Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Bvejjf, Evexlng Except Sunctey By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. InoDrporated Entered at the Decatur. Ixd„ Poet Office aa Second Ola* Matter. J. VL Heller President A. R. Holpioiue, Sec’y. A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Ratea Single Copies I 04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells c unties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, 14.50 per year; 12.50 for six months; 11.85 for three months; 50 cents tor one moot'. Elsewhere: >5.50 per year; $3.00 for six months; $1.85 for three months; 80 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces 18.50 per year or 11.00 for three months. Advertising Ratos Made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111.

Grow your own itomatoes, onions, radishes and other garden vegetables this year. It will prove a source of supply when such items may be difficult to obtain and will hasten the time when government rationing can be modified. o—o Many of those who express opinions on the world conferences, haven’t read the reports and ■wouldn’t understand them if they did. They just want an excuse ’or talking. O—O Oats sowing has begun in thia territory and if ithe weather continues mild and the showers stay away a week or ten days, the biggest part of that job will be completed. Looks like a start for a good season. o—o— A poll was taken in England re-

cently to find out what kind of a school the children prefer for after the war and the returns w'ere surprising. Most of the boys and girls replied tney favor a school “without„books or teachers." o—o The Red Cross war fund is going up and the thermometer now shows the red dot of victory is nearing the top. It's a great achievement, a job well organized and excellently carried out here in Adatns county. —o—- — in Japan are being destroyed by the big bombers that drop tons of explosives each day now. No wonder they are panic-stricken. A Section of Osaka, five miles square, was demolished in a few hongs Wednesday. They no longer boafet of their supernatural prowess.

O—O The morale is said to be very low in several of the European countries, which is little surprise after the years of war and all its sufferings. It will take a long hard pull for them to get back to clean, normal living and will require some outside help in the way of food and other supplier necessary to life. O—O—Three Adams county men, Sgt. Lowell Noll. Sgt. Vernon Edgell and Pfc. Overmeier have received honors and decorations for their excellent work in the Philippines, ’■heir friends are proud of the reports that have come in from their commanding officers and extend congratulations. O O—The paper and tin can rural school salvage organization, under L. L. Hann, the county superintendent, conducted the second drive of this year yesterday and reports

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indicate it was very successful. Similar collections will be made each month during the school year, adding to the total collection in the county. O—O Hitler wants peace but wishes to continue in power along with Himmler who heads the gestapo and according to reports from Stockholm has imide overtures to the Allies.. The offer was promptly turned down but it is taken by many as the forerunner of surrender soon. O—O The seventh war loan campaign will start soon and continue to June 301 h. The goal is fourteen billion, same a» the sixth drive but uue-half of the total is expected to be purchased by individuals. Adams county is organizing and will do another grand job. O—O Won’t it be wonderful if we can have an extra good crop of every

thing this year, get the war over, start living normal lives and building for a long period of prosperity? And we have a hunch that will happen. Let’s each be a good citizen and help in every way possible that it may come and even exceed expectations. O—O Yard cleaning has begun and many people are taking care of their own leaves, itin cans and other rubbish that has gathered during the winter months. And that’s wise. The city force, always willing to serve, will do all they can but we should not expect too much during these days when its impossible to get trucks and men for any thing but the necessary re-

quiremeuts. , —o When word comes that the war in Europe is over and it may happen any time now, there will be a tendency to “blow off steam” in this county, to slacken effort and to take the long desired rest. That will not be wise. Until the Japs have been conquered, we are still in a serious war, requiring men, munitions, food and long hauls. Let’s wait for the big celebration until General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz flash the news that its over. Even then it will be easier for those who realize the seriousness of the days ahead.

You're waste paper isn't waste paper unless you waste it! When you save it and turn it in on collection day, your waste paper can be used to make paper containers for blood plasma, medical dressings, food, ammunitions and thousands of other essential war items. Paper products, made from wast paper, help to supply just about everything our armed forces must have to keep fighting. And more paper is needed for essential civilian requirements. Save all your waste paper!

