Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR daily DEMOCRAT PphHuhitd Every Evening beam Suad*y W THB DECATUR DBMOORAT CO. incorporated Entered at the Dewtur. llul > Po9t Office M Second Claw Metter. J. H. Heller. — — *re»tdent Jl R HoUhouse, Bac’y. * Bu> - DicM D. Heller Vice-President ’ Subscription Rates Blng»e Copies. 1 One'veek by carrier- — •*" J By Mall jtdams. Alien, Jay and Welle counties, Indiana, and Mercer and Va.nl Wert coantlee, Ohio, 14. M par yeait P. 50 far elx months; 81-36 for three months; W cent* for one month. Elsewhere: ,6.50 par year; 13 00 for six months; H«5 for three months; W cents for oae month. Men and women la the armed forces 13.50 per year or lI.W for threcTponths. Advertising Rates Made Known •n Application. Rational Representative SCHEERBR A GO. IS Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. Plan for the postwar period. Il will be here one of these days and while we can’t work too fast we should lose no time in starting our program. —o President Truman is home from the world conference and everybody is grateful for his safe voyage for the important things agreed upon by the Big Three. —o Doß’t quit a minute on helping the government win the war. We are Sharing the end, but it may requlrAmonths and any let-up means a further delay. Buy bonds, all you chn, hold on to w’hat you have and Continue your job. « ——O—O— Head the notices of tax levies now being published by townships, cities, towns, the county, school j boards and libraries. They are made public so you will know just what is being planned. And they contain important information for P i every, taxpayer. ?■’ i The atomic bomb may be all right jf proper control is held over its manufacture. Hope some pirate doesn't get hold of it and go to roaming the world, dropping the eggs on cities like New York, Chicago or Decatur. According to reports, it sure wipes out about everything. —o President Truman has reported to tl>e people, speaking in clear and understandable language of the problems now confronting the ■world. He Is making an honest and capable effort to help the people 1 of America and with your support will go far along that line. We can win the war quickly and enjoy a wonderful postwar period. —o The world is stunned by the possibilities that tl»e powerful new atomic bomb may revolutionize the entire civilized globe. For many decades scientists have worked on the problem of dividing the atoms that is the force nature provides to create power. When the war is over and this great new discovery has been perfected and applied to human needs, you will marvel at what it will do. The new atomic bomb plus the entrance of Russia into the war against Japan will number the days when the land of the rising sun can continue to battle the rest of the world. This nation was making wonderful progress and would have won the war without aid, but if these things shorten it by even a few days, it will save the lives of many and bring nearer the glad day when it can be announced that the universe ie at peace. —o Soviet Russia has continued her allegiance to the allied nations that helped them win over Germany by declaring war against Japan. No teubt thia was the plan at the ear-

