Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. * !■ !H. He11er..... ......President . R. Holt-house, Sec’y. & Bus. Mgr. ick D. Heller Vice-President I I Subscription Rates Single Copiee $ .04 One week by carrier .20 By Mall ' In Adams, Allen, Jay and Wells Counties, Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, $4.50 per year; $2.50 tor six months; $1.35 ffcr three months; 50 cent# for one month. Elsewhere: $5.50 per year; $3 00 tor six months; $1.65 for three months; 60 cente for one month. • Men and women in the armed Jirces $3.50 per year or SI.OO for free months. 'Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative SCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. Hurry and buy that extra bond before Saturday night. Help In diana’ go over. ' O—O Slip out to Nuttman Park this evening and watch the saddle horses “strut their stuff." It's Decatur's,, first horse show and is sponsored by the Lion's club. —o •Wlie side nt Truman had a great reception in his home state of Missouri witli a feature parade ten miles iong in Kansas City. It's hard work, but it goes with the job of being the chief. O—O Two and a half million additional tires will be rationed to holders of B and C cards during July, which ought to relieve considerable anxiety from many who really need them to keep going. — O—O »Aftl?r twelve stormy years, Ma i- - agje Perkins is out as secretary ot labor. She dressed in her best Tuesday and bade good-bye to the eighteen hundred employes of that department. O—O It, you have war stamps hidden Ot&y in dresser drawers or elsewhere, please dig them up. compfete the album and turn them in for bonds. It's better for you and will help meet the Seventh War Loan quota. O—O ■ Hundreds will enjoy the annual Farm Bureau picnic at Berne next Sttnday. A splendid program has been arranged, according to announcement by the officers and til-? pubijt—is cordially invited to att®qL ... o—o Adams county is far over her quota iu the Mighty Sevi nth War Loan Campaign and leads all counties in the fourth district. The total may exceed the goal by half a mtilion dollars by Saturday night as maqy loyal citizens are still investing iu the best securities in the world.' It’s a great showing for which every citizen of the county may well feel proud. ; - —o—o — • The judiciary committee of congress'toted ten to nine to recotnniend President Truman’s request! that tRe speaker of the house be made next in line to succeed the * president in case of his removal ■I PLEASE! B • After reading this paper ' please save H for your j Paper Salvage Drive. * | REMEMBER—* PAPER IS A #1 WAR* • MATERIAL SHORTAGE! < •ft-.- •

from any cause. Al present the big job would go to the secretary of stale who is an appointed official and not chosen by election. The close vote of the committee, however, indicates the battle may be an interesting one. O—O Clinton P. Anderson, who ,will soon assume the cabinet position of secretary of agriculture, will have some new and strenuous duties. He is to have full control of the nation's food supply at a time when that is the most important problem we have. Everyone hopes lie will be able to work out plans that will distribute food items in O—O a fair and equitable manner. Eating out in restaurants and hotels may become just a memory soon. Tile scarcity of food and tin reduction in ration points for these placer ot business has cam ed some serious situations. The next few weeks will probably be the toughest for those who take their meals out, that they have ever met. O—O How many can remember 25 years ago this month when housewives were buying sugar four pounds tor sl.oo—if they could get it? There were no government rationing, no price control and practically no sugar. That was 18 months after World War 1 had ended, when the inflation spiral climbed highest. The demand for sugar was great—at 25 cents per pound—-so stores limited customers to four pounds per purchase. O—O “We must set up an effective agency for constant and thorough interchange of thought and ideas. For there lies the road to a better and more tolerant understanding among nations and among peoples. Tile world has learned again that nations, like individuals, mu s t know the truth if they would be free — must read and hear the truth, learn and teach the truth." —From President Truman's Conference speech. O—o The army needs 800 chaplains and the navy 700. and calls have gone out urging ministers to volunteer. Soldiers returning from the battle fronts have nothing but praise for the “sky pilots" who have demonstrated courage and who have helped many during the dark days of active fighting. Those who thus serve are not only extending aid to tile boys in uniform now but are learning lessons that will be valuable in the future. They will know what the men went through, their problems, their hopes and desires, and will be better able to minister to them in the days to come. O—O In due time the people of this nation and the world will give much credit to Edward Stettinius, secretary of state, for his excellent work as chairman of the World Conference. Able, honest, fair and diplomatic, he kept in mind the importance of the meeting and the need to give every one of the fortyfive nations a square deal. If the charter is adopted over the world and it becomes in time ns much the fundamental rule of law everywhere as has the constitution of the ! United States, the name of Stattinius will be written in capital letters for centuries to come. And it may be said that the delegates likewise did a wonderful job of formulating, compromising and agreeing. To all of them we owe a deep debt of gratitude. O—O “Cigarettes cost 38 cents each in Germany, razor blades are $1 50 in Chungking. A pair of shorts is sl2 in Calcutta. In Java, a sarong can’t be purchased at any price, unless a hundredweight of cotton is also tendered. A cheap suit of clothes costs $l5B in Italy. In th? U.S.A., we have the OPA. which, so far as we can make out from

