Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1943 — Page 3

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&ORITY ■ meeting K ...rori’Y “ ■»' nid>t -C Ih< ■ j..i •■> ■ ' rt ■ Indiana artists. K, >'■!>a»K'c va- Symphony. ■\, u-d by high ■ring the y a- ■ riven by ’he pro- ■ 4!l d (hairmen ,-v. :rr during ■?. \nnoun<*'men’ ■aaimag.' *'*<•' *”’ ■ fi..- «ororiiy *it' ■’a > week- f" r 4 -ni-siunary ■man V.-nu<' I'nitKnday school will ■'<ai. Joh:*on Fri■ven tin:’>• " ‘ a»ck ■ nk> I " b> pre- ■ Ceci! Gauze and Banter ained a'- din- ■ yir and Mrs. John ■bter Mary ( nthKp, Mi. and Mrs. ■hi- city an* l B * t - B, of Australia. Sgt Bing b>* f ,wt vta,t ftered army service, f years ago. UTTON (ARY HOSTESS iry society of the in church will meet Mrs J<«se Sutton id street Thursday sting bazteszes will Townsend. Sr. and )inc>r |ce i< arranging the I afternoon and der given by Mrs. J. good attendance is i— IA SETS Iler wz< hostess to ligma sorority last a short buzlnes* Nes ut bridge were warded to Mrs Her* L Glenny Elzey and bvthman The travel Mr-. George Helm, rere served at the

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CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phonea 1000 — 1001 ■ Wednesday Historical Club, Mr*. R. K Shamp, 2:30 p. m. Red Cruso Sewing Center. American Legion Home. 1 to 4:30 p tn Shakespeare Club Opening Meet-! fng. Mrs. W. J. Krick. Postponed. Thursday Ever-Ready Clans. Mtw. Olles V. Porter. 7:30 p tn. Christian Ladle-’ Aid. Church, 2 p. m. Indies’ Aid Society. First T’nlted Brethren Church. 7:30 p. m. Nuttman Ave. W. M. A.. Mr-. Gerald Sheets. 7:30 p, m Prwbyterlan Missionary Society, Mr*. Jeese Sutton. 2:39 p. m, Friday Calvary Indies’ Aid Society Mr*. Harry .McDermott. 7:30 p nt. Nuttman Avenue tinted Brethren V. P. M. 8.. Miss J«-an Johnson. 7:30 p. m. American Legion Auxiliary, Legion Home, 7:30 p, in. Mt. Tabor WSCS, Mrz. Irene Cottrell. 7:30 p. m. , Red Crass Knitting Center. American Legion Home, 1 p. m. Root Township Home Economics Club Called Meeting. Mrs. Will Schnepf, 2 p in. Saturday Rummage Sale, Old Moose Home, All Day. close of the evening by the hostess. •Misted by Mrs. Girod. The oororlty wil meet again in two weeks with Mrs. Helm. The Calvary ladles’ aid society will meet at the home of Mr- Harry McDermott Friday evening at seven-thirty o'clock. An interesting entertainment hue been arranged for the entire evening and every member Is urged to be in attend--1 ance. - o— A 1 ■ — • Adams County Memorial Hospital 1 • • Admitted: Stanley Smitley, route 2. Monroeville: Lucie Alice Vore, route S; Jacob Bailey. RR Berne. DiamlMed; Mrs. Lawrence Andrews and baby son Larry Wayne, 1209 West Adam* street. ——— -® Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Echelberger of Ashland. ().. are visiting their •on-in-law and daughter. Rev. and Mrs. George Walton and daughterof Mercer avenue . ■——(J Public party St. Joseph school Auditorium Thursday Night.

