Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1956 — Page 4

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The President is going to his Georgia golf hide-out for a rest, news agencies report. He’s a little hard to keep up with and we aren’t sure whether he goes to his golfland to rest or returns to Washington occasionally to rest. »■■■■ o The Democratic party, jn the state and in the nation, is far from dead. Os course, it needs some recuperating and revitalizing, but it soon will be back, bigger. better and more potent than ever. Fundamentals of the party which protect the greatest number of us will never die. We are the party of the people and we have suffered temporary setbacks before, only to come back with greater strength. . ——o 0 The present City Administration has completed its first full year of administering the city’s affairs, under the able leader- ’ ship of Mayor Robert D. Cole, an all-DemoCrauc Council and a Democrat Clerk-Treasurer, Mrs. Mirriam Hall. The Council members have worked tirelessly, in cooperation with Mayor Cole and the various Department heads and City Attorney John DeVoss, to bring about numerous permanent benefits. Inheriting several headaches, which were accumulated over a period of years, such as the critical power and water problems, members of the Cole Administration started to work immediately and in the short period of a year, much good has been accomplished. By means of negotiating a contract with In-diana-Michigan Electric Co., this city is assured of all of the electricity it needs for all of its’customers. Work is continuing in the effort to find a more abundant water supply to supplement our present supply. Water Superintendent Ralph Roop and the

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water committee of the Council now have several plans of procedure under study. Many streets and alleys have" been improved under the present street department set-up with Bernard Clark as- superintendent and that department has operated efficiently and economically. Councilmen have spent long hours in successful efforts to iron out problems which always plague any governmental body. Financially, Decatur is strongs and the Cole Administration washable to reduce taxes in the face of constantly rising costs of labor and materials. Worn out equipment in many departments has been replaced. Decatur is clean from both a moral and health standpoint. We ''have an excellent fire department and a fine police organization. We challenge every comparable city in world to show us a better public park and playground system, or better schools or a better city. The present Administration, at the outset, made it celar that no miracles should be expected. The city has shown a. steady and healthy progress and it is generally believed that progress will continue. We are fortunate to have a well-balanced Council with a diversity of interests. It is to our benefit in general, that we have Council members who are interested in public affairs. By and large there is no organized criticism of the city’s operation,. There are the usual occasional grumblings, which, can each be traced to a discharged employe or someone who has lost some city business. Decatur residents can point with pride to the accomplishments of 1956, and we can go to sleep at nights, knowing that our official affairs are in good and honest hands.

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20 Years 4go Today O O December 31, 1936—W. F. Beery is elected chancellor commander of Decatur Knights of Pythias lodge. Fred Teeple, 38, Decatur G. E. employe, dies of heart ailment. Chicago has bad flu epidemic. Herbert Boerger Monmoeth high school student and athlete, is released from Adams county hospital after serious illness." Mrs. W. A. Klepper is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper, Jr., and daughter in Hornell, New York. . Ex-Yellow Jacket basketball stars defeat ex-Commodores, 2624. in hard scrap last night. Old Phillip home on North First street. Decatur landmark, is sold to E. Burt Lenhart for SBOO. Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth will assume duties of county recorder tomorrow? Group of prominent Adams county farmers attend soil conservation meeting at Portland today. O - — o Household Scrapbook | BY ROBERTA LEE o_ o Making Cold Stratch In making cold starch, mix the starch with just enough cold water to dissolve it. Then take Vi-cup cold water, fill the cup with boiling water and stir this into the dissolved starch. It will be not, but not cooked. Dip collars, cuffs, etc., in the same way, wring, and roll up for aboiit 15 minutes. Also add a small quantity of lard to keep the iron from sticking. Discolored Pans Rub discolored aluminum pans or kettles with very fine emery paper. Use a new piece of emery when one is worn off. In a short time your pans will look like new. Black Stockings Black stockings will keep their good color if a little vinegar is added to the last rinsing water. Modern Etiquette BY ROBERTA LEE Q. When the coffee or tea is very hot, is it proper to use the spoon to sip it? —■ A. No; the spoon is served only for stirring,, and when that isjione, the spoon is placed in the saucer and remains there. One can only wait until the beverage is suf-

