Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 1 January 1944 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT rWMtaa~d Bvary Bveaiaa Bkcopt Sunday by .KS DMCATUR DEMOCRAT CO lacorpo rated Uttered M tbe Decatur. Ind.. Post OAca m Second Clone Matter L B. Baller President A & Botitoaae Sec y A But Mr Oteb D Haller Vice-Presideo> •uoecrlptlan Rates Angle Copiee 1 03 tee week by carrier 15 Sy Mall “ la Adame. Allen. Jay end Welle ~ Bounties Indiana and Mercer and • Van Wert counties. Ohio: 34 60 per fear; 62 50 for six months; $135 for three months; 60 cents for one month Bteewhere: —66 50 per year: 6100 for six months. 51 «5 for three muntba. 6u cents for one month Men and women in the armed forces IS 50 per year or 61 00 for three months AOvertlsmg Rate* made Known on Application National Representative •SHEERER A CO 16 Lexington Avenue New York U E Wacker Drive. Ou. ago. Hi He Stir* to write It 1944. It will not be easy for a (■ w <l»y» but we will soon be doing it just like we always have. —o Cigarettes and cigars will become scarcer and nearer r In 1944. it i la predicted by the experts in the . business Oh well, we still have aeveial old pipes to dirty up the bouse with. —o “WUlls assails seizure of rails, reads a headline. Yep and he tlso | assailed the "d struetion of tin entire U. 8. navy" we remember. He is just a < hronlc "assailer." paying politics. —o Hoosiers have bought a billion dollars worth of V S. war bonds since Pearl Harbor That's a record we can ail be proud of. We will add to the total in the fourth blind campaign. January 19th to February 15th. , 0-0 Southeiu Indiana had a six-inch anow this week. whi<h we missed Up here where We usually have mure ice and snow and winter than any other section of the state. Thanks old weather man. —o The lull automobile license plates will go on sale January lath it has been announced from the commission In !nd!anap< Ils. That will allow six weeks in which to deck out your car with the new tag which takes the place of the 1942 plate and the 1943 tab. —o The state of Ohio needs a thousand school teachers and a apodal session o> the legislature will probably be held to discuss ways and means of obtaining them. Hun died* have quit to do war work or to accept more luciative jobs and it is p<ssible that the new sc lied- - uie of salaries will make the teaching profession more profitable over there.

—o ftuesian armi*. ere now leas than fifty mile* from the old Polish | border and marching on. Each day i they take over additional territory I and ea. h day the Axis force* fall back. H w far the Rede will go durtag winter campaign is con- I jc idare but yon may depend on it I that they will nut atop now until they have driven every oe out of <b«r country and establish-. 4 plana for ieug time ptace O O ■ ■ PHtparatioap for an invasion of . Europe via the English Channe. so * on auoreiag to report* but we •Uli expect that owce this gets

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: inder way there will also be in- ’ vaslons through the Balkans, Norway and other points. Os course the Allied leaders are not telling the Axis just where or when they will strike but they are telling them they will soon hit them hard It s time to buy bonds to help meet the 31.200.000 quota for Ad- ■ am • county the next two months. The big fourth campaign opens the 19th but all bonds bought this month and next will be credited This county has met every quota and while this one promises to be i tougher one than previous ones because so many have inveated their spare funds, we can do it if we all work at it. —o The n*-w federal tax blanks are om> what longer and provide for ’h>- furnishing of more d< tails as night bi- expected since we have , the pay-as-we-go and forglvenemt > of certain taxes, all to be reported n by March 15th. It will produce some headai hes and require some cash but it’s insignificant in comparison with what will he ueces- ' sary in thoee countries where the bombs have destroyed billions of dollars worth of property and Stopp-! • earning possibilities. ■ .o—o —— The lab. r shortage problem In Evansville has been partially and. ; perhaps definitely solved. Some I 2.900 employes of the Chrysler corporation and 900 from the Sunbeam company, engaged in the manufac- ) tore ot small arms, ammunition have been dismissed. Apparently w. have a sufficient supply of the goods to operate the war. These meu will be quickly abs rbed by ■ other planta but as the proceedure ' goes on we will reach a peak when jobs will no longer be seeking men It s one of the difficulties to be met and the better It is done in each community, the happier every I one will Ire. Inquisitive Marines: Some months ago. a Marine Corps combat correspondent deelded to find out for himself whether the medical t are in the military nerviceo Is as superb as it U cracked U| to be There was just one way to find out and that was by joining the ranks of the sick and wounded at an advance base. With the consent of the commanding medical officer, but unknown to anyone else, this marine, while at the front In the South Pacific, pretended serious illness. Two days later he was in a hospital . n the edge of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. A tag on his 1 shirt marked him aa a severe case of peptic ulcer. He received no 1 special treatment. He wum handled exactly as other evacuees were handled in the plane ambulances 1 out of the combat area. II • was loaded onto a transport plane with seventeen other sufr ferers and within a few hours was

