Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1945 — Page 4

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z DECATUR 1 DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec'y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies '. $ .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mail In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells counties, Indiana, and Mercer and Va£ Wert countiee, Ohio, $4.50 per year; |2.50 tor six months; $1.35 for.thrpe months; 50 cents for one month. Elsewhere: $5.50 per year; $3.00 fof'six months; $1.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces $3.50 per year or SI.OO for three months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative SCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York. 2 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago 111. Sunday is Father’s Day and perhaps Dad can celebrate it by going fishing Saturday. O—O little more help now and the eale of bonds to individuals for the seventh drive will be over the top. Add your name to this honor roll. Buy an extra one. —o 4eu the waste paper ready tor the Boy Scouts to pick up tomorrow morning. The truck will be along during the morning. Help the good cause along. —o Cigarette manufacturers say that th*' supply of fags for civilian use is almost normal this month, one qf them showing shipments 98% of peace times. —o I The first cryv survey report of the season declares that the indications' in early June are excellent for a record breaking crop of about everything excepting some small fruits. —o It will take some effort and energy’meet the quota in 'he Mighty Seventh War Loan campaign. Only two weeks are left and we are short about thirty percent on sales. Won't yo,u please buy an extra one or two? It’s just saving that much m&tey and it helps so much. —o ». Bitting the past three years there been little need for unemployn®nt insurance, but during the past week or two this has again loomed. In Indianapolis on on'’ da J tbie week, more than 2,5.'.'0 claims were filed and in other. •» parts of the state the filings indicate the results of closing war plants. . < o—o Evansville is having a bingo war. It seems the mayor down these has held that there is a distinction as to who operates the game. He calls some of them good, others bad. The game is popular' in certain approved clubs and other groups but recently when a political club asked for a permit, it was denied and branded “batt.” It doesn't sound workable. O—O The department of commerce has sent out a request that further requests for dogs discharged from the" army service be withheld. K PLEASE! ’ w ■* After reading this paper please save it for year | Paper Salvage Drivel * < .7 * REMEMBER— * f Pxpw IS A #1 WAR ' MATERIAL SHORTAGEI

There are more than 12,1)00 such petitions on file now and there are no canines to fill the orders. These heroes are now being shipped to convalescent hospitals or given to discharged veterans. O—o Berne will have the privilege of acting as host to the next session of the general conference of the Mennonites of North America during the early summer of 194”. The selection was made at the conference held at North Newton. Kansas, this week. One hundred and forty-five churches are included in the conference and delegates to the meeting may rest assured of a hearty welcome an d excellent treatment when they come to Berne. -o Robert Bovine wants to know why three truck loads of canned tomatoes were dumped in a Wells county gravel pit, why butter is spoiling in warehouses, why sugar is hard to get, and why the distillers can get all the sugar they want. Well, not being sage, philosophy, or prophet, we wouldn't know. If the things the questions suggest are true, we certainly would also like to know why and suggest that Mr. Sovine give his information to the district attorney or the FBI. O—O “Bonds for mercy'' is the slogan proposed by Ted Ganble of the War Finance Committee. He points out that 40,000 wounded men are being returned to this country from the war fronts and must have care. The average hospital cost on the basis of five dollare per day is increased $225 each day. Thai's equal to three SIOO bonds which cost $75.00 each. Lend your money to the U. S. government sc the boys can be well cared for. O—O Indiana horses are being shipped to the eastern slaughter houses and in a few months there will be fewer of these animals in the state than for a hundred years, according to estimates. Few of them are being used on the farms these days, it is fiald, but there will be some demand for them for years to come. If they make a comeback for any reason after the war, the prices will soar because of the scarcity. O—O General Eisenhower will arrive in Washington Monday and then for several days his time will be taken up as he is honored and feted for his wonderful work as com-mander-in-chief of the Allied forces that won the war against Germany. He will probably be much mote nervous than when in the heat of battle, for it is known he does not relish “show-off" events. He will get his biggest thrill when he visits hie mother, Mrs. Ida Eisenhower, S 3, at her modest little home in Abiline, Kansas, next Friday. O—o It is fitting that on at least one day out of 365 the person who is politely named the "head of the house” should come in tor some small measure of recognition. It is a good idea to have one day on which father, daddy, dad, pop, pater, the old man. the governor, or whatever he may be called, can sleep late, have breakfast in bed if that is his whim, get the family auto with no argument (even if the tank is empty).‘play golf or fish or just loaf —in other words, he can be king, if only for a day. o—o For the first time in the nation's history, women are now eligible for membership in military flight crews. It is the Navy that has made this innovation by making eighty officers of the Waves air navigators. Their services are not limited to the navigation 1 of planes over the territorial United States. They may serve as navigators over vast stretches of ocean to Hawaii and the Aleutians. Thes eighty young women have A

