Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1946 — Page 2

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J W 1 Men now in the Army who reenlirt before February 1 ▼ I I »,// rtenlirted in their present grade. Men honor- | n the AtO'Y I ably discharged can reenlist nithin 20 days after dhI I sot fTieH no I charge in the grade they held at the time of duA »I I charge, provided they reenlist before February 1,194 b. Q , feenVist*n9 •• • I There’s a long list of attractive reenlistment B i gro e | privileges in the new Armed Forces Voluntary ' Recruitment Act of 1945. The ability to keep JbA XXJSfc """-•'i** your present grade is only one of them, but this iPpu l|ir 1* J ~ ’at-—|T”~ privilege expires on January 31. ~ a There are plenty of other reasons why many thousands of men have enlisted, and more thou- . I f sands are enlisting every day. You’ll certainly ’" the opportunities open to you. : -- 1 \ - i'll ■. .F !F ti: . ;,iv!idi\, x.ni'il whv ■ '' ‘ ,! ! ‘ A 1 "' a!, Army is being J i-'gard. d todaj. a- “The lit.'! Job m the World.” 1 ’ PAY PER MONTH-ENLISTED MEN In Addition to Food, Lodging, Clotht land Medical Care 1 wW|j jjfcßSllMg . ... MONTHLY MYiafMtNT W BSBwWMSM lf»r**l iNCOMt AFYU: n •mSMBP’ 't£ I&DKW<Z” *•<■ it roars' J« **•'* Master Sergeant *** «•"»*• ***** T «■ First Sergeant . $138.00 $89.70 $155.25 ******************** Technical Sergeant . 114.00 74.10 128.25 MCHUGHTS Os THt NEW tHLItHMO PROGRAM 1. Enlistment. fw l ( i, 2or 3 4. Option u> retire at half pay for Corporal .... 66.00 42.90 74.25 yean. (Oue-year enlistments per- the rest of your life after 20 years’ Private First <la«, , 54.00 35.10 60.75 Bitted for men how in the Army nervier inereaisinic to three-quar-with at least <> months'service.) ter a pay after 30 years’ service. Private 50.00 JZ.SU JOUS 2T. .'•Sr&tTS. "Sas Sr 1k.H,..W< t 11M.n.1»,..<H, anliat at any w imd for former previous active federal military (e)-Pin» 5% Igeraate in Pay for Each 3 5 ears of Service, re. vh- men, depending on length wrvire counts toward retirement. of service. jg. Benefits under the Gi Bill of HBHS99BI P«. ... - !1 ■••■• “ ' ■■ t.of .• I. in,...- <■„ d.-i-d-M.. /Vsi-u4* >4 »<<**< 4. The best pay male, medical r.!4«. S 3 1 ■EJMV * R Fl <~rlt T MF-., fare, food, quaiters and clothing ~ n i.. rr ZIIF fc 1 II ! I S jS intneh. tory of <mr Army. 200 sk dis and t. H d?s fete «rJS sin.-rsii.4iT.nu. M into service. * n< l overseas theater in the Air, With farhmgh travel paid to him 14. Privilege of benefits of Nagi >d return, for men now in the tkmal Service Life Insurance. REENLIST NOW AT YOUR NEAREST i."a iUmu.!™,!, mr JLSraairU w sfis ua. a»«v aremnrwit aranoN at full pay. f ratn active duty may lie enlistt Muateringout pay(ba*d upon ed In Glade 1 (Master Sergeant) n 4|ft d|j_ length of rervi'wj to all men who and still retain thair reserve ' »>4JV r CUCTdI Bluff., are uiacsarged to reenliet cominiaaiona. Fort Wayne, Ind. ~ ~ a——Minr ll, ri —wiiui I u lia ■■■ ■■ 1 1 an ■■■an ■HI n

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Gromyko Appointed Red Representative Envoy Appointed To Far East Commission Izadon. Jan 2 HIM Andrei A Gromyko. Anrlet ambassador t ( > Washington. will l”‘ the Rn*slafi t,»|i ••-entathe on the far eastern commission <« formulate Japanc<r occupation poUchm for Gen Doiikluk Ma< Arihur. the Tax* uk en< y announced today The lotindl of people- <'»iiiini»_

