Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1945 — Page 3

S)AY AUG. 27,1945.

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UXIL,ARY JuMbinAY 'he BS erican L, ‘ gion Auxiliar J’ , ’.dK regular social meeting ds^B r '” ling al the Legion rhum aml bridge were prizes were awarded to I.augherty. Mrs. Fran•V,rs ’ Prank la’uiger, ■'MBild Tieman, Mrs. Elmer and Mr*. Adrian I’aksocial hour, delicious were served by the in <liar " e> - Mrs - Joe Mc ‘ Fred *'>’?, Mns. Lawr'e Mrs. Richard Garner i yr 4 Richard Schaffer. The «Rting will be a business Jffijpvith the installation of 'i» ®L. W. and Young Crusa„;,Br of the First Evangelical «MKill have a rummage sale September, 8. in the ,_jZßof the church. Buliers of World War 11 ■?bß Wednesday evening at Brly o’clock at the Moose .* ■ members are requested B p! ‘ nt ■s. ; ,*Blth and Naomi circle of and Reformed meet Thursday at the M iß'Mrs. C. W. Shoaf. Mem;aß asked to meet at the eleven o’clock, from u.Bare transportation will be •j-B CLASS MEETS bSFFTON park HKod Samaritan class of tile the Nazarene met last at the church, from trfSey went to the state park r Bffton. E^fcitiers toured the park and oft a ~rief business meeting, meeting of the class will Q«al the home of Mr. and L Bl' ll Deam the laat Friday attending last week’s g|i| included: the Rev. and £-Bt. Trueax, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald mOB I ’ Mr. and Mrs. Ralph igß l '. and Mrs. Leo Roe, Mr. Orville Sudduth and Sharon, Mr. and Mrs. Huifler, Mr. and Mrs. Je.-se Ed--1 B Mrs. Bradford. Ad Mrs. V. J. Bormann and dKr Kay ,)ave returned from outing at Lake James.

•||* B' ■ B B B B B IT’S PATRIOTIC TO * ■ KEEP HEALTHY ■ fi ■ i Do it with . Litamins; We carry a complete line of Squibbs, Lillys, 8 *** Parks Davis, . Upjohns, Abbotts, Groves, i Miles, Meads, Whites, and all other standard i brands. | S ’ • H Buy at I n I ICohne Drug Store | I i I . «» ■Moose Members n ■ > The Club Rooms will be CLOSED ;; from MONDAY MORNING, AUG. ;; 27, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. .. Moose Lodge No. 1311| 11 11 1 IHMlHmWttHHHH**********

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 100 G—lool Tuesday Kirkland home economics club, high school, 1:30 p.m. Rebekah Lodge, Odd Fellows Hall, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday St. Mary’s Home Economics, Mr*. Marshall Hilpert, 1:30 p. m. Mothers of World War 11, Moose home, 7:30 p.m. Thursday Women of the Moose, Moose home, 7:30 p.m. Ruth and Naomi circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Mr*. C. ty..Shoaf, 11 a.m. at church. Mr. and Mns. Hubert Cochran left Sunday for Lake George, where they will enjoy a vacation until Labor Day. Mr. and Mrs. Se- ' phus Jackson and daughters will join them Friday evening for the week-end. Mrs. Emma Fritzinger spent, the week-end in Fort Wayne visiting her father, Wilham Davison. Miss Margaret Moses has completed the summer school term at Franklin college and is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dale I). Moses of route 1. She will enter her senior year at, the college in September. Mrs. James Chilcote left Sunday for Los Angeles, Calif., for a visit with Miss Esther Jacobson, fiancee of Kenneth E. Chilcote, MOM 3-c, now stationed on Palau island. Friends here have learned that Mrs. Wesley England, who recently left here to make her home at New Port Richey, Fla., has suffered a heart attack and is critically ill at her home. Dick Townsend has accepted a position with the Glidden Company at Indianapolis and has already beguir his duties there. His family, including Mrs. Townsend an d daughter, Ruth and his mother, Mrs. Burt Townsend, will join him there as soon as a house is obtainable. Joy Stahl, 12, living west of Geneva, had both arms broken in a fall from a tree where he was playing. ' An automobile owned by Harold Field* of Geneva and driven by Robert Hanni was almost completely wrecked when a rear tire blew out while rounding a highway curve near Roll. None of the occupants was seriously injured.

