Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Klrery Hvealag Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, In<L, Post Office aa Second Clasd Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Hothouse, Sec’y. A Boa. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies 1 .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall la Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells o unties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, 14.60 per year; 12.50 for six months; 11.86 lor three months; 60 cents for one mont*. Elsewhere: 85.50 per year; 88.00 for six months; 8165 for three months; 60 cents for one month, Men and women In the armed forces 83-50 per year or 81.00 lor Jiree months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative •CHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E Wacker Drive, Chicago, Ih-■-■Suow never looks as beautiful this time of the year as it does iu the late autumn. —o We wonder it it Is Charlie Chaplin's personality or hie bank rill that attracts so many young women who are willing to tell their troubles te~the public iu court. O—O It s the "hang on to your hat" season and usually at this period we suffer hurricanes and cyclones, jlope they don't materialize this spring. - o—o Under a new order candy manufacturer* no longer have to set aside fifty percent of their 5-cent bast for the Armed Forces. Now Johnny will be glad to do the store errands. -0 Don't be discouraged by the weather but plant a Victory garden as soon as the ground will permit. It's time now to start to produce the 1945 vegetables. O—O The cold snap didn't do the fruit any good but we are hoping it didn't destroy the crop for this year. The gardens were not far trough along to suffer much eo perhaps the hold-back of spring will be a benefit. O—O If you know of any Adams county men or women who have enlisted in the Armed Service in recent months, please send the name to Adams Post No. 43. American Legion. They arc trying to bring the Honor Roll up to date. O—O Let's put the seventh war loan campaign over with the usual bang in Adams county. This may be one of the last ones and we are assured there will be not more than one more during the year. Buy as many bonds as you can and keep those /on now have. O—O A hundred and fifty million pounds of used clothing is needed to care for the suffering people of the world. That's about threefourths of the amount estimated to be hidden away in our closets. Let's see that, these articles of apparel go to Henry Kaisers ship, for transmission to the places needed. The campaign is on this month. O—o The stock market is in a rut due no dotlbt to the indications that hostilities will soon cease in Europe and that military requirements will be cut iu half. The “bulls and bears” get jittery when changed conditions are apparent ’ . •• '• * For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopback on sale each evening AS I

which is another indication that business leaders as well as the war chiefs believe the next week or two will bring some real news from Berlin. O—o Those who wish to donate blood for the armed forces may register at the Red Cross headquarters here any time now for the next trip to Portland. April 17th. Already many f have signified their desire to thus aid injured men at the battle fronts but there is room for more. O—o There is sorrow tn this community because of the death of Mrs. Martin Miller, whose entire life of seventy-seven years had been spent in this county. She was a woman of excellent character, a fine Christian lady, loved by all who knew her and to whom many turned for advice. —o According to Drew Pearson. Jimmy Byrnes retired as assistant president and his other government connections because he is not in very good health and was urged by his physicians to take a rest. He has worked night and day for one purpose only —to help win 'he war—and has performed as near perfectly as a human could. That's ebout all we have the right to ask from any man. O—o Russia has denounced her neutrality pact with Japan because of the latters alliance with Germany. By many this is believed to be preliminary to Russia's entrance of the war against Japan. Rest assured that the Reds will never quit now until they have retaken the territory lost in the early part of this century. Their entrance in the Pacific war would unquestionably shorten the war for it would surely make the island empire realize the hopelessness of further combat. —o The conference in San Francisco which opens in three weeks is not designed to settle controversies among the nations. It is simply an effort to organize a wotld peace organization. Later the body established for the purpose will have to meet the varied problems. So there is nothing to get excited about now. It certainly should be the sincere wish of every one that the peace loving countries of the world plan soundly to avoid a thiid war and to make such arrangements, one with the other, that each can live happily. —_o—o Business is sure to boom after the war. Every industry is planning to improve, repair and go forward. Congress has provided borrowing capacity for every worthy applicant whereby homes may be purchased or built. The FIIA will continue to guarantee the banks that make such loans and millions will take advantage of the opportunity. Every one will want new cars, radios, refrigerators and a i hundred other items and farmers will purchase new machinery as rapidly as possible. There is no reason for a let-up and there will be none after a few months elapse to permit pianufacturcrs to get ready. —o Acting on authority granted by a measure enacted by the recent legislature, the budget committee has purchased the Trimble home at 4343 North Meridian street in Indianapolis as a . home for the Governor. Including the furnishings, which are said so be very attractive, the price paid was |7?,500. For nearly forty years the matter of providing a suitable home for • * the chief executive has been 4mcussed in legislative sessions; bin usually lost out because the governor declined to assume the kickback of thus improving his personal comfort. The 1945 general assembly got around this by giving the budget committee the job with out requiring approval by the governor. Hoosier governors will have an executive mansion they hate to

