Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evsnixfi Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Sintered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Claae Matter. J. H. Heller Preaident A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y. * Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President •übeoriptlcn Rates Single Copies $ .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells e unties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, $4.50 per year; $2.50 for six months; $1.85 lor three months; 50 cents for one mont’, BUsewhere: $5.50 per year; SI.OO lor six months; $1.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces $8.50 per year or SI.OO lor three months. Advertising Ratos Made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 K. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IU Buy an extra SIOO bond this month. —o The parking ordinance is being enforced in Decatur. You can save yourself some inconveniences by complying. o—o Jack Frost is still making ire every few evenings and that's not very encouraging to gardeners or orchardists. —o The clean-up in Decatur is continuing and the city force will be on the job until it is finished. Let’s keep the old town looking its beet. O—O It's possible that if Goering, Laval, Himmler, Petain. Von Rundstedt and others could live the past five years over, they would make some changes. O—O Let’s make every day a Day. We owe her every thing we are.or hope to be and the lighter we make her burdens the happier we should be. O—o Taxes won t go down but at least it appears they won't go higher and we may get some relief before the year is over. There will no doubt be a lowering of lures now that one of the big wars is over and with that in due time will come tax reductions. —o—o The discharge of soldiers has started and will go on until the minimum is reached, depending of course on how the war against Japan progresses. The machinery has been set up for returning men to their home lives and it will soon be one of the busiest divisions of American government. O—O The Seventh War Loan campaign started this morning and will continue until June 30th. It is hoped we will meet the quota in Adams county long before that terminating date. The canvassers are on the job and if we will all meet them with a smile, a handshake and a liberal subscription, we can make their Work a pleasure. o—o General Eisenhower has been named head of the allied iron-hand military rule of Germany and it is the’general opinion that no better selection could have been made. He is wise and honest and has

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courage and if be does as well in this job Ss he did as head of the armies on the western front, it will be best for Germany and the world. O—O Soldiers who fought in both the African and European campaigns will not have to fight In the Pacific war, it has been announced. Most of them will be discharged soon and those who remain will be held in the army of occupation in Ger many, General fcisenhower feels these men have contributed enough to the winning of the war. -—O—O The aerial attack against Japan is getting under way. What they have had up to now Is just a snmple of what is coming as thousands c.f planes prepare to drop bombs on the cities of that country. If they insist oh going on With a sehsteieis and useless war for them, it will mean Utter destruction for that island. O—O Taking care of workmen who are being released from war plants is one of the thingis that is causing many headaches these days.' Efforts to provide jobs for all who want them and to maintain the high wage standard are under way by the war labor board. Cooperation of private industry and of the men will help to solve what is always a perplexing problem. O—o Mrs. Martha Truman, 92-year-old mother of President Harry S. Truman. flew by plane from Missouri to Washington. D. C.. where she was entertained over Mother's day. It was of course the thrill of her life, visiting her son in the executive mansion and traveling so far in so short a time. No doubt she remembers the oxcart days when a trip to the capital city would have required weeks to make the trip she did in a few hours. And it was no doubt the proudest moment of President Truman's life. O—o Like gentlemen, the Bendix Aviation Corp, prefers blondes—but it won't turn down a brunette or redhead! The company has issued a hurry call for 250,000 strands of women’s hair to complete a new

secret instrument to be used against the Japs. The tresses should be 16 inches long, .003 of an inch thick and completely untouched by dyes, bleaches, or past permanent waves. Price—fixed by OPA, naturally—is from $6 a pound for raw, unwashed unsorted, unprocessed hair to S4O a pound for processed domestic of best quality. o—o “In spite of wars, depressions and disasters, the average American of today Is better f H better housed and better clothed . the people of any nation eve re in all the world’s history- This condition is because our citizens have been free to dream and study and think and plan—and have been able to make their dreams coine true. ’ The above remark was made by a man who knows whereof he speaks. His natae is William R. Boyd. He is president of the American Petroleum Institute and, like countless other oil men, he started from the bottom. Keeping our nation a land of opportunity for individuals with dream* should be the foremost postwar goal of dll of its. O—O Claude R, Wickard, secretary of agriculture, in Indiana tb aid in launching the agricultural aid program of the Kiwanis Clubs, calls attention to the fact that there U public concern only about the millions of acres of laud which have •been rultied by erosion and the damage IS glaringly apparent. “What most people—often including the farmers themselves —do not recognize is the steady decline la the productiveness of most of the nation's farm land,” Mr. Wickard said. Farmers are lulled into a sense df false security because they are getting bigger yields, but the greater production, he skid, is due