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qualified by the same hard training as that of men selected for similar assignments. They will not, of course, be sent to combat areas. When the story is told of American women's part in the war, high These eighty young women have and Wacs for their ability and willingness to do the work of men, 1 even under most trying and dan- ’ gerotte conditions. o O O Adams County I Memorial Hospital o o — ' I Admitted: Miss Joyce Elaine Mys ens, Geneva; Elmo Ehlerding, route (Admitted and dismissed: Mrs. ■ Clifford Saylore, 321 Jackson St.; Raymond Stevens, Schirraeyer St.; ’Herman 'Hockcmeyer, Monroeville; William Miller, Bluffton route 4. 'Dismissed: Sam Yost, 1004 West , Adams St.; Mrs. Jacob E. Daugherty. Bryant; (Mrs. Earl Blackburn, 1 512 Marshall St.; 'Mrs. Doyle Krick ■ and baby girl, 308 Twelfth ISt. o f IMr. and 'Mrs. Roger Brown of Tocsin are the parents of a baby ' girl, iborn this morning at 8:15 1 a. m. at the Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and has not been named. o_, > QUEEN OF FLATTOPS (Continued From Page One) ——— Planes blazed from their' own flaming gasoline and machine guns ! popped like strings of deadly fire- > crackers. There was a lull in the attack, ’ after the sixth hit. The Saratoga t continued to operate with the fleet ( while crew members fought, the flames and rescued thefr comrades. Cranes, catapults and guns had • been smashed and wrecked. The forward flight deck was battered i beyond use. Explosions spread ’ the flames. The hangar deck was , so filled with fire that it could not be approached from the interior of 1 the ship. An officer and two enlisted men were lowered over the side while the Sara cruised at 25 knots. They fought the flames from their precarious perch until they were brought under control. But all the damage had not been done. Ninety minutes after the first attack, the Sara had to take more punishment. More Jap planes appeared in the deepening dusk and another bomb crashed into her port side. The crew cleaned up the second mess and the carrier, took aboard her planes, which ha'd-iiftcn cy-cMug-the stricken ship with gas running out. She recovered all the. 4 j>lanes and proceeded to an island base for temporary repairs before coming here. o Democrat Want Ads Get Results i

I Modern Etiquette I | Sy ROBERTA LEE | Q. Shouldn't an acknowledgement be written in the first person when one is accepting or declining an invitation? A. Yes, if the invitation is in the first person; but if the invitation is in the third person, the answer should be in the third person. Q. Han’t it proper to butter a whole slice of bread, and then bite into it? •A. No; the proper way is to break off a small piece at a time, buttering each bite separately. Q. Must a man also use the prefix “iMr.” when his card carries the “Jr.” at the end of hie name? A. Yes; the “Jr.” does not take the place of *lMr.” 0 ♦ ♦ I Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Magazines 'When filing magazines for tuturc use, cut out the page with the table of contents and write the name of the magazine and date at the top of this page. Keep in a convenient place. It will save time when one desires to refer to same old article. Grass Stains Hf grass stains are dipped in molasses and allowed to remain for a short time, then the material is washed in the usual way, the stains will disappear. Cleaning Brass When cleaning the brass around the range, have the surface slightly warm, then use ammonia and fcteel wool. 0 VON RIBBENTROP (Continued From Page One) month. The arrest ended a search that many, Denmark and Austria and completed the roundup of top Nazis known definitely to be at large. o LT. STALTER DETAILS (Continued From Page One) be measured. 'THe told .Col. Sappington that he could have one of the two buildings in town. But when Col. Sappington went there, the German officer refused to move out. It iwas necessary to get a German officer from Gen. Wolff’s lug’s to put him out. I had to ask a German officer if I could sleep my men in a building with his men. The Germans were etill carrying their guns and ready and able to cause a lot of bloodshed. An American city command was formed and as you already know I was a--of ttyat. We established a curfew, (but were very lenient about efftorcinig it. , .... . - ■ j • - roun’dihg upTGermahs- by puffing Gen. 'Wolff under ajTcist and all other SS troops in-Italy. I and.four men were Gen. .Wolff’s guard while he packed and we took him to Division IP. W. cage, il returned to his ’ I hk's to assist getting the others out|

