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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11
CHAPTER TwENTY-EIGHT

CHAPTER TwENTY-EIGHT
Later, Theron and Doris found
Chief Of Detectives Plant question
ing Mamie as to every word Eleon-
ore had uttered before setting out
Doris broke in with, 81 think we
ought to tell you, officer, that she
was unlike herself last week after
Gran died"
"You think she's taken her life"
asked Plant "She hasn't; she was
too brave for that"
Plant went on with his question
ing until Theron suggested impa-
tiently, Don't you think We ought
TO 20, Chief"
But Plant continued going over
the ground, quizzing Mamie until
he finally looked at his watch, and
said, I'm ready to 20 now"
The two men went out and sat
in the chiefs car talking for time.
Finally they drove, not up, but down
the mountain road.
Doris 'phoned Major Tyrell. His
wife answered that he had had Q
call about Eleonore. and had gone
out an hour ago. He would take part
in the search.
Sukey, in long dressing gown and
padded slippers, joined Doris. She
couldn't sleep, she whimpered; she
had seen q man or a bear going
through the orchard, crawling on
all fours, then get up and walk
straight into the shadowsl
Dreaming, baby" Doris SOothed
her.
Mamie was reading her Bible and
praying in the kitchen.
The two sisters stood at the porch
railing, arms around each other.
Presently, Sukey said, just above q
whisper: Something moved there
over there" she pointed to the up
land where the trees thiekened.
Looked like an Indisnl"
Doris saw II too and whirled.
Lets go inside-quiek!"
The hours seemed endless until
Theron called. His voice had .
forced calm. "Get some rest dear.
They're doing all they can, but the
real search will start tomorrow"
"Sleep," Doris walled, "you ask
me to sleep when it's my sister I'm
I'm afraid We've seen things
Sukey and | saw something-mov-
ing"
You're surrounded by guards
perfectly safe! Please do as you're
asked" Her husband hung up.
The local telephone exchange had
never been so busy. Through all the
county the news few. A man would
be called from bed by the ringing
phone: "Eph," taut voice spoke,
"this 10 Ralph. Time to get in and
pitch. You knov-Minute Man
Concord stuff. Get your gun and
thirty-thirties. We're moving on
that Eazi nest tonight"
"You mean we're gonna wipe EN-,
autf-Goodl"
yep, meet me at the bridge
call Baynes n Colby"
A rap at the knocker would brins
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11

has been the Russian attitude a.
Moscow, Teheran, Yalta and Pots
dam. Il is the basis for the cur
rent attitude over Iran. The Unit
cd States. fearing no country, sup
ports the United Nations whole
heartedly; Soviet Russia. fearing
every nation. insists upon a strictly
isoiationist management OF her own
arrangements.
Copyright. 1916, for Ypsilanu
Daily ress)
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11
Your Health
Mistaken Idea
to Begin Toilet
Training Too Early
BY HERMAN BuNDEsEN. NJ. D

By HERMAN BUNDEsEN. n. I
WHEN II comes % baby's toilet
training, wise mothers will let
well enough alone. They will not
attempt training too early nor
insist on perfection.
All too many mothers, however,
regard the establishing Of regular
habits as . life-and-death matter.
Under the mistaken impression
that absolute cloek-like regular
ity Of elimination Is necessary to
health, they begin training early
and pursue it vigorously with the
result that they often have . re-
bellious and eonstipated baby to
deal with.
Distort Personality
Indeed, many specialists be-
lieve that these oVer-vigorous
training habits not only interfere
With normal bowel habits, but may
also permanently distort the
ehild's personality.
According TO DR.. Benjamin
Spock Of New York, II Is very i'm.
portant for mothers to learn the
right way Of going about this
training. II should never be
pressed TO the point where the
child rebels, q particular danger
during the second year Of life.
Rebellion means conflict and
conflict means emotional scars,
sometimes of lifelong duration.
Babies may rebel against the
training merely because having a
bowel movement is uncomfortable.
An infant who has had painful,
hard movements on frequent &C.
casions naturally breads the toilet
seat. Thus it is necessary to pre-
vent or cure constipation through
out the first two years Of life by
regulating the diet.
Another factor to be given con-
sideration is whether or not the in
FAINT naturally has bowel move
ments at a regular time. The baby
who always moves his bowels at
the same time each day is never .
training problem.
Three FOrPs
DR.. spoOk ppints/Out that the
resistance aga}nsr training may
take three forms: First, the baby
resists sitting on the toilet or even
going to the bathroom. In severe
cases, there may be violent RACES
and temper tantrums. In another
group Of cases, the baby may sit
on the toilet willingly but nothing
happens. The bowel movement oe-
ours Immediately after he gets up.
In a third variety the baby will
not have a bowel movement either
while on the toilet or afterwards.
He acquires constipation merely
because Of his. mental attitude.
The, retained bowel movement be-
comes hard within the bowel and
then is painful to eliminate. Then
the baby has two reasons for fail
ure TO have 4 bowel movement, the
hard stool and resistance to the
toilet seat.
In the process Of training, the
baby should be put oHs the toilet
casually and briefly, and only after
he can sit up well without help.
II the baby does not seem to CO.
operate, efforts should be relaxed
until weeks or months later.
Every child will gradually Ae-
quire control Of the bowel fune-
ton in the normal way II he 10
let alone to a great extent. Too
much persistence will do more
harm than good.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11

