Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1942 — Page 4

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, DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by PHB DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated. Entered at the Decatur. Ind.. Pott Office aa Second Clast Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec'y 4 Bus. Mgr. pick D. HellerVice-President Subscriptions Rates: (Ingle Copies.. - — • -04 One week, by carrier. .15 One Month, by mai1....35 Three months, by mail 100 Six months, by mail 1"6 One year, by mail—- 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere 18.50 one year. tdvertloing Rates made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEEREK * CO. 15 Lexington Avenue. New York 15 Bast Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Members of The Indiana League of Home Dallies Let’s make this week count on the bond campaign. The quota is SM.OOO. —o Advertise in the Daily Democrat. Our circulation now L« approximately 4.000 o—o This Is the week to get your gasoline rationing card. It will stow us down more than any thing 1 that has happened since Henry Ford brought out his model T O—o College holidays this year will be shortened because of the transportation difficulties. Many will not try to visit at home. For Thanxsglving. Indiana Univensity announces they will allow hut one day O—O Don’t. forget to get your tires tested and to dispose of all you have In excess of live for each car you own Otherwise you will find it difficult to get a gasoline ration card. Ask your Alling etatton man 1 about It -0 They 'tell us that Britain always wins the last battle but the one in north Africa probably isn’t it, unless they keep right on going. Any way its encouraging news that has come the past week and whoever wins It. we hrpe they don t put it off a day longer than is necessary. —o —o —- After all the best thing any of us can do t« to buy bonds with any extra < ash we have. It can be us- d to great advantage some day it s helping Uncle Sam win the war And that’s the best thing we ran do If we lose it. we don’t have any thing but trouble. -0 General Buckner, who Is in charge of U. S forces In Alaska, rec-ent ly gave this toast to Ins officers la headquarters "Gentlemen, may you walk through the ashes of Tokyo ’ To which they re plied. "It’s a date air " It will happen some day and let's hope it » soon O—O With a margin of a dexen or »o votes In Congress, the Democradr will of course elect the speaker U the Republicans had that majority, no one would even think that they would do any thing but elect one of their own members, but the G. O P press seems to be doted a Jot of-wishful thinking For • copy of Decatur Daily Democrat « f mI ■ go U Wk-rif-H- Sapor Market Lom Bm. Restaurant H 3® *

There are still a few who drive at break neck speed and some who travel at 50 to 60 miles an hour and many who think forty or forty-five is near enough to the order. All of these will soon find that the speed Is thirty five and to go faster Ut to make trouble when they try I to get a gasoline card O—O According to an astronomer the earth is 29 seconds ahead of Its rotating schedule, the speed tends ~ to Increase and if this continues the force of gravity will be nullified by ' centrifugal force and — well, use i your Imagination This, however, probably will not happen In the next year or two, so we can concentrate attention on the Japs and i the Nazis for a while longer.— ' South Bend Tribune. The war outlook is more favorI able for the Allies than it has been at any time The victory in Africa, the gains In the Solomons, the ad | vantages which look better each day in Russia, the organizing of a great army at Gibraltar, the improvement in China, all tend to encourage those who believe in a. free world. Another six months should bring a big showdown in the meantime, don’t get too optimistic. It can turn quickly and will unless we all do our part. O—O It's hard to understand why Hitler, supposed to be the ace military mind of all time, would permit himself to be again trapped in the i wintry wilds of Russia. He lost a i million men there last winter, It Is •reported from neutral source*. Now ' hl« vast army seems to he In even greater danger, thousand* dying each week from bullets or disease. He won't reach the oil fields, he won’t take Stalingrad and he is in for a defeat that may make Napolj eon's march into the cold country look like an excursion. Hitler and hie aides are in for a lot of headat hes as news comes from Russia and Airba these days. O—O— If you have made money this year, you will owe a stiff stax. due j March 15th. At least at that tint- : you must pay one fourth of the | amount and then meet the quarter- 1 ily payments each three months i And It won't get easier for It will I take more and more ns we c ontinue , to do our part in winning the war aiid We iniist do that. During the current fiscal year this nation will spent about eighty billion dollars and the entire tax hfll Is less than one-third that Set aside something each month and make that amount larger than you had planned Those who do that will be able to inert the situation and be comfortable while i those who do not will have to do ttome hustling. , o—o— W<- congratulate the employes and the management of Cloverleaf Creameries for receiving the Army--1 E-Na—y award. No greater honor . can come to any institution and the honor is the greater because thia • is th* first award of this kind mad* t to any food producing concern in America This was a great day for ■ every one connected with the i creamery, for Mr Klepper. his assistants, the employes snd the producers The public is also en- , joying the occasion and the exceli lent program at the Junior-Senior [ high school auditorium. The Cloverleaf has also been awarded the Minute Man Flag tor its in percent > bonfl quota, showing that they are . cooperating I"*'"- to win the war --— It seems to be a moot question ’ whether the President’s wife and First Lady ot this haughty land is really walking around Landon on her uppers, with paper stuffed in her shoes for protection against the chilly pavementa Logically it might be true, for she admits having town over scantily shod, and she bas done a lot of tramping And it can be anM. with mingled amusement and pride, that Eleanor is capable of such a Spartan per tormnnec. she deserves credit, at any rate, tor not seeking special

