Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1957 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Bvealng Except Sunday By THJD DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO, INC. •stored at the Deoatur, Ind, Post Office aa Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller . President J. a. Holler Vice-President Chas. Holtkonse - u Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates: By Man tn Adams and Adjoining Ccuratiea: One year, |S.OO; Blx months, Htt; S months, B H By Man. beyond Adame and Adjoining Counties: Ono year. |».M; • months, |4.71; 3 months, 32.50. By Perrier: 36 dents per Week. Single copies, « cents.

Adems county high school bas B ketbalj, will get top billing thirl week, with congress, state legis I lative gutters and most otheil news taking a back seat. This| hardwood madness is likely toB continue now in spurts until al AUVk. U Mined in Mnreh. ■ o ■» ■ January 31 has been designated! as the night for the annual Cham-I ber of Commerce dinner and atl that time retiring President Rob-1 ert Heller will turn the gavel! over to incoming President Cliff! Brewer. Indications are that the! new officers will continue the! drive for a Better Decatur with! much the same spirit and de-B termination demonstrated by theß retiring officers. Every citizen! and most especially those inter-| ested in Decatur’s progress, is! urged to mark the date January! 31 on the calendar and plan to! attend this important affair. 0 o ! Decatur public schools will! close their first semester of the! current school year this week.! The second part of the year will! start next week. Some times, we! fail to realize how quickly timei passes and the break in theß school term awakens us to the! fjact that before long we will be! offering congratulations to the! graduates of the class of 1957 and! soon these young men and worn! en wil be entering the various! fields of endeavor. With the close! of the semester, we’d like to pay! tribute to the masterful and often! unsung work of Principal Hugh! Andrews, of Decatur high school.! Charged with the actual opera-! tion of the high school, under su-B pervision of Superintendent W.B Guy Brown and the three board! members, Mr. Andrews quietly! and without much publicity, has! built an enviable reputation for! Decatur high school, throughout! northern Indiana. His untiring! work in the scholastic field has! earned him top ranking among! school men and women in thufl area. Decatur is most fortunateUl to have Mr. Andrews as prin-B * cipal. fl o——-o— : ■ I In a span of a little more than! a year, registered attendance at! the Youth and Community Ccn ! ter has exceeded more than 500.-! 000. Os course these figures in-! dude many repeats, but they al-!

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so reveal the immense popularity of the great new building. In ■addition to being the youth and 1 social center of the community, ■the Center also is a popular ■meeting place for all types of ■gatherings, including service ■groups, men's and women's con■ferences and numerous small ■conventions. There is scarcely a ■day in the year that all rooms ■are not reserved for all types of ■small and large gatherings, rangKng from group conferences to ■banquets. Management of the ■Center, in the hands of a five ■member board is created by a ■city and state law. Indications ■are that the popularity of the ■building will continue to increase ■over the years. Already hundreds ■of local citizens are wondering ■low such a good community as ■we boast existed and flourished ■for so many years without the ■Center. o o ■ Decatur citizens, this week ■welcome the addition of two new snames to its roster of Honorary ■Colonels cm the police force. In ■an appropriate ceremony, attendFjed by members of Lions, Rotary ffiand the Chamber of Commerce, ■Peter E. Rentschler, executive ■vice president of Decatur Casting ■Co. and his son, Peter R. Rent■schler, secretary of the Decatur ■concern, received keys to Deca■tur from Mayor Robert D. Cole land the Colonel citation from ■Chief of police James Borders. ■Both men are residents of Ham■ilton, Ohio, but both spend con■siderable time at the Decatur ■plant. Mr. Rentschler, Sr., has ■long been connected with the ■gray iron foundry industry and ■largely through his efforts and ■abilities, the Decatur concern is lone of the leaders in the field. [|Mr. Rentschler, Jr., is secretary ■of the Decatur Company and is ■receiving his training from the loid Master. Both of the RentIschlers are active in civic and |charitable enterprises of their |native city, and their visits to ■Decatur always are welcomed by |their many friends. It is our sin|cere hope that the friendly re■lationship between local citizens ■and officials of the Decatur plant ■and the parent company continue ■for many years. We welcome ■both Col. Rentschler Sr. and Col. ■Rentschler, Jr., to Decatur’s of■ficial city.

