Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Errant Sunday Ry THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT 00 Incorporated Entered at the Decatur. Ind., Po»i Office as Second Claw Matter J. H Heller President A R Holthouae. Sec’y. & Bus Mgr Dick D Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies | .04 . One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adams, Allen. Jay and Wells counties. Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, 14.50 per year; 12.50 tor six months; 11.35 for three months; 50 cents tor one mont'. Elsewhere: 36.50 per year; 33.00 tor six months; 3135 tor three months; 60 cents for one month Men and women In the armed forces 33.50 per year or 31.00 for three months Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO 16 Lexington Avenue. New York 2 K Wacker Drive. Chicago. Hi Please get your old papers, magazines and tin cans ready for the Boy Scouts to pick up Saturday. o—o Tomorrow is groundhog day and. It’s a safe bet that whether he sees his shadow or not, he will slip back in for another six weeks. _ -o—o — Observe the "brown-out" for a few weeks until the coal crisis is over. You may not like it nor do we but what part of a war program is pleasant? o—o— The state Democratic committee is all set for the political interim between election years and plans will be made to present the tesues to the voters in 1946. O—O

Uncle Sam needs your scrap paper and tin cans worse now than ever before. We are winning the war but we cannot let up a minute. And this salvage will even be needed for some time after the war ende, so stay in there pitching. o—o Now plan to buy bonds in February. Keep the old flag flying and keep the boys at the front well , supplied with every thing they ( need. If we do that the results will be satisfactory and the war should soon be history. O—o Violators of the “brownout” are , to be fined or imprisoned, the WPB * announces, so don't dodge it. Turn off the signs and window lights . and others that are not required for public health or safety. Play it ' safe. ! o—u i Japan is slipping. That'a the , general opinion of the navy lead- ] era in the Pacific where some 3,000 , Japanese ships have been destroy- j ed the past twelve weeks. And ( Commander John 8. McCain has , sent word that is only a “forerunner of what’s to come.” O—o Maybe Harry Hopkins could stop in South America on his way home from his world tour and fix things up so shipments of black pepper ean be resumed or perhaps it would be easier to tell the OPA how badly this aeaeoner ie needed and wanted. - Over on the rim of Germany the first American division is pushing forward through seven feet of snow. Imagine the discomforts and inconveniences of those boys, many of whom have been out on the For a copy of th* Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopbaek on sale each evening 4c

treat more than two weeks straight Support them In every way possible. O—O The Indiana legislature la at the j. half way mark and with little to show for it. Perhaps the good 11 things are still in committee rooms and will come out later but it it looks now as though it will bp Just another session. -—O—o—_ 4 The roads continue dangerous be0 cause of the ice and enow and reports are that they arr worse in j the central and south part of the r state Juet now than in this sector. 5 If you are driving, it may be wise to get Information from the filling ) stations along the roads. ' —o—o I Towns and cities may seem a 1 little dark these winter evenings ' without window and display electric lights but we are grateful we 1 can still have lights in the house and for the streets and you know , there are a lot of places these days < where they can't have any. —o—o— ; According to information receir- j ed here the milk weed pods will | soon be taken up and shipped out. ’ ■ There Is only one processing plant j in the country and that’s at Petos- i key, Michigan. They can't care for 1 , t the entire crop in one week or month but are making headway j and will get all the way around in c due time. —o 1 1 Remember when the Nazi forces invaded Russia and declared they c would take it in three weeks? ‘ Three years have rolled by and now t the Russians predict they will be a in Berlin within a week. Hitler c made two big mistakes in his plans . to control the world, when he in- a eluded the United States and Rus- J sia. O—o 1

Some day the war is going to < end. Some day millions of Amer- I lean men will come home from , across the seas, and again the i danger will be faced that the 1 people of a war weary United States will wash their hands of in- I ternattonal problems. If they succumb to that danger, they will prob- , ably never have another grace per- | iod in which to muddle through a “preparedness program” such as they have had in the last two wars. —Kendallville News-Sun. —o ij Governor Gates wants to keep income and expenditures of the j state in balance. That's wise but t g also quite difficult. It’s so easy to t appropriate money without provid- c ing any means of collecting it. And when the law makers try to * find easy taxes they discover there 5 is no such thing. Just now it looks t as though the only additional levy 1 3 will be on cigarettes and what a < howl that will bring forth in due time. We can’t eat our cake and t have it regardless of the politics * of those who have the honor of i doing the carving. The observation of President Roosevelt’s sixty-third birthday ‘ 1 this week did not include the many ( brilliant ball# of previous years t but the March of Dimes was again f the biggest evidence of the desire a of the people to join in the great t effort to fight polio. The president is busy these days with other matters Os great importance to make i our people happy and the world ’ safer but the battie against, infaa- , tile paralysis was carried on by others who have long given of their ‘ time and effort to combat the dread disease. It you haven’t given to t this cause and desire to do so, you • may still send your contribution to , school or to the Red Cross or, to any of the workers. j —o— — — Through use of double bottoms i and fuel bunkers, merchant ships leaving American shores carry excess fuel to help-in supplying our i greatly expanded Merchant Marine, j Before starting return Voyages, these ships discharge their extra cargoes at overseas fueling depots or into ether ships.