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Sub Crew Performs Operation At Sea Remove Appendix To Save Man's Life .By United Preus) The pioneer ancestors of five I men on a Yankee submarine in the midst of the lonely Pacific would have been proud of them. Because back when those pioneers were carving a home In the x-ilderncss you couldn’t cal! down the street for a doctor. You were your own doctor. You. or a goi d neighbor. Here is the story a story that proves again that American fighting men know more than how to do away with the enemy. A story that illustrates once more the Yank’s great trait, his ingenuity. his ability to cope with just about anything that turn* up Twenty seven -year-old Lieutenant Franz Hoskins tells the story In a letter to his parents in Tacoma, Washington. He’s an officer aboard the submarine and he writes: "We have • xperieiteed many a rare event this last year—bombings. depth charges, torpedo fire, and all the like. But one of the rarest yet record'd out here was one that took place on board our little home three days ago.” One of the sailors developed a all.' Q Is It correct to sign a letter with the initials only? A. When writing a note to an intimate friend, this Is permissible, but the ususal letter should always l>e signed with the full name. Q Should a girl secretary ever discuss her employer’s affairs with others, outside the office and at home? A. Never. AnMhing that concents her employer's affairs should never be discttsied. That is one of the fundamental things an efficient and competent secretary will respect.

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SYNOPSIS The Roller Building where Mary Driscoll, a newspaper reporter, shared a studio with Peggy Hudson. an interior decorator, was oid and ahabby. Prosperous tenants—with the exception of Peggy and Jan Proust, a pianist-had long since moved to newer buildings. Peggy had taken advantage of reduced rents and leased the entire fifth floor which she turned into a cozy studio-apartment. Then came the management's edict, "No living on the premises and lights out at 9 P.M." The order was ignored by all but Jan, who took an apartment in a nearby hotel. But there was something frightening about the place now. The dimly-lit halls were menacing after nine o'clock. Mary threatened to move but that's as far a* it went. She relates what followed. PH APTER TWO Around dinner-time there was a sort of Ixiarding-school excitement about the place, feasts being concocted behind closed doors, stifled laughter and friendly borrowing. But after nine when Mr. Grant switched out the lights and locked the heavy, swinging street door* behind him, the atmosphere changed. Even Peggy felt it, though she would not admit it. “Safe as a church,** she said, “Safer than it ever was. with the doors locked and nobody coming in!” But we all had keys and nearly everyone had duplicates made for their friends. There was no objection to people working nights, provided they did not sleep in the building. Jan Proast had pupils and friends at all hours, and Mr. Grant grumbled that he often found the door unlocked when he came in the morning. It waa not the unlocked door that scared me. it was the dark, sinister halls and the noises that began after everyone was asleep, or trying to sleep. Peggy missed out on the noises because going to bed and going to sleep were synonymous with her She slept like a log all night and then sprang out of bod. fresh as a daisy at the first < lang of the alarm clock, while I wakened at a whisper during the night and could sleep through a battery of alarm docks in the morning. It is bard to describe those night noises. Unless you have ever worked very late in an office building after everyone else has left, or have been shut up in some big, public place, a library or a waiting room, you'll hardly know what I mean. The silence la not a comfortable silence. It h heavy and oppressive, and the darkness is thick and weighty, like a dark eurtam dosing in on you The small night noises are not healthy, earthy sounds They are like sad echoes of people and things that are goes. True, we were not alone in the building, but we might as well have bee i, for once the doors were loAei and people had gone to bed, guiltily, nothing, not even pounding on the doors would have got a trap sees They were no* supposed to be there, so they yrcu-nded they weren’t. For all the help Peg and I could have had the does might have boon empty an it was snppeeed to be.