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SYNOPSIS Casson Duker, a well-to-do amateur letectlve, is intrigued when Henry Lockyer, a stolid banker, tells him he had been blackmailed by an ordinary looking little man named Bagot who threatened to ruin his reputation. Bagot promises not 1 to bother him again. One thing distinguishes the insignificant Bagot: He paused to admire a piece of Roman sculpture in Lockyer's house. Ct no o thinks this interest may trap him. Casson goes to his friend. George Strutt, a police superintendent, for help. Strutt becomes interested in the case. Later. Casson meets another friend, Nigel Willington, an antique dealer, and asks him to rheck his »ales records of Roman sculpture for possible leads. Meanwhile. Strutt has dug up a similar case from the police lies—the Grcenhaugh case, in which the blackmailer called himself Martin. On a visit to Willington’s. Casson lees a man answering Bagot's detcription buy two bronze statuettes. He follows him to his home in Bicksrsteth Street, and reh t s a room icross the street. He discovers that die suspect frequents the Shepley Bms. a local tavern. The bartender •ells Casson that the man's name is lohn Perry. Casson follows Perry to i rendezvous with Jim Macfarlane. a young man who works in Gamman's Bank, of which Lockyer is a director. The following morning. Perry leaves lis house in his Bagot disguise. CHAPTER 12 BY THE TIME Perry had reached immobility, Casson was sweating. He had had to lover three times the ground that Perry had traced. He dared not be noticed, and he had had to make detours up side streets, circle round to come back from another direction on the suspicious little man. Fortunately he had once ’ived In Cheval Place and he knew the neighbourhood inside out. Casson was sure that he himself had not been observed. * 1 While Perry stood in apparent thought on the corner of Montpelier Square, Casson walked down to the Brompton Road. He picked up a taxi, told it to drive to another comer of the Square, and wait. He sat well back inside it. lost in the darkness, watching. Perry’s object was a house on the south side of the Square but which it was Casson could not tell. At two o’clock Perry left and walked to a coffee bar in the Brompton Road. He was there —for half-an-hour, then returned to his post, this time at another comer of the Square, Because there was nothing else to do, Casson repeated his taxi trick, but this time having it parked in another position; and to lull ' any suspicion, he told the taxi driver to pretend to be mending the enginel At half-past four Perry left again and walked to the Knightsbridge Underground, taking no precautions to see if he were followed. When he disappeared down the stcos to the trains.

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then second man. Q. When one is dining in a selfservice cafeteria, is it necessary to tip the waitress who carries one’s tray from the counter to the table? A. While not exactly necessary, many people do. Q. Even if the wedding is to be a very small, informal one, would it be all right for the bride to wear a white bridal veil? A. Yes, provided, of course, it is not her second marriage. Stratton Place Assn. Will Meet Sunday The annual meeting of the members of the Stratton Place Community Association, Inc., will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Three new directors of the association are to be elected at the meeting. Each lot owner is entitled to vote. Officers will give their annual reports. Also on the agenda is discussion of proposed amendments to the articles of incorporation. Refreshments will be served following the business session.

Casson let him go. He was prepared to bet that Perry would return to Bickersteth Street and he was satisfied with the afternoon’s work. He had proved to himself that Perry was the blackmailer. AH he had to do now was to be able to prove it to Strutt He went to his fiat in Mount Street and had a bath. While he lay and soaked he thought out the next moves. Casson must get recognizable photographs of him in his disguise as Bagot; and he must continue to watch him at work in Montpelier Square. L When he had dressed and mixed himself a Martini, he rang the garage which maintained his car. He instructed them to drive her at eleven the next morning to Montpelier Square and park her outside a certain house whose number he gave them. On the way they were to pick up his housekeeper. He arranged that Mrs. Baker was to wait there for him, sitting in the front passenger seat where she could easily be seen by any passer-by such as Perry. Having fixed his tactics, Casson returned to Chiswick. The next morning the departure from Bickersteth Street was repeated. Bagot emerged from Perry’s house, locked the door, looked up at the sky, put on his green pork-pie hat, and walked away. Casson, waiting and ready, got three photographs. He made no haste to follow the raincoated figure. He wound on the film in the camera, took out the spool, and sealed it in a canister. He reloaded the camera and took it back into the bedroom, where he put it, together with its telephoto lens and folded tripod, in his suitcase. He labelled the full canister of. film with the number, the date, and the time of photography. Then he went up to Mount Street He-changed into another suitone that Perry coaid pot yet have seen him wearing. He took A taxi down to Knightsbridge and strolled from the top of Trevor Place to Montpelier Square. His car was parked with Mrs. Baker sitting placidly in the front seat, knitting. At the far end of the south side of the Square was Perry. This time he was sitting on the curb with-a sketching-block bn his knbe and a pehcil M his Hand. Casson sat and ehatted to Mrs. Baker for three-quarters ofah hour. Then he moved to the back seat of the car, where he oiuld hardly be sben from outside. The time of waiting seemed endless tout at last, kt two o’clock

