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Cibadial) Little was dealt. There
v ere gleety who went.' be glad
to (tear that Deas, 'There were a
great majority ol. other who didn't
care 0 rap.
Obadiah wra' a area t,11 man
Alto lived alone on a foijo 10 miles
front Fairview. Everyone hated
hint because he drove a sharp bar.
Rain and foreclosed mortgages 00
the minute.
That ,was the situation that con -
{routed Owen and me when we
drove up to investigate.
Preliminary investigation re
vented the following facts' ()bad,
;all had been killed by a rock
thrown through a window near
which he was sitting, reading. We
knew he had heen sitting there
reading because Moses Morris, 0
neighbor had passed by in the,early
evening and noticed the light in
Obadiah's window, Dad noticed
Obandiah sitting beside it. Moses
had gone up the road looking for a
cow that had strayed. Ile found
the cow and started back and uo•
aced that Obadiah had shifted his
position.
Something about the way the
old man looked aroused Moses'
curiosity, and he went up close
and saw blood on Obadiah's
temple. Moses went on home
and called the police.
\Ve corroborated this by talking
to neighbors who had heard Moses
calling the cow, and by. discovering
footprints and hoofprints outside
the window, and by the fact that
Oscar Jones, another neighbor, had
.come by while Moses was looking
ill the window,
So we discounted bioses as a
possible suspect, and went to work
oh the others who had hated Oba-
diah. There was, for example,
Roscoe Norbert, who lived a mile
away, and who had been helping
Obadiah with his haying. A
neighbour had heard Obadiah and
Roscoe quarrelling over wages that
very day.
Obadiah was a mens old
man ... everybody lusted him,
So we called at Roscoe's house,
and -struck a snag: Roscoe hadn't
been home all night, That looked
had, or good, depending in what
side of the fence you were on. 1
sent Owen to 10101 up Roscoe, and
returned to Obadiah's farm.
Quite a crowd had gathered out-
side. Lights from automobiles 11 -
Humiliated the house and grounds.
Among the cars 1 noticed Doc
Orion's little coupe.
He was inside, and had already
begun his investigation.
"How's it look?" I asked him.
"Let you know in about an
hour", lie glanced up and return-
ed to his work. 1 scowled, Doc
was usually More confident,
1 went back into the bedroom,
Dor was stuffing things back into
his bah'.
"Been dead about five hours,"
In said.
"low?"
"Some blunt instrument."
"The ruck, eh?"
"Could have been."
Just then, Owen came in, He
had a tall, rawboned individual
with him. "This is Roscoe," he said.
Owwen came in again with 11 oyes,
Msoes looked important.
"Moses." 1 said. "you're a first
class lira', Your nturdered.Obadiah!"
^.Isocs jaw went slack. ".flow do
y".1 figure that out, Shunt( "
„Easy as uric." 1 said, You
sl.S01011 etlt a:ter your cow and
stopped by to talk to Obadiah --
about rennin; 0 mortgage, per -
baps, 00 something 81511. Anyway
you got marl and slugged him with
the store poker. 'Thea you propped
hint up by. the wwiudoty, lighted the
lamp and putt the book in his hand.
"Then yo1L went outside and
heaved a rock through the window,
Later, wihen you carte back with
tour row you saw That Obadiah
had slumped, and you went lip to
look, wliiell is when Oscar Jt,lle5
came. by." -
'1'liero aau, "t cont,., blood on
the poker to pro00 that part of it,
hit it was what the I)oc said That
gate me the reel lead. Dead live
horn's, Well. litre hours ago the sal
was shining and e mean Oid man
like Obadiah wonldii t land oil
hrn the son was out.
Flying Saucers
Real, Or Imagi 3 ary ?
'The ',t, ry of the "hying
saucers" was accorded renewed
attention ('0eenliy, this time even
by President Truman himself. The
President said he was just es
puzzled as the nest fellow 1>y the
latest flurry of reports about weird
and wonderful sights in the sky.
A police chief in Illinois shore
lie stew a "strange disk -like object,
reddish in the center, with blue
lights on the outer edges." Resi-
dents of est Ohio city reported "two
bright lights in the sky" each
trailing a streak of orange flame.