ly meetings of the Big Three and plans were made looking toward® this day. It will mean an early suspension of fighting that has progressed with fury six years and it ’ should mean the opening of an era t on enduring peace. The Soviet will advance against Manchuria and American and British airmen 1 will join them in an attack from i the Siberian fronts. Unless the Nips throw in the sponge the next thirty days should bring some vic- * torite that will undeniably tend towards an early domination of i Japan. I o—o Never Say Die It is surprising how often nowadays people regarded as dead turn out to be alive, after all. In spite of appearances there may be a spark of life remaining which, with wise and patient handling, may be restored to normal flame. An interesting case came to light the other day in Cleveland when a young man 20 years old, paid a belated call on a police man to thank him for such a service. He had been a baby apparently “born dead,” and was pronounced so by the physician. The father, however, was not convinced, and instated on calling the police to see what they could do. So in came a sturdy sergeant named Patrick McCarthy, with a rescue squad and a resuscitator, and they set to work. Nothing happened i for half an hour, and then that baby | started kicking, and soon everything was all right. Needless to say, it was a grand ' reunion when the officiating police- ' 4 man met the baby he had saved so • long ago. There may be encouragement in that story to save the , life of many another person, when , it looks impossible. i it looks impossible.—Van Wert I Times-Bulletin. —o i A Great Civilizer: Civilization as we know it in the United States is built on bituminous coal. Too many people take this statement as a slogan for an industry rather than as a statement I of fact. But the seriousness of the coal shortage in European countries, which is undetrminlug economic stability, is proving its truth beyond all question. The industries of France and other nations are paralyzed because of lack of fuel to turn their wheels. The discontent of the people threatens peace itself. To gain an idea of what a short- : •age of coal means in Europe, aside J from the inability of industries to , operate and employ labor, it is j only necessary to look at a few of the necessities we use in this country which depend on coal. For instance, on the farm, there are the bug destroying inseejisides, fertilizers, medicines to fight livestock diseases, creosote for fence posts, telephone poles and buildings. and coal for locomotives to move the farmers’ crops. In the home, coal plays a major part aside from heating. We depend on it tor plastics, jewelery, aspirin, medicines (including sulfa drugs), good flavoring® and colorings, textile dyes, baking powder, chemicals to wash woolens without shrinking, perfume, suntan lotions and hundreds of other things. Yes, indeed, civilization is built on bituminous coal, and countries without coal, as are 'European countries today, are in a helpless position.—Huntington Herald Press —o— Hoosier Truck, Driver Is Hit And Run Victim Lincoln, 111., Aug. 10 — (UP) — W'nliam C. Weber, 34, Vincennee, Ind., truck driver, died today in St. Clara’s hospital* victim of a hit and run motorist. Weber was found lying in a semiconscious condition on highway 121 at 4 a. m. yesterday. His chest was crushed and he had severe cuts on the head and body. Sheriff Raymond Downs eaid that Weber bad stopped to make repairs on his truck when he was hit by a passing motorist.

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• ♦ I Modern Etiquette f 9y ROBERTA LEE 0 ♦ Q. If one p'hones a business acquaintance and he is not in his office, would it be proper to leave a message to have him call you when he returns? A. That would depend upon whether you are doing him a favor, or the reverse. If you wish to sell something to him °r as k a favor, it is in your place to call again. Q. Should both a fork and a spoon be furnished with a dessert? A. Yes, with certain desserts, though a dessert should be eaten with a fork when possible. Q. Should one reply to a letter that announces an engagement. A. Yes, and with sincere expressions of interest and beet wishes. 0 I Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA Lltf | « —♦ Cleaning Baseboards When cleaning the baseboards