SYNOPSIS Casson Duker. a well-to-do ama- , teur detective, is intrigued by Henry , Lockyer. A stolid banker, getting ' drunk before dinner at their club. Casson's curiosity compels him to find out why the normally lightdrinking Lockyer is acting in such a manner. Lockyer tells Casson he had been blackmailed by an ordinary looking little man named Bagot who threatened to ruin his reputation. Bagot promises not to bother him again. Lockyer tells Casson he will ■ not testify against Bagot if he is arrested. One thing distinguishes the insignificant Bagot: He paused to admire a piece of Roman sculpture in , Lockyer's house. Casson thinks this interest may trap him. CHAPTER 4 'T'HE next mornihg he walked 1 leisurely down Berkeley Square, along Bruton Street and • Bond Street to his office. Two Georgian windows framed the front door, over which was written in unobtrusive gold letters Manton, Heywood, and Partner, Merchants in Wine and Liqueurs. It locked more like a private house than the offices of a wellknown firm of wine merchants. Tippett, the head clerk, in his frock-coat, was standing behind the counter vlien Casson entered. "Good morning, sir.” • "Good morning, Mr. Tippett,” Casson replied, passing through into his own office. He always addressed Tippett as “Mr.” Casson settled down to his letters. At eleven he went and stood by the window, idly contemplating the people who passed by outside. He was counting his good fortune. He was thirty-sev-en, almost thirty-eight, but still a young man. He was fit, interested, and sufficiently well-off. He was a bachelor and his own master; his own master too in business since he had inherited the firm from his father, extending both ifs list and its customs. He appreciated beautiful' things. He turned to glance with pleasure at the wall over the fireplace where there hung a land- * scSip by Theodore Rousseau. The keystone fell into place.. The Roman bust settled perfectly into the mental arch. Bagot was his own master. He was a man , without family, without relationships. He only desired beautiful things. To get them, he blackmailed. Casson took his gloves and went out If Bagot had blackmailed once, he might have blackmailed before. He walked up Savile Row to the West End Central Police Station. Casson waited while the uniformed constable in the entrance hall took his name and rang through to the C.I.D. He was shown upstairs and into a plain office. Superintendent Strutt, George Barnard Strutt of “C” Division, sat behind a desk, pushing a pa-per-clip round the surface of his blotting-pad with the chewed end of a pencil

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ficiently cool for comfortable drinking. Q. If many wedding gifts have been received, wouldn’t it be all right for the bride to send engraved cards of thanks? A- Never! If a bride does not consider the gifts worth her time and effort to write personal notes of thanks, then "it seems a shame that the donors devoted any time and money to her. Q. When someone whom you have just met says, “I am glad to have met you.’' isn’t a smile in reply sufficient?" A. No; this would have a condescending air about it. It is much better to accompany the smile with a "thank you.” Motorist Is Fined On Speeding Morris J. Harnish, of Bluffton route two, arrqsted Friday for speeding on U. S. highway 224 west of Decatur, appeared in justice of the peace Floyd Hunter’s court Saturday and was fined $5 and costs.

