Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1945 — Page 3

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'’SfK. EILEEN DAVIS fruchte KKcathryn » lleen Davis ’ - t, and DonMi, KWr/l--NHl.tr. MM 3/c, eldK^S f j| rti . Alma Fruchte, 3-7 gft street, were united Sunday afternoon at |A’ BStlocK in the Methodist “A „ liß city. «r. M. O. Lesthe double ring cereJH H an altar banked with , ' g,T N. and large bouquets Euj colored gladiolus and mix«K, :I Krnetzinan of Bluffton, groom, organist, played EL Concerto,” and aqcomKPV Hat. Lan Tyndall, solol£, > KL. "Always" and ”1 Love Lu,. . Kslcv " The traditional MenCi ß> ond Lohengrin’s weddwere who was given in mar- ] 1(lr father.- wore a gown . 'Kted Swiss organdy with BK-- -1 sleevee. ending in UK,,, rhe hand. The long full KK gratefully from the fittKgfe, ; ending in a long train. a fingertip veil of tulle, ■LH place tby a beaded tiara, BKpil a bouquet of white carand snap dragons. Grady of Anderson ■Ki-se at Hall state Memorial Eg attended the bride as maid gj£. ill a pale blue lace gown ||Hree quarter length sleeves .bodice, with a sweetllKeekline. Mies Juanita Frucfaof the groom, and Miss of Mariot), were Miss Fruchte wore a gown and Miss Wagner ggpink gown. -All carried bou- ■: mixed flowers. The canlighted .by Jane and Jean twin sisters of the bride, ||K .. light (blue taffeta dresses. SKiHeare served the groom as and ushers were Herb gge. brother of the groom, and of Bluffton. SgWde’a mother was attired agavy blue ensemble, and Mrs. gt- .wore a .blue suit. Both Hfg - orsages or red carnations. Immediately following the cereg: reception for approximate- !■ hundred guests was held at of Pythias Home. The were arranged in a Sg centered with a three tieryed {■ng ca ' iP and lighted candles, with -white flowers and

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the elevator ■we on strike and the two agents F'- 1 to stay cooped up for over an ■our before the proper people could F contacted and could rule that situation constituted an emer■ency, I Doctors think there Is a good ■ ance that Veronica Lake’s baby f ay be bom on her own 23rd birthfl 141 B °th the star and ry husband, Director Andre De L ’, are crazy for a boy. Veropica has a utUe girt (»»v her marriage) - who will be four in August. L^ f ® re ber firflt baby, Veronica k the last minute—just lshe'li“^ b t r ° re the baby was born, a Z!i . able now > though, to take She ”^ est U she wants to. [Alan P l 6 Blae D Wia" with this win d almost Immediately and RS her six unre leased Girls W others—“ Bring on the Susie «£? , of „ Thls World,” "Miss anTlft^ 8 ’ “ Duff y’ s Ta vem” a Hoxd That Blonde.” J^ivVl Merle °beron’s maid is Todd tragedy'S ° f the Thelma carbon mnn y ; ? th wome n died of at the teach’Sh^V 11 a garage terrific boot out of out hta hair-nu P °» the stage w‘thal)out the wi e^ e ‘ He was tJ, at way °fe°ing■ B te T*~ the Bame had t? ame Barbara Stance v.. as a “oe overlooked again. bWenuSty? an award \n en ’ Ingrld has mayl * Bartamu °r mg ’ t 0 and ne «year 8 turn wiU come ■'^SemS n s Wa ’ 80 at y Awards ceremonies—- - —

