Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1945 — Page 3

IHPAY, MARCH 10,1945.

'.SOCIETY

By homemakers has || NG THURSDAY ■ iHanpy Homemakers club [ the home of Mrs. Sheldon ■ Thursday evening with Lemurs present. The meetftg opened by dinging the E’ the month “Auld bang l a nd singing of the club ■ followed by repeating the | PP( I Roll call was answered | ng an Irish joke. I Gale Cook, the president, L over the short business at which time the mehiEted to make a contribution I local Red Cross drive. The I then gave an interesting ■on nutrition. Birthday offerJere received Iby Belva Behind Evelyn Adler. ■ next meeting will be held I !10 nie of June Bollenbachgr leva in the form of a "Break|t Sardi’B.” Every member is Ito bring a comical looking Id a good joke. It was decidL to take a friend as was jusly announced. Imetnibere are requested to It the Coppess Filling station L o’clock and go in a group. Ely refreshments were servIthe hostess, assisted by Mrs. Lli Mitchel and Mrs. Russell 81. I ti I. Russell Baumgartner of Lead No. 33 will be hostess b members of the fireman’s ary Monday evening at sevrty o’clock. Delta Theta Tau will have a >ss meeting Tuesday evening ht-thirty o’clock at the Elks and on Wednesday their soneeting will be held at the location at eight o'clock. ! regular meeting of ithe Woof the Moose will be held day evening at seven-thirty k at the Moose Home. , W. S. of C. S. of Beulah el will meet Wednesday with Wade Mdßarnes for an all leeting. s. James Kocher, Sr., will be ss to the ladies of the Shakee- > club next Wednesday afterat two-thirty o’clock and Mie. Sutton, Sr. will be the leader. &lOCALS , and Mrs. Thurman Goldner, recently purchased the Ed gler farm on route 2, Decatur,

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g By HARRISON CARROLL ■King Features Syndicate Writer BOLLYWOOD—The year’s boldg impersonation of a movie star Reported from Birmingham, ■ere the pretty wife of a foundry I » worker tried to pass herself off as Gail Patrick in the star’s IK I: home town. She 11 ad the bad nKwfe luck to run into a friend of the ? family, Ga i I’s mother, Mrs. L. C. Fitzpatrick, summoned jS. % A'fe:| an attorney and ■KbMHB descended upon larrison Carroll the hoax artist, whose only expiation was that she often had * n mistaken for Gail and had deted to have a little fun. The “h” is over now. Will Hollywood be surprised to •ur that Steve Crane and his ®d, Al Mathes, are buying eys restaurant, favorite haunt many celebs. The deal involves 6 money. The boys say they hope take over about April and will «P the entire staff. Steve, who, ‘ course, is Lana Turner’s exauraTJ?’ Says his new role as resis mn * Wld have no effect upon 18 “°v>e career at Columbia, iw A^ ak ’ a present to his fenin? her 63rd birthday is an »ie sbf £ own ~th e first expensive "d hh e l er oWl,ed - star cession ut rent - s wiU celebr ate the 881011 going to a party, £onte7 a « for John DaU who herein Davis in “ Tl,e ®PPIe ah X ' Next month he’ll ’J' bavin? for a newcomer »agaz£ “ terviews aU 14 fan tow^Ort: rWri YVOnile D ® Cario In Will Write n &ys ; *‘ Arriv ed safely. ha ®ah Z° nderful news!” Her •fraid Yvonnl v. t 0 death ’ She ’ s “gaged has gotten herself Elaine ®hepbea but has 1. the China-Burma hX tt ’! true ~ that Bing My

have completed moving there. They formerly lived on route 1, Craigvllle. , Rev. John W. McPheeters of Farmington, 111., will supply the pulpit at the First Presbyterian church here Sunday morning, the services starting at 10:30. Members are urged to be present and the public is cordially invited. Mrs. Clarence Beavers is visiting in Indianapolis a few days before returning here. Lt. Beavers, who has been located at Avon Park Air Field in Florida has been eent to Denver, Colo, for two weeks advanced schooling. En route back to Avon air field he will visit here a short time with his mother, Mrs. Emma Beavers on Seventh street. Mie. Frank tAlwein, who has visited at Gibson City, 111., the past several weeks, will arrive home tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. John Deam of Bluffton celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary y eSt eday. The condition of Mrs. James T. Merryman who suffered from shock from a fal Idown a few stair steps in her home, is much improved todiay. She is progressing satisfactorily, the attending physician stated. Al (Pop) Schneider of 410 N. eleventh street, has been removed to his home from the hospital. He suffered from an infection of the jaw, following the extraction of his teeth. o — STRICT APPLICATION (Continued From Page One) may not render such service between 12 midnight and 8 a. m. 2. All public or private establishments customarily selling and serving alcoholic beverages by the drink are classified in the same category as saloons and bars, whether or not such establishments have the regularly accepted bar room facilities, and must close at midnight. “The WMC has received excellent cooperation from the public during the few days the curfew has been in effect,” Mr. Schulz said. He expressed the hope that the same type of cooperation would be forthcoming under the stricter applications of the Byrnes order. 0 Man truly lives only as he loves and serves; he dies just to the extent that he hurts and destroys.

