Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1945 — Page 4

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A radio message from Tokyo says the war there has reached the difficult stage. Since they admit the complete destruction of the five largest cities in Japan, it would seem that statement is a little too optimistic. —o The WPB has released 1,863,155 truck and bus tires for civilian replacement purposes, which will help. However, that is only 71% of the request made by the office of defense transportation. It won't meet all demands but it s a lift in the right direction. o—o Starting June 18th you can take an ABC bus in Decatur or anywhere along the line and get off at Cincinnati. Similar coveniences are being planned by bus companies to reach almost every large city in the country on through busses. O—o »Japan would to quit the war but don’t know how to do it. They know the continuation will mean complete and utter destruction, but ythey can’t get over the “facesaving 1 bogie. In the meantime the .American forces are getting ready to invade the island and complete the job. - O—o Nurses of America have respond- «■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■> PLEASE! After reading this paper\ pfocse «ave it for your | , Paper Salvage Drived * V V i 1 A* REMEMBER— *J >APIR IS A #1 WAR’ * MATERIAL SHORTAGEI f «»»• , \

ed so well to the call for their service* that the army and navy have asked the Red Cross to halt enlistments. It’s another record everyone is proud of und proves that the nurse draft proposed a few months ago was not necessary.' O—O The $12,000 jeweled Order of Victory medal ha* been awarded to General Dwight D. Eisenhower by Soviet Russia. It's the first time this award lias been made to any but a Russian and Marshal Khukov presented it. Accepting the honor token, General Eisenhower said; “We are going lo have peace if we have to fight for it.” The event took place al Frankfurt-on-the-Muin. Alfred Stoner, 38-year-old discharged war veteran, drove his car into a gravel pit near Bryan. Ohio, and he and his live children were . drowned. The mother and her one- > day-old babe were all of the family to survive. The tragedy was one , of the mast shocking on record in 1 the midwest. Stoner, unbalanced j by his responsibilities, evidently i decided to end the worries of him • ad inoct of his family. j O—O There is something intriguing ‘ in the strange news from Moscow ; that Soviet Russia will resume im- 1 mediately the manufacture of silk 8 stockings. The announcement is j difficult to reconcile with the ac- I i i ' cepted concept of Russia as a hard, realistic nation in wiiose stern reg- j linen there is no place for those,' , • 1 indulgences so familiar to Americans. and to the people of other ( nations, when life was free from ; many of the restrictions that now prevail. * O—O 1 The community has lost another of its pioneer busines* leaders in the death of Levi A. Sprumger. For more than half a century Mr. Sprunger has been identified with the commercial life of Berne. His business interests were varied, covering the financial, industrial and retail life of the community. Although past eighty-one years of

age, Mr. Sprunger had until less than a month ago, served actively as the president of four of Berne’s leading business enterprises, in eluding the First Bank of Berne. He had also served his church as treasurer for thirty-eight years and had been a member of the cemetery board for nearly that number of years. As appraiser for the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of French township for many years, Mr. Sprunger had another wide cointact with the farmers of this and neighboring counties.—Berne Witness. —o Clean the Plate:— Life-long members of the sticky finger society were heartened the other day by some suggestions issued by the National Manufacturers’ Association. Said the usually staid N.A.M., through its medical adviser, Dr. Victor Heiser, the time has come for Americans to forget what they have been taught regarding proper table etiquette and to begin getting the most nutrition from their meals. Anyone who ever has sat down to a meal of crisply fried bluegills knows how futile the edicts of the tab'.- manners despot really are. The only way to enjoy that regal eating is to take the matter tn hand and to keep an eye on the bones. The same holds true with fried chicken, as any true trencherman knows. But the N.A.M. goes farther than that. Dr. Heiser says we should consider it our wartime duty to stop chasing the last elusive peas with a fork and simply scoop them up with a spoon. The gravy business is simple, too, he says. Unless you are one of the wary souls who distrust gravy concocted outside the confines of mother’s kitchen, you hereafter will be able to eat bread soaked in gravy, with a

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Red Cross Worker Writes Os Experience In Prison Camp

Red Cross worker Elizabeth Leyse, daughter of S. J. Leyse of Decatur route four, has written a letter to her father, under date of May 6, in which she relates an experience in a German prison camp in Austria. A~ recreational director for the Red Cross, Mis* Leyse has been overseas a year and a half. She formerly taught school at Monroe. Her letter, in part, follows: “I’m sure you could hardly believe what I’m about to tell you. I can’t make myself realize it yet —but, yesterday they sent word that our forces bad run into a German prison camp that held American prisoner*. Our soldiers had captured the German guards, and freed the Americans. They were living out in the woods. 15.000 of them, and they had no food or shelter. Our men immediately loaded up truck loads of food and clothing and they asked me to go along to help distribute it. Naturally, I was happy to go, but I didn’t realize how many tears I was going to shed. Most of the boys belonged to the air force and had been shot down over Germany. The majority of them had been prisoners for two years or more. And believe it or not. out there in the woods among all those boys I found a boy from Berne. He is Weldon Wittwer and knew most of the people I know in Berne. There were mamy others I found from all over Indiana. They are going to be sent home very soon, and goodness knows they deeerve it. This prison camp was in Austria, and they say I was the first American woman to enter liberated Austria. I stayed out in the woods with the prisoners all day and by night they were all moved into building* and were being cared for. For some, it’s too late. They won't make it, but most of them are completely happy—now that it’s all over. “I came back to the hospital, completely tired and worn out. It seemed I'd been asleep only a few