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case of appendicitis His temperature mounted to 106. The submarine was in the south Pacific, far from hospital bases or I medical aid. It looked like certain death. But those Yanks were not ot a mind to stand by idly while their pal died. Not without doing something. So those five seamen derided to operate One of them remembered I se> ing some old pictures of the api pi-ndix Another actually once itad ; seen an operation Fays LleutenI ant Hoskins: "Our pharmacist* mate, plus the executive, myself and two machinists’ mates performed the operation. We knew It was the only chance." He continues; "I administered the anesthetic and encouraged the others along as th<-y were doing the actual work." For two and one half hours, those five seamen, cooped up In a rule marine deep down in the Pacific, stooped over that silent figure. Perspiration drenched them, but they worked steadily on. Finally the job was done. Anxiously they watched their patient.

I Lying awake, envious of Peg’s i usual, but 1 knew the stairs so rd j tranquil breathing. I'd listen to the I 1 could feel my way along -t* | windows rattle, and it wouldn’t be a easily. 1 never minded that tat good, comfortable rattle like the flight anyway, f r 1 always had* loose sash in your room when you feeling, or at ba-t the hope, tut were a kid. It would be a small, Jan Proust would be in his st-dag , secret rattle, as if unseen hands the second floor ami then te »'.<ad | were moving it stealthily. Nor did walk up the other three aey the boards squeak in the good, * flights with me. hearty manner that boards are sup-1 Jan's studio was the one bngfc posed to squeak. No, they would spot, day or night, on the way syh squeak almost inaudibly, and rhyth- ’ our rooms. It was the lovel.evtstito 1 mically, as if someone you couldn't i I have ever seen. One enorawi j see were sneaking up on you in the I room, overlooker a garden cut, 'dark. And there would be long, with French wirdnws openiagwh : sighing sounds, and then sometimes a small private l>id,vr.y. OS th j I’d ait right up in bed, sure that I' large studio th< r was s tiny *t heard sobs, heartbroken despairing | marvelously compa-t sr.d c®;idi sobs, like those of a woman who kitchen,an au*t< r. '. .;.ked»»yiig is surprised into crying and then 1 room and a iarg u 1 prstcauaa finds she just ean't stop. 1 bath, all blue and silver.

■ ISSI. z i Lying awake, envious of Peg's tranquil breathing. U listen

Peg used to laugh at me when I ( tried to tell her. “Chicken!” she said. I Yea, I was. Too chicken to admit ( it, and move. So I stayed, trapped ! i like a mouse after cheese, because 1 . I wanted what I wanted. > And that's how Gil Castle, whom 1 i I loved but who didn’t love me, came ' back into my life, at the end of his. 1 On this particular night, a windy, I raJ-.ty night in February- Monday, ■ th. fifth, to be exact—l had been to i a movie. [ Ben Shaeffer, our drama editor, | 1 asked me to eoeer it for him, ano I took George Evans, our baseball > writer, and his wife, AUine, with | , me. the Evans being pushovers for I movie passes. They came back to - the office with me when the show , i was over. 1 had the review to write, i and George had some work of has i own to fimeh. Alims, being a weM < trained snorts writer's wife, usod to . waitiwg. bad her kaittiag along. It i . was around tt o’etock when 1 was I througb. Georg,, who always hates to go I i ensue, auggetea ii that we drive over ; . to North Beach tor etab and beer. , , but AUine arid she was too tired. and togother wo talked hhn out * t it. They toft aw a& my door and i drove away. I 1 had fargottaa my flashlight, as

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Jan had brought » 'me of the * dio tarnishing from hit &** land and sonu- fr >m Italy >r ; Really there wa n t a ehair in the plan. but there low, cushioned wind * **• ’ mullioned bay window* at • end of the room C fl > divan heaped with <• ! brocs* Mu, moat of them too gold thread to be really c*-, — t But the chain. ma«a. an ! and high-back>-d. w.-re imp There were high. carv.d in which Jan kept bie-topped tablegilt or silver candelabra, a feetory tabie on which a bowl was kept gorgeous and eaotic the shop downttain. a • dark rod bro. au. hanging*. • paintHtge and \?4. * them of eaormou* •““'/--aai swurae. J“« ‘’iSfruix* « pianos, the only the room. . W It may sound atuffy a" 4 J , m I iMarrikr it. but it tbs touch. Hw stmng. * r °*L - d a ger. touched Em a little and * loar.ed. The room was »*• was beautiful. (To be centir.J*d . Worn*' ■“** m J KMM W S-0