TOWNSHIP FORM NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES In the Matter of Determining the Tax Rates for Certain Purposes by Blue Creek Township, Adams County, Indiana. Before the Township Advisory Board. Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Blue Creek Township, Adams County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality, at their regular meeting place, on the 28th day of August. 1945. will consider the following budget: TOWNSHIP BUDGET CLASSIFICATION TOWN-SHIP FUND Sick Leave for Teachers — 160 Repair Bodies 125 Salary of Trustee to* School Transfers 3000 Janitor Service 300 Office Rent« Total Tuition Fund MOW Transportation of Children 3200 Clerk Hire - - 75 Light and Power ; 125 Per Diem 304 Equal 26 cts. per 76 SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND Ditch, Expense, (Benefits to Trustee’s Traveling Expense 150 Repa[r o{ Bu|ldjnge and of School Property Only) 25 Legal Service J 10 GIoUB(Js , 300 Miscellaneous — 300 Trustees Bond — 60 . Total Special School Fund S7OOO Office Supplies. Printing .nd Advls9 «•>«"■ 0 Equipment, except Pay of Advisory Board 75 School Bus6e ’ 500 POOR RELIEF FUND Fire Truck * 10» Schoo ’ Furniture BT ’ d Adn , lnislra tion Expense: Care of Cemeteries 250 A1 p eraonal Service __g w Examination of Records — 50 School Supplies, other than JanMiecellaneous 300 (tors’ Supplies 150 B - Direct Relief: Total Township Fund —»IM» Janitor Supplies 1 150 Bl- Hospital and Burial 400 r,,-, for Crhools 475 B - Other Direct Relief 240 TUITION FUND Fue! £or = cnoo!s * l3 Pay of Teachers - 95600 Loans, Interest and Insurance 12001 Total Poor Relief Fund 2700 ESTIMATE OP FUNDS TO BE RAISED • FUNDS REQUIRED FOR EXPENSES AUGUST 1. PRESENT Township Specie! . Tuition Poor Relief YEAR TO DECEMBER 31. OF ENSUING YEAR Fund School Fond Fuel Fund 1. Total Budget EeUmate for Incoming Year »'“ ' »’«« » 2. Necessary Expendiiui« te ba made from Appropriations Unexpended Juiy 31. of present year — 3. Additional Appropriations to be made August 1. to December 31, of present year “ 5. Total Funds Required (Add Lines 1,2, 3, and 4) — 2a6 ° 1I8 “ J IIMJ FUNDS ON HAND AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED RATE OF TAX LEVY 6. Actual Balance, July 31, present year 1209 26 ™ «!'» 7. Taxes to be Collected, present year (December Settlement)— 733 44a2 1522 I. Miscellaneous Revenue, other than from Tax Levy, to be received from August 1 of present year to December 31, of . ensuing year. (See Schedule in Trustee’s Office) (a) Special Taxes (See Schedules) 9. Total Funds (Add Lincs 6,7, 8a and 8b) —- 10. Net Amount to be raised for expenses to December 31, of 618 4711 1853 ensuing yew .— — 11. Operating Balance (Not In excess of Expense January 1, to June 30. Le« Miscellaneous Revenue for same Period) 800 320# 3000 13. Amount to be rained by Tax Levy —— ’«» 7911 4853 700 PROPOSED LEVIES Net Valuation of Taxable Property »11<®134 Number of Taxable Polls 103 Levy on Amount to DriMnc Property be raised !, DNDb 30.12 Township • Special School -- ' Tuition — — —- TOT AL , - —7 —r-~~ —• * COMPAftATIVK STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED FUNDS To Be Collected Collected Collected Collected 1943 1944 1945 1946 Township ./. ■ Special School -J 2.1 ------ «« ><*“ toll Tuition - 3919 4257 2855 «« TOTAI — — 9783 17541 15911 14197 Taxpayers appearing shall have a rigM to be heard thereon. After the tax levies have been determined, and presented to the County Auditor not later than two days prior to the second Monday in September, and the levy fixed by the County Tax Adjustment Board, or en their failure so to do, by tbe County Auditor, ten or mote taxpayers feeling themselves aggrieved by such levies, may appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for further and final hearing thereon, by filing a petition wtUs the County Auditor net tatoi than October 15, and the State Roard will fix a dot* tor heorlng in tjus County. Dated August 3, 1945. w. H. Patterson, Blue Creek Township Trustee. - ; Z _ «. »

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of the room, protect the wall paper from the wet cloth by taking a flat piece of tin or zinc, about two feet long and tlhree inches wide, and moving it along the wall against the board as the cleaning progresses. Overalls Overalls are more eaaily washed if they are stretched out flat on the board and scrubbed with a scrubbing brush. They will get less soiled and the dirt will come out more readily if they are starched. Preserving the Eyes One should never read with the light shining into the eyes, or the eunshine falling across the print. o ♦ — ♦ I Twenty Years Aao I Today < ——♦ Aug. 10—Mrs. A. R. Bell, 74. of this city, dies at the Bell summer home at Oden, Mich. Ralph Tyndall, history teacher in the Decatur high school, who has been attending school at Columbia University in New York

City, is suffering from an acute attack of appendicitis. He was operated on in a New York hospital today. Joseph Johnson, 75, dies at his home in Monroe. Adams Post, American Legion, will open new headquarters in rooms over the Voglewede shoe store. W. A. Fonner and daughter motor to Evansville to visit Heber Fooner. Kenneth Shafer returns to Chicago, where he is a student in McCormick Seminary. Rabbits Get More Shells During normal years, more shotgun shells are fired at rabbits than at any other species of North American game. The rabbit also furnishes more meat for the sportsman than any other single species. In Missouri alone, the cottontail harvest in a normal year totals about 6 million, yielding approximately 10 million pounds of dressed meat. Total for the nation is close to 69 million pounds. —: 0 Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

