Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY. DEMOCRAT Published Every Evenlag 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. Holthouse, Sec'y. 4 Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies 1 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; 12.50 for six months; 11.35 for three months; 60 cents for one mont*. Elsewhere: 15.50 per year; 18.00 for six months; 11.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces $3.50 per year or SI.OO lor three months. Advertising Ratos Mads Known on Application. National Representative •CHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL. It you are careless in driving yon may be earless one ot these days. -0 After the Russian armies got ready it required but ten days to take the city of Berlin, a feat that Hitler and other German leaders believed impossible. o—u i Tlie mighty are falling. Mussolini who ruled vast territories and aspired to being a world dictator was buried in a pine box in a potter’s field in Italy. O—O When the war with .Japan is as near over as the war in Europe is now, we can begin to let up a little on effort but right now its important We keep doing the very best we can. o—o Just a reminder—this is the last week for paying your spring installment of taxes at the county treasurer's office and the sooner you get in the easier it will be for you and for Treasurer Price and his Assistants. O—o The cold snap tile first of this week probably caused considerable damage to fruit in this territory. While some believe otherwise, there are signs that the crop will not be what was anticipated a short time ago. O—O The Seventh War Loan campaign, must be successful. Don't get the idea that because victory is at hand in Europe that we can let down. The need for funds is greater now than at any time in history. Let's meet the quota. O—O This is cleaning time and in almost every home the work is going forward. Get your old cans in boxes so the rubbish can be hauled away by the city trucks, clean the yards and let's make the old town .shiite. O—O The biggest factor in the Winning of the war in Germany seems to have been the lack of oil. Gradually their fields were cut off and fighting a modern war of tanks and planes, without gasoline. is a handicap that could not be overcome. O—o More than twenty tons of used clothing has been turned in here for the campaign to aid the needy of our allied countries. That's a lot of clothing and Phil Sauers who had charge of gathering the goods believes it will exceed twenty-five tons this week.

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May Day was observed yesterday, not with the labor celebrations that have prevailed the past decade over the world or in the gay manner that the children used to play two or three generations ago but in Russia, Italy and in the Netherlands as a day for thankfulness that the war in Europe is nearing its end. O—o Benito Mussolini, who called himself the modern Caesar died miserably and gave signs of not being the brave leader he proclaimed himself. His countrymen showed their disgust in a revolting manner and they are still celebrating their freedom. The announcement from General Clark that the war in Italy is over probably helped to make the event a noisy and enthusiastic one. O—O The world conference is making headway and the prediction by Anthony Eden that it can complete its program within a month seems entirely possible. Urged on the news of progress in Europe most of the delegates Are anxioUs to return home to aid in reconstruction efforts. If they agree upon a skeleton constitutional document it can be amended or improved as required. o_o . We must get along on five pounds of sugar each for four months, a 25% reduction which is due to a greater demand and a lower production. The beet sugar industry was hard hit by the war and many plants, including the Central Sugar Company's big .plant here, have been forced to close. Imports are difficult and there seems to be nothing to be done at the present but tighten our belts a little more. Os course we can and will do it. O—O In spite of repeated warnings by Purdue, agricultural journals and organizations. farm land price in-

flation in Indiana is followihg the same pattern as during the last war. Indiana is at the top of the inflation spiral. In the nation, farm land prices last year were 44 percent higher than the flvc jcai prewar average. In Indiana the increase is more than 60 percent.— By Maurice Early. —o The May flowers arc here and the ■wooded sections are carpeted with violets and sweet Williams and other posies of this locality. The good old summer time will be here in a few weeks. —o The black market in the east is scriotw for consumers and legitimate business and its spreading. Immediate and forceful action Will be needed to check it and the government is doing every thing it ca.t. It is largely up to the people to prevent a condition that may cause real suffering within the year. Evidence before the senate committee recently showed that eighty percent of all meats handled in the Pittsburgh area is through black markets and that the percentage fe even greater in the New York. Boston and other places. -0-— Sick Europe: Incomplete information from Europe, analyzed by Metropolitan Life Insurance company experts, indicates that among that continent's worst postwar problems will be the rehabilitation of public health. Tuberculosis is rampant. In Germany it is up at least a third, in Paris and Brussels about a half, in the Netherlands ever more, and in Rome tuberculosis deaths last year were over twice those of 1940. The 'disease is epidemic in Greece. Typhus,.cerebro-spinal meningitis and scarlet fever are high in Germany; perhaps 70 percent of the Greeks have malaria; diphtheria in Germany te up about 50 percent and throughout western Europe it is at peak levels.—Huntingtbn Her-ald-Press.

