Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1944 — Page 3

IPAY, AUGUST 18, 1944.

I®,SOCIETY

I s *ND CIRCLE ■ c MEET THURSDAY | ~ missionary soci»ty and I „f th*- Evangelical | .1 * combined meeting hi trial room* <’« ih,> <burch last [ ~ Tin- hi m • for ’he meeting F>’» 1 m ,..«ing was upend by the L .fni!"ii: "Faith a* the Vic- | .w-d by devotion* and I given by Mr* Karl Fuhr- | M ,’„ Jmkly.i Warrell gave a I, (tie Kirin' convention and I f H W Hard and .Mr#. Hay Lriy gave report# on the wo coiiviitioiu tooth held all Lmd park. E. ■ .'.mini' ice hi charge wan | [ran Stm-ky Mr*. Kata biddy. I Frink Lynch, and .Mr*. ClarI |i unn-Kraff. The next meetL i be belli Soptembe* 7, with I rbl Warren .*a chairman. Lbe class hrs THURSDAY L p <ia** of the Zion [j..;nai and Reformed church | n lie social room# of the Irii lart evening I \ Il A*Wwuhcer had L. ,t the program and cho#e an I- pu . The Coast of Normandy II tany She gave a very inLing description of it# lands. [. their occupation# and cusL The program waa dotted with [crimp Kinging “America the Lifui." Lnie*< wer* 4 played and prize*

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CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Friday I nion Chapel guild. Shroyer# : lake, r, p in, Phllathae Has*. E. E. Zimmer- ' man. 1:30 p m Pocahonta# Ixxlge, II- d Men Hall. 1 -1 p. tn. American Jz-gion Auxiliary. Ix--1 glon home, 8 p. m Tuesday I Delta Tinea Tuu pit n|c, Hanna ' Nuttman park. 6:10 p. m Harden 4'lwb. Ikinna Nuttman park. <:3<> p. m. 1 Wednesday •Mother# <tf world war two, Moore ’ home. J p, in. Red CroM xowiirg cent*-. legion. Ip.m. Thursday Men'# Union Prayer Service, groound floor public library. 7:30 p m awarded to Mr*. Harry Knapp, Mrs. Wm. Feller and Mrs. Lydia GerIter. At the close of the evening dellclou* refreshment# were served 4>y rhe hostesses. Mr*. A. Il Aidibaucher. Mrs. Floyd Hunter and Mm. Win Bandars. The Mother* of World War Two cltXb will have a meeting at the Moose home Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. All members are reguested to lie present and any new mender* are invited The annual Itelta Theta Tau picnic will be held at Hanna Nuttman park Tuesday evening at -iix thirty o'clock. The Garden club will have a picnic Tuesday evening at nix thirty o'clock, at Hanna Nuttman park ! All meintlMrrs are asked to bring their own tarble service. The committee in charge i* Mr*. Harold Owens, -Mrs. A. Kunuwich, Mrs. Mrs James Hoagland. M-rw CharleWolter. Mm G. Remy Bierly.

Wed in Honolulu nP A CENTRAL PACIFIC AIR BASE—Master Sergeant and Mrs. Willard 11. Houk whose marriage Mas a recent event at the First i Methodist church In Honolulu. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H 11. Appenzeller. Mrs. Houk la the former Eileen D. Row land.! corporal In the Women’s Army I Corps. Both bride and groom am on duty with the Air Transport Command at a Central Pacific air base The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Rowland. 210 S Cedar St, Hazelton, Pa., and the groom the son of Mr and Mrs. Charles Houk. R. 1. Decatur. Ind —• official Air Transport | Command Photo. Ms -Mr. and -Mr* Wm. Robert* of Willahira. O. route 1, are the parents of a baby girl, born last evening at nine o'clock at the Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed 8 pound* 6' 2 outr •• and ha# not been named. Mr and Mm. Jacob Swartz of of Bryant route 1. are the parents of a baby girl. born at the Adam# county hospital yesterday ad 8:31 p. m She ha* not been named. ——— --o-

