Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1945 — Page 2

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The Coldest day i»‘ indiAhapolifl, lnd„ occurred in ISSL j when the temperature dropped to 25 below. The hottest dveatMffr was ' l<-6 degrees in July. 1901, July IWM, • and July, 1936.

NEW PIANOS As Illustrated Pre-War Quality and Price We are again making pianos. A limited number of Spinel Pianos are reserved tor customers who can aualit v under WPB t lassications, as Public Institutions. Music Teachers, Music Students and Musicians. These instruments are made from thoroughly seasoned materials and are full SB-note keyboard, full iron plate, guaranteed for ten years. No Trade-Ins. Call at our factory or telephone Bluffton 519. At present deliveries can be made within a few days. Estey Piano Corp. Bluffton. Indiana

■ W-ll ■ ■ W ■ ■ W'WVWWW I'fll ■ ■ ■ R fll fl s * IN OBSERVANCE OF fs GOOD FRIDAY. MARCH 80. N ' ' .’’ / - B » This Bank will : Close Friday I at 12 Noon ■ and will remain ■ \ CLOSED FOR THE » BALANCE OF THE 5 DAY. ■ O?EDRRAL R 9 : First State Bank ■ R Member F. D. I. C. Established 1883 i a ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ rr i fl ■ r >■ a 1119 R. 9 »1 Ji ■ ■■■ R R'R R R fltlfll 1 ; NOTICE TO |SHOPPERS! I. i The majority of Decatur stores J will observe the regular s THURSDAY AFTERNOON a Closing this week as usual « In observance of Holy Week, •; a majority of stores will also be * cWd from 12 noon to 3 p. m. * FRIDAY. March 30. i CHAMBjRQF | COMMERCE I ’K' ■■■- ■ ■ fe Ks Jt„ R-R..AJLR.J

JAPAN RtPORTS (Continued From Page One) i ■ —- I ■ 297,024. While the enemy losses were not j broken down Into dead and Wounded. it was presumed that most of I I them were killed • Despite the heavy casualties, which amounted to more than 1,i 500 a day. the Japanese at 111 were I lighting savagely on three fronts' ! in Luzon. The stiffest enemy resistance ' came in the Halete pass area in ’ northern Luzon, where more than 100 bombers and fighters raked ; the Japanese positions at Santa Fe, I near the pass, at the enemy head- 1 quarters of Baguio, and at Apart - ! on the northern coast. 0 ft is a great mistake to estimate i a person by some outside quality; i it is that within which makes the man. —, Girls- ERE Women are you ’ MUCTWMKI from loss off BIMMMW I 1 Here’s One Os The Best Nome Ways , To Build Up RED BLOOD! You girls who suffer from simple anemia or who lose eo much during < monthly periods that you are Pale, reel i tired, weak, “dragged otit"—this may be due to low blood-iron. 1 So start today—try Lydia E. Pinkham’s TAsi.rrs — one of the greatest ’ blood-iron tonics you can buy to help I I build up red blood to give more , strength and energy—tn such cases. Taken at directed—FlnktaFn's Tab- • • lets are one of the very best home ways to get precious Iron into the blood. | They help build up the mb oo*trrr of the blood by reinforcing the haemo- j globin of red blood cells. Just try Flftkhafti's Tablets sot 30 days —then see if you. too, don’t remarkably i benefit. Follow label directions, hfia UWtaiTs TMIBTS

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

Request Prayers For Conference Success S'... York. M.rch St —A u.I! tor the ctbflervdhce of a special day of 1 prayer for the success of the United Nations conference in San Franeleeo was irwued here today by the joint action of the official heads of 31 national church bodice. Addressed to more than 140,000 local churches throughout the nation, the appeal designated Sunday, April 2.2 ae the occasion for milted intercession and also asked that'special services of prayer be held on Wedivsday, April 25, the day the con- • Terence opens. Warning that the failure of the United Natione conference would mark a long step toward a third world war, the message issued by the church leaders streeAed their concern for the outcome of the deliberations anil expressed the belief that the success of the conference can offer “reasonable hope for the devtiopment of a just and durable peace.” •Among the 34 Bigners are Bishop G. Bromley Oxnani. New York, president of the federal council of the Churches of Christ in ’America; Commander Harold Stassen, president of the international council of religious education: Mrs. Harper Sibliy, Rochester, president of the united council of church women; Dr. Robert M. Hopkins. Netw York, chairman of the foreign missions conference of North America; Dr. Douglas Horton, New York, chairman of the American committee for the world council of churches; Dr. Herman N. Morse, New York, president of the home missions council of North America. The other signets include the heads of 25 Protee-