He was a man of forty-two and, for a policeman, unusually shaped, being short and fat and piggy-eyed. “Well?” he grunted. Cassou sat down. ’.‘l need your help.” - ■ "Naturally.” Casson sighed to himself. Strutt was in a temper and when that happened he took time to placate —time and lager beer. In the end he always helped. He liked Casson. “I am hunting a blackmailer,” said Casson. Strutt reached for a writing-pad. “What’s his name?” His was uninterested. "* “Bagot.” Strutt made no motion to write. Casson settled himself into the uncomfortable armchair. "As you will already have guessed, my brilliant and beautiful policeman, Bagot is not his real name. It is an alias. “Now before 1 unfold to you this unpleasant little story, I must warn you that it’s off the record. The victim does not want Bagot found and will not give evidence against him if he is found. But I wish to find him because I dislike such people.” He told Strutt the whole story, including Lockyer’s name. When he had finished giving Lockyer's description of Bagot, Ke added: “Now, as you will agree, that particular appearance is one which he uses only for blackmail. His ordinary appearance will be different. But it will .not be very different. So what does he do to disguise himself? He makes hid hair darker, not by dye but l?y hair oil. He parts it in the middle —a thing which the victim would automatically notice. JHe wears heavy spectacles.: Undo these things and’you have the real Bagot, a man of about forty-five, with mousy hair parted on the side, and probably wearing lightrimmed spectacles. He will be neat in his habits, has clean, un- , spoilt hands, and is five foot ten in height. Find that one if you can.” “Easy,” Strutt replied equably. “There are seven thousand dt them in the West End of London every, day.” “Listen.” Casson told him the rest, displayed before him the personality wfiich his mind had created for Bagot, described the place of the bust in the arch of mental invention which framed the blackmailer. “1 think you’re wrong. I think you're being too clever about thia .art business.” Strutt reached for. the telephone. “Yard, please. Criminal Record Office.” He gave them the two descriptions of Bagot and Casson’s imaginary'character-study, leaving Out the incident of the i bust and merely saying that the I wanted man might be interested

Adams County Man Hurt Near Delphos Doyle Lee Arnold, 23, of route 2, was injured slightly when he fell from his car as it crashed into a guard rail at the Little Auglaize river bridge on route 30, 2.6 miles west of Delphos, 0., early Saturday morning. According io van Wert county sheriff deputies, Arnold was passing a semi-trailer truck outfit when his car skidded on ice and spun around, striking the guard rail on the south side of the road, with the driver being thrown out of the car. The crash occurred at 2:40 a.m. Saturday, about 40 feet east of the creek bridge. The right side of Arnold’s car was extensively damaged, along with about 20 feet of guard rail— _ Arnold, taken to the Van Wert county hospital, was treated for cuts on the forehead and bruises and then released. Trade in a Good Town — Decatui

in antiques. He put the receiver down. “I’ll let you know," he said. “Come in on your way home and have a drink at my flat," Casson suggested. I've come by ■an early Colette novel which you can borrow." “Right, boy,” said Strutt, grinning. His hobby was French literature. “Six sharp. Mount Street.” • • •,- Casson strolled down to Cane’s for lunch. In the anteroom he met Nigel Willington, and the sight of the gaunt, cadaverous ’ figure gave a practical twist to his ideas. He ordered a sherry and went over to Willingtem. Nigel was , Managing Director of Willington and Company, Antique Dealers, of Sackville Street, London. “Do you sell much Roman stuff?” Casson.asked. “Busts and so on? First century B.C. or A.D.?” “No. Why?” “I’ve become interested in that period.” Nigel gazed at him with a sad eye. “You are no more interested in Roman sculpture than you are in the geological formation of England. You are, I suppose, chasing some harassed malefactor?” Casson agreed readily and added: “I’d be grateful if you'd get one of your assistants to check any catalogues you’ve got of forthcoming sales and see if thqre is anthing — busts or figures — likely to be of an early date: and thdn let me know. Do you keep any record of who bought things at sales which your men attended?" . < “Sometimes. If it’s an article that interests us." “Could you let me know the name of anyone who has bought such stuff —not merely busts—during the past two years? The purchase must be fairly small: small enough to go into a typical ‘parlour.’ ” "It will take a day or‘ two," said NigeL “We’re jammed, up with our scheme for this yearns Antique Dealers’ Fajr. But I’ll send you the catalogues and get >a man to check on the back sales as fast as possible. I’ll ring you later this week.” Casson alone and went back to his office. Intrigued though he was with the quest for Bagot, he deliberately prevented himself thinking of it since he felt that Strutt was about to disappoint him. When he arived at six that evening the Superintendent woud probably hand him a full record of the real Bagot, would know precisely who he was and exactly where to find him. Strutt comes up with a surprise in the battle of Casson vs. BagotlnGttbpter 5, tomorrow.