O ' I o 20 Years Ago Today o — £ January 9, 1837 — Rapport aucttion school will close in one week. Art section of Woman’s club to host Dr. H. F. Rupnow aa ipea- . ker next Monday night. Albert Meyer, t», Wells county farmer, found dead at his home. Adams county exceeds its 1936 membership drive by more than . 31.000. . r Howaid Wisehaupt is guest speaker at U. iB. men’s brotherhood meeting. Central Catholic high school netters edge Commodore, 28-26. Yellow Jackets beat Auburn, 35-28 Mrs. Geoge Flanders, who has been a patient at Adams county memorial hospital for a week, has returned to her home on Third Street. Public installation of Eastern Star officers is announced. Catholic high school auditorium selected as site for President’s h«n. Lightning Rod Swindlers Active The Adams county sheriff’s department issued a warning that another group of “lightning rod” swindlers was reported in Adams county Tuesday. The group approached a local farmer who had been a victim of the group that operated here several months ago. According to the report, the men tried to force the farmer to permit them to work en the lightning rod system. > , The men apparently are from Illinois but they were driving a car with Jay county license plates. Deputy sheriff Charles Arnold accosted them as they left the farmer’s home and warned them to get out, of the county. No charges could be filed against them since the swindle wai not carried through. Television Sets Luxury In Russia LONDON (UPI — Radio Moscow said today that television sets are a luxury in Russia because "there are not enough TV stations in the country.” Other luxuries listed included automobiles, fine chinaware, works of art and Bokhara rugs. But radios, phonographs, cameras, sports, goods, musical instruments and books "have become necessities,” it said. Trade in g Gooo vown — Decatu

as on the day before, Perry got up and walked towards Montpelier Street Presumably he was going to have his coffee. Casson crouched into the cushions in the back of the car. Mrs. Baker kept him informed of Perry’s progress. After the little man had disappeared, Casson drove to Mount Street where Mrs. Baker got him a cold lunch. After lunch, he went to the telephone again. He knew that Nigel Willington’s lawyer lived near Montpelier Square, and thought that he could get the key of the Square gardens. Nigel promised to try and get it One point which continued to worry Casson was the Identity of Perry’s intended victim. If only he could deduce that, he could lay a trap for Perry and catch him in the act of blackmail. He pondered about this for some 1 time. Finally he rang Strutt at his home. He just gut him before the policeman went out for his Sun* day afternoon walk across Put-ney-Bridge and along the Thames tow-path. Casson asked him to get the names of all the residents on the south side of the Square. *TD do what I can,” said 1 Strutt. “When do you want 1 themt- “ ’Tomorrow," Casson replied. 1 “Come and dine with me tomor* 1 row evening and* bring them along. I’M have the rest of the ; case tied up by then. . . - “We can’t act before tomor* 1 row?” “No. We have no evidence. It 1 may be the wrong man. You’d ‘ hate that* . "Yea. But Pd hate more to 1 lose Mm, the rat Who is he?” •Til tell you tomorrow. Come along at six-thirty.” 1 “You come here. Adeline would ’ like to see you again," "jLU right Six-thirty tomorrow. Ofie other thing. Will you bring along the report on the 1 Greenhaugh cue T"„ r "Sure." He rang off. Casson picked up Ms firm’s delivery van and drove it dowh to Montpelier Square. He parked 11 with its back tayyarps Perry abd watched him tn the drivingmirror. .. ■ •- vAt five o’clock Perry got to Mt feet, shut his sketch-book, took off Ms spbctaMes l to wipe hil face, but hurriedly replaced them, He sterted/WAlkjng towards th« van. Carton.scrambled tnto the back and lay on the duety floor, wedged up agairattebslde. ;; <M Mowtay,' the affy Gaaaraa antftM to forge a Wtm