palms. .Serving at. the reception were Miss (Mary Jane Wltaon, iMrs. Everett (Faulkner, iMisa Cloe Liniger, .Miss Margaret Fruchte, and Miss Jayne IlSady. Assisting Mns. Barber in the decorations were (Mrs. Dallas Hunsioker of Hamilton, aunt of the .bride, (Mrs. Grace Weiland. (Mrs. Grant Fry, .Mrs, Alma Brayton and Mrs. Fruchte. Following the reception, the couple left on a wedding trip of unannounced destination. For traveling, Mrs. Fruchte wore a cardinal red suit with Iblaok accessories. The bride is a graduate of the Decatur high School and will complete her training as a nurse at .Ball State memorial hospital in ■Muncie in September. She is a member of the local chapter of Tri Kappa sorority and of the Kappa Kappa sorority at Ball State college. The groom graduated from the .Decatur high school and recently returned to the states after spending eighteen months in the (Pacific, where he participated in three major battles. Out-of-town guests at the wedding were Mr..and Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker of Hamilton; Mrs. Alta Kruetzman of Muncie, Mr. and Mrs. George Grady of Anderson, Mrs. Henry Hunsicker and Mrs. Johnson of Bluffton, Mr. and Mrs. David (Hensley, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Coop, Mrs. William (Wysong and Mr. and (Mrs. Arthur Fruchte, of Fort Wayne. ( EASTERN STAR HAS PUBLIC INSTALLATION Approximately one hundred and twenty five guests attended the public installation of the officers of lEastdrn Star Saturday evening at the Masonic hall. IMrs. Dan Tyndall was the installing -worthy matron, Mrs. Adrian -Baker, installing marshal; Mrs. -Russell Owens, installing conductress, .Mrs. R. A. 'Stuckey, installing chaplain; Mia. Harry Daily, installing organist. Officers installed were IMrs. Hany Neil, worthy matron; Harry Neil, worthy patron; iMs. J. M. Doan, associate matron; J. (M. Doan, associate patron; Airs. lEarl (Blacklburn, secretary; Mrs. Chester IMc-Intosh, treasurer; Mrs. Robert Krick, conductress; Mis. Glen Hill, associate conductress; •Mrs. J. E. MoYris, marshal; Mrs. Delton Passwater, chaplain; Miss BernfOe Nelson, organist; Mrs. Charlas Magley, Adah; Mrs. George

saying she was glad to win becauso she is working in a picture with s Bing Crosby and Director Leo Mei Carey (“The Bells of St. Mary’s) > and, after all the statuettes they 1 had won, she was afraid they f wouldn’t speak to her the next . morning. s Friend vows Steve Crane ran . across 12 pairs of pre-war nylor I stockings and sent them ALL tc his mother. . . . Vera Shea (Alar t Gordon’s bride) is taking a course i in economics at U. S. C and is ati toiding a series of lectures by a f valley doctor on dog training . and care. . . . Lockheed worker! cheered Linda Darnell, who ad- ! dressed them in a blood bank apc peal—and then gave a pint herself f • . . Sgt. Edmund O’Brien hat 5 been in the hospital. . . • 80l ! Cummings suffering from throat 1 trouble. t Even in the post-midnight jart at Dave’s Blue Room, Marianm O’Brien and Charles Martin manj age to seem oblivious to everyom . else but each other. They were reported engaged before Martin had j that brief romance with Betty Hub s ton. r Ed Wynn’s flight to California t< B the bedside of his son, Keenan, wai the first time he had ever been or t a plane. t Letter from Lt. A. C. Lyles, Jr. s says that "Aloma of the Soutl i. Seas” is playing in a first run the--1 ater at Honolulu. However, th! i G. I. screen fare is even ahead a i United States releases. ... Re--8 member Yola D’Avril? She's jusi s back from Honolulu. Was hostes! ’’ in an officers’ club. The flyer Yoh was engaged to has been reporter missing in action. 3 • 1 HOLLYWOOD HI JINKS: Cam? f Hahn’s erstwhile “Lon es ome s' 3 G. I.”, Cpl. Robert C. Wilson, write) • Dolores Moran that since all th( publicity, and his trip to Holly wood, women all over the countrj t have offered to correspond witl ■ him.. . . George Jessel at the Crilr lon with San Francisco Beauty Nini > Williams. . . . Orchestra Leadei Joe Reichman- was talking about • a young musician. “That guj . shouldn’t be in a band. He should s be a movie producer,” said Reich- ! man. “He’s got ulcers already al I 19.” . . . Believe it or not, Louis! > La Planche has designed 150 hats . . You should get a load of Allan Jones' seven-year-old son singing t “Babaloo,” as taught to him by Miguelito Valdez.

