Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1945 — Page 3

! DECEMBER 1, 1945.

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this week. After <Ui, thia involves the Grable legs and anything connected with them is news. I find Direc tor Georgs Beaton about to do the scentwhors Betty, a beautiful typist, first caters th* Oldfashioned shipping office run byDickHayraes.

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a accountants, sitting on :W t Al ? ri hunched over desks, furiously and scratching ®BK“ m with their pens. ia?: , ft b 1110 *" **<* on the WUon - the typewriter. of her u * h * (w u reassuring. The wt showing, but the ■ are B* 0 * u wear ’ little black straw 3Buu t lg - ht,fitUn K blu ® dr «“ * r a €ure uks an hour|Efc£r no UiIW to seeking a word *Ly ,h ® “y* “There’s pr(Kluc t*on number 2 even *how an ankle. I ,IS» Sa a - nightgown, but mother hubMhn - .?. rt . , th ® wrong ide*. Ota .?* ad . <s ®- “t’m not trying l® ,, low^2 om mu ®icsls. We I®«w nd ? rtul Gershwin tunes st ‘.•'"W don’t de any not even to Mams - I<lojuat K ° IXII before the ®“*>e^nJl. w,other tasw * >&• thetas * big clock on

* land children, and Helm Fairchlvid [and Kiva Martin. The meeting was dosed with the ixrrd's Prayer and scripture by Mrs. (JttarlitH Shoaf. Our Imdy of Victory dlsciwteb.n group will meet at the home of Mian Hilda Heimann Monday evening at seven thirty o'clock. ROOT TOWNSHIP CLUB MEETS TUESDAY The Rost township home econte mien <4ub field their November meeting Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Dale .Moses. Al noon, a dellcloub pot-luck dinner was server! Mrs, Archie Busdorf, president, presided over the meeting in the afternoon, opened with the elub creed repeated in unison. The election of officers was held with the following result: president, Mrs. William Belts; vice president, Mrs. Lewis Houk; secretary. Mrs. Adolph Weidler; uesisting secretary, Mrs. Lee Fleming; treasurer, Mrs. James Moses; assisting treasurer. Mrs. William Bchnepf. Mrs. Cecil Henke gave a paper demonstration, and the duh decided to sponsor the Male of paper products, and appointed Mrs. Hi chard Moees as chairman of the project. Mn*. E. W. Busche and Mrs. T. C. Grandstaff were guests at the meeting. The Christmas party will he held in Decetnlier nt the homo of Mm. Ous Bohnke. This will be an all day meeting, with a pot-luck dinner at noon. Gifts also be ex change. — o I-—- 1 ■ 0 Adams County Memorial Hospital o o Admitted: Mrs. Joe Kitson, 401 Fornax street; Mrs. Ixrnis Landnun. route 6; Leonard Foster, 1327 Master Drive; Mrs. Ethel Christen. 504 North Second street; Mrs S. E. Brown. 223 North First street. Admitted and dismissed: Mrs. Frederick Striker. 63S Mercer avenue: Ollie Crist, route 2; Frank Schumacher, 704 Elm street. Dlsmbwed: Mrs. George Harding and Isthy girl, route 1; Mm. LeRoy Riffle and hahy hoy. 1M East Grant street; Mrs. Emel Nagel. Jr., and baby girl, 515 Adam street: Mrs. Harold Wendell, Celina, O. route 1; Mrs. Lester Sheets and baby girl, 323 North Seventh street. Prague University, where the Germans wiped out the entire student l*o«iy during the occupation, was founded in 1348 1»y King Charles of Bohemia. w ■ I O - Hazaar, Parrish Hall. Maglev, December 5 al 6:00 p. m, 283t3

the wall to the right of the door where she enter*. “Shouldn't the pendulum on that clock be moving T" I ask. Just then the door opens and i Betty enter* in her tight-fitting dress. Dick Haymes looks at ms with * slow grin. "Do you really think anyway >s i going to look at that clock?" he ’ &sks. I •- Speaking of figures, T happen to ’ be on hand this week when a couple 1 of men from the Johnston office ari rive to check Carole Landis’ ’’sili houette dance" for “A Scandal in Paris." The set is a Marseilles night club ' in iiiu. Carole does her dance behind a white circular screen on the 1 stage. For the benefit of the Johnston i office men. Director Douglas Sirk gets her to do a reahearsal. When Carole stands profile to the screen, the silhouette doesn't miss i a curve of her generous figure. Behind me. suddenly, I hear Producer i Arnold Pressburger talking urgent- > ly to men from the Johnston °®ce. i “But I tell you she is not naked. . Insists Preaaburger. "She Is wearr Inga form-fitting costume from i shoulder to below her waist. And . she has sheer black tights on her I There’s a brief conference, then Camie is called out in front of the i screen to prove that this is true, r The men from the Johnston of- [ flee talk too low for me to hear | their reply. However, I get It from . George Sanders, who playa opposite Carole in the picture, that a , compromise probably will be f reached. They'll first show a acene i of Carole in her dressing room, so i the audience will know that she , isn't naked. t George himself is done up in the I fancy uniform of a French officer. I "Uncomfortable ?" I ask. ••Oh. a little," he «ay* hi that I bored voice of his. "But I like cost turn* pictures, they aava own k clothes." — —

