Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every EvealAg Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Offloe as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Halthouse, Sec'y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies | .04 One week by carrier _ .20 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells c unties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, $4.50 per year; S2J>O for six months; 11.35 for three months; 60 cents for one Wont'. Elsewhere: >6.50 per year; $3.00 tor six months; $1.66 for three months; 6” cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces >3.50 per year or SI.OO lor three months. 'Advertising Ratos Made Known on Application. National Representative •CHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. With the season a month or two ahead of itself, we may have harvesting in progress long before the Fourth of July. —o American dollars are worth about 'five to one over similar denominations of many other countries. •Tliat’s why American war bonds are eo gilt edged.

r —o Ml Wise housewives now get the food in tile ice box before they iugvite guests. Otherwise the gamble is too great on having any tiling ■ but a crust to provide the meal. —o • Germany lias been crushed and flattened but according to Dictator Hitler has not been whipped. It makes a rather difficult problem for the rest of the world. Q—o - Tile Victory gardens are beginning to look green and in another few days many people will be enjoying vegetables produced on their own 'soil by their own effort. —o Blood donors are urged to legistdr at Red Cross headquarters by Saturday at 4:30 p. in. when the close., for the week. They " will go to Portland Tuesday. * o—o If the Yanks Sunday in Berlin they will probably have to take their own provisions along for according to reports there is a real scarcity of about every thing in the bombed city. o—o While some gamp wardens say many fish were killed in the lakes end rivers of northern Indiana tile past winter by the heavy ice, the Waltonians who have tried it report good catches. So we will just have to take chaiices on the supply lasting until we can get there. —o Every good community needs J building that can be used for recreational and general meeting purposes. The plan of Community Find to help to provide such a place in Decatur as a living memorial to the men and women of the armed service, sounds good It’s one of the best postwar improveincuts that could be made. —o The three American armies lacing for Berlin are not doing any foolish sprinting. The generals in charge take every precaution to avoid traps and to defeat the enemy as quickly as possible when they meet them. Tliey are ready to join the Russians ami proceed with taking over the capitol.

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ITlie local plant of the Hononl Electric, now off on its second 25year lap, has more than doubled since it was first opened. If ii does as well the next quarter century, and we believe it has an opportunity to even do better than that, it will he quite a help in building Decatur. Good luck Mr. Lankenau and your assistants. —o It's hard to understand why the Nazi leaders and their followers are burning their owu cities and destroying every thing they can. They have been told time and again by General Eisenhower and other Allied heads that if they will stop fighting and go back to the work of producing other things than wai materiels, they will be helped ami encouraged. What can be gained by the present attitude is beyond explanation. —o April 25th to May 2nd will be Boys and Girls Week and will be generally observed over Indiana by those interested in the problems and the proper direction of the youngsters. And it is really important for its 'surprising how quickly these lads and lassies become the men and women of a community. Governor Gates has proclaimed the event and properly acks the cooperation of local communities to make it as effective as possible. -0

The senators who are charging the Ol’A with many transgressions perhaps forget that its much easier to make speeches and include serious charges than it is to operate an organization designed to administer and control prices during war times. If there has been real wrong doing it should of course lie attended to and those guilty punished lint to make general charges for political purposes is also wrong. The public would like to know the truth regardless of who conductthe investigations. —o This nation has a navy twice as large as all the other navies of the world. What a record that is for three years of work. It was made possible because every one bought and held bonds and in other ways cooperated and contributed to the effort. Now that Germany is about through with organized war for many years any way and Japan is weakening, we should continue our program until victory is complete and more important until we have provided in every way possible for a peace that will endure, without inflation and with jobs for every one. Every dollar invested now in E bonds will come back many tim- s

over by protection as well a.; other dividends. -0 From War To Business We have beard much kboitt the number of servicemen who hope to go into business for themselves after discharge. Some businessmen have been concerned about the possible failures resulting. The War Department and other organizatione. which have inquired into this, have turned up some interesting facts. Perhaps seven percent, or some 550,000 soldiers, intend to start out for themselves, and four percent more have '•tentative plans." During the first two years of the war, it is estimated that 530,000 small businesses ceased to operate, or just about enough to leave room for the veterans who want to try it. So far as actual performance is concerned, the questioning of veterans already returned to civilian life reveals considerable caution. Most of them feel that circumstances are too uncertain, and present difficulties of administration too great, to make them want jo start now. Instead, they are gding back to school, or into paid jobs. In order to learn and gain experience. Furthermore, very few of those who are opening up now have applied for GI loans. Their own sav- '

