Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY. DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouae, Sec’y. A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Ratos Single Copies.. - * .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Alams, Allen, Jay and Welle o untipe, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, 14.50 per year; 12.50 for six months; 11.35 for three months; 50 cents for one mont’. Elsewhere: 35.50 per year; 33.00 for six months; 31.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces 33.50 per year or SI.OO lor •hree months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative •CHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Ih. , y.,,,, a Jap chemists have created a new food” of rotten wood, they say. If they can swallow their propaganda, the new food should go down easy. —o So. far no one has worked out a successful plan for downtown park.~;>yig either here or in other cities. If you are wise enough to do it, you will gain the appreciation of many millions of people, over the United States. —o Hunting and fishing licenses in Indiana were one-third less in the .first quarter of this year than the steerage for last year and that was ’Off. It’s due to the fact that so many of the sportsmen who enjoyed these sports are now in the armed service. o—o i Your car is valuable. If its in good condition you can sell it for .. almost its original cost. If you want to keep it going, take care

of it. Have the brakes tested, the tires examined and remember that if you don’t want to be earless, don’t be careless. : 0-0-The depots for receiving used clothing for shipment to the allied countries are busy places these days as the good people continue j if to turn in every kind of garment. And in every hamlet and city in the land similar work is going on. As a result millions of people will be made more comfortable and will bless those who have thus contributed. o—o it’s difficult to say how the ten-year-old boy in Springfield, ill., who set tire to a number of buildings because he enjoyed watching the flames, should be punished but we wonder if his parents had taken him on a few trips to the wood shed as he showed signs of enjoying destructiveness would not have saved him and them a lot of grief now. 9 Simple pilee need notwraek andterWreyoe W r with maddening itch, born and irritatfoa. 1 h Smart’s Pyramid Suppositories bring A J tjuick, welcome relief. Their grand tnedi- Fl , p cation means reel comfort, reduces Strain. W F helps tighlen relaxed membranes, gently J k lubricates and softens. Protective and A J anti-chaffing, so easy to nee. Get genuine Fl ■ Stuart’s Pyramid Suppositories at your Bj F drug Store without delay—6oc and $1.20— j • k on maker’s money-back guarantee. A Seumatism FERERS . JUST TRY lEINIR'S/ iccessful for Rheumatism, A» fenritns, lumbago. Muscular pains. nnBOOKUT. NE DRUG STORE ; ~ ~ For a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat go to The Stopback on sale each evening 4c 1

Keep up your bond buying program and add a few If you can. It’s wise, it’s thrifty, it’s patriotic. The first bathtub in the U. S. was built of mahogany. It probably didn’t show those dark brown rings after using, like the present : type. —o Farm lands in Indiana are worth 124% of their value in 1912, according to a survey by the American Banking Association. In other words it is explained that a farm that was worth SIOO per acre in 1912 should now bring $124 to meet the average. The lowest point was in 1933 when the average was only $53 per acre. O—O The American and British soldiers in Italy have captured Bologna, a great city in its day and the gateway to the northern sector where the Germans have been so well entrenched. That’s none of the “balogna” that Goebbels has been dishing out. O—O Leaders in the petroleum industry predict that revenue from gasoline tax will be greater in 1947 than it was in 1941 then go on to still higher records by 1950. After that it may decrease for it is expected by that time new cars with improved motors that travel farther on a gallon of gas will be in general use. O—O France hag just paid another thirty millions on her lend-lease debt to us, for what we sent to help her out in North and West French Africa. This makes the total paid so far more than $150,000,000. Only $40,000,000 remains unpaid. She has, therefore, paid nearly fourfifths of her African debt. O—O Judge Fruchte has appointed four members of the tax adjustment board to meet the second week of September and two members of the tax review board to meet with county officials June 4th. These are important tacks for those as-

signed-ja nd members have been carefully selected.