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leave at the end of four-year terms. O—O Real Dividens: “Fire losses have been serious and more severe than they should have been, but no major war effort in tiiis country lias been stopped or critically hampered by fire,” said ' W. E. Mallalieu, general manager of the Nation Board of Fire Under- ■ writens. at a War Department Conference on Repairs and Utilities. The record of fire prevention in the United States in this war is far ' better than in World War I. The cost of damage by fire during the five years of World War I totaled more than 11,293,000.000, while lire damage casts for World War 11. 1939-1943, inclusive, totaled 81.555.01)0,000. an increase of 20 percent. However, during World War 1 the maximum value of property exposed to possible destruction by gre was lees than half the greatest ' value exposed in World War 11. In ' other words, if fire losses for the five-year period of the second World War had been running at the same rate as in the first World War, our destruction would have been over three billion dollar.-. 1 Therefore, fire prevention has paid big dividends.

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I Household Scrapbook { I By ROBERTA LEE | ♦ ♦ Grape Frappe i To make grape frappe boil 7 cups To make grape frappe boil 7 cups of sugar in S’, a quarts of water for i five minutes. When cool, add 1% cups of lemon juice and 7 cups of li grape juice, then freeze. Paste Substitute . In an emergency, a paper paste . t3ulb6titute can be had by nibbing the slice of a raw potato or the paper. Mice Guin camphor laid among books 1 1 on the shelves, or any other haunts . of mice, will keep them away. 0 t ♦ — * Twenty Years Ago 1 Today I April 7—lnheritance tax on the ' erstat. of the late Mrs. Elizabeth , Kern is 81J’®2. I The contract for building the Mills road at Monroe is let to Ju- ' lius Haug.k on his bid of $1,286. Martin L. Smith of Berne apt pointed jury commissioner by Judge Sutton. i Von Hindenburg is a candidate a for the presidency of Germany. I 'Matt Breiner elected dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose here. t The contract to build an addition I to the city power plant is awarded Christen & Smith on their bid of J $5,690. o I The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

»— - ♦ I Modern Etiguette I | 3y ROBERTA LEE | Q. Would it 'be all right to give a dinner dance in a small home? A. It would be difficult to do so. It is usual to have not lee* than 40 to 50 people to dinner and have them remain for dancing. Q. Is it correct to say. "I hav s a limited acquaintance with Mrs. Jones”? ■A. It would be better to say. "I have a slight acquaintance with Mr. Jones." Q. What is the proper dress for a hostess at a formal afternoon tea? A An afternoon gown. AMERICAN AND (Continued From Page One) ferrying in tanks by air to the sixth armored at Langensalza, but there was no confirmation of rumors that armored reinforcements were being dropped by air to a third army force in the Eisleben area. 90 miles southwest of Berlin. A radio Luxembourg report that Patton's men had reached positions 49 miles west of the Czechoslovak border also was without confirmation early today. Latest front reports placed the Americans 57 miles from Czechoslovakia at Stuetzerbach, 24 miles south-southwest of Erfurt. o There are some thoughts like wounds from which there is no recovery. Do nothing secretly: time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.—Sophocles.

