Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Events* Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated Entered at the Decatur. Ind., Poll Office ae Second Claes Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Bec’y. & Bus. Mgr Pick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies * .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall In Adams, Allen, Jay and Welle * 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: *5.50 per year; *3.00 lor six months; *1.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Man and women in the armed forces *3.50 per yeas or *I.OO lor three months. Advertising Ratss Made Known on Application. National Repreeentatlvs •CHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Ih. The deadline of canning sugar is May 30th. If you wish sugar for thus purpose get an application from your grocer, fill it out and mail it to the local office of the ration board at once. O—O Nearly five hundred German ships, including two liners, Europa and Bremen, 110 warships and merchant boats, have surrendered in Allied ports. They will be held for disposition by the Allied conference. —o Watch for the 1946 automobile. The WPB says they will be on the market in the autumn. The order says that 200,000 cars for civilians caj) be put out this year and twice tljgt many the first three months of next year. —o Fred Vinson, war mobilizer, has stepped into the controversy over meat control and you are right in * thinking that will mean action. Vinson doee things and it is generally believed will soon affect a compromise between OPA and Coitol Hill. ■■ O— ODr. Robert Ley, the man who bfpke Nazi labor unions and organi*d the werewolf movement has bßt-n captured by the llllst Airbffiirne division, aided by the German underground. He is considered. one of the master minds of the Nazi movement. The '‘gang" is beinjg liquidated. —o The city of Huntington lias made the water problem first on their plans for the postwar improvements. They will triple capacity, frtpm one million gallons daily to three million. That's a wise action frtr in the next decade the water problem will be one of the most difficult to solve and every community will soon be interested. —o The Japs are talking about peace and feelers are being sent out, according to reports from various sources. There is just one way they can do it and that is by unconditional surrender. And it may come some of these days although Under Secretary Grew, who knows that country well, believes it will nqt come until we have landed on the mainland and taken over. It may require a year, he says.

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The U. S. navy wants 4,000 more doctors and have advanced the age to a sixty-ycar maximum. One of the biggest tasks of the armed j forces now is to care for wounded and ailing men. And at the same It time we must watch the home front for there will be need for doctors, it many of them, during the postwar r - period. it _ _ —o Oil or the lack of it rather, will 0 probably be the one big thing that will whip Japan.as it did Germany. 8 They have lost the rich production d r of fuel oil in Burma and the Dutch 5 East Indies and admit the situation 8 is serious. Perhaps that’s why 0 they arc using suicide bombs in the e air and on subs. It will soon begin j to really show. r O—O Damages amounting to $109.520.45 for violating Office of Price Administration regulations between January 1 and May 7, have been paid by Indiana firms and individuals. John E. Scott, enforcement officer of the Indiana OPA district, said that 399 settlements were made in the first 18 weeks of 1945 compared with 372 for all of 1944. 1 O—O I Adams Post 43, American Legion, is trying to bring their honor roll up to date and arc especially anxious to secure the names of the seventeen-year-old boys and the women who have entered the service and are not listed on their scroll of honor. They wish to add these names next week so they will be on the board by Decoration Day. If you know of any in this category, please notify the local Legion post at once. O— O— Pfc. Keith Hammond has received more than his share of wounds for the time he has been in the armed service. He enlisted in March of last year, went overseas last October and has been wounded in battle three times. His last injury came May Ist, three days after the . firstminors had arrived that hostilities had ceased. He ought to rate high on the list of those eligible for honorable discharge. o—o The most fascinating game of the moment for thousands of American families and their relatives in the Army today is computing discharge points. The point system appears to be the fairest that could he devised; certainly, it is fairer than the former system of demobilization by units, where some recent replacements were mustered out far ahead of battle veterans. — Fort Wayne JournalGazette. The office of defense transporta tion has announced that travel will be restricted during the summer because of the demands for military purposes. As a result, twentythree organizations which had planned conventions for July and August at Indianapolis, have been called off. The movement of troops is the most important travel in America yet and perhaps more difficult than ever, since many soldiers will be coming home on furlough or for discharge while others are being shipped across the country for the Pacific war. The conventions will ; have to wait a short time. O—O Chester Bowles, OPA administrator, says: “At the present time, some six hundred thousand tons of sugar are set aside for home canning. This is less than last year’s allotment. But all the facts we have been able to gather show that not all of last year’s allotments for home canning actually were used to put up fruits and preserves. Some of the sugar went into pies and cakes and was used on a general hexttg.” basis. ,We have been told that what really'was used for home canning wasn’t much more than this year's amount of reduced rations. That’s why we are asking local boards to issue