way until tne otner night in a Beverly Hills theater. McCarey, by the way, has had a 16 millimeter print of the film made up at his own expense and is lending it to religious orders, whose members, especially nuns, don’t ordinarily attend theaters. ... Poor Tom Neal! He got a flat tire in the rain. And he was wearing that Jap makeup that takes four hours to put on. . . . Ann Miller’s latest escort is a real Hollywood big shot. After playing 4,200 engagements with the Coast Guard show, Victor Mature arrived in town and couldn’t find a place to sleep. Nice going, Lou Costello. In one of the final sequences of "The Naughty Nineties," Lou had to make a scene with a baby in his lap. He arranged to use a nine-month-old girl, Suzanne Bastian, whose father has been overseas since before she was born. The father, who may see his baby girl for the first time when the picture is released to G. I. audiences, is Sgt. R. L. Bastian, now stationed in the Philippines. The day Jack Haley returned to “George White’s Scandals of 1945” after a week’s illness with an infected eye, Joan Davis kicked off her shoes in a comedy scene and one came down kerplunk on her face, giving her a beautiful shiner. HOLLYWOOD HI JINX: Dick Haymes, who used to work for Artie Shaw for pianuts, has been asked to write the introduction to the swing maestro’s book on the evolution of dance band technique. . . . Dona Drake has taken a terrific ribbing over that girl with an almost similar name who was arrested at the beach on a charge of performing an immodest dance. Ruth Hussey will be initiated into the National Professional Women’s Fraternity of Music and Speech. ... Anga Enters similarly honored. ... Rusty Farrell and Bob Lowery telling friends at Billingsley’s Tropics that they’ll be married the first week in April.... Kitty Koster (ex wife of Henry Koster) at Charley Foy’s with Gene Schwartz. . . . First thing Lana Turner did on arrival in New York was to rush to the phone and call her baby daughter, Cheryl Christine. ___ _

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phonos 1000 — 1001 Sunday Union Chapel Guild, Miss Jeanette Brown, 1:30 p. m. Monday Research Chub, Mrs. Carrie T. Haubold, 2:30 p. m. ’ Pythian Sister Temple, K. of P. 7:30 p. m. Home Economic Chorus, Mrs. R. W. Rice, 6 p. m. Needle. Club, Pythian Sisters, after Temple. Music Department Woman’s Club Mrs. Harold Grant 7:30 p. m. Art Department of Woman’s Club, Mrs. R. O. Gentis, 7:30 p. in. Literature Department, Woman’s Club, Mrs. W. E. Smith, 8 p. m. (Dramatic Department Womans Club, Mrs. Harold Zwick, 7:30. p. m. Fireman’s Auxiliary, Mrs. Russell Baumgartner, Homested No. 33, 7:30 p. m. T uesday Church Mothers Study Club, Methodist Church Parlors, 6:30 p. m. Dutiful Daughters Class, Mrs. Arthur Baker, 7:30 p. m. Dorcus Class of Evangelical Church, 7:30 p. m. Civic Department of Woman’s Club, City Hall, 7 p. m. W. C. T. U., Mrs. Eugene Runyon, 2 p. m. Relbekah bodge, I. O. O. F. Hall, 7:30 p. m. Delta Theta Tau, Elks Home, 8:30 p. m. Wednesday Historical Chub, Mrs. John W. Beery, 2:30 p. m. Red Cross Sewing Center, (Legion, 1 p. m. (Shakespeare Cluib, Mrs J.ames Kocher, Sr. 2:30 p. m. Detla Theta Tau, Elks Home, 8 p. m. 'W. S. of C. (S. of Beulah Chapel, Mrs. Wade Maßarnes, all day. Thursday St. Luke’s Ladies Guild, all day Meeting at Church. Men’s Union prayer service, ground floor public library, 7:30 p. m. Women of the Moose, Moose Home, 7:30 p. m. Friday Red Cross Knitting Center, Legion, 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. IFLOODWATERS (Continued From Page One) damage. At Owensboro, Ky., the rise was only .3 of a foot during the last 24 hours, Rises of .6 at Henderson. Ky., and .9 at Paducah, Ky., led olbservers to believe that the crest ‘was near and could be constrained to the stream’s banks. o Character does not depend upon the house we live in, but upon who lives in the house. o We opened the meeting with the pledge to the flag and the roll call, after which we worked on the wide world ’badge. ITthe meeting was adjourned with the friendship circle. (Betty Rose, scribe. , Frock and Sundress 9439 SIZES . 4 A| /jMflflMH MARIAN MARTIN As welcome as the season’s first robin, Pattern 9439 for crisp little pinafores and frocks for warm days ahead. Us 6 up remnants or usable parts of worn garments. Pattern 9439: 2,4, 6,8, 10. Size 6, sunfrock, V/g yards 35-inch; dress, 1% yards 35-inch, % yard contrast. Send Twenty Cents ra coins for this pattern to Decatur Daily Democrat, Pattern Dept., 155 N. Jefferson St., Chicago 80, 81. Print plainly Size, Name, Address, Style Number. JUST OUT! Send Fifteen Cents more for our Marian Martin Spring Pattern Book! Easy-to-make clothes for all. Free Blouse Pattern printed right in the book. Send Nov, _ .