Report Is Issued By Rent Director Reports On Cases Handled In Office In the past year more than 1,300,000 tenant cases have been bandied by the rent department of the office of price administration, John E. Williams, director of the Fort Wayne-Decatur defense rental area announced f oday. Os this number some 2,755 were handled by the local rent office with 740 adjustments granted. Os the remaining tenant cases, 03% were settled between tenant and landlord without requiring adjustment, and 7% are pending. "There are nine provisions In the rent regulation* under which a tenant can seek an adjustment in the rent he Is paying,” Mr. Williams said. “Os these, however, by far the greatest number of tenant caeee received come under the provision I covering cases where there has | ■been a decrease in services, furnishings or equipment." In thia connection, Mr. Williams stressed: 1. "Where premised are, occupied, a landlord muet petition the rent office before decreasing any service, furuitufe or equipment. 2. where it is impossfole to continuet minimum serviced, a landlord muet | file a petition wi’hin 10 day* after the change; 3. when premises are vacant, a landlord may, on renting to a new tenant, decrease the services, furniture or equipment, but i within 10 days after renting he must file a written report showing ’ the change." Orders adjusting the rent due to . a service decrease Can be original-; ed by the rent office, as well as on ■■ applica'ion by the tenant Ae examples of where a decrease in the rent might be ordered, Mr. Williams cited the following: "Where on the maximum rent date, March 1, 1942, for this area, the maximum legal rent included the use of a garage. Sinco that time the house has been rented without a garage, thus warranting a decrease in the maximum rent. "Or, if on the maximum rent date 'be landlord paid for the utilities, i and later this payment became the ’ responsibility of the tenant, then | the maximum rent would be subject! o a decrease.” "An obvious example,” Mr. Wil-1 Hams added, "was where a house '

or an apartment had been rented furnished on the maximum rent; date, but later was rented unfurnished. In any each case the maximum rent for the accommodations | would normally be increased.” Bays Retained As Democrat Chairman Says Ouster Action Underway On McHale Indianapolis, Feb. I—(UP1 —(UP) —Fred F. Bays of Sullivan weathered opposition to hfy chairmanship of the Indiana state Democratic committee today and indicated that ouster ac’ion was under way against national committeeman Frank McHale of Indianapolis. A dispute between Bays, chairman since 1939, and McHale a party leader since ithe outset of the Paul V. McNutt administration more than a decade ago, was revealed last night after the chairman won a vote of confidence from the state committee. The committee adapted a resolution offered by Una Seegar of West Lebanon to set up machinery for selection of national committeemen by members of the state committee. National committeemen now are elected by delegates to the national party convention. Bays denied he knew in advance of •Seegar’s proposal which would displace MCHale if carried out successfully. The resolution called for appointment of a subcommittee to study the change. Bays eaid he would call a meeting of the entire state committee when the ebb group was ready U> report. The chairman and national committeeman disagreed over the vote which sustained Bays. McHale said it was 15 to 6 in favor of Bays, while the latter said it was 18 to i. Both said one committeeman did nor ballot. Committeemen accepted a proposal to give members of the Indiana Democratic editorial association a greater voice in party councils. A group was appointed to consider the idea's demand for a full time publicity and research department within the state committee. ißays demanded the roll call on his tenure as state chairman and a large group of labor leadens, representing CIO unions, the American Federation of Labor and the railroad 'brotherhoods, appeared before the commit tee io urge his retention. Bays said the groiip represented 388,000 organized Hoosier worker*. Opposition to Bays developed while bo was in Washington recently, but it did not get into the open. An ouster resolution before a spe-

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| clal meeting of party editors was > withdrawn on the plea for harmony. Dissatisfaction over the conduct of state party affaire came to a head after the overwhelming Republican victory in November, which the CIO political action committee blamed on the failure of candidates (o support President Roosevelt in their campaigning. Walter Frtebie of the PAC said . that Bays had wanted greater support tor the President in party speeches and advertising but that other Democratic leaders had overI ruled him. o Americans have the lowest per capita cost matches in the world. The average expenditure in the U. S. is 6 mills a week or 31.2 cents' a year for matches. Turkey dinner, Hoagland Methodist church, Saturday I evening, February 3. git