that the dress she had
worn was a shroud. Jack Godber-
son, an undertaken who was in
charge Of passing out the old.fash-
Toned garments for the paraders,
said he had made a mistake.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With More Conf!

With More Comfort
FASTEETH, a pleasant alkaline
(non-acid) powder. holds false
teeth more firmly. To eat and talk
in more comfort, just sprinkle a
little FASTEETH on your plates.
No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or
feeling. Checks plate odor" (den.
ture BREATH. Get FASTEETH at
any drug store. adv.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11
PACKING INDUSTRY

present conditions within the
packing industry which have grown
steadily worse since VI Day, are
approaching serious conditions.
"All during the war emergency
we believed in rigid price control
and operated our plants In strict
compliance with complicated gov
eminent regulations. Because OF
this, we were often short OF meat
products needed by war workers.
Then II was an about effort to
feed the armed forces and no one
complained.
Now. with that need eliminated,
but with government regulations
even more stringent, the black
market has gained control and We
are being forced to.curtail, drastic
ally, our production. The OPA ad-
mits 1t cannot control the situa-
ton.
"Our hog purchases have dropped
one-half. We should be using at
least 5000 each week. Now we
can legally buy only about 1900,
because We will not go into the
black market. We have been pro-
cessing between 600 and 700 cat
tie per week. Last week we could
buy only $50 cattle and stay within
the government regulations. II
conditions continue, We will be
completely out Of the beef busi-
ness.
I'VE are going 10 operate honest.
ly and within government regula-
lions even IL we have TO close our
plants. We can see no other solu-
ton for our industry except TO
eliminate price control as 1t applies
to meat and meat animals and TO
allow a free market to operate be-
tween the farmer, the producer Of
livestock and the meat packer.
HARLEY ID. PEET."
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11
Lively Parade

Gibbon, Nebr.-AP-Mrs. Milton
Backman was very much alive
when she took part in Gibbons
anniversary parade depicting the
arrival OF settlers in the SOS.
II was after the parade that she
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11

81 know" said Ted tersely. They
told me on the phone"
This was not a mob. II was an
aroused group Of vigilantes, out
ragged by treason and treachery In
their midst. The stern, intent faces,
the marching feet Of men, women
and boys, created q rhythm Of un-
ion, and Beulah lost herself In .
feeling Of oneness with them all.
At a certain point in the road
they were deployed through the
fields and woods 70 surround the
Jones house, keeping at . distance
patil the first rim Of the sun showed
Then they were all to move in Mt
one time. The password was Be
tdani"
Beulah and Ted moved through q
gray unreal world, found a fence
corner, where they waited. The
ground was too soggy to sit down;
the mosquitoes, voracious and vici-
GUS. They could see pine trees now
that were not visible q moment be-
fore, and Q mist, thicker in soma
places than others. The silvery light
became paler. Then rosy shafts
tipped November's cliffs; the dew
laden grass glittered with rainbow
colors.
"Nowl" murmured Ted.
They erept forward as all around
them were other tense figures NOV
ing In toward the grim mansion
whose roof they could now see. Beu-
Ian sprang over the stone fence Of
the grounds with As much agility
a. Ted.
Carlotta had risen early TO work
on some correspondence. Now she
could hear the servants padding
down the stairs. Waiting for her
early cup Of coffee, ordered for 5
a. m, she fingered the scrap Of
scrubbed paper which doc" had
filehed from Bill Steuben's desk last
night One more reading Of the
magic phrases To help her through
the heavy tasks Of the dayi She
read:
Because you cad you love ne, 7
seem standing in sunlight. :. What
color are your spesf A ssareh
through cems and fotoers provides
NO SMILES for that keart-stealins
biHsi Nor arc there tpords 10 de-
scribe your courage. Melancholy
moods when I think Of your danger,
dreoms Of . hoppy rsunion-thsss
are The emotions that FL ma. IL %
bond that zoe cork ~ the so~ss
cause"
He had broken of there.
I Carlotta pressed the paper To her
lips. This was what Bill felt In
wardly toward ksri The beauty Of
It was that he had never expected
her TO see these self-revealing lines
doc, IN his shopping, had found
them under . pile Of drawings.
Smiling, she slipped the letter int
her bosom.
Ito be eontinusdl
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11