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only up to 70 percent of the amount iesued last year for canning, and to cut the amount per person from 20 to 15 pounds, and, per family, from IGO to 120 pounds.” I Modern Etiquette I I Sy ROBERTA LEE I ♦ Q. When a theater party follows a dinner, should the host furnish the transportation? A. Yes, always, excepting of course for -the guests who happen 1 to be in their own ears. Q. What would be an appropriate kind of affair for introducing a new daughter-in-law? •A. An afternoon tea or reception. Q. Is it customary for a godparent to give the baby a gift? A. Yes, and this gift may be presented before the christening, or on that day. _________ o __ I Household Scrapbook I | By ROBERTA LEE I 0 e Whitewash fWhi'ewash does a three-fold duty. It is a valuable disinfectant, it pre- : serves piaster and wood, and if pro- • perly prepared it. acts as a fire retardment. Use-plenty of it. Pie Crust •If, t’he bottom crust of a pie is brushed wi’-h the white of an egg before putting in the fruit, the juice will not sink through and it will • make a nicer pie to serve. , Steel Knives Never allow steel knives to soak ■ in hot water, as in most instances • it will loosen the .handles. o 772 SEAMAN ARE (Continued From Page One) away, but she came back. She got hoses over and into the carrier, amT her crewmen joined in fighting the fires.'Said “it was the most daring piete of seamanship I ever ; saw.”

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4 e Twenty Years Aao Today e • May I'B—Mrs. John Shaffter of Wells county was killed when a G. R. and 1. train hits car south of Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shuffler, who ‘were also in the automobile, escaped injury. ißev. iSeimetz will give the address to Caflholic school commencement June 3. E. M. Wagner, agriculturist for the Holland-St. Louis Sugar factory, dies at St. Louis, Mich. He lived here several years. Joseph Johnson of Monroe is serI jously ill. Andrew Mylott of Chicago is visiting here. Wheat $1.7, oats 42 cents, eggs 25c, butterfat 40 cents. o ' COURT HOUSE Estate Cases The inheritance tax report in the Albert Reppert estate was filed, showing net value of estate at $29,107.16 and tax of $141.07 due from Mina Reppert. The appraiser was allowed SSO. iFinal report in the August Kruetzmau estate was filed by Milton Krueitzinan, executor and approved. Final report in ths Rachel Lehman estate >was filed by Howard Lehman, administrator, and approved. 0 ' 37 SCOUTS AND (Continued From Page One) Gentis, Victor Porter, Merlin Lister. Legion troop 63; Rolland Ladd, Dan Kitson, Ted Wemhoff, Norns Blocker, Kaye Runyon, Bob Smith, j Roger Borne, John Lang. Glen RowJ don, Terry Byrd, Charing Johnson, I I Bob Lenhart. ■ I Cub pack 3061: Jimmy Helm; ; Paul Junior Conrad. ': 0 Trade in a Good Town — Decatui