Spruuger of Berne has been added to the list of those from this county killed in action. Word from the war department to hits parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Spruuger gave the rad news that he was killed in Germany April sth. Wayne was serving as first aid in the Eigli’h Division of General Patton's army and had been cited for bravery, lie had frequently been under fire as he rendered aid to the men on the battle front and was awarded the bronze medal last September for "heroic service.” The sympathies of the entire county are extended the bereaved relatives. —o Our sympathies are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brunner of route two, who have received word of the death of their son, Cp". Albert Brunner, killed in action in Luzon on March 31st. In service two and a half years, Herman had been in a number of engagements

"MM I ■ •’ ’ ** ' —« •vii ' 1 ML I < I'. SSKSf? Is wjS It' / M' GERMAN CIVILIANS who refused to believe tales of bestiality practiced at the Nazi horror camp at Buchenwald, near Weimar, were shown the gruesome exhibits above following the capture of the prison. According to the U. S. Signal Corps caption that came with the photo, the table holds shrunken hoa<?s, parts of gi human organs, and pieces of shin stripped from victims, bearing tattoo markings and stencilings. The lamp- ■ shade at right waa fabricated from human skin. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International)

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on the islands of the Pacific. He was well known, was a student at the Pleasant Mills schools and his many friends are sadened by the news. O—o The citizens of Berlin, tired of war, of bombing and of killing and being driven from pillar to post, staged street parades urging air end to it all. They refuse to aid those who advocate a last ditch stand, meaning that every one there must go on until struck down by a bullet. The surprise is that such action didn't come sooner. O—o Maurice Early says: “G. O. P. politicians are trying to discourage the numerous party faithful who want to get into the wholesale beer and wholesale liquor business. They are putting out the word that both of these businesses are headaches and that under war restrictions they are not nearly so profitable as the world-be applicants for permits think they are. Moreover, good business management must be applied or these businesses, like any other, go into bankruptcy.” --— Repair parts for furnaces, boilers, stove and furnace pipes and other heating equipment are now available, war production board announces. Although production of repair parts has been restricted since 1942, WPB said enough parts are now on hand to take care of needs at the close of the heating (season. WPB urged that ail heating systems be put in satisfactory condition now, because repair service is likely to be slow and there may be a shortage of repair parts next fall. O—o Trade in a Good Town —Decatur

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MOSCOW DISPATCH (Continued From Page One) slave laborers were emerging from the ruins of the central district to welcome the Red army. 0 ALLIES WARN (Continued From Page One) American troops still in German of the Nazis, Mr. Truman joined last night with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian Premier Josef Stalin in a warning that anyone party to the maltreatment of Allied prisoners “will be ruthlessly pursued and brought to punishment.” The big three said they “will regard this responsibility as binding in all circumstances and one which cannot be transferred to any other authorities or individuals whatsoever." This was aimed at Germans who have sought to explain away their brutal treatment of Allied prisoners by saying they were merely “following orders.” o JAP FORCES ARE (Continued From Page One) ed another 372 tons of explosives on Japanese positions throughout Luzon in the northern Philippines where U. S. troops made further slight gains in the three-way drive against Baguio and the 43rd division pushed within a mile of Mapatad mountain, in the Marakina watershed 21 miles northeast of Manila, Strategic bomber forces from the Philippines again raided Formosa and sank a Japanese patrol boat, a freighter and a smal Ranker in the China sea blockade. o AMERICAN 3rd (Turn To Page 4, Column 4) through the outer Bavarian defenses on a battle line extending from the Swiss to the Czechoslovak borders, using possibly 10 or more armored divisions to spearhead the assault. Flying tank columns of the U. S. third army were far out in front of the Berchtesgaden drive, shredding through a 45-mile belt

of Nazi defenses just west of the Czech frontier. The third army’s right wing was closing fast on the great Danubian fortress of Regensburg, 62 miles northeast of Munich. The third army breakthrough overshadowed big gains by the American seventh and French armies farther to the southwest. The Americans extended their Dilligen bridgehead over the Danube to a point 10 miles southeast of the river line and 47 miles northwest of Munich. They teamed up with the French to capture the Danubian city of Ulm and won a new bridgehead across the historic river 14 miles to the southwest at Ehingen. — o THREE-FOURTHS (Continued From Page One) on southern Okinawa appeared to have stalled temporarily in the powerful network of Japanese defenses shielding Naha. (A Tokyo broadcast recorded by the FCC said Japanese suicide planes damaged two Allied ships northeast of Okinawa and set fire to a large transport off the southwest coast. Tokyo said Japanese artillery on Okinawa fired on allied ships which entered the Nakagustiku bay naval anchorage yesterday and sank a destroyer.) Superfortresses which bombed the Hitachi aircraft plant today were striking at the Tokyo area for the first time this week. They attacked from medium altitude and good results were expected. The plant, which covers 1,000,000 square feet, is only 19 miles from the imperial palace and one of the few aircraft engine factories not attacked previously by Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay’s Marianas - based Superfortresses. Tokyo radio, in acknowledging the raid, said the force comprised “70 B-29’s” and claimed that six of these were shot down and 20 damaged. The enemy broadcast said the Supevforts also hit the air bases at Tachikawa and nearby Tokorozawa, while another force of 20 B-29’s ranged over the Shizuoko area, southwest of Tokyo, but dropped almost all its bombs into the sea.

