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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-09-24

evading, no escaping his grim pursuit.
On the third floor of the block of fats,
David left the elevator and paused to take
his breath. Would he open his front door
only to run into the blast of pistol, or the
flash of long knife? No matter. He had
to 60 in. He wanted his passport. his money,
and, above all, his pistol. With the auto
matte in his pocket, he would be match
for Jenkins
He held his breath and pushed his key
gently into the lock. Silence. He threw the
door open and darted inside, crouching,
silhouetting himself as briefly as possible
against the light. No pistol shot, no knife
blade. His arm swept upward, brushing the
light switch and he turned it on. Nothing
He slammed the front door shut and pushed
home the bolt at the top. Then he thumbed
down the latch on the lock.
WALKING like boxer, on balance and as
wary as prowling cat, David approached
the bedroom door. Kicked it open. Switched
on the light. Empty. He rushed across the
room and jerked open drawer, thrusting
his hand among his ties, searching for the
feel of his automatic pistol. 1t was not
there! Not there!
He leaped across the room to the desk by
the window. Gone! His passport and money
had disappeared! He swung round so that
he was facing the door.
There was heavy brass doorstep beside
the door. He bent and picked it up. Then
he went into the hall and kicked open the
sitting room door, Then the bathroom Then
the kitchen. Finally the closet where he
kept his clothes. There was nobody. He
made round of all the windows, shutting
them and slipping the catches.
When he had sealed the fiat against intru-
sion. David sat down on bench in the
hall. A sense of danger still obsessed him.
Yet surely he was safe until morning -
until he went out once again to face Jenkins?
With an effort he controlled his nerves and
went into the kitchen. The thought of coffee
tempted him black coffee to keep him
awake. He glanced at the gas range :.
SAMUEL DEAKlN made huge gray blur on
the park seat. He was prepared to wait all
night There was little fun in setting BOBBY
trap if you didn't stay to watch it blow -
might as well play joke and run away be-
fore you had chance to laugh. He settled
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"GO HOME, DEAD MANI"
Continued trons page seven

which had strange pagan nobility of its
own. A soft, lifting African voice, seeming
to come from nowhere, reached Middleton's
ears.
Go home, dead man, it said. 60 home"
DAVID hurried down the Strand. It was
four o'clock in the afternoon. The sun was
still hot, and perspiration shone on his brow.
He fought the temptation to glance back.
The meeting in the cinema had unnerved
him. He knew Jenkins; had often chatted
with him. A hired thug would not have been
50 menacing. but he suspected that Jenkins
worked for Hartman out of loyalty. and
conviction. Fear arrived to replace unease
in David's consciousness. Got to lose Jen-
kins. he told himself Must lose Jenkins.
Then 60 back to the fiat.
He spotted taxi and lodged through the
traffic toward it. Hampstead, driverr'
He waited, holding his breath. Behind
them. the black car appeared. Was he go
ing to die for his bravado in challenging
Hartman?
The lights changed and the taxi crawled
forward. Nearly into Trafalgar Square -
nearly room to overtake. David wanted to
lean forward and blare the horn = blare,
blare, blare! Get out of the way, you fools!
Get out of the way for PHYS sake!
Faster, he said to the driver. For Gods
sake get move on!'
HE sun had gone down and the light was
failing when David Middleton's taxi drew
up outside the block of fats in Kensington
Road. He thrust money into the drivers
hand and ran across the pavement. As he
ran, he half expected to feel bullet tear into
his back. Why else was Jenkins following
him, if not to execute him?
After leaving the cinema, he had driven
all the way to Hampstead, persuading the
driver to twist and turn like a terrified rab-
bit on the way. He left the taxi in Hamp-
stead and dived straight into the Under
ground-out of the Underground at Warren
Street and along to Baker Street on bus -
then long, tortuous walk to Marble Arch
finally this last taxi home.
And all the time he had not been able to
escape the feeling that his efforts were futile.
jenkins worked by instinct. He had prob
ably lost the car, but he would still be behind
him. Jenkins was Nemesis - death persona
fed "a young man with relentless quality
as deadly as a leopard's. There was no
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Basic Loan Rate For Madison
County Wheat $2.13 Bushe|