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 v Monday Research club, Mrs. C. R. Saylors, 2: 30 p. m. Pythian Sister Temple K. of P., 7: 30 p. m. Cubs and -Parents, Dincoin school, 7 p. m. Needle cluib, K. of P„ after Temple. Tuesday Rebekah lodge, Odd Fellows hall, 7:30 p. m. Kirkland home economics club, high school, 1:30 p. m. Delta Theta Tau, ®lks home, 8 p. m. Weaneaday Church Mothers study club, Methodist church panlors, 2 p. m. Ladies Shakesipeare club, Mrs. Leigh Bowen, 2:30 p. m. Red Cross Sewing Center, Legion 1 p. m. ISt. Mary's township home economics club, Mrs. Clyde Jones, 1:30 p. m. * -Union township Woman’s cluib, Mrs. Harry Lehrman, 1:30 p. m. Thursday 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 Knittjng Center, Legion, 2 p, m. to 5 p, m. Rdbertson, -Ruth; Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth, Esther; Mrs. Francis Ellsworth, Martha; Mrs. Hubert Zerkel, Electa; Mrs. Harry Essex, warden; Robert Krick, sentinel. The -worthy matron was escorted to her station in the east by her mother, Mrs. Albert Lanning of Portland. -She was greeted in song by Mrs. Henry Neireiter. The -worthy patron iwas escorted to his -station in the east by his sister, Mrs. Donald Frank of Portland. The station in the east was flanked with tall silver candleaibra and white tapers, and calelilies. The worthy matron and the past matron, Mrs. J. IE. Morris, received many lovely gifts. Miss (Margery Linn, worthy advisor of the Rainbow Girls, and Miss Mary Jo Krick, associate -worthy advisor, assisted the worthy matron in distributing gifts. Following the meeting, the guests were invited to the dining room, -where Mrs. Henry Neireiter and Mrs. ID. D. Mollenkopf presided at the table, decorated -with lighted handles and centered with a bouquet of California daisies. Assisting in the arrangements were Mrs. Guy Brown, Mrs. J. F. Sanmann, Mrs. Leigh Bowen ayd Mrs. Harold Zwick. RainibcrW girls assisting were Miss Evelyn Fisher, Miss Joan VonGunten, Miss Betty HoUingworth and Miss Carol Kirsch.

SURPRISE PARTY IS HELD ON BIRTHDAY IMrs. Arthur E. IMeyers iwas surprised iby a group of friends Thursday evening on the occasion of her fiftieth birthday anniversary. A potluck dinner was served, featured Iby a large birthday cake. The evening Was spent in playing games and Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Liniger, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dierkes, Mr. and Mrs. (Dutch Roudtlbush, Mr. and Mi®. Theodore Ostormeyer, Tony SchuYouthful Apron IM ■ Visa 9423 S’ZES MWI ? S.M.L AXA • * ‘' 3 ’ I 2 0 V (MJ MARIAN MARTIN To make a bride feel housewifely and a hosuewife feel like a bride! Pattern 9423 has adjustable 'drawstring bib and pockets! Generously cut, size 16 takes only Pattern 9423 sizes small (14-16, 1% yards 35 inch. 32-34), medium (18-20, 36-38), large (40-42). Small size, 1% yds. 35-in. Send Twenty Cents nt coins for this pattern to Decatur Dally Democrat, Pattern Dept., 155 N. Jefferson St, Chicago 80, HI. 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 aIL Free Blouse Pattern printed right In the book. Send No®.

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macher, 'Ernest Worthman, Ethel Worth-man, Mrs. Leo Schultz, Patty Meyers and Mr. and Mrs. Meyers. Mrs. Meyers received many beautiful and useful gifts. The Delta Theta Tau sorority will meet at eight o’clock Tuesday evening at the Elks home, instead of eight thirty, as previously announced. 'The Women’s guild of the Zioii Evangelical and Reformed church will sponsor a colored egg sale Friday and Saturday at Miller's North End grocery, Clouse’# grocery and Gerber's meat market. The ISt. Mary’s township home economics Club will meet Wednesday afternoon at one thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. Clyde Jones. A good attendance is desired. -The Union township Woman’s chib will meet Wednesday afternoon at one thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. Harry Lehrman. The Women of the Moose will meet Thursday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the Moose home.

TO CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hahnert, prominent residents of this county, living one mile west of Pleasant -Mills, will -celebrate their golden (wedding anniversary Easter Sunday. A family dinner will -be served and open house will be held from two o’clock until six o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Hahnert were married March 2-8, 1896 at the home of Rev. iC. T. Payne in this county, former minister of the Christian Union church. They have eight children and eight grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Hahnert formerly resided in Washington and Blue Creek township, before moving to their present home.

