Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1945 — Page 2

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GIVE NOW GIVE MORE M TT Previous reported $697.19 | Kobeft Weber, 2 Kirkhind 29.00 | Albert Beineke, 10-11 Kirkland 13.00 1 Herman Bohnke, 22 Hoot 17." c j Omer .Merriman. 36 Knot 22.< 0 ' Jerae H. May. 25 Root 17.00 Owo Hoffman. 20 Washington 30. mi 1 Glen E. Girod. 34 Preble 14.60 i Mart Selking. 25 Preble 21.00 ; Chas. A. Bttrdge. 31 I nion 7.n0 ■ Fred I’le.man. 32 Union 13.0 u Harley J. Reef. '* Jefferson 2.00 , Oswald Nyffelcr. I .Monroe 17 mi i Chas. Schenck. 30 Si. Marys 7.n0 • Wilma Andrews, part of town . , of Preble . 58.50 War jtlorfie s World Wai No. 2. Decatur . 25. mi J Delta Theta Tan 50.0 u i Histo|ical Club 5.00 , ' Total $1075.20 I ' blood Donor Sets Goal Cmlyenne, Wye (IT) Leo : Kramer hopes er ntually to han . * donated a pint ;>f blood for each of 10 leljt'ives lie has serving in the - armed force.-. So far Kramer lias donated four pints. i j

k • ,-i; J n. r < wj w ' ■KrWLJ mS? **uXt tft ■ -%.,. > ’ '■ wf x- ' IHI. n»l > ajSfHtttl " -.r^. : '... r* s ' *?s«w ■fewffA’h» uK- ♦♦ ♦ £*<H*M » lßßiiWl’l KISSING HIS BRIDE, film starlet Jo-Carroll Dennison, Miss America of 1942, comedian Phil Silvers customarily completes the ceremony in Los Angeles. Superior Court Judge Edward Brand, who performed the wedding, watches the newlyweds. (International Soundphoto) — —.— j zX®KQ D*> % ' rr _. _ Ayga, tachiiwa pt.' ■ VArS&OS- /r 5 mi b achi MT }UNE Ocean W -j-tobishi t i Milt 4 THE END OF THE BITTER CAMPAIGN for eight-square-mile Two Jima draws close now that Third Division Marines, in hand-to-hand combat, have driven a salient into the enemy's lines (1) that places our forcea about 1,000 yards from the northeast coast. The spearhead threatens to cut the Jap troops on the island in two. Meanwhile, Fourth Division units apd members of the Fifth Division pushed forward on both flanks -_- (international) o*ai9S<« ■ * ■ s o ■ a ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ B i i i** ■'< I Federal Income Tax ! ' (individual* Subject to Withholding) M There are three methods this year in filing your W Income Tax Report. ■ ■ Determine your leaser tax before you file. g jk A major change in Dependency has occurred in '* t 1944. Gee or phone me for appointment. • | LLOYD A. COWENS si -i ’■ & : <*■ M.Bt , •OB . »I. ■Bl-HBc ■■ ■■*■'■■ !■ n ■■ t 9 M■< "CM ' ttl-r flB MV M

One Os Five To File ! Tax Declarations March 15 Deadline | To File Estimate I About one out of every five inI dividual taxpayers in the Indiana , district must tile a declaration pf I estimated tax for 1945 not later I than .March 15. This is in addition I to the tiling of an income.'tax reHarn for 1944. according to Will H. i Smith, collector of internal revenue. Declarations are required in gen- ' oral from business and profession- ! al people, landlords, investors and others who expect to get more than SIOO of income (his year from sources outside of wages from which tax is withheld, and who expect that their total income from all sources will be SSOO or more. A declaration must also be filed by a wageeartier who expects to earn this year more than $5,090 plus SSOO for eve.y exemption ex-1 < ept his own. For example, a wageearner supporting two dependents must file if he expects to earn more than $6,000. However, if a person expects more than sl9ll of income outside of wages from which tax is withheld, his total income being ssoo or more, he must file a declaration regardless of the size ot his wages. : ruder these provisions, the majority of wageearners are excused ,

