Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1959 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Pubfiihed Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATOR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Mtared at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr. President John G. Heller-Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rases: By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 98.00; Six moa.ths, 84.25; 3 months, 82.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 900; • months, 84.75; 3 month-. 82.50. By Carrier, 30c cents oer week. Single copies, 6 cents. Decatur’s Growth Many times during the year, especially when an old and established firm goes out of business, we pessimistically think to ourselves that Decatur has stagnated. While every effort should continue to be made to keep this from happening, the recently released assessment figures do not indicate that "stagnation” has been a problem during the past year. Decatur’s assessed valuation increased from sll,282,850 to $11,928,600. The nearby city of Bluffton also grew—from $6,537,310 to $6,840,800, a gain of $303,490. Decatur’s gain of $645,750, representing two-thirds of the county’s gain, is more than twice Bluffton’s. Bluffton has only about 60% of the assessed valuation that Decatur has, and Decatur is still outstripping it in growth. Only 30 or 40 years ago the Wells county city was larger than Decatur—before Decatur became the center of industry which it now is. Bluffton began attracting factories in the late 1940’5. Columbia City, in nearby Whitley county, has a total valuation this year of $6,610,150 as compared with $6,580,330 last year, an increase of only $29,820. How many people realize that in the fourth congressional district, Decatur is second only to Fort Wayne in population? Even though it is smaller in size, Bluffton has a higher tax rate than Decatur, another thing for which Decatur citizens should be quite happy. While our rate seems high, perhaps, when compared with rates in the past, it is quite low when compared with other city rates in Indiana, and even lower when the services given are considered. For Decatur operates an efficient city street department, a fine water department, the most modern sewage system, including disposal and garbage disposal, in the state, and an excellent youth and community center, operated for the good of the community. It has a more extensive park system than most people realize. So, we who live in Decatur have much to be thankful for. Sure, taxes are a little higher, but not as much higher as in other cities, and we do have something to show for it in most departments. We should all be proud of what our city, through the efforts of the city administration, the Chamber of Commerce, service clubs, and private citizens, has accomplished. But now is not the time to sit back, and relax. We continue to grow and expand, in size, in thought, and in community pride and industribusness. Let’s each of us pledge to use our spare time to make Decatur a better place in which to live during the coming year!

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American Financier Is Held In Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO (UPD— Brazilian authorities, acting on the request of the FBI, today held American financier Lowell M. Birrell who is wanted in the United States to stand trial for a 14 million dollar stock swindle. Birrell, 52, a native of Whiteland, Ind., was arrested in the exclusive Copacabana section of this city Thursday, climaxing a search for him that lasted nearly two years and covered a number of countries. Police, acting under a direct order from Justice Minister Cirilo Junior, held the American incommunicado, and refused to give out any information about the case. In New York a grand jury has indicted him on 69 counts of grand larceny. Birrell dropped out of sight in November, 1957, after being summoned to appear in a federal court on a charge of violating regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. New York City District Attorney Frank S. Hogan revealed Thursday that Birrell had been found in Rio de Janeiro living under the name “Lowell McAfee.” He arrived in the Brazilian capital early this week, probably from Paris. Brazil has no extradition agreement with the United States, and the U.S. State Department was asked to help work out some arrangement for bringing Birrell back to this country. Birrell was accused of a series of fraudulent stock manipulations in his capacity as an officer of two New York corporations and the Pennsylvania subsidiary of one of them. He allegedly defrauded stockholders of the Swan-Finch Oil Corp, and Doeskin Products Inc. of seven million dollars each. Find Plastic Glue To Repair Bones WASHINGTON (UPD — The Army says it has an experimental plastic glue designed to repair broken bones and gets a patient on his feet in two days. The substance could prove vitally important to ground forces because 60 per cent of combat casualties are bone fractures, the Army said. The plastic, a polyurethane polymer, is a foam which can bind broken bones together until bone cells grow through the substance. Natural bone eventually would ro place the plastic.