Other "saucer" stories popped tip
in such widely scattered points as
Turkey, Argentina, G c r an a 11 y,
China and Chile, writes Joseph
Nolan in the New York Times.
The reports were reminiscent of
the ones that made the rounds
lack in tete summer of 1947, In
Jtine of that year, a business man
flamed Kenneth Arnold, piloting
Itis private plane in Washington
State, spied nine -shimmering disks
cruising along in the vicinity of
Mount Rainier. 118 told his story
to the newspaper, and pretty
soon- people ail over the country
were seeing "saucers." Some of
theta looked like "shiny chromium
hub caps off a car." Others re-.
sentbled "an ice-cream cone topped
with red." Still others suggested
a teardrop, a doughnut. or a ball
of fire.
The United States Air Force in-
augurated "Project Saucer" to in-
vestigate and evaluate the. reports.
Experts spent two years sifting
almost 400 cases. Their conclusion,
made public last December, was
that all of them could be accounted
for in one of three ways: (1) mis-
interpretation of various conven-
tional objects like balloons, meteors,
er birds in flight; (2) a mild form
of mass hysteria: (3) pure hoaxes,
More Theories Than "Saucers"
But if the Air Force figured
that its official report would put
an end to speculation, it was under-
estimating the public curiousity
and imagination. If anything, the
theories have multiplied. Some rep-
resent an elaboration or variation
of the findings, while others have
a distinct Buck Rogerish flavor.
Here are some of the ones that
have been put forth to explain the
celestial crockery:
Secret Weapon. The magazine
World Report says that the disks
are aircraft of a revolutionary de-
sign—a combination helicopter and
fast jet plane. It says well-docu-
mented accounts show these planes
to be 105 feet in diameter and
circular in shape, with what ap-
pear to be jet nozzles all around
the outer Tint. Indications are, ac- •
cording to the magazine, that the
"saucers" are being developed by
the Navy. This story brought em-
phatic denials from the President
and from Defense Secretary Louis
Johnson. Mr, Truman said that if
there was any such project in the
works, he had not heard about it.
Igor Sikorsky, noted aeronautical
engineer and a pioneer in helicop-
ter design, commented: "I doubt
very much that at the present
stage of our knowledge we could
combine a helicopter and a jet
plane in this fashion."
Could They Be Russian?
Soviet Missiles, Reports of "fly-
ing saucers" in Alaska and in
Scandinavia gave rise to specula-
tion that the Russians alight be
experimenting with some strange
new rockets. Proponents of this
theory recalled that the Nazis
were far ahead of us in the de-
velopment of guided missiles, and
that some of their top scientists
are note working for Russia. Air
Force investigators looked into
this prospect, but reported they
could find no substantiation.
Weather Balloons, Military au-
thorities believe a good Many
"saucer" cases are attributable to
weather observation balloons and
radar target balloons. The United
States Weather Bureau and the
armed forces have occasion to use
various types of these balloons to
gather information on atmospheric
conditions. The radar balloons
dangle a six -cornered target of
aluminum foil which frequently
catches the sun's rays and could
be mistaken for a flying disk.
Planets or Meteors, Among scien-
tists there is a strong suspicion
that some of the perplexing sights
,that have been reported may he
traced to meteors flashing across
the sky, or to the planet Venus,
which is the nearest major planet
to the earth. When one of the
mysterious disks was spotted in
Kentucky, an astronomer was
summoned and he identified it posi-
tively as the planet, which at that
time happened to be particularly
close to the earl:],.
Seeing Things
Optical Illu..ions. The experts
point out that the sun, the stars
and the senses are in the habit of
playing tricks on us. Prof. C. C.
Wylie, Ilniversity of Iowa astron-
omer, gives this example: "In driv-
ing west in the morning hours, if
an airplane crosses the road some
distance ahead, the sunlight re-
flected front its window's may
obliterate the outline of the plane,
giving the appearance of a round
or oval and brilliant spot of light
moving in the sky," Some illu-
sions become even more vivid
when a person is in an airplane.