IThe Pythian Needle club will meet thi® evening after Pythian Sister .Temple at the K. of P. home. o * 4 Adams County Memorial Hospital ♦ ♦ Admitted: John Richard Brown, route 4; Patricia Schnepp, 6115 Short street; Howard Williams, 616 Nuttman avneue; Mi®. Irwin Moore, -Berne; Miss Benita Thatcher, route 6. Diamissed: Mr®. Richard C. Franz and ibalby boy; Mi®. J. T. Merryman, 492 North Second street; Mrs. Paul Hi*ya rd and ibalby (boy, 430 Elm street; iMi®. George Heare and i>a'by girl, 7212 High street; Mr®. Adrian -Lehman, Berne; Mrs. C. F. Magee and ibalby -boy, Berne; Miss Betty Jane -Rpop, Berne;- Hnby Can. olinejGquld, 716 North Tljird ptgeet-; (Mr®., James Mcdullough. and Jjajhy girl, (Monroe; Mrs. John Drake, route 5; Mr®. IMurell Andrew® and balby girl, Darlene Ruth, 2116 South Eleventh street.

IMr. and IMrs. Ed ward Greene, U2B South Fourth street, are the parents of a ibalby girl, (born thia morning at (6:i37 a. m. at the Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 7)4 ounce® and ha® Ibeen named Lynn. Mrs. Greene is the former Mie® Pat Moser, and reside® with her parent®, Mr. and (Mrs. Walter J. Krick. Lt. and Mrs. Alen A. Nu®s-baum, (Berne, route 1, are the parent® of a Ibalby girl, iborn Sunday morning at 4:i25 a. m. at the Adam® county hospital. She weighed 7 pounds 10 oun'ce® and has not been named. Mr. and Mr®. Rolbert McCray, 716 Indiana street ,are the parent® Os a ibalby girl, iborn -Saturday at 7:53 p. m. at the Adam® county hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 7% ounces and ha® -been named Susan Elaine. IMr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Suttles, Jr., of Utica, N. Y. are parent® of a ibalby son, iborn 'March 24. The ibalby, the second child in the family and the first iboy. ha® been named Edward Arthur and weighed seven and one-half pound®. The grandparents, IMr. and IMrs. Suttles, Sr. of Fifth street, have been notified that mother and baby are progressing nicely. 0 ZAkLOCALS Out of town guests at the home of Rev. andlMrs.iPaul W. Schultz for the confirmation of their con Paul Gerald on Palm Sunday, were Frank Brauer and (Edna Brauer, Mis® Edith Starke, Mr. end Mrs. Fred Galen, Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Hinz, all of Cleveland. IMis® Irene Brooks arrived home Saturday from Francis Shimer college -to sipend lher spring vacation (with -her mother, Mr®. Sam Brook®. IMrs. Floyd Orandetaff left Bunday for a several weeks’ visit with her -husband, Capt. F. L. Grandstaff, who is stationed at Mac Dill Field, Tampa, Fla.

IHnTn’TiiiT HjTTTTTnT|TTTT TTTTT] nhi um We Mill iPvt. Jack Leroy fihady, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Peck, Decatur, route one is now being examined by the AAF Training Command station Medical and Psychological Unit at -Biloxi, Miss., to determine his qualifications as a preaviation cadet. Flying officer training as a pilot, bombardier or navigator will be given Pvt. Shady upon successful completion of the processing -he is undergoing at Keesler Field. Mary Frank, Y 3/c, will return to Great Lakes, 111., this evening after -spending Che weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Frank.

IPvt. Donn Liby, who has been training with the Army Air Corps since September, 1343, recently left Henry Ford’s bomfber plant at Willow Run, Ypsilanti, Mich, and was sent to the Las Vegas Air Field, Nevada. -On the way he passed through (Salt Lake City, Utah, where he saw the Morman Temple and Great Salt Lake.. -He says the Las Vegas camp is completely surrounded by mountains. Mount Charles, a winter resort nearby, is always snow-capped and has tobogganing and skiing all the year round. Boulder Dam is also near. IPvt. Liby is an airplane mechanic and is now ready to take up the gunnery phase of this training. Awaiting Assignment T/Sgt. Richard C. Everett, 20, of Pleasant Mills, recently home on furlough, has arrived at Army Air Rorces Redistribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach for resassignment processing after completing a tour of duty outside the continental United States. Sgt. Everett flew 61 missions as a B-26 radio operator-gunner in the European theater winning the Air Medal with ten clusters. He is the son of Randolph and Bertha Everett of Pleasant Mills. His wife, Phyllis Jean Everett, resides at Monroe. (Donald Reidenbach, storekeeper, second class, who served 20 months with the navy in the Panama Canal