A basic loan rate for 1950-crop
wheat produced in Madison Coun-
y of $2.13 per bushel was an
lounced today by the Production
md Marketing Administration
County Committee. The basic rate
applies to wheat grading u. S. No
|. Last years rate was $2.08 per
bushel.
Wheat produced on farms, co.
operating in the 1850 wheat acre.
age allotment program, grading
No. 3 or better, or No. 4 or No. 5,
because of test weight only, will
be eligible for Commodity Credit
Corporation loan or Purchase
Agreement.
To be eligible for loan, wheat
must be placed in approved stor-
age either on the farm, or in a
commercial warehouse or elevator.
Storage allowances will be con-
tiEued for 1850 crop wheat on the
same general basis as last year
Loans and purchase agreements
will be available from CCC
through the local PIMA Office, in
accordance with the program. pro-
visions from time of harvest thro-
ugh January 1851. They will mat
ure on April 80. 1851, or earlier,
on demand.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Superintendent
For Plain City
Sclools Hired

Robert Fox of Huron county,
has been hired as superintendent
Of the Plain City schools, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of C. S. Hammond, accord
ing to Madison County Superin-
tendent w. c. Smith.
Mr.. Fox comes from the North
Fairfield schools in Huron county
He is a graduate Of Michigan Uni
versity and received his masters
degree at Western Reserve Uni
versity, Cleveland.
He taught school in Huron
county and Lakewood, before
going to North Fairfield.
Mr.. Fox Is married and has two
children. He will begin his duties
in Plain City at once.
G. S. Hammond, who has been
superintendent of the Plain City
schools for three years, has ac-
cepted position as head Of the
Springfield Township schools in
Summit county.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Improvement OF
County Road Is
Slated For Bid

Bids will be opened by the State
Highway Department on July IL
for the Improvement of approx
imately nine t9) miles of County
Road No. 4 and State Route Sc
about three miles east of London
and extends eastwardedly through
Big Plain to the PickaWay County
line.
Octave Ammon, Deputy Dir
ector, Division Six said that Ii a
contract is awarded, it Is hoped
to complete the resurfacing not
later than Sept. 30th. County and
Federal government are sharing
the expense of the improvement
with the State acting as a con-
tracing and supervising agency of
the Federal Bureau of Public
Roads.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
District Dems
To Meet july Ii

The Democratic county chair
men, secretaries, office holders
and other leaders from the nine
counties in the seventh Congress-
ional district, have been invited
to dinner meeting at the Shaw
nee Hotel, in Springfield. July
IA, to plan "a sweeping Democrat
ic victory" in the November ele-
ction. in the Congressional dis
trict, according to Reed NJ. Wine
gardner. Democratic state central
committeeman and Washington c.
H., attorney.
I'VE are planning" said Wine
gardner" to put up a strong fight
for the election of Ben j. Cold
man, attorney. Springfield. as
congressman from the seventh
district and also to do everything
i'm our power to see that Joseph T.
Ferguson, state auditor, is elected
as United States senator from
Ohio"
County leaders invited to attend
the meeting are from Clark, Clin-
ton, Champaign. Fayette. Logan.
Greene, Madison. Union and War
rem Counties.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07

combining Thursday.
Predictions this year were for
a good crop, without much pro-
spect for bumper yield. 8s.
Reports of wheat rust are cur
rent but observers claim that the
rust arrived late and failed to do as
much damage as it would or
dinarily.
Some dampness may be expected
In the early loads. Meanwhile
wheat growers throughout Ohio
have been warned that they ha I
better begin producing better
wheat or they might have diff
flculty in selling their grain to
millers.
Extension leaders throughout
the state said low grade and poor
quality wheat has been very COM
mon in the Ohio crop the past two
or three years.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Seeks S3S,6Oo In
Route 40 Mishap

Lewis Gilbert, 2205 Richland
avenue, Lakewood, has filed suit
in common pleas court against w.
A. Hodson, Box 124, Highland,
Ohio, asking $4,000 in damages
following an automobile accident,
said to have happened July 20,
1949.
In his petition Gilbert states
that he was driving west on u. S.
Route 40 about five miles east of
Lafayette, when his car was
struck head-on by a truck owned
by w. A. Hodson and operated by
his son. Dale w. Hodson.
Gilbert asks $1,000 for total
loss of car; $500 medical ex-
penses; $500 additional expense;
$500 for loss of time from work
and income and the remainder of
the amount for permanent in
juries, pain and suffering and
reduction of his earning capacities.
caused by negligence of defendant.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Wheat Behind Schedule For
Harvesting On July Fourth