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THE GROUP PICTURED ABOVE recently returned from St. Louis, Mo.. after visiting Purina research farm. This farm consists of 800 acres, where all kinds of livestock being led to obtain more efficient gains with the minimum in costs Included in the group are Kay mond Geimer, Franklin Fuelling and Lawrence Boerger from the Decatur area. In the past, many Adams county farmers have visited this research farm. _

Decatur Schools Commended For Aiding Student A letter to the faculty of Decatur high school was received recently from Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., of New York, who is sponsor of the Alfred P. Sloan national merit scholarship awarded last year to Ralph B. Thomas. In the letter, the New York man commended the Decatur schools Kir their part in assisting Thomas to his achievement as a national scholar. Thomas is a freshman at Wabash college this year. He was one of the top high school setdorr of the country who were awarded merit scholarships in the initial year of the project last year. Four Adams county seniors this year are among die 7,500 finalists competing for over 700 merit scholarships which are awarded by various corporations, organizations _and individuals. The finalists this year, who will take competitive exams Saturday, include Jay Gould and Theodore Schrock of Decatur high school, Lowell W. Beineke of Monmouth high school, and Thomas A. Lehman of Berne-French high school. National Tea Sales Reach New Record H. V. McNamara, president and chief executive officer of the National Tea company, today reported another new record high in annual sales reaching more than 617 million, for a gain of 42 million over the previous year and the 14th consecutive sales record for the company. At the end of 1956, the company reported 761 stores in operation compared with 744 stores operated at the close of 1955, It was also announced that 109 additional National Food Stores are under lease to be placed in operation in 1957 and 1958.

CHAPTER IS TIE passing feet never slackened their pace. Casson gave Perry three minutes to get out of sight, then took the van back to its garage and returned to Mount Street. I He changed back into his Bickersteth Street suit and wrote a note. This he gave to Mrs. Baker together with the canister of film. He told her to deliver it to the studio first thing next morning. He wanted it developed like the earlier films, and each print numbered with the date and numeral of its parent canister, and he wanted the whole lot by teatime the same day. It was a rush job, urgent In Bickersteth Street Casson had supper and sat down to write. He sat up till three in the morning, writing the history of the case in detail. The result pleased him. He did not wait for Perry the next morning but left the house after breakfast and went to Mount Street, taking the history with him. He changed into yet another suit, took a raincoat and umbrella, and drove to Knightsbridge. He parked well away from Montpelier Square. His purpose was to keep walking, passing the southern end of the Square at twenty-minute intervals M order to keep a regular check on Perry's presence. Perry was there, settled down to his sketching: and he remained in that position throughout the morning. Casson knocked off at lunchtime for half-an-hour, then resumed his patrol. Each time he passed, Perry was sheltering under a thorn tree, reading a newsCanon, realised that he was wasttng his time. Perry would not BtadVe in tofcßfte kill that day. Disgruntled, he vfent home to his flat. He had< bath, changed back /Into his old suit and Went Into the library to examine the finished photographs. Three of the pictures were no good. But two were excellent. One was of Perry dressed as Perry, the other of Perry dressed as Bagot In both the little man was standing outside the front door of his house and, because it was a coiner house, the name of the street; was low on the edge of the picture. Casson called Mrs. Baker into . the room. “You remember the'

Girl Scout News Troop 22 met after school Tuesday evening. We called the roll and took the dues. We then get our Girl Scout catalogues. We looked at them for while and then we went over our Girl Scout laws. Then we sang our good-bye song '“White Coral Bells.” and “Whene’re you Make a Promise,” and “Taps,” Scribe: Sherry Price Brownie troop 10 met at the Northwest school Monday afternoon. The meeting was opened with the Brownie promise and Brownie song. We had roll call and dues were collected. We then had an election of officers. Diana Bentz was elected our new president, Michelle Jones, treasurer and Darlene Burkhart, bcribe. We then played games and closed with the magic tunnel. Scribe: Darlene Burkhart Girl Scout troop 21 met Monday after school. Roll was called and dues were collected. We had election of officers as follows: president, Kathleen Smith; secretary and treasurer, Cynthia Collier; scribe, Colleen Kelly. We discussed the recent peanut sale and our profit. We congratulated Joyce Daniels and Nancy Gephart, who sold the most cans. Pamela Lister and Cynthia Carvens brought the treat Scribe: Colleen Kelly Brownie troop 8 met at the Lincoln school Tuesday. Attendance and dues were taken. We had election of officers. President is Jean Swickord; vice-president is Linda Sudduth; treasurer is Linda Geyer;'and secretary “and scribe is Judy Lenhart. After that we gave the pledge of allegiance to the flag. We sang our Brownie song “Whene're You Make a Promise.” We . started making Brownie note books. We closed with the Brownie promise.

