Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1954 — Page 11

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Thank You... To the Voters of Adams County for your Wonderful Support. It was sincerely appreciated. J MERLE AFFOLDER THANK YOH . . . To Voters of Adams County who supported me for Judge in Tuesday’s election. I extend my thanks and to the winner, I extend my congratulations. EARL E DAWALD ' MARY THANKS MINJBKtKdKSSJ* •‘Myi'-SJ’ To my Adams County Friends of all JHl* political affiliations, I wish to thank you all for your wonderful support as your County Assessor. All politics must now be forgotten. 1 shall serve you all alike .... fairly, honestly and efficiently. Thank You, WALTER KOOS Thank Y0u.... Thank you for your wonderful ■■ tai support. I promise my very best efforts to serve you well. RICHARD “Dick” LEWTON THANK YOU 1 wish to use this means to express my thanks for the wonderful support you gave me for re-election as your Representative in the State Legislature. The confidence you have placed in me is most gratifying and very much appreciated. 1 will continue to do my best to stand for that which Is right and good for the people of my district. L. LUTHER YAGER

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Lady Ship Chandler Credits Girl Scouts Lady Heads Second Largest Ship Firm BOSTON (INS) — Boston's exclusive Beacon Hill boasts a lady ship chandler — and she’s one of the best, it not the only one in the U. S. Miss Marion L. Decrow heads the second largest ship chandler firm on the Atlantic Coast, taking over what is usually .the man’s job of supplying food, hardware and other necessities to some of the biggest ships plying in and out of Boston Harbor. Quiet, friendly Miss Decrow took over her father's firm on his ' death in 1931, when it had only five employes and was facing depression failure. Today it is the biggest in Boston. "I hated the idea that the old firm was dying,” said she, and set about saving it Today Miss Decrow is a waterfront tycoon dealing in multithousand dollar meat and food orders, miles of cables and ropes, anchors of all sizes, etc., and lady who possesses a thorough knowledge of ships. But when she started, said Miss Decrow, “I was without any experience in that line — or in any line. I had never had a paying job

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I CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE •POOR Earl," 1 mM sadly. ■Never mind Mm," Jake Fortame said bitterly. i "He’s not such a bad guy," I said gently. "He tried to protect you, and your daughter, whom he madly loves. He had a problem, aad be wasn’t talking, not until be knew the score. When Eileen beard am accuse him of trying to Mb Ralph, she believed me, thought be had really done R—for bar. That almoat drove Earl crazy, trying to figure it out. For all he knew, EDeen might have been mixed up in it, too. He—” "No," Jake Fortune said harshly. "Ear! knew the score. Right after 1 saw you carry Ralph away, 1 guessed that he was still alive, and 1 began to run. I met Earl, and I tost my head, and I told him what Fd had to do—because be wouldn’t loan me the money. I told him that Td swear rd seen him shoot Ralph, out of jealousy, and because be wanted Eileen. The whole country knows that she jilted him for Ralph. 1 told him that you might come snooping | around, and to watch the ravine—--1 didn't want to take a chance on being seen there. Then I left him, got a rifle, and waited behind a i rail fence out back where 1 could watch the ravine. At noon you showed up, began your poking around, and I took a shot at you.” 1 said, "And Rex Bishop, fixing a fence la the bottom, saw you shoot at me, and he came up to you and asked questions—and you shot him." "I never saw the old man. I was watching you. He came walking fast up along the fence, and be was mad. He knew I'd shot at you, because he told me he’d been watching all along. He began to shout at me, and he pointed at the ravine, and — I always liked old Rex, but 1 bad to shoot him, to keep him quiet.” 1 shivered, thinking of all the things that made a person kill, and I said, "Jake, there's a woman, I suppose?" His heavy mouth went loose, and he gave me a boastful grin, "Two woman, and I’m fifty-six years old." He leered at me lewdly. "A blonde in Cleveland, and a brunette la Toledo. They cost me a tot of money." TH bet," I said. “When did you get the idea about Judy Kirkland? When I told you in Dan's Place that she blamed herself, that she did not want to face Ralph’s folks f

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TWO DEMOCRATIC representatives, Laurie C. Battle of Alabama (left) and O. Clark Fisher (middle) of Texas, are shown with U. S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen at his residence in Moscow, Spaso house. The two representatives spent 17 days in Russia, touring cities, farms and factories. (International Soundphoto)

in my life and knew nothing about business.” So thi? woman on the waterfront brought in some friends — former Girl Scouts. She explains it like this: “I needed help, and I wanted It i to come from people I knew and'