Time was when the Fourth of
July meant the first fried chicken
OF t7> En:1s1.l sto Or ari
housewives to appease ravenous
appetites when the threshing ma
chine and its crew moved in to
begin harvesting the wheat crop
Improved methods of Matching
and the deep freeze have made
fried chicken a year round de-
licacy. The old threshing outfit
has for some years been superse-
ded by the more efficient combine.
July 4, 1850 found only idling
combines in Madison county. So
far as could be learned no wheat
was quite ready for harvesting.
The frequent rains of the season
are believed to have delayed
ripening of most fields. In jeff
erson township. one farmer was
reported as expecting to start
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Hacke++'s PAGER
Wins $1,000 Stake


July 4, 1850. viii long lie re-
membered by Edward T. Hackett,
Garfield avenue, as an eventful
day. True Spencer, his three-year-
old PAGER, driven by his brother,
James K. Hackett, won a $4,000
stake for three-year-old PAGERS
at Laurel Raceway, Laurel, Mary
land, that day.
True Spencer was shipped July
6 to Roosevelt Raceway, New
York, for meets later in July.
The PAGER was trained at the
Madison County Fairgrounds by
Doc McMillen and was sent east
some time ago for several stake
engagements.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Plan Now For
Your Exhibits
At The Fair
Entries For Flowing Match
Must Be Filed By July IS

Entries for the County Flowing
Match should be turned INTO the
Madison County Extension Office
by Saturday. July Is, according to
James Miller, Chairman.
The county and District Match
will be July 81, on the II. S.
Floyd Farm " miles east of La
fayette on Route 40, starting at
9:45 a. m. Counties in this dis
trict include Madison. Delaware,
Franklin, Pickaway.
Plowmen eligible for the con-
test will include bona fide farm
ers, residents of farms or farm
workers. Factory representatives
or implement dealers or profess
sional demonstrators are ineligible.
The equipment must be farmer
owned. The tractor must have
had no less than 100 hours of
farm usage, and the plow must
have plowed TO less than 40 acres
Plow or tractor, new or old,
owned or loaned by dealers or
manufacturers are barred from
entry. Participants in the match
will submit the entry on an Of
ficial form prepared by the coun-
ty ploWing match committee.
Entry forms may be obtained
from the Implement dealers COM
mittee or Veteran and Vocational
Agriculture Teachers, or the Mad
ison County Extension Office. The
Implement Dealers Committee,
sponsoring the tractor rodeo, in
the afternoon will be: Chairman,
Parker Atkins, Plain City; Jay
Anderson. Mt. Sterling; Glenn
Robinson, South Vienna; j. c. JOS
lin, Mt. Sterling; H. Fl. Porter,
London; Johnson Implement Com
pany, West Jefferson; William
Coil, South Solon.
The committee will furnish
tractors and wagons for the rodeo
and have transportation to the
agronomy plots. The rodeo COM
mittee will be: Chairman, Owen
Ackerman, London; Boyd Rogers,
William Schmeid, r. F. Joslin,
Russell Byerly, L. E. Overturf,
Charles Cecil.
Other committees are: Field
Paul Bangham, Co. Steele, Dor
man Wright; Rules, John Moore,
Vo-Ag Teachers, Veteran Teach
ers; Referee. George Ganyard, Vo-
Ag Teachers. Veteran Teachers
Soil Conservation District Repre-
sentatives; Parking, FLA and
State Highway boys; Experiment
.al Plots, Agronomy Committee;
Wagon Transportation, Parker
Atkins: Publicity. John Moore. c.
G. Harsh, Owen Ackerman, Ag-
ronomy Committee, VIM. Sch
meid, Fl. S. Floyd, James Hunter
John Buehl. Alvin Barr, John
Quail; Prizes. John Buehl, Lee
Thomas, Robert Plymell, Jack
Emrick, Harold Friend; Lime and
Fertilizer Equipment Demonstra-
ton, Robert Plymell, Wilson Fish
er. Cecil Reed, Fred Young, kay
Peters.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
INC To Lay Off
500 Employees

Because of lack of transmits
sions, E. l.. Drum, works manager
of the International Harvester
Co. Springfield plant, has announ-
ced it would be necessary to lay
off approximately 500 local en-
ployes this week.
lie also announced that the
'B" assembly line will be shut
down Thursday. Related depart
ments which supply the assembly
lines. Drum said, will, of course,
be affected.
Explaining the lack of trans
missions in a letter to employees,
Drum said the condition exists be-
cause of the strike at the Warner
Gear Division of the Borg Warner
Corp.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
U. S. Should Help
Farmers To Sell
Goods Says Taft

