Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1946 — Page 3

■.SOCIETY

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*****'■» 11111111111 »»| 1111 M»♦♦♦»»♦♦»♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦< WTICE K ‘ Depositors You arc hereby notified that all I Deposit Liabilities of Farmers State ! Bank, of Preble. Indiana, are assum <*<l hy the First State Bank, of Decatur, Indiana, as at close of business February 13. 1946. ; .1 ...jgß Deposit Liabilities include* checking ac- < k counts, savings accounts and certificates ; °f deposit, both demand and time, issued ! by this bank up to and including February < 11, im«. ; ■SR AH checks drawn by depositors of this • j bank against their balances as indicated J I by ledger record will be accepted and paid < by First State Bank, of Decatur. Indiana. I Whatever changes you desire to make con- I cerning your bank deposits with this bank I 0«* in touch with those In charge of de J ■ B posits at the First State Bank and they < Wlll S ,a( Hy advise you as to your desire or request. It is our aim that all deposit- | jSI ors of this bank shall feel they retain I - their usual disposition of their funds con- | sistent with the kind of deposit* they may J have had at the above effective date. Warmers State Bank I By C. R. Smith, I j Liquidating Agent < Elß* Hr++»« I IH4 »■» Saturday ■ —LAST—■nd final day || TO BUY Randy-gum THE BOX — NO LIMIT >'^^R AKS f,UM CHOCOKgS2l 100 Sticks LATES r Wgj s l-oo If ■g CANDY SHOP j 1 - Opposite Christian Church

o'clock al the home of Mrs Henry Heller. The Women of the Moose will meet Thursday evening at seven thirty o'clock at the Moose home The Church Mother* Study < lull will meet Tuesday evening at eight o'clock In the church parlors, In stead of at the home ts Mrs. Paul Berg uh originally scheduled. There will be a Girl Scout leader* and council meeting Monday afternoon at three forty five o'clock at the tome of Mrs. (.'. I. Finlayeon. The Dramatic department of the Decatur Woman'* club will meet at Reven thirty O'clock Monday *evenlng at the home of Mr*. Arthur Vogiewede with Mr*. Herman Heimann in charge of the program. Mr*. George Thomas, Mr*. Harold Zwick and Mis* IliMumund Gould are the a**l*ting committee. The election of officers will also take place, and all member* are urged to Ire preßent. —™-——o— —— |££OCALS Mr. and Mr*. Walter Knut bine and family expect to leave soon for aeveral weeks vacation In Florida. Mr. and Mm. 11. A. Maddox, 131 North Third afreet, have a* their weekend guest*, their daughter, Jane, and Mis* Joyce Frank of Rushville, Miso txt I* Meunier of Beloit, Win., and Mkt* Marion Biaveil of Biddeford. Maine. All are student* at Ohio Stater University. Earl B Adams, local attorney, who ha* been ill for the last several day*, han returned to hi* office. ' 1 ■ o —- In 1939 the United States purchased 96 percent of the castor i bean production of Brazil. There are MO different specie* lof the marine and freshwater family known a* the catfi*h.