INTERNATIONALLY House
Military Subcommittee recommend
ed legislation wednesday to give a
$500 yearly pay raise TO all mem
bers of the armed forces.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-11
Hall Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

Gerald Schultz has broken ground a College
Heights
A. awarded the prize for the quanest
t-e Teacher with her old
fashioned wool dress with hat, mitts and shawl
Alexander NJ Valerie distinguished Ypsianti
reputation landscape paintings
is leaving to spend in France and Italy.
George age IS. Angeles Cal, formerly
Of this city
Fifty Years Ago
ST. crowded hear solo by Cyril r.
Tyler. the talented singer The solo magnienty
rendered.
Reports the following members
Of the Normal faculty will decline reelection
Prot II. w. Miller, Miss Lois Mcmahon, Miss
Miss Maude Z. Camel.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28
CONSERVATION NOTES

Last week forty-seven farm ponds
in Holmes county were stocked with
more than $1,000 speckled and blue
gill Dream, furnished farmers by the
U. S. Department of the Interior
Hatcheries. Distribution of the fAh
was under the supervision of the
Holmes County Soil Conservation
District which has sponsored the
building of farm ponds and had plac-
ed orders for these fish more than a
year ago. A shipment of bass to COM
plete the stocking of these ponds is
to arrive in April.
Farmers in this vicinity have ex-
pressed doubt as TO the advisability
of applying fertilizer concentrates to
stock ponds to promote the growth
of fish foods. However, local expert
ments have proven that properly fer
tilted ponds produce more than
twice the pounds Of fish as unfertil-
ized ponds. Also fish in fertilized
water are healthier and show a
much more vigorous growth than
those in improperly fertilized ponds
and according to some farmers who
know, these fish just naturally taste
better when they grow off fast.
In recent years Holmes county
farmers have taken an added inter-
est in growing fish for farm food,
and number Of stock ponds now
supply the family with all the fish
they can eat.
]. r. Killebrew and S. D. Hall Of
Goodman are more than pleased
with their success at raising fish.
Their ponds were constructed only
two years ago but already they are
supplying their families and friends
with nice catches of Dream and bass.
Those two ponds were stocked on
April Is, 1945 with 1000 Dream and
100 bass per acre. Shortly after
stocking 100 pounds Of 4-8-6 and 10
pounds Of nitrate Of soda per acre
were applied with subsequent apph-
cations being made during the year.
These fertilizers stimulated the
growth of plant life in the water and
thereby provided a more abundant
supply of fish.
Last week they were catching bass
from these ponds weighing as much
as two pounds and Dream weighing
ten to twelve ounces. These farmers
win readily tell you that this pro-.
gram OF obtaining fish for food and
fun from farm ponds IS well worth
considering.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28