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to better machines, higher-yielding varieties of seed and generally improved methods of farming.—Maurice Early, Indianapolis Star. o - • — ♦ Twenty Years Ago » Todqy 4 May I'4 -(Dr. .Elizabeth Burns fs elected president of the Decatdr Business and Professional Women. (House occupied by the George Raver family (between 12th and 13‘.h streets is destroyed by fire. (Bernstein® announce their annual May sale. , Father J. A. Seime’z and a ©pedal committee go to North Manchester to purchase state for the uew Catholic school building. •William Linn is in charge of a drive to (boost the membership of the Dccau.tr 'lnduistrial Attsociaiion to 200. IHenry Ford offers to buy 400 idle merchants ships fro mthe government at junk price®. —— —O —• — 1— j -♦ I Modern Etiquette I I By ROBERTA LEE | ♦ 4 Q. Would It be correct to *>erve children first ht the dinner falble, in ; order that they may finish aiid go out, to play? . 'A. No; this would make the children selfish and rude. The grown people Should always *be served ifinst, -the children should be taught, to Ibe patient and to observe these laws of good -manners. Q. Where should the attendants of the (bride meet before proceeding to the church? lA.’At th© home of the bride. •Q. 'ls a man supposed to wear mourning fol Iris mother? lA. Some men do, 'but very, jew go further than lo wear a black band on the left, sleeve. o— — Winter Potatoes (If part of the stock of winter.potatoes is still on baud, add a slice of lemon Id the water in which they are boiled. This prevents theta from discoloring and also add© a better flavor, Utabretla handle (The loose handle ids the umbrel►la can be tightened if the cavity is filled with mhlted aludi and the stick pressed into it quickly. Hold it firmly until it sets. A Dusting Hint ITry trimming the old whiekbiborii to a poiht in the ceil Ver, and use it for removing dust in cdlhet®. —_ o— LAST DIEHARD (Continued From Page dne) only a roundup bf Scattered enemy remnants remained in southeast Europe. f i Jit ! Marshal Tito announced that Bis Vtigoslav partisan forcejs had disarmed four German and 11 pro-Nazi Ustachi divisions in northern Viigofllavfa and southeastern Austria. He reportfed the liberation of anumber of town©, among them Matibor, apparently without opposition.

Jim Hurst Observes 91st Birthday Today City's First Fire Chief Is 91 Today James Hurst, of 1305 W. Monroe street, a veteran city official and retired business leader of this city, celebrated his 91st birthday anniversary today. One of the tew nonagenarians in Decatur, Mr. Hurst was born in Lamtoh county, province of Ontario, Canada on May 14, 1854. He came to Decatur in 1877, his parents having moved to Toledo, Ohio, in 1878 he married Miss Mary Fisher. They have been married 67 years. In 1885, Mr. Hurst was appointed the first volunteer fire chief m Decatur and also served on the city council and as a police officer. For many years he was engaged as a brick mason. Two years ago he fell in his home and fractured his hip and since has been confined to a wheel chair. He still■ has a keen interest in affairs and enjoys hearing from his many friends. SEVENTH WAR (Continued From Page Ore) r--- ■■■ * fight at the front, you can buy bonds, throqgh which the government finances the war and furnishes the necessary supplies and equipment to the army and navy,” Major Zwick said. A quota of $23,027 has been assigned to the local plant, in addition to the regular purchase of bonds through the payroll savings plan. G. E. workers have the reputation of buying the most bonds through the payroll deduction plan and each month their purchases account, for a large portion of the bonds sold in Decatur. The employes have exceeded every previous bond quota. In the sixth war loan drive, additional purchases amounted ,to S3O,WK), or 208 percent of the quota. ■ v Adams county’s quota in the seventh is $1,294,900, of "which $866,300 is assigned to individuals. The corporation quota is $428,600. o AUSTRIA GOV'T. (Continued From page One) have Objected to the Renner government on grounds that they have no. knowledge, that, it represents the Wishes of the majority of the Austrian people. Tfiey have maintained that formation'of a government should await a plebiscite in more settled times. Speeding Charged To Decatur Youth Albert Cook,t2p, lW3>34pdistan stiTet, wae .scheduled ftp appear before 'Mayor John B. Stubs in city court late this afternoon to answer to a charge of speeding. Cock was arrested by Decatur police Sunday evening 'wiiile allegedly exceeding the speed limit ert North Second street.

