Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 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 Claes Matter. J. H. Keller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y. A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vicft-Preeldeat Subscription Rates Single Copies * .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay end Wells o unties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, $4.50 per year; $2.50 for six months; |1.36 tor three months; 60 cents for one mont’. Elsewhere: 36.50 per year; *B.OO lor six months; *1.66 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women In the armed forces *8.50 per year or *I.OO lor three months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative ’ SCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive. Chicago, lb. Don’t park your car overtime in the down-town districts unless you wish to pay tiie penalty. If sugar rationing continues, the “sweet tooth" is going to have trouble getting sufficient to thrive on. O—O This is CLEAN-UP WEEK in Decatur and every body is working at it. Let's make the old town “spic and span” is the slogan. v ; o—o Stand back of the brave boys who are still fighting and dying that this nation may continue as a free country. Buy bonds. —o General Eisenhower is might in his statement that regardless of Villen the final curtain is pulled down, »the Nazi forces are beaten "on land, on the sea and in the air.” o—o President Truman continues to rffake good and has the support of the people who are looking to the future and who realize the heavy duties of steering the ship of state (luring these days. O—o , This may be one of those years tyhen we jump from winter right summer weather. Usually the •ijl'st week of June is a hot one and that is only three weeks away. O—o The coal situation is serious as y»u no doubt realize. Help your dealer by placing your order and giving him the chance to deliver when its most convenient. O—O Buy a poppy May 26th and help ( to rehabilitate our disabled fighting men and aid the children of the dead and disabled soldiers. Give what you wish for this good cause, sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. -0-0— V-E day will be observed by the closing of retail stores for twentyfour hours here and all over the country. One good way to celebrate is to buy an extra bond so ■ws can get the Pacific war settle! soon and then have a real celebration. O—O The seventh war loan campaign opens next Monday and Adams county is set for it. Chairman Graliker reports that the organization is ready and that every effort will be made to conclude the work anti meet the quota during the first PLEASE!] After reading this paper . >■ p/«oM save it for your ± Paper Salvage Drive: ;■ • - REMEMBER- | PAPER IS A #1 WAR* 1 MATERIAL SHORTAGE! i mbmmnhmwbwmwmJ 1

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two weeks. Plan to buy all the 1 bonds you can this month, and complete Adams county's line record of > loyalty. —o A half million Germans surrendered in one day but the government held on. evidently with the desire to record for future history the fact that there has been no surrender from the government itself, but only by the armed forces. It won't work, for at some time and place, some one will have to sign on the dotted line. They admit defeat, but profess to still have the right to their basic belief that a military government is better than a free country. —o V-E day is a great occasion of "ourse. It marks the end of the biggest half of the world wair. It will mean honorable discharge for two million men now in the setvices. It will ease the labor situation and it will bring much joy to the people of this nation. Bui, it is not a time for wild celebrations. We must still win the Pacific war and we mutt realize that getting back to peace times will bring its problems. Those who observe the occasion by attending prayer services in the churches will be acting wisely. ■ o—o — Keeping Quiet: Please stop rustling your paper and smacking your gum. This has > been National Noise Abatement Week all week. It is because George W. Handy of Buffalo, president of the National. Noise Abatement Council, has proclaimed it, and we hope everyone has been very quiet, about it. Mr. Handy’s council has a slqgap which goes something like: “Presdription for War Reives: Stop Needless Noise — Keep FT—Keep Well—Keep Working.” To' a people that should be ted up With national weeks of any sort, this one is the pay-off. We have had Baby Week, Cheese Week. Meat Week (remem her?),' Horse Week and Stop-Beat.-iiig-Your Wife Week, but those were products of aa America at peace. Now, white we are up to our necks ill war, we are warped pga|nst dropping our shops loqdly FlfPh retiring. Despite the kind.of week this is,; it Is probable factories- will go on humming, hammers will continue to pound, horns will blow when the button is pressed and whistles will