THE WORLD IS STUNNED! Franklin Delano Roosevelt is dead. How unreal it seems and how difficult it is to express the feelings of the people. He was President of the United States. He was the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of America. He was the friend of man, believer in democracy and beloved by millions here and in every kind where men are free. For twelve years he has steered the ship of state through the stormiest waters in history. He entered office when the nation was in the throes of the depression and brought us to the greatest height of prosperity in a few years. As commander-in-chief he not only advised and helped to build the greatest army and navy in the world but his advice was sought and followed by the Allied leaders in every country. He was the world’s greatest citizen. His leadership has so shocked the people everywhere that it will be difficult to pick up the loose ends of the great tasks he performed. Death came to the President in the little White House at Warm Springs. Ga., his favorite spot because of the benefits he had received since he became ill many years ago with infantile paralysis. Only a half hour previous to the stroke that proved fatal he had expressed himself as “never feeling better.” “Why couldn't he have lived a few months to conclude his work?” is a question that has been asked by millions the past twenty-four hours but it's the old query, God can only answer. The world has had Franklin D. Roosevelt’s name and his precedents will live forever. Perhaps his work was finished and it's up to others to carry on. That will be done. The wars will be won and the peace of the world will be established, the conference at San Francisco will proceed and plans for rehabilitation of a war-torn universe will go on. That would be the wish of the great man, who weary and tired but still willing to serve, would want. There are no other men so well prepared, so experienced, wise, just and far seeing. We are thankful he has done so much for all the people, that victory is so near and plans for reverting to peace are so well charted. We will go on. News of the great leader's death so shocked the people of this country that business ceased temporarily, cases and places of amusement closed and everywhere deepest sorrow was expressed. Never has there been a display of more genuine grief and it came from every walk of life, regardless of creed, color or political affiliation. The chief is dead. It will be difficult to go on without his leadership on which even his enemies depended, but we must. We will keep faith with our fighting men and with the millions of people for whom Roosevelt gave his life just as heroically as though he had led an army in the field. Franklin 1). Roosevelt belongs to the ages. Harry S. Truman, plain American, well informed on public affairs, has advanced to the high position of President of the United States. He realizes the difficulty of following in the footsteps of his great predecessor and will do his best. Every good citizen will give him sincerest support.

ings, or the help of families and friends, is enough to carry them. So the outlook all arouiid seems reasonably hopeful. - Van Wert Times-Bullelin. o—- + - 4 Twenty Years Aao Today < April 13--The weather man was generous and provided 74 degree temperature here for Easter. John G. Adler, .75. died yesterday at hie home on Winchester street. 'Rev. B. N. Covert, and Amort

New President Sworn In ■■■■■Fl ■ —“ i j fi f alPtl Mm J®l KJMwL PICTURED ABOVE is flic historic scene in the cabinet room of the executive offices of the White House when Harry S. Truman (holding Bible) took the oath of office as President of the United States. The oath was administered by Chief Justice Harlan Stone, standing in front of President Truman. Mrs. Truman is standing in center, witli attorney-general Francis Biddle and secretary of state Edward R. Stettinius and other cabinet members in the background.

Where President Roosevelt Died i»?S»W% *'•''•’■l2sS-3;'■ . rs» y ** \ J>?, •■■■• 'x 1 * M'?• ?w|| I MRE9 *Rwi : - io| rv JSISEM ■ - ” s I r'l 'M“ 9■■".<■■' iji PICTURED' Above ’is fhr' wim-ipal building ar the w.ina ‘MStXBcL foundation for infantile paralysis, where the President expired at 3:35 o'clock Thursday afternoon.

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II Biggs go to Warsaw to attend pres- ] j byterian session. . J Oil well on the Bulkhead farm j j near Monroe gives soni showing j ‘ | when shot today. Harold Daniel is home on a visit, j ;He sea student at the United Typographical school at Indianapoloie. Decatur chautauqua will be held , the week of August 31. Rev. W. H. I Thompson, president of the assoi elation. announces. ! Banditis hold up the Niblick & , { Co. store and secure $1,200. ;l „ According to the latest federal i-1 census. New Bedford, Mass., has . 11n.341 inhabitants — just 91 mote s than the State of Nevada.