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SYNOPSIS HELEN MILLER la M' attractive young woman of 26, 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: Paul Wentworth, in Washington, trying to talk officials into letting him do something more exciting than running a plantation, discovers that his wife, Zoe Norris, with whom he eloped, is not nearly as understanding as Helen was. In desperation he decides to. join the Civil Air Patrol in Lakeville. CHAPTER ELEVEN RUNNING a plantation—doing duty in the air with his plane — keeping busy at two things. It sounded interesting. Besides, a pipe line was being constructed not far from Lakeville. Then, too, Lakeville was now a defense area, since Miss Minerva Miller had turned her axe handle factory into a war plant. Come to think of it, he could be darned useful down there among his own people. “Are you going to stand there i like a bump on a log all day?” Zoe said. “I thought you told me to hurry and dress.” "I did,” said Paul. “Ready?” Zoe looked about the room as though she were saying good-by to it with her eyes. “Yes,” she said, “I'm ready.” She walked to the door, hesitated there. “I’ll go home with you now, Paul, but I’m not promising to stay.” “No?” “No. That charming Mrs. Roark we met understands how I feel about leaving Washington to live on a lonely old farm, and she’s invited me to come back and visit her.” “That woman,” said Paul, ‘‘is a pain in the neck. She's one of those darn fool people who get all fluttery and excited when Eleanor Roosevelt goes by. She ‘simply adores’ people who are in the limelight. She fairly purrs in the heat of reflected glory. If people got tanned from the stray beams of limelight, she’d look like a piece of burned toast.” “I like her,” Zoe said. “She knows how to entertain. She’s one of Washington’s busiest and smartest hostesses—and she’s always surrounded by a lot—” “—of climbers,” said Paul. “People who want to share her reflected glory.” “I wasn’t going to say any such thing,” said Zoe. “I was going to say she’s always surrounded by a lot of exciting women and—men.” “Are you looking for exciting men?” “Perhaps.” Paul eyed her. "That’s what I’ve been thinking,” he said, “ever since I saw you shining up to that diamond in the rough, Mike Waterman.” “Mr. Waterman,” said Zoe with dignity, “is a very important man in Washington, and he’s doing big things.” “I couldn’t vouch for that,” said Paul, "but I’ve a sneaking idea he’s making big profits—at the expense of Unde Sam.” “I don’t care,” said Zoe. “He's gmusing—and—” "And be spends, money right and left. Yes, I know.” . Znc said: "He’s worked hard all his life, and never had much fun. He told me I did him good—that I

cept the cruiser and made contact , that night. Torpedo attacks were made a»d shortly after midnight the Japanese cruiser was seen to eink. o Who serves himself serves a slave; who rules himself rules i king. The elaughter of millions can wi.i 1 a fight, but it can never win peace. 1

reminded him of the girl he’s been carrying around in his mind and heart for years." “Very romantic and touching,'' Paul said. “Was he sober?” “Os course he was.” “I thought perhaps he was tight —and had forgotten that you had a husband.” “You’re jealous, that’s what!” "Am I?” "Oh, come on,” Zoe said impatiently. "If we’ve got to go back to the sticks, let’s get started.” They went out to the elevator. And as they were taken down to the main floor, Paul began suddenly to feel more cheerful. The CAPS ’ He’d look into the matter just as soon as he got things going down home. Flying his own plane once more, and doing it for a good cause. Returning home was swell! He was glad to be leaving Washington. He didn’t like the place. Bedlam, that's what it was—Bedlam beside the Potomac! Big shots —like Mike Waterman —trying to appear bigger than they really were. Talking patriotism, and piling up fortunes. The whole set-up made him good and sick. He’d be tickled pink to get back to the plantation, back to his sowing and his reaping. He’d work like the devil, making two stalks of com grow where only one had grown before. He’d put more acreage in garden vegetables —the things civilians and soldiers were badly in need of. He’d make the Wentworth plantation blossom and increase like the Biblical land of milk and honey. Then, as he helped Zoe into a taxicab, he thought again of Helen. It would be darned nice if she would also come back to Lakeville. Maybe she’d be interested in joining him in this civilian air patrol business. Helen loved flying—- * * * There were times during the two weeks that followed when Helen felt herself weakening, when she wondered if she hadn’t been far too impulsive in telling Philip she was going to resign, times when she very nearly walked into the buyer’s office to tell him she had changed her mind, that she wasn’t going home and wanted to keep her job. She asked herself over and over again if she weren't inviting further unhappiness in returning to Lakeville. After all, she had been away for over two years; she had a pleasant and fairly well paying position — so why — why — why ? Then she would remember Philip’s arms about her, see the understanding in his eyes, and again a homesick lunging would sweep over her. “I almost wish he’d stayed away,” she said to Aggie on the day she was doing the last of her packing. “Who?” said Aggie, knowing full well whom she meant. “Philip, of course.” “Why?” “I was getting along all right until he arrived,” Helen replied. “I’d managed to forget almost completely all that had happened, and—” “You had not,” Aggie contradicted. “You remembered all right, and you were having a grand time nursing your wounded pride and feeling sorry for yourself.” “That’s a nice thing to say!” • "You were like a young widow,” Aggie went on, “who rather fanci.es herself in mourning. You wore your ! heart on your sleeve and thought it fetchingly becoming,' you—” “I did no such thing,” Helen flared. Aggie paid no attention. “It's the best thing that could have hap-: pened—Philip Brownell coming to'

