Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1944 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Pabliahsd Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DEC ATV R DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated •stared at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office m Eooond Class Matter. H Deller President A R. Kolthouso, Soc’y * Bua. Stgr Pink D. Mellor Vlce Prealdent Subset iptlon Rstea Single Coplec. 1 .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adama, Allen, Jay and Walla tountles, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, 34.50 per year; 32.50 for six month; 11.35 for three months; 50 cento for one month. Elsewhere: 35 50 per year; 33.00 tor six months; 3165 for three mon the; 60 cents for one month. Men and women In the armed forces 33 50 per year or 31.0 C tor three months. Advertising Rstes made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, Now Tork 25 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. Bl'Y BONDS TODAY It will take some greater effort to meet the quota of 31-430,000, —o The weeds are growing rapidly these day* and unless they are cut soon, will be spreading seed over the ib Igbborhood. -0 Van Wert county Is over the half way mark on their bond sale and are confident they will make it. How about Adams county? —o It look- like Roosevelt again and again and again and again. So far there is absolutely nothing on the horizon to prevent his nomination unless he flatly and it's getting late for that. —o The Republican national convention is in session in Chicago with Governor Bricker of Ohio causing the Deweyites a little sleeplessness but the forces go marching on with confidence. If we don’t buy bonds the government will have to resort to some other means of raising the money needed to finance the wai. That may be a lot tougher. This is not a threat but just a reminder. Buy the issue of bonds that best fits your situation. If you don’t understand them ask your banker or any of the workers who are soliciting in the Fifth campaign. There is a bond that ought to just suit you. —o Yep, the hot weather is here but its probably no hotter than it is in many sections over the world, the South Pacific, India. China. s’rance and other placea where our boys are so busy they don’t even have a chance to think about the weather. » Indications for a good crop this year are better now than a month ago. Wheat fields are golden and To the People • of this Community™ Time Is a vital weapon in the war. The clock will not stand still while you make up your mind on your government's urgent appeal x —I. w. to Invent an C t ■» 9‘ r—> A additional I.A }f* * I 6100 iti cash r \\W 111 I 1 n yo u r I \ vFfc// I country's L-Aillw/ , I future, your r‘'\ \ / I future end ■o*4' ■■■■ 1 n your ■ ,otl 1 or a JUXmI brother’s Mffi ra iv'.'.l life. Every an invasion operation takes a heavy toll in men and VMChintoS.' Every hour 10 million more dollars are needed to keep our armed forces supplied and fighting. Supposing the fighting fronts decided to take a rest. It wouldn't be long before Hitler and Tojo would be on their way to their dream jroal of bpmbing you out of your Tour money to needed desperately in this war now. Every extra War Bond you own to another blockbuvstr or another ambulance whichever way you prefer to think about it. Every extra War Bond is on an errand of death to the enemy or salvation for an American fighting man who may be some one from your own home. But you haven't days or even hours to dilly-dally as to whether to toe or not to be » good etttaen. which means putting all you can. evwythlM above btrt uvtzic cxnemei into War BcMbodv u * L. THB WMTOJt

harvesting will start this week oats Is light, corn and soy beans look good and Adams county may yet have better than an average yield. —o Governor Henry F. Schrlcker will speak at the Farm Bureau picnic at Lehman grove, Berne, at 1:30 p. m. July 2nd. A large crowd is expected to attend the picnic which will continue through the day and In which the 4 H dubs will also participate. —o U. S. bonds are the best investment the whole world affords and that's (specially true for we who live in America. We not only draw interest on the money we loan the government but he protects every investment we have. Please buy more bonds. —o— What's become of Hitler? It's worrying a lot of folks in Germany as well as in the lowlands and other sections of Europe. He has taken no part in the campaign on the Weatern front as far as can be learned and many believe he has been banished to < ibersalxberg by his military leaders. —o Bank bandits are operating in Indi, na again and should be wiped out before they get a good start Otic of them describes himself as "worse Hian Dillinger." Federal, state and local police officials should combine to mak«* it so hot for these men who kill and rob that they will soon be safely taken out of society. —o Japan will feel the strength of the American air force soon. Thousands of plain's of every kind will soon be bombing that country according to official observers. It ought not take long to convince them they are up against a strong Allied power that will not quit until they (the Japst have surrendered vmcMdHiouaily. —o Some one suggests that Herr Hitler be banished Io the Sahara desert where the Arabs live and rarly say a word. They just relax under the hot sun and keep quiet. That might be punishment for one who has spoken so often and so long as Hiller but on the other hand he might organise them and get them talking to make up lor lost time. —o At this time it appears evident that the public believes the Republicans of Indiana missed a great opportunity to Insure their success in the fall. Whether or not they tossed away the election remains to be determined They have, at least, bungled sufficiently to insure a close election In which the hand! cape they have unnecessarily assumed may be too gr&at to be overcome.—Farmer’s Guide. —o Republican leaders are studying their platform planks and the others will do so later, which is the right way to do it in a democracy. It should state exactly what they faor and how they propose to carry out their promises. Later the Democratic platform will be written and the same process should be used. After all It’s the people's business and they liave the power to control government if they wish to do «o and give it thought and effort. —o \ Nature Aiding: The American people have good reason to expect an abundance of major crops. The country as a whole was blessed with good growing weather last year an dtbe production record assured food for oty armed forces, the civilian imputation and iend-teaao to our Allies. Concern was felt early this year over the prospective yloitt. due to shortage of farm labor and uncertainties of weather. Preliminary nsports indicate an 'unusually auspicious concurrence