♦- — # Adams County Memorial Hospital | .Admitted: Noble Drum. 3<H N. Four’ll St.; Carol Cole, 788 Mer-|<-er Ave.; .Mrs. Samual F. Haxard. 1 Monroe; l>. W. Johnson. 432 N Second St. Admitted and dismissed: Theodore Koenemann, Decatur route 1 Dismissesl: Miss Cherrlll Felber, Berne; Larry Andrews. Bluffton route 4; Mien Harriet Gerlier, D—catur route I. .«.n-, ■ -nr ■ 0-.. _ . Isogals Miss SiM-ana S.-lb-meyer of Elkhart, has been vkslt liik relatives here this week ■Mr. and Mrs. Ira Cutting of RockI ford. 111. visited here several days I going from here to Frankfort for a visit with Mrs. Cutting's sister. I Mrs. Clayton Jewett. ‘Mrs. Gerald W. Schlickman re- | turned from a week’s trip to Today’s Pattern W'V 9294 T J ■ M7IS / \ I. .0 / I A 10 ” MARIAN MARTIN Here Is that practical front-but-ton jumper you've been looking for. Pattern 0294 has slimming simple linos; long or short-sleeved blouse. Pattern 9294 comes In si ret. 12, 14. 1«. 18. 20; 30. 33, 34, 38. 38. 40. 42. 44. 48. 48. Site 38. jumper. 3 yds. 39-in.; blouse, 1% yds. 35-In. This pattern, together with a nedlework pattern of useful and decorative motifs for linens and garments. TWENTY CiNTS Send TWffNTY CENTS in coins for these patterns to the Decatur Dally Democrat. Pattern Dept. IM N. Jefferson St.. Chicago 80. fit. Write plainly SIZE. NAME. AD. DRESS. STYLE NUMBER. Send FIFTEEN CENTS more for the Marian Martin naw and hlgger Summer Pattern Book 32-Pagec eaey.to.make styles. Free pattern printed In book.

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U.NCEE Anhisr (Ted) Bolinger M.M.M 3/c, i ha# returned to Nhw York after epi-ndlng a ten day leave with hi# mother, Mrs. Noble IVrutn •Pvt Robert L. August, formerly stationed at Fort Knox, l^y, left last evening for Fort Ord. Cal., after >,-pending a 12 day furlough with hl* wife and son. He was accompanied a»i far a* Ixmiaviii- Ky.. I*y his wife, Mrs. John Barkley, and Mrs. Herman Girod. Lieut, and Mrs. Charle# It. Ehinger have arrived in Fort Wayne from Clearwater. Fla., driving their - car through. The lieutenant ha# a . IS-day leave and will report back to the Florida camp for moving orders. Mm Ehlnger will remain In Fort Wayne for the present. They will visit here In a day o* Uwo. Pfc. Leo Feasel of Fort Worth. ! Texas, is spending a IWay furi lough at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Heber Feasel of First street. A Paratrooper Fort Benning, (5a.. Aug. 18. Pvt. William W. Harrod, son of Mrs. William Harrod. 115* Schiremeyer I street. Decatur, ha* won the right ' to wear wings and boot* of the I United States army paratroops. He has completed four weeks of jump training during which time he made five jumps, the last a tactical i Jump at night involving a combat problem on landing Jumping at the parachute school has been steadily developed to a ■ recognized war science. There is ’ less than one percent chance of in- ! jury while jumping at the school. o BATTERED GERMAN (CoatlasM Pf«ss rsgs D Allied headquarters refused to - locete the most advanced spearheads. but German accounts told 1 of savage tank tight Ing last night around Saint Arnould, barely 22 miles southwest of the city gales i on the main Chartres-Paris high- ■ way The itossibllity remained that Patton’s rough riders might swing suddenly northward to roll up the flank of the German forces fleeing from the Normandy p<H-ket. but all indications were that they were striking straight for the capital i and that its fall might come at any moment. Vendome. midway between I Tours and captured Orleans fell to the onrushing Americans, completing the Isolation of southwestern France from the Paris area and other American units mopped up scattered German resistance on the Orleans-Paris road just beyond Orleans I'nited Press war correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported from the front that there were signs the Germans might quit Paris without a fight, declaring it an open city and fulling hack to the east (tank of the Heine. An unconfirmed report broadcast by radio Morocco said Pope Plus XII was negotiating with the belligerents to save Paris from destruction as he was said to have done for Item#. Headquarters spokesmen emphasized. however, that the complete annihilation of the German armies lackeonville Beech. Florida where she visited with her husband Gerald W Bddickman. M. M M J/c. He wa# advanced to that rank receu'lv. Mr and Mrs Noble Drum and son# Xddle and Ted have returned from a week's vaca'ion at a northern Indiana lake Among those attending the watch lower convention held in the eighteen largest cities in the U. 8. trnsn August 8 io 13 inclusive were Mr. and Mr# Rufford Brodbeck and daughter Evelyn. Mrs. Alb.-rt Burke and daughters. Rosanna and Bonnie, Min* Marian Miller, Miss Kathryn Isch. Ml*# Judy Miller, Glenn l#ch and Harold Martin. W. G 'Plckrel. of Dayton, Ohio. Democratic candidate for U. H. Senator from that state will *peek at the Van Wert fair at #ls next Wednesday evening Miss Mildred Niblick returned yesterday from the Chicago markets. where she bought fall merchandise for the Niblick store. Dan Niblick has returned from St. Ixiuis. Mo, Indianapolis, and Chicago, where be spent several days visiting the markets. ■Mr and Mrs* Robert Gas# and children, and :he Leo Ossa, family tit Huntington are *p**nding a week’s mention M Maxlukuckee lake al Culver. (Mrs. E. F Gass ha# returned from a two months visit with her aon-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mi# George Andrews and family of Mishamaka. Mi. Audrwws and children, Carol Sue and Richard, accompanied her home for a visit.