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New York an: sweeping you njj oft your feet.” "He didn't sweep me oj a feet,” Helen said. “Maybe not. But you're goc back home bvcausi of him-wj all the same in the final analysi “I'm going home because-* cause I'm homesick, and rank service to Aunt Minerva in 'j plant.” “Okay, you're going home b cause you're patriotic! Let it go that.” Helen closed a small bag £ straightened up. “I hate awfully to leave yon, 1 gie,” she said. “It's been fun I ing with you here. I'll miss youte ribly.” “i’ll miss you too, Helen,” A$ said. “But I’ll tell you right no that if a man like rhiiip Broun wanted ME to come home, yon 1 anyone else could keep me here.' “You mean you’d walk out out without a tremor?” “Oh, there might be a couple tremors—maybe three,” said A gie. “But I’d walk out on you if good defense job came along i stead of a man.” “I was afraid of that,” Mi said. “It’s one of the reasons 14 cided to go home.” “And now that you are goh>| don't forget I'm in the markets a change of positions.” “I won’t. I’ll sec what I can c about you at the plant. PM wrote, you know, that there wm be several openings when the N addition was completed." _ “Thanks. All you or Philip M to do is crook a little finger-# I’ll be on my way.” They went down to the Pennsj vania station together. As they stood waiting IW « train gates to open, Helen sai. “Suppose I should end up man; ing the man-being a stepmott isn’t any easy job." “Os course not," Aggie agM “But any woman with evenasp# of the old maternal instinc win over that cute kid of W You do have some maternal 1 stincts, don’t you?” ~f e “I think,” said Helen, that! “All right yien. Go home-g work in the plant -go Philip every chance you ge make friends with Dick “Yes’ni. More advice to the 101 -” come to think about V said, “maybe / was cut one of those ‘Dear Beatrice fax’ creatures.” The gateman called hciu She nut her arms around A oo held her close. “Fray for 1,0n . c^ t fo r “I’ll do more than that » said Aggie. “I'll keep my M crossed.” „ „ ]en # “It won't be so bad, “if Paul Wentworth stays u 111 “Stop worrying abo j£ gie replied. “Surely v u enough for the two d(rt all Miss Minerva writ . jt , j( all Philip BrowneU t< W lot bigger now than it you left.” ~j wr , n der i “But,” said Heim, it will ever be big e>i° ptJier ; us. from running ‘nto “Well, if y° u dO, )C " ,„ri<l ” be the woman of the “How does one go like that?” • -Look at him, Agg “smile your mo. the irS and say. ‘Well, if <■ cl;ur cii who left me walt, " g h^c y ■’ ' Fancy meeting you h & ft ■Helen laugned. an “ wS , 11 the sting of tears mb ID try!” she said, ana stairs tocher d^ n(il!ll eJ)