♦ I Modern Etiquette i I 3y ROBERTA LEE | * * Q When a girl is marrying a i very wealthy man. and her family in in poor circumstances, isn't it all . right to let her bridegroom pay for ■ the wedding? i A. No, The bride's family, or the i bride herself, should do so. i Q. If a sales person has shown . one a display of articles is it fi'eces- ' sary to thank him? ! A. While it is not exactly necess I sary. the well bred person never . ! fails to do so. 1 Q. How long after a breakfast

should a guest leave? A, From fifteen minutes to an hour after eating. o I Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE « II OUStEIi 10 LD SCR A P BOOK Stitching Silk When stitching silk or any very thin material on the machine, put a piece of white paper underneath the material anil it will prevent puckering or drawing. The paper can then be removed easily. Pineapple Lemonade Boil one cup of sugar in a pint can of greated pineapple and the can of greated pineapple and the juice of thr'C lemons. Cool, strain and add one quart of iced water. Egg Stains To remove egg stains from silver rub vigorously with common table salt and they will quickly disappear. - o Road To Berlin By United Press The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Eastern front: 31 miles (from Zaeckerick).

President Truman And His Family j ' Ae-Wa II SWsHF Wte. fc,:: % I i Vtw V. WMI fPW ■ sWso-- ! .aw <•' / jaMk V’ Ww W *l' * i ■■k Iff JHHHk vawMl assr » I J - ■'ft. - -3 .. . . .. J THE ABOVE PICTURE of President Truman an 4 his family was taken in tin- ' urn - inion hall iutjn last summer when he received the nomination for vice-president, iiis daughter Mary Margara,-' seated next to him and Mrs. Truman at the right.

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CHAPTER TWENTY Something he couldn’t remember experiencing for many years—hunger possibly since the smells from the hamper were anrbrosiac—surged through Steve’s system. “This is pretty fine, but you shouldn’t. ..” “Why shouldn’t I?” she asked reasonably, whisking tops from hot casseroles . . . And soon they sat down to dine by candlelight. They’d got to the after dinner coffee, when Steve said “Lucius” and “Horatio” were on the road to recovery. Daphne exclaimed, “Oh, the guinea pigs! May I see them?” They went into the laboratory and presently Daphne saw- a tub .full of bottles and test-tubes that was stuck away under the bench. “Just some stuff that has to be washed sometime.” “It will be washed right now,” Daphne announced, getting into her white duck coat, ignoring all protests. It was ten when the job was finished and they were putting things away in the refrigerator, when she saw a bottle of champagne tubbed in ice therein. “Something I saved for an occasion,” he said. “I got' it out today. Thought you might like some.” “I’d love it, Steve. Let’s have a big, blazing fire to go with it.” The fire was soon big and blazing, and the wine cool and filled with golden bubbles. Lifting his glass, Steve saw her face framed in a golden circle. It seemed sweetly sinister, her eyes dangerously so, and yet he wanted to tell her about the time when he’d bought the champagne, and why. It was one of those rare moments when he thought he’d come to the end of his scientific search. But that failed, so he’d put the bottle away and never thought of it again, until he’d wakened that morning when Daphne was to come to the laboratory in the afternoon. ... He ended his champagne story with, “We’ve talked enough of it and me. Where did Mrs. Abruzzi learn to drink wine?” For several moments, Daphne mused at the fire, her chin in hand, her eyes dreaming up visions, her memory flicking over the fairy tales she’d written into letters for years and years, “It was first in Londofi,” she said . —she who had seldom tasted champagne until this night—“the night ' when Carlo gave a concert. Have you ever been to London, Steve?” He said once or twice. Better let J London alone. 1 “To the Riviera?" “No.” . , Daphne began to speak nostalgi- J rally of the Riviera. The sweet moan of strings under star-lit skies, * the tinkle of laughter in the bright c casino, the sentinel cypress, the sparkling sands, and people and yet s more people whose names were only » names to her. It was a sybaritic c picture of a life that had no real I ® meaning, a life that she had

Western front: 49 miles (from I east of Madgcburg). Italian front: 516 miles (from near Coniacchio). WORLD'S, NATION'S (Continued From Page One) Mr. Roosevelt -- “The people all over the world will mourn with you (Mrs. Roosevelt) tonight. He was so gallant and brave.” Gen. Charles De Gaulle -“At le i-q the decisive successes to which l;;> so powerfully contributed will have given him the certainty of victory before he succumbed at his,post. He leaves to the world an undying example and an essentia] message. This message will be heard.” Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau. Jr. "He mote thin any one person, is responsible, in my opinion, for the successful conduct of this terrible war against the aggressor nations.” Secretary of Interior Harold 1. Ickes — “President Roosevelt has died for its." Sen. Arthur 11. Vandenberg, it. Mich., an outstanding critic of M-. Roosevelt's domestic policies -“A successful peace must be his monument.” Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wile of the president of China —“His i

