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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Kvery Evening Except Hunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind.. I’oat Office as Second Claw Matter. 1 H. Heller Preaident A R Holthouse, Sec y. • Hua. Mgr „ Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Ring!'- Copies I ”4 One week by carrier 20 By Mail In Adam*. Allen, Jay and Wells counties. Indiana, and Mercer and * Van Wert counties, Ohio. 14 50 per year; 82.53 for six mouths; 81.35 “ for three months; 50 cents for one — month. Elsewhere. 15.50 per year; 13.00 «■ lor six months; 11.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces S 3 W per year or sl.uu for three months. Advertising Rates Made Knjwn on Application. National Representative SCHEERER A CO. 15 laixiiigtoii Avenue, New York 25 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. This Is a good time to buy your coal for next winter. It's not scarce but deliveries are difficult. Another lido bond put away this month will help you alter while and will aid the boys to wiu the war before snow flies. The only thing that travels faster up hill than down Is a forest tire. He lareful about doing anything that will start one. -0 The tire and gasoline situation can get worse. In Portugal automobiles < an be used only on Wednesday* and .Saturdays. If you haven't bought a new cat user stamp for your tar. you should be planning to do so. Thnc is up and the federal officers are checking and eventually will get around to you. I Mum ie police have put the lid on all forms of gambling. The < hid 'of polite ba. issued an order that no foirn of gambling. even the popular bingo game, will be permitted there during the annual fair. O—O (ieneial MacArthur doesn't say much but he keeps plowing right on towards the Philippines and Japan and he will gel there one of i these days. He does not intend to hit until he is teady and then he will do a good job of 11. -0 Senator Sam Jackson is in Hartford. Conn., where he will give the keynote address al the Democratic strte convention. His performance as chan man of tbc national copvenlion in Chicago recently made him a popular figure. —o Mr. Dewey is getting an uarly start for one who announced he would make a very modest campaign. He is attending the Republican governors* meeting In St. Louis this week and holding conferences along the route to aud from that city. —o Ooebbela Insists that the Nasis are a long ways from being licked and declares they can still win if they will alt stick together, lu the meantime the Russian* are advancing In Prussia and the Yanks and Tommies are making gains on the western front, it's doubtful If bls efforts to enlbuac. encourage aud inspire his countrymen wiQ have any effect. , — For • copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat ‘ KO to Loa* Bru*. UcMtauraot The Stophack on safe ««*h evening , 4c

Local printer* over th* tteie. getting ready to print the election ballot* are finding It difficult to get a newly adopted emblem lor the Prohibition party. They have changed from the "Rising Sun" to a Camel a* their emblem aud of course there are suitable plates to be used. The state election com mission is furnishing them, it is reported. -0 Federal taxes for the fiscal year 11*14 leached the record yield of 340,113 819.303, or nearly double the 1943 total, the Treasury has reported. wild individual income lax return* almost triple what they Were a year earlier. The total for the 1941 tax year, the 12-month period ended June 30. compared with 822,• 371.383,496 collected in the 1943 ti»ci-l year. Manuel Luts Quezon. 65, president of the Philippine Islands, died at a sanitarium in Seranac. New York, after a long illness. He would have celebrated his 66th birthday iu two weeks. Quezon was a friend of this nation and was one of the few to be taken from Bataan when the Japs took over. He had planned a program tor the postwar period and held the conn dem e of all leaders iu this aud hia I own country, ills death al this critical time is regretted by millions. —o The Congress, back on the Job after Rs recess on July 3. must show more foresight than at any previous time in American history If it in to direct the country on the course of progress. The time calls for statesmanship having the interest* of all groups and section* uppermost In the deliberation* on postwar measure*. The Canadian Parliament set a good example last week when, meeting day and night, it* member* approved broad provisions over the whole range of so- | dal, economic and trade problems 4hat will arise with the peace. Debate.! were conducted on high levels. with the general good of the Dominion set as the goal. Law* on postwar lamily allowance*, veterans' bencßts, taint and fishery pri'ie supports, foreign erudite, private* coustuetion loan* and civil servant benefit* were among those assured of speedy enactment.—lndianapolis Star. A Farm Hero x One of the bravest men in America is Ft auk Piper, a fanner near Ashland. He wouldn't think so, be<au*« he I* too modest and too busy to think about himself But he should be better kuown. because he I* a big Inspiration for disabled soldier*. Frank lias no legs he lost them under a train when a hoy He has no crutcbo* even, because he doesn't want to bother with anything of that kind. He run* a 156-acre farm, and can do almost anything with hu hand* that other people van do with their whole bodies. He ha» worked with farm horse* for 40 year* aud operates a tractor, handling the pedals with his hand*. He drive* a ear skillfully. He climb* around over aud under ’be horse* like an acrohat Thi* year he has planted 50 acre* of corn and oat* aud a lot of soy bean*. He keep* 21 bead of cattle and doe* hl* share of the milking. He never ask* favor* and never complain*. Aud naturally he is treated hy the whole farming community with great respect. Hut It's nothing at all, he says—he* merely doing thing* the way he wauts to do. Van Werl Tlmes-Bulletin. ——... — 0 I* COUNTY AGENT’S * I COLUMN » 2 4 ■ " «"■" /* 't4av* the mllkweM and »*ve a Ute" is the appeal -being made to •very Indiana fanner by the war food administration The lowly milkweed he* gone to war Farm--39* wRe ke.’et*|3r |gv* *r;4* t« clean teaca tew* * O d v»e4dr*e Halda, thu year can take an exLra