CINCINNATI, O., Senator
Robert A Taft told Ohio township
officials here today that he belived
the government should help farm
ers to advertise and sell their farm
goods in the u. S.
More than 1000 cheering men,
bers of the Ohio State Association
of Township Trustees and Clerks
heard him say he believed in
creased farm production will hel,
guarantee the future of America
The officials, here for their 23rd
annual summer convention, ap-
plauded the senator's stand and
many stopped to discuss rural
problems with him. He told them
he thought the federal govern
ment should help increase, not
limit farm production, adding that
the country cannot go forward by
limited production. :
He declared, To-day, farmers
are at disadvantage because
they can't afford to advertise their
products on the scale that man
ufaeturers do"
Particularly, he believed the
federal government should help
to increase the sale of animals in
this country. IAN increase OF six
per cent in the sale of animals
would see all the country's sur
plus grains eaten by the livestock.
Then the government could go
out of the grain-buying business,
the senator believed. And such a
selling program would be particul-
arly important to Ohio farmers.
Senator Taft pointed out, as an
imals constitute over IS percent
of the states farm production.
The stats senior senator told
the officials that Ohio farmers
are doing fine job, particularly
in increasing the animal-carrying
capacity of the FARMS He said he
did not think the farm price pro-
gram he has supported is the
whole solution to the farmers
problem.
Importance of the township Of
ficials' stake in local government
was emphasized by Senator Taft.
While he belived there was need
for some types of federal aid, he
thought the present bigness of
government is infringing on liber-
Continued on Page TWo)
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
AGRICULTURE
TEACHERS MEET

The summer conference of Dis
trict No. 8 Vocational Agriculture
teachers was in London High
School Agriculture department
Thursday. The program included
discussion of improved farm pra-
ctices and project programs for
high School boys in agriculture.
The group includes the teachers
from counties surrounding Fran
kiln County. Madison County
teachers are Raymon Deacon of
West Jefferson, r. G.. Phillips,
Madison Rural, and A. r. Hooking.
London.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Route 40 Project, Proposed
Limited Access, Up For Bids

indicated they would resort TO
court action to prevent the road
becoming a Limited Access high
way and branded the proposal
discriminatory. They also urged
that the Highway Director call
another meeting for a hearing on
the proposal and that all property
owners effected be notified
by first class mail of the date,
time and place for the meeting,
in view of the fact some of the
property owners were unaware of
the significance of the proposal
Only the existing means of
access to the properties would
be left to the owners once the
Limited Access provision has
been declared in effect by the
highway Department, they
claimed. Henceforth, if they
desired new access to their
lands, they would be compeli-
ed to seek permission from
the State Highway Depart
ment, a spokesman declared.
Meanwhile legal talent has been
consulted concerning the proposal
with the possibility of court action
being taken by the property own
ers in the event the Limited Ac-
cess measure became a reality.
Representatives of the High
way Department at the June 21
hearing indicated the highway
building project might be held
up in case court action was
brought against the proposal.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
ACCEPTS POSITION

Mrs. Douglas Payne, the for
mer Betty Hackett, daughter of
Mrs. Edw. F. Hackett, ST.. near
London, has accepted a position
with the Home Economics De-
partment at the University of
Dayton.
Mrs. Payne, whose speciality is
costume designing, was associated
with Dayton school system, pre-
vious to going to the University.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Julian arm At
MI. Sterling Sold

A farm of 1860 acres at Mt.
Sterling has been purchased from
the estate of the late w. A. Julian,
former treasurer of United States,
by Thomas j. Wood, insurance
company official of Cincinnati,
Ohio, according to Cincinnati news
reports. The transaction, one re-
porter stated, involved an expen-
diture of $275,000. Mr.. Wood, it
was said, acquired the stock of the
Alpha Realty Co., which owned
the farm. The realty firm was a
part of the Julian estate.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Suspend Permit
Of Stag Bar

The State Liquor Board Thurs
day announced it has suspended
for 20 days the beer permit of
George E. Grubb, Stag Bar, Circle
vile, on charges of allowing
gambling and wagering on permit
premises.
A 15-day suspension CT the
carrying out license of David
0. Mckinley, Mt. Sterling, was
withheld pending future good
behavior. The charge was sale
of beer for consumption on the
premises.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
New Concrete
Bridge Opened