"That gave me the Idea," he admitted, smiling at me. "There was ■ no harm in trying. I went out to her place. The lights were on, and l it was wide open. 1 found her up- ; stain on the bed, asleep. 1 locked ) the windows, rigged a pencil with , a cord tied to it, and stuck it in I the key. 1 read it some place, and i it worked.” 1 ’ire an old trick," I said. "You ' ran the cord from the pencil under ' the door, turned the key until the bolt was almost ready to click 1 shut, closed the door and pulled the cord. The pencil acted as a lever and flipped the key over, locking the door from the inside. The pencil fell to the floor, and you pulled tt out under the door. I saw the yellow speck on the key last night, but I didn’t tumble until now that it was paint from one of your pencils. You couldn't be certain of what Earl Seltzman would do, no you tried to frame Judy, too." He tossed the pencil he’d been holding across the table. "Maybe that’s the one 1 used,” he said. “There'll be dents in It, from the pressure on the key,” 1 said. "Why don't you look at it and see?” he invited. I let the pencil lay and watched him. “And then you typed the suicide note on Judy’s typewriter." “With one finger." 1 thought of old Rex Bishop, and of Judy, too. She would have died if 1 hadn't tound her as 1 did. Maybe, for me, in the final scoring, the one life would cancel out the other. 1 hoped so, and I said, “You followed me to Dan’s Place, knowing that 1 was looking for Earl Seltzman, because I’d been to his house. You went in ahead of me, warned Earl that 1 was hunting for him. He ducked out the back door, after telling his poker pals that 1 was a pesky insurance salesman, and to cover for him. He was already leery of me, because I'd slapped him around a little, and he didn't know what you were up to. You knew that I would guess that Earl had scooted out the back door, that I would come out that way, too, and you waited behind the can in the alley, and—" I , stopped, remembering the sound of the bullets. “I’m a rotten shot,” he said. "Ali ways have been." "You missed me three times," I > said. ”1 won’t miss now." i , The fear returned, and I had a wild desire to jump up and run.

respected and trusted. I remembered some of the people I had known in the Girl Scouts. “I sought them out and took them into the business. One was i Virginia Phillips, who had been a i Scout when I lived in Dorchester. ‘ She had gone on to study at the

But with the fear there was the rage, suddenly flaming, and at the same time another part of my brain cautioned me to be crafty, to induce him to delay the moment when he would decide to pull the trigger of the gun 1 knew now he held beneath the table. "It won’t work,” 1 heard my voice saying. ••They’ll get you, Jake.** "Earl’s car is out in back,” he said. “The keys are in it and the tank is full. 1 checked, before I came in. The tires on my car are bad, but in Earl’s car 1 can get a long way, maybe to Mexico. I’ve still got a couple of thousand in cash from the Cleveland cattle deal.** He paused, and said in a whisper, "Buck up, Bennett.” His teeth showed, between his lipa "You can only die once.” "Don't do it, Jake,” 1 screamed. Violently 1 pushed against the table, and my chair went backward. The kitchen roared with the blast of his gun. It was as if a baseball had been thrown, quite hard, against my right, aide, above the belt. The impact made me gasp and 1 slammed on my back on the kitchen floor. My legs felt dead, but there was no pain. Jake Fortune was on the floor, too, twisted sideways, the table on top of him. 1 clawed the .38 from my overcoat pocket, pushed myself to one elbow, tried to steady the gun. Fortune rolled clear of the table, and he fired as he rolled, the bullet splintering the wooden cabinet beside my head. 1 fired, my wrist wobbling, and I knew that 1 had missed. A flower pot on the window sill behind him flew to bits. He pushed himself upward, swaying on his knees. I had plenty of time to alm carefully. The kitchen seemed to jump with the muzzle blast and a little black hole appeared in Jake Fortune's shirt over his right shoulder. The impact rocked him, and his gun arm dangled limply. "AU right, Jake," I said. "You’re done.” Grimacing, he grasped his right wrist with his left hand and he brought the gun up and around. 1 yelled, “No!” but he swung the gun toward me. There was only a split second of time left, and 1 didn't have any choice. 1 shot him in the face. I made it to the telephone and pulled the receiver toward me and asked for Sheriff Morrissy. Then 1 passed out on the floor. Close beside me a voice said, "HcUo, Jim.” , (To Be Co*tim»ed)

Museum of Fine Arts, and trained in commercial art and advertising art. She’s my advertising manager now.” Mrs. Ann Morse, who also had been a Scout executive, is assistant to the general manager of the company today. Another step Miss Decrow took was to move the company to Rowes Wharf.. , “Now lighters can tie up at the rear of the chandlery, load stores easily and take them out to the ships in the harbor. I like this better," Mis Decrow says, "not only because it is more convenient and business-like, but because it puts us on the edge of the ocean as my family has lived for generations.” Scrabble Winning LONDON (INS) — Family games are rapidly ousting cards in British home entertainment. Topping the popularity poll is “Scrabble.” the American game in which sets of little wooden letters : are used in spelling words on a board. i~'- -1..; * Oil Prediction VIENNA (INS) — Western oil experts predict Soviet Russia’s ! oil export capacity to reach six million tons by 1957. About 25 percent of this will come from East European countries now under Soviet domination. .

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