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NEW YORK.—Mr. Herman Shumlin is probably the most sensitive director the stage can boast today. He is without a doubt peerless in casting a play. Yet he’s had the durndest luck this season. He produced “The Stranger,” which fizzled. Now he’s directed “Kiss Them for Me,” the new play by Luther Davis based on the novel “Shore Leave” by Frederic Wakeman, which won’t suffer the fate of “The Stranger,” but which left your reporter baffled and vaguely uneasy because It might have been a good play but for several obvious reasons was nob We haven’t read “Shore Leave,” but assume that the book Is a .good one. The play, on the other hand, has Its comic moments and Its touching ones. It is superbly cast It Is well played. But when It’s over there isn’t much you’d care to remember, nor even a little that you might feel about It. The story concerns three naval aviators on a four-day leave which wasn’t given—or taken—according to the book. They take the ambassadorial suite in a .swank San Francisco hotel and plan to spend their four days doing all the things sailors do on leave. - But the paper navy steps in, and when Mr. Davis, says the pa!per navy—-or perhaps it was Mr. Wakeman, it’s a paper-doll navy. I There’s the now-familiar two and 'a half striper whose connection with the sea began as a press ' agent and will end as one, and Whose chief Interest in the war is to feather his postwar nest This he does to a degree so revolting that he becomes completely unreal. There’s the shipbuilding tycoon who’s as completely unreal as the brass-bound press agent There are chief petty officers with hearts of gold, and there Is expressed a really touching esprit de corps, a genuine attachment of the three fliers- to their ship and their outfit and to their task in the war. There’s the society dame who falls in love with one of the fliers, and the familiarly acquiescent chippie who falls in love with another. (There's, the brand new ensign -with his brand new uniform, embarrassedly taking the affectionate kidding of the flak-battered fliers, and there's a brand new kid brother who Just got his wings as a Marine fighter pilot. There’s the barrier of paper which the fliers can’t hurdle, and they all go from the swank hotel suite to the hospital for a checkup, and two of the three are washed out—oq« of them com- 1

Zone, is home on a 32-day leave with her parents, Mr. and (Mrs. W. L. Reidenbach of 11215 Madison street. In Bataan Campaign (With the 38th (Infantry Division on Bataan—iS/ISgt. Samuel E. Schladenhauffen, formerly of Decatur, Indiana, has seen action recently in the -Battle of Zig-Zag Pass, on Bataan, Luzon Island, Philippines. IS/Sgt Sehladenhauffen is assigned to Company B, Hl3th Medical Battalion, 38th infantry division. During the hectic days of the battle, -he remained at the from with his unit, administering blood plasma, and other medications to our wounded troops. He has been under sniper, and machine gun fire many times in his efforts to carry on his work. He has been commended by his battalion, and company officers for outstanding bravery, and tireless energy. « iS/ISgt. Sehladenhauffen entered the army in 1941. He received his training at Camp Shelby, Miss., Camp Carrabelle, Fla., Camp Livingston, La., and two maneuvers in Texas, and Louisiana. He has been overseas for the past fifteen months, seeing service in the Hawaiian Islands, and New Guinea, (before ariving in the Philippines. He is entitled to wear the American Defense Ribbon, the Good Conduct Ribbon, the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon, and the Philippine liberation Ribbon, with two campaign stars. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. (Emil Sehladenhauffen, of Decatur, Ind. Pvt. Gerald Barger arrived home Sunday to spend a 45-day furlough -with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. -Herman Barger. Pvt. Barger spent two years in -Italy, and will report to Camp Atteibury at the expiration of his furlough. —o (Continued From Page One) will be in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Monroeville. The body will be removed from the Elzey & Son funeral home to the Roy Mcßride residence, one mile south of road 224 on the Adams-Wells county line, Tuesday afternoon. 0 Cross-Bred Layers Cross-bred chickens used as layers, should not be used for breedng purposes. o Laying Houses Laying houses should have one nest for each five layers. Lack of a suitable number of nests may lead to egg-eating by the birds.