Miss Sprunger Dies At Home Os Brother Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Miss Wilhelmina Sprunger, 71, died Sunday morning at the home of her brother, Bernhard Sprunger, at Portland, where she had spent the past two weeks. Death was caused by a heart ailment, but Miss Sprunger had been ailing for several years and was bedfast nibst of the time since last December 27. The deceased was born in French township July 18, 1873, the oldest child of Rev. S. F. and Katherine Luginbill Sprunger. For the past 10 years she had resided in California, returning to the family home in Berne last summer. Those who survive her are the aged mother, three brothers: Oswin of Berne, Beliihaid of Portland. Gustav of Whittier, Cal.; and six sisters: Mrs. Theodora Baumgartner and Mrs. Metta Talle, Pasadena, Cal., Mrs. Hulda Yoder, Riverside, Cal., the Misses Dorcas and Eva Sprunger. at home in Berne, and Mhs. Homer C. Staley, Fort Wayne. Miss Sprunger was a member of the First Methodist church is Pasadena. Cal. Funeral services will be held at the Yager funeral home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with burial in the MRE cemetery. Rev. John P. Suderman. pastor of the First Mennonite church where Miss Spruhger's father was pastor for 34 years, will officiate. The body may 1 be viewed after 7 o’clock Monde ■ evening at the funeral home. *

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SYNOPSIS HELEN MILLER U an attractive young woman ot 36, who has been jilted by a playboy, PAUL WENTWORTH, a southern plantation owner, who married ZOE NORRIS. Helen lives in an apartment with war plant trainee AGGIE JONES, a pleasant, 30-year-old self-confessed “old maid," who urges Helen to try to mend her broken 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 hopes to match Brownell and her niece during Philip’s stay in New York on vacation. • • • YESTERDAY: Philip has dinner with Helen and Aggie, visits their war plant school and learns that Aggie could easily be persuaded to go south •nd work In Aunt Minerva’s plant, while Helen will prove a bit more difficult. On Saturday, Helen's day off. ■he and Philip visit the airport and watch the planes take off and land. / CHAPTER EIGHT / WHEN THE plane had gone Helen turned to Philip and said: “Have you ever flown?’’ “Twice,” said Philip. “Once when Miss Minerva wanted me to go to Chicago, and once at a country fair where they were taking people up at so much per flight.” He leaned back to watch a transcontinental plane come down out of the heavens. “I had a lot of dreams once upon a time —dreams of becoming a pilot. But they never materialized.” “Why not?” “Oh. responsibilities—mistakes — impulsiveness—a lot of things that can sidetrack a man when he’s very young.” “But," said Helen, “we were told we profit by mistakes —and develop through responsibilities. Perhaps you’d never have been able to manage my aunt’s plant if you hadn’t made mistakes—been impulsive and all that.” “I’m not complaining,” Philip said. “Only it would have been exciting to have become a pilot." He slid his hand along the rail until his fingertips touched Helen’s. “You have flown, haven’t you?” “How did you know?” “Miss Minerva told me.” i “She certainly did spill the beans—about me—didn’t she?" “She couldn’t help herself. When a man’s in love with a picture, he ' bombards people with questions about the original.” “Yes," said Helen very quietly, “I have flown—a little.” She and • Paul Wentworth racing through I the skies high’ above Lakeville — | planning — dreaming — talking of the time when, side by side in a fully equipped plane, they would tour the world, touching here and ‘there, visiting well-known places, ' and discovering places never heard ■ of before. "I also had dreams of becoming a pilot,” she added. “And like mine, they never materialized,” said Philip. “Why?” Helen made herself smile. “A girl who’s left waiting at the church,” she said, “forgets her dreams." Philip wound his fingers about hers. “We’ve both had to come I down to earth, haven’t we?" t