and while inspecting one room), found an officer's Heather top coat. 4t is a wonderful coat. 1 took it, for the officers were allowed so much and this officer (German) had left his coat behind. I put it in my jeep and went about my work. Later, I searched the pocket of the coat, and found a pistol, the like of which no one had ever seen before. The only word for it, is, beautiful. It was made of braes and had oak leaf clusters and acorns engraved all over it. The handle is bone. In the handle is a plate upon which is inscribed the name, ‘H. Himmler.’ —Also the German eagle and swastika is on the handle and the SIS insignia. That insignia had been the emblem of terror throughout Europe for many years. “Yesterday, iMay 14, 1 was detailed to escort Gen. Wolff and two other German generals with their chiefs of staff to the rear iP. W. cage, a distance of 165 miles. Made it there and back today Without troulble. Iwas a little proud to be chosen for the joib. “Our G-2 (Intelligence) was interested in the pistol because of Himmler’s name, thinking he might be in the group of officers we captured. Well, they traced the coat to the officer it belonged to and got hie story, who said, 'H. Himmler sent two such’pistols to Gen. Wolff and he was to present them to worthy officers. He never got the chance for the war ended. This officer saw a chance to cop one. so he did.” ILt. Stalter is with division headquarters company of a military police platoon. — o Card of Thanks I wish in this manner to thank all my neighbors, friends and relatives for kindness and sympathy extended me during my recent bereavement. * Don Eckrote GRANT PRIORITY (Continued From Page One) may be held up longer because of explained by Robert Heller, real estate agent, that single priorities could be obtained by individuals who wished to build a new house. As far as known no new addition is planned in the city. It is likely that the houses will be constructed on available vacant lots, but as yet the policy governing the construction of the 25 residences has not been announced. Interest has been, shown here in establishing a new sub-division, but the venture entails the building of sewers and streets, which call for the expenditure of large sums of money. In the past 10 years, approxi-' mately 200 new houses have been built in Decatur, including the Homesteads, McMillen additions, Studebaker street and the Park addition. med): of -Agriculture say potatoes boiled in their jackets lose only half as much ascorbic acid and only ono-third a<s much thiamine as baked potatoes. . Democrat Want Ads Get Results •»

► — ♦ Twenty Years Aao Today 2ti YEAR'S AGO 1 June 15— The Niokle Plate may change route of the Clover Leaf 'to run through Decatur al north end of town. N. C. iNelson of Geneva elected county truant officer on the 28th ballot in (which six other candidates contended. iFtehenmen leave for lakes of northern Indiana to enjoy opening of the season. Warm and frequent rains are helping the crops in Adams county. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Pumphrey and daughter Miss Eleanor leave for a visit with relatives. Grain prices drop two to six cents as rains help the crop outlook in the midwest. o RAID BY 520 B-29s (Continued From Page One) to warehouses, plants, and ships. In the Philippines, the 37th division in northern Luzon broke through the Orioung pass and continued its advance along the Cagayan valley road. The 37th was within nine miles of the point where highway five enters broad, open country. Commando night raiders swooped down on a Japanese garrison in the Sanghe islands in the East Indies. When the raiding party withdrew, six large warehouses had been destroyed as well as numerous small boats. But the biggest news was in the statements by Gens. Del Valle on Okinawa and Arnold on the air war. "The enemy is beginning to fold up through surrenders, suicides and disorganized resistance,” Del Valle said. Dispatches reported that for the first time in the Pacific war the Japanese were surrendering in sizeable numbers. But some who tried to give up were shot down by their own fanatical comrades. The whole Yaeju-Dake plateau, where the last 5,000 to 10,000 Japanese huddled, was pounded mercilessly by American gun’s. One ravine, where it was believed enemy headquarters was located, got a terrible treatment from marine corsair bombers. They