have an understanding . . . I’auletta Goddard’* orchid corsage brought a >1,000,000 bond bid in Oakland! Buyer waa president of a metal company. . . . Irene Rich putting in turkey* on her two ranches Will use them for Christmas presents. By then. Irene probably will be Mr*. Alfred Davey.... The Otto Krugers celebrated their twenty-fourth wedding anniversary. ... Arthur Murray describe* a certain actor, ‘ Ha has no enemies, but all his friends hate him.” Until he learns the fate of his appeal. Gene Krupa will work as drummer in Benny Goodman s orchestra. Sad new* for Jo-Carroll Dennison (“Miss America" of IM2 and now a Twentieth Century-Fox sUrlet>. Capt. BUI Brooks, to whom she was unofficially engaged was killed in a flying accident in Florida. After refusing thousands of requests for sarongs in the last two years, Dorothy Lamour anally has relented. Will send one from b-r "Paradise Island" supply to R. A. F. Lieut. Maurice buzzard. He and his bomber crew want to carry it over Berlin. They are naming their ship "The Dorothy Lamour." HOLLYWOOD HI-JINKS - Bob Hope’s flight to Seattle to appear before aircraft and shipyard worker* was to impress them with the need of increased production. He was in Africa and he knows . . "Footlight Glamor." last of th* Dagwood and Biondir senes at Columbia. hailed as one of the best. Arthur I-ake gets piles of fan mail from this comic strip role. . . . Rene Riano is writing a history of her family . . . Jane Russell and pint mar 1 George Guinle an odd dance-floor combination at the Mo cambo. They were members of a large party. ... Jane Weeks, one* reported engaged to Tommy Manville. steady-datinr Lieut Ronald J. Hoyle ... Bob Crosby and Herbert Rudley have organised a Victory Garden exchange to help get nd of vegetable surpluses among their friends. .

W nnwu|ff|ffiTnTTnmnmK HsBM Pfc. Robert Mower, son of Rev l and Mrs Can y Moser of this city, han l»-,n transferred to th. ordnance department f the army air force. Il<- is located at .Mt. Rainier Ordnance Base, Tacoma. Wash , and recently was awarded the medal for good conduct. Aviation cadet Vincent Tanva«. son of Mr. and .Mrs. A M. Tanvas! of this city, has, completed hl-1 basic flying training at Enid.' Okla, and has been transferred to Fredericks. Okla. for nine weeks' advanced training, after which he is scheduled to receive his wings. His address !«: Aviation Cadet Vincent Tanva-. Cadet Dot , AA. F. 43 K. Fredericks At my Air Field. Fredericks. Okla — Pfc. Kenneth W. Arnold has ar-1 rived safely overseas, according to ' word received this morning by hl- ■ wife and email daughter. No Infor- 1 mation ax to hh location was di--| closed. Lieut. Florence I. Bittner of the I'. S. army nurses corps in now •ervlng over-eas with tin I’. S. forces, it ha* been learned. Pvt. Ambrose Mounter, non of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Monnler of 221 South Fifth street. Is now a signed to: Btry C. Hfi3rd Bn . 63rd Inf Div . Camp Van Dorn. Mlns. The new addr-'-se* of the three zona of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Meyer of 616 Marshall Street, this city, at'- I’fc. Robert 11. Mere.- CO K 151 Inf A P. <>. 3k Div. Camp Llvingaton, La : f’pl. Bernard W Meyer, 766 Ord Co L. M A. P. <> 454 Camp Joseph T Roblnzon, Ark . and Pfc. Richard C Meyer. Com pany K SOO Signal Try Regt., Bar racks T. 3762. Camp Crowder. Mo. HARBOR OF NAPLES • Corttlnuck’ W-or> *••• I’ rimmed windows of battered buildings. Ragged curtains fluttered from bomb-holes in hotels and from one a bedstead hung precariously on the top floor. ’’The Germans destroyed Naples Aprons Are Fun o ■ ■T 1 „ , 9476 « V\ • Have the fun of your life making aprons . . . more fun wearing them’ Pattern »47« i. a design that’s sprightly and neat as a brid<'» kitchen can b. gayed u| with contrasting liodic* and ruflled edging or rlc-rac. Make a tew for gifts or tc sell at the Christmas bazaar a . Pattern 9476 may bt ordered only in sizes small H 2--141. medium <3«-3M. and large '4M2». Small size requires 2% yards 3a inch fabric. Send SIXTEEN CENTS in coins for this pattern. Write plainly tizE- NAME. ADDRESS. STYLE number* New Fall and Winter Pattern I Book for TEN CENTS more Free pattern for apron with appLque printed right in book Send your order to Daily Demo erat Pattern Department. 5M West Randolph Street. Chicago W. HIBecause of the slowness of the sail your delivery of pattern may uke a few days longer than usaa-