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA.

Bob Shraluka, Radarman T-C, A Former Reporter Here Is Editor Os Ship's Paper, The Pied Piper

From reporter to Apprentice Seaman, then Radarman third class, and up to Editor of his ship's paper, is one way of stating that Robert W. (Bob) Shraluka, is making good in Uncle Sam’s great navy. A former reporter on the Dally Democrat staff from January 1936 to November 1943, when be joined the navy, Bob Shraluka early developed a “nose for news” and in his post as editor of The Pied Piper, which is printed aboard the U. S. S. Hamlin, somewhere in the Pacific, he continues that flair in no mean way. The publication is issued monthly “for the benefit of all hands” aboard ship. At the masthead of the paper, the names of the commissioned officers are listed and under the fourth line, Editor, the name, R. W. Shraluka, RdM3/c stands out. In the February issue, the editor prints an explanation of “What’s in a Name?”. He says: "Just to clear up any doubt — here’s how our name “Piedi Piped” originated: Back in the good old days of Tacoma, while the HAMbIN was under construction, it was decided to print a ship’s paper. “bt. (jg) Bredehoft. head of the communications department and now a ‘two-striper’ was placed in charge. The name Pied Piper was suggested' by Thomas, Bkrlc, formerly of the crew and O’Neil, Prtrlc. “It will be remembered that the Pied Piper drove all the rats

rum A balby daughter weighing six pounds and one-half ounce was born Friday morning at the Adams county mepiorial hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Meyers. Mr. and Mrs. James Manning, of Geneva, are the parents of a balby girl, (born Friday morning at the Adams' county memorial hospital. The balby weighed seven pounds and eight ounces.

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from the village of Hamlin in that well known fable. The lieutenant then suggested the cartoon masthead, substituting the sailor for the Pied Piper, the machine gun for his flute and appropriately enough a Jap for the rat. “Sanders, former staff cartoonist, recently transferred to the States, sketched it. Thus was born the modern version of "The Pied Piper of Hamlin.’ ” Seaman (Editor) Shraluka took his boot training at Great bakes and specialized training in radar

DECATUR GIRL (Continued From Page One) be held next Friday afternoon, when mothers of the members will be honored guests. Mrs. Lawrence Linn, -chairman of the Decatur Girl Scout council, has received a schedule oif radio broadcasts which will devote part of their time next iweek to th discussing the Girl Scout movement. Included in these brodaoasts are the following: '5:45 p. m. Monday over the Blue net work; 7:30 p. m. Monday over NiBC; 9:30 p. m. Monday over NBC; 8:30 a. m. Friday

at Bremerton, Wash. He went to sea last summer and' is somewhere in the Pacific. His four-year-old son, Robert, Jr., will try to show you on his map where his daddy is stationed, and then add, “he’s going to Tokyo.” When the war is over, Bob Shraluka is coming back to Decatur and we hope again join the staff of this newspaper. He misses the ’ld town and his daily news beat, who goes for all of us around here, for each and everyone of us miss Bob Shraluka, the reporter.

over Mutual; 12:30 p. m. Friday over CBS; fl:15 a. m. Saturday over Blue network. o Adams County Memorial Hospital | • • Admitted: Phyllis Taylor, 502 North Seventh street. Admitted & Dismissed: Bonnie Deam, route 1, Decatur. Because we are endowed with the freedom of choice, we cannot escape temptation; character is achieved only in the realm of choices.