' Report Few Cheaters Os Midnight Curfew Ruling Generally Is Well Observed By United Frees t War inifbillzer James F. Byrnes' |- curfew order caused the usual ■ mourning around the braws rail. , but most tavern operators accepted th midnight closing philosophically with cheaters strictly in the minority a United Pi ess survey revealed today. Tile net .effect was the Mme from Geotgia juke joint to New York's swankiest night club. It there were many speak asiee operating. the word jue-t hadn't gotten around. ; Minor infringments were reported in almost every large city, but violations usually resulted from confusion about the curfew's application. Most offenders wee let off with a warning no' to let it I happen again. AU in all. the nation took the closure older In its stride, but not without the same good-natured grumbling that characterized previous' home-front controls, such as rationing and the ban on horse-rac-ing. Tiie cop on the beat eported an almc't utiiveraal decrease in minor crimes and assault and battery earns Juvenile delinquency, too. droppt d with the closure of bars, nighteluos. theaters and other entertainment spots. Nc'i.idy claimed there were no ( blinj pigs in op-ration. But mos le’t that public opinion, counled with pressure from law-abiding , .a .'a operlto s would bring an ea: \ doom to the wartime version of the prohibition era's speakeasy. | Ev n the taxi drivers were at a ( icss for an answer to th • question: j "Where .an a thirsty fellow get a ( tiring. pal?" . Package liquor buying was repo: i'd on the increase, but most pos midnight drinking evidently w.is < unfitted to stay-at-home par- j ties. Few hotels had requests for par y rooms or suites. A New York magistrate fined :5 persons, eight men and s-ven women. $-5 each for congregating n a place commonly known as a spi ikeasy." tin Fan Francisco, a tavern operator, his wife and five others w re arrested but released when they protested theirs was a I private party. Four men were arrested at Pueblo, Colo., for playing cards in a . igar store after midnight with the light going. A raid in Philadelphia netted 27 patrns. six bottles. A few -suspected cheaters were under investigation in Chicago. ’ onetime’bootleggers' M• :-ca. In the loop area, police reported a record urnout of early r-velera but had little difttcui'.y dispersing them at midnight. from filing declarations, for the reason that their taxes are kept substantially paid up by the tax which is withheld from their wages every payday. Declarations also are required from farmers who expect to ha re >SOO or more this year, but farmers—meaning persons who get more than two-thirds of their income from farming —may postpone their 1945 declarations until January 15. 1946. A March 15th declaration should l/e accompanied by a payment if a' least one fourth of the tax estimated to be due over and above any tax being withheld from the taxpayer's wages. The remainder is due in equal installments on June 15 ami Sept. 15. 1945. and Jan. 15. 1946. Special forms and instructions for the making of declarations have been mailed to all persons who filed declarations law year. Additional copies are available from the office of the collector at U. S. Pos* Office Building. Indianapolis, or at the branch offices located, in most of the principal cities in Indiana. Girls- JMhk Women are yuu MtttWfM? from loss of BUMMHROH? Hert’sOneOf Th< Best Home Ways T» Buildup RED BLOOD! You girls who suffer from simple anemia or who lose so much during , monthly periods that you arc pale, leel tired, weak, "dragged out”—this may I be due to low blood-iron. So start today—try Lydia E. PinkI ham’s TAStrrs — one ot the greatest t blood-iron tonics you can buy to help build up red blood to give more I strength and energy—in such casecTaken as directed—Pinkham's TabI lets are one ot the eery best home ways to get precious iron into the blood. I They help build up the kd ouAtirt ct the blood by rsintorclng the hMmoI globin cd red blood ceils. | Just try tinkhsm's Tablets for 30 da vs ■ --then see 12 you. tbb, don't remarkably I betefft. Fellsw 'abel direr Dens hMLMttUtVMMVS