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the net value of the Jacob (M. Neuenschwander estate at $267.04 and no tax due from the heirs. Letters of administration were issued to Nellwyn Brookhart in estate of Elizabeth Ferguson and bond for $5,000 was filed and approved. o— — Twenty Years Aao I Today ♦ ♦ April 24—‘Nearly 500 farmers attend the junior farm club meet at the Decatur Gym. Col. Fred Reppert presided and A. G. Burry of Fort Wayne was a speaker on the program. Frederick Schafer elected boy mayor of Decatur, Councilmen chos/.u in rhe election were Robert Eiting, James Burk, Tom Hawbold, Harry Baumgartner and Raymond Case. Leo Schultz was elected treasurer and James Ehinger clerk. Thermometers registered 84 here today. Contract for three bridges on state road 21, south of Decatur, are awarded to Yost Brothers for $15,166. Drinking fountains installed at Monroe and Second streets and on Liberty Way by the T. P. A. Fred Hall, champion billiard player gives exhibition at Fullenkanip’s parlor. o > ♦ I Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE Waterproof Shoes To make shoes waterproof, use nea.tsfood oil on the uppers and soles, warming the shoes slightly while applying. Use a small brush to apply the oil. To Reduce Flesh Avoid starchy foods and fats. Take plenty of exercise. Also take hot baths followed toy cold baths and do not drink water with meals. Tarnished Brass tßub well with vinegar and salt; then wash in soap and water and apply any good silver polish.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ■ For three months, she thought, I’Ve waited for this letter. Her heart began to find excuses for its tardiness. Steve had meant to answer before. He’d been ill. He’d been away. He hadn’t got her letter. It had been lost. Or he’d got it and mislaid it, and didn’t know her address. Her fingers wereiawkward as she tried to open it, but finally she ripped it apart andislid out a single sheet of paper. “Darling, Daph,”'it began. “I’m doing my bjit in dAri’s factorry and thot I(d se7 if i coukd mAster the typwritter/ YOU oqe— owe —me &" lettters now.. Daphne saw Buff’s signature scrawled across the bottom of the sheet. That night, when she answered Buff’s seven letters, she wrote: “I am going to marry Alan.” Getting into a dress of lettuce green lace which looked (but wasn’t) cool, Daphne wondered why a Washington hostess should want to entertain at dinner on a seething June night. There was, however, no doubt in her mind as to why she-had accepted the invitation to Senator and Mrs. Jonathan Wheatley’s mansion. The Wheatleys had thrown a dozen contracts her way. Mrs. Wheatley said it would be a small party but, when Daphne entered the drawing room, she saw that there were twenty or more guests. At the far end of the drawing room, a footman was setting up bridge tables, and Daphne very nearly groaned out loud. She’d hoped to get home early and so tobed. Her fitful sleeping this last fortnight had been disturbed with dreams of the past, and the future, and Alan. Dinner was atmine. Daphne was , surprised to find herself healthily hungry, but by ;the time she’d got through chilled vichysoisse, sole, ! and breast of chicken under glass, she regretted her indulgence. Her . eyelids wouldn’t (stay up, and the voices at the tablobuzzed about her meaninglessly. But suddenly she Was wide awake. Across the table, Mrs. Lucius Frayne was saying, “My dears, I had to leave! Do you think I’d abandon my lovely*cool island and come back here if ft wasn’t an epidemic? I make no bones about being afraid of influenza.*’ . "Influenza?” Daphne asked her dinner partner. “What influenza? Where?” Mrs. Frayne answered for him: “An epidemic of it: it’s raging along the coast and in the hinterlands, too. Everywhere!"

