when you’re alive, and no prospect of dying.” “Let's ask net,” 1 suggested, trying to peer around him at the form ot Judy Kirkland on the divan. “She can't talk for a while,” he said. "I've given her a sedative." “You’re a tricky operator," 1 said, “but she's got to talk some tune.” "Not until I talk to her first,” ne said calmly.. “When I tell the law —” “About Judy's silly confession? She was emotionally upset, and s .e blames nerselt for what happened to Ralph Hollis. In a crazy way she was trying to atone —” “And so she killed Rex Bishop. Was that atonement, too?” ’She lied,” he said. “The whole thing was a lie. 1 know her, Bennett." “And you love her.” •'Yes," he said. “And you’ll protect her at any cost?” “You can’t prove that she wrote a confession. You can’t prove any of it.” He was right, and I knew IL 1 had the bullet I’d dug out of the tree, but it 1 couldn’t match it with a certain rifle, 1 had nothing. And 1 had a hypo needle filled—with something. I looked at Dr. Mazzini, and 1 suddenly realized that it the needle contained anything but penicillin, he would have taken it from me, along with Judy’s confession. 1 didn't have anything now, but some ugly memories, and I couldn’t go to the law. But they came back to me, Uie sounds of the bulleta. They had been aimed at me with ugly and serious Intent, and once again 1 felt the lonely climate of my personal little world, and with it came the slow surge of rage. I wouldn't stop, not yet. (To Be Continued)

Describes "Junkshop" Home Os Dr. Sheppard

By JACK LOTTO BAY VILLAGE, O. xINS) —I spent a lonely Sunday at the gloomy unkempt 131.500 “junkshop” home where .Marilyn Sheppard was murdered in her bed. I stumbled trying to run down a steep incline behind the neglected property. 1 was attempting to follow the path I>r. Samuel Sheppard says a mysterious intruder took in the pre-dawn darkness last July 4. The osteopath, accused of killing his wife, claimed he chased the real murderer down the 52 unlighted, winding steps leading to a five-foot wide beach at the bottom ot the embankment. it was no easy job-even in the daytime. The boards bend under your weight; the steps are rotting. The locale would gladden a mystery writer’s heart-a foreboding cliff overlooking a rough lake, tree-shrouded dark shadows, a tiny cemetery whose biggest tombstone carries the family name of the carries the family name of the alleged “other woman.” The Sheppard house on West Lake Road on highways 2 and 6 leading to Detroit is roped oft. it’s almost as though the building didn’t belong in this area, 13 miles from Cleveland, where Dr. Sam is on trial for his life. Expensive-looking, neat brick buildings and spacious- cared-for lawns which surround the "murder site are in sharp contrast to its seedlness-both Inside and out. The furniture visible in the house and on the rear screened-in porch is unbelieveable junk-aging wicker chairs and recrepit furniture-.-ex-pected in a "tobacco road” scene. Nearby sits a sleek, black sports convertable whose price could have furnished the home with the finest decorations. 1 looked through the screen aud sfiw the long wooden bench- on which Marilyn Sheppard ate her last meal and entertained her neighbors, Mr, and Mrs. Don Ahern, before she was murdered in the early morning darkness of July 4. The coach on which Dr. Sam said he slept while the killer struck was in the living room near a long stairway which led from .the front of the house door to the upstairs rear bedroom where the expectant inqther was murdered. The house looks as if a paint job were five years overdue. The screens are torn in many places, holes in the side of the building are stuffed with paper and a window, obviously broken many months .ago. "veptilates' a double-. ■m» gwragr ikdromu “wnrsrTVMj'* lock. > * • A tool house on the rim of the embankment is full of broken chairs, a rusty Pawn mower and a boy's tricycle. Three cans brimming with garbage stand behind the shed. The incline angles downward to a rubble-strewn beach only five feet wide and cluttered with thousands of pebbles and rocks. It was here that Dr, Sheppard said he fought his second ba.tle with the assailant who knocked him unconscious for the second time* . .. A telephone is less than ten feet from the beach inside a bathhouse up 13 steps from the waterline. A spotlight stands atop the bathhouse and a 50-watt bulb is on the! side of the eight-partitioned stalls facing the 39 steps curling upward toward the top of the incline. Neither the spotlight nor the light nor the telephone was used by the doctor to summon help or light the area, according to his testimony. It's about 30 feet froTn the rear porch down sloping grass to reach ■ the first di cement steps which ’ lead in turn to a wooden stairway. Eleven shaky steps lead to a land-! ing, A elight turn, then another six | steps for a second landing. Finally, the last 11 steps bring you to the I wooden bathhouse which ironically! is in better condition than the' house. I Trees cut out over the twisting! stairway which turns toward the* right as you descend. The cm-, bankment is loaded with scrap lumber, rusty chains, beer cans, old inner tubes, lengths of pipe and other types of garbage and junk. As I walked around, a big watchdog in the neatest neighbor's backyard about 30 feet away barked and tried to get at me-but a long rope held him in place. Ihe dog had been locked up on the .murder night. Spencer Houk, the tnapor of Bay I Village, known officially as "the \ illage ot Bay." lives in a coni- • tollable fieldstone front heme a.’ few down-down the highway It ! was he ’ whom Dr. Sheppard ■ phoned about 5:50 a. in. and 1

screamed: "My God, Spence, they’ve killed Marilyn.” A cemetery is on the side of the mayor's house, and from the road the biggest tombstone in the small final resting place for the village residents carries in large letters the name “Hayes.” Another Hayes-Susan Hayeshas figured in the life of Doctor Sheppard and his trial. The shapely medical technician allegedly is the "motive" for the crime. She has admitted intimacies with the brain surgeon. ,'tAi Wtulßliitli —— ' '> iNscmncc JyA Richard A. Deßolt of Decatur has enlisted in the army. After elementary instruction, Deßolt will be sent to the Far East Command. Completes Course FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas —Pvt. Martin Graber Jr., sen of Mr., and Mrs. Martin J. Graber, Geneva, Ind., has completed the medical training center's eightweek course of advanced basic training at Brooke army medical center. The training at the army’s only basic training center for combat aidmen and medical corpsmen has prepared him for duty with the army medical service. The medical training center offers intensive instruction in field medical caie and hospital ward management, and trainees make practical application of their instruction during a field problem conducted for five days under simulated battle conditions. Three Are Fined For Brawl At Willshire Bob Huser. of Adams county, was fined SSO and costs and sentenced to 30 days in the Toledo workhouse by justice of the peace

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John Estel in Willshire, 0., anti ordered to pay S3O to a Willshire tavern owner for malicious destruction of property and disorderly conduct last Tuesday. The 30-day sentence was suspended on Huaer'a promise not to return to Willshire. Chester and Wendell Beer were each fined $-10 -and costs pn a disorderly conduct charge growing out of the same incident, and were given suspended sentences of Id days each. The three Adams county youths returned to Van Wert coftnty voluntarily Wednesday and faced the charges -which gryw from a Tuesday night brawl. They entered pleas of not guilty at that time, and posted |SO bonds. All three returned Thursday night and changed ’ their pleas to guilty, and received their sentences. Gifts & Greetings for You —through’ WELCOME wagon from Your Friendly Business Neighbors 1 , and Civic and Social Welfare Leaden j j Da Mr occasion oft The Birth of a Baby Sixteenth Birthdays Engagement Announcement* Change of residence Arrivals of Newcomen ti City Phone 3-3196 or 3-3479