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DIATM CLAIMBD persons outstanding in many fields during IH3 Killed m plane aeodeaU were Actor Leslie Howard. Lieut Gen Prank M Andrews and Ma] Enc Knight The mysterwus death nt Km« *«• «* Buigana «m never fully explained. Others who died tloe year mcksde Industrialist Edeel Fortt Admiral Su Dudley

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installed in a fully equipped ba«»hospital with a staff of 400. each physician selected for pt eminence in his field After reaveling hl* identity, this Inquisitive marine received permisst n to stay a while and olxe rve In his own words, he 1 saw "a number of delicate surgical operations, a wide variety of fracture treatments. Life-sixed X-rays wero taken, tei th extracted, dental plates made. A group of specialIlls prescribed and fitted glasecs. Physical therapy experts restor’d the use of injured nerves and muscles." He also aaw intensive treatment given to s«-rtoiu hums t.nd skin Infections, as well as skin and bone grafts. When he wae through, he realized that centuries of medical learning and research have been concentrated in one vast, amazingly effiiient effort to prevent the loss of American Ilves unnecessarily In this war through lack of medical attention The Inquisitive marine returned Lorn his self-appointed mission well satlsfi-d.—Hartford City NewsTimes. 0 —_ • « I Modern Etiquette 1 By ROBERTA Lfifi Q Is It necessary to give a gift each time, it one is invited to several different wedding showers that are given for the same brlde-fb-be? A. Yes; Him is expected. Q. If a man and bis wife are acting together, should they use the joint card? A. Yes; the joint card is for thia purpose Q. If a woman has no servants, would it be possible for her to give

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X - -•■-aa-'-mM - ZTVxiy* -X v '2!_jLA t 3 ° osxwss I aottsii lihiham* 1 IHANO OF 6ABK and U» coast are in the war news M reports of British Commando raids on Sark. Nazi outpost In the channel 15 miles from France, and Invasion jitters focus world attentlon on the area. (International) a formal dinner? A. The only way she <ould do this would be to secure outeide help. — o Twentv Years Aqo I ! Today Jan. I—John E. Nelson assumes , erffice as county clerk and Louis Kiln* as treasurer, succeeding John ( T Kelly and Hugh D. Hite. Decatur fire losses during 1923 amounted to 922,ML The Adame county Alemorial iros-

Pound. Bandleader Ben Berate. Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff * Maj Kermit Roosevelt. Dr. Allan Boy SMeo/PraXXltelMn-' f hardt, ft>htical Figure Danini C Roper, Educator William Lvm. PheljM Author Vincent Beewt. DueoMot George Washingtoo Carver and Radio Entertainer Frank