CLUB CALENDAR Society Doadllna, 11 A. M. Friday Adam* County Federation of dubs, lads Black, 2:30 pm. Baptist Philo club, Mr. and Mm. Weldon Soldner, 7:30 pm. f Baptist Philo club, postponed. Saturday Cafeteria supper. Ma*onlc, 5 to' ! 7 Pin. Cafeteria Riippor, Masonic hall, 1 5 to 7 p. m. Monday Civic departmen' of Decatur Wo- ' man's club, Mrs, Hay Stlngely, at Music department of Decatur Woman's club. Mr*. Walter Krick, 7:30 p.m. Pythian Sisters, K. of P„ 7:30 p.m. Literature department of Decatur Woman's club. Mr*. Henry Held 1 ler. 7:30 p.m. Girl Scout leaders end council. Mm. C. I. Finlayson, 3:15 p.m. Dramatic department of Decatur Woman's club, Mr*. Arthur Vogiewede, 7:30 pm Tuesday Root Township Home Economics club, Monmouth high school, 6 p.m. Delta Theta Tan. business meet- ' Ing. Elks home, s p.m. 1 Church Mothers Study dub, ' church parlors, 8 p.m. Wednesday I I'nion Township Woman's club. Mm. Frank Gleckler, all day. Thursday St. Vincent de Paul society, K. of C., 2 p. m. So Cha Ilea, Mr*. V. J Borman. 7:30 p m. Women of the Monse, Moose » home, 7:30 p.m I ————————————— o O Adams County Memorial Hospital o o f f Admitted: Mrs. Martha Meibens, 329 North Third street. p Admitted and dismissed: Mrs. Bertha Rice, 503 Madison street. Dismissed: Mm. Marlin llabeg- *| ger and baby boy, 101 South Fifth , street. OHundreds Os Gallons r Os Gasoline Ignited * Several hundred gallons of gaxor line spilled ov»-r the sides of the Elberson bulg gasoline lank at the y corner of Adams and Eleventh 1 streets and became ignited late [ Thursday afternoon. 1 The fire for a time threatened i the large storage tank The city ' fire department was called and n ■ truck load of clay dirt was secured from the Yost Construction Co and i placed over the biasing gasoline. i The blaze was under control in ' a short time, but firemen continued to work for more than an hour be ' fore the flames were completely ; extinguished. ; 0 > According to American Businc»s this country's annual betting i bill is well over 6 billion dollars. Fine-Fit Frock WD -« 0 r -11 *- z 5^ ’<A xa - .• • vi \ /7) w. ' r Ji //I ‘ I //J (fl fl n ! II u Marian Martin • Fashion-faultless! Easy sewing because it has NO WAISTLINE SEAM, Pattern 90X6 has slimming vertical panels. There’s flattery in that surplice scallop-buttoning. Pattern 90X6 come* in sizes 12. 11, 16. 18, 20; 30, 32. 31. 36, 38, 40. 42. 41. Size 16. 344 yds 35-inch. Send TWENTY cent* in coin* for thia pattern to Decatur Daily Democrat, Pattern Dept., 155 N. Jefferson St., Chicago 80, 111. Print plainly YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, ZONE. SIZE AND STYLE NUMBER. The Marian Martin Spring Pattern Book Is now ready . . . It’* your* for Fifteen Cent*. Full of ■mart style* for the family plua FREE pattern for the new “bag-on«-belt" printed right Inside ' ths book.

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Don’t Blame Your Dealer ■ if You Can’t Get G-E Appliances and Radios I >• I h’s not the dealer’s fault. We don’t think it’s our fault. 1 Maybe it’s nobody’s fault. But here’s what happened: Here’s how fast G. L and its affiliated companies were making and shipping things for you: OCT. NOV. DEC. On hand Dec. 31,1945 IRONS 60,440 67,564 85,968 2S days’ production CLOCKS 181,998 177,681 256,038 days' production REFRIGERATORS 12,755 17,577 28,432 4 days’ production WASHERS 3,068 4,672 6,874 4S days' production RANGES 3,056 8,973 8,996 3 days’ production RADIOS 85 5,129 9,401 IS days' production | OAG4 (Na •*“P' nrnt ' •Pfff so asters 312 2,386 Out of the 2,485, 138 appliances manufactured in 1944 and 1945, General Electric shipped 98%, /iter the war ended, we weren’t able 98 per cent of those we’d built since even faster job then we did in the aY to get back into production of some reconversion began were out of our months before the strike, appliances as soon as we had hoped, factories. Most of them were in the But we can’t pick up production quite and production rates weren’t as high hands of users. where we left off. Production lines as we had hoped. A number of unfore- Then, on January 15,1946,0ur plants are comp iicated for that. A great seen things like material shortages made were closed by the strike. Not a single many things have been dislocated by the job harder. electric home appliance has been built gtr yj e> But there were only 120 days be- or assembled there since. And, because . w tween V-J Day and December 31,1945, our warehouses are practically empty, en e , and in those 120 days we partly recon- your dealer won’t lie able to obtain refngeratoni and toasfers and radios verted our factories from war to peace- any more until we can get back to you ye been waiting or begin co time good, and got production alerted. making them. ofr ‘ ll<! lin “ we U get , the . m lnU> During the year we turned out 2,313,791 We want to get back to producing hands of our dealers just as fast as we electrical appliances. as fast as possible. The manufacturing can - 1 h c y H competitive in pnee. We shipped these appliances out organization is set up; the machines They’ll be General Electric quality, practically as fast as made—so fast are ready, waiting to be set in motion. So, please don’t be impatient with that at the end of the year more than These factors will help us to do an your dealer—or with us. GENERAL ELECTRIC