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I Modern Etiquette I Sy ROBERTA LEE I Q. When passing an acquaintance on a street on in a pulblie placa and one speaks to him, is it improper to call his name? ■A. It would 'be preferable merely to say 'tHow do you do”. Some persons do not like for their names to be called publicly. Q. Is it- eorreot for one to close a social letter to a friend -with “respectfully yours”? A. No; this phrase should be reserved for business correspondence. Q. What would 'be the correct dress for a woman to wear to an informal dinner? ’A. Semi-evening or afternoon drees. 0 ♦— ♦ Twenty Years Aqo Today « « Mayor. DeVoss proclaims the week, of May 4 as clean up time in Decatur. The ctiy force will help. Rev. R. W. Loose of Decatur is elected secretary of the Indiana Evangelical conference now- in session at Fort Wayne. H. A.- Thomas is the recipient of the' Ford car given by local

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merchants. Light frost causes some damage to fruits and vegetables in low ground. Four bandits who held up the Ohio Saving Bank in Toledo are caught within 10 minutes by the police. The $4,000 taken was recovered. o 4 4 Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEt: 4 —4 Cinder in the Eyes To remove a cinder from the eye. use an eye dropper and put one or two drops of water in the eye. Then hold dropper directly over the cinder. release the bulb and -the cinder will be withdrawn. Pie Crust ISoft lard should never be used in. making pie crust. Whatever shortening is used should be hard and cold, thus making a lighter pie crust. Flannels Never soak flannels before -washing them. It hardens the fabric. Wash quickly in warm, soapy water. o God's greatest job is getting his Vhureh into the world without getting the world into the church. Womanhood hag more to do with the home than wardrobes.

DEFENDERS OF (Continued From Page One) said, the whirlwind sweep of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky’s second White Russian army had carried to the area of Rostock, last major Baltic port short of the neck of the Danish peninsula. Moscow dispatches said Russian siege armies had driven many wedges deep into Berlin’s innermost redoubt, apparently splintering it into a few isolated nests of resistance. Red army troops were converging from three directions on the spot where the German radio said Hitler went down at his command post and observers specti lated wnether the would find Hitler's body or some other evidence to support or refute the report of his death. United’ Press correspondent Henry Shapiro reported from Moscow that the Soviet siege forces now were fighting for German strong points on the Wilhelmsjtrasse. UAter *den Linden and Alexanderplatz. Only "small' remnants” of the Berlin garrison were defying the “greatest concentration of fire and metal to which any single objective has been subjected in this war,” he said.

