Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1942 — Page 4

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MTO——— 11 DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by HO DBCATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated. ■stared at the Decatur, Ind , Poet Office as Second Class Matter I. H. Heller President A. R Holtbouse, Sec y A Bus. .Mar. Pick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies — — ♦ -03 One week, by carrier .15 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mall 1.00 Six months, by mail — 1.75 One year, by mail ..... 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere |3 50 one year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Representative SCHERRER A CO. 415 Lexington Avenue. New York 35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago Charter Members at The Indiana League of Home Dallies. Cleanup week starts Monday Join the crowd and make your place look as gc-ni as your neighbors. The Dnmocratic vote in the primary was nearly 4.800. a very good showing this y- ar when a light vote was predicted and was shown moat every where in the state. O—O Now W( are told the family car may be commandeered because of the rubl>er shortage which Is getting more critical each day. Alright, go ahead and lake It. Without gas and tires and battery and , a few other things we can t enjoy ' It much any way. ; —o—o—- * Th. house ways and means committee favors continuing present exemptions for federal taxes. That's smart tor after all the morale <>( the people is necessary and certainly that means they are entitled to a bate living before paying Income taxes. We must of course I pay high taxes but It should come from those who have Incomui to I stand It. < —o—o—- • • Blasting next Monday. May 11th. Cleand'fs Week will be observed In Decatur, (let ihe old calls and rubbish logether. place in barrel* or boxes, so the city force can haul it away easily. Clean the yard, wash the porch, see that the flower garden and shrubs are in good condition. beautify the parks, tlx up the vacant lots, la-l's make It the best ever. It doesn't cost much and a little effort will make a lot of difference. O—O The rapture of Mandalay by the Japs Is another serious set-back for the Allied forces. It ends hope of an early move to establish bases In China for flanking air attack* on Formosa and frees many Japanese for an attack on Australia. India Ot Russia as they may decide for the next move. They had superior forces and used them well for their cause. The Allies have fought hard and have delayed ihe Japs beyond expectation. Bure the spread mg power of the enemy has shout iwached the limit and victorlea will soon be on the other side. Q—O Samuel C. Cleland. Democratic nominee for congress will make a vigorous campaign and will try to contact as many voters as possible Ho will tell you without any hemming or hawing just where he stands on public issues and why As he puts It. "i promise the voters of this district a vigorous and trank campaign There shall be no dodging of Issues or fence straddling on my part." Ham is an old time campaigner, a veteran of the world war. an export on tax problems understands labor and farm iasarw and la an orator of ability Look for a strong campalga next autunui If urudtiiou* penult

Corrlgedor and the Philippines are now in the hands of the Japs. It took several hundred thousand men. fully equipped, five months to beat the comparative handful of American and Filipinos, limited as to equipment and supplies. The people who have lived on the Island, natives as well as Americans, learned to love It and recognised the fine spirit of the I'nited States towards them, are heartbroken, but hopeful. They etlll have confidence in this country and they know that we will never permit the Islands to be controlled by the uu-Christlan yellow men who would use the land and the people for their own selfish interests, t'orrlgedor has faHen but will rise again and the natives of the Philippines will again be happy. O—O I Work For Boys: Fann work ie coming into high honor, and there will Im- hundreds of thousands of high school students engaged in it this summer. Special activity along this line is reported In and around New York City. The board of education, along with the I'. S. employment service and the agricultural extension service of Cornell Iniversity, has mapped a program for high school rtudents seeking summer work Seven thousand students in New York City's high schools are reported as applying for such jot*. That community Is expected to supply 25.000' students to replace farm workers called to military service, lo.oo'i of them for general summer work and 15.000 for seasonal work. The pay Is not bad. Schoolboys 14 yeare old will get about 520 a month, plus board, room and transportation. They will learn a good i deal about real things, and most of ' them will gain ill health and i strength. They will have ''farm advise rs" and must have the consent of their parents. Similar procedure will be followed in other parts of the country. The number of boys so employed may run Into many hundred thousand It looks like an excellent way for city and small-town boys to ' contribute to the national effort. I while benefiting themselves. — Anderson Bulletin. —o Be Wise, Buy Bonds: General Motors last week announced a drive to sign up all of Its 22". '"hi workers. The A. F. L., has pledged its members to buy a billion dollars worth of bonds this year. The other day five C. I. O. international unions undertook to buy 3111.mm.n00 worth Automobile- workers have already purchased 35X.n00.0u0 worth. The splendid example set by these labor groups should be followed by every other group and Individual in the country able to invest regularly anything from io cents to Slo.mw in victory. We are all going Io pay our share of war costs In one way or another. If we pay the hard way. through taxation, we shall not see our money again. If we buy war bonds, we shall get our money back, with Interest. The treasury has a bond for every pocketbook. The lowest denomination is priced at 11x.75 and in 10 years will pay off |25. Meanwhile. If the purchaser needs the money be can sell his bond. There is no safer or moreattractive investment for wage earners in the world today. What is more important, those who buy these bonds not only help themsolves, financially, they al»o help their country to defeat her enemies. The honor roll of lrm> and employes cooperating in the voluntary pay-roll deduction plan sponsored by the treasury should be extended until it includes every employer and every regularly employed worker in this broad land of ours -Detroit Free Press. — ——o —■ ♦ A TODAY'S COMMON ERROR I Plenty Is a noun, not an adjective or an adverb. 'Rain la 1 plenty" is bad English "Rsin is plentiful is good English • A