Interplanetary Visitors. 'flee
"saucers" carry scouts from an-
other planet, intent on learning the
ways of the earth. This theory
was advanced recently by True
Magazine. It has a counterpart in
stories slaking the rounds on the
West Coast to the effect that one
of the disks crashed and that a
body was thrown free of the
wreckage, the body of a monkey -
like creature about three feet tall,
The Air Force insists that its in-
vestigations "lend no support to
the view that the 'saucers' may
conte from another planet."
Despite the frequency with which
the Hying disks have turned up,
most people have trouble discussing
them with a straight face. Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A.
Gromyko, in a rare moment of
whimsy, suggested that perhaps
they were caused by a Russian
discus thrower who didn't know his
own strength.
Warble—Or War
Whoop?
Howard Young, former student
of zoology, comes forth with the
sad news that the robin's melodic
spring warble is a war whoop Male
robins tend to return to the same
area year after year, and they
come prepared to battle for their
summer home, "The birds strike
mainly with the beak," says Young,
but one closely observed stale "was
clearly seen to rake with its claws."
Though the fights are usually silent,
the "loud, caroling song" may be
both a declaration of territorial
aggrandizement and a call for a
mate. Females, too, are adept at
driving strangers from the terri-
tory selected for the nesting site.
Young says that the females do a -
little better than the males—win
more fights.
Ad, from Streetsvillc-newspaper:
For sale: new dog -house, $10.
Suitable for large dog or small
husband.
Well -Dressed Dor "War—In keeping with spring's emphasis oto
clothing styles, too members of the armed forces motiet what
the welt -dressed airman or sailor will wear to an invasion. Step-
ping out of a low-pressure chamber, left, an Air Force private
wears a casual ensemble consisting of three jackets and two
pairs of pants (all worst at the same time), with a snappy
oxygen mask setting off' the high-altitude outfit, The fashion -
conscious swimmer, right, shows off a svelte, sea -green, one-
piece: rubber suit representing the style trend for the Navy's
underwater demolition teams. Black rubber fins and gloves con-
stilole the accessories, with a' transparent lace mmask adding the
final touch,
Doggie Blood Donor— "Qu
heroine of an animal hospital.
Marler, "Queenie" has given
animals needing it. The tiny
received some of
eenie," a sad -eyed mongrel, is the
Shown with attendant Hubert L.
her blood to more than 200 other
black puppy at the right has just
her canine cori>uscles.
Modern Etiquette
By Roberta Lee
Q. I've heard that correct form
now dictates that one should light
ohe's Oww'll cigarette from match
first, before lighting his compan-
ions, because of the initial taste of
sulphur when a match is struck.
Is this correct?
A. No; it is still the proper
thing to light your companion's
cigarette first. If you wish to a-
void the sulphur taste, wait just a
moment after striking the match
before offering it to your friend..
Q. Who decides on the color
scheme and style of dresses worn
by the maid -of -honor and brides-
maids at a wedding?
A. The bride.
Q. Is it proper for a woman to
send flowers to a man who is ill
in a -hospital?
A. Yes, this is always a nice
gesture.
Q. How long before the wed-
ding is it permissible to send a
wedding gift?
A. It' desired, one may send it
as early as two months in advance
of the wedding, although usually
one sends it as soon as the invite
tion is received.
Q. 1f a man and a woman are
in a crowded elevator, is it per-
missible for the man to step out
first if the woman is in the back
of the car?
A. Yes, provided he is closer
to the door.
Q. Isn't it a breach of etiquette
to spear breacl from its plate with
the fork.
A. Yes, this is one of worst.
Q. Is it all right to use a hand-
kerchief while at the table?
A. Yes, if absolutely necessary.
But above all, be sure that it is
clean and fresh-looldng. Never
be guilty of pulling out a soiled
handkerchief at the table.
Q. Is it all right to take several
kinds of foods upon the fork at one
tune?
A. This is not good form. Do
not attempt to take upon the fork
more than one kind of food at a
time,
Q. Can you suggest a good
phrase I can use when extending
my good wishes to a new bride at
her wedding, reception?
A. One good form is; "I hope
you are very happy, and I'm sure
you will be."
Q. Isn't it all right to expect-
orate while w•allcing along the
street.