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pride In patches <>f mllkwieds. Milkweed* may save ’he lives of the same farm boys who pulled j thie once peHtife.'oue plant out of' their father's corn He'd a year or ‘ two ago. advises O. (• Lee. Indiana state supervisor of the milkweed program and eaten non weed ape cialist at Purdue Cnivewity. The floss In the milkweed seed pod intended by nature to act a "s.ri' and ’•parachute ’ >o spread 'he seeds far and wide Is a hal'ow. airfilled tube with a waxy coating. lu other wo,i|«. it Is a midKe* potoon. Packed into life jackets ind life lid's, these milkweed pontoons will keep a man afloat as well an kapok This latter material formerly was imported from Java for filling life jackets The V. S department of agriculture has been requested by tin was production board to collect I.s'>o.oo<i ponnde of milkweed flews his yea/ to meet requirements* of the armed forces. Since it takes three years to grow as a crop .this supply will have to conic from wild plant:. Adams County boys and girls will be given an oppoitunity to take part in the milkweed pod collection by a committee beaded by couti'y school superintendent. L. L. Haun. o Modern Etiquette I | By ROBERTA LEE Q What Is the proper position for a person to hold his head while eatius at the table? ‘A. The head should be h Id In an erect iKisition. but not stiffly Bend the body forward slightly, ot counge. when taking a bite; but the head should never be bout duwu over the plate. Q lu general conversation, wha’. • could be characterized as the two I most annoying bortw? A. The one who tries to prove he Is right, and the one who triuu to prove another is wrong. Q Is it necessary that a man hold his hat in hie hand when in a shop with a woman? A So, he treed not remove bis hat. _ — —_Q—- , Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE | Eyebrows To stimulate the growth of eyebrow#, mil 2 ounces led vaseline. ** ounce tincture of cant bar ides. 15 drops oil of lavender. 15 drop* of oil of tosemary. 'Mil well and apply with a email bruin every night until the growth la stimulated Then not ae often. Whipping Cream If the cream is too thick, place the dish in another dish of cold water. When Itls chilled, place in a dish of hot (Water and it will thea whip oapily. Lemons If lemons are placed in an air- ’ tight jar. and the jar filled with water, they will keep fresh Mor; a long time. (Midway islands were first dawned In the name of the Vnited Btatss ln iߣ9,>.• 4bout fatf agilho| dofeu pgijs ot Ilo’eo, «pd tni"ene are DOi-gUnv produced yearly lu the U. s. •**a

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WARNS PRODUCTION ICoatlßuad Frem rag* t) boost in production r-quirej for the balance of the year iu such item* a* heavy truck*, big gune. bomb*, heavy artillery, and tractor*, All major munition* group* have! completed more than 16 per cent of I their program, she said, but a "realietic valuation" of the production | program muni take Into account that there are many individual pro-( gram* in very serious dilfi- ulthe " "These, by alia large. Include the very prcgrami for which requirement* have lu-en the most deeply increased a<* a result of corribat experience in Italy and Normandy." NeUiMl said. j — SEVEN HOSPITALS (ContlDsud Fioro Pax* 1) The pilot flies to the target area and. while still beyond gun range, deteche* the Junker* from his own lighter, converting the former Into a glider bomb, which is guided