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COURT HOUSE Estate Cases 'A petition was filed by the administratrix to sell the real estate of George W Dunbiu. Summons were ordered issued to the sheriff of 'Lake county for Edna Mae Durbin. returnable July 20. Summons tnotM were ordered issued to the sheriff of Allen county for Wanda 'Durbin, retuinable July 20. 'An application for letters of administration <was filed by Walter J Bookman In the estate of Vivian G. White. P.'iwonal property was estimated at IROff and reai estate none. A 'bond in the eum of 32.0<'0 was filed da-tters were ordered Issued subject to the approval of the of events. The largest winter wheat crops since 1937 and the heaviest spring yield since 192 S have been predicted, based on governmental estimates on June 1. Kansas agricultural experts have gone on record as predicting a 3,000.000.W0-bushel corn crop The weather has been kind to Hoosier farmers. A state survey shows the corn U up to good stands and its condition satisfactory. Wheat has had only minor blight. The average for oata is fair. Garden truck is in good condition. Raspberries, cherries and peaches are abundant. Our people should be humbly • hankful that favorable weather will assure the food supplies needed for the drive to victory.—lndian apolta Star.

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I court. Nathan Nelaon appeared for 'hi* estate •An application for letters of administration iwaa filed in the estate of John Ji Reed by Henry B. Heller. Value of the personal progierty was placed at 33.U00 and of the reai estate at 32.000. Marriage Licenses (Howard W. NusKbaum. route one, Berne, farmer and Etnma L. Marquart. priyate secretary. Decatur. Q Twenty Years Aao * i Today ' June <26 Nine <«ndidat?s at the Now York 'Democratic national convention. including Smith. McAdoo, I'ndenwood and 'Ralston. Twenty Adams county boy* go to Camp Knox, Kentucky to take 30day military training. IHenry and Daniel Gilllom of Bluffton file suit agalnwt the town ot Berne, demanding 32.000. balance claimed due them for drilling two water wells. 'Hundred* of children are enjoying the junior section of ehautauqua. Daughter l>oru to Mr. and Mrs. James Cowan of North Second street. The Melching elevator at Ossian ia destroyed by fire with a losw of 115,000. 0 Modern Etiquette I I By ROBERTA LEE | Q. What is the correct way <o handle a spoon when eating soup? >A The farther edge of the spoon should be ditqx'd into the soup with an outward motion, then taken Into the mouth from the nearer edge of the wpoon. Q Is it proper for a man to seat

a woman at the dinner table? A. Yon, and if he is near the hostess. he should seat her firm. When dining in public places, the waiter usually performs this service. Q How far from the edge of the taible should the knives and fork* be placed? 'A. About one inch from the edge of the taible. 0 The steel in one washing rnachIn ■ 'will make six 3-inch shells. — o — z j * v i ta - w* •» SMIUNG Marina Lt. Mitchell Paige embraces his wife, Stella, in Mc- , Keesport, Pa., as he greats her for ,the first time In more than three 'years. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for singlehandedly hold'ing off a large number of Japs ‘threatening an American position Jon Guadalcanal, m (International)

