Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1945 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Pibltahad livery Ertetag Ibuwpt Hunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated ■nterad at the Decatur, tod., Poet Office m Second Class Matter. I H Heitor Proliant A. R HoMhouee. Bac'y. A But Mar. Dick D Heller —.... Vlce-Presldont Bubacriptlan Rates •ingle Copies 1 .04 One week by carrier -20 By Mall to Adame, Alien, Jay and Wells bounties. Indiana, and Mercer and Van Wert oountiee, Okie, *4.50 per pear; I!50 tor six months; fI:SS lor three months. 50 cents tor one month. Elsewhere: *5.80 per year; 13-00 tor six months; *1 .** for three months; 60 cents for nne Bscmth. Men and women to the armed torose *8.60 per year oi *I.OO tor three months. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. National Representative •CNEERER A CO. 1* Loxlngtsn Avenue, New York. M E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. Now we know that extra piece of turkey wasn’t really necessary. -0 Save the fats and oils and turn them in. It will help provide the aoap you will be looking for- - Hustle into the bank and join tho Christinas Saving Club You will have a balance in a year that will be available for whatever you Wish to use it. Rnainee< big or little cannot operate long at a ions and it seems that fact should have first eons id•ration in the controversies now almost epidemic over the country. o—o Its time to be warming up the New Tear resolutions. Lets make the first one that we will speak kindly, think soundly and .“mile' more o—o The men who keep the highways open and the streets cleared these snowy days have real jobs and they work at it about twenty hours a day. The public should appreciate their efforts -0 Lumber dealers aud their pat rons would like to have the army reserves now held by them and not needed released, it would sure help the new home construction program and end a bottle neck that Is worrying thousands of people. —o— The Christmas rush is over and ths nation is settling down. Plans for 1916 are being made by millions of people. The New Year will bring good results or nut so good, according to how we live and AMUa. —o— The results that followed the release <of ration tor citrus food ehronld convince every one that unless some control of prices is maintained, we are lu tor increases that will result in ruin. Within a few days the prices to consumers ©n citrus foods Jumped nearly a hundred percent. —o— Even the basket ball players, at least most of them. are enjoying the Christmas holidays. No games ■re scheduled except for an occasional exhibition or where a bunch ot youngsters get together tor the ton of it. They will be at It "hammer an* tonga" next week and kee* the old ball flying through the hoop nntll the spring tournaments have decided the champs The tost half of the seventyninth sesstoa of congress has adjourned and will not open ths secund half until January 14th. giving most ot the members an opportunity ta enjoy the holidays at heme, to talk to their constituents and to reek It tea been a busy aeeaion. with the war problems and the

the conclusion of combat The job? i of Uisae meu are by no means easy, regardless of what is said about them. mass ' — 1 It seems there is a news reporter over in Japan who whenever he can’t find any thing elm- sensation al to write about sends out a story that General MacArthur is unhappy about something and will resign his post Always the rumor la Immediately denied but it causes many comments In the meantime Those who know the general and know that he Is doing a wonderful job are confident he will not quit until his work is completed regardless of what the newsmen say. There is genuine sorrow because of the untimely death of General George 8. Patton, lie was believed to be recovering after receiving a broken neck when a truck col tided with the car in which be was tiding on a pheasant hunt but a throat infection produced pneumonia and a heart ailment and he sank rapidly. He was the colorful type of soldier who received the tough assignments and did them well. His remains are buried alongside his comrades who fell in battle tn Franco and the world wilt always remember him as one of America’s greatest fighting men O—O Ivan Fcodorov. Russia's first printer, printed a prayer-book in 1565. Only two copies have ever been found, one In Brussels and one in Leningrad The Brussels copy was destroyed by the Germans in 1940. along with much of the rest of the city. The Russian government now announces that the | sole survivor escaped the Nasi fury, having presumably been removed to a safer place when the i war began, Most countries wore ' well advised to put their rare books in hiding. Many American libraries found secure retreats in unnamed country towns. While hundreds of thousands of books, were destroyed In the bombings i of London and Leipzig, these were generally works in mass production. Wilson Day Speaker:Fowler V. Harper will be the featured speaker at the 19th Woodrow Wilson Memorial banquet to be held at the Elka home in Union City, January 3. State chairman Fred F. Bay* and state vice-chair-man Mrs Edna A. Biugbam wilt attend, and it Is expected that other prominent Democrats from over the state will be present. Professor Harper is one of the ■tost brilliant orators in the country and will make a splendid address on this occasion. He has •pent his life In public service, most of It as a professor of law and as a government official. He has been a member of the law faculty of Indiana university since 1939. On leave of absence liefore and during the war. he served as general counsel of the federal security agency, associate member of the war labor board, chairman of the joint army and navy committee on welfare and recreation, deputy chairman of the war manpower commission, chief of the liberated areas branch of the board of economic warfare and solicitor ot the department of the interior. He returned to Indiana vnlverxlty last September to resume hits teaching. Professor Harper Is a national authority in law. his text and reference books being used tn every law school in the United Stales. He is widely known in England and to Europe for his work in the field of torts and private internal Iona! law. He is a veteran ot world war 1. la a member of the American Legion, the American Law Institute, the Indiana Blate Bar Assoctatton. and the National • s

| Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE Q Is it correct to addiees a wedding invitation to "Mr. and Mrs. John Williams and faintly"? A. No. Mr. and Mrs. Smith receive a joint Invitation, and every other grown tnetnlwr of the family receives an Individual invitation. Q What la the best and proper way to secure a business appointment with a stranger? A. By writing a brief note asking for an appointment Q What Is the correct way to write the date on an Invitation? A. "Thursday. December Twentyseven. ———— —o — * — • I Household Scrapbook I | By ROBERTA Ltd ' ♦ ■ 1 Bottle Odor To remove the odor Lorn a medicine bottle, fill it half full of cold water and add one tablespoon of dry mustard. Shake thoroughly, let stand tor half a day. and then rinse carefully In cold water. Leftover Starch If there is any starch left over on washday, use it instead of water for scrubbing hearths and tiles. It will keep them clean longer and make them look like new. Dried Glue When the glue ha* dried in the bottle or can. pour a little vinegar over It and it will be restored. • •! I Twenty Years Ago ' Today « Dec 26 This community enjoyed zero weather over Christmas. Eighty lives lost in 27 of the large cities over Christmas. Os these, 53 were in traffic accidents. Mr. and Mrs Frank Mills nt Erie. Pa., visit at home of paren's. Mr. and Mre. F. V. Mills. Billy Hoffman of Chicago is visiting here. Lawrence Linn of Hoopston. 111., is visiting relatives here. — -o COURTHOUSE Estate Cases The inheritance tax appraise-; men! In the Selena Schindler es-1 tate shows a net value of *3,G85.6i and tax of *67.14 each due from Elizabeth and Ellen Schindler. The appraiser was allowed *SO The net value of the George C. Mann rotate was placed at *21,929.12 and tax of *89.65 Is due from each of the heirs. Claude C. Mann and Gladys Giltner. The appraisers was allowed *75. to the friendly suit brought by Wilfred Baumgartuer, by his next friend. Emil Baumgartner, vs. Elmer Heyerly, complaint for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while working on the defendant's farm, the court awarded da- > mages to the plaintiff of *IOO. Judge J. Fred Fruchte heard the com this morning. Beware Cough* freffl CABnM colds • • wFBW WWwWW j That Hang On Creomulxicn relieves promptly be-. ■ caw it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel ■erm laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, tn- ' { flamed bronchial mucous mem- , I branes. Tell your druggist to Mil you ■ a bottle of Creomulslon with the un- . demanding you must like the way It nuickly allays the cough or you are to havej our money back. £&SSttMk3!2U I —