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CHAPTER THIRTY PHILIP TURNED the car off the main road and took a-dirt road that wound in and out among the trees 1 and the remains of rail fences — fences that had been laid in the long, long ago. He wondered if any- . where else in the whole wide world was there such peace as to be ' found around Lakeville. Sometimes It was almost like a religion, that peace; a religion that spoke little, but lived lots. J Helen said: “We’ll get some mar- ■ velous pictures of the presentation ' of the letter.” ’ “Who’s we?” said Philip. “Paul and I—from the plane." “I see. Sometimes I think that i guy is the thorn -in my flesh.” “I didn’t know you had one.” “We all da And this one of mine often feels more like a long, sharp ! needle.” ‘Tm sorry you feel that way -about it, Philip." “So am I,” said Phi Hp. “But that Is how it is, honey.” Helen stared off into the woods. “Do you know what I think sometimes ?” she asked. “No. Mind reading isn’t in my ’ Mae." “I think," Helen went on, "that • perhaps if something came along that would jar me into a realization of just what man I really loved, I could come to a decision. Something really big, I meandownright cataclysmic." “Isn’t a war eataelysmie enough?” Philip wanted to know. “Yes. But it hasn’t touched our E personal lives to any great extent” I “I see. What you mean is somet thing like this: Paul and I are both i wounded, we’re bleeding to death, . and we must both have blood trans- . fusions. We are in different places, ind you can get blood to one of us, ' but not both. And so—• “Exactly!” said Helen. “Sounds melodramatic, maybe even childish, but wen, that’s the way it is, , Philip.” . j Philip laughed, but there wasn’t much mirth in it, “Sorry I can’t wangle a situation like that honey," he said. “Only Td probably die of suspense, waiting for you to decide which one of us it was you wanted to live." i "Please don’t poke fun at me,” (Helen said quietly. «Tm unhappy about it as it is." I “I’m not poking fun," said Philip. i'Tt’s nothing to joke about” I And when Helen again had no reply, he felt a sudden sense of loneliness creeping over him. It was hard to explain, that feeling of •loneliness, but it was there just 'the same. , Maybe it ; came because he was always a little afraid that sooner or later he would lose the girl there beside him, and all that (she meant to him. Maybe he was counting upon her too much, letting himself dream and hope far beyond (the point of reason. But after all, (When a man dreamed and hoped, he -

dropped 19,220 gallons of jellied gasoline on the ravine, blasted It with 465 rockets, and then strafed it for good measure. Such was the treatment promised Japan itself by Arnold. His statement foreshadowed raids by 1,000 superfortresses carrying 10,000 tons of bombs. He said the superforts of 21st bomber command would loose 1,300,000 tons on Japan, and the eighth and far eastern airforces would drop the other 700,000. "Right at this moment —10 a.m. Japanese time,” said Arnold dramatically, “520 B-29s are dropping 3,000 tons of bombs on Osaka.” 0 16 PERSONS KILLED (Continued From Page One) ter level limited, crack passenger train, plowed into a section gang. %