Report of condition of THE FIRST STATE BANK OF DECATUR of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, at the close of business March 20. 1945, a State banking institution organized and operating under the banking laws of this State and a member of the Federal Reserve System. Published in accordance with a call made by the State Banking Authorities and by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District. ASSETS Loans and discounts (including $37.28 overdrafts)sl,329,7oß.2B United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed 4.379.784.71 Obligations of States and political subdivisions 540,569.58 OtJier bonds, notes, and debenture? 26,790.19 Urflporate stocks (including $5250.00’ stock of Federal Reserve bank) 5,250.00 'Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balance, and cash items in process of collection 1.275.00(1.80 Hank premise? owned $12,200.00, Furniture and fixtures 6.055.01 18,255.01 (Hank premises owned are subject to $ none lien? not assumed by bank) Real estate owned other than bank premisesx none Divestments and other assets indirectly representing bank premises or other real estate none Customers' liability to this bank oh acceptances outstanding ' none Other assets 8,768.60 TOTAL ASSETS $7,584,127.17 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships.* and corporations ...*. $3,260,325.16 Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations ... 2.674,590.63 Deposits of United States Government (including postal savings! 714,632.84 Deposits of States and political'' subdivisions 458.209.17 Deposits of hanks 83,565.56 Other deposits (certified and officers’ checks, etc.)... 11,895.62 TOTAL DEPOSITS $7,203,218,98 Hills payable, rediscounts, and other liabilities for borrowed inoney ...... 2.. <• none Mortgages on other liens. $ none on bank premises and $ hone on other real estate .• none Acceptances executed by or for account of this bank and outstanding none Other liabilities , 4.796.53 TOTAL LIABILITIES (not including subordinated obligations shown below I 17,208,015.51 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital* 1........210,000.00 Surplus ..' none Undivided profits .... Reserves (and retirement account for preferred capital) 63.883.00 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 376,111.66 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOVNTH $7,581,127.17' *This bank’s capital consists of: First preferred stock with total par value As snone, total retirabje value of snone. Second preferred stock With total par value of snono, total retirable value ot snone. Capital notes and debentures $154,000. CmWmOh stock with total par value of $100,4)00. MEMORANDA P-wfiged assets (and securities loaned) (book value): (a) U. S. Government obligations, direct and guaranteed, pledged to secure deposits and other liabilities $1,206,000.00 (b) Other assets pledged to secure deposits and other Liabilities (including notes and bills rediscodhted and securities sold tinder repurchase agredmeht).. none (c) Assets pledged to qualify for exercise of fiduciary of corporate powers, and for purposes other than to secure liabilities j- none (d) Securities loaned .. none (e) TOTAL —.51,206,000.00 Secured and preferred liabilities: (a> Deposits secured by pledged assets pursuant to . requirements of law $ 710,997.49 (to Borrowing? sectired by pledged assets (incliidifig rediscounts and repurchase agreeme'fitst none (cl Other liabilities secured by pledged assets none (d) Deposits preferred under provisions of law but not secured by pledge of assets □ 3,635.35 (O TOTAL $ 715,632.84 Subordinated obligations: (a) Unpaid dividends on preferred stock and unpaid interest on capital notes and debentures, accrued to end of last dividend or interest period, not included in liabilities or reserves above none (h) Other obligations, not included in HabtHtic's, which are subordinated to claims of depositors ttnd other creditors hone I, H. 11. Krueckcbcrg, Asst. Cashier. of the above-named bank, hereby certify that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge afld belief. , H. H. KRUECKEBERO. Correct— Attest: Theo. Hobroek, » . T. F. Graliker, Daniel Sprang. L'r ' > : ' ' Directors, of Indiana, at JMflflfc ss; Sworn to add subscribed before me this 26th day of March, 1945. (SEAL) Wm, Lose, Jr., Notary Public

tant denominations Mid of three branches of the Eastern Orthodox church: the Russian. th>’ Syrian and I the Ukrainian. Through the • world eouncil of i chitt'ches and the international Mifljsionary council a similar appeal has ; been cabled to church bodies in I Europe, Asia, Africa, and South 1 Anhertca in order to secure a worldwide concert of prayer. HOOSIERS GIVE JOBS (Continued From Page One) He explained that all the veterans placed in jobe through the Legion have been put into permanent, post-war positions — not war work. Stout praised three agencies—the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans —as being active in finding “good jobs” for returning servicemen and in protecting veterans' rights. —— Q RUMOR AT MILITARY (Continued From Page One) were said to have been exchanged between regular army troops and tSS Unite. ■Both Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt, dtemiesea .supreme commander in the west, and Marshal Johannes Von Blaskowitz. commander of the southern group on the western front, have been arrested and are aiwaiting court martial, the agency .skid, o — Hall and roller bearings are -so accurate that tolerances of as little as .0001 of an inch ate common practice. Ilow fine this measurement is can be judged from the statistic that the earth scaled down to .0001 inches per mile would be less titan half the size of a golf ball.