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Daring Evacuation At Singapore Told Evacuation Under Eyes Os Jap Fleet San Francisco. Mar. 6 —(UP) — Commodore Giles C. Stedman, I USNR, described today the daring evacuation of more than 1,900 women am! children from Singapore in February, 1942. un|er the very nose of the Japanese fleet. “They were brave, very brave." Stedman said of the women and children who lined the rail of the troopship USS West Point as the onetime giant luxury liner left Singapore harbor with a rtrnvoy of hastily assembled merchant ships and a "pitiful few." screening Allied warships. Stedman, one of America's foremost peace-time sea captains ahd now superintendent of the merchant marine academy at Kings Point. N Y. told for the first time the story of the dramatic evacuation just 15 days before Jap troops entered the city. It was a "nondescript" fleet, the commodore said. It included the converted liner Manhattan, several British ships of the Em j press class, half a dozen smaller passenger ships and a "motley" collection of British. American ■and Dutch warships. "We didn't have much gtin power afloat then.” he said. And the Nips knew it and kept after us. They had planes over, us all the time." In the action, the British ship Empress of Asia was Sunk and I •he Manhattan badly damaged by a direct hit. • Malacca Strait had been closed by Japanese air and naval super-' iority, forcing the fleet to use the , narrow Banca Strait, a treachef ; ous passage between Sumatra | and the tiny island of Banca. It was almost impossible to maneuver the big ships through I he narrow confines of the strait, he said —“but we had to do it." Stedman commanded the 35,600ton West Point, in peacetime the United States Lines flagship S. S. America, largest passenger ship,

BW w *« £J .,r wH l ..—-J I u'¥' . 1 i fe-« Ww i< HBIL w ..boEHMBmI •ii ■♦‘rji® A.. 5 ; . jwjr — ■-f Ii J --- -• ~> s*a«R3?< -A?’* .J - a.V' .■"' ’ -< - - . x <?r -'■■ 2 v .x*' ■'-■ ’’:.-.. -. j AT THIRD AND BROADWAY streets in Cincinnati, the Ohio river sent water rushing into the first floort. of buildings as it rose to 62.2 feet, representing almost 10 feet above flood stage. The river appeared to be heading to disastrous flood heights when the rise was abruptly checked. (loternational) i ; r !; . : .jgiWß jByHWSEir* -wr -.- iaEraag l ~* «RS St- • g t tsggffi / £jy * 1 arKwifeg? feM? - 'r **v ' ip... z * A .is». : '<: s 't X .'. . . VWO- >■■ ■ ... - \.... ■ ' 5 1 •' ■■ ?< ■ ■ • ' ‘ - ~~- -*■ -rJbt' t* * . , A DRAMATIC MOMENT is pictured as Polish soldiers (left), taken captive in Poland By the Nazis, stand > facing their former captors, now prisoners of the U S Ninth Army in Gauweiler, Germany. The German I! trorips were members of the Home Guard defending the town. Signal Corps Radiephoto. (International)

built in this country. Throughout his recital of the dramatic sea rescue, Stedman reiterated his admiration for the women, mostly British, who kept up their courage despite constant Japanese attack. "The most distressing part of the whole business,’ he said, was when we began to move out of the harbor. Then they realized they might never see their loved ones again. It was pitiful »O see their faces." i The commodore, hero of the sea rescues of the crews of Italian steamer Ignazio Florio in 1925 I ami the British steamer Exeter j City in 1933, described tin* long. I round-about trip back to Bombay and Colombo. On the outward, trip, he said, the convoy split up. the faster ships plowing defiantly into the open China Sea. They depended on their speed to outrun the Japanese. "And it worked," he added laconically. Eight Are Killed In Wright Field Crash Transport Plunges Into Busy Hangar Dalton. 0.. Mar. 6.—(UP)—Army officials investigated today the take-oS crash of a C-60 army transport which plunged into a busy hangar at Wright Field, killing eight persons and injuring 15. • The transport, starting on a test flight, exploded as W hit the hangar yesterday. Six other planes, in-. eluding two bombers, three flghteis and another transport were de-1 stroyed. Field officers estimated damage at $3,000,000. Five of the dead were members of the plane's crew. The three other victims were in the hangar. Sgt. William W. Wilson. 30. Owensville, Ind., was one of the ; men killed. Witnesses said the plane crash 'd into the hangar on the south side ■ of the field when it failed to gain , altitude in the take-off There w.is i an explosion and burning gasoline was sprayed over the hangai and , the six planes housed there.

