Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Dvery Krening ffincepl Bunday By THK MOCATI H DEMOCRAT CO incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind , Poet Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Holier ~ Freeldent A. R Hoifoouse, Sec y. A Bus. Mgr. Diok D. HeUer ........ Vice-President Subscription Rates Single Copies — - - -I .04 One week by carrier -so • By Mall hi Adams, Alloa. Jay sod Wells aunties. Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert counties, Ohio, 34*0 per year; 33.50 (or six months; ||:3l for three months; *0 cents (or uoe month. Elsewhere; fi.SO per year; 33. vu tor six months; 31 45 for three months; 40 coats tar one mouth. Men and women in the armed forces 33 50 per year oi 3100 tor three months. Advertising Rotes Made Known on Application, National Representative BCHBBRBR A CO. II Lexington Avenue, New Verb, N B. Washoe Drive, Chicago, 111. Call 1,000 and give us your news Items. We will appreciate It and so will the public. O—o Its easier to shop now than It will be In a week or two so get your Christmas list ready and call at the Decatur stores. The clerks will gladly help you find just what you want. O— Huy a bond now and if possible I buy another one or two from Dee* ember sth to 7th when a special drive to put the campaign over will be made through the cooperation of retail stores. -0 The average boy and girl likes vacation from school but several to whom we have talked who have been out of classrooms with the flu epidemic now so prevalent say they prefer school to the aliment. -O We hope the committee which is sponsoring improvement of the state road from here north and other highways in Adams county will continue their efforts. We need safer highways. —o The army has released several million pounds of soap and has quit buying that product, so look for the grocery shelves to soon lie completely restocked along that line. u—O No one expected reconversion would be easy but th- stoppage of work and the housing situation are probably worse than anticipated. Wo can work out of It during the next year but It will require cooperation. o—o Russia has a "youth v rum” that is guaranteed to give those past middle age th- Ir "second wind" and new hair and good health, asoaring life to continue U> 100 years. Maybe we could trade them the atomic bomb for It. —» a i — December and January will be two of the most difficult months tor travel ever known In this country. according to authorities. Several million soldiers will be transparted during that time and will have first chance on all train seats aad births, so plan accordingly o—o December 10th is tbe deadline far mailing Christmas packages to service men and women and others in this country to assure deliveries. Os course the postal workers will do their best but they are humans #w<l can only do what they can. Please help them by getting your parkeffrs in as early ae possible G—O Remember the Yank who gave asd is now a patient in a hospital |e this or some foreign land. The Ladtes Auxiliary of the American Legion are trying to remember every one of thegi. Send a gift or •erne oath to ths Decatur Legion

AuxUllary. Do II at once for the time Is short. — o e Tire rationing may end soon after . New Years day It la now anuouncl ed. The manufacturers are gaining on their aupply and the work stopt pages baa tended to increase the • surplus. It won't be luug now, we are told, until tires will be avallablv and that difficulty inay not 1 reoccur for a long time. If ever. O—o 1 The present Indiana liquor laws J have some peculiar slants. For in--5 stance a lad iu uniform wen if • only eighteen or nineteen can pat ronixe the bars but when he takes b ' off bis uniform he is not permitted on the premises That may not be J the letter of the law but it is the policy being used by those in conI trol and it adds to the difficulties of the politicians. O—O Why do other countries want the , atomic bomb secret right now? What do they propose to do with 1 it? Those are questions that no I doubt come to the minds of the authorities In Washington these days and they seem quite import- . ant. If the secret is to be used to ' help mankind thats one thing but II if It Is to be used to destroy civilization, thats quite another. O—O Patrick Hurley resigned his job as ambassador to China and was | immediately replaced by General Georg-- C. Marshall who will act I as special envoy. Conditions in the far east are in a muddled state but this nation has faith In the general and believe he will be able to clear up many of the misunderstandings. The statement given out by Mr. Hurley sounds political in their charges, which is what the world doesn't need right new. O ■<>"■" —“ The bousing problem will not be over for a while. Hundreds of i returning veterans want homes of • their own and deserve them It will 1 require a lot of building ( and con- ■ verting to take care of the siti uation. And too the indications are that industry will start ape-d---ing up one of these days, adding to their forces and these people j must also have places to live. Any thing you can do to help provide them will be appreciated. o—o C. J. Root of Terre Hallie who died recently left an estate of eleven million dollars, conservatively estimated, to a grandson. Chapman Root, but placed it in trust and the lad, who is twenty years old, home from the army In Europe on an em- rgency leave, cannot get It until he is forty years old. Mr. Root gave a number of bequests to organizations including $200,000 to hospital in Terre Haute, 320,000 to the Boy Scouts and 320.000 to the ' Boys club of Terre Haute. Well you can't take It with you. i ——O— O Fred Vinson, secretary of the U S treasury has faith in the future of America. He believes the Victory Loan campaign should be and will be Huccessnii. in his recant speech at Indianapolis, Mr. Vinson said the national debt is about 1333.000.000.000, requiring Avq billion dollars annually to meet interest but this Is being reduced by replacing bonds that draw 2‘4% interest to certiflcates carrying less than one percent interest. We made good in war and we will make good in peace was his prediction of “things to come." O—O Ham uel D. Jackson has been appointed and has accepted the nation’s associated commodity exchanges for a period of three years. His offices will be at Fort Wayne and he will in his capacity as czar of all exchangee ether than the New York Stock Exchange, "represent under changing conditions the interests of the nation's farmers. Importers, consumers and exporters." His salary, it is report-