Rotion Calendar Gasoline A-9 coupons are good through January 21. Sugar Stamp No. 29 tn Book Four la good for 5 pounds through January 15. Shoes Stamp No. 18 In Book One Is good for 1 pair. Stamp No. 1 on the “Airplane" sheet in Book Three is good for 1 pair. Meats, Fate Brown Stamrw L. M. N, P, and Q are good through January I. Brown stamp R la good through January 29 Brown stamp s becomes good January 2 and remains good through January 29. Spare stamp 1 on the first page of war ration book 4 is good for 5 points for the purchase of pork through January 1. ProcsMOd Foods Green Stamps D. B. and F in Book Four are good through January 29. Fuel Oil Period 1 coupons are good in all regions through January 1. Period 2 coupons are good through February 7 tn all areas except the south, where they arwgood through January 26.“ Period-» coupons, now valid In the middle west and south, remain good through March 13 in the middie west and through February 21 in the south. . > pltal has had 221 patients since It opened July 30. Ernest Conrad elected president of the Adems county bosir J of mlesionersGeorge Schug, Lowell Bmith. Glenn Hill, Bernard Clark. Zach Dever and Fred Kingle return to Columbus. Ohio to resume studies at Ohio State Frank and Gaylor Leslie of Van Wert visit here. - ■ ■ o Hear Mlbb Allen, recently returned from Japan. RapUst Church, Sunday, 7:30 p. at.

• -♦ Greasing Pana An easy way to grease baking pans is to tie a pioce of clean muslin around the point at a fork and using if to grease the pan. It can be burned and a frosh one used next time, so keep a supply on band ready to tie on. i Black Broadcloth Black broadcloth can be cleaned if rubbed well with powdered fullers earth and put away in a box or dtwwer for several days. Then brush and shake well. The Bick Room If you will try burning a few grains of coffee lb a sickroom you Win find that k drives away any odors. o r PREBLE NEWS *1 Mr and Mns. Milton Hoffman and family ‘Pfc Oscar Hoffman of Campbell. Ky.. Mr. and Mm. Ernest Bash and Ruth and Shirley of Portland. Mrs. Rosa Lelmenstall of Magley. Mm. Lena Sherlock. Gene Acheon and sons Bruce and Dewey Mtao Dorothy Hoffman at Monmouth were Christmas dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs Earl Straub ot Willshire. Ohio. Pfc. Oscar Huffman of Campbell. Ky spent a 3 day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoffman and family. Mr. and Mns. Leonard Kikendall and daughter Maureen and son Jack of Portland and Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Fuhmian and daughter Kaye of Elmhurst Gardens, were Christmas dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fuhrman and daughter Mary Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Thieme and daughter Beverly Kay were Christmas dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wafe! and family. Pvt. Donald Werllng of Lansing. Michigan spent Christmas with his parents. -Mr. and Mrs. Milton Werlmg and family. ■Pfc. OUcar Hoffman of Campbell. Ky.. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bash and Ruth and Shirley of Portland. Gene Aohean and sons Dewey and Bruce and Dorothy Hoffman of Monmouth, Mrs. Rosa Leimenstail of Magley, Mm. Lena Sherlock, were

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SYNOPSIS Helen Turner, novelist, arrives at North Harbor, Maine, on route to the nearby Fern Cove lummer theatre, where her first -play is to be given a try-out, prior to its Broadway presentation, Pacing the deserted station platform, she heartily wishes she hid accompanied her hueband, Lae, on his South American business trip, instead of heeding producer Tyler McVane’s demands. An ancient jalopy finally wheeres to a stop and its kindly old driver apologises for keeping bar waiting. Old Mack explains that the Kilborns, who manage Fern Cove had forgotten she was coming and Tom Linwood, the director, was too busy rehearsing this week's play. She learns that Fem Cove Io jointly owned by wealthy Burns Loring. scenic designer i his sister. Mrs. Parris; and Slaywrighls Amse Alden and ieorgs Vickery. Helen recalls that her collaborator, Stuart Amrose, had quarreled with Alden and Vickery. She is puttied when Old Mack drives pest the trimlooking inn and theatre, finally coming to a pause in a clearing hemmed in by a thick woods, where, at the water’s edge, an unpainted, dilapidated building merged with the landscape. This, captained old Mack regretfully, Is wfc«we she and ths young actress from New York, are to stay, adding: "It’s called the 'dog-house* ’cause the owners Kt the unwelcome guests hero.” den's soger mounted when she beheld the musty, ill-furnished room assigned her. Ada, local school-marm hi winter, but maid-of-all-work In summer, helps her unpack. CHAPTER FOUR “Don’t make me begin all over again and ask, ‘Who’s iAeyT” I begged. “The eld man who brought me here has answered that one. By the way, who is he?" She smiled briefly. "Ob—Just old Mack. Bo’s been hare for ages. He’d say, ‘since Hee was a pup.* Doing odd jobs for the inn and ail the people around the cove." “Everyone’s handyman, talebeam and spy?" I asked suspiciously. She looked shocked and hurt. "Oh, no, Mrs. Tarter! Mack's a fine old man. It’s simply—” She « undecidedly, and then out: "He hates trickery and meanness, and so he doesn't like —well—certain people, and has been warning you against them in Me way. That lent tale-bearfr g Really, ft Isirt. He can’t help hearing what’s being mid either They all act as If tbs help had no ears. Mo one's careful around here. And perhaps—perhaps you think I’m a sneak and scandalmonger too. for saying they’d put you here to make you leave—" "I don't think anything of the kind." I interrupt, d her. "I'm truly grateful tn eM Mack aad you. Please go on telling me—what you feel I should know," "I'm going to," she assured me defiantly. "I wouldn't, if you were a man. But I think it’s a shame, putting two women tn thio tmnbleaid hawse, al alana. You. aad that Mian Bernik who’a coming te