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"With something of a bump, too,” Helen answered. A plane roared in, and another one roared off. “When I see those fellows over there,” said Philip, pointing to a group of flyers gathered about a bomber, "I’m filled with envy. Compared with what they’re doing, working in a defense plant seems pretty tame.” “That’s no way to feel about it,” said Helen. “If it weren’t for defense plants, those men there wouldn’t be there. Certainly they can’t fly if defense plants don’t make the planes and the parts.” “That,” said Philip, “is a nice, philosophical way to look at it.” He took Helen’s arm. “I’m getting hungry. Let’s go back to my hotel and have a chicken dinner. Chicken’s one thing they haven’t rationed yet.” \ “And about the only thing,” said Helen. Philip said: “That—and love.” “Maybe it would be a good thing if love was rationed,” Helen retorted. “I don’t think so,” Philip replied. “Now, about tomorrow —Sunday. How about showing me the zoo? I want to get a snapshot of a giraffe for Dick. He still thinks their long necks are faked.” Helen laughed. “All right," she said, “but don’t make it too early. I’ve got more homework to do.” “Right after lunch, then,” Philip said. But it was not to be. For when they reached the hotel Philip found a telegram from Miss Minerva. The clerk gave Philip the message when he went to the desk to call for his mail. He read it, scowled, and then took it over to where Helen was waiting to go in to dinner. “Darn!” he said. “What on earth’s the matter?” Helen asked. He handed her the yellow sheet of paper. “Read that!” he said. Helen did so. The telegram said: “Catch next train for Chicago. See Wallace Immediately in re machinery discussed with him. Also tell that niece of mine to come on home.” She handed the message back to Philip. “Rather prodigal with her* wordage, isn’t she?" she said. “That’s Miss Minerva’s one extravagance,” said Philip. “She loves sending telegrams.” “Yes, I know. Don’t forget, I once worked for her!” Philip folded the wire and stuck it in his pocket “Well, how about it?” “How about what?" “Going back to Lakeville?” “That requires deep thought. Besides, I’ve got a job.” “Resign.” “Maybe I like my job.” “Maybe you’d like a job in Lakeville better,” said Philip. "I tell you what to do—think it over while I : inquire about trains. I’ll be right : back.” Helen watched him eo. admiring

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his j-piick, sure striven. Then she le alK , (] b ! upiiolstery of the deep denly she felt tired. 1 y depress ed. LakeviM York? Supple Aggie defcripe job pa(:k n ! sue want to sl ., v . Yul ' k t! "” ? - h.cve to : ; i: . iu ... 0{ mipers. .ua! ; h, f( . r she had 5... u enough of know how r.tterlv were. R.asoiiabie‘in p r j ce fortaHo to a irrtain about it. a woman aiune world, a woman eumpleteiy a woman type, wa.s a pathetic ture. “Okay!” said Philip, breaklwH upon her im/appy reverie, "Wfaßl the answer?” BB Helen jun -.M. startled. “I'm still all at sea,” r h “What - .maMßi and some g.-md food.” said He reached out, took tends, ami pedh hertoherhß| "Come on, let's <at!” “Do we 1. ive time?’ 1 Helen vß| ; ed to !•:>., -i ••.wan, what your train'."’ “It dot sn't leave until 7 ..'cl-dß| he told her. “We’ve got hour more- t.cether.” They walked across the ]sß| and into the rcstaurnot Philip ordered Martinis, |B| , while. '!■. y .-ip: ed them he waiter to !..u e them t chicken. I “And see that it IS fried,” he ccmtb m-1. “None . stuff all cov ivd , ing cream gravy. You’d be down in North. Carolina if , dared such a thing.” B i "Yes, sir,” said the waiter, plB ning. B “Mind you, now,” Philip aB ' “Crisp—Jay—brown.” M “Yes, sir.” B When he had finished orUB the other things to go with B chicken, Philip le med across 1B > tRh! 4 ?. > “How’s the drink?” he ask'B "It’s beg ii mi ug perk me f said Helen. She smiled across i rim of her glass. ‘ I’m sorry youß got to miss the zoo.” ■ , “So am I. And that's not afl Philip put down his glass . looked da. into Ihlen's gray-jreß eyes. "Did I ever tell you thatM . think you’re lovely ? That I like > way’ you build your hair h'.ghO your head? That you look as MH [ tiful in that spring suit—tailoH and all—as you do in green chiM r and silver slippers?” ■ t “No,” said Helen. ‘Tve k” 'fl you five whole days—and yotfH left that unsaid.” JB “I’m saying it nnw,” said . “Listen, Helen, there's, no ofl boating about the bush.” , B “Which bush?” Helen said,™ ing to get back her sense of M ■ mor. “I’m serious,” Philip said, abO f Iciness creeping into his voice. ■ t want you to marry me Heiaj and come back to Lakeville. ■ r (To Be Continued) B