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED The piepaiations ut Dean Crockett (1 millionaire explorer tor a party in nis penthouse included Hiring Berttia Cool ot the Cool & Lam Detective Agency to keep out gate crasners and sneak thieves. He believed a woman was the gate crasher who got away from a previous Harty with one of his valuable relics. Crockett's press agent. Melvin Otis Olney, tippea oft newspapers about the precautions against gate crashers and then had reason to regret it. For somehow an intruder got past tug Bertha and an X-ray protective device with a lade Buddha and a pygmy blowgun treasured oy Crockett. Bertha, furious over her apparent lapse, summoned her bantam-weight partner, Donald Lam. while Crockett Insisted that his stolen curios be recovered without police Involvement Following a hunch. Donald visited , the offices of the International Goodwill Club the sponsor of Crockett’s recent expedition to Borneo. There. In the staff of a club flag. Donald found the missing blowgun. Then visiting the studio of Lionel Palmer, a photographer who was at the party, he found the jade Buddha secreted in the back of a camera Donald is telling the story. . . , CHAPTER 9 I WALKED into my office, nod- • ded to my secretary, Elsie Brand, and went over to my tloset. 1 opened it and took out the blowgun. "Would you mind telling me what that is 7" Elsie asked. “I went in there to hang up my eoat and—that’s the darnedestlooking thing 1 ever saw.” "That,” 1 said, “Is the nucleus of a juicy little fee.... Is Bertha in?” “She’s in.” “Alone ?” *1 think so. Want me to ring ?” “It’s all right," 1 told her. ’Til go on In." 1 took the blowgun and walked into Bertha’s office. Bertha was pouring words into a dictating machine; her voice high-pitched uid metallic. She looked up tn annoyance, shut off the dictating machine, said, "When 1 want you, 1 can’t ever find you. But when I’m right in the middle of an important letter you—Donald, what the devil is ttart?" "That," I said, "is the missing blowgun.” 1 reached in my pocket and took out the jade Buddha. “This,” I said, “is the missing jade Budiha. "Since you’ve had the personal tontact with Dean Crockett the Second, it might be a good plan tor you to return the loot.” Bertha looked at me with her double chin resting on her Adam’s apple; her little piggish eyes were big and wide for once. "What!" she said. 1 stood the blowgun in the corner, brushed a little imaginary lint off my coat sleeve, said, -Well, I’ll be getting along. . . ." "Come back here, you so-and-so!*’ Bertha Cool screamed at me. 1 stopped and looked over my shoulder in surorise

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■ —o 20 Years Ago Today July 24, 1939—Ernest Kleinberg, photographer and special writer for the New York Post, is visiting in Decatur during a tour to obtain material for an article on “The Heart of America.” Mrs. F. G. Allwein and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Allwein have returned home from a weekend visit in Shelby, O. Miss Marjorie Dunn, former Decatur girl, recently appeared in recitals in Miami, Fla., where she is a teacher at the University of Miami and director of St. Stephen's Episcopal church choir. Six college students were killed in an avalanche wrfile on a mountain climbing expedition in the state of Washington. o— o Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE | o ■ o Q. After being away from town for several months, I returned home some time ago and now my friends seem to resent the fact that I didn’t call them. Isn’t it their position to call me and welcome me back?

“Someuung else?" 1 asked. "Something else. Where did you get those things?” “From the people that had stolen them.” Bertha Cool's diamonds flashed In a scintillating arc as she pointed a finger at a chair and said, “You park right there in that chair and tell me what this is al) about.” It isn’t often you can take Bertha like that. It made me feel good. 1 sat down and lit a cigarette while Bertha’s glittering eyes were fastened on me, getting more angry by the minute. "Any old time.” Bertha said. “I’ve got all the rest of the afternoon —what there is of it.” "Well," 1 said, "you were standing by Crockett’s elevator watching people as they went in, watching people as they went out. The blowgun was over five feet long. You’d have to be pretty dumb to let somebody walk by you carrying a five-foot blowgun." “You mean It hadn’t been taken out at all?” she asked. "No," 1 said, "it was taken out. It must have been taken out. The place was searched and there wasn’t any blowgun. It either was taken out or thrown off the roof. And there was no indication it had been thrown off the roof.” "Go ahead,” Bertha said. "So," 1 told her, "it was only necessary to look around for something that could be taken out ot the place without exciting attention, something that would hold a blowgun over five feet 1 long. Once you started thinking i along those lines, it wasn’t at all difficult" "Where was it?” "In the pole of that club flag : that the secretary took out" i “Then As stole it?" "1 don’t think so." "He's the one who took it out” "Sure, he’s the one who took it ; out," 1 said, “but I doubt if he knew the blowgun was in there.” I "Why?" "Well, in the first place," I ■ said, "the job had to be carefully engineered. The poles on those I flags are made so they can be i driven deep into hard ground, i They're made of sturdy wood. Now, somebody who knew the * exact dimensions of this blowgun ' had to take that club flag and i bore a hole in the pole, or have . a hole bored in the pole. You can’t do that just on the spur of ■ the moment. In the first place, it r is • delicate job and a high pre- , clsion Job- And tn the next place, ’ it would leave shavings, sawdust ■ and litter." “You mean it was done outr side of the penthouse?” “Done outside of the penthouse

A. I should think it would be more reasonable for you to call your friends and let them know that you have returned. Q. There’s a shower to be given soon for my fiancee. Am I supposed to give her a corsage to wear on that occasion? A. In some communities this is customary, and in others it isn’t. Personally, I think it is unnecessary. Q. What is considered the best time to make a chance call? A. Sunday afternoon or evening are considered the most popular times for this type of visit. O o Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE O O Hot Cakes The unpleasant smoke that sometimes arises when cooking hot cakes can be avoided by tying some salt in a bag and rubbing the griddle with this instead of greasing it. It is quite satisfactory. Faded Awnings The faded stripes on awnings are often effectively renewed by painting with ordinary house paints, which also helps preserve the awning.

