Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1948 — Page 2

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BUTTER, GRAIN (font. From Pag* Ona) ed he will ask congres* to restore price controlii when It meet* in special session next Monday Livestock prices seesawed at the major corn lie it terminals. Prices were steady to uneven at the Chicago market but hogs sold 25 centa a hundredweight higher at Indianapolis and 25 cents lower at St. Ixiuls In Indifferent trading A department of agriculture official said livestock prices have fallen slightly since the middle of last week when they hit alltime highs at many markets. He said the pressure of a public boycott against the rising cost of meat was responsible for the decline. But he predicted the prices would continue to rise, de spite the temporary drops. Hog receipts at the 12 major

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SALE JULY 20- J L Becker. 4'4 miles Southwest of Portland. Ind. improv ■ ed 78 acre farm and personal property Midwest Realty Auction Co., J F Hantaann Auct dI’LY 20—Lipp * Grewe. Ossian. Ind. Bred sow sale. Bp. m % mile north and I'i mile cast of Ossian. Auctioneers: Roy John i son. E lenberger Bros.. Mcllravy. JULY 21—Imnald W and Ralph Oechele, 2 miles West and 1 mile North of Haviland. Ohio Well Improved 199 acre farm Midwest Realty Auction Co, J. P Sanmann. Auct. JULY 22 Ruth I Derrow 124 East 2nd St.. Defiance. O. Good 2 story building and fine modern Restaurant, 7 P. M. Midwest Realty Auction Co, J F Sanmann auctioneer. JULY 22 —Nathan C Nelson. Exec James Marth. 822 North 13th St Decatur 6 room and 3 room semi modern houses. Roy A- ! Ned Johnson. Aucta. JULY 23—Roy 8. O’Hover. 4 miles South and 3 miles East of Green town Indiana. Weil Improved 98 a< re farm and 13 head of I High Producing Cows Midwest Realty Auction Co.. J. F. Sanmann. Auctioneer.

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midwest markets were estimated at 55.000 head, which compared with 07.000 a week ago. > Hogs sold for $29 to $29 50 a i hundredweight at Chicago. They sold for up to $29.75 at tndiana--1 polls and a top of $39.50 at St. . Louis. ; Cattle receipts were up at the I 12 markets- -80,100 head as compared with only 77.000 a week ago. : Approximately 12.900 calves and 32.500 sheep and lambs came into the markets today. Wholesale ineat prices opened steady to lower at New York. Manufactures Paper Bailer From Scrap At Saving Os $2,000 ingenuity knows no bounds. A local scrap concern recently duplicated for SSOO a paper bailer which sells commercially for more than $2 500 John W Smith of the Smith scrap Iron company, devised the home-made baler, which can compress from 700 to 1,400 pounds of ; waste paper Heart of the mechanism Is an old motor from a condemned exI press elevator Cost sls. A winch purchased for $5. Steel and ■other construction material was salvaged from the mountains of scrap metal In the company's South Tenth street yard. The baler was constructed in about four days by hand, with electric welding to piece It to-i gether. It is believed to be the first such device of its kind In this area, and will soon receive nationwide publicity among the trade New Tires Displayed At Local Station Robert Gay. owner of Gay's Moi bile station. Thirteenth and Monroe streets, has been busy the last fewdays demonstrating the new tube-1 less, punchure-proof tires, for which he is the lo< al agent. Mr Gay reports that he has placed several sets of the new type tiies on automobiles and that they i are working very satisfactorily He. will continue his demonstrations' I this week. ■■■■

Three Children Are f Rescued By Scout Indianapolis Boy B Scout Saves Three Indianapolis. July 19 - (VP) — . The weekend evidential death toll in Indiana stood at five today, but * it might have been higher except for the quick thinking and action of a 13-yearold Indianapolis Boy | Scout The Stout. Ronnie Bell, engineered the rescue ot three children from Crooked Creek in {ndlanapolia yes terday afternoon. One of the three I was unconscious when pulled from ' a deep hole In the creek But at Cannelton. Ind. two teenI age girls drowned when they step- ■ ped off Into deep water while swimming in the Ohio river. Two persona were killed in auto- ■ 1 mobile accidents and one man died ■ in an airplane crash In the other i weekend fatalities. ’ The young Indianapolis Scout was sitting on a ledge overlooking! Crooked Creek yesterday when he i saw two girls and a boy struggling ■ in the water He was barely able I to extend a lonk stick to the other boy. 13-year-old Ronald Cranfll!. Then Ronnie banded the stick to Ronald and plunged into the water 1 and rescued the boy's sister. Joce-1 lyn. 20. The other girl, another sis ter. Winona, was under water and Ronnie pulled her to shore uncon ' scions. He and the older sister ap piled respiration until Mrs. Char ' lotte Hand. 52. came to their aid and helped revive the girl. The Cranftll children, none of whom could swim, were wading in the < reek when Winona stepped into a deep hole The other two floundered while trying to rescue her The two Cannelton victims were Ixiretta Weedman. 14. Tell City and Wanda Mullen. 13. Troy. They J were attending a picnic and a t om-, panion was teaching them to swim when they fell into the deep water and swift current. Robert E. Rush. 28. Bloomington, wan killed yesterday when his plane crashed as he came in for a landing at the Veterans' airfield near I Bloomington The traffic victims; Norman A. Peace. 22. Connersville. died yesterday of injuries suffered Saturday In a collision near 1 Everton. Ira Coleman. 40. Princeton, killed ' when he was struck by an east bound Southern Railways train near Princeton yesterday. Smooth Sailing Fort Wayne. Ind. (VP>— When William Early. 12. t rashed Into an automobile his bicycle was de mollshed and he sailed over the I top of the car He got up with a' bruised elbow.