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Rood To Berlin By United Press The shortest roads to Berlin from advanced Allied Unes: Eastern front: 40 miles (from Oder at Frankfurt). Western front; 296 miles (from point southeast of Nijmegen). Italy: 530 miles (from poiut north of Ravenna). * COUNTYAGENT’S^ * | COLUMN "Make' your own cracked wheat," is the advice of Mise Anna K. Williams. county emergency war food l assistant, to homemakers. It is i easy to do, and the resulting proi duct is both good and inexpensive. The wheat to be used should be . sound and clean, free from insets. ! Before it is ground, the wheat | should be washed, then spread out

in a thin layer to dry. The grind ing may be done In a household coffee mill or with the food chopper. A little experimenting will be ; needed with the food chopper to determine the blade to be used. Too fine a blade grinds the wheat into ( flour, and with too coarse a blade, ; the whole kernels of wheat tall j through without grinding. Only a relatively small quantity i of the cracked wheat should be prepared at one time, tor the presence of the germ allows the ground pro- ‘ duct to become rancid in a fairly short time at ordinary room temperatures. And after grinding, the . wheat should be stored in a clean, tightly covered container to keep out any insects. i As for its uses, this home-ground cereal may be used just like any other cracked wheat cereal. It may be cooked for a "breakfast food," i it may be used in meat loaf, desserts, quick breads, cookies, and many other products. 2.

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’February I.l^7 aBS i I ! Modern EtiquettT | _ By Roberta: lie® Q. Must every first csll be „ ed by a woman wh 0 hss moved into a n-.w whether she likes .■’j! person or not? courae it is not necessary ’ friendship that seems - 41!d< ,2 Q. What are a f ew J 1 * - con ? mcm dtehes 'hat o ne sta* with a spoon? ’"I A Soup fruit, soft deaaerta. custards t ings, all fruits aen-ed with’,2* Q What would he a 1-ngtb of time for a guest 7? main at a large reception? A. For at least a half hour. o— I Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE ’ Cleaning Light F w j Mix 1 piut of flour, 1 te lsp(tt of fuller's earth, and 1 p ® bran. Rub into the f Ur !hcriiß J then shake well and rub agaw bran alone. Shake fur ontew i and follow by brushing I clean doth The Hair Brush • To dean the hairbrush, ri I teasponful of ammonia in a j warn water. Dip the brush i | and down -until dean, then dji i cold -water to keep the bristlejst Dry with bristles down. Pears <Peare are delicious wlwi ! and aerved with cream and s* But used in equal parts with s j peached they are even more j table. — o Ration Calendar Processed Foods Blue stamps X 5 through Zi ni A2 and B 2 valid through Mardi ! Blue stamps C 2 through Gl nd ■ through April 28. Meats Red stamps Q 5 Ko, Si n) I through March 31; T 5 throughj valid through April 2s. Y 5 uit and A2 through D 2 valid M j June 1. Sugar Stamp No. 34 valid through N ; 28. Stamp No. 35 valid Fed. HR ' remains valid through June I Shoes > Airplane stamps 1, 2 and ii I hook 3 good indefinitely. Alnfl present book 3 when making |i , chase as stamps are invalid Ils moved from the book. Gasoline No. 14 coupons now good K four gallons each, through Mu 21. B and C coupons good for ft gallons. Fuel Oil Period 4 and 5 coupon ul i through Aug. 31, 19sd hare the! ' lowing values: 1 unit, 10 gall® 5 units, 50 gallons; 25 unlts.fi i gallons. All change-making a pons and reserve coupons an n good. New periods 1 and 1 a pons also valid now aud F throughout the heating year. Stoves ■ All new heating, cooking» 1 combination heating and cook : stoves, designed for domestic! ; nr installation on or abovel ' floor and for the use of oil- B i sene, gaaoliue and gas. are» ed. Certificates must be obi® from local board Used Fats Each pound of waste fat afl : for two meat-ration points. 0 — Trade in a Good • ||M Thousands Os have found tSat % JL\ gtuart Tablets »Mg g happy rebel to z symptoms o( acid u>wT gassiness, and M 6 ® . U fi / ach. Tasto I 1 Kj take—no midig, “ ftf / them—have a seed ghf and wake up in the mow’d Ski liko a 81,000,000, Gel I'¥fW Stuart TableU at yout , Illi only 25c, 00c, or SMO (jU «’s positive maßor-baAga"®-To Our Regular F1 LM Customers A new film regist 6 ' is ready — up at once! —0You will lik e l,U i developing a n printing service. HOLTHOUSE DRUG ca