i pletely out of the navy. They - worm their way out by a paper t dodge which is undoubtedly not t impossible to work, and fly back - to their carrier with two of the ; four days still undrunk and un- . spent. Now, listening to all this, you ’ might think that there’s plenty -of material for a good play. As , a matter of fact it has, as we’ve . said, some very funny moments I and some very touching ones, but . by and large the impiession is left that you haven’t seen three - fliers on leave at all, but a frequently engaging and sometimes' moving story of what can’t pos- , sibly have happened to any three fliers on earth. I George Matthews and John McGovern are the old-salt chiefs. Dennis King, Jr., does a fine job as Mississip, one of the flying' trio. The juiciest role goes to, Richard Widmark, as another : and he, too, does a swell job. Richard Davis is the quiet birdman of the trio and handles the 1 role with distinction. Miss Judy Holliday is the hit of the evening as the amoral young lady who comes to get nylons and stays until the end. She’ll undoubtedly get staggering offers from the movies, being an unusually effective commedienne. There’s no - use going through the cast. They • were all fine, the direction was ■ excellent, the sets good. We’re ■ sorry we can’t report that "Kiss 1 Them for Me” wasn’t a better i play, and not having read the i book we can’t tell you whose I fault it is. It surely wasn't that i of Shumlin or the members of i the cast. i ! The Booth Theatre has a new ■ tenant in "The Deep Mrs. Sykes,” ! a new play by George Kelly. We ■ must report that Mrs. Sykes is i not so‘deep as a well, nor nearly • as refreshing as the water. In I the two acts Mr. Kelly develops ■ the theme that “.. .there are ego- • tlst women. And they say they’re > really much deadlier than the ' male: because their egotism usui ally passes for mere feminine i jealousy." Mr. Sykes says that, i and since he states the play, Mr. i Kelly has had this much of the speech printed in the program. We are of the opinion that the teapot is too small for the enormous tempest Mr. Kelly raises. Neil Hamilton, Catherine Willard, Myra Forbes, Charlotte Keane, Romney Brent, Margaret Bannerman, Jean Dixon, Richard Martin, Mary Gildea, Ralph Glover, Gwen Anderson, Katherine Anderson, Tom McElhany and Grandon Rhodes are in the capable cast! but get very little to sink their' teeth, into.

MRS. MARY BUTCHER (Continued From Page One) survive. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Gillig and Doan funeral home and 2:30 p. m. at the United Brethren church, with the Rev. R. R. Wilson officiating. Burial

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Victory Gardens as Vital as Planes, Tanks, Guns

A goal of 20,000,000 Victory gardens—more than were made in 1944 —was fixed for 1945 by the National Victory Garden Conference held in Washington at the call of the war food administration and the U. S. department of agriculture. The conference was called to dispel the uncertainty which had arisen from news and radio reports which represented the Victory garden movement as no longer necessary. These reports were the outgrowth of a wave of optimism which swept the country in the late summer, when collapse of Germany seemed near. It then seemed possible that heavy reservations of the 1944 con> mercial pack of canned " goods made for the armed forces might be reduced, and the amount available for civilian use correspondingly increased. It was this possibility that led to the removal of canned goods from the ration list at that time. - Hope for an early victory was short-lived, however, and when the conference was called it was already apparent that any let down ip Victory* Garden production of vegetables might bring about serious scarcity. A survey by the department of agriculture presented to the conference indicated that in 1944 only 18,500,000 Victory gardens had been made, as compared with 22,000,000 in 1943. A much greater drop had taken place in the amount of home canning. Too many gardeners who had put up more vegetables in 1943 than they could use in a year, canned none at all in 1944; so that reserves on storeroom shelves had been heavily reduced. For the armed forces, 41 per cent of the 1944 commercial pack had been set aside, and any chance of its release had disappeared. This would reduce the commercial canned goods available to civilians to 56 per cent of that available a year ago. Judge Marvin Jones addressed

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will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body has been moved to the Gillig and Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. — o Indiscriminate That man is quite impartial; he lies about everybody.—Samuel Johnson.

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“Don’t Slow Down Now”—U. S. to Victory Gardeners Judge Marvin Jones, war food administrator, told the National Victory Garden Conference held in Washington: “History shows that nations with ample food supplies are the ones that win victories. We cannot afford to gamble. We must do everything we can to make certain that every one of our fighting men has all the food he needs. Food is just as necessary as guns, tanks, and planes. Home gardeners produced over 40 per cent of the fresh vegetable supply in 1944 and we are asking them to equal this record in 1945. We can’t afford to slow down now when Victory is almost within our grasp!” the conference, and his speech gave warning of the change which i had taken place in the outlook, j since the early fall. “Three months ago there was much optimism that the war would be over before the end of' this year,” said he. “This hope has • now been discounted. History shows ■ that nations with ample food sup? plies win victories. Food is just as necessary as guns, tanks and planes. Home gardeners produced, over 40 per cent of the fresh vegetable supply this year and we art asking them to equal this record pf. 1945. We cannot afford to slowdown now when Victory is almost/ within our grasp.” Return of canned vegetables to the ration list with high point values followed soon after the conference, and gave further proof of the serious view taken by national leaders of the situation as to vegetable supplies, and the need for continued production in Victory gardens.