Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 116, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Elveniaj Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Poet Office as Second Claw Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. HolthouM, Bec'y. A Bu». Mgr. pick D. Hellet— Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies * .04 Qne week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adami, Allen, Jay and Wells e unties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, >4.50 per year; >2.50 for six months; |1.35 lor three months; 50 cents for one mont". Elsewhere: 15.50 per year; 13.00 for six months; |165 for three months; 10 cents for one month. Men and women In the armed torose 11.50 per year or 11.00 lor three months. Advertlslna Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, Now York 2 I. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Ih. Buy an extra hundred dollar bond' and do it as often as you can the next month. —o It’s corn planting time and the farmers are ready to do that job if the weather man will ease up and provide a little weather. M 0-0 battle for Japan is just getting a good start. We are getting ready to land there. It will cost billions. Help meet the Seventh War Loan quota. Buy all you can NOW. O—O Seven out of every 100 men in the armed forces now hope and ara planning as much as they can to go into business for themselves when the war is over. That ought to pep things up considerably. o—o The Russians have captured more than a million German prisoners since V4E day and are still taking them. And they treat them as prisoners of war. They are marching them back to rebuild thaj, part of Russia that was destroyed by the Nazi armies a couple of years ago. « O—O More than eleven tons of clothing has been sent from here to the depot at New Castle, Indiana, for shipment to ports and then oversea#; to the needy people in the counties of our allies. It was an excellent showing and Mr. Ziner antral! who assisted him have a right to feel very proud over the accdanplishment. «■ O—O Prime Minister Churchill has promised the world that Great Britain will go to the finish of the war with Japan and will do all she can to win as soon as possible. An* the leader usually makes good on hie promises. The war against Japan will be stepped up and here’s hoping it will end before many moons. O—o Help win the campaign to sell fourteen billion dollars worth of bonds. It’s no time to let up anti while it may be a little more difficult to meet the quota this timj. it is more important than ever. Let’s meet the request of Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and surprise him with our speed. It Will mean a real "Victory Every Where Day” and a genuine celebration for the

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boys can come borne and we can all begin living again. —-O —u Natural gas and nylon stocking® are two of the little known "horseshoe nails” without which wars are lost, according to "Service," publication of Cities Service Company. Oddly enough, both are used In glider operations. Nylon makes the tough but elastic tow ropes, while one of the many derivatives of natural gas is formaldehyde, which is made into synthetic glue to bind the plywood for troop-carrying gliders. Other wartime uses of this versatile chemical include shatterproof dishes to withstand the shock of gunfire on the Navy’s big battle wagons, uniform buttons and plastic knobs for electrical controls. O—O A War Os Supplyy The United. States has two enemies in the war against Japan. One. the Japanese soldier, is unpredictable; the other, distance, is inexorable. The job of wringing an uncondtiional surrender from Japan with as few casualties as possible boils down to bringing overwhelming superiority to bear against the enemy as quickly as possible. Redeployment has started, we are informed, but consideration of distance tempers any optimism over a short war. The old problem of logistics confronts our military and naval leaders to a far greater degree than it ever did in Europe. Competent military authorities declare it requires six to eight cargo ships and six to eight troop transports to transport the regular infantry division and Its equipment. Armored divisions require more ships. American strength in Europe amounts to approximately 70 divisions. Three cargo ships are required in the Pacific to do the work that one did in the Atlantic because of great distances. A cargo ship requires 16 weeks to make the round trip from our West Coast to our present westernmost bases. To make up for a scarcity of transports, 100 Victory cargo ships are being converted to troop transports, in addition to 272 Liberty ships that already have been converted. When 100 men are sent overseas with 100 rifles. 60 more rifles must be sent for replacement. Every 100 machine guns carries a replacement quota of 85 per year. An infantry division can require mom than 500 tons of ammunition in one day of combat, and an armored division may consume 75,000 gallons of gasoline in an operation of 100 miles. Requirements for servicing and maintenance of our aerial fleets are staggering in proportions. The gasoline, bombs, oil. ammunition and grease used in the initial requirement to service and maintain a fleet of 1,000 B-17’s amount to 90.000 tons. Since B-17’s are not to be used extensively in the Pacific, the tonnage will rise for servicing the Superfortresses. The above figures may be unhitprestlng in themselves, but they speak eloquently for the size of the task still ahead of us. When one considers that the landings in Luzon’s Liagayen Gulf required 1,033 naval craft manned’ by 278,000 naval personnel, he must realize that while time is now on our side, distance still works for the Japanese.