B ed, will be 350.000 per year. MrJackson served as U. 8. senator, was a candidate tor governor last year and is well and favorably 1 known over Indiana and the nation. Our sincere congratulations ‘ are extended to Mr. Jacksou, one *■ Os llooalerdom'a favorite sons. • • 0 ■■■ 1 | Modern Etiquette I t By ROBBRTA LBB q, - — ■-* Q. Are there any pieces where s highheeled shoes for women are inappropriate? A. Yes; they certainly are not f appropriate for hiking or for the , golf links. And lower heels are also inucHi belter for the business 1 office. I Q. Which la preferable. "Only a . few people were present", or “Only a few person*"? ’ A. Use persona when referring • to a email group. people when rei ferring to a large number. q Is It good form for one to use bis initials on a visiting card? A. The proper form is to have the name appear in full. ' o I Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA Lid O —. —i ♦ Olive Oil Olive Oil should be kept In the bottom of the refrigerator. Tills is because it freezes very easily, and should lie kept as far as possible from the ice or rtio unit. New Brushes The dust, or powder, that Is used to keep out moths, ahould be removed from the new brushes This should be thoroughly worked out with tile singe-s before using. Kitchen Stove Tue kitchen »tov« will keep bright and new looking if it is rubbed with a cloth moistened with vaseline occasionally. o • O I Twenty Years Ago I I I Nov. 30- A four hour snowfall and freezing temperatures bring real winter U> Adame county. Conrad Gilllg is awarded the Ford touring car at the St. Mary's 1 church bazaar. 1 Dick Holler and Bryce Thomas f escape injury when their car is wrecked near Huntertown. Glen Hill, Glen Beavers and • Harold De Vie- return to Ohio State. Billy Grant returns to dental school at Indianapolis after visit 1 with this parents here. : COURT HOUSE r _ t A suit on account hue been filed by The Suttles company va. Robert Fritzinger. The suit on account has been filed by the Petrie Oil company vs. , Punn B- Hebble. - —o Rides Bicycle Into t River, Mon Drowns 1 Zionsville. Ind., Nov. 30—(UP)— I Authorities expressed a belief tot day that Oral Sheets, 49. drowned accidentally in big Eagle Creak. ' Sheets' body was found In the I creek yesterday. 12 .hours after he set out in the darkness on a bicycle to water homes at a near- ‘ by farm. The authorities assumed ► ;he rode the bicycle off n bridge. i Purdue Winter Short Courses In January Fayette, lad., Nov. 30 (VP> —Eight week winter short courses ’ in genera! agriculture, animal hus- - handry. dairy production and dairy ( manufacturers were scheduled to begin Jan. 2 at Purdue university. 1 Associate dean V. C. Freeman of • the school of agriculture said that the short oouieea would appeal chiefly to returning war veterans ’ ’ 0 1 TELLS WAR CRIMES I — — (Turn To P*<e I. Pel we e I) I cutore and defens-- attorneys in which justice Robert H. Jackson. 1 chief American prosecutor. said ’ the trial was being held in a "hot- | bed of Nazism with which some of tbe defense counsel are IdentiAed." ' The defendants returned to ' court badly shaken by witnessing Alms of German concentration camp atrocities. American psychia- ’ tristn reported that the majority ■ of them fell "profound shame" when they realized Germany's disgrace before the world. • Xabousen carried with him • i diary of Canaris, which he said r Canaris kept to inform the world of "how these people who were ’ guiding tbe poople were guilty " - He said Canaris strongly opposed , tenorlotic plans tor Poland. 0 Stop in M>on and pick up ’ your free 1946 Nyal calendar. ■ —Holt ho uee Drug Co.