111 Awarded Air Medal (Staff Sgt. Richard L. Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rolla R. Jackson, 130 South Eleventh street, a bombardier on a Mitchell bobrber in Italy, has been awarded the Ai? Medal 'With three Oak-leaf clusters. He is also entitled to wear the European-AfriCantMiddlß East theater ribbon with five battle stars. iSgt. Jackson flew as a bombardier over the Ala railroad bridge in the Brenner Pass (when the 310th Mitchell bombardment group flew its 300th combat mission. The 3foth group is commanded by Major Gen. John I. Cannon, commanding general of the Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air who remarked, "I am sincerely proud of the record made by the 310th Bomb group”. Sgt Jackson has been overseas 26 months. Capt. Newcomer Home Capt. Corwin b. Newcomer, 24, of Geneva, Indiana, has arrived at army air forces redistribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach for reassignment processing after completing a tour of duty outside the continental United States. Captain Newcomer flew 42 missions as a B-24 pilot and flight commander in the European theater, winning the DFC and the Air Medal with three clusters. He is the son of James Newcomer of Geneva. His wife, Phyllis Newcomer, also resides in Geneva. First Lieutenant Mr. and Mrs. Dan Tyndall have received word that their daughter, Miss Anna Jane Tyndall, an army nurse, has been advanced to the rank of first lieutenant. Lt. Tyndall has been stationed at Kwajalein island in the Marshalls tor the past nine months, after having spent six months in Hawaii. She has been in service since May of 1943. Cpl. Joe Brunner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brunner of Decatur route three, is in a hospital in the Philippines, he has written hi? parents. He dd not state the nature of his illness, or if he had been wounded. Cpl. Brunner had been in the army about three years, of which t.wo years has been served overseas. Donald Springer, M. A- M. 3/c, has been advanced to third class petty officer, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. iLaiwrence Springer, 1128 Elm Street. Petty officer Springer is with the fleet poslofficc stationed nt San Francisco, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Johnson, of Decatur route 5, have received word that their son, Karl, has been advanced to the rank of radarman, third class. He entered service in June of last year and is new station an an LST somewhere in. the Pacific. 0 —. — When you reach the point where it seems you can't hold out any longer, that's the ’time and place not to quit; the tide is likely to turn. * I w Bi OB I 1 “COMMANDO" CHARLES E. KELLY, | Pittsburgh boy who won the Con- . gressional Medal of Honor, la shown with his bride-to-be, May ' Frances Boish/19, whom he met for the first time last May, two days after his return from Italy. The nuptial vows will be read in . Georgia, where Kelly, a technical sergeant, is stationed at Fort Benning, flJ»erattr‘on»/J

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. At Fort Ord J| ’WW M .. ■ ; Sv' Pvt. Arthur H. Bertsch, husband of Mrs. Peggy Bertsch, 611 Winchester street, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Bertsch of Geneva, has returned to Fort Ord, Cal., after spending a seven day furlough in this city. Pvt. Bertsch, an infantryman, entered the army last Oct. 17. He took basic training at Camp Robinson, Ark. He attended the Hartford! township high school and was employed at the Central Boya company prior to joining the armed forces. I .Wit xvHl I Wisdom A Bad Habit One day a critic was dilating with uncommon relish his favorite theme to a venerable elder. The good old man bore it quietly for a while, and then he said, “Did 1 yon every hear the story of the rich man and bazarus?” “Yes, of course I have.” “Remember about the dogs—at the gate there —how they licked bazarus' sores?” “Yes, Why?” “Well, you remind me of these dogs—always licking eores. All you notice in Christians is their faults.” o CHURCH FORUM How Maintain Large Church Attendance? Since only about one-thindi of Protestant members attend church faithfully, one of the first tasks of the church is to secure-a larger attendance of Its members. This can be done by a continued personal interest and help in those to be reached, especially in times of sorrow, trouble, joys, successes: by keeping them well informed as to the work of the church; by giving tasks fitted to the individual; by never losing faith in them; by removing causes of trouble or occasions for offense; by letting theth know they are missed; by having a system that will provide information as to. their interests, their church attendance record, and their difficultlee. . . . I ■ f , FIRES RAGING (Continued From Page One) hank of the river literally were a “sea of flame,” ' / It was possible that the Are damage extended to such vjtal railway centers on the edge of the target area as Joban Ueno and central Tokyo stations from which radiate the main lines serving Honshu island. : ; . ‘ ■ o— Virginia Baked Ham—Fried Chicken-Roast Beef-Sunday Dinner. Ehler’s Restaurant. | /Pi £juhst Gift racking Cvtida fevntoin shtp»r with 9OHOL luhrieant Raaiovct Stubborn Cvfidt l» • jiffy. If Shapci - Softam lubrlcafw and ftamoru CutklM. WITHOUT wttwo SOFTOI CUTICIE SET ' " Pocl ' a 9* d >n ChrtHmoi Soac> - E»p*** oll / far *I.OO gJSfw KH0llla«M rafill bento . . . Kt SMITH DRUG CO.