Spider Prediction Os End Os War Is Near Realization Columbus, Ind.. Aug. 10-(UP) —ls Japan surrenders today, Om er Cohee’s spider will have missed a prediction of the end of the Pacific war by one day, the same margin of error made by anothet little Arachnid in forcecasting the European war’s termination. Cohee studied spider webs iu 1942 to predict the end of the war with Germany would occur May 9, 1945. The surrender documents ’ were signed at Reims on May 8, this year. A month later, Cohee completed another study of spider spinnings and came up with the forecast that the war with Japan would end in 60 to 90 days. That was on June 8. The 60 days were up yesterday. A Decatur county spider the first prediction, when Cohee lived at Greensburg. The second prediction was made by a spider in Bartholomew county, where Cohee now resides. Potsdam Text By United Press The Allied terms to Japan as laid down in the Potsdam declaiation of July 26 comprised the j following major points: ; 1. Elimination for all time of the authority and influence of those "who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on a world conquest.” 2. Allied occupation of points in Japanese territory, to be designed by the Allies, “to secure the achievement of the basic objectives we are here setting forth. 3. Limitation of Japanese sovereignty to the four main homeland islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikokou, and "such minor islands as we determine.” 4. Complete disarming of the Japanese military forces. 5. Removal of all obstacles of the “revival and strengthening of democratic tendencies among the Japanese people.” 6. Withdrawal of Allied occupation forces as soon as objectives have been accomplished and peacefully inclined and responsible Japanese goveriftnent has been established. ALL NAGASAKI (Continued From Page Ona) such inhuman weapons.” 'Japanese propaganda cries against the inhumanity and lawlessof the atomic bomb attack left the American unmoved, however. Spaatz said American planes were dropping 3,006,000 leaflets a day on

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CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN ; AGATHA FEARED she was going to faint. President Hill was trying to open the door of the closet 1 In which she and Clemantine and ; the blind boy were concealed. Willard spoke suddenly in a loud, disguised voice. “Stop! Stop where you are, or I’ll—l’ll shoot!” They heard President Hill gasp, “What—who?" “That’s for you to guess. Turn around!" Willard directed him. “Walk out into the hall and snap off the light as you go. Don’t look back!" The president’s feet shuffled, then hesitantly retreated. Willard opened the door a crack. Clemantine peered out She whispered in the blind boy's ear. "It’s all right! He’s not looking back." The lights went off. Willard heard the click and pushed the closet door wide. They crowded out. Agatha drew a deep breath. Her heart was pounding, but the faintness had left her. The college president could be •een indistinctly in the hall, but they were invisible to him because of the deeper darkness of the office. "This is an outrage!" he exclaimed. "What have I that you want to steal? If it is that radio tube—l tell you it is worthless." Willard, still using his disguised voice, ordered, “Get going down that hall, Dr. Hill! Hurry!” Agatha heard a distinct knocking from the direction of the main entrance. That would be the police! "The window!” whispered Willard. “It’s the only escape. I’ll stand here at the door and bluff them back until you get out.* Up went the window curtain a Ith a whir of the roller. Agatha needed no urging. With the help of Clemantine, she lifted the old-fash-ioned sash. It squealed loudly. Outside a lone street light shone through the maple trees to east dim illumination on the lawn. “You first,” directed Clemantine. "Sit on the window sill and swing your feet over and jump. It isn’t far. For goodness sake, be quick! I hear President Hill unlocking the outside doors!" Agatha wasn’t wasting any time. She leaped to the lawn. A moment later Clemantine followed her. Agatha looked back into tha room. The window sill was ealy about four feet above the grcuu.

japan telling her that she will be atom-bombed "again and again until she surrenders. The leaflets called on the Japanese people to “petition the emperor to end the war. “You should take steps now to cease military resistance,” the leaflet® said. "Otherwise, we shall resolutely employ this bomb and all of our other superior weapons promptly and forcefully to end the war.” On Okinawa, two army Mustang pilots toH 'how they watched the blast of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki from the area of Yaku island, almost 250 miles to the southeast. —_— .—o OFFER IS NOT (Continue From Page One) over Hiroshima on Aug. 5. 2. Soviet Russia’s declaration of war against Japan on Aug. 8. 3. The dropping of the second atomic bomb, on Nagasaki, on Aug. 8. 4. The opening of a gigantic Soviet offensive against Manchuria and Korea on Aug. 9.