Special Services And Meetings Os Churches In Area Bi i First United Brethren Dr. O. O. Arnold, associate editor of United Brethren Sunday school literature, will be the guesi speaker, occupying the pulpit of i the First United Brethren chur.th | of this city Sunday morning at 10:30 a. m. Dr. Arnold is also chairman of the rural life commis- , sion. He is a very gifted speaker | with a keen sense ot humor and a natural, informal way of getting j into the hearts of his listeners. The i public is invited to hear him. o —— STRONGJLEET (Continued From Page One) said 40 of the Mustangs bombed i and strafed western Tokyo and the' nearby port of Yokohama. Specific targets were not an-1 nounced. but a number of aircraft , plants lie in the Tokyo area ami Nagoya. 165 miles west of the capital. is the main manufacturing center of Japan. o 'BATTLE' CABINET (Continued From Page One) war council last Dec. 26. Genki Abe. the new home minister, was a former superintendent general of the metropolitan 1 police board and a veteran police official. The cabinet was Japans third ’ of tlie war and was hailed in | advance by the Japanese press as | a "battle'’ government that would ► unite Japan and utilize all her resources to turn the tide of the i war against the Allies. But it took office at a time i. when American troops rapidly J were extending their hold on Okis nawa. only 330 miles southwest of Japan, and while American 4 planes were stepping up their air i, raids on Japanese cities to a pitch approaching those on GerI many. ■i " Decatur, a good town to trade in

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN On this nice November morning I Daphne was out for a walk, going nowhere in particular, over hard frost-bitten woodland trails, enjoy- >' ing the blue-white sunlight., seeing - nothing but bronze trees and bland f skies. And a wisp of smoke that could come only from one of the t three rustic cottages that nestled , in the hollow directly in her path. She just happened to walk west when she set out on a hike that 5 was supposed to give her an appetite for Sunday dinner at Kate Dens nison’s house. Daphne’s nose was pink, and so . were her cheeks. It wasn’t noon yet and she’d go just a little bit further —just to where you could actually see the rustic cottages. Then she’d turn back. She wasn’t any spy . . . - she wasn’t curious about where Steve lived . . . s Was she the kind of a girl who’d go out walking just to catch a glimpse of a man who’d treated her with comparative contempt ? Would ~ she try to find out anything personal about a man who was willing to leave her in the lurch—with her cellar room unfinished ? Decidedly not. There were the cottages. Rather tweet they were, with little porches, and two of them with windows boarded up. The third one wasn’t, and the smoke hadn’t come from there, after all. It had come from a smoldering woodland fire off to the right. She couldn’t see a sign of life anywhere. Daphne was all alone in that woodland world, except for an imp in her ear: “All you have to do is Walk straight ahead. The house looks deserted. It would be just ordinary curiosity to look at a deserted house. You don’t know that he lives there. Don’t be girlish. Go on! Have a quick look. If he’s there, act surprised. Go on!” She was very close to the house when she saw three bottles of milk standing on the porch. He was away! “Hulloa! Anybody home?” she called. There was no answer. ’ Daphne walked up the steps boldly and knocked on the door. After a long time, she tried the door gently. It was open. “I’ll just take a little peek to see if he’s comfortable,” she said, shoving conscience aside. Steve was comfortable. She saw that at once. Comfortable in the way that some men are, without luxuries. The room, running straight across the front of the cottage, was small. There was a fieldstone hearth at one end, and two comfortable chairs were placed in front of it, with low tables convenient to each. There were books on shelves, and deep ash bowls and tobacco jars on

EVACUATE FAMILIES I (Continued From Page One) central Louisiana were either un-[ der water or isolated except ny ' plane or boat. The navy reported that it was using helicopters for Hood rescue for the first time. oRation Calendar Processed Foods Blue stamps ('2 through G 2 valid | through April 28. 112 through M 2 valid through June 1 N 2 through S 2 valid through June 30. T 2, through X 2 valid through July 31. Meats T 5 through X 5 valid through April 28. Y 5 and Z 5 and A2 through D 2 valid through June 1. E2 through J 2 valide through June 30. Red Stamps K 2 through I’2 I valid through July 31. Sugar ' Stamp 35 valid through June 2. Shoes Airpiane stamps 1, 2 and 3 in j book 3 good indefinitely. Always ■ present book 3 when making pur-