COURT NEWS ...Marriage Licenses Roger Wayne LeFever, 19, Berne route two, and Sharon Kay Marble, 17, Geneva route two. James Mitchell IPatch, 21, Linn Grove, and Elizabeth Ann Fox, 18, Bluffton. James Ray Morrison, 33, Cloverdale, 0., and Judith Ann Schaadt, 16, Cloverdale, O. Plea in Abatement In the divorece case of Carole Fifer against Richard Pifer, the law firm of Gallivan and Hamilton has entered special appearance for the defendant to file a plea in abatement The plea has been filed alleging that neither party, was a resident of Adams county for six months as stated in the divorce complaint. The . plea has been set for argument Jan. S. Estate The inheritance tax report for the estate of Chester F. Michaud has been filed and a notice has been ordered issued returnable Jan. 21. The report shows a net value of $22,714.21, with the widow as the only heir. The inventory for the estate of Louisa Baumgartner has been filed and approved. It shows $7,000 in real property, S4OO in household goods and $6,060.31 in money for a total value of $13,460.31. The final report sos the estate of Bertha Foreman has been filed and a notice has been ordered returnable Jan. 21. , The report shows a balance of $1,145.04 <for distribution. Real Estate Transfers Kenneth L. Deßolt etux to John Bernard Rauch etux, inlot 912 in Decatur. Revia M. Byerly etal to Mary Catherine Spangler, inlots 76 & 265 in Decatur. Mary Catherine Spangler to Robert G. Strickler etux, inlot 76 in Decatur. Mary Catherine Spangler to Robert E. Hammond etux, inlot 265 in Decatur. Ermal Owens etal to Congregational Christian church, inlots 11 & 12 in Linn Grove. Marjorie McMillen to Richard L. McMillen, inlot 84 in Monroe. Anthony J. Faurote etux to Leo A. Teeple etux, inlot 2 in Decatur. Leo A. Teeple etux to Anthony J. Faurote etux, inlot 55 in Decatur. Catherine Brunnegraff etal to George Womack etux, inlot 172 in Decatur. Wreck Takes Third Indianapolis Life DAYTON, Ohio W — Frank Smith, 50, Indianapolis, died Saturday of injuries sustained in an automobile crash on U. S. 40 north of here Christmas night. His wife, Anna, 48, was killed outright in the two-car collision, and their daughter, Susan, 10, died Thursday.

SYNOPSIS Casson Duker, a well-to-do amateur detective, is Intrigued toy Henry Lockyer, a stolid banker, getting drunk before dinner at their club. Casson's curiosity compels him to find out why the normally lightdrinking Lockyer is acting in such a* manner. Lockyer tells Casson he had been blackmailed by an ordinary looking little man named Bagot who threatened to" ruin his imputation. Bagot promises not to bother him again. Lockyer tells Casson he will not testify against Bagot if he is arrested. One thing distinguishes the insignificant Bagot: He paused to admire a piece of Roman sculpture In Lockyer's house. Casson thinks* this interest may trap him. Casson goes to his friend George Strutt, a Colice superintendent, for help. Strutt ecomes Interested in the case. Later. ■ Casson meets another friend. Nigel Willington, an antique dealer, and asks him to check his sales records of Roman sculpture for possible leads. CHAPTER 5 \ STRUTT arrived late, sweating from his walk in the warm evening. Without a word Casson handed him a tall glass of iced lager. Strutt drank most of it in one breath. "Hopeless,” he grunted. "Completely hopeless. Both your descriptions were impossible, as you knew they would be. So the boys tried your line about curiosities 99 “Antiques?” Strutt nodded impatiently and continued: “They were interested. But they drew a blank.” ' "And where do we go from there?” Casson inquired. "Hemel Hempstead,” said Slrutt. Casson smiled at him. Strutt loved keeping a trump card up his sleeve. "Delightful.'Why?” - Strutt pointed at his empty glass. Casson refilled it. “Two years ago," he said, “a fellow called Greenhaugh committed suicide. Drove his car into a canal up Hemel Hempstead way." “Was he alone?" “Yea” “Then how did you know he committed suicide?" “A chap in the brick-works nearby saw the car. It stopped; the man inside threw away a cigarette. It started again, heading for the canal, engine roaring. It went straight through a fenceami straight into the canal. “He was the junior partner of a small export firm in Mayfair,” Strutt continued. "Been going ten years, quite prosperous, and had not reached saturation point. A wife and three kids in Dunstable, no debts, no vices, no reason to croak himself. "Fortunately his bank statement arrived the day after he had done himself. His wife let us see it. The last entry was the day before. It was for six hundred pounds paid to ‘Self.’ Quite; a sifin to draw in one go.