considerable amount of gusto as { filler. If all the businessmen and industrialists who adhere to the N.A.M. ideas on all national trends conform to Dr. Heiser’s suggestions, it will be no uncommon thing to see tycoons of all levels gnawing the last sweet bite of meat from a ]x>rk chop bone, for picking up bones for nibbling is another radical proposal of the medical consultant.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. o —— Twenty Years Aao Today ♦ -— —e June 13—(Bandits hold up the Central Savings Bank in Detroit and escape 'with $23,000 after shooting a policeman and a boy. John Hendricks, 85, a Civil War veteran, dies at Monroe. iL. IL. Baumgartner assumes position as bookkeeper at the Daily Democrat office. W. iP. Robinson and D. W. Beery return from the Findlay race meet. New Elks home is being remodeled and the furniture is due to arrive iwithin a week. ♦ — , — • I Modern Etiquette | Sy ROBERTA LEE ♦ —♦ Q. -Would it 'be rude for a bride to exchange a wedding gift, if she has received three or four duplicates, for something she really needs? A. No; it would really indicate good sense. But it would (be better

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OPPOSES RELIGIOUS (Continued F>orn Page One) with an unknown diety. Religion and its unscrupulous preachers have sought to perpetuate the, racket that permitted them to prey upon the innocence and credulity of the masses.” The Rev. A, Ray Cartlidge, pastor of the Presbyterian church and chairman of the committee which arranged the religion classes, has assured the board of complete support by church groups of the city. He said, “I will wager that when you get tfie background of this case you will find some political motive and people who are interested in social revolution.” E.' H. Mellon, superintendent of schools, said that the public school . district has no administration over the religious program and pays none of its expenses. Students must obtain parental consent before enrolling in the classes which are held for half an hour each week. Mrs. McCollum said she is being aided in her suit by the Chicago Action council and Chicago Attorney Landon J. L. Chapmah. 0 BORNEO'S OIL From Page One) flowers and trees, with strange and beautiful bird-calls mingling with gunfire in the air. One dispatch reported that American amphibious forces were working to establish a shore base "from which further operations can be staged,” indicating more landings in Borneo were in prospect. in the Philippines, the Japanese formed a new resistance line north of Bagabag in the Cagayan valley of northern Luzon. The 37th’division continued its northward drive, but resistance was 'stronger. Seven enemy tanks were knocked out. Attack bombers and fighters, attempting to loosen up the new Japanese defense positions, dropp- ' .322 tons oL * bombs, on the enemy. They -caught '-one large truck* convoy northwest of Bagabag and destroyed 48 vehicles. Enemy shore positions, on Luzon’s northern coast again were shelled. Trade in a Good Tows — Decatur !

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CONCEDEJIG FIVE (Continued From Page One) Australia oT by abstaining from the roll call, could not defend the formula. The Australian amendment would have taken away from the big. five the right given them under the Yalta formula to veto security council action in the peaceful settlement of disputes. Many other pending amendments now are expected to be withdrawn or defeated easily. o Serviceable Dickeys To get full service from old blouses, cut out the sleeves, bind the armholes, and wear the blouses as dickeys. o LONDONPOLISH (Continued From page One) ance of supply lines would contribute to the success' of negotiations. LA joint Big Three statement issued simultaneously in London, Washington and Moscow last night said the conference would begin Friday. ’ln addition to three London iPole»3, the ®ig Three invited four representatives of the Soviet-sup-ported iPolish provisional government in Warsaw and five Democratic leaders from within Poland to participate. PRICE CONTROL (Continued From Page One) ent lEdiward <A. O’Neal of the American farm bureau federation that the amendment would prove “unsound.! unworkable and inflationary.” IHe said he bitterly resented farmers union president James G. Pat- i’ ton's characterization of it as a] “legislative fraud.” (Wherry denied contentions that] his amendment would result in' either abandonment of subsidies or | elimination of the parity formula. He said it would be just an addi- | tional “measuring stick.”

BIG THREE MEET (Continued From Page One) The meeting could not be conducted in a spotlight of publicity, he said, because the big three would be getting ready for a peace conference. A reporter pointed out to the president that in connection with other big three meetings, the American people often have gotten their first news of the conferences from foreign sources. The president expressed determuiation that this would not happen again. He said American reporters would be given an exactly equal chance with reporters of other nations. ,

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