Relate 50 Years Os Service With Paper Man Known Here On Cincinnati Post An Interesting account of Wil. Ham Henry Bihlman's 50 years of service with the Cincinnati Post, has be*n received by his friends in this city. Although Mr. Blhlman was never a resident of this community, he is very well known here because of his many visits. His wife was the former Emma Linn and is a cousin to about 20 per. sons in or near Decatur, including .Mrs. Louisa .Miller of W. Monroe street and Mrs. Susie Reppert. both of Decatur. Mr. Ilihlman’x wife's mother was a Borne and the Bihlman's have attended nearly every Borne reunion held here the last Sunday in July each year. He and his wife made is a custom to visit here for a week or so almost evehy year. The account of Mr. Bhiman's service Is contained in a publication called '‘The Postman” Issued by employes of the Cincinnati Post. He will be 70 years of age September 13. has been married 44 years and has three children and six grandchildren. He began his work on the Post before he was 20 years old and has been helping keep the lino, types running since. One of his earliest jobs was "running ' metal for the linotypes. It was neces. sary to melt down a two.ton pot and 80 ingot pans every morning. The "Postman" gives many accounts of the early day*, including one dr-scribing the efforts made by the operators to get out of a narrow door all at once when the steam driven engines "went wild."

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CHAPTER ONE AGAINST THE pure azure of the < sky, the red, white and blue of the flag flying from the tower atop the City Hail were cleanly bright The 1 four corners billowed broadly, al- 1 most without a flutter in the warm October wind. It was very warm for October, , yet it seemed to Beth Kinnan, | whose eyes had strayed too often 1 from her typewriter in Judge May- • field's office to the never-ending line of men coming and going to and from the registration office in the City Hall, that a chili, blown across ths seas, had laid its clam- . my hand upon the brightness of the day. The line, stretching halfway ' down the block, seemed never to ' diminish or change. They had been coming like this steadily since 8 o'clock, men from the mills, from the offices and stores, from schools and street corners, all the youth of ; Pennington. Prom where she looked at them. Beth could not read what must have been in their faces, but drawing on some inner knowledge, she knew that there stirred in their breasts, mixed with the blankness of answered questions, a kind of excitement that no woman could feel They, too. must realize, as she did, that from this day on their lives and the lives of their womenfolk would be changed. Something for which, disdaining to call it fear, she had no name, boiled within her. It was an inarticulate mingling of anger and helplessness and sickness over what had happened to the world, to her world. She folded her hands In her lap and lifted her gaze to the sky above the flag. Serenity, an outward lie, seemed to encompass her, written in the thoughtful pose of her braid-bound ashen hair, In the stillness of her slender figure, in a kind of sweet sadness about her mouth, which was too broad for mere prettiness. , "Day dreaming again?" Peg Woodruff, the nurse In Dr. Laney's office across the hall, had spoken from the door. Beth shook her head and once more she looked through the window to the dark line of men, drawing the other girl's glance. Peg sighed. Dreary prospect, isn't It?” she asked. "Not that there ever were enough men in this place. Now there’ll be less, it would be fun, though, if the government would put up a training camp near here, wouldn't it?" Beth amiled wryly. 1 don't think there s anything about it that would be fun. Peg." “Shueka, honey" Peg perched on the judge's desk. “Things are just beginning to pick up, come alive La this country. Lots more money, better jobs, men being moved here and there. Mostly b.-re, I hope." And our men going to camp." ' lon < T ” Pet demanded- One year, that's all. And everyone automatically released from service when he’s 28. Camp s going to be good for a lot of them, Beth's eyes, that were the color • “Mull’s wing, darkened beneath her closely-drawn brows as ***• don ’ 1 “no* that it win be for only a year, We W*y go to war . . •** ““ “*ads ua.

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Lunch was served each noon by a man who brought in the food in a big wash basket. Extras were published every time "someone saw a chimney smoke or heard a gun -Il >t.” Mr. Blhlman Is now head machinist for the Post. l Household Scrapbook I | By ROBERTA LEE | Skin Tonic Make a mixture of '£ pint alcohol. 2 oz spirits -if spirits of ammonia. 5 oz, sea salt. 'iT.l—-jiwaß..u.iminsau »■, mj,. ■ ,