Feeding The Army: The citizens of this great nation enjoy one privilege not enjoyed by the citizens of most other countries in the world. This is the privilege to complain (without going to jail) about their government, the weather, OP A regulations — anything they want to complain about. Sometimes they have a reason; sometimes they complain out of habit. But it is their privilege! At the present time many Americana are exercising their privilege to complain about the stringent rationing of foods. They may think they have good reason for so doing. However, we believe that they will realize the unsoundness of their point of view when they consider the military demands for food in Europe—just one theater of our global war. A recent cable from General Eisenhowet to General Somervell included the following needs for food- for the European theater of operations:

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Before the end of March, 1945, 3,500.000,000 pounds of food must be shipped from the United States. It will take the equivalent of 340 fully loaded Liberty ships to transport this much food. Examples of certain individual items required for this period are: 132.000,000 lbs. of fruit juice, requiring 13 ships; 341,000.000 lbs. of milk, requiring 33 ships; 525,000.000 lbs. of fresh meat, the equivalent of 50 ships; 304,000,000 lbs. of flour, requiring 41 ships; 360,000.000 lbs. of canned vegetables, equivalent to 34 ships; 67,000,000 lbs. of canned tomatoes. 6 ships; 205,000.000 lbs. of canned fruit, 20 ships; and if the war in Europe extends beyond the middle of 1945, a much larger shipping program will be necessary. A total of 1,500,000 head of cattle or approximately 4,000 every day throughout the entire year, must be slaughtered to meet and ETO beef requirement. The requirements for dehydrated eggs are equivalent to 2,500,000.000 fresh eggs for the year, which

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amounts to a daily requirement of 6,500,000. Butter is consumed at the rate of several tons per meal by the* U. S. First Army in Germany. Sugar for coffee and cooking purposes daily amounts to thousands of pounds. The average soldier, because of j his more active life, eats over a pound of food a day more .than the average civilian. 0 Twenty Years Aao Today (March I'7 — President Coolidge nominates John G. Sargent of Vermont, an old (friend, to be attorney general. (Stock holdene of the Farmers and Merchants bank at Geneva vote to reopen doors tomorrow. Wheat drops to sl.-55 per bushel on Chicago market. ,F. V. Mills appointed Democratic member of city election board and C. L. Walters Republican member. J. Fred Linn announces he will be a candidate for councilman from first ward. Sale of personal property of Ed Ahr Wais |7,'W. Roy Johnson, Jesse Michaud and Chris Bohnke were auctioneers.

'Catholic higlh basketball team goes to (Chicago for tournament. France Confer, coach, is in charge. o ♦ * I Modern Etiquette 1! I By ROBERTA LEE | * * Q. Isn't it rude for a person to eat a meal with others and never enter the conversation? A. Yes, unless the person is ill or bereaved, and under those. circumstances if he cannot enter into the general conversation, he should not have eaten with the others. Q. Shouldn't a husband display interest in his wifb’s daily domestic act i vites? •A. Yes; the considerate huiband will do so. Q. Would it be proper <to say, “(My mother is home today”? A. No, it is preferable to say “My mother is at home today". I Household Scrapbook I I By ROBERTA LEE | ♦ ... ’ ♦ Kid Gloves Pure alcohol is preferable to gasoline for cleaning white kid gloves. It dries quickly and without the unpleasant odor of gasoline. Odor of Fish The odor of fish or onions can be - r.moved from the frying pan if a little vinegar is put in the pan.

G/VE NOW G/VE MOKE' fl Previously reported $11,814.06 Phil Sauer, Decatur business (additional) 5.00 Walter Hildebrand, 23 Preble 30.00 Glen E. Girod, 34 Preble (additional) 2.00 Albert Gallmeyer, 18 Preble 21.00 Fred Kauffman, 27 Monroe.... 46.50 Jerome Nussbaum, 33 Monroe 36.00 Chris Litwiller, 34 Monroe.... 10.00 Menno P. Eicher, 35 Moilroe 37.00 H. LaFountaine, 1 Monroe ... 17.00 Herman Loshe, 14 Washing. 13.00 Albert Braun, 26 Washington 32.00 George Sipe, 19 Blue Creek 6.50 Earl Martin, 13. Kirkland 12.00 W. Hockelneyer, 16 Root 16.00 Ivan Barkley, 5 Union 21.00 D. D. .Heath, 7-8 St. Marys.. 29.67 Leo Spangler, 16 St. Marys.. 14.00 James Huddleston, 20-21 part St. Marys 13.00 Edward F. Jaberg, Lincoln