man we watched in Montpelier Square?" She nodded. ”Do you recognize him here?” She looked at the photographs, discarded that of Perry in his ordinary clothes, hesitated over Perry dressed as Bagot. "I think this is him, Mr. Casson but 1 couldn’t quite swear to it in a Court of Law, sir." "Thank you, Mrs. Baker." When she had left the room he picked up a pencil from his desk and bent over the photograph of Perry dressed as Bagot He worked carefully, intently, for a quarter of an hour. Then he called her back. He gestured to the photograph which he had propped against a vase. "Try this one, Mrs. Baker. Not too near." She took one look. .. “That’s him, sir." Her voice was contented. She liked to see her Mr. Casson happy. He was happy. All he had done was faintly to pencil in heavier spectacles than the gold rimmed ones which Perry had worn when he had emerged from his house and been photographed. Casson scribbled a name and telephone number on a pad and threw it across to Mrs. Baker. “Ring this, would you, and tell Nevill to wait till I get there? I'll be ten minutes." He was out of the door, leaving it swinging behind him, and down the stairs three at a time, scorning the slowness of the lift. He almost ran up Carlos Place past the Connaught Hotel, along Adams Row, across Davies Street, and down Grosvenor Hill. He pushed open the door of the photographic studio and went straight through the waiting-room into the inner office. -£>■ “Nevill, I want you to do me an urgent job,” he said. The pale young man pushed back his chair. “Not again," he said. “I did one for you this morping. It’s too much. Really, it is ” “Never mind," said Casson. "You're the only man in town who can do it?. To some extent it was true. Nevill was a brilliant photographer. At Casson’s, words his expression softened. “Very well," he said. “What is tt?” Casson pushed the photograph over to him. — "Fake this," he said. “Re-touch it and re-take it so that the spectacles took real." Nevill regarded it distastefully. “When do you want it?”

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Brownie troop 23 met at the St. Josej* school Tuesday evening for our first session of 1957. We made charts for requirements expected of us before we become Girl Scouts. Carol Cook was accepted as a new member of our troop and we sang a new song and played charades. Our meeting closed with "Weave the magic." Scribe: Patti Parrish

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“Dawn tomorrow. Six copies. Whole-plate size. At my fiat." "Oh no. . . ." “Double overtime charges," said Casson, making for the door. “It’s a matter of someone's sanity. I know you won’t fail me." He dodged out of the studio and was half-way down the street before Nevill could protest. He rang Strutt from his flat and said he would be late. He collected two sets of the untouched photographs, the key of Montpelier Square Gardens which Nigel had sent round in an envelope, the written history of the Perry case, and set off for Fulham. Strutt lived in a spacious flat In Bishop’s Park Road. He greeted Casson with a twinkle in his piggy eyes. Adeline Strutt was forty and looked twenty-seven. Her heavy gold hair was untouched by gray, her eyes blue and calm. A pity, thought Casson, that she could not have had more children. But she had nearly died giving birth to their one son, Alan. Casson was a favorite of hers and she was so obviously glad to see him that he was touched. They had a vast meal, during which Casson relaxed. They discussed the future of Alan, whom Strutt hoped would, go to King’s School, Canterbury. “What’s he going to be?" Casson asked. “Don’t knoW. Too clever to be a copper." Adeline smiled in amused admiration of her husband. Casson agreed with her, having considerable respect for the intelligence of the Metropolitan Police. “Better let me make him a wine merchant,” Casson suggested. Adeline gave him a quick glance and began to clear away the red-and-white patterned plates. “You men will want to gossip," she said “I’ll call you later when I’ve made the tea." Casson shuddered. “Come along," said Strutt, grabbing his arm.' "We’ll go into the den,” The den was a long slot off the dining room. It was Uttered with cricket bats, pads, bursting boxes of microscope slides, and piles of newspapers. Strutt sank into an ancient wickerwork arm-chair. “Now," he said. "Talk." Tomorrow: Casson faces • Lockyer with Perry’s photograph. j