O o Adams County I Memorial Hospital o o Admitted: Came Stettler, Rockford, route 1; Harold Stettler, Rockford, route 1; Wilbur Selking, route 2; Charles Springer, route 6; Harry Kirshner, route 4; Oswin F. Gilliom, Berne; Alex Tanvas, 115 East Rugg street; Mrs. Robert Devore, 422 South Thirteenth st. Admitted and dismissed: .Robert Shoupe, Willshire, O.; Everett Hutker, 733 Cleveland street; Miss Jaquoline Gaee, 722 Walnut street; Janies Bouman, route 1; Robert Heller, Homestead 25; Walter Knipstein, Fort Wayne; Ronnie Louis Gephart, route 5; Ernest. Fisher, route 3; Merlin Ross, Jr., 727 Dierkes street; Mrs. Charles Schnepp, route 4: Mrs. Andrew Cooper, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Ada Howe; route 1; Horace E. Butler, 304 North Fifth street. Dismissed: Mrs. Robert High and baby boy, 935 Harrison street; , Mrs. Ira Huber, Willshire, O.; Albert Scllc.mc.yer, 329 North Fourth street; Roy Ne u e nschwander, Berne; Mrs. Thurman Thatcher, Ohio City, 0., route 1; Mrs. Weldon Lehman and baby girl, Berne; , Mrs. Valenteni Laker and baby girl, Monroeville route 2; William Grant, 928 Schirmeyer street; Mrs. Victor Kahle and baby girls, route 3; Walter Amstutz, Berne; Orland Miller, route 5; James Bouman, rt. 1; Mis* Lois Houk, Hoagland. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boch, 423 North Fifth street, are the parents of a baby Jmy, born Sunday at 8:18 a.m. at the Adams county memorial hospital. He has not been named. Mr. Boch is in the United States army. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Arnold of route 2 Sunday at 5:15 a.m. at the Adams county memorial hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and ha* not been named. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Braden, 303 West "Monroe st.., are the parents of a baby daughter, born at 7:22 am. Sunday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She- weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces and has been named Carol Sue. A baby girl was born Saturday at 6:05 p.m. at the Adams county memorial hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cook,’Fifth and Madison streets. She weighed 6 pound;, 11% ounces and has been name# Judith Louise. At 5:25 p.m. Saturday, at the Adams county hospital, a baby boy was born, to Mr. and Mrs. Crist Bohnke of route 1. He weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounce*. Mr. and Mrs. Counterman, Hoagland, are the parents of-a son, born Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Adams county memorial hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and has not been named. Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Shoe, 401 North Third street, are the parents of a baby girl, born at. 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the Adams county memorial hospital. He weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounce*. ■ i—...... i , Smart Jumper 9254 Wfcfiw ' S,ZES t4-2o lOrnT 14 i/J /jia’L f.ffci A wHU Marian Martin The jumper that will be the mainstay of your Fall wardrobe . . . Pattern 9254. Smart collar, skirt ease, part-way front opening are new details. High or low neck on blouse. Pattern 9254: 14, 16, 18, 20; 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42. Size 16 jumper, 1% yards 54-inch.; blouse, 1% yards 35-inch., Send TWENTY CENTS In coins for this pattern to Decatur Daily Democrat, Pattern Dept., 155 N. Jefferson St., Chicago 80, 111. Print plainly "SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. JUST OUTI The Marian Martin Summer Pattern Book, a collection of all that’s new and smart in wearing apparel for the family. FREE Nightgown Pattern printed in book. Send Fifteen Cents for jour copy.

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■JUS— ii Iwml Charles William Mowery, F 2-c, is spending a nine-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlee Mowery, 225 Nor’h Eighth street, after completing his boot training at Great Lakes, 111. Bernard F. “Mungo” Meyers, M. M. 3-c. writee from Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif., where he recently reported several years sea duty, that he expects to be discharged from the navy soon with a total of 4-6 V& points. Wave Discharged Martha Macy, yeoman 2-c, has been given a medical discharge from the Waves and i* now with her mother,«airs. John W. Shirk at Jacksonville, Fla. She enlisted at Chicago in March, 1943, received her training ar Hunter’s College. N. Y. and at an Oklahoma military camp. Assigned to Washington, D. C., she served until last March when she became ill with a heart ailment. After a month at Bethesda hospital she was sent to a rest sanitorium at Jacksonville, Fla. She has improved considerably but

ill I I I ■ 1.. I! ■■■■ ■ Memo: To Ourselves Never before in the world's history has a war dustry and labor, with the full cooperation of been decided so far behind the line of battle. our government, must begin at once to apply Notwithstanding the smashing blows struck them to the problems of peace and reconstrucby the Army and the Navy as they fought their tion. I believe we are ready to do that today, way up from Pearl Harbor to a climax in the For whatever influence it may have in the Pacific, it is a fact that Japan has not been de- shaping of our world economy, the General molished by military might as Germany was. Electric Company has been preparing to pursue Fortunately for the lives and future happiness this course for a long time. We are ready wdth of millions of Americans, she surrendered to force plans that will multiply our services to consumers in being, and not to force expended, to the supe- without increasing the price of those services, rior scientific and productive power of the United We hope to lower them in time. States and her allies. We have planned to cut manufacturing costs It is fair to say that military and naval power with new methods in order that we may maintain drove this enemy to defeat down a road built by the possible employment and provide our research, by productive efficiency, by the hard workers with the means of obtaining the highest work of countless men and women who never possible income measured by their cooperative heard a shot fired. To all of these Americans we efforts. are most grateful. We are prepared to invest more than ever beT xl _ x- i c xu l fore in our history in research so that it will insure In the national sorrow for those who gave , , . ~ . xu • x- c • x xv for tomorrow more jobs, better working conditheir lives, in the jubilation of victory, the sig- , - , , nificance of this truly unique achievement must tions, and more goods for more people at less cost, not escape us, because it is the one advance in We 1138 a ngh ‘ to these human thinking to emerge from the holocaust. benefits of ca P ,tahst enter P nae from busmess. If we have learned the lesson of this tremendous power of ours, and will begin to apply it imme- • diately, we may never again have to go to war. , * * Scientific progress and productive efficiency are the most wonderful weapons of all time President V because they do not have to be laid aside when general electric company the fighting ends. They must not be laid aside. In- 570 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. GENERAL ® ELECTRIC t R—

