Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1947 — Page 2

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Says Tomato Crop ♦ Is About Average > Operations Started At PrebPe Cannery This year’s tomato crop for canparies will be about average, according to Dick South, manager of the new canning plant at Preble. Which opened last Friday. Receipts for the first few days are larger than usual, and Mr. South pointed out that tiff? bml of the crojfo never starts moving until earn' September. The first truckloads received by the Preble concern are average in every respect and itpis believed that the run will be as long as anticipated. About 40 women are employed at present at Preble, and more will be hired as soon as the receipts increase, which will in about a week or 10 re is estimated. Early weather conditions, which replanting of hundreds of acres of tomatoes in this section of tlx* state, apparently have been overcome, and the hot weather and recent rains have been a great aid in registering an average cron.

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More than 20 tomato canning concerns buy the crop in Adams county and hauling to the various plants located in Decatur, Preble, Wells and Huntington counties : will start the latter pSrt of this week and the finst of next week.

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RABBI Baruch S. Korff, co-chair-man of the Political Action Committee for Palestine, informs the United Nations Palestine commission that if it fails to recommend unlimited emigration, he is set to lead a “parachute invasion” of the Holv Land. (I nternatinnal\

' Marine Pilot Sets ’ A ■ New World Record ® © Air Speed Mark Os i 650 6 Miles An Hour Muroc Army Air Base, Cal., Aug. 26 — (UP) — The blood-red Douglas Skystreak, breaking its own i five-day-old record, tocjpiy held thej world’s air speed (fagcord of miles an hour. Marine ace Maj. Marion Carl, who knocked down 18 Jap planes during the war, set yesterday in four hammering passes through the shimmering desert air. He hit 652.642 on his first and btgt run, flashing through the 1.863 mile spera trap just 125 feet above the lake bed and then pulling up and away in 2ii easy roll. His other runs were 649.358. 652.578 and 648.730 mph. All bettered the previous record jtf 640.7 set Wednesday in the same ship by navy pilot T. F. Caldwell. Motor triable resuming rfom a badly adjusted govenror, which hampered ' Caldwell, was corrected yesterday. E. H. Heinmann, the Skystreak’s designer, said Carl could have raced the sun along the latitude * of Berlin and London. He would* have had to set his watch back when he landed. The lanky Hubbard, Ore., pilot hadr the big cigar-shaped ffiane in 1 t I L . . -'/J X;''J re /am, gi| & W Mwwar I IMKXT L«K US7W6 Imko, bir Ogtr- dtc ecouoaucsl >czieu.T «li d DSTT. One gallon of mi&Mt wrtii v«Kr mek« 5 VEtT, foe r«<w>.zed WWWtfb for pin rfom kifhwg est sflefoex Petwoy r» be sprayed, 1 or rned c»n<c tfifo Kohne Drug Store

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the air only 18 minutes. A? top speed, it uses up 2.4 tuns of fuel an hour. © o House Plants Remember that most flowering plants must have sunshine to bloom. Therefore, a south window is the 5 bSt location for inside winter ers. Foliage plants which are growriS 5 for their decorative leaves, may do, ' well at north windows. 67 ;® 0 RUMORS PERSIST U. S. (Cosirinned rrom ing construction” in an area here where few people formerly were known to be living. Bissell said he accompanied Robert Fenwick, a reporter for the Denver Post, a photographer, and a pilot on a flight over the mountain range adjoining the Sandia army air base. "We got 24 pictures,” Bissell said. “They were very accurate photos. I saw the negatives and they showed very clearly some excavations into the moun|aln» side.” “ The diggings looked like “subterranean labs,” he said. , He said army intelligence officers “swarmed all over us” when thtWparty landed. The officers confiscated the rfegaltives :fnd s* asked us what we were doing and where we got our information.” Fensick filed a copywrited story to his paper before being questioned. said, and the officers refused to “confirm or deny it." Czar Isngston, sectary of the Miami, Okla., chamber of com merjjjs. said he had exchanged correspondence with Lt. Gen, Raymond K. Wheeler, chief of army engineers, about the feasibility of using abandoned mines for warehouses. Langston said army officers have made preliminary surveys and found the “highly , suitable*’ for use' as forage **

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