Senator Wheatley looked askance, then remarked, “It’s really grippe, Mrs. Frayne, la grippe, that’s all. Too much furore about it. A handful of people in a community get colds at the same time, and the alarmists yell ‘lnfluenza!’ Never had but one real epidemic of ‘flu’ in this country and that was twentylive years ago.” “Grippe? In the middle of summer, Senator? I think you are wrong,” protested Mrs. Frayne. And her husband, declared, “She’s

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right, Jonathan. This is the real thing. The symptoms are precisely the same as they were in the last World War I epidemic.” Daphne asked, with’a note of suppressed excitement in her voice, if anyone knew what was being done about it. Mrs. Frayne, assuming authority, cried, “Yes, there’s a marvelous new cure! But cure, or no cure, I left my island as soon as my doctor described the situation. I’m not taking any chances.” “A doctor out in Color do’s made a serum,” Lucius Frayne added. “One shot of it, they say, and the flu victim soon recovers—as good as new.” Daphne was saying to herself: “Good as new—until he dies shortly for some unknown reason.”

Mrs. Latham, from the far end of the table, remarked, “I’ve been reading about that new serum. They say it is the greatest discovery since diptheria serum.” Daphne asked, “Who is the discoverer?” “His name is Calverton,” Frayne answered. “Quite a story about him, too. Soon as the public health people decided it was the real thing, Calverton flew from Colorado with the serum. Town already had thirty dead, but since then no deaths from flu there have been reported.” “It only started a couple of weeks ago,” Mrs. Frayne explained. “Tonight’s papers are full of that Calverton flight.” Daphne wondered if such reports were true, as she recalled what Dr. Stephan Fenwick—her Steve—had told her about such a serum. It was after midnight when she got home, but before Daphne went to bed, she decided to look up details of that discussed epidemic the next day. And she was at a public library soon after it opened in the morning, asking to see newspaper files for the fortnight past A small announcement of the outbreak of an “unidentifiable disease” in a northern village (that was close to a town in which there was a large defense project) was her first find. There were two similar items—from north and east—on each succeeding day. Then she came upon a half column story: The Surgeon General of the United States had named the epidemic one of malignant influenza, resembling that which had been so ruthless in 1918. Daphne had to look no further than the first pages of yesterday’s papers. On them were dramatic versions of Dr. Qalverton’s flight from the laboratory in Colorado to \the stricken Eastern area, and the sensational success predicted for his serum. It seemed to her that from that day, there was no other news in the papers. There were editorials and daily reports on the spread and checking of the epidemic, detailed stories, opinions, interviews. Many scientists, public health figures and medical college heads paid tribute to the new serum and its discoverer. “It should have been Steve’s,” Daphne often said to herself during the days following, as she avidly read all available newspapers and magazines concerning the flu spread and its conquering serum.

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The news continued to be go and she knew that Steve would joice if the new serum were anol medical miracle. Then on Tuesday, only four o after the Wheatley dinner pa she saw a story in a Boston pa which sent her running into kitchen to Mrs. Gates. “Gatesie! Gatesie! Listen this,” cried Daphne and read story aloud: “Peter Calder, 22-year-old soi former Governor Samuel F. Cai died suddenly today at the sum home of his parents at Bar Hu On leave from the United St Coast Guard, in which he enh last February, young Calder stricken two weeks ago with s enza. He was one of the first u treated with the Calverton set and had completely recovered, was preparing to return to nia tion when he dropped dead! Daphne asked, “Do yon » what that means?’’ Mrs. Gates said, “He prob wasn’t a strong boy.” “No? Well listen to thu: i« Calder left Yale at the end of junior year. He was a ® el ® the water polo team and playea sity football.' . . . Does that w as if he were a weakling* That was on Tuesday. On nesday other papers reported s “flu fatalities.” They had I “treated with the new serum, pronounced cured,' but ha suddenly from “causes unknW On Thursday, Daphne WUK by was on her was to North w ridge—and Steve. In her P were all her clippings. A dozen times on that tires hot trip, Daphne told herself i a fool’s errand; she would no him there. Steve would have North Wintridge by non. said he had experiment « would keep him there a * longer,” but-did he mean « three, or four months • R „■ months since she’d left North ridge. Once, just once-and then it when she was sen< J lt !F K t e Dei from New York to teIIJUJ", son to meet her tram veO f member that this was th Fourth of July—the day was supposed to give A. swer to his marriage proposal Three hours later, the com opened the door, calling Wintridge!” „ Daphne was the only P alighting from the wasn’t a soul on the d p platform, nor a car in -g» zled, she looked at her dering if the train had go ( early. But.no, it was just m Then she would be fireworks and abo * night-lasting even until l no of course, Kate would b sH Up on Main see the lights of the would suit her nicelyin, telephoned the local g she wanted to hire a (To be continued) Dlrtrihattd to Kim Fu-w"