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' ears trnlot led Gromyko fol * m ‘ purtant role He will be lhe tlr*t j Russian to have a direct voice In the control of Japan, since the I Russians had obtained from mem I bershlp in the far eastern advisory <*< num la* ion bofor® * iipw urrangt* ment was made nt th.- hlg three foreign mlnlrters conference Qtwmyko'e deputy *lll he Nikolai V Novikov. rohtiHidor of the Soviet embassy in Wallington aho hold* ministerial renk and tu-cve- an «4targe l> Affaire* during t Gromyko's ahoon<’os The Ta»> annoiimenu-nt naid that Lieu. Gen Kumm N. Ih-revyanko wi'l li.- the Bcvlat member <d the .silled council for Japan, which will «it in Tokyo and advise MacArthm

Eric Johnston Seis Industry Example Shore In Profits To All Employes Spokane. Wash.. Jan. t— Eric A. Johnson, youthful V. * Chamber of comitwrre president set an example for the rest of in dttatry today by announcing a pro-fit-sharing |dsu for his employes John "ton a member of President * Tinman's labor management advisnry committee, eaid that hl« program to improve labor manage ment relation* was designed to •bring industrial democracy Into Amrrl a." "One of lhe beet methods of Improving Industrial relations la to make the employe f**l he la 1 pan of the organization. and that lie Is helping t-i promote pollclre." Johnston said. • Meet Important, he wants to share In the profits he helped Io earn." Under the proflt-shar.ng system, which went into effect with the new year, all employes of the Brown-Johnston Co., r.-tallers of .le.-trlc equipment, and the wholesale and manufacturing divisions of the Colutnbiu electric and manufacturing co., both In Spokane, will -.hare approximately 25 percent of lhe net profits before taxes. Arrangements will he completed thio week to Include In the plan employes of Johnston's Washing- j ton Brick nnd Lime Co., of Sp.ikane and Seattle. Under the system, each employe will receive one unit of credit to-j ward the profits for each 11’”' of his annual earnings; one unit for .-a.it year of contlnuonr service;, five nnlta for each term served on newly .rested "junior'' or employ-; Imarda of directors; five unite for' a supervisory position; 15 units for an assistant department head.' and 25 units for a department head A cash value of the points will | lie determined by dividing the amount of money to b>- shared by lhe total numlier of units credited to all empkiym for the year. — o Driver Education ; Urged For Schools • ■■ Malan Recommends Course On Safety Indianapolis. Jan 2 I UP)--Dr. Clement T Malan. state oup-rln-tendent of public instruction, reconimend today that all Indiana high schools adopt countes in driver .-dm-ati m with credit toward graduation "The heavy toll of deaths from traffic accidents makes It Imperative that th.- public seiiooU act at one to make more eff.-ctlve their InsthicUon in traffic safety." Malan Bald In u letter to all school official*. The state iward of educati in ha* ruled that a maximum of 20 lessons of at iesst in minutes each, in driver education, may be count ed toward graduation, the superintendent said Malan aL-o ann-m-ed the creation of a new aviation education advisory c mmltte.- to the state department of education. "Aviation leaching." he said, "should permeate the lemhlng of the schools an-i Im- Integrated Into practically every subject of the existing .anhalam. from th.fourth grade through high s.hool. if we are properly to prepare our children for the aviation age in , which they are So live." Members of th.- committee are j t'ol, Clarehi-e F. Corntah, director ■ of ’he Indiana aeronautics rotnmfs- ! sion; Dr. John Emvnr. prr-rldent . of Ball State Teachers Collegt*; 1 Don Edingfon. New rustle: Fred W. Totten. Crawfordsville: Lynn Miller, Lafayetle: Floyd A. Hines. MartiMVille; Harry H. Davidson New Albany; ihe Rev. Jtuw-ph V. feuwes, Indianapolis; and Horace S. Gilbert. Palatine, HL, educational consultant ot the tht-M region of the U. 8. civil aeronautics administration The committee *|R its first I voting Jan. 4, on administration of the oc. upa-1 lion program. He represented the. Red army at MacArthur’s head-! quarters for the nu.render of Japan Jacob A. Malik, former Soviet amltaSMtior in Tokyo who attended the recent Moscow conferenre. will be Derevyanko's political adviser. A United Press dispatch from Moscow reported that Soviet newspapere yesterday gave two paragraphs to the far eastern section of seoretary' of state James F. Byrnes' radio address They made no mention whatsoever of MacArthur.