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the tables. There was a big, round table at the opposite end of the room, w’ith a basket of rosy apples on it, and yet more books. There were a couple of straight chairs and a desk-table with a battered typewriter standing on it. On the couch, there was a pillow with the print of his head in it. Navajo rugs were scattered on the floor, and a knitted blanket was neatly folded over the foot of the couch. There were a few pictures on the walls: good prints of hunting scenes, and game in flight. Daphne approached the desk table and glanced at the untidy heap of papers and notebooks. She saw that they were covered with symbols and calculations that she could not read. A second glance disclosed a sheet of paper in the typewriter. She leaned over it and read: The Staphylococcus Parasite By Stephan H. Fenwick She backed away slowly, and took I a deep breath. I must go, she thought. This isn’t fair, but she couldn’t go then. This was where he lived, and she had to know more about him. There were two half-opened doors, one to the right, and one to the left. Gently Daphne pushed open the one nearest her, and found herself in a cubicle of a-bedroom. Her eyes skipped over a neatly-made army cot, a chest of drawers and a single I , straight chair, and then lingered I for a moment on expensive luggage ] piled in one corner, and rested for i a long time on something that I i caught her eye on the chest of! ( drawers. > It was a picture frame with two . photographs facing each other. O»e, ; she surmized, was his mother; the . other she studied fqr a long time, ’ trying to keep her eyes as cool as • the deep ones in the beautifully chiseled face of the young woman with softly-drawn pale blonde hair. “So that’s the reason,” she niurmured. “It’s you! You’re the woman he loves. Why aren’t you here i with him? Could you be a ghost?” She’d loved to have turned that serene photograph face down but she didn’t dare. Daphne looked away from it and saw other things: two leather boxes for handkerchiefs and collars, a stud box—all initialed S.H.F. There was a brace of military brushes, and some strange looking implements which were thin tubes with looped wire ends. There was still the other room to be explored. She went into it expecting to find a sink, stove and table. No such simplicity met her eyes. There was a high table-bench' built along the side with the iron sink in the middle. About it there were racks filled with cotton-stop-

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pered te-t-tuhe-. was a lakmßu toiv, the workr n: Daphm very traOjp fully, and nison’s. was burstitg question-. ''• i;:.::! dinner that i l -' ualiy. "T.of a Doctor S; pitaa " J "’b.r.y out of Hr ■; r - a moment. a-. t ■■ thine familiar 1 don't know. . . ~B Daphm fry Tommy.” w Br “I’tHnick? . . . k I A “Oh Tcmm". '“ i d'd K3te *B dared. “W at £ W the doctor v.h" Bi Lindquist at tm “M:ivh<>." i.er < now—winv. a'- tb:«'. '! : - paper. "1 . l awai/ci' tiilb ■— wick — not I” ~.8 was some ; 'll ■''< ' **' leaving the I: : ~jß “What ki 'i “I » queried Pt’.’.-li • • ‘ -B Tonne. W ber exactly. geon in Bo- '' : -IB of fmmy. ' : ‘e ' C I 'h'.' If hi •'-iiiiß i like ki11:... B ' Kate su'.-."" !S3 :B “Oh, he B I Daphne exc? ■ H.-inrsiß j Kate ree'.o 1 " My A uni F yulß ‘‘We d<m’. with the ; ' , ih s B I ommy. ' ■ M there.” . "I’ve se<:i ’’ went on. . .. wa y. M attractive— hi a 1 "',7 aI ,d«B roomed at Mrs. ‘; W B used to go there for libr J B as she picke.i b jiinj and appeared Kate then said. a nap. I feel like a wallow you, Daph?” ■ “I’d love a mec walk. She wondered if h ‘“. likeß her. and a.-k' d. - > C p U ‘ be hß go down by the rmll. or UP ■ toward Miller s plac - is n ot j| “Mrs. Doody s no • , « a tc. B either direction, sna is two blocks in tl - anl)ia keß you well kno«---aad wlthoU t« in seven minutes Hat «.s “Cto (To K e.*”? B