we'd lick him in short order, and it'll be exciting. I'll probably be an Army nurse, and you. Ever think wliat fun it would be to be a hostess at camp, Beth. You'd look cute in . . Beth interrupted. “Please don't Peg!’* Peg drew her mouth down. "Anybody would think you had a sweetie about to be snatched from your arms. Or have you?" Beth felt the warm blood come up In her throat She HAD been thinking that she was glad Jim was 31. She said, “What I've got to think about now is a lot of letters to be filed." Peg slid off the desk. “I just came in to give you a couple of messages. Your roommate rang up. Wants you to stop at the Rosebud Shoppe and pick up one of their sale dresses. As long as its 'smooth black’ anything will do. Me, I wouldn't want any other girl to buy my clothes." "It's a habit with Andrea," Beth said absently. •‘Like letting you cook her meals, keep house and play personal maid?" Beth smiled. "You’ve got Andrea all wrong, darling. I like doing things for her. She's practically ail the family I have, although we re only second cousins." Peg shrugged. "It's not my funeral," she said. “I only hope that some day you don’t wake up and find yourself sorry that you give her all the icing on the cake." The telephone across the way rang and Peg went out. pausing at the door to say, "The other message was from your heart-throb, Jim Ronald. Not a message really, just said he was back from Maryland and would call you later." “My heart-throb?" Beth said, turning her face so that Peg could not see IL No one must ever see what she felt must be in her eyes when she heard his name, least of all Jim himself. It had been there, she thought, ever since she’d first met him, and some day he would see it. Some day the song would not be locked up in her bosom any longer, but Jim must hear it first, and he must name that day. Perhaps—and her heart seemed to leap as she thought of it—this would be the day. The letters on her desk forgotten, she left her memory drift hack over the three years she'd known him. As long as she lived, she would remember that first day he'd come into the office to see the judge. She thought then that he hadn’t even noticed her, as she stole glances at his tawny head bent over the papers in his hand. She was 24 then, beginning to wonder, in the wholly incredible fashion of girls of her age, if any man ever was going to make her heart jump by just looking at him—and then it had jumped. It had never been quite even in its beat since then, not when Jim was around. He had been around since that afternoon, for on his way out he had stopped, In his strangely shy and y«t bold way, and said, "Do you ever take pity on strangers? And. if you do, will you go to a movie with me tonight and talk to me. and let mo talk to you? I've been here a month and I know no one." It had begun the way it should, with friendship, and had grown with companionship into. . . into? Beth, remembering all the things —— - - .-igr ... .rp iii y -a. i —

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since, whispered to herself, 1 I'm sure.” This trip away this week, hadn't told her where he <ru ifg. or why, but her hear. ’.<s! much, and her imagination. It i for a new job, a better tm, more pay than he get in the I engine, r.rg ; artnic.it. Ajob* a salary on which he could sups a wife. He was thinking about a* One by ore little things cast of her memory. The thrngß b asked her about the coat of iu ing up the apartment she th with Andrea. The night beta* around to see the new de.flopn on the h< igl'.ts and asked terif liked the little Cape Cod evils She closed her eyes, wonfa how he would say it at this 1 last. She was g!a 1 that »M kind of a man who would watt say the things he had held i because she knew so well he st not be the km ! of a man ton girl to live loss comfortably I she was H'.n.f with Andrtl, 1.00 honorable to speak ha low til he could B*-k her to many I It would surprise Ar. Ires, she had been careful not to let drea know. And that someti had be en difficult, for now, dw this past year, when Jim ard drea had got over their first a. dislike for each other, she tried tn make their meetlßp'J somes, wanting the two pecfb loved best to like each other The letters to be filed. She I think of that, and not of the ning ahead, but her tteg pushed on an.! they went kJ the evening into the future. A tore that was no longer certai was as if there wire a c® ahead Some d.iv. and she won with a little shiver what it • disclose m the way of •*» 1 world, that curtain would «• America- ~ _ Once upon a time a gin ' know what the years sbe»" hold for her A Cape Cerf : little Jim and a little Be.h W ' for her children, holx.ay«> ' family, advancement in ! the quiet long years a..ea4 Beth’s head came up proW; [ she thought, 1 will r.rtbejn 1 anything if I have Jm W , ment. All my life I * ' prepared to meet 1 And tl.cn the UlepMM ’ and it was Jim. “Bethie. 1 ve tremendoui « 1 "Good?” she asked. . ••I hope you 11 think ’ and said. "" >ll , .- "Yes. Jim. but "That s all ngnt. p 1 got to hear it. too. ; * yes, B.’”. lh " u \ ht h TUri , the first V> ,;c * r % rJI! > di4a fl ‘ P shat And'ua^ 1 not sure that Anu 1 J *For n moment ’ own wild an ' ir ‘P n ,l'b r 'w SM sei.tledon !; : J y. worried about ’ j ; wus probably ' and she sighed, w J ever approved oi . beaux. ♦t.mic'nt 01