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wise carry on the light against tat "white plague." The sale is coa ducted by tbu Adams county ta bercnloals association. Henry Leisure Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Henry Leisure. RS, for the past 44 years a resident of Berne, died at 1:25 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital where he had been confined for the past five weeks following a leg amputation. He was a member of the Trinity Evangelical church at Deme. Surviving are the wife. Elizah<th. four sons. Ora H. of Frernonl, Mich.. Freeman Joy of East Jordan, Mich.. Paul Earl of Hexi teria. Mich., and Corliss of Laura, ! Ill; two brothers, Rush and Charles Laisure, Imth of New Castle, and two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Marion of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Susanna Ideff of Wyoming. Four sons, two daughters, three brothers and two sisters sre deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Yager funeral home In Berne, with the Rev. C. P. Maas officiating. Burial will lie in MRE cemetery. Friends inay call at the funeral home after 4 p. m Thursday. — - Japanese War Crimes Trial Ended Final Arguments Are Presented In Trial i Yokohama. Dec. 36—(UP)— Final arguments were presented today in the trial of Tatsuu (little glass eye I Tsmhiya. the former Japanese prison camp guard accused of killing an American prisoner of war and committing atrocitiro against other Allied nationals. The chief prosecution counsel, Maj. Louis Offen. Atlanta, Ga., closed his argument by demanding the death penalty for Tsuchlya who. he said, "enjoyed seeing American prisoners suffer to agony and torture." The eight man military commission which heard the weven-day trial—first war crimes trial to be held in Japan proper—was expected to give its verdict tomorrow (Thursday)—possibly at 10 a.m. when court reconvenes The defense had closed Us raw st 11 a.m. today after the ono-eyed Tusuchiya testified for two aud a half hours, admitting that he slap ped prisoners but denying that he otherwise mistreated them. In his final statement, defens* counsel Lt. Col. John Dickinson St. Petersburg, Fla. charged that Tsuchiya hadn't had a fair tris 1 "under rtilro of evidence in Anglo ; Saxon law." Dickinson charged that the rulei were made by the prosecution. He said the trial reminded hin of two boys playing marbles, will {one saying, "let’s play, hut let’i

play my way." Dickinson asserted that afflda- . Vita, moat of them from former ? American priaoneru of war now In the United Htatos, "wouldn t have r lasted five minutes In an Amari* 1 can court.’’ 1 "There is no evidence hen* by • ' witness that It known as evidence 1 (in an American court). Thera baa ' not been one wit neat brought here 1 to peraonally put the Huger on him (Tsuchlyaj. | Me man os iiQau tom* •• ■ South Congressman ' Is Suicide Victim ► Rep. Joseph Ervin Ends Life Christmas Washington. Dec. 26— (UP) — Despondency over ill health was believed today to have led Rap. Joseph Wilson Ervin. 41, freshman congressman from Charlotte, N. C., lo end his life on Christmas day with gas from a kitchen stove. Friends said Um Democratic l representative was suffering acute* I ly from osteomyelitis, a disease t of the bone, aud apparently de- . spaired of recovery. Hie body I was found in his gas-filled rest- > dence yesterday. Funeral arrangements have not . been completed but the body will be taken to Morganton, N. C., for , burial. Ervin's wife, the former . Busan Graham Erwin, was observing Christmas with her family in . Morganton when her busband end- , ed hie Ufa. Assistant attorney general The- , ron L. Caudle discovered the suicide when he went to the congressman's home to pick him up tor a Christmas dinner engagement. He was slumped In a chair with a pistol and rator blade in band. A partially empty bottle , us whiskey was to the kitchen •Ink. Caudle said Ervin had just been released from Walter Reed hospital for treatment of relnjury to a leg that had undergone five operations for osteomyelitis. He said he spent 30 minutes with the congressman on Christmas eve. Although Ervin complained of his injury and mentioned recent heart trouble. Caudle said, there wan no indication that he was about to take his life. Ervin left three notes, one. addressed to Caudle, was placed on the front door and warned of gas fumes within. It naked Caudle to arrange an inexpensive funeral and to advise his mother . to Mortanton that he died "of > heart attack.'* r Contents of the other two notes . were u<>t revealed. One was ad- . dressed to Mrs. Ervin and the _ other to bis brother, a former . superior court judge at Morganton. Both Ervin and his wife were of prominent North Carolina faml- ‘ Ilea. They were married In 1930 ’ and had no children. Ervin was elected to congress Nov. 7, 1944. Bon of the late at* ' torney general James Brvto. Br., and Mrs. Laura Foe Ervin of '• Morganton, Ervin had practiced >’ law at Charlotte since 1928. r Besides his wife, he leaves his t- mother, three brother* and theee v sisters. i. — * Special Services . And Meetings Os > Churches In Area, e—- — For Christ e The Adams county Youth for # Christ will have a watch-night serlt vice Monday. Dacenlbpr 31. from ,1 nine to twelve o'clock to the Fleet j, Mennonltc church in Berne. An interesting program has been plan (g n*d and a good attendance la desired. in Monroe Friende h A five night series of services •g will start tonight at the Monroe - Friends church at 7:3b o'clock. it wax announced by the pastor, the Rev. Robert P. Miller, There will be a service each nlxht a t 7:3® o'clock the rest of the week •nd there will be two services Bunday, one at 10:30 o’clock In the morning and one st 7 o’clock to the evening. Miss opal Sprungur. who is visiting at the home of her paroets during the holiday senaon, will presMr at the piano and there will be special mucic, each night. Mlns lege, Wilmore. Ky The Rev. Miller will deliver the xennoas each night. Musical programs also will be rendered. The puldie Is invited to attend all the xervices. Masses Celebrated At Catholic Church A congregation that filled the church attended the S o’clock Christmas high mass at Bt. Mary’s Catholic church on Chrtotmas morning, with the Very Rev. Magr Joseph J. Bclmcts. pastor, as celc brant. The men's and boys’ choir sao« •he ma*.s. Eight other uiumci were Mid tfarlag ths mundn s . eo o eluding with a high mass and bene ! dktivu at • .