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Special Services And Meetings Os Churches In Area MB Com, "to&uvtcfa Zion Reformed A chiirch family night will Inheld at the Zion Evang- Ileal and Reformed church Thursday evening. beginning with a covered dish supper at 6:30 p. m. Following the supper, there will be a proI gram of fellowship. During »h<I fellowship p- riod. Miss Ixils B -e---man. county health nurse, who will leave so n to enter the army nurse corps, will give a talk. All mem-1 bars of the church arc invited to Join In thl- evening’of Christian fellowship. ALLIES HURDLE iUuunua4»u s> ■ -oiitlieaatcrn defenses while the ' closing is good. i Allied airmen are doing all they J i can t : bolster the stand of the gal-1 lant little British garrison*. Royal air force planes have bombarded cm my positions on Co*. American .Mitchell bombers based on Italy have male their first raids on enemy all fields in Greec- The Nazis are backing Up their Dodecanese drive from these Greek baoe*. But Hitler is only getting a breathing sp 11 in tlie eastern: ■ Mediterranean Each day that Al- ! lied armies in Italy push forward brlngt that long-awaited Invasion | f the Balkans a little doser. -I - ■■ ———— , in 20 day..’ the building superln-1 tendent told Fchmidt. "There | were continuous fires and expire ( sions Tile people barricaded j themselves In their houses.” The university man’s voice rose to a shriek as he went on. crying out: "They started at one end of town and went right across to the other. They destroyed every factory” But with the coming of the British and Americans the Neapollianx are returning Schmidt -<ys. their row boats and sail j 'mata now are scattered all along. • lie route from Capri Allied minesweepers put out | buoys to mark a channel that hast been swept dear into Naples h:u-l bo *. ’ Night Coughs due to colds... cased fll without •’dosing’’. yyyigjfii a.io.rnra issn.ii.m-ua

P'lNg* I isi f • a A** o * W" ** XY '!■ ** J* ■ «T Mb- w” A Lml flHt t x y I! i f, IY * IL&hA iMm IM* t Uy ii 1 ■Za Khi W mBE K WKw WC 1 n WH* Hu x I x JL i ■7. . 7 j left, pc.isl jumper dms ; ploid H<k*« m w*« with wperots Unit., right, new prinms dot* ffrest. Conservation or no conservation, the whooi set demands clothe* that are fashion-wise, even if they make them at home as many do First of th* teen age loves is the Jumper. Illustrated left above, in t astet This style stresses wider suspender* and a well fitted waistline with slightly gathered skirt. The suspenders have ruffles Th* daytime outfit, center, is the newest version ot the jacket to wear with separate skirts. It is an adaptation of th* lumber jacket and is in bright plaid wool and r. yon. u ith a plain colored skirt The date drea*. right, is built on new princess Unes with unbelted s-ir.ou-•tle, bust fullness and tapered skirt It’s the perfect accessory frock. a--— II II I — - -