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the printed matter, is dictatorial, stupid, diabolical, inconvenient, meretricioits, long-winded, improper, unfair, unprofitable, irrelevant, legalistic, lopsided, ridiculous, bureaucratic, unconstitutional and bursting out at the seams. Be that as it may, you can get -f cigarette for a penny, a razor blade for a nickel, a pair of shorts for six bits, a suit of clothes for S3O. anil a sarong for Lamour, toujours La- ■ mour.” —St. Louis Post-Diepach. o —— ♦ — ♦ Twenty Years Aao j Today * June 29—John Coolidge, father of the president, is improved after a major operation, performed at a hospital in Plymouth. Va. Elgin King sells his confectionery store to Gerald Mylott and Herman Omlor. Funeral services will be held to-

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morrow afternoon at Willshire for Mrs. Merrill Dull. She was former- 1 ly Miss Mary Erwin of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shirk arc : visiting a; Blue Lake. Robert Krick returned to work today after a two months illness following an electric shock in which 2,300 volts passed through his body. 0 « _< I Modern Etiquette I | Sy ROBERTA LEE | * Q. When mailing kodak pictures to a friend what would 'be appropriate phrases to write on them? A. This would depend upon how close the friendship is. One may write. “To a good friend”. “Greet- | ings from a friend.” or “Greetings | from (place taken)”. | Q. Should a bachelor have the > address of his club on his cards, or i his home address? A. He ,-hould have only t>he address of his club. Q. Is it proper to cut meat with , a fork? A. Yes. if the meat is tender eni ough to do so.

I > « Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE * * Raisins The difficulty of removing the <ticky paper from raisius can be avoided by placing the package iu the oven for a tew minutes. The paper will peel off and the raisins will separate. Stain Removers Before attempting to use any slain remover, it is well to try it first on „some underneath portion of the garment to see if it affects » the color. Moths and Mice A spoonful of turpentine dropped ■ in the dresser drawers and trunks ■ is a good preventive against moths and mice. i — 0 — 40,000 IN DETROIT (Continued From Page One) i About 2110 Workers were idle at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation’s ■ Duquesne, Pa. plant, and 2.200 CIO United steelworkers were sent

home by a strike of 48 fellow workers at the New Kensington. Pa., plant of the Aluminum company of America. An early end to a lengthy glass blowern strike was promised yesterday when President Joseph Froesch of the Glass, Ceramic and silica sandworkers (CIO) told 17,000 employes of the Pittsburgh Plate Gias Co. and the Libby-Owen-Plate Glass Co. and the Libby-Owen work stoppage. In another dispute among glass workers, representatives of the AFL International association of machinists told the WLB tihat they would order 130 Anchor Hocking Glass Co. employes to return to work. At Akron, ().. federal seizure appeared the next step in a strike of 15,500 rubber workers against the

k '7- jiLuur x~ T«uS SES?.- v< :• ? Rflß' *K tI A Jr, I THESE EXHAUSTED, bearded troops of the 10th Army’s Company L, 383rd Infantry, 96th division asleep in their foxholes where they were following their winning fight for Big Apple hill on Okiriav In the fierce fighting that ensued following the Yanks’ landing on the Ryukyu island's beaches* 1, these doughboys and their buddies cost the Japs 101,853 dead sons of Nippon. BUND MAN’S SECRET! IklA ' bu RICHARD HOUGHTON " f J WRITTRN FOR AND RY CENTRAL CKRSS ASSOCIATION