National Leaders Give Views On 1957 Outlook

(Editor’s note: Following to one of a series of articles by leaders of the nation on their views of the outlook for 1957 in their various , fields). By Captain Eddie Rickenbacker Chairman of the Board Eastern Air Lines Written for United Press The airline industry’s two-billion-dollars orders for a fleet of some 400 jet-powered airliners made important headlines in 1956. Even more significant, however, is the fact that the 46 million passengers, who traveled 28 billion miles by air during the same year, have made the U.S. scheduled airlines the country’s primary passenger carrier, outstripping both the railroads and the inter - city buses. No realistic estimate of the economy of the industry’s rapidly approaching transition to jet power can be made without linking these two facts. The coming “jet age” will be truly revolutionary, possibly the first real mechanical “revolution” in commercial aviation history. Through the use of these new sources of tremendous jet power, the airlines will be able to bring a much greater and travel-ton-scious public the superjpr convenience, comfort and economy of almost silent, vibrationless flight, at speeds up to the speed of sound- ■ itself (about 700 m.p.h.), and at rates favorably comparable with any other means of transportation for distances of 300 miles or more. Jets to Triple Capacity On the other hand, there is no question but that the development of a '"greatly increased level of public air travel must be made as a sound foundation for the coming of the great jet airliners, which will not only double our present airliner speeds, but will triple our carrying capacity. The 422-million-dollar re-equip-ment program Eastern Air Lines has adopted to enable us to do thisyjob, while the largest undertaken by any airline, is still generally typical of what the entire industry is doing in this regard. To care for today’s growing volume of air travel, the airlines have alsq ordered 365 pistonpowered airliners, with 73 more in prospect. Eastern Air Lines, for instance, is adding new multiengined radar - equipped Golden Falcons and Constellations to its fleet. More Income, More Leisure The first of 40 jet-prop Electras are scheduled to go into service in 1958. In 1959-60, when our fleet of 20 great 600 - mile - an - hour, 56,000 - HP, straight - jet airliners equipped to carry 112 to 135 passengers, are in operation, we will have tripled our passenger airlift

“1 went along to the bank, a . branch of Lloyd s in Mayfair; The ■ manager wouldn’t tell me mueh anyway. The Bank Act; very proper, you know.” Strutt snorti ed. "All the cashier could say was > that Greenhaugh had come into the bank at half-past ten, said ' he wanted six hundred pounds i in one-pound notes for an urgent i business deal, collected the moni ey, and gone out. “We checked With his firm in Charles Street. They knew nothing of any business deal. There was np money in his desk. None in his safe. He had an appointment for lunch that day in the Mayfair Hotel. He hadn’t cancelled it. All his secretary could tell us was that a man had called to see him, and stayed in his room for quarter of an hour, ana that they had gone out together. The visitor carried a brown paper shopping bag such as you buy for sixpence at Harrod’s, gave his name as Martin, and was so ordinary as to be hard to describe. “It looked like blackmail. But how? His wife knew nothing. 1 didn’t expect she would. I got her to lend me all his files of personal accounts and I spent a week-end going through them. He was one of those meticulous and untidy men. He kept everything but without method. By the time I had finished sorting papers, I could have kicked him into the canal myself." Casson, chuckled. "I worked out his income and his expenditure," Strutt went on. “Every year he saved a bit and bought a few shares. The only thing I didn’t understand was the size of his personal expense account It was between five hundred and fifty and six hundred and fifty a year. Twelve pounds a week. Quite a lot; especially as he also had an expense account with his firm.” "So you loked for his mistress?" "Who’s telling this story, blast you? There wasn’t one. Not a trace. I went through his papers at the office. Then I found ner. Six years back in a bank statement Henrietta Kavanagh Martin. I found two cheques, fifteen guineas each, one seven days after the other, paid into a bank at Hatfield. Then a regular payment of twenty pounds a month on a banker's order. “She was a foreign girL I reckoned the two payments of fifteen guineas were for a hospital or a doctor, and we traced her that way. “This Martin girl had been ill. She was quite a decent kid, really, but she was Greenhaugh's mis-