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(IMb By ROSALIND RUSSELL It I Warner Brothers star now making ' -Mk**Xougbfy Speaking" with Jack Carson >MOU.YWOOD-Don't let any ' •ore carefree moment* on the acrecn fool you; I'm really suffer- 1 from a aeriou* frustration. * Hollywood hasn't lived up | _ o to my expecta- I

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|«aqr «o. a Uttle recklcw, and above all happy-go-lucky. » Let ma aUr your memory. There | .waa the atar who had his house itjjoved, and aa the workmen moved It • inch-by-lnch down Wilahire boulevard, he threw a party attended by all the big people of the day. • And then there waa the C. B DeHille aura that waa thrown over everything. At the Vilma BankyKod Laßogue wedding, tor example, where there were miles and miles of tulle in the brides train. , r Then there waa the long cigaret holders that the sirens used the t Garbo-Gilbert kiss, and the quivering Rudolph Valentino nostrils aa he blew thin streams of smoke from them. Ab, how I loved these quivering ■ •oetrtla! , i And on all that, the certain came crashing down Before I that shimmering world had vanished. J'Jfo monkey business here. “ It wee a production line as much as Lockheed or Willow Run Tubs and growth lulled Um Hollywood I dreamed, about ? Yl> * t Hollywood started a picture

to the objective by remote control* in th- fighter'* cockpit. The junkers are packed with l.iitHi to v.imo pounds of high explosive*. but RAF' fliers described them as "easy targets" lieiause of their slow flying speed. u Former Capone Gang Member Is Murdered Bodyguard Is Also Critically Wounded Chicago. Aug. 3. tl'Pi Law rence "Dago" Mangano. termer Capon- gangster, died at Bridewell hospital early today of wounds received a few hour* previous when four unideiititied men poured a volley ot shotgun slug* into hi* car while hi- was riding with his bodyguard. Michael Ponclllo. Both men were unconsi ion* when police found them in their

and continued blithely and charm** ingly without a look at the clock or calendar. When at last it wan finished. It wan passed on to the theater, anytime at all, the picture was welcome. But no more ot that. Before I arrived chains ot pictures were built and they had to get a picture on a certain date. And another one so many days after. And then a third and a fourth and a fifth, go* ing into theaters on regular dates set months in advance. . That ended the old Hollywood, the one I vicariously lived with in .the old Garden neighborhood theater near my home in Waterbury, Conn. i It ended the leisurely tempo that made the sets more like parties than work. ( It did away with the locations that not only reproduced the tropics in appearance, but in manana spirit. It put a stop to staying In bed late if the night before ran over a bit into the dawn. All of that can he charged up to what they call production schedule, but there was another villain in the death ot old Hollywood, and his name was Sound. When he arrived, he said, "Silence.'* And Hollywood became silent. He banished horseplay on the sets. He stilled the delightful little orchestras that made music as the light hours glided by. And Instead when the time earns to cry. there was In place of mmile staccato, machine like demands; powdet your nnee, fix your hair, remember your liner, fc thf mike, all of them precise and reminding you of riveters and machine guns. Ypu get It right.* or else. And then the director says ‘•Cry!" tYou step forward and you listen for sad nauaic. but there u only silanes you think of the , old Hoilyw that a gons, and yav I cry, but good,

Lion*. 1 read and dreamed about Hollywood. 11 wa• such a dashing. Infor- ( mat and romantic place. You know, you read about it. yourself, per-! hap*, when you were a kid. A place of gaiety,’ easy com * —

bullet 1 iddled W on a *Outh -uie street. They were rutbed to the hospital but Mangano never regained consciousn-s« Both men had he-'ii wounded more than a score of limes, physi clans said, aud Pom iUo was in a) very critical condition. A girl Identlfled as Rita Reyes wa* riding with the two men. but escaped unhurt, and she wax taken to the police station for questioning She said she crouched down between the two men when the ; other car drove up and forced them

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to int* <uru • Witne»*e* said more than 13, shut* were fired all together. One I . blast was delivered when the an i .ailant raced Mangnno's car. which' > ran uncontrolled into the curb, i Then they tumid around for another run. delivering a second biast | as they raced away down the i street. .Miss Rey<* said. Polh e.said the attempted double | kilting may have been an outgrowth of the recent kidnapping I of Jack (hizik. Mangano had been]

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