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wasn’t expected to be too reason--5 able. t He remembered Diana—and the s day he had come home to find her . gone. Dramatic as always, she had 5 even gone so far as to pin a note . upon the pillow. “Forgive me, Phil,” I it said, “but I can’t go on any > longer. Pm leaving for Hollywood, j You can divorce me if you wish. I t hope that some day you’ll find a ” woman who’ll mean all things to you and that you win also find the happiness you deserve.” He had felt ’ the same sense of loneliness then 1 that he felt now—it had swept over him like a great, engulfing wave as he stood with the note in his hand. Then he had slipped in to look ; at Dick, chubby, rosy, asleep in his crib, with one small fist doubled up upon the pillow. For a moment he had hated Diana—hated all women. : It had seemed to him then that he ’ could never again love. And because of that feeling, he had determined ’ to be all things that his son needed. But that was before he had '■ walked into Miss Minerva’s office and seen Helen Miller’s picture. • That was before he had gone up tn ■ Now York and met the original, met her, and come to know that r she was the woman he wanted for then, and for always. ’ “I could offer yop the usual price ! for your thoughts,” Helen said. ■ “Okay!” said Philip. “I accept r the offer.” “You’ll have to trust me. I • haven't a penny handy.” “You look like an honest young ! woman." “I try to be, sir. And now that ■ we’ve struck a bargain—what are the thoughts?" “I was thinking about a girl i whose picture I fell in love with—- , qnd of the girl herself." “You’re cheating me! Those , thoughts aren’t worth a penny.” , “To me they are,” said Philip. He stopped the car. 1 “What now?" said Helen. “We’ll , be late for supper.” , “To heck with that!” said Philip. He took her in his arms and kissed t her long and hard upon the lips, t “That’s how much I love you." , “Philip!" Helen gasped. She r pulled away from him. “Playing the > caveman or something?” • i “Perhaps,” he answered. “Anyway, I’m tired playing the gentle, ’ waiting roles.” r Helen adjusted the ribbon in her hair. “Home, James!” she said. . ‘Tm hungry.” “Good Lord,” said Philip. “I talk > of love, and she speaks of food." t "I heard no mention of love.” t “I didn’t have to mention it,” f Philip retorted. “Actions speak a t lot. louder than words many a a time.” . t He started the car and drove on. 8- When they reached home, he t called to Aunt Dulcy that there was 5 a guest for supper, and then ? brought the car to a standstill out 1 back. , “Come on,” he said to Helen. 'TU - yw the victory garden. Aunt

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Dulcy and Dick are doing the work, but. 1 help when too late getting home from . p lanL ” “You arc doing your duty, ' you?” said Helen. SS? "Trying to. But I’ve always gardening. When the war's I’m going to put all my land cultivation. I’ve got six acres, know." Dick was in the garden they got there. "Hello there, Philip said. ‘'Here's company." The boy looked up. He ran ward, gave his dad a hug and hel^B, out his hand to Helen. SB “Don’t I get a hug, too?" said. “Yes’m.” Dick said "I wonted hug you all along.” He took hands, led them between the rows. “We’ve got radishes, cucumbers, peas and—” J||| Aunt Dulcy called out from kitchen door. "Dick, yo’ heah and wash you’self. You like a hawg.” ® “In a minute, Aunt Dulcy," replied. “I’m showing Miss the garden.” He pointed ly planted patch of soil. “That’s beets mSk “Do you like beets that said Helen. “Oh, no’m, but they make out of beets,” said 1 'ick. “Mr. worth told me so. He's going have whole fields of ’em." Philip said: “Better get on now, son. Aunt Dulcv'H have ready in no time.” Then, when boy had gone, he turned to Helen™ "That man Wentworth’s not only thorn in my’ flesh, but ginning to get in my hair. “Goodness!” said Helen, brought that on?” Mg "My son’s even talking him now,” Philip said. "As if a® ing the woman I love do it warily sufficient unto the day! “Maybe Paul will make a farmer out of Dick yet,' HelensadM She smiled up at riulip. D® ‘ W a grouch about it - and comi • me where I can wash my' han'Js W fix my hair and face a lit k. W “Right thus way,” said Inn' M They crossed the back Jar went in through the kitchen. M "Ah’s shore glad M ster Th brung some company, Dulcy. “Hit gits aw nl ■ jes’ cookin’ for him an on "Maybe you’ll be sorr> ’, Helen, "when yon discover ■ W huge appetite I’ve got. ® . "Dere’s plenty so all . « Aunt Dulcy assured. Dis || hen’s jes’ pinin’ to be <’L qaid M , In the living room I” P "There’s a guest room at e w \of the stairs that plaiced his hands on ders, held her off a , "Oh, darling,” he added, ■ , husky with emotion, 1 Ij . were here—to stay. jffl an M Helen stepped close tc i b f M ' kissed him. “Thank you ■ [ feeling that way, she s-- ■ (To Be Conb — j