I Fertilizer Available At County AAA Office Winfred L. Gerke. chairman of the Adams county AAA committee announced today that any farmer who has n >t* r<-( <-ive(| his lime“tone sir fully complied with the soil-building practise- on hi- farm for the 1943 program payments may obtain fertilizer for hl- paturn i:.*'>ps through the AAA office. Mr. Gerke states that there will he two carloads of fertilizer available. He urges any farmer who does not have th<* soil building units for his farm to notify the AAA office at once. The office is ' n.»w located at 15$ South Second! street. Des itur. in the l*iiilding | formerly occupied by the Decatur | Eli ctrlc Shop. i .. Q —— Orvol A, Parent Is Killed In California Orval A. Parent, 43. son of the la’e Mr. and Mrs. William Parent and a former Decatur resident, was killed at a rallroAl crowing while : at work In Banatow, Calif, according to a wire received thl- morning ' by his sister. Mr*. Ralph J. Roop of' 339 North Itch street. No details of hU death w> re given and funeral arrangements have not i been made. The deceased was never married and is survived only' by the sister living here. He wax' boriT November 20. 1R99. o • I Anderson Fire Damage Estimated $250,000 Anderson. Ind.. Oct. 6 tl'Pt Damage from yesterday’s big fire j in downtown Ander-on l« estimated at 1250.0D0. The principal losses , were suffered by a five-and-ten-cen? store and a corner ding store. Sev- ‘ ,-ral upstairs shop and apartments I also were damaged. Tin- blaze swept the ground floor of the Decker busines* building block. I Seven Anderson fire companie j and one from Fo t Benjamin liar- , rtaon battled for 12 hours l>«fore bringing the blaze under control. Cause of the fire is undetermined. o — Denounces Execution Os Allied Aviator Canberra. Australia, Oct. 6 il’Pi ■ -Deputy Prime Minister Forde of Aus'ralla zaya an official investlnation I* being made into Japanese atrocities in New Guinea Forde denounc' d th" recent exe cution of an Allied airman a« a I "barbaric” act. and predicted It j would spur the Australian ptople to I an even greater war effort. — o— May Force Government Into Tire Business i Omaha. Neb.. Oct. 6. Il'Pt Former rubber director Wlllani Jeffers says the government may be forced to become a manufacturer i of rubber tires to prot«ct its Invest-

I ■ I Wac Lieutenant Is Victim Os Slaying Authorities Claim No Clues Available Sioux Fall-. S D Oct. 6. 11’1'1 A civilian official discloses that Wai- Lieutenant Naomi Kathleen Cheney was slain by blows with a blunt instrument. The body of the 25-year-old Jas- j per, Alabama woman, described as a very attractive brunette, was j found last night in a wooded glen I of a Sioux Falls residential area. | The- civilian ottlc lai says thu’ I Lieutenant Cheney died < f a basal I skull fracture. And there are signs of a desperate- cctrOggle in the little clearing where her body was found last night by a Id-year-ol I girl. Authorities say they are without a c iue to the- id-ntity of the slayer, and there- is no indication of the slayer' motive. Lieutenant t’hepey apparently was on her way from the Sioux , Falls technical sc hoed li- spital. i where she- vMt» d a friend, to her 1 apartment, when she met her death. The victim was assistant , personnel director of a Wac group at the air force school, i Fewer Job Accidents Boon To Soldiers Chicago. Oct. 6 (ITT Reduction of job accidents give- soldiers over ea.e a better chance to come home That’s what the- army’s c hies of procurement and dUtrlbutl »n *'-r---vires. Major General W. H. Harrison. told the National safety congrew in Chicago today. Harrl on said army operat -d plant* have reported a 30 percent lower accident date 'han privately ope rated plant*. . Major General Norman Kirk, .curgc cin general, told the congr •** that deaths after treatment among armed force, have- averaged I'** than two and one-half percent. Kirk called this ’ ’he lowest rate in tthe h'xtory of warfare." a.W O.L. Waac Repents Fresno, Cal. — (I’Pi — Pretty 1 Daisy H. Roberts. 21. of this city. In training at Des Moines, la , as a Waac. because she was a*slgned to K P. for miskiiig a bed check, told her fellow Wages she would show them what A W.O.L. really mean*. But when she wa* picked up by the military police- here- and refused even prison accommodations at Hammer Field because cf lack of facilities and turned over , lo the county Jail, she dec filed she 1 was sorry and asked to go back t » Des Molnm and help win the wa | i.ic-nt in syniiie.ie rubber plants. Jeffenc maintain* that some private companies are devoting too muc h manpower and facilities to i pursuit* ether than the- making of I tires.