James Knapp Named Personnel Director Indlauaiwlis, Mar. 6. — (11’) Rep. James M. Knapp. R . Hagerstown. oldest Hoosier legislator in I point of service, today held th" I appointment as state personnel dij rector. . Governor Gates named Knapp I unsuccessful candidate for the GOl* I gubernatorial nomination in 1933 and former speaker of the house, to succeed the late Dudley A Smith, one-'tlme Indianapolis newspaperman. Simultaneous with the appoint- ! ment of Knapp, Gates vetoed a senI ate bill wlrch was introduced to I enable him to remove Smith, a I Democrat. Smith died before the ! measure passed both houses of the I legislature. c o * lb I j r O i PRETTY NOEL NEILL, movie actress, exemplifies the spirit of St. Pat- j rick’s day in a be-shamrocked sort of way, and we seriously doubt if the Irish mind, even a little bit, the position of the "topper.” (International)

Elm Gets a Boost Cambridge, Maae. — (UP) - The tallest tree in Harvard University s north Quadrangle is 50 feet from the ground, but only 30 inches tall. Since 1938. the elm tree has been growing out of a chitnuey top on the Cruft Laboratory. —"O h* ACTIVITIES OF *| | ADAMS COUNTY | 4*H CLUBS > _ — —— - ♦ Plaits are now complete for the beginning of the 1945 4-H program in Monroe township. Aites Ruth Doddridge, vocational teacher In the iMonroe high school, will be in chai’ge of the work with the assistance of the towmship 4-H committee. This committee, composed of Mt*. C. W. JI. Sehwart, Mrs. Dan Striker, Mrs. Paul LalMsiger, Mrs. Elmo Sttfcky. 'Mrs lEd Neuhaueer, Glen Workinger and Rev. E. O. Kegerrete. who represent the Good Neighbora club, the Better Homes club, and the Monroe township faun bureau, met early this year with Aliss Doddridge and helped plan the overall program and offered their assistance and that of the oiganisations they represent in carrying out the 1945 program. A genetai club will be organized for both boys and girls in all projects. Miss Doddridge -will lead the work Tn all home economics projects while these in. livestock project* will have their i'.tstructional meetings as. a county group under the various county 4-H livestock committees. (Miss Doddridge will take enrollment of those in the Monroe school this week as a pant of National 4-H week The other schools of the

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■ment cards made avaii.t,, •»»» ter the enrollment I, sanitation ' “ e . ll a U TU,. 4 i*>* club is also now ibei nu ~ ' ls t ’ l Miss Glennys Arnold, teacher tn the Berne m <harg e of :| lib vl ub < an outline of the return' “* «>e various home and a;so e::..,H a £g (J la nt our of '45 DOROTHY’S U E A UT V SHOP 703 N. Third St For appointment phone 1049, ■w. Hair Barrettes with or without initial,. PUMPHREY JEWELRY STORE MASONIC Called meeting MASTER MASON DEGREE Wed.. Mar. 7,7 p. m , Fred P. Hancher, W. M, I rheumatism) $ SUFFERERS . JOST TRY I REINER'S ] j A Proven successful for Rheunntim. Ae ■ thricis, Nenricus, Lumbago, MukuW ! 9 tfid pains, f RE£ BiJUKLK’. ! 111I II KOHNE DRUG