School Teachers 40.7a Fred Weidler, 16 French 36.00 Berne Business Houses (partial) 135.00 Berne Residential 1,190.75 Berne Organizations 45.00 F. & A. M. Lodge, Decatur.... 25.00 John Halterman (additional) Decatur business 15 00 Mrs. Herman VonGunten 13 Decatur 98.50 Loyal Order of Moose Lodge (additional).. 200.000 Total $13,961.73 —o — Deer Loses to Train Houston, Tex.-(UP) —Deer hunting without ammunition or shotgun was “enjoyed” hy the crew of a Rock Island-Burlington Rocket train near here recently. Speeding along the route between Houston and Dallas, a nine-point buck challenged the Rocket for the right-of-way. The train crew salvaged the carcass and head of the animal. 0 -• The average U. S. President has lived 12y 2 years after leaving the White House. But since 1850 only one President—Taft—has survived as long as that after completing his term. heated to the boiling point and then washed. Court Plaster .Liquid court plaster, applied to a scratch on kid pumps, will mend the scratch so ithat it is hardly visible.

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CHAPTER ONE TWENTY-AWE . . . twentynine ... twenty-nine. It must be a flat car wheel right under her Pullman chair, Daphne decided; it couldn’t be her subconscious flinging that figure into her mind with such an insistent rhythm. “So I’m twenty-nine, not too young, not too old. Just the right age.” The words formed in her mind. The impressionable, the foolish, hurting years were over. Raising her eyes, Daphne was struck with a fond and keen sense of excitement as the Pullman windows revealed scenes that she had never forgotten through all the years she had been away. Undulating fields and gladed woodlands in the fresh dress of early April, farmland patches with weather-beaten barns and clean little houses, ‘tidy villages, and roads like lustreless ribbons on a carpet of yellow and green sped past her. Fleetingly she glimpsed remembered names on station platforms: Ashport, Medbury, Corinth. Corinth was less than an hour’s tide from North Wintridge. Daphne Willoughby was coming home. Home to North Wintridge from Paris and London, from Naples and New York. And between Naples and New York, there had been a good many other places that were best forgotten. Grubby, obscure cities and shoddy towns that were like bad dreams which she would treat forever more as such. That would be part of closing the door on her memories, now that a new life was beginning. It would not be hard to do, Daphne thought. She was an old hand at the art of presenting the false fajade of appearances. She’d been working at it for most of the last twelve years, and no one knew, now that Carlo was dead, the shabby, humiliating life that had been hers. Least of all, the friends in North Wintridge with whom she would live for the rest of her life. With luck. She crossed her fingers. If any girl ought to believe in luck, she was that girl. All Daphne had to do was to let her mind drift back to that morning less than a month ago—although drifting was hardly the way to describe the way her mind snapped back from its every excursion to the wonders that began on that morning when the letter came. There wasn’t anything very different about the way that day started. For thirteen hundred and. ninety-two days; Sundays excepted, she’d wakened every morning to thn

Lenten Meditation (Rev. Merrill O. Lester, First Methodist Church) “THE DIVINE PATIENCE" ) Rev. 3:2o—“Behold I stand at the door and knock; « man hear my voice, I will come in to him, and win ~.' ,h > him, and he with me.” 6up *•» The patience of God outwears all human littleness lessness. We should be very thankful for this attitude of tV**' If God should deal with us immediately according t () ol|r tions. Salvation would record Itself at the Vanishing point T because God is long suffering and merciful, many dliLy, ** error of their way. seek out God and are received of him nJ the picture of the text, God waits at the door until the opens unto Him. Now and again God has used the O cca human crisis to reveal the loss that is sustained when GwJ"" 1 * invited in to give direction. But by the large God's love is 'J* that waits for welcome. Like the luminous figure h, u, ! Hunt's picture, “The Light of the World,” He does not O n . bidden the door of the darkened cottage where man lives■ i 1 forever knocking, wooing, coaxing, until like belated bud» blossoms of the spring time, our lives awaken and unfold 1 * warmth and glory of His presence. Let us think of our livpujj’ in their relation lo (lie total purpose of God. '