•ond, officials of the ChriaUaaa seal campaign to i Adama county an ; pounced today. All ! proceeds from the : annua) Christmas ; seal saloa are used ; m the fight oa ] tuberculosis and to provide fr • • •tenio putt •Otott#

Case Plant Workers Go Out On Strike Employes Walk Out In Three Factories Rockford, 111., Dec. 26 -J. L. Case 00, workers went on strike in three cHlee today, culminating a long dispute between the company and the CIO United Auto Workers. Some workers walked out In Rockford, Racine. Win , and Burlington, la. Picketing was reported at Burlington, and union “observera" appeared at the two esse plants In Racine. Twelve hundred workers at the Company's Rock Island, ill., plant were scheduled to meet tonight to consider joining the walkout. Union leaders said foremen, employes In the company's magneto department of office workers would be allowed to cross picket lines. Tbe strike, authorised last month in an election supervised by the National !<abor Relations i»oard, was delayed until after the payment of *1,250.100 In bonuses last Friday. Previously,, the company bad said that only those employes who worked until the Christmas holiday would be eligible for a bonue. The union petitioned the NLRB for a strike vote t«t/o months axv. charging the farm Implement manufacturing firm with failure to comply with war labor recommendations on vacations, maintenance of union memltershlp. dues checkoff and arbitration. In addition, the union had demanded a 35 cent hourly pay boost tor toolmakers and a general Increase tor other employe* The company countered wl»h an offer to raise tool makers' rates 26 cents and grant wage Increases of one to 20 cents for hourly-paid workers. No provision was made for piecework employes o 33 Troopships To Reach Port Today Over 32,axTVets . Are Due Home Today By Uefted Press Thirty-three ships docked at east and west coast porta today bringing home more than 32.691 servicemen. Duo at New York: General Bliss—3,44* undesiguated troops. Wilson Victory—l,so9 uudeslgaa* ted troops. Coaldale Victory—l.slß undesignated troops. Clay mount Victory—l,6ll undesignated troops. Newbern Victory—l. 626 uudosighated troops. Frederick Victory—l.6oo undeslgnated troops. Josiah Bartlett—62? miscellaneous troops. Alfred Moore—sßo miscellaneous troops Athos II — 3.074 undesignated troops. U. 8. 8. Gatum — number ot