CLUB CALENDAR •oclsty Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000-1001 • Saturday* Rummage sale, basement of Zion _ Evangelical and Reformed church, 1:30 a.m. to 6 pm. d Christmas bazaar, cafeteria supper, Masonic hall, 5 to 7 pm, Monday ’ Our of Victory discussion group. Miss Hilda Heimann, 7:30 pgn. 11 Decatur Woman's Chib, Library ! hall, 7:43 pm. Book p view, "The Cherokee Strip," by Mrs. Leonard Saylors. Tuesday Reln-knli Lodge, Red Men Hall, 7:30 p m. h Catholic Ladles of Columbia, K. r of C. ball. 7:.t0 pm. f Eta Tau Sigma Sorority, Mrs. !• George Helm, «:L0 pm. Wednesday Baamir of Evangelical A Reformed church of Magley, parish hall. 11 6 pm. Thursday So Cha Rea Christmas party. Rice hotel, 6:15 pm. laidies Aid of Evangelical and • Reformed church of Mngley, parish “ hall, all day. Women of the Moose. Moose ■ home, 7:30 p.tn. Ever Ready class of Methodist r church. Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth. • 7:30 pm. r Rainbow far Giris, Masonic hall. • 7:30 pm. f i Noble Reynolds of the Kohne . drug store is battling the flu. The village of Wren has met the victory loan quota of |2,900 by buying 13.600 worth. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sipe and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Malarkey and I daughter, Charlotte, of Lake Char I les, Iji., arrived here Friday to [ attend the Golden Wedding celebration of Mrs. Sipe's sister, Mw. ; W. E. Moon. Miss Eileen HeM is spending the week-end in Hunting - n. i o— FBIRTUS Mr. and Mrs. Emer-con f-ebman of Berne route 1, are the parents of a baby girl, born at 2:23 a m. Friday at the Ademo evunty memorial hospital. She weighed 6 pounds. 6'4 uunc-cri and has not been named. O A goes! use has Icee’i found for rhe Hulphur bedg of two Jlma Yanks on tfie island d':r a hole in the ground, pop in a C-rati-m can and in 13 minutes, hot roast beet and gravy is the result MiodHsippi county. Ark., produces more cotton Wean any other county in the United States. Approximately 19,000,000 tons of freight niovee over the Mississippi River system eadh month. T.lv* average-sire barge used on ■the Missfesippi River will handle us much tonnage as 60 freight cars. year's chili pepper crop at New 1 In-ria. La., was valued at 3150.000. Louisiana sweet potato growers are expecting their second best season in libctory thh year, overshadowing all other slates. The crop has been estimated cit P.100,otto tHishels, valued at |19,00»i,000. Three of rhe world's largest salt mines are located in tihe area around New llierla. La. Arkansas has the largest percentage of native-born population of any state in the Union. CPI. CHAELIS w. HUDGINS, right, Norfolk, Va.. sets a congratulatory handshake from Sgt- Albert Procopio, Revere. Mass., for being the two-mllllonth GI redeployed to the United States from Europe. The pair arrived in Beaton aboard th* transport General Breckenridge. (International)