' : MB * ‘ ,\ r K ; fiL FlrTt U. s. ARMY NURSE WOUNDED In Italy Is Lieut. Cordehj Cooks, who was struck in the arm by shrapnel fragments uh* duty under fire. She is pictured the day after receiving her wJ as she attended Pfe. Jtweph Uhrin of Latrobe. Pa., member oq artillery unit of the 34th infantry division, in a field hospital, oa U. S. Army Signal Corps photo, (laterr itm *_- . J

Christmas supper guests of Mr. and 1 I Mrs. Milton Hoffman and family. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Heller of | spent Christmas at their home in Prdble. i Mr and Mrs. Frank Coppess of I Monroe were Chris’mas dinner | guests of Mr and Mrs. Hansel Foley and son Odell. -I John Heller of Bowling Green. 1 Ohio, spent Christmas wi’A his par- • ehta. Mr. and Mm. Orville Heller. I Mr. and Mrs. V’ictor Bieberich ■ and sons of near Fort Wayne call--1 *-d on Mr. and Mrs. George BulteI meier and daughter Helen. . | Old Teachers Turn Pupils II Camp Bullis. San Antonio, Tex. — 11 (UP)— Maj. Edgar L. Bull of the

act the star part in your play. It’s so far from the theaUe and the inn Seven minutes, if you walk fatt. And if it rains, or at night when it’s dark, that’s just seven minutes too many.” I quite nereed with her. ’Mr. Alden and Mr. Vickery are at the bottom of this intrigue, because of their quarrel with Mr. Am rose last winter. Correct?” 1 helped matters along. She nodded. “Yes, Mrs. Tomer. Those two and the Parrises. At least, Mrs. Parris is mixed up with it. She had the others for tea a couple of days back, with Mrs. Kilborn. And she never asked Aer before. And after a while they sent tor Mr. Linwqod too. Mack said they had an awful ruckus with him over signing the contract to try out your — well — your amateur play here in Fem Cove.” So Linwood was on my side of the fence. Unless be'd been won over ... “It doesn’t sound dreadful at all. In fact, it’s sheer flattery, com.ng from two has-beens,’* 1 consoled my informant. “What was the outcome of the ruckus ?” “This.” Ada indicated the room and the one opposite. “Mrs. Kilborn bad these two rooms cleaned up for you and the other lady. They’re planning to make it so unpleasant for you that you’ll leave before the play opens.”