Interest In Decatur Airfield Is Revived Flight Instructor Gives Lessons Here Interest in a Decatur airfield lis being revived here with the ' arrival of Robert McComb, now I employed at the General Electric plgnt, who formerly spent three years as a civilian flight instructor at Ponca City, Okla., where he trained RAF and U. S. army cadets for the air force. : Mr. McComb has a leased airI plane and has been giving instruction,; to prospective fliers from the Ivitich field, west of Decatur on Thirteenth street (US 27). He lias been a pilot for 10 years and formerly was associated with the Pierce airplane school in Fort Wayne. He belongs to the army reserve air corps, but served as a civilian instructor in Oklahoma. Pilot McComb believes that an airfield can be developed near Decatur from a modest beginning. He said that 18 acres of space would he sufficient for a beginner, unless the city, or whoever sponsored an airfield wanted to obtain federal funds for future developments, that a field could be located near the city limits. In fact he favors a field close in. He recommended an L shape runway arrangement with sod runways, as the first step in planning a local field. Mr. McComb stated that gasoline could not be obtained for passenger rides. The only ration

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uninviting summons of her alarm clock. And to the realization that she was technically a career girl, now that Carlo was dead, and the life she’d hated down to the depths of her soul was over. Occasionally it occurred to her that she had a right to all that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness can mean. Unfortunately, this early morning meditation usually led to the more pertinent realization that Corinne Hollis expected her to be at the shop well before nine, and that decorating jobs at thirty-a-week Were not easy to find in New York. Up at eight that morning, it was the same old thing: the choice of z

( vßgg I I ■ WJI The pullman windows revealed scenes that Daphne had never forgotten.

one of two dresses, rubbers or no rubbers; an eye on her make-up and the other on the clock; getting on her hat and coat, fishing for a nickel for the subway; looking at the floor by her door to see if there was any mail slipped under. There was something: a letter. A letter front a law firm. I hat day was no longer like any other in her life. Proof that it was no dream was in the handbag on her lap: The deed w r as there, and her new checkbook. The checkbook was no minor miracle. It was the golden goose, a fairy’s wahd, Captain Kidd’s treasure robed up in one. SRe’d written checks and still there was . —to Daphne anyway—a large sum left to be drawn upon. She’d spent six hundred for

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or transporting passengers, cargo to a designated point ' Mr. McComb believes t u civil air patrol could be ()r J cd here. He said that he like to assist in organizm., squadron of 50 fliers and that many of the young „ ’ the army and navy WouM 1 glad to join after they home. ’’| A number of Decatur are taking pilot instructtaH Fort Wayne, Mr. McComh u and from his short residence Z he has already found much me ment for a small airfield ira witli the desire of prospect pilots to learn to fly. • j o —» ikV* Au 6Y Ml FHD W. BRAUIfI j Here are sodi late avaiiAk statistics on the traffic toil for UH lAccidends killed 94.000 pereoua the United States in 1944, the tional Safety Council repwtH reduction of 5 per cent from * official 1943 total of 99,038. % 1944 motor vehicle death toll an 23,800. This total is estimated Era preliminary reports 'by state M fit authorities, it is practioß identical with the offical 1943(44 of 33.836 recently announced bji U. S. Bureau of the Census. (Workers going to and from w«i who were killed in automobile* cidents last year reached a toWd 13700. We plead again that »w ens be careful in getting to’ui from the job that they guard (Mt health—not only as lite ‘piuw ei's” but also because their hl is vitally needed during these u days.

clothes. That was fun. The call II tell Corinne the news wag fun, Corinne was a slave-driver, b»U» was a good sort. She had s 4 “You can always get your job baa when you’ve spent your money. Daphne was not going back, w burrowed a little deeper into H chair. She was through with sits rooms, and lonely cities. Yes,n with men. She had eight years of and been a widow for four. Allw wanted was to live singly, ■ gracefully. Daphne had long W preparing for that day, not to* ing that it would ever come. W there was assurance in Kate 1* nison’s letter in her handbag.

Daphne had been wrlt l" !! »«s for twelve years, and of anything but easy to>«r filled with glowing, if inary, accounts of her ■ masterpieces those 1?' 1 ' tales woven about things would like them to have ■ villa at Naples was far , the best. The gardens J»" ants, the ease and had not existed. The d , eS J f e j#l the year in Paris waa n * ® f s tori* She'd got most oithat o written by Amsl ’ icans „ r ? o thd s i been there. There were that long series; Ca. » tour,” the ‘ amusing hoar . the Bohemian life(To be continued ’ c««rtl»i>' »r <•»* DUtribuled *» Xtol rMW'’ 151 j