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“Willard!" she called, “Hurry! We’re out." ! Heavy feet of policemen sounded i coming down the hall. But, instead < of joining the women in flight, the blind boy shouted to the approach- i ing men, “Stop, I warn you!" There i was a sharp explosion, as though from a gun. ’ "Oh!" gasped Clemantine, “He’s < armed!" "But—but I didn’t see him carry- 1 ing a gun," protested Agatha, still i staring in fascination into the 1 darkness of the office. Clemantine grasped her by the arm. “We’d better get out of here before he shoots someone.” “We can’t leave him!” Agatha i protested. "He’s trying to save us." i "He’s not helpless—not with a gun In his hand! And when a blind man starts shooting, I don’t want to be around!" Agatha still hesitated, but Clemantine was insistent. “Come! It's what he wants us to do.” One of the policemen in the hall beyond the office called to Willard, “All right, if you won’t come peacefully we’ll try a little tear gas on you. Let him have it, boys!” The two women ran southward, keeping close to the building and ducking from shrub to shrub. The open lawn looked too dangerous. As they reached the southwest corner of the building a police car unexpectedly slid up to the curb within a hundred feet of them. Two police officers jumped out The fugitives shrank into the shadow of a low-growing tree. The officers, guns tn hand, ran forward—and past Agatha breathed again. “This way!" urged Clemantine. “There a dark shadow behind the observatory.” The gravel of the walk rattled under their feet alarmingly, compared with the quiet of the grass they had just crossed. But Agatha was thinking more of the blind boy than of the danger of their being heard and caught He would be expelled from college—all his brave career in ruins. They halted in the deep gloom next to the observatory and took time to look ahead. “There’s a street light right in front of my house!” moaned Cle- '■ mantine. “We’ll have to pass under it” i "That poor boy!” said Agatha. ’ "We’ve get to do something for . him. • _ ■ ~. ...

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The broadcast suZ> came three y earßi J and three days after h. ® Ot| 1941, Japanese attack 11,1 Harbor, that “day 0 “J" h For her act of tre ach Harbor Japan has culable price, Abe, at| » lost much of tit which burgeoned un(k blows winch caught he ? powers unprepared, She has paid ln ( . hundreds of , hous e citizens, civilians as 01 diers. Well «s She has lost her ua v, „ her merchant fl eet a J ®* her cities. And- tln d ei the Cairo declaration - ‘°7 the ' a “" s islanA before this war i n when the rest of the w ? tolerant of aggression. ' She will lose Manchu ria U North China. Sakhalin island which held since the and all the Pacific islands she secretly converted i n J for conquest after World

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“There’s nothing we esn*. ® girl sobbed. “He’s sacrificing S» self for us. If we went couldn’t help him.” Agatha shivered, bu< sheh admit the logic of ClenianW ar Three nt students came along the sidewalk that p within 20 feet of the observM In another moment the observatory would offer Wr tection, because the oxo wlibrary tonight?” asked one--IX7 girl. "Isn’t that a poW* standing in fr ° nt7 ’’ con "It is!” exclaimed a swJ, “I simply coul^’ t v S there!Mj* It’s horrible to th;nk a murderer on the can P - you reminded us ot downtown, Charles. “Nuts!” said Charles. N derer would hang around long.” _ , n think * “The police seem to might. Agatha an arm. "Come on! They” ■“tS — -ir the gravel path “Hello, Clemantine. Are r your aunt going to Agatha explained » was just showing m Quite different since I hope it’s a ?°° < In£on 1 n £ on “Thank you.” The unsuspecting. For a moment *er * policeman in sigh ? Clemantine resisted a des the as they turned in througn to the rooming houseThey shut the front them—stood lookmg * trying to regain tn® l ’ Then, of one accord, t the stairs. Inside hr mantine turned and 1 * » to the hall. She sat do bed, tremblingAgatha tiptoed rO window and edge ot the coming out of tne was with them. d toW% "Oh-h!” Tears rushea and she flung herself ‘ btll ng <* bed. She heard a looked up. Clemantin Be Oontto 0 * 4 ’ >