abeth Glover spent last weekend in
Meridian, guests of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
E. Cranberry. Mrs. Billingsley left
Saturday for Washington, d. c., aft
er three weeks visit in Lexington.
The many friends of Mrs. w. H.
Wallace are glad to know she has
resumed her duties at the Lexing-
ton Lumber Co., after an illness Of
some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Greer, Jr.,
returned Friday from months visit
with her sister, Mrs. M. c. Frazer
and family in Columbia, S. c. They
spent the weekend here with her
parents, DR.. and Mrs. A. M. Doty,
who accompanied them Monday to
Jackson for the day with Mr. and
Mrs. N. v. Doty. They will visit Mr..
Greer's parents in Summit this
week.
w. P Hammett, Jr., was home
from Newton to spend the weekend.
He and his brother Curtis Hammett,
opened a ladies furnishing store in
Newton Saturday which is reported
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28
LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. j. F. Williams spent several
days in Gulfport this week.
Mr.. T. M. Williams was busi-
ness visitor in Memphis this week.
Miss Marie Drake and Mr.. Carl
Drake were business visitors in
Lexington Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Leard, Dur
ant, visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. r. Hammett Tuesday.
Miss Betty Brook, Belzoni, was a
weekend guest of Mrs. Watt Mccain.
Friends Of Mr.. J. H. Harthcock,
of Horseshoe at Tchula, will be in
terested to know he celebrated his
roth birthday Sunday and was guest
of honor at family reunion at this
time.
Mrs. Edward D. Heath, the former
Doris Henry, spent the weekend
with Captain Heath at the Hotel
Peabody.
Mrs. c. A. Glover. Mrs. Joseph "A.
Billingsley, Jr., and Miss Mary Eliz-
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28
Tax Reduction Is Very Unpopulo

Tax Reduction II Very Unpopular
lin Jackson anyway. No one has
mentioned it so far. The tremendous
amounts for us appropriated,
seem for the most part to have been
spent for worthwhile purposes.
Twenty-six million dollars is for
homecoming items such as replace
ment of the tumble-down schools for
the blind and for the deaf at cost
of three million dollars. Veterans
bills call for seven million dollars,
some of which will come back in re-
paid loans. County highways get ten
million dollars. Support and main
tenance funds will amount to sixty
seven million dollars plus which will
recur at each session of the legisla-
tunre. A hundred million dollars is
a lot Of money for Mississippi to
to spend but we may reflect that
this legislature is about as good as
we can hope for and congratulate
them that they have held appropria-
tions within--or thereabouts-pros-
pective receipts. Two years ago this
legislature created sinking fund
that takes care of our entire debt by
using for that purpose such part Of
the surplus as was needed. Now the
state has no full faith and credit
bonds" except those for the pay
ment Of which the money is already
set aside.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28

The Fire Arms Registration Act
is now law. If one tried to argue
against it he was met with "The gov
ernor favors it." and his influence
was ample to secure its passage.
However, it was modified to be
much less Objectionable than as orig
inally sped through the Senate. Pis-
tolls and high-power rifles only have
to be registered. None Of us have
sub-machine guns which are also in
cluded). The 1000 foot muzzle We
locity provision will include the 80
3Os, and such, but will omit our old
".38 Winchesters" and the ..2s. Shot
guns need not be registered. Keep
in mind as you consider the new
legislators that the next session will
be asked to tighten up much more.
Probably pay to register and trans
fer guns; be taxed on them; later
prohibited from having them. Ask
the iust-home boys about what hap
pened to the Belgians and the Dutch,
the French, all disarmed by just
such a law. Now let all the law
abiding people register their arms.
OF course all the evil influences will
register theirs too, and that, Of
course is what the law is for--a'
least to the big boys in Washington
who tell our officers what to think
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28
Purple wistsria oil over town Is at

Purple WistsriG oil over town Il a
its best and its best is something to
marvel at Here is what Major Sui
lens, editor Of the Daily News, mas
ter writer, says about 1t in Jackson.
It would be hard to write of it with
greater sympathy:
Wonderful wisteria is now
weaving its witchery on walls,
trellises, trees and fences through
out Jackson. 1t is the sweetest,
softest and most graceful creation
Of the floral kingdom deli
cate, exquisite, God-blessed burst
Of pale purple plumes, thick-clus-
tered grape-bunches Of sheer
beauty, and they affected person
precisely like falling in love for
the first time. .Hurrah for wisteria!
There must be lot Of goodness in
this old world, otherwise the
blooming of wisteria would not be
possible.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28
Current Comment
BY Henry Willis

Lots Of Banlshirs Roses ore here
about. For the most part their mod
est beauty is concealed but they are
10 less desirable in the flower yards.
The McLeans' have a beautiful
showing of the miniature yellow
roses along the east side of their
home. So have the Kimbroughs.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28

The greatest scientific research
OF its kind in the world is located
lust west of jackson. It is a 220-
acre miniature of the Mississippi
River watershed from Southern
New York and the Allegheny foot
hills to the Rockies and down to
New Orleans. It is designed to study
flood control and conservation.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28