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SYNOPSIS t HELEN MILLER is an attractive s I young woman of 26, who has been < 1 jiltea by a playboy, PAUL WENTWORTH, a southern plantation owner, who married < ZOE NORRIS. Helen lives in an apart- ; meat with war plaui. trainee < 'AGGIE JONES, a pleasant, 30-year-old ' seit-coniessed "old maid," who urges Helen to try to mend her broken J I 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. 1 YESTERDAY: Helen decides that spin- - sterhood Is not for her, so she tells Philip that she will hand in her res- < ignation at the department store flrst ' thing Monday morning and return to I Lakeville. | 1 CHAPTER TEN i DOWN IN Washington at that j exact moment, Paul Wentworth : ‘ was pacing the floor of a ho- , tel bedroom. Suddenly he stopped short in front of Zoe, who, with , i tears in her eyes, sat upon the side , 1 of the bed, staring at two partly | I packed leather suitcases. “There’s no need making a scene, ■ Zoe,” he said. “I’ve made up my mind. We’re going back to Lakeville and the plantation." “But Paul,” Zoe wailed, “it’s been such fun here In Washington. Meet- , ing exciting people—going to dinners —doing things—” "Sure,” Paul said, sneaking gently, “but there’s a war on, honey, and it seems that my Job is raising things to eat.** "I don’t see why you couldn’t get a government job of some sort,” Zoe rushed on. “A lot of men not nearly as smart as you are have I gotten them. They don’t hide their I wives away on a farm, miles from nowhere.” ’ “You knew when you married me where you’d have to live,” said Paid. "People who have land like the Wentworth plantation are darned lucky. At least they can eat.” “Os course they can,” said Zoe. “But there’s something to life besides Just eating.” “I know there is,” said Paul, and tried to smile. “But there’d be little living if there was no eating.” He laid a hand on Zoe’s hair, mussed it playfully. “Buck up, kid! And remember that when a gal marries a man she marries him for the bitter as well as the better." "And I certainly am getting the bitter,” Zoe said crossly. Paul began pacing again, '’“There’s not much time,” he said. "Hurry and finish dressing. I’ll tend to the suitcases. Zoe didn’t budge. "It’s the fault of that darned old draft board, that’s what it is,” she said. "Telling you you should stay home and plow, instead of using your brains here.” , "Don’t forget I wanted to enlist right at the start,” said Paul. “But you raised the devil about it—wouldn’t sign a paper agreeing to it.” He shrugged and stopped his pacing. “Then when the draft came along, and I thought I could go anyway, without your consent—up comes the new ruling that farm-

ers should be deferred. If you’d consented to my training for the Air Corps in the beginning, I might now be in North Africa or Guadalcanal, and —” “And what about me?” Zoe interrupted. “I was coming to that,” said Paul. “You could be living wherever you chose—Washington, New York.” “Maybe TH do that anyway,” “Do what?" "Live where I choose—here in Washington.” Zoe got up, walked to the dressing table. “After ail, I’m not much good on a farm.” “It’s not a farm—it’s a plantation.” “Well, whatever it is, I don’t like it!” She did things to her hair, found a lipstick and used it- “As you say, if you’d been in the Air Corps, I wouldn’t have to live on the farm. All right, running a plantation —if you insist upon • calling it that—is doing your bit; so why can’t I live in Washington for the duration, just as though, you were in uniform?” "That, I reckon,” said Paid, “is what is known as feminine logic.” “Call it that if you want to.” “It’s darned nonsense, that’s what I call it,” said Paul. He began stuffing clothing into one of the suitcases. "I’ve pulled strings, talked myself hoarse, and argued with everyone from old Senator Simpson down to every office boy in every war office in the city, and I’ve got exactly nowhere. ‘Go raise things to cat, mister!’ is all they say to me. That and ‘Or else? ” “Or else what?” said Zoe. “Work or fight—that’s whatt Do something essential to the war effort, or grab a gun and start shooting.” Paul pressed his knee down hard upon the’ suitcase and snapped the lock. “Which would you prefer me doing? Start being a buck private at this stage of the war—or keep running the plantation ?" Zoe turned and looked at him, her big blue eyes wide and beautiful. He reminded her of a spiaO a 11 * gry boy, glaring like that, his I hair all mussed, and not giving a (darn for the crease in his pants. “You’d make a cute soldier,”l she said. “Too bad you didn't think oflthat sooner.” "As an officer, I mean,” Zoe* added quickly. "Bars on your shoulders or wings on your breast; pocket” “The darned war would be over before I could earn a commission,” Paul said. “That’s why I thought maybe Senator Simpson and some other higher-ups I know could help me get a position here that might eventually lead to wearing an officer’s uniform, but—” “Senator Simpson makes me sick,” Zoe flared. “He’s an*old stick-in-the-mud. One would 'think he was still fighting the Civil war instead of this one.” “He’s not a stick-in-the-mud,” said Paul “He’s honest and he’s conscientious. He’s one of my best friends and he’s given me aklot of swell advice since Dad died.”’ "Such as telling you to go tfiome —and dig.”

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"Exactly.” P&ul walked to fl window ana stood looking into the street. “And the twfl think about it,” he said, “theafl convinced I become that he draft board are both right fl would have agreed until tlieffijfl Dad loved the soil, and he’d imfl stand that a man plowing fl working hard to feed a hmfl world was also doing his bi, H Zoc donned a perky little fl "You should get a soapbox or fl a hall,” she said. “You sound fl a political speaker or something. ■ "Thanks,” said Paul. "WB helpfiri little wife I’ve got!” ■ Zoc shrugged. “Maybe youskfl have married that Miller girl,fl all,” she retorted. B Paul stiffened. “Leave Helen fl of it,” he snapped. ■ "Pardon me!” Zoe said. U Paul remained silent. He fl on gazing out of the fl A plane soared high dome of the Capitol. It look as a searchlight played ® blue like the small plane ’J stood idle down in the bam-the plane in which hj Helen had planned and He frowned. What ,n 9 th e the matter with him • devil did he have to start about Helen? He was mahj Zoe, and Helen was a tiimg past. Only somehow or t» knew that Helen would «ndeJ as Zoe did not, that h ing from dlsappomtm aj touch of confusion, and feeling of being kt dowi would have things. He closed k •moment, as n to snur # that troubled hmi-l'k turu not wish to see. | Then, suddenly, he the< ' conversation he ha nf oW before-witn a • the many boards he visited. nlane!’ 1 “You say you own a P man asked. t car ned “Yes,” he replied., 1 ■ fly while in collegei "Then why not join P CAPS?” i "The which? „ tlie n "Civilian Air ; replied. "Some i people ■minute men. They d p ■ duty-guard defense • lines, reservoirs. ent3 ’ • “What are the requtf« r» "American bom--fi"g. • ' man said. You pay y t c ; expenses, hoW ®^,’ du ty. Tid 1 « called to do P atr rel ital f° r ,1 are paid a moderate rtn t Not | plane per hour of * . ne a .at all.” w . rth Carolina- , ..You’re from North , . understand,” the h “There’s a CA \ pr etty ■ down there. You seem ; pointed about no nnin gaf»J ; more exciting * the ’so Why not look m „ sald J "I think ‘ then