Octave Ammon, Deputy Dir
ector. Division Six of the State
Highway Department has an
nounced completion and opening
TO traffic of the new steel beam
bridge with concrete deck over
Deercreek on Township Road
ITO north of Route Sc in Oak
Run Township.
The bridge was built by Mel
son T. Bahan, Urbana contractor,
at a cost of $4,000 by cooperat-
ion of federal, county and state
agencies, sharing equally in fin
ancing.
The new bridge replaced a
covered wood bridge.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07

Man Ends Life

Edward M. Bell, II, was found
dead of carbon monoxide poison
ing in his auto, parked in lane
on the Tom Owen farm, three
miles north of Mechanicsburg
about 10 a. m. Thursday.
Bell, a wealthy farm owner, had
resided in the Mechanicsburg
community many years. He for
merly was associated with the w.
H. Hunter Hardware store prior
to his retirement about 10 years
ago. He was bachelor.
Champaign County Sheriff Jay
McKeever, Urbana, said that Bells
death unquestionably was a sui
eide. The man, apparently des-
pondent over i'll health since his
injury last spring in an auto ac-
cident, had attached hose to the
exhaust pipe of his auto and plac-
ed it through a rear window of
his car after he parked in the
woods, the sheriff said.
Bell had been dead several
hours, the sheriff said, prior to
discovery of the body.
The sheriff had been searching
for the Mechanicsburg man since
late Wednesday. Bell left the Wes-
ley Anderson residence, where he
was a paying guest, early We'd
nesday evening, but failed to re-
turn, and the sheriff was notified.
Only survivors are several
nieces and nephews in the Day.
ton-Xenia area. The body was
taken to Davis and Byers funeral
home for services at / p. m
Saturday. Burial in xeEia Gene
terry.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
EXHIBITS GIANT EGG

Ralph Matlock of the Farm
Bureau was proudly exhibiting a
giant-size hen egg Friday. He
claimed it was approximately
three times normal size and
weighed six ounces. The egg was
produced or the Howard Dorm
farm and turned over to Mr.. Mat
lock because the hen was from
the Farm Bureau.
When he broke the big egg
later in the day, Mr.. Matlock re-
ported that he found it contained
another fully developed shell-cov-
cred egg. Dimensions of the big
egg, he said were: Length 3
inches; diameter, 2h; circumfer-
ence ia and 50 inches.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
8 our
"a TOWN


Don't pay any attention to
people who tell you that
Russia has cornered the rub
Der market. Matter of fact,
there are plenty of tires and
there is no need for any
boarding. We know a few
kindly souls who get rid of
a lot of old merchandise by
whispering that there is a
shortage or will be a short
age of certain items and
we don't mean in the tire
business necessarily. Lot of
people haven't forgotten the
last war and are still using
the same old scare tactics
instead of salesmanship.
HOT
My little buddy, Haywood
Snugg, says that the best
bargain he can think of at this
time of year is a new ther-
mometer. A thermometer
doesn't cost any more now
than in the winter but you
get twice as much mercury!
LITERATURE
Most book titles are mis-
leading but Ernest Heming-
ways Across the River and
Into the Trees tops the list.
At first, we thought that it
might be a book on golf!
ADVICE
The wisest move after shak-
ing your fist is to shake a leg!
COUNTRY BOY
/ like the story of the city
boy who moved to the country
and, after a year or two,
went back to the city to visit.
Lot of boys kidded him about
being a Country Jake"
Our little friend was unper-
turbed though. Threw out his
chest and said, Did you
ever ride on a real fire-en-
CINE and go to real fire :.
ride with the Chief of Police
in the front seat i. or have an
airplane dip wings at you???"
The city boys didn't say an
other word!
THINK
Remember that. economy
is merely a way to spend
money without getting any
fun out of it. ,saa, .s...s
THE GIRLS
Fellow told me that he
has absolute proof that
women are braver than men.
I believe him. After all,
would man 60 into store
and try on six or seven suits
even though he knew that
he had only a buck and a half
in his pocket?
MAN CHILD
Best description we've heard
Of late is this one "A
little boy is just a noise with
dirt on it,"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-07
Gibson Accepts
Xenia Position

Butcher p Gibson, who has
served as principal of the Deer
Creek school the last four years,
has accepted a position as head
of the Mckinley Junior High
school at Xenia, Ohio. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gibson will move to Xenia
this fall.