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troo*a ao< dladoaod Jarod Rigeraall — Two casual troops Leonardo Romero—B3 miacaltan* eous troops. Negley D. Cochran—l 6 miscellaneous troops. R. J. KeynaWs—32 undeaignated troops Clarence King—33 miscellaneous troops. | William A Mary Victory-1.560 uodeslgnated troops Dae at notion: J»hn N. Moffll—l.s*4 troops, tneluding the Sth F. A. Observation hatulton; 759th tank battalion; and *mh F. A. battalion. Lincoln Victory—l,s3s troops, including 93rd quartermaster railhead company. 3.914th quartermsst er gas supply company; and 763rd transportation corps railway shop battalion. Belgian Liberty—24 miscellaneous troops. Irvin 8. Cobb—3* mlscellaneou* troops. Dus at Newport News. Va : Weatminstar Victory — 1.818 troops, Including I2*th AAA gun battalion and mlacellaneoux personnel. John Jay—slß troops. Including 131st F. A. battalion. Lacrosse Victory—l.s6s troops, including the 892nd air engineer Ing squadron; 367th AAA 8. L. battalion; and miscellaneous parsonnel. Matthew Maury—s 47 troops, Inrinding 598th bomb squadron. ' Alexander G. Rail—s 62 troop*, including 867th infantry regiment and miecellaneonx personnel. James McHenry—3l miscellaneous troops Thomaa Kearns—23 miscellaneous troops. {(eatone Seam 25 miscellaneous troops. bue at San Francisco: President P01k—2.147 undesignated troops. Cape Newenham-1.921 undcslgtinted troops. Highland — 1.596 undesignated troop*. ■ ..... T . ELEVEN JAPAN ESE (Tura Te Page a. CMutna *> ward the beach they never were to leave alive When they reached the beach their hands and feet were tied, they were blindfolded and finally ordered to face the ocean. "Japanese soldiers, three plat ouub st mug. stood six paces ta the rear with machine guns and rifle*. Then the command wa« given that ended their Ilves.” The trials will bo reviewed by higher offlct-ra before the sentences are carried out. o , — MOTORISTS WARNED <Twra T> ***** 11 ** fairly clear of ice last night, at- ■ though in the central and northern parts of the state all roads . remained hazardous. The weather bureau predicted light snow flurries and below freezing temperatures today. o ..... i PROBE HOSPITAL , I <c —***—* Fage Pae) building department, who recently [ inspneted the four-story wooden

cawonaHy and very email number known . famous Then he quoted .• *s^. re \ lf k peruniversity who said Akoholu* cuie d.' sons and. if treated as such. Alcoholism, ho mid, mmj but by deep-rooted and which can be often cured through modem STE VE. “Tbatsthe mostwa*^^ o*' 0 *' to the problem I’ve heaid. —r**** 1 —

•"<1 rwiuw .. w »h’i nephew, „ , ’’hue , ottld b( . yjg atatenuut, w , ~ '<4 Today , hmm,, w ■- "d '*• ly Chrtsunx, "'t "re had Wltne.M's at ux<>v. x eluded Ma*e po llt , L A Btarkweil W marshal, and n wfw4 **»■ WHiUs, Bnllh fire marshal “* ■ Employe, < lf the t«taba.B •Icctric light rompaay I>* questioned The ■ ffuirle* by ths < rtr ( state into the ■ n e and g-nen! . M hospital where a ■ staircase were the only — W 1 exit from the balldiat City building Mptrvimr J Enni« smd tin. not required on bniidmj, type of th* hospital. H* ugl place had l>e*>u inspects end that none 0 [ hi, complained of unutufanxy ■ ditlon* V The coroner «!» J quiry to fix f*»pon ib.l.ty disaster, but hi. will be withheld until receives Hickey s report ■ Repoil* that some paswty ■ ron may have jerked 0.0 n., permitting the wind to flames upstairs fr.,« . i T * oflk-e where the Lbntrtsuitrw been ere< ted. were s‘.»o u > vestigated Two more of the tis were in critics! tondiUomse pits! uttend.ints did net -t them to survive their bsni •bock. The fire started from i d circuit in the Hgttts <>n > ft ma* tree wbl< h stlsmhau u( Up in the oflke of the boat brighten the spirits 4 M Who faced a lonely holiday Only the ice coated, blacka wall* stood today of thr naff four story, brick and wood h operated by three ho-pitsb, B ford, Muhiciap and St Fm for the axed. ronraleseM chronic patients. Thirteen patients atm tw tendants died iu tbei: they were befne carried to snow-covered streets Two a patients died Christrns* (jj Hartford hospitals. Oflciais “aid prelfmin«y ioning of the survivor, :miis that s woman attepdant tried I extinguish the hlazlGg rhrlad tree with a small, hand • xtlngul er. The flame*, which spread draperies, then caught in the st cut off tlio telephone and ed attendant, from summod immediate aid _ use 6 6 6 COLD PREFARATKWI Liquid, Tablets. Salvs. New *N Caution use only at directed