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Courtesy Street i\ z \ \ —Z4 To stop h> a line of blocked traffic so as to leave clearance at alley entrances for vehicles to Mterse a typical act of traffic courtesy quailfylng a driver for serious consideration for a $5 award in the courteous driving campaign. This act also permits onco £'"! vehicles to enter an alley or drive way without needlebsly blocking traffic and at no eoet to the conn teoae driver In hie own position In the line of traffic. Still a third im portent variation Is to leave clear anew at Intersections for cross traffic whea the Una ot cart It blocked. Two Autos Collide Sunday Morning An automobile driven by John If Stucky, of Berne route 2. collided with one driven by Kenneth Hemlinger of Royal Oaks. Mich.. Sunday morning on U. 8 33 at Sun- ■ set Park Mrs Hem linger was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital for treatment for knee and chest injuries, and was released soon after It is charged that Stucky failed to yield the right of way to the Hem Unger machine, which was coming in the opposite direction. S2O" damage was inflicted on the Stucky automobile, and the Hemllnaer car suffered damage estimated at SSOO. Stucky will appear in justice of peace court at 8 p.m. tonight. The mishap was investigated by sheriff Herman Bowman. Adams County Youth Injured In Accident Ed McCullough, 14, of Decatur route 6. suffered an injured left arm late Sunday night when the automobile he was driving left the road on a curve in U. 3. 33 a mile I and one half southeast of Lk.atur and rolled over. Damage estimated at $425 was

14. — caused to the car. and McCullough was taken to Adams county memorial hospital. He was released after treatment. Sheriff Herman Bow man investigated the mishap. ALL IS IN (Cont From Page of Decatur police and state high way officials. The information booth will be

set up on the court house square Wednesday or Thursday, and someone will be in charge to answer queries pertaining to the event. All late space buyers are asked to contact R W Pruden. sei r*Ury of the fair, at the Chamber of Commerce offices this week Mr. Pruden also will hire several laborers this week to assist in the pre-fair work, he stated Gerald Vixard and his assistants have completed the job of posting advertising cards in ail nearby towns and cities and neighboring town newspapers will carry advertisements this week concerning the fair The catalogs and 4 11 rosters are in the mail today and several thousand will be mailed out this week Others may be obtained at the Chamber of Commerce offices in the library building. TWO GOVERNORS • (Con* From Page One) tucky. homes of rhe regular Dem erratic standard bearers. Meanwhile, the advance guard of Henry Wallace's third party moved into Philadelphia to complete arrangements for its first naMasonic Entered Apprentice degree Tuesday. July 20 at 7:30 p m 169b2tx Walter Lister. W M IT HAS THAT SMOKED-IN Country Flavor FRESH Smoked Sausage 59c GERBER MEAT MARKET PHONE

tional convention, a three day affair opening Friday. Hearings on itje party platform will be held ' Wednesday and Thursday. 1 Wallace, who is unopposed for ! the presidential nomination, said ! his party would seek repeal of the draft law. enactment of a minimum wage of $1 an hour and construction of 4.000,000 new homes. Asserting he was ready , for a • fight to the finish. Wallace pre- .. . j u- >u.it -imre votes

dieted he would poll more • than political observers believe Some 2.500 delegates and alter nates are expected to attend the founding convention of the third party Wallace's running mate will be Sen Glen Taylor of Idaho. BOMBERS READY (Cont. From Page One* strength of the third air division (provisional* to «0 British Sunday newspapers ed their precious newsprint to herald the arrival of the Ameri can airmen who will number 1.500 all told The sleepy villages of Lincolnshire. which surround the bases, were g* ared for a land office bus! ness In the second invasion of Yanks. But crewmen of the planes were restricted until their 1 commander. Col. Wray of Muncie. Ind. arrived from air force headquarters in Germany. Wray will brief the men *>n

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'their training activities while In J England and their Itinerary after] I i they leave |r three or four weeks : The groups will stage practice -'missions over Germany but full 1 I details have not been revealed . I Hugh Dalton, member of the J British cabinet, said the arrival of the bombers had no connection with Marshall plan aid or any ! treaty myself would suspect their j arrival here has some connection

with the need to continue supplying the population of Berlin." he said. Emanuel Shinwell, secretary of state for war, told a labor party meeting in Hordeh Although there Is much that is exp osive in the Berlin situation nolexly wants to fire the first shot and I don't believe any body will." POISON IW T I W I SUMAC Science has diaroveeed an excellent new treatment for ivy, oak and sumac poisoning. U's gentle »d safe, drice up the bHstersln a surprisingly abort time, often within 24 hours. At druggists, S9r

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