READ THIS FIFOT: i 1 Everyone thought Agatha Brown was an old maid, but she had secretly been i ; married for 26 years to Prof. Otto HalI dor of Western college. She had left I him in World War I because she learned he was a traitor. Now, in World War 11. she discovers he again is going to sell one of his inventions to the enemy. Still loving him, and hoping to save him from himself, she steals Into his dormitory room at the college and begs him to be true to America. He strikes her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER FIVE THE STUDENT next door heard Agatha cry out as her husband struck her. A chair moved in the adjoining room and its former occupant took a couple of hesitant steps, then stopped. Agatha, trembling like a leaf, stood still, one wrist clamped in the cruel vise of Otto Halders’s left hand—his right hand still pressed hard against her mouth to stifle further outcry. On the floor the cigaret glowed where he had dropped it, and a wisp of smoke curled up from the charring carpet. She saw it as in a dream. She realized only that the man she loved hated her. "Be still!” he commanded. i In the back of her mind she recognized that the college youth next door must be in a quandary. He had heard a woman’s voice from the room of his professor, in the dead of night. He would not know that Otto Halder was married. The professor was thinking out loud. "You can’t leave by the window until he is out of his room. Get my closet!” He urged her to[ward the closet door. ( She protested, “If anyone is suspicious the closet will be the first place he will look.” [ "Do you sec any other place to hide?" he asked her fiercely. He •opened the closet with one hand and shoved her inside. She stifled a sob. Why did he have to treat her so roughly? If he only knew how she loved him! Already there was a knocking on the hall door. Someone, not as timid as the youth next door, was going to demand an explanation from professor Halder, The blackness of the closet engulfed her. She felt herself among j the folds of hanging garments. Her feet knocked over loose objects piled on the closet floor. By the sound of them they must be bottles. The professor had never been noted for the neatness with which he kept his scientific equipment. The latch on the hall door slid back and the door creaked open. Her husband asked, "What’s wrong, Ted?” 6 i “I heard a voice.” 1 "Why, so did I!” exclaimed Professor Halder in mock surprise. "Sounded like a woman’s voice too.” j. "Y-yes, sir. I—l thought—” "No woman would be coming up the stairs to this floor, especially at night; and yet it sounded very elose.” ‘That's what I thought.” "H’m.” Tlle Professor pondered the problem.'“We are right at the head of the stairs. She might have been calling from below.” He raised his voice, and Agatha imagined he must be leaning over the stair railing. “Hullo! Anyone there?” Only answer came from the young man, still skeptical. “She called your name.” "Not unlikely,” replied the processor. "I was downstairs in my

Goodyear l ire and Rubber Co. an l almost equal number of firestone j workers earlier this week granted • their officers authority to call a ' strike, if necessary, to back up contract demands. 11 wt In other Ohio disputes, 3,300 remained on strike at Toledo, Marion and Painesville. The labor situation otherwise continued virtually unchanged. The northern Indiana Brass company’s Elkhart plant, scene of several outbreaks of violence on picket lines, remained elosed. Some 800 members of the progressive mine workers union were out in Harrisburg, 111., and 5.000 'Hollywood craft union members continued a strike at 11 film studios. o Trade in a Goc-d Town — Decatur

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laboratory a few minutes ago. Perhaps it is one of my students with a question about tomorrow’s examination.” He called down again, “What is it you want?” Silence. "Strange she would use your first name,” said the young man. “Yes, odd, wasn’t it? Perhaps I had better go down and investigate.” His footsteps creaked on the stairs. A cold chill shook Agatha. He was walking off and leaving her — with the hall door open. He probably calculated that the boldness of his move would allay suspicion. Feet tiptoed cautiously in the hall, coming closer. Agatha, holding her breath, guessed that the young man must now be inside the doorway, searching the room with his eyes. The door of the next room opened. The first student was joined by the professor’s neighbor. They conferred in low voices. “I could have sworn that voice came from this room!” "So sould I.” “But he walked right off and left the place open." “There’s certainly no one here, unless she’s in that closet.” "Had we better look?” "If we’re wrong I’d hate to have him catch us here!” “I hope we are wrong. It would be bad if the professor were to get tangled in a scandal when he's just finishing his invention for Uncle Sam.” “You said it! But somehow ’I never have trusted him." Agatha heard one set of feet approaching. A hand twisted the knob of the closet door. She shrank back among the clothes as the door started to open. "Hist!” warned the young man’s companion from the hall doorway. “He’s coming back!” The door closed again quickly. Agatha swayed. She put out one hand in the darkless to steady her-

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