A. This is an indecent habit
at any time, but to do so in the
company of another person is un-
pardonable, and is an insult to that
person. If absolutely necessary,
ase a handkerchief as unobtrusive-
ly as possible, and don't be guilty
of the vile habit of examining the
contents of the handkerchief. Dis-
pose of it as quickly as possible„ ,
A FURNITURE COMPANY
in Hanover, announced it was in-
troducing it special chair for tele-
vision viewing. Modeled after an
old English cockfight chair, it is
straddled by the sitter, and ]las an
elbow support and a place to set
a drink.
Ruling by chief magistrate of
Newark, New Jersey: A flirt may
whistle once at a woman without
injuring iter dignity or getting into
trouble.
Other Papers
Pull Boners Too
Let Joy Be Unconfined
"Dr. Charles DeVol was a guest
of the men's missionary movement
Monday evening in the church.
Twenty -tight members and five
guests attended."
Front Salem (Ohio) News:
After All, It's No Laughing Mattes
"Governor \\'arren slipped a COIn-
hmation engagement -wedding ring
on Barbara's finger. Then, without
lifting her veil. he killed her. She
was smiling but the governor's ex-
pression w'as serious.'
From Wilmington (Del.)
Every Evening
Maybe They Mean Fuselage
"Miss Dee David also was
wounded in the fusilade."
Front N.Y. Herald -Tribune.
That's Real Foresight
"The ABC Club is operating a
stand east of the city limits for
the sale of firecrackers and night -
works. The proceeds from the sale
of the fireworks will be used to help
furnish McKecuey's new hospital."
From Western Kansas World,
Gun Shoots Hay
F. W. Moff'et, Jr., a farmer,
has invented a gun with which
he has been shooting hundreds of
bales of hay into a loft every year.
Moffet's gun has a pneumatic
cylinder into which a bale of hay
is dropped, piston and rod, and a
pusher plate to heave the bale. An
air tank holds a measured amount
of compressed air which serves as
the propellant. The compressor is
charged by a five -horse -power en-
gine. .At a pressure of 200 pounds,
the gun heaves a fifty -eight -pound
' bale a height of twenty-one feet
and a horizontal distance of forty-
eight feet. The gun can be pointed
to take proper aim. It shoots ac-
curately enough to send bales
through open doors at the rate of
a little less than three a minute.
BURGLARS who broke into a
home in Elizabeth, where the folks
were away, spent so much time
watching the television programs
that they had to leave before they
could steal anything.
Highlight your party punch by
floating lesion slices into which you
have stuck — and lighted — birth-
day candles.
Merry Menagerie-BywaltDisney
Jrk;Si�w
o las
"I got the idea front a Eft, Bog
nard friend of mine who just
arrived from Swltaerlandt"
Reds Ready To Turn : n H at
In Coil War With Tito
ROME, Italy, --The long siw.-
tnering feud between Soviet Russia
and Yugoslavia, it is believed here,
will boil over This spring.
Italian political circles in close
contact with developments in the ,
Stalin -Tito private cold war pre-
dict that increased Soviet armed
pressure against the Belgrade gov-
ernment may be only a few weeks
away,
'Where and how this pressure
will be applied is the big question
mark, Perhaps Stalin will call for
armed attacks against Yugoslavia
by one or two of Moscow's satel-
lites (probably Romania and/or
Albania). Or possibly he will work
through increased internal pressure
and partisan warfare.
But it is regarded as significant
that border clashes between Yugo-
slavia and the satellite counties,
unprecedented in violence and
scope, have increased markedly in
the past few weeks.
s 8 0
Iiven more significance is attri-
buted by persons intimately farm- .
liar with the Kremlin's methods
and policies to Moscow's charge
that a recent meeting of American
diplomats in Athens was a "crim-
inal plot" designed to set up a new
"nest of aggression" in the Bal-
kans.
"The creation of the Athens -
Belgrade Axis," the Romanian
newspaper Pravda said on March
28, `means nothing less than the
inclusion of Yugoslavia in the ag-
gressive North Atlantic Pact,
transforming Yugoslavia into a
base of American imperialism
with all the fateful consequences
for the Yugoslav people"
If 'Yugoslavia is now a "base of
American imperialism," ]tow mttci.
longer, it is asked here, will Mos-
cow tolerate its existence?