Railroad Company Rejects Proposal TP & W Declines Mediation Proposal Sprlngnthl. ill.. Feb. 22 H'Pl ' — Pronpecbt for linmodlat** •ottle-l mont of the flve-month-ol<l Hlrik* l '.nt Tol tl<». Peoria ii Western rail-i way employ*-* w<«ro dim today after the t ompany rejected media-1 Hon propteal*. The railroad, through It* atti orney, Clarence W. Il yl. Peoria. I ' announced it* decl*iqn following | a three-hour conference yesterday. | The me ting wa* prezid'-d over | by John D. Brigg*, chairman of the lllinoi* Commerce commission, and arranged at the *nggf>*H<>n j of Gov. Dwight Green. Heyl *ai<l the railroad would de- , mand outright arbitration of Hie i**i» a whic h precipated the strike. The hitter dlapute flared into a Khooting Feh 6 in whit h five union picket* wore -.hot, two of them fatally M anwhile. It wait announced that Son. Burton K. Wheeler, It.. i Mont., chairman of the Senate I Interstate Commerce committee. had order d hearing* starting

| March 5 on a resolution to Investigate the TI’SW violence which took place nt Gridley. 11l . .. ....... . ..... .. To Announce McVay Findings Saturday Admiral Nimitz To Announce Findings Washington, Feb 22 (UPj I The navy disclosed today that it* findings in the court-martial trial jof ('apt. Charlcw McVav, 111. kipper of the cruiser Indlanapolia, I will bo annount ed tomorrow by I Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. chief of naval operatim* McVay was found guilty by a eeven man navy court last Dec i# of failing to direct the 10.000-ton cruiser to follow a zig-zag course in water* where Japanese -üb’iiarinee had i<et-n leported. He was found innocent of a second navy charge that he had failed to issue "timely" abandon chip orders. The Indianapoli* sank shortly after midnight loot July 3o in the Pliilippliiex sea after *h'- had been hit at least three time* by torpedoM fired by the- large Japanese submarine. 1-58. of the 1,196 of-

■ sic i-r* and men aboard the- cruiser J i only 316 were rescued. Many of th<> Indianapolis’ crew died in the water ue teoue wa* j nut made for five days following i the disaster. - o - House Cracks Down On Czar Petrillo Washington. Feb. 22— (UP) -| Music czar James Cacwar Petrillo: seemed certain today of receiving a -ctcincl legislative clunking but it wa* up to the senate to tay ju»t how tough congreaa would be. By a standing vote of 223 to 1.1, the house last night approved a hill to impede sweeping federal curbs on the demands of Petrillo ami hi* American Federation of Musician* IAFL) upon radio broadcaeter* It provide* stiff |>enaltie* for violations. President Truman On Holiday Cruise — Washington. Feb. 22 H'P) — President Truman is taking a week •nd holiday aboard iti«» yacht the CSS Williamsburg. Taking advantage of the George Washington birthday holiday. Mr ' Truman left Ihu White House , ■ bout in a.in. for the navy yard, where he Imarded the vessel.

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