I well in advance and cut to very ’Careful measurements.” “I’ll be a dirty name,” Bertha ' said "Fry me tor an oyster. . . . | Who do you think planned the whole thing?” 1 shrugged my shoulders. “We were paid to get the loot back.” "How about this Buddha?" Bertha asked. "The Buddha was simple.” “Yeah, 1 know,” Bertha said, with grudging, unwilling admiration in her voice. “You lust got a list of the guests, walked to the guest who had taken the thing and said, ‘Give it back,’ and that's all there was to it" "Actually," 1 said, “it was even simpler than that" “What do you mean?" "We knew," 1 said, "that the inside of the private elevator going to the penthouse was equipped with X rays just like those booths you stand in before you go into some of the state prisons. Whenever anyone left the penthouse apartment he was standing right in front of an X-ray machine for a few seconds; tong enough for the watcher with a fluoroscope on the back of the elevator to get a complete inventory. "You knew that, I knew it, and, presumably, the person who was going to take the jade Buddha knew it—but no jade Buddha showed up in the X-ray machine. Therefore, it didn’t go down in the elevator —at least in ths ordinary manner.” “What do you mean, in the ordinary manner?" “I mean the person who went down with that idol wasn’t Xrayed." ‘ "Why not?" “Because he was one person who couldn’t be X-rayed. Thera must have been an arrangement to shut off the X ray when this one person wait down. I could think of only one person wha would have had that arrangement." “Who?” "The photographer. He was carrying cameras and films in and out. An X ray would have fogged the films. Since the pictures of the banquet shindig weren’t fogged, it’s a cinch the photographic equipment wasn't X-rayed—either in or out.” Bertha blinked her eyes, adjusting to that. "And the photographer had it?" "It was concealed in his equipment. Well put it that way.” "What did he say when you got it?” “He doesn’t know I have ft. I stole it from him.” “Fry me for an oyster!” Bertha said. I 1 got up and walked out. I (Continued Tomorrow) ~

Daily Democrat And Erie Tour Is Two Weeks Away

Two weeks from today, August 7, at 1:34 p. m., the Decatur Daily Democrat-Erie Railroad weekend tour to New York City will begin. The tour will arrive in Manhattan Saturday, August 8 and is scheduled to begin a 100-mile tour for that day, up the Hudson River to the U. S. Military Academy, where there will be an hour and a half complete tour. Returning to New York City along the west side of the Hudson by bus, and going through the Lincoln tunnel, the tour will leave Saturday evening open, so that individuals can do what they would like to on their own. Sunday in New York City begins with the morning open for the tour guests to go to the church of their choice. In the afternoon, beginning about 2 o’clock, there win be a guided sightseeing tour of downtown New York. Sights that one hears about but perhaps never would see otherwise are included in this tour: Times Square, the Empire State Building, the Little Church around the Corner, Metropolitan opera house, Greenwich Village,. Washington square, Herald square, the Brooklyn bridge, the Fulton fish market, Chinatown, Wall Street stock exchange, Ellis Island, where the Statue of Liberty stands, and the United Nations. Stop at UN Headquarters In the United Nations headquar-! ters the U. N. bookshop, postal | counter, gift center, souvenir shop! and coffee shop in the public lounge are an interest to visitors. Here sessions of the general assembly, the economics and social! council, the trusteeship council, ■ and periodic meetings of the secur-' ity council and various commis- i sions and ’committees are held.. The skyscraper is headquarters| for the secretariat of the U. N., I where all the bookwork for the organization is handled. The skyscraper is built of glass, marble, ; steel and aluminum, and towers | above the conference building and general assembly building. After the tour, the motor coaches will return to the Hotel Governor Clinton, where the visitors will check out about 7 p. m. Leaving New York at 8:15 p. m. Sunday, the tour arrives in Decatur, Monday, August 10. The cost of the tout is $52.25 for adults and $35.25 for children five and under 12 sears. Reservations are taken on a first-come, first I served basis. To make a reservation, fill out|

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downtown New York with stop for a visit at the Empire State observatory and the United Nations headquarters. Happy Hustlers The Washington Happy Hustlers had their last meeting, a swimming party, Tuesday at Arvilla and Janet Smith’s home. Gyneth Schnepp was in charge of the meeting, and Kay Singleton and Sandy Strickler led the pledges. Rose Schlickman gave a demonstration on making yeast rolls of different 1 shapes. Marilyn Stuckey gave the health and safety report, and the members answered roll call by naming a favorite song. The group also made’ final preparations for the 4-H fair. Sedbuston Twenty-six members and two leaders were at Tuesday’s meeting of the St. Mary's township Sodbusters 4-H club, with Dean King in charge. Paul Rich and David Rash led the pledges, and the group discussed the state fair arrangements. The club will leave the school at 6 a.m. and start home at 4 p.m. on the day they attend.