if I wi ■enw OK K. Hml lllii 1 ' 'te * St. ■' r A COMMON SIGHT to Gls on leave in Paris are hats like the one modeled above by a pretty French gwL It is a beige straw turban with dark brown taffeta bow and is piled high on the head- (Interrtattonal) KM i -IF' Ji PRESIDENT GETUIIO VARGAS, above, has announced that he would not be a candidate in Brazil's forthcoming election — the first since he became head of the government in 1930, when he succeeded Dr. Washington Luis on thfe crest of a bitter'revolutionary wave. (International)

«•» gHl 1 ■! H%.. ''' " wSfewO - ' .■ Gladii MW. Rupert fO'.EY, formerly from New Bremen, 0., holds her two-year-old 1 son, Michael, who was born in Baguio concentration damp in northern Luzon, as she shows him his first bread. It was the first bread for Mrs. Foley in three years of internment. She Was released from Bilibid prison camp in Manila when the Yank? iterated the city from Jap oceupadion. . Marion Man Is Named Governat's Secretary

Indianapolis, March 27—(UP) — ' Frank C, Tukey. Marioii' wholesaler, I today .was the' nei* .governor’s-sec- ,j Tetary ,oji .the Indigna state Clem(key commission. A Heptfolican. Turkey succeeds i <Fr«nk Hildebrand o< Knox, who' held the pest during mbst of the * administration of former governor, Ifenry F. fechricker. I I Democrat Want Ads Get Results; ■■ ■ ■ - a.i i - ■■

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JAPS CONCEDE (Continued From Page The Japanese communique did not identify the islands .n the Kerama group on which it said the Atnpropapanda broadcast yesteiday said 2.000 troops were .'vttcmpdtng to land from 100 barges on Tokashika, Zamailii and Aka. the three largest islets in the group. •Though of little use in themselves, the Kerama Islands might serve as bases from which to attack Okinawa. The capture of Okinawa would knock out tin 1 strongest Japanese base between Formosa and Japan and open a passage to the east China and Yellow seafl. The Kerainas lie directly opposite Naha, on the eouthwest coast of Okinawa island. Naha is capital of Okinawa prefecture, which includes all the Kyukyu south of Formosa. "■Our garrison carried out interceptions. while our air force, too, ha. 3 also launched furious attacks, the Japanese communique said. (The communique claimed that five large American warships had been sunk, five more eeriously damaged. 44 planes shot down and 110 planes damaged by Japanese aircraft and ground batteries. A broadcast at noon today (Tokyo time) reported that the big guns of 'battleships and other warships had joined carrier-based planes for the fifth straight day in bombarding the Okinawa islands. . o

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DAVID LLOYD ——. —J (Continued From Page Due, “upper classes," but he was a resolute foe of Prussian militarism In 1916 he became Britain's prime minister and emerged victoriously as one of the big four who negotiated tin Vetsailles treaty. His passing leaves Vittorio Orlando I of Italy the only survivor of the four. The others were President Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau of France. I

PUBLIC SAl| OF REAL ESTATE | HOUSE and LOT - TWO BUSINESS I will sell nt public auction at the residence ■! Market Street, Rockford, Ohio on ““ SATURDAY, MAR. 31, ’fl Commencing at 2:00 o'clock P. M. Consisting of two story, nine room house, on solid fomuhtio!; d BLi siding, skfte roof, good well; large cement cistern, city house, toilet, electric lights, summer kitchen 3()'x1.7 W ith good spouting, cement walks, large porch, nice lawn, fni’t ° nice garden and chicken lot. Garage 12x26'. built of cement, blocks, two vears ago shi» I cement floor, with roll up doors. This is a good property ; mj a 2®' J ! residential part of town, close to school and church K TERMS OF SALE—sljl’lb cash on day of sale, h.-dan.-,. W is delivered: possession given-July 1. 1915. Mr TWO BUSINESS ROOMS | I will sell’on the same day at 3:00 o’clock located on North MiA 'Street, Rockford. Ohio, one brick building Uo’x2o' with ’: 7(l’xlß’one brick buiWing HO’xSO'. These are good building jWi, ' in good condition, new five layer built up roof, good spoutins; >.• S' | lots 4O'xlsO', toilet and lavatory in both rooms. Above these .B rooms are three apartments, one seven room, one two room, and one-room, with toilet and city water. These rooms are ail The two rooms are rented by The Mop Factory, of Detroit, is really an income property. No lease on these buildings, buildings will be sold together. E TERMS OF SALE—SI,OOO cash on day of sale, balance nimlA livery of deed: possession given May 1, 1945. K If you are looking for a home or a place to invest your nimJß at good returns, don’t forget this sale. ■ CARL STALLTER, 0«J E. E. Bevington, Auctioneer. ■

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