will require further rest Pfc. Dean M. Reber, husband of Mr*. Mildred Reher, 309 North Eighth fltreet, is now stationed at Wakeman hospital center at Camp Atterbury, Pfc. Reber served in France with the 442nd troop carrier group. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kitson of route 6 received a telegram from their eon, S-Sgt. Lloyd Kitson, staling that he has arrived safely in this country and expects a furlough home soon. S-Sgt. Kitson entered the army in February, 1943, and has been overseas 26 months, where he participated in the battle* of Africa and Italy. 'Song Os Bernadette' Author Dies Sunday Hollywood, Aug. 27 — (UP) — Franz Werfel, 54, author of “The Song of Bernadette,” died of a heart ailment at hi* home last ni£ht. Werfel, one ot tne nrst to write against the Nazis, fled from Austria to Paris, then wandered through France, finding temporary sanctuary in Lourdes where he received his inspiration for the story of Bernadette Soubirous. Montgomery Ward Co. President Resigns •Chicago, Aug. 27 —<(UP)— Mont-, gomery Ward and Co. was temporarily without a president today following the resignation of Clement

D. Ryan. Ryan announced that, he and f Spiegel, Inc., hull bought the Whiti noy department store, Sun Diego, I Calif. He eaid he would become > the active manager of t'he store, t succeeding Guilford H. Whitney. Fort Wayne Woman i Critically Wounded I Fort Wayne, Aug. 27 —(UP) —A i victim of an attempted murder ■ yesterday, Mrs. Gladys White, 27, • crippled mother of two children, , remained in a critical condition , this morning with a bullet lodged near her heart. Her assailant, Willie Reddick, 23, committed suicide a few moments after firing one shot into her chest in the kitchen of her home. Fly Spray An odorless and non-irritating fly spray has been perfected by chemists of the United States department of agriculture. It is the result of a new method of purifying pyrethrum. It promises to be an effective postwar weapon against flies in homes, airplanes, restaurants, and pests, such as cockroaches, bedbugs. ants, mosquitoes, spiders, silverfish, dog ticks and dog fleas. Members of the armed forces are using it all over the globe at the present time against disease-carry-ing insects. oFlying Fish According to Encyclopaedia Britannlca, flying fish probably move ■ through the air to escape capture ■ by other flsh, sometimes sailing over the water as far as 200 yards.

March Os Dimes Is Far Oversubscribed Infantile Paralysis Rate Is 'lmproved' Indianapolis, Aug. 27 — (UP) — Hoosiers contributed 1310,588.07 to the 1945 March of Dimes to help comhiit infantile paralysis, Indiana chairman Don Stivers announced today. Stiver added that the nation topped the 1945 goal by more than 50 percent with contributions of $16,589,874. One half of the funds raised is allocated to national headquarters to finance research into the cure and prevention of the; crippling dieease and to maintain an emergency fund. The other half is used by county chapters of the National foundation to carry on year-round services to poliomyelitis victims. In spite of the terrible epidemic at Rockford, HL, and outbreaks of the disease elsewhere (hi* year, national president Basil O’Connor announced today that, there is a “marked improvement” in the infantile paralysis rate. Some 3.558 eases have been reported this year as compared to 5,008 for the *ame period last year, O’Connor said. — 0 .. ... - It Is dangerous to etand still. No lie ever left the liar unharmed.

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Poultry State Gross income from broilers in Delaware was 37 million dollars in 1942 and constituted nearly 80 per cent of the total agricultural income of tnc state. In 1943 this amount increased to over 50 million dollars or about two-thirds of the total agricultural income. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur T ' V mF' r “ ' ~ l ROBERT WALKER, young actor recently divorced by Academy Award Winner Jennifer Jones, is the subject of a police search in Hollywood. His studio, M-G-M, requested the search after the actor failed to report for work Monday. He left his home early Sunday morning and has not been Veen since. (Intert> v, ioaal)