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*' SYNOPSIS HELEN MILLER is an attractive X young woman of 26, who has Deen ■ Jilted by a playboy, PAUL WENTWORTH, a southern plantation owner, who -named ZOE NORRIS. Helen lives in an apartment with war plant trainee AGGIE JONES, a pleasant, SO-year-old self-confessed ‘ old maid," who urges . Helen to try to mend her broken c heart by dating PHILIP BROWNELL, foreman and manager of the war plant owned and ■ operated by Helen's AUNT MINERVA, a shrewd business . woman who drives a hard bargain and 1 hopes to match Brownell and her f niece during Philip's stay in New on vacation. fESTERDAY: Aggie gives Helen some i good advice. She tells Helen to go out with Philip Brownell and try to , forget Paul Wentworth. U „■ — CHAPTER TWO f HELEN TURNED back to face the dressing table. She eyed her reflection in the triple mirror. She had a nice reflection, she thought; or reflections, rather, since she got three views of herself. A pleasing left profile, an equally pleasing right profile, and a full face that had caused a number of men in her time to turn for a second and a third look. It was not, of course, any match for the face of that other Helen, the one that had launched a thousand ships, but it was certainly not a bad face as faces came and went. In fact, it had been considered quite a face down home, down in the North Carolina town where she had been bom and reared, a town that smelled so beautifully of Cape Jasmine, magnolias and long-leaf pines. "Your face is Shaped like a heart,” Paul had once told her, “and your hair is like wheat ripening in the summer sun.” Only the trouble with her face, she thought, with a touch of bitterness, was that it hadn’t kept Paul from eyeing with interest the face of the new girl, Zoe Norris, who was— I “Dollars to doughnuts you’re thinking of that Wentworth guy,” said Aggie, unable to remaU silent a moment lopger. “The doughnuts are yours,” said Helen. She looked up at Aggie, who was now removing the curlers from her hair. “He keeps coming to mind,” she said unhappily. “I’ve been congratulating myself that Td gotten over the humiliation, that th* time Pd spent in New York had •fTe or less wiped out a lot of memories that hurt. And now—in walks this man Brownell, and—- " What’s he got to do with it?” Aggie demanded. “It’s hard to explain, Aggie," Helen said. “I don’t really understand it myself. But seeing him made me think of the dreams I once had in Lakeville, and the dreams made me think of Paul.” She stopped short, and then said: “Maybe I’m one of those one-man women, you know, the sort who never love but one man, no matter how fie acts or what he does.” /'“That’s utter tommyrot,” said Aggie, pulling Helen to her feet. "Nobody but a weak-minded, idiotic female would keep loving a man who wasn’t worth the powder and shot that it would take to blow oiit what passes for his brains.” She gave the other girl a little shove. "Get on in the other room,” she said, “and be all set to greet the new man. And for Pete’s sake—smile.” Helen walked slowly to the door opening into the living room. She mauged there. “What are you going to do?” she asked. [ “Don’t bother about me," said Aggie. Tm going to soak in a tub of hot water, and then see if I can drag the carcass doUmtown to the school.” I "Why don’t you stay home toSight and rest?” . “1 can t—there’a A war on.” .rar, v .-hs-m, f,. ,^a—e

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“What of it?” said Helen. “We won’t lose the war, even if you do miss one evening of riveting.” "Maybe not,” Aggie retorted, “but I want to get through my six-week training course with no black mai-ks against me. Defense plant owners are coming in every day now and plucking workers for jobs. Who knows' but that one day soon Little Aggie will be spotted and plucked by a man with—” “ —with touches of gray at his temples,” said Helen. “And deep brown eyes.” “How ever did you guess it?” said Aggie, laughing. “You talk in your sleep,” said Helen, and went on into the living room. Moving about in a housewifely sort of way, she straightened a rug, patted a pillow, and rearranged a stack of books. Then she found herself gazing at a picture of her aunt that stood upon a small table. Aunt Minerva was posing in front of the Miller Mills, an axe handle in one hand and a blueprint in the'other. “Axe handles and the Miller family are synonymous,” she had once said. “The Millers eat axe handles, sleep axe handles and dream axe handles. And- your Uncle Ike Miller got so he actually looked like an axe handle.” Come to think about it, Helen now recalled, Aunt Minerva had been holding an axe handle the day when she walked in to show her the note from Paul, saying that he and Zoe Norris had eloped. She had even waved it like an oversized baton to emphasize her words. “Good riddance to bad rubbish!” she had said. “I never did think Paul Wentworth had any gumption, and now I know it—running off with a little nitwit!” Helen turned away from the picture and walked over to the window. She pulled back the draperies and looked out into the quiet of the dimmed-out street. But she was not seeing the grayncss, the air raid warden with the white helmet, nor the group gathered about the man who was giving a demonstration of how to operate a stirrup pump. Instead, she was seeing the musty old office of the Miller Mills, seeing herselfMfliere with her aunt. “Yes, Aunt Minerva. I hope you won’t mind.” She had just announced her intention of leaving Lakeville, Aggie having written to say there was a job awaiting her in New York. "I hate to have you go,” Aunt Minerva said. “But since you’ve made up your mind, I reckon there is nothing I can do about it.” “No, Aunt Minerva, there isn’t,” she had replied. “I’ve simply got to get away. Lakeville is impossible for me now.” “You’ll come home for your vacations, won’t you?” She had shaken her head. “You can come up td New York to visit me,” she’d said. “Aggie and I will put a cot in the living room for you, and you can—” “If ydu expect a woman as large as I ath to sleep on a cot,” her aunt retorted, “you’re crazy! Don’t forget I still like' to sleep on two feather beds, and in a four-poster. I like plehty of room. I’m a rough sleeper, I am—and I snore.” But Aunt Minerva had come up to New York. It was a year latef, when she couldn’t stand the loneliness of the big old Miller homestead any longer. Helen remem-' bered with a smile the day her au”t had come barging in, after a stay in Washington. “I’m hot as bull-headed as you are,” she had announced. “So here I am. You take after your mother'/ side,of the family, Helen. The Burnetts always were as stubborn as mules.” . . . “But,. Aunt Minerva,” she had replied, “what cm earth took you to