glimpsed from its outmost fringes, r “You loved it?” i- “Certainly,” she said. “Let me n tell you about Paris.” d Daphne put no brakes on her imagination; she was intoxicated IJ by her own words, rather than by the wine, and she never realized that every word was like another t mile widening the road between her 1 and the scientist. r Steve hated that gay world of „ which she spoke so lovingly. He scorned the life she painted with glowing phrases. He knew that it had robbed him of precious years, and very nearly cost him his ideals. He said nothing of that to Daphne, 3 and their Thanksgiving dinner t ended on a smiling (but secretly somber) basis . . . There was no ' kiss to mark their parting that ' night. » » » » r Sleighbells jingled through the - house like merry laughter. It took her two days to round them up, but • the effect was worth the effort, s There were two sets of them jinJ gling madly at quarter past four, I one at the back door when Mrs. Gates went to see how the ice-cream ■ was coming along, and the other . when Minnie Fiske’s Petunia, loaned for the occasion, opened the i front door to admit two youths, advertised as “The Chocolate Drops.” • Daphne—slightly faint with the 1 apprehension that her guests had mistaken the time, and were already arriving, peered over the stair-rail—saw that it was only her two young musicians, and retired to her room to finish dressing.

While she tried for the eleventh time in two days to decide whether to wear the glamorous sleek crepe, or the girlish checked taffeta, her mind bounced from pleasure to conscience, and there she was, staring at the two dresses on the bed, getting nowhere at all. It was great fun giving a party, but the extravagance had to be considered, and then she wondered why she was giving the party at all. It was, this New Year’s Day affair, in a sense, Buff’s idea. And while Persis Goodhue, society editor of Tommy Dennison’s news- 1 paper, would exhaust her superlatives in describing it as “a social . affair without equal in the annals ' of North Wintridge Society,” it 1 was, in Daphne’s mind, better j classed under the heading of tactical moves. A party, goodness knows, was I the last thing in her mind a week , ago when a small Christmas tree ‘ and a wreath on the front door were her only festive signs.. Now there , was a huge tree in the dining-room, ~, yards of laurel festoons twined .- over balustrade and doors, and heaped over mantles. There were , clusters of gold and silver balls „ hung with the greens on light s sconces, and red candles flickered s in every window. Christmas had 1 come, if a trifle belatedly, to Daph- F ne’s house. It -had all happened after the'

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. little talk Buff and DaphneUM in Buff’s house the night uf® younger girl's Christmas daw® “I hate these big shindigs,"!® r deprecated. "But I canputtpi® ] a lot of things 1 don't like, !e® , what I do.” S I What Buff did want was Pt® . Dawson who, it seemed, was t)R . treated to a little competitiMM jog him out of his role of n® , friend. “The method has whistafl ; Buff said, "But it still worksPM ' knows I'm always around wieß 1 wants me, and that's bad. V ' bringing up the reserves. It’ll ’ Princeton Dream Boy whoohjM ' ly adores me, and if thaUoet] I make young Dawson bhak ® sandy eye-lashes, nothing will J “Are you sure he'll wirit. Ba refused " dinner invitations, 14 know.” , , 1 “I know, but men like partiesJ<M as much as girls. Besides, ' psychology runs to thinking twj safety in numbers. He not likely to propose to.™ * l !] I’ve got a hundred and fifty on my hands to be entertainCJ That-was the germ. lt«*"l when Alan telephoned fromAIM ington a day later to say *1 was getting a brief les’’ would Daphne join him 1- I York for a celebration M Year’s night? That was w«« 1 found herself saying, here. I’m giving an egg- s per party New Year s Day I up Corinne. Maybe youtwa® motor up together.” J That was the way it J Alan and Corinne, and were many more coming. I

s l£ nF —and when did she not. never quite sure wh wanted to throw things o a good cry. , oM I Steve treated her as ly as if they had never , - gethcr as they did on * cV enrt ing night. Earlier ev y foifld he had been fun, and they a kind of intimacy at tD * dinner, but, after a Daphne had done her-b' tertaimng—he had ret into his natural aloofi - - cf Sometimes shed thougn ting her laboratory vv ° an a ndb* It wasn’t easy to love a near him, and be made! o as important as ales lab equipment. , t $ Daphne had bcen j vi tati«i ’ about extending her v "adie' t ‘ ! the New Year s party, a "° ted« astounded when Steve promptly. j_ h t idei Maybe Buff had th- thea nNot that Daphne would cient trick of s he «* jealous. . . • Nevertheless dered if Alan woukm - sai dinarily attractive m his gold uniform. . ear the Daphne decided to slinky black crepe with phire clips- ~ ’ (To be continued) Ccpyrijhi srldW**^ 1 DUUlbuted bs Ku>« IW»*" --