Met in Italy :* " iMj ■V — an . K B V', 'U Sgt Otto Baker, (righti son of Tisi* Baker of ll>-< atur route one. and Pvt. Gartii Journay Hefti of this city, recently met in Italy, where the above picture was taken. Tile background scene was not explained. Sgt Baker entered the service In November IM2 and has been overseas for 18 months. His wife and daughter. Janet Elaine reside in Bellmont park. Pvt. Journay’s parents, Mr and Mrs. Orla Journay live in Portland. He entered the army in December 1942 and has been overseas for 14 months. His wife and son. Harry J., reside at 815 N. Second street. in northern France was the primary objective of Hen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Allied forces, rather than the capture of Paris. Field Marshall Gunther Von Kluge appeared to have averted the threatened destruction of his seventh army in the Normandy jiocket by a masterfully executed retreat, but his decimated divisions were lieing herded eastward all along the 135 mile front toward what might become an even greater disaster on the Seine river line. But Dad’s A Lieutenant Fort Smith Ark.-<UP>—Nurses and doctors did a double take but they were right the first time. For the infant daughter of Lt. and Mrs. D. C. Barber, born recently, came Into the world with one tooth and another one about ready to claim recognition.

Go ItoaiinK on Shroyer Lake.

--jr 4 .2 ,-*<rr j THESE FRENCH WOMEN In batth dress chat in a street of Gulncamp, France. Members of th« French Forces of the Interior, these feminine warriors act aa guides, scouts, etc., and assist in mopping up Germans in the captured towns. (InlttnHiontl)

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Five Youths Admit Murdering Marine Marine Veteran Os Two Wars Is Slain Boston. Aug 18 il’Pi Five teen-age Roxbury boys confessed today to the murder and robbery of Marine Sg4. John F Pruuty. 40. of ihe south end whose body was found beside a bridle path in Fenway Sunday. Police Lt. John J. Walkins revealed the confessions as er the boys had been questioned separately for hours. He said all would be arraigned in Roxbury district court on murder and robbery charges. The (toys, one of them 1G and the other 15. confessed that they tackled Prunty. a husky marine veteran of two wars, as he strolled along the bridle path, battered hlin unconscious, and then strangled him with his own belt. They admitted that they robbed him of 8128 money which he had received a few days earlier when he was honorably discharged from the marines because of his age - 40. It was the free spending of the loot in Roxbury stores which directed suspicion to Ihe quintet. TWO TEACHERS (Ceattsae# rrvm rags 11 perience as a teacher. He is a graduate of Wittenberg College. Springfield. Ohio, where he also took post graduate work and at Cincinnati University and North Manchester College toward a master's degree. Miss Weldler will teach English 10. 11 and 12. She is a graduate of Ball State college. Muncie and has 36 credit hours toward her master's degree at that institution of learning. She resides In Monmouth with her brother. The changes in the high school faculty will be effective with the new school term, which will open September 5. O Tomato Harvesting Underway In County The harvesting of tom ttoes Is underway in the county and the depot in the Everett and Burdg building on Elm wtreet I# open. Cecil Harvey, field manager for the Crampton cannerie#, is In charge. L E. Airbbold. county ax nt. *aid