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WaShiugfuk iH'iy; the place. Y.-u , . .-.v';aßr test place S j,j e gk/ue in -uac...; .c. .'..c winter.” “It still is,' le r ,ill!',t said. laid ti> old fraud r or hoi, I went.’' eyed “Is that v. la ■■ I :.. to -ic.p, as ME didn’t know? ’ "Yes. Aunt MiU’.tv.i. I l'.upe]B|| won't mind.” “I’ll m.iiui'T,’’ was her aunt's Ml ply. "But it 1 :s” est during nigi)'., th rails folks below, dun'i ic n.'ie me.” “It’ll serve said. "ilii'V !' parties awake.” Then, clirn-.cing tile ject, -Sire asl-reu: Senator son is an old ti ■■■■i why did want to see him?" "I used the woi-1 as a affection anil : nation,” Mine>'va said. “Ar . r'.trr ts I might have r->-ii r : -! hadn ‘ been sad'lb-d with an handle factory, and a niece.” She 10"ke'i al.i.'tit the and frowned. "1 1 >n't tell me and Aggie Jon r to die old maids? Imn't you see any men at all? ’ H “Os course we Sn." "But it’s all very nlntonie.” ■ “Platonic—piffli!” her auntsaM “Are you still niouning over Wentworth man” If tie fool. He’s not worth it.” ■ “How is Paul gifting along W she inquired. fl Aunt M inerva had given her J penetrating look, one eyebrcM cocked in a quizzical sort ofwjM “He’s doing ’ so-so, running,, V plantation his fa!’’.': I.ft him. said. “That is, when he isn’t CIIJ ing into town with that silly of his. I take it she isn't any M keen about the rural life”. ■ “I thought mayL> he’d joined Army,” she said. “an.l was fllXjß “Well, he hadn’t, the last I heaiw Gossip says he’s been going ■ Washington also--pi obably to land an easy and safe job. Minerva gave her another quifflc—look. “But I thought you said yo»W stopped mooning about hnn- ■ “I have,” she said qiuckiy- ■ me more about your trip- Wha you want to see Senator • * . J about? Did you go to M ashing J to propose to him— now your hands?” ~n ß “Certainly not!” her auj snapped. *T-ent to Washington | business. I’ve got a -<ai B lumber in the mill yard an of scrub oak still uncut ■ B dear girl, they use oak finr * 1 facturing airplane and ta i. ■ “I know that, she said- J what’s the connection betwttn lumber and Senator Simpson. “Simpson’s on one oi boards,” her wnt explainedby the way, Washingtons bristling with them He can me, too. He’s still got a for me in his heart-anc he - » to pull strings and untan, tape.” ~ “What then?” f “Then he’s going to help m priorities,” her a unt ® a ’ ’ ~i lc I’ve get'war contracts. MeanwW got a fine young man ■> • „ ot my foreman—or manag • anjJ w an engineering niza tion’’ knows lumber and orga jndtf' “How nice,” she Md saw ferently. d young “ ‘Nice’ is a mild « lady,” Aunt Minerva yQt referring to Philip- - , g a hia r. know that Philip Bro $ in a million. If yf 1 ad " l nlC , such a rush to lea might have met hm - reeven have caught jou boUn<l ‘ ’ (To. Be