I had surmiwnl as much. “Charming people!" I commented more to myself than Ada. “But if they imagine I’ll quit or stand for their methods, they’re mistaken. I'm going to the inn and the theatre, right this minute, and fight it out" Then a thought struck me. “What about Mr. Pauken, the leading man from New York? Where are they dumping him ?’’ I asked curiously. “Oh, he! He’s a man, and lueky." AU the frustration of unwilling spinsterhood lay in Ada’s tone. “He has friends among the regular players. The Marleys. And they’ve asked him to share their cottage." Not so good. I had met Orne Paulsen, the leading man McVane had picked, only once, and without forming an opinion about him one way or the other. Still. the knowledge of his six-foot-one of stalwart young manhood, somewhere under the same leaky roof with me and the young ingenue I hadn't met eo far, would have been reassuring. There was no me crying bout it to Ada though. “I'm glad one of us pariahs has friends bora," I told her lightly. “Too bad he and Miss Barol’- aren’t here, so we could have a eouned of war before I tackle the enemy. You probably know: they are coming together. Mr. Paulsen is driving from New York, and was asked to pick Miss Barolle up at Warren Beach, where she’s been playing last week " Ada did know of the arrangement. Had been ordered to remain ia the old inn until both its lucklem guests had arrived. In fact, Ada knew a grant many things. Among others, that money talked loudly to Mrs. Josie Kilborn, the actual, if net ofßcial. boos of the Bern Cove lac. U wm more than mors infonaatM»—a timely hint coming ia heady

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I military police looked over tu who came to his stat* guard! at Camp Bullis and saw: Cm Ham E. Crossland of the W state guard, who as a majorl British army In World War been Bull's Instructor it school And Lt. Forest C 1 | of the Dickinson. Tex., stat* who had been Bull's fimt-d In the first wcrid war. ************** Waste Paper is a vital |**W weapon of w war. Save it and save some hoy’s Ute! HBh-tf MMMHMF********

a little later, when I stood itfl handsome lobby of the inn, ffl a stout, flabby-looking womsfl indeterminate age across the fl I had caught the plotting 9 Kilborn only because she hsfl idea how I looked, and mis' c for an unexpected, and »■ g new arrival. Her pasty fsc» fi saccharine smirks at first a into a stolid mask when I tc”B my name and expressed mildfl prise about the remotene- a:.;B of comfort of my quarters. ' “Sorry you don’t like your isl Mrs. Turner,” she said with s fl Yankee twang and a fishy vtafl her pale eyes. “It’s what we fl to tryout writers and actors. here inn’s for the paying custtfl come to see the shows.” ■ If ever I’d had a hard ing my red-haired temper in • fl this was it. But I managed isl how to remain ealm and politaß “That’s quite as it shouMß Mrs. Kilborn," I assented wfl hope—a charming smile “B'd J <lon’t understand me. I d- n't fl something for nothing. I'm fl than willing to pop for a at the inn, or in one of your Isl cottages at the shoreline." 4 it didn’t work. "Sorry. Ing night We’re all sold vA’fl answered curtly. , | "Os course! I’d forpe-ter’m smiled till it hurt ."But how isl tomorrow? Surely there wtiiß check-outs in the morning ’’ “Everything reserved.’’ A ms Mr. Frank Kilborn, the card* proprietor himself—popped « the manager's office in supp* his wife: teller, stouter and fl pasty looking than she. “That is—all but the <ost lux," Mrs. Kilborn dab-— playing two rows of perfect fi teeth in her malicious enjoy" of the situation. “It’s two w with a bath between, in the ’ wing. They go together snd ten dollars apiece a night. ■ wouldn’t want to pay that m would you?" The price was outrage*'os, the admission that there • rooms to be had was such at" I almost laughed aloud. “On the contrary, 111 be dr* ed to pay that much or mom assured her, delving into my » bag and pulling out a fat M bills—five hundred dollars 1 taken along in eash, in ea«e «< trust of a stranger’s ehecks take the suite for two week*. ’ room for me. and one * Linda Barolle. the your.’ Mr. MeVane is seeding. Let —two weeks at twenty • two hundred and eighty Hers! an: a hundred, two hundred t* ty, forty, sixty, eighty. There eras no answer frow hind the desk. Only silen* deep aad long it began to" me. But in the end the sight ■ much of Uncle Sam's currency F vailed. .kMrs. Kilborn cleared h«r and said thickly to her h«* “Give the lady a receip’ and to me: “You can move » time tomorrow morning The first round had gone « • (To be continued' OtartSMW w KM rwsuw M