Two Persons Killed In Train Derailment Luxury Streamliner Derailed In South Btanef. 8. C.. Jan. 2—<UPl- The Sliver Meteor, luxury streamliner of the Renboard railroad, was derailed four miles north of here at 5:15 a. in. today. Two persona were killed and 20 InjiM-vd. The dead were Mra Helen K. Wilson, wife of a negro w"ldler of New York city, and her infant daughter. Beverly Her soldier husband, Ahmsa H Wilson, was among the Injured The Meteor, whirling through freezing weather from New York to Miami, bounced «»W the rails at a cOrte. The railroad said cause of the derailment was living Investlgated. J. E. Mayer, of Jacksonville. Fla., a passenger <m rhe train said that the coaches plnmp-d from the right-of-way and off an embankment. Ambulances from Columbia and the Fort Jackson military liase carried at least a dozen injured to Columbia hospitals Workess were forced to cut Into the cars to remove soinv of the Injured, hospital attendanta said. The Meteor left New York at 2:35 p. in. yesterday. Red Cross disaeter erewrs from Camden and Columbia were en route <0 the I scene Billions of Cans Before lhe war 12 btllton cans , were produced yearly in the U. S Underfed Population Two-thirds of the people of lhe world are engaged in agriculture, i yet two-thirds are underfed. • CIO UNION (Tura To Pag* a. Column SI parts shortages caused by strikes in supplier plants. Work stoppages set for the next two weeks, if put into effect, would tie up service in the telephone. steel, telegraph, electrical appliance and meat packing Indus- . Iries. Moat serious of the disputes ‘ affected 7<W».OM CIO steelworkers, i scheduled for a nationwide walkout Jan. 14 to enforce demands for a f 2 a day wage increase. If : it materializes, the strike will l»e she biggest In the nation's his--1 lory. Edgar L. Warren, conciliation service director, planned to confer today with officials of (he General Electric and Westinghouse electric companies in an effort to avert a strike of 2«O,MWi employes of those companies and General Motors Corp, electrical division Officers of the United Electrical and Radio Appliance Workers (CIO), who will meet Saturday to authorize the walkout, have Informed Warren that strike action J Is virtually "Inevitable." Federal roudllators met today with company and union officials In a last-minute attempt to prevent a strike, scheduled for tomorrow, of Western Electric employes in New York and New »eyA; (’kViilSL I vlratsw’ . and so I told John ov*n If the car was getting older, wo could at least keep up ;u appearance by having B < T Standard give it a wash amt polish job." NEURITIS SuffMwa! Tr, Mrtwrr*« RImI! I'liiifortlnK relief from path i of rheutnatlstu, arihrltK nt urltls. lumbago. FREE UrtOKI.ET Ask for Heiner’s Itinol. f1..10 <1 bottles for K.chnw.Urug Story. Aeid Indigestion MvWSlaiMosbdCre im,ha WWs mmk mm* uria mmn stfuM. sgKnc Mb* rstsawivMteSawMM. XK

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HALTS (Conttauod Fvom Fa<* ***** toiler would liecome more severe during January and February. They said Atlantic weather con dltlmis this season hate beet lhe doiat in more than 20 years Normally, ships could travel fcrthe: "MtnUi and avoid lite had weather This has Isen linimwdhle this seeixon. however, hecan-c th • storms have naiended south of the Azores UNUSUAL JAP (CMrthMwd From saga ”—> whether Kimmel could decode I Japanese messages had tin Influ ' enco, however, on the information he sent to Pacific command era. He said he tried to keep them Informed on the basis of Information available and evaluated at headquarters. Stark said that although he did not expect the Japanese attack on pearl Harbor, he thought the; fleet there had been property* warned of such a possibility. Earlier Stark told the committee he did not expect the Japanese , air attack on Pearl Harbor and ■ was very much surprised when It happened But. he said, he felt that the! fleet had been properly warned against such a poxsibillty. He said that messages sent to lhe fleet commander, Adm Hnslmnd Kimmel, in late November, IS4L were Intendel to convey such a warning. Stark admitted that. In hindsight. the intercepted Japanese message signified unusual Interest in Pearl Harbor moorings of the U. 8. fleet and obviously was intended to plot the harbor for an sir attack, salmtagc or possibly attacks by midget submarines. “Il meant that they wanted to know what was in a particular spot and its significance now is quite dear." he testified. He agreed that the message was quite different from customary reports on ship movements In that it called for the specific location of ships in the harbor. “I recall no such request from Tokyo to the Held for information of this character except for Pearl Harbor,” he sakl. Stark said, however, that he did not recall ever seeing the harbor-

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