These Little Pigs Went to Market A- Wt Jb <bS * jkbmt Never have so many hogs gone L> market the first Patriotic farmers and ranchers are to be conpart of the year as in 1944. There have often t>een gratulated upon the big production job that they days when large numbers of hoga went unsold have done despite shortages of help, equipment, at the markets, due to a shortage of help. This and other restrictions. has meant extra marketing costs to hog producers. We pledge ourselves to continue to do everyMeat packers have also carried over from day to thing we can to handle these record runs of live* day larger numbers of hogs than usual. One week- stock as promptly as poasible. end, Swift & Company held over more than 150,000 live hogs, which could not be slaughtered We h * ve for “* foUowin « fih “ : that week. Such carry-overs mean additional Nation s Meat expense to packers because of shrinkage, feed OWf,lin 4 < hickena, U.S. A.** costs, cripple and death lomum, etc. “Livestock and Meat” In 1943, all meat packing plants operating un- Please feel free to ask us for them; der federal inspection slaughtered; __________________ _ 63,431,000 hogs 23363,000 lambs SWIFT & COMPANY This is more livestock than has been slaugh- CHICAGO 9, ILLINOIS tend under federal inspection in any one year heretofore. But during the first six months of 1944, there were slaughtered approximately: 39 per cent more hog. 61 per cent more calves w w r . ... Ntotri ams 22.600 otAer concanw and Mdwid24 per cent more cattle _ . . eels ** n •iaughur htwstoc* cea»ai«rei«Rv. 5 per cent more iamtM than in the same months of 1943. a Buy more Wax Bonds-bold what you ha vel *

that the tomato crop this year was the l»eM In yean#. The dry weather did not damage the tomatoes. He -aid that If a heavy front held off ■ iirttll asbout the middle of October, ■ that the crop should average seven ion* to the acre. About l.it'si acres of tomatoes are grown in the county, including ■ th«.<e for the Naas cannery ax Gei neva. formerly known a# the Lim-b-rlrart cannery. Tomatoe, grown : in the nor'h halt of the county are I largely shipped to the Crampton ' tanneries at Celina. Ohio. o__ 18 MEN LEAVE 7-nt!nu«<l From was* 1) Claud Junior Harvey. Way in- Sylvester Fisher. Bill Jean Dixon. E<lward laruis Bulmahn, Warren Elmer Schmitt. Virgil Dale Neuenschwander, James Lewis Rice, Arthur Edward Franz. Wayne Cloyd Nelson. Frank Rioz Hernandez. and Russell Paul Miller. The latter volunteered for immediate .Induction and is now in active I service. ....., .q,...,. Dewev Names Dulles To Meet With Hull Albany. N. V.. Aug 18 —(UP)— , Gov Thoma* E Dewey. R-puitllcan | presidential nominee, named John Foster l»uii<# today to represent him ala conference with secretary of state Cordell Hull on ptst-war international plan*. ■ 11 ■ I ••■■■ o ■- — ■' .... No Open Air Service ► Here Saturday Niqht i Officials of the Ducatur minis- , terlal a#socl<*tion announced today that the weekly open air meeting. , held on Saturday evening* on the . court house square, ha# been hu*i pended for this we«k only because of the auction school sale. i i o Brig. Gen. Wharton i Is Killed In France 1 Washington. Aug. 18 —(CP) — Th- ll#t of American gen-ral# killed in action In War II stood at sevI en today with the war department announcement of the Jeath in France of Brig. Gen. James E. Wharton. 49 Wharton, >who wa« chief of the 1 officers branch of the personnel dl- • vision, army general staff, before : going to France, was fulfilling an unannounced .isslgnment ax the ' time of his d-ath Aug 12 i The war department gave no dej tails except to say that Wharton I had been killed in action. His wi-

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dow. who Ilves at Stranton. Va., has be»-n notified. Paris Radio Silent As Allies Approach London. Aug. 18 —(UP) —Rmlio Paris failed to transmit its usual programs today and the London Hally Nkeich reported that the station had been seised by dissident German HH officers who broadcast an appeal to the Wehrmacht last night to revolt against Adolf Hitler. Though the revolt call was not reported by other Allied listening posts, the station's failure to follow Its customary programs Indicated something unusual was underway in the French capital as American tanks and troops neared its western outskirts. ■Money in circulation in the U. R. Ju4y 31 totaled #131.31 for every person In the country, o- a new peak of #17.94(5 million.

MOTHER GRAY’S SWEET POWDERS Rm m»rtt*d It-* ronddenr* of 't/ n>'>th<-r« l-r more than 45 >»ar». Gori for children who *ufb-r occasional ronatipation - and for all th. family nhen a pl*aa>n(iir. acting lasntis* » rumaisl. i'ackag* ot IS eaay-to-take powdera, 35*. Il* aura to aak tur Uul>>rr<lrafrS<rt*t I’urrtirrt. Al all drug Hurra Cauliua: uaa only aa diraclad. GET 4 WAY -JJ RELIEF WITH Bisma-RexO 1. Neutnlizes excct* nom»<h Kid. 2. Helps reduce g«s. 3. Soothes irrititcd stomteh. 4. Relieves heartburn. Why not get Bisma-Rex today Be prepared to combat the discomforts of acid indigestion when it sirikes again. 4 J * ozs. a JUSH MOOuCT 50c SMITH DRUG CO.