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Proposes Medal Be Awarded Lindbergh 'Combat' Record Os Lindbergh Revealed Washington. Nov. 30- (UP) - Rep. Noah M. Mason, R . 111., proposed tie distinguished service tnedsi today fir Charles A. Modb<>r»h for "rwking his life" to de monstrate new techniques to army pilots. He also aok-d that the fumed "Ixme Eagle" bo restored tbe reserve colonel’s commission he was "forced” to give up by the late President Roosevelt. Maaun coupled bls recommends tion with a report that Lindbergaiiot down not one hut "several Japanese pianos while lectinarmy planes In combat mHslon in Ria capacity as a civilian lech niciau. He did not reveal ttt‘ source of his information. The first disclosure of Lind beigh's "combat” record waa made yesterday in a dispatch by United Press staff correapondeut William B Dickinson, recently returned from the Pacific. Dickinson said Lindbergh accompanied army fighters over Bor neo in October of 1944 to lest bis methods for extending the range of fighter planes. He became in voived with a Japanese Zero and one burst from his guns sent the euetny d«n in flames. Mason followed up publication of Dickinson's dispatoh by inserting in the congressional record a statement proposing that Lindbergh get the distinguished service award and be restored his commission. Lindbergh resigned his air corps reserve colonelcy .\pril 28, 1941 after Mr. Roosevelt bad denounced his isolationist views on world affairs and classified the flier as a defeatist and appeaser. Lindbergh said that since Mr. Roosevelt, as his commander in chief, had questioned his loyalty, he bad no choice but to resign. Mason's statement said of Lindbergh: "In demonstration test flights—as technical civilian adviser to our fithting forces—he actually shot down several enemy piauex, all. of course, off tbe record because ha was a civiliaa and non-combatant. "Not only that but be demonstrated what American bombers could do. On one test he pil ited a Ixnnber loaded with a bomb load three times as heavy as the regu lar bomb-load and took off after a such shorter run than cur regular Ixiinlier pilots though* safe even with a normal bombload. "Lindbergh risked his life time after time in order to demonstrate to our army pilots wbat could be done with our fighter planes and with our bombers." Dickinson obtained tbe story of Lindbergh's exploits from a high ranking military authority more than 13 months ago. but was released from a pledge of secrecy only yesterday. The UP correspondent said Lindbergh had worked out flying methods which made possible an increase in the range of P-33 Lightning fighters up to 1500 miles. Tbe technique involved largely conservation of gasoline by throttle control. —

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ARMY IGNORED (Qoatlaued rrqiw Page owe) bi-Mdessta but also -were monitoring commercial cables to pick up Japanese messages The cable monitoring, however, was a function of the army signal corps and not of army intelligence, he indicated. It was from the cables, of course, that this country picked up the Japanese diplomatic messages dieclosed. As for telephone mrasagca in Hawaii, no branch of the service ■ooM touch them, Mlles said, berause of a congremional statute forbidding telephone tapping. Concerning the possihlUty of an ittack on Pearl Harbor, Mlles resiled that maneuvers in the Havalian area In 1932 constituted a nock defense agalMt just such an .Hack as the Japanese used in trlking Pearl Harbor nine years ater. Testifying about more recent inttera, Mlles said he tad no ioubt that a message from Marshall to the Hawaiian command on Nov. 37, 1941, "would effect Immediate and complete alert of the fortress.” The Marshall message, addressed to all ovenseas commanders, informed them that diplomatic negotiations with Japan "appear to bo terminated.” It said "hostile action possible at any moment." The message went on to aay that the United States should not make foe first overt action but that commanders ahould undertake reconnalsance and other measures they deemed necessary. Miles said reconnaissance was the only way that the Hawaiian defenders could have kept the attack from taking them by surprise. .Miles disclosed that he believed as of Dec. 5. 1941, that the United States would go to war if Japan attacked Hong Kong or the Philippines. Up to mid November, 1940, he eaid, he had doubted that thto country would fight Japan to defend Britieh or Dutch Pacific possessions. Reminded by assistant committee counsel Gerhard Gesell that a report of Dec. 5. estimating the possibility of a war tn the Pacific. did not "refer to war with the United Htatee," Miles Interjected: "Except foe Philippines and Hong Kong.” "You felt that such an attack would involve the .United Statea in war?” asked Gesell. "I did, sir," Miles responded. Miles was questioned about Information relayed <o Short and Rear Adm. Hueband E. Kimmel, the navy commander at Pearl Harbor. ———o The Parthenon ou the Acropolis at Athens is 2,383 years oid. It is made entirely of marble. o —-— AAA COMMITTEEMEN tTura To Paes 3, Onlutna 4) and two alternates. Elected at the same time will be delegates to a county convention, to be held Inter, where a county committee will he elected for the coming year. The AAA chairman said approximately 2.500 farmers are eligible to cast ballots In community elections. This number includ s all

farmers who are oouperaling la the agricultural conservation ©r crop insurance programDiscussing the role of community committeemen, Mr- Gerke pointed 1 out that soil and water conservs- ’ tion will continue to loom large | among AAA program objectives. Under next year's program, funds

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!<; The American Legion Auxiliary drive for Gifts to be distributed to hospitalized servicemen and women in Indiana closes December 9. Many gifts are still needed to make up our quota. Have you given yours? I [ if not, please do so as soon as possible. Help make some hospitalized “G I Joe or Jane” happy this ChristnmsJby giving a gift to a Yank who gave. If you prefer, you may give money and suitable gift* will be purchased for you. For your convenience we will have a “Gift Depository Window” at our store starting Monday, Dec. 3. Vou may leave your gifts or contributions with us or at the American Legion. Give a Gift To a Yank Who Gave! I‘l * •

wUI bo allocated to each county, and committee-men will have more responsibility In helping their neighbors to round out soil-build-ing plans tor individual ferns within the scope of approved practices. This Is only one of ths programs for which committeemen have a great responsibility.

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