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HiBSII B/Rgt. James McUiughlln was dfe«harg<-<l recently al Camp McCoy, Wls. after four years and seven months In service. Sgl. .Melamxhlln served In the Pacific theater of operations. *«**««** Honorable Discharge *«*•***« Lt. Philip E. Byron. 664 Mon roe street, from Great Lakes, 111 ■ -—o - - - Light Bomber Sets Four New Records Round-World Trip Sets New Records Washington. Dec. 1— (UP) — The crew of a Douglas A-26 Invader light bomber was back In the United States today after a round I he-world trip which Is believed to have set four new records for that type of plane. T’.ie filers, headed by Col. Joseph R. Holzapple. 31, of Peoria. 111, also took time out to make II laimblng millions over Japan Other crew membejw were Lt. Col. Charles R. Meyers, Jr., Wayne. Pa. co-pllot; Lt. Otto H. Schumacher. Walhalla. S. C.. navigator, and Cpl. Howard J. Walden, Melrose. Mass., radio operator. Holsapple said the flight demonstrated that new American lw«nIters had the range and ability so they could be f|-nt quickly from the United Btatn to any destination- in the world. The plane, the army's newest light Itomher, landed at Washington national airport yesterday, after covering 24.919 miles. The elapsed flying time was 96 hours and 50 minutes, an average of more than 250 miles an hour. Hoizappie believed they had set new unofficial distance records for su< h a light plane on at least four Tegs of the flight from Honolulu to Johnston Island, from Johnson htland to Majuro, from Manila to Calcutta, and from tihe Azores to Bermuda. The globe-girdling plane left Savannah, Ga., last spring, making ■tops at Bacragnento, Honolulu. Johnston Island. Majuro, Enlwetok. Saipan, Okinawa, Manila, Calcutta, Agra. Karachi, Abadan, Bagdad, Cairo, Tunis. Blan<a, Az >res, Bermuda and Washington. Holzapple was a member of the 319th bomluirdment group whloh went overseas in 1942. The group wa* chosen to be the first to Gy the new invader In combat. It returned Io the United Stales January. 1945, training at Columbia, S. C. He later led the group out over the Pacific In the same plane in which he flew to Washington yesterday. The grrnp flew 22 missions against the Japanese but never lost a plane or a man in combat. By r I H| ■ j BA ; FFC. JACK MACNIDER. 18, son oi Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider. Mason City, fa., waves as he leaves Greet Lakes separation center after his discharge. Hie father acknowledged that he asked and received permission to return his son from Japan. Great Lakes officials said the boy had 38 sendee points, 12 less than dis.eharge standard. (International!

i In Hawaii ■ rT £ j / *-*w\ • Pvt. Charles E. Drake entered the army November 1, 1943, and has lieen with the 60S field artillery in the Hawaiian Islands since October. Ills wife and small aon reside in Bluffton. The Girl Scouts of troop IV held their regular meeting Monday. The meeting was opened with the Girl Stout promise, followed by a short business meeting. Th*- meeting closed with the fiiend<thlp circle.—Patricia Gause, scribe. o James H. Armstrong Will Is Probated James IL Armstrong. well known Wabash township farmer, who died last month, left an estate valued at 122,000. probate papers at the county clerk's office reveal. In his will he bequeathed a life estate in all real and personal pro periy to his wife. Eva Armstrong. After her death his two sons will share the estate. To the son, Chester D. Armstrong, is bequeathed 22 acres in Wabash township and land lying north of the Wabash river; Io Charles E Armstrong, a son, is bequeathed 45 acres In the same township Charles E. Armstrong was named administrator, with will annexed. Bond for |5,04i0 was filed and approved. Trade In a Town — Decatur

I o_ --a I ' (Si I I ’ V.Jw I i New 1946 Club W OPENS 1 .y ■ Mon. Dec. 3 . | ■ j . j Have money the easy and practical way next jf ■ Christmas by joining the 1946 Christmas Savings ■ B Club now forming. .Make payments each week and i 1 y' S receive the money when you really need it. Do as / \ y I hundreds of your friends and neighbors are doing. I • ( ~r ■ g You’ll welcome Ihe additional money to make it a\\ > / f:« \ ■ truly Merry Christmas. I : • Choose the club at the right best ta suited you. You’ll find it easy to ’ ■ g ® save this way. * I ■ I ■ Ciret C+ofo Doni/ pv 2*««wr-™«iv, »iz.so I 1110 l Oldlv DdllK I»y 50c Pay SI.OO weekly—receive $50.00 S Pay $2.00 weekly—receive - SIOO.OO al P«y $3.00 weekly—receive —. $150.00 Pay $5.00 weekly—receive .... $250.00 J .Member F.D.I.C. Established 1883 '’»> * l,lOO wemfcly—rwelve ... 5500.(>0 » »» ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■«■■■■ ffi'S ».» VMUPBMi

With Engineers I’fc. I<awrencr W. Andrew* *'•••■ ered military training tktolwr 5. 1*43. He I" now with the 148th combat engineers, and ha* Iteen oversea* •Ince July, 194. ! ll*' ha* the good conduct ribbon, the meritorious service recognition, and has four battle stars on his cam paign ilbbon. Ill* wife and small son reside at 410 Mercer avenue. Sailor Kia » Russell Arthur Andrews M. L. 2/c wears the uniform of the navy and ha* been in service since November, 1912. He has been stationed nt the Philadelphia I navy yards. Mare Island, and is i now at Camp Shoemaker with the ship repair unit, awaiting further j orders. Hi* wife and daughter 1 reside at 216 North Seventh ' street.

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