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Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the | Test Questions printed on Page Two 1 Chungking. 2. Fala. 3. April 8 4. False. (Olympia is the capital) 6. Steel 8. Nautlial term. 7. Ottawa. 8 William Allen White. 9. Anatole France 10. Rugby. _ 0 Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LIE Q Is If necessary for a man lo 1 rise when dining, and another mau stops at his thble? A. It bt not necessai y when there | is no great difference In age. if ■ the man who stops is elderly, it I* I courteous for a youtrg mau to rise. Q Is it considered proper to begin a letter by writing about one's self? A It is much better to begin ihe letter by writing something about your fi lend instead of yourself. Q To whom should a bride show preference, if any. in < hmtslug her, maid of honor? A. The bride's slher should have | Ihe preference. If she has no sis-1 ter. she usually chooses her must; intimate friend. o # —A I I Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE A ♦ The Fern A good fertiliser for th* fern is | eight parts of sodium chloride, four parts of potassium nitrate, and two|

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TODAY’S WAR MOVES (Reg. t’. S Patent Office) By Louis F. Keemle Os the United Press War Desk

A vital phase in the liattle of the J Pat Ifii very possibly Is in progress I or has been concluded In the Coral • ms norlheawt of Australia. Its outcome may affect the ImI mediate future of Australia and the whole of United Nations operations lt> the southwest Pacific. If ’ the invasion fleet which which the Japanese have assembled in ih*, j vicinity of the Solomon Islands ha* been crippled, the threat to our I supply line has been removed for ih* time being and the Invasion of ‘ Australia made more remote. On the other hand, if the United i Nations have lost as heavily as the Axis claims, our naval defenses may have ben so badly weakened , that the enemy may be able to 'force his way through to the New i Hebrides and New Caledonia, putting him In a position to Isolate Australia. There was a grave not in Premier John Curtain's m> ssag<- to the people of Australia, in which he said he did not know how the parte of magnesium Mix thoroughi ly ami put into a bottle. Dissolve ■ on* teaspoonful of this solution in a quart of water and water the fern about once a week Apple Butter If a thin layer of spiced apple . butter is placed on baked pork chops, or smoked ham slices, atrout fifteen minutes before the meat is 1 removed from the oven, it will add i a delicious flavor. The Clean Nickel Wash the nickel with soupsuds, j and polish with a paste of alcohol and whiting applied with a fianuel | doth.