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blow at the pull of a cord. If you 1 received any Notee Abatement literature, please send it to the voci- j serous little Scotty who lives next door, and you will be aiding what is ; otherwise a poorly timed and unnecessary campaign.—Fort Wayne 1 Journal-Gazette. <J I Twenty Years Aao I I* Today j May B—-E.8 —-E. B- Williamson, manager of the N'prthern Indiana fair announce® a preinium budget of $12,000. lEair openl September 15. Miss Harriet Wallace elected girl mayor, with Frances Schultz, Ann Wiunes, Frances Foreman, Flpthi|da Harris and Maircella Gerber as councilmen. Bank of Tocsin closed itc doors today. F. E. France ie chairman of a committee named to secure IQO new? members for the Elks lodge. John H. Muhrma, 87, Union tovfnehip, died today. 0 f f l ♦— — : f Q. After returning home from her honeymoon, should a bride wait for her friends to call before she calls to see them? A. Yes, at-home cards may be issued and she ip not expected to make aiiy calls until her friends

U. 8- Victory Cost 800,000 Casualties, $lB5 Billion

I, Washington, May 8. — (UP) — only guns, bullets, planes am) I The victory in Europe cost the tanks, plus the plants to make United States about 800,000 casu- them, but also such items as alties and more than $185,000,000,- (ease expenditures, training costs OOQ. 6 merchant • ships, transportation Jhese are the best conservative subsistence and literally thousand? estimates available now. It will be or articles and services that ncvei a long time before the final figures appeared on the field of battle but are worked out. were vital to victory. A United Press survey showed Here are the results of ttye sue today that this country’s share of vey: the cost of crushing the Nazi bid cost in money—Defense and win tor world domination will exceed expenditures total more than $277, by three or four times the cost of 6|)0,000,000 since July 1, 1940. As World War I and its aftermath— signing two-thirds of this tc? Up whether the measuring standard is European war gives?, a figure p; casualties oh- dollars. $185,066,000,000. This comparm The cost in money will be in- with the cost of th? creased in future years by many last war. Jhe figure for the lasi bithone of dollars through interest war includes continuing expense! on government borrowings and for many years after the war ami benefits to veterans. The cost in unpaid ! war debts. The figure so: broken lives, too, will be paid over [his war is just the cost up to now a long period. Cost In casualties —Approximate Most of the government experts Iv 800,000 men killed, wounded consulted in the survey believed jfiissing- and priqoji<?rs. This is i that at least two-thirds of the dol- projected figure because the officja lar outlay since defense prepar- casualty compilations are far be ations began in 1940’wedt directly Mnd. ' ;| ‘ i •or, indirectly jntp tl|e war against Army caspalfies compiled h ere 01 Germany and’ltaly. This is based theaters as of March 31 showed i oil the allocation of men to the two of 685>2 47 for the European major spheres of combat. On the jA editerraneall , Middle East am ta,ta rs .thf best ’ rU)be ,„ P„t „! th, mallon. tw L. • - s S Bmopean war. The hgures Inchid sent to Europe for each one sent »>»* * to the Pacific Pg 133,284 kUlcfJ 431,965 wpupiW • The cost estimate includes Mt £7,008 missing and 52,990 piisopei>

have come to Bee her. Q. Ib it proper for a person to rise when a toast is proposed to him? A. No. After the toast has been given he may rise to acknowledge it and speak a few words. Q. What is the correct manner for a woman to introduce her husband? A. “Mr. Jones, this is my hueband”. S o * < I Househpld Scrapbook I | By ROSITA Lie | « I 1 Blankets (Rinse wool blankets, then hang them without wringing. They will keep their shape much better and will Ibe softer. Choose a eunuy, windy day and they will soon dry. Moths Branches of the arbor vitae packed away in clothing will keep it free of moths, and the odor is very pleasant and wholesome. Painted Surfaces Where too much alkali has been used on painted or enameled surfaces, sweet oil applied at once will neutralize any bad effect. o Junior High Party Postponed Tonight W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur junior-senior high school, announce today that because of V-E day, the junior high school party, Scheduled for tonight, has been postponed. No definite date has been set for the party.

U. S. General Signed For Allies J Ht t t • ( 1 1 t . ms ] by laid down her arms ending the war in Europe, as representative of the Supreme Allied Command. He is Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff.

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invitation to survival: surrender does not mean the extermination or en- ■ slAvement of the Japaese people." | He spelled out patiently the choice which is Japan’s. “The longer the war lasts,” he’ ' said, “the greater will be the suf-

faring and hardships which the people of Japan will undergo—all in vain. “Our blows will not cease until the Japanese military and naval forces lay down their arms in unconditional aunrender." While high-speed machine* can turn out kitchen matches at the rate of 1,226,000 an hour, u single match is actually a year in the making du. to the necessary to “season” the wood.

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