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capacity. Any evaluation of airline economy and future growth must also consider the important facts that, although the airlines Have now become our country’s primary passenger carriers and although the American public is enjoying, and will continue to enjoy, greater income and more leisure time than ever before, less than 10 per cent of the travel-conscious public has yet experienced the superior convenience, comfort and economy of air travel. ■ • Beyond this, it must be realized that the dynamic industry and expanding economy of this country is geared to the speed of air transportation. Marine Sergeant Is Electrocuted Sunday HAVELOht, N. C. (W — Marine Sgt. Robert E. Fischer, 21, Terre Taute, Ind.,- was electrocuted Sunday while trying to rig a television antenna on the roof of his home here. Fischer was stationed at Cherry Point Marine Air Base. He lived in off-base quarters with his wife, Sharon, and their small daughter. His parents are. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fischer of Terra Haute. Greenfield Airman One Os Crash Dead WASHINGTON (IP) — Airman 2C John E. Hollis, Greenfield, Ind., was one of nine persons killed in a crash Friday on RBSO - weather reconnaisance plane near Yokoto Air Base, Japan. Trade in a Goon town — Decatui Buys Health Bond Help Fight TB . ? wiW* I (3s? $ -Bi W Buy Christmas Seals Berne Legion auxiliary has voted purchase of a $5 health bond officials of the Christmas seal sale campaign fa? Adams county announced today. All proceeds from the annual Christmas seal sale are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide free clinics and otherwise carry on the fight against the "White plague.” Th< sale is conducted by the Adami county tuberculosis association.

tress. Anyway, he had come to see the girl a.bout an hour before he died. She said he was almost incoherent and kept asking her if she had been followed around by a strange man. Matter of fact she had been. In the end the strange man had picked her up in a teashop but she’d given him the brush-off. When he heard that, Greenhaugh—as she picturesquely put it—swore an oath, said he'd look after her as well as he could. An hour later he drove into the canal?’, "What did the man look like?" “His description would fit that of the Martin who called on Greenhaugh at his office. He wore heavy spectacles. He wore a brown suit. He wore a raincoat; and a green hat." "Or it would fit Bagot?” “Or it would fit Bagot.” "Isn’t it strange that both the blackmailer and the girl should be called Martin?” "Isn't it! If ft was blackmail.” “But why did you pick the Greenhaugh case out of the records ?” “The boys have always reckoned it to be a blackmail case. I had them pick out all the un- - solved ones. This seemed to fit.” “Why six hundred pounds?" Casson asked. “Why not?" “And Greenhaugh’s own credit was sufficient to meet it?” Casson persisted. “Yes. If overdrew him a bit because he’d had if lot of bills the month before. But his- credit would stretch that far: just that far.’.’ “So Bagot got into Greenhaugh’s office by using the name Martin, by suggesting somehow that he came from .the girl in Hatfield,” Casson murmured, trying to picture the scene. "He blackmailed him. He took him down to his bank—the same technique as with Lockyer. He probably told him that he wouldn't blackmail twice. Greenhaugh . wouldn’t believe him. So he drives - slap into a canal.” “Listen,” Strutt said grimly. "1 don’t -give a hang for Greenhaugh and I care even less for Lockyer. I want to get the crawling runt who blackmailed them. See?” •T see. Shall I find him for you?" Strutt sighed. “I wish you would. Even if I did find him 1 couldn’t prosecute him. One of his victims is dead and the other won’t give evidence. You find him " and I’ll turn the heat on when you've found him. Now, where's that book you promised me ?” Tomorrow: The trap is baited. Casson goes to an auction sale, but not to bid. 1—- '