battle would eml and warned of the “hourly menace” of invasion. It Is impossible to evnbulale the effect of the battle. Which appeals i to have been the greatest navalair engagement of the war. until full reports are In. On the basis of auounceinents from General MacArthur's headquarters and from Washington, the Japanese appear ! to have suffered a terrific blow. Os I the 17 Japanese ships claimed to ' have been sunk or damag'd, two I wen- aircraft carriers, four cruis-1 era and two destroyers. Su< h losses might well cripple I whatever Invasion fleet Japan has | seen fit to send to the Solomons. I Unless the- Japanese have with- i drawn from the Bay of Bengal, the ' larger part of Its fleet must be in those waters, hi the China sea and on guard around the home islands However, according to the MacArthur communique, “our own loetaes have not be«-n reported.” The only estimates come from Axis sources and they are rather contradictory. The enemy apparently claims two aircraft carriers, two battleships and a cruiser. If this were true, It would be reason for grave auxiety. but past Axle claims have been exaggerated too often to warrant credence. The full story of the batHe Is yet to be told. It should provide Interesting data on the power of air and naval forces, striking together in co-ordination. There seems no doubt that the planes engaged were mainly from carriers They may, however, have been aided by heavy bombers, based on not tbeaetern Australia, 1.000 miles away. These planes have been

! Eleventh District Race Is Undecided Slow Central Board Count Is Awaited Indianapolis, May 8. — (UP) State political circles today awaited ihe outcome of the GOP congressional primary In the eleventh district — the only congressional race In Indiana which remained in doubt although final figures were | still lacking on two other events. With only one-third of the 366 precincts in the eleventh district tabulated. Howard M .Meyer, Indianapolis, was leading John M. Coulter, pro-primary favorite, by a i vote of 3,387 to 3.273. A slow, central board count was expected to ke<p the eleventh dis-1 trlct result in doubt for the re-> inainder of the day. Complete figures were lai king <m the sixth district Democratic race between Lloyd I McMurray. Thorntown. and Alanson Albright, Cay- ; uga. but there wa« little possibility that Albright would overcome Mt- i Murray's more than 3.'W» vote lead. About 43 out ot the 343 precincts j in the area were yet to be heard I from. All un-reported precincts were in Vigo county. Slowness of the count also centered state attention on the mayoralty race in Indianapolis where, on the basis of returns from one-third of the city's precincts, Henry Ostrom, building contractor, was leading Gen Tyndall for the Republican nomination by a small margin. The incomplete returns gave Ostrom a vote off 1.430 to Tyndall's 223. Although Tyndall cotinned to trail. Ills supporters were jubilant , over the fact that their entry had used constantly in MacArthur's offensive in the island area Whatever the outcome of this battle, American and Australian air power is going to make the ointhii-nl liaril l<> invad'-.

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slowly but consistently whittled the Ostrom lead down to around 200 votes. In other sections of the state, voting equipment was returned to storage to await the November general election. The final count In the fifth district Democratic race gave Edward Hays. Marlon, an organisation hope, a total margin x>f 4.330 over Olin Holt, former Kokomo mayor. In the early stages of the race, Holt challenged Hays and. for a time, appeared a possible winner. Completion of tabulation In the 1 eighth district showed Charles M. ' LaF«l!ette of Evansville, a two-to--1 one winner in the OOP congressional event. The vote on the Democratic eleventh district affair at Indianapolis also was Incomplete but , there was no doubt but that the incumbent, fxinis Ludlow, had severely beaten his opposition. o L A TWENTY YEARS I AGOJODAY j May X. 1922 A lain? barn on the : Heury Coyne farm, south of DecaI j ur . blown down by heavy winds Decatur Cloverleaf tiaswhati team defeated 11 to 2 by Elkhart Conns. ; Class of 129 confirmed yesterday i at Si. Mary’s church by Bishop Alerdlng. Former President Woodrow Wilson asks the voters of Missouri to defeat Senator Jim Reed. A pile of newspapers eaten eg fire at the residence of tne HoPhouse slaters on north Wurth street. Damage slight. Mr and Mrs. Fred SeHemeyer of west Monroe street dbservetl their 18th wedding anniversary yesterday. CLASS LA MEN (Continued From Page II sons engaged in non-essential work shoaid not give up their present em- 1 ployment until they were sure of a place In a war industry (Local IxMirds considering 3-A

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