* * *
At the sante time, there are
strong indications that Albania,
which is today little more than a
Soviet armed fortress and submar-
ine base at the mouth of the
Adriatic, has been designated as
'Moscow's spearhead in the forth-
coming attack against Yugoslavia.
This role, it is said, was assigned
to Albania at a secret meeting of
the Cominform held recently on
the Hungarian -Yugoslav border.
A half -primitive country popu-
lated by about a million rugged
peasants and mountaineers, Al-
bania• is one of the traditional
trouble spots in the Balkans, Its
geographic position—bordering on
Yugoslavia and Greece and close
to Italy—is of incalculable strate-
gic value to the Russians.
Since Tito's break with the
Cominform, Albania, once closely
allied to Yugoslavia, has been
completely sealed off from the rest
Albanian political leaders recently
of the world. But a number of
managed to escape froni Tirana,
According to these refugees,
Moscow's tiniest "People's Detno-
cracy" is a land of silent terror.
Premier Enver Hoxlta has been
stripped of all power and is vir-
tually a prisoner of the Russians.
Although a loyal Stalinist and the
first Cominform stalwart to attack
Tito, Premier Hoxha had studied
in western countries and has many
ties with the West,
It is reported that last spring
he secretly asked Creat Britain and
the United States to gran hint neer
diplomatic recognition. Thus, the
Albanian refugees report, Prettier
Hoslla's purge is only -a question
of time.
The undisputed rulers of Al-
bania, it is said, are the Soviet
Minister, Dimitri Chuvakhin, who,
once served as a diplomat in Wash-
ington, and a Major General N. J;
Pavlov, who commands a well-
trained force of 5000 Russian "tech-
nicians" and about 12,000 former
Greek Communist guerrillas.
* e:
Meanwhile, Tito, who is an ex -
pupil of Stalin, is trying desper-
ately to weaken the ranks of the
Cominform in Western Europe. A
group of his agents, who before
his break with the Cominform
worked in close contact with tha
Italians, are now operating both
in Milan and Rome where they
seek to split the Italian Commun-
ist Party.
That they are achieving some
success is perhaps best proven
by the fact that the party of
Palmiro Togliatti, who was ]him-
self recently criticized severely by
the Cominform for "weak leader-
ship," has had to expel eight of
its functionaries for Titoism. Tog-
liatti also warned the Italian Com-
munists "to intensify vigilance
against Titoist agents."
As far France and elsewhere in
Western Europe, the Italian Po-
litburo is sharply divided between
"extremists" and "moderates."
Latest reports say that, nates:
wiser heads prevail, the extrem-
ists are preparing an attempt to
blow up U.S. Atlantic Pact arms
scheduled to arrive its Naples
sometime this month.
Low Stunner Rates
To Southern Ports
Material reductions in the fares
are announced by the United Fruit
Company for its Cruises and Tours
to Havana and Guatemala. The
popular 17 -day cruise sailing every
Friday from New York will start
at $360. This fare includes a 3>4
day shore program in the high-
lands of Guatemala.
For those passengers fortunate
enough to have another week at
their disposal, the Great White.
Fleet offers a 24 -day tour from
New York which includes a com-
prehensive 11 -day program in thea
magnificent highlands of Guate-
mala. The fare starts at $465 and
includes inland transportation by
rail and automobile as well as x
comprehensive program of sight-
seeing and hotel accommodations in
double rooms with private bath and
all meals during the visit ashore.
Other cruises and tours are also
available at attractive summer
rates. For example, passengers may
embark at New York and transfer
either at Havana or Puerto Barrios,
. Guatemala for Company vessels in
the New Orleans service, returning•
to the port of New Orleans. Con-
versely, passengers may also em-
bark at New Orleans to enjoy a
cruise, staking transfer along the
line to vessels in the New York
service with eventual return to that
port.
Twincredible ! l— Mama Guernsey cow, "Brownie," stares in
what appears to be sheer astonishment at her newly -born twin
valves, Con" and "Teary." The double surprise was just as un-
expected to fat-ni owner William Kielntatt, These do not happen
to be tate twins referred to in this week's "Chronicles of Ginger
Farm" so it would seers that cow attest be going in for
quantity production.
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