Sgt. Lloyd Mahan Relates His Experiences In Bombing Raids

A quiet-mannered soldier sat la*t | evening in the living room of a| little home in lhe vlllag- of Monmouth a home- which he left two day aftc r pearl Harbor and obligingly narrated to this writer the story of his year ot blasting at the Nazis fr m aboard one- of I n< l<Ham’s Hying fort* Th- soldier is Tech. Sgt Lloyd ! Mahan, inod'-stly wearing a long ’line of lajal ribbons, designating his service- in England, the air medal, three- oak leaf e lusters and the distinguished flying cross. To heac him tell it, hi* accomplishments were nothing to rav--about. They were Just what could’ la- expected cd a ball turret gunner. The ’’nothing" included n> less than 25 mission* over enemy territory sitting in a cramped po-itian some times as long us eeven hours i while flying some* 20.000 feet in the ’ air. the fighting off 100 or more Nazi planes while the bombard! . dropped ills "eggs of destruction The- "n thing" inc luded getting credit for bringing clown four enemy planes two .ME 109 * and t* > Focke-Wulf 190 * - in addition •> probably getting many more that were IP Ver Verified. Once- It included crawling from his position to the aid of a crewmate. wearing a "flak«ult." who had been struck an 1 Injured by 20 mm. fire and all that while his own xyge-n Hue- was fouled And it wa* bitter cold. Tile blood ozlng from the Injured man’s head froze the second it met lhe air, Sgt. Mahan took over his gun. while the Injured man helped him with ammunition. Sgt, Mahan is now home for about seven clay* before rep illnc . to Salt Lak- City, I’tah. After ar-1 riving th're, be expect* to get an-1 other furlough After that, it is a | matter of speculation, but he woulJ I not be Hurpikcc-d to be assigned ’o another theater of war Mahan I* u little- fellow —at b-as’. little as w<- see from our c-. mpai ative six feet and more. He stand* Ju*t five* feet, six and one half Inches—but he- Is hard us nail*. Helook* little different than he did when he left, his proud mother. Mrs. Maud Mahan, aaserts. He isn’t any thinner but then he gained 10 pounda after being relieved of combat duty He served four months as an Instructor in Britain after that. Sgt. Mahan was graduated from t Monmouth high sch. ol In 1911 He worked at tbe Decatur « E rind the- Central Sugar company during the- following summer. After the r. S. wa* plunged In war. he- enlisted in th. air forces. He got his wings ut Seven .Mile 1 gunnery school Spokane, Wash. and wa* sent ovei -eaa on October 10. 1912 as an assistant radio oper-,

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: ator and ball turret gunner on a fort. "Would he like to be a pilot’" "No c-.r, no holding a control stick win!- they're shooting at you. It relieves a guy s nerves to shoot." Hl* raids were ail daylight raids. He was in the first raid over Germany pr pel the Wilhelmshaven raid Yes. he had a number ot "c lose' shave*." Crash landings, in wide li he figured several times, did not count. Once when his oxygen line wa“ fouled, hi- was "out” for in minutes. Another tlm>- he became* dizzy, but this was not uniisual when the oxygen ran low. 11.- looked to tile side of Ids pen II and found a number f bullet holes. Feeling the wide of his head, his hand touched warm liquid. "Boy. It was a relief to find that it was only oil from a motor which had I been hit.” Slug* had whizzed mlr'aculously past him. one or two eve.i i going through his flying togs. Sgt. Mahan wa* h nored last night at the weekly m>- ting of »h« Dec-atur Lions duh. During hl* addrew* he told of Id* reepect for the' ability of Nazi pilots and equipment. Sgt Mahan has two brothers. Ivan and Jack. In service; another. Richard, in high school and a sister, Mary, at horn*. Ills mother work* at the- Sc hafer glove factory. “Naw. I never keep anything fr m Mom. I think she feel* better when ehe knows what I* going on.” This was the answer to the- reporter’s assertion that possibly he would | rather not talk about his experI ielices while ehe was present. He Is going to try and ge t ft plane to Salt Lak. City "Don’t you know cars make me nerv US." he C-Oin t ided

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