Wild Yellow Jessomine. climbing.
is in full bloom along the creek
road. That's the only name / have
heard it called. Hope it's the right
enc. You remember how it filled the
trees along the highway in Big
Black swamp beyond Pickens on the
old gravel road.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28

( be doing a fine business. Their
many friends will be interested to
know this and wish them success.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ellis and
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28

children, Billy and Sarabeth, spent
Sunday in Brooksville where they
attended reunion of Mrs. Ellis
family.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28

The Total Of Insurance Business
lother than life) for United States
in 1914 was nearly three and fifth
billion dollars. OF that, A per cent
was fire, and SO per cent was casu-
atty (accidents, etc). So tremendous
are the casualty losses in time and
lives and therefore money that the
better casualty companies maintain
safety engineering departments and
trained safety engineers are con-
stantly at work to reduce, If possible,
the hazards and thereby reduce pre-
rnium rates. Everyone knows that a
large volume Of sales at q lower
rate is more profitable than a small
er volume at high rate. While the
better companies maintain such SER
vice at high cost to themselves, a
number of pirate companies obtain
reports of the results in devious
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28
rsE LEXINGTON ADVERTISER LEXINGTON. MISSISSIPPI

ways, thus save" the expense, then
advertise '1ower rates" Insurance
with some of the sure" left out.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-03-28

The Psoxl Hmbor Committee Of
Investigation has heard all the testi-
m0ny-8, ,000,0 900 words Of it tram
scribed--and retired to write their
reports. A less revealing, more con-
1using investigation" would be
hard to conduct. There was feeling
that il hid more than it exposed. One
conclusion the layman may indulge:
the Japs slipped up on our respon-
sible men in way that suggests
negligence on somebody's part. and
il must have been high placed
somebody to be able to keep the er-
rOr hid.
Evening star., 1946-09-09

president, William Green, as over.
come by senility.'
He said the drive for funds for the
CIO Political Action Committee was
falling short of its goal, adding we
need between S350.000 and $40O, ,0OC
to elect a decent Congress"
Would Widen Portal Pay.
Mr.. Murray also declared that fu-
ture CIO demands would include
'portal-to-portal" pay for all indus
try, Under this proposal, workers
would be paid fer tine spent In
eaching work locations after arriv-
ing on company property.
The CIO intends to find out why
the portal-to-portal pay provisions
in the sections of the Fair Labor
Stadnards Act, which have Ions
benefited the miners. have not been
made applicable to other wage earn
ers,' Mr. Murray said.
An 11-member Steelworkers' con-
tract committee was elected by the
l 500 delegates at the conference
David j. Mcdonald, Steelworkers
international secretary, said new
contract demands would include a
guaranteed annual wage.
Evening star., 1946-09-09
D. {. Thefts Net $3.50;
Suspect Is Trapped
lin Camera Center

A silent" burglar alarm. which
rings only at police headquarters
trapped one man inside the Parker
Whelan Camera Shop. 1927 Four
iteenth street NV early yesterday
and police charged him with house
breaking. He was booked as Melvin
T. Salter. so, of the 1900 block of E
street NV, and released in $500
bail for appearance in Municipal
Court today.
Robberies over the week END
yielded $3.50 in loot, police said.
Miss Mary Jane Huskins, "a. OF
the 4400 block of Alton place NV.
reported man wearing a Marine
uniform threw her to the ground in
the 400 block of Yuma street NV
and took her purse containing Sl4
Clarence Thomas, colored, 45 OF
56l4 Blaine street NE. taxicat
driver, reported An armed colored
passenger jammed a pistol in his
back and demanded that the cab
driver throw his money on the
ground at First and D streets Sc
Mr.. Thomas said he threw down So
which the holdup man took.
Navy 1t. Frank De Augustine
1900 block of F street NV. reported
more than $400 was stolen from his
billfold in his trousers as he slept
early yesterday.
A sneak-thief entered the apart
ment of Edna Higgins at 49 I street
NV. early today and took s272 from
a bedroom bureau. The woman
told police she awoke Just as the
thief left the room.
William H. Scott, 1915 Thirteenth
street NV. said radio. iewelry
Evening star., 1946-09-09

Paraguay will have q big cotton
crop and growers will get double
the price Of 4 year ago