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I PAGE FOTIRI THE i COLUMBUS HERALD, COLUMBUS, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1943 vest in 'em for His trip? -V The state has. been hard-pressed to keep; positions filled in state institutions the last few months, announcing tbe first of the month that it had 320 vacanci ea, and appealing (for applicants, for them. The trouble seems to be largely that it has been coming but second best in today's hectic competition for help, 'partly "and perhaps largely because its salaries were fixed in advance and at levels under those of war industry- battalion, M. 1 San Diego, 40, California. He is the son of Mr.

and I Mrs. James Pfelffer, 1719 Pennsylvania street. Mrs. Wilbur Powers and daughter. Miss Helen Powers, Mrs.

John Richardson, Mrs. Frank Rice. Lynn and Shirley Rice spent Sunday in Indianapolis visiting Wilbur Powers who underwent an operation at Robert Long hospital Friday. Pvt. Wilbur Probst, son of Arthur' Probst of Cortland route 1, has been transferred from the Fort Benjamin Harrison reception alter Oneal.

sher exp (proc- ess mileage) 5.T9 "lu8ame bd. 101.40 Thomas, sur Sal 131.25 SX Keesling, co agt sal 20.0t Pauline Chambers, co agt A X- Kee5lJner. co agt exp S4 9i I Anderson, same same 29.0F ired Newby, assessor sal 96.6 Forrest V. Carmichael, co i supt sal 200.0 Dorothy Roupp. co supt sten The DHuoble Prtg Co.

same 8.6t tarne. same 1 8fc rwuM p'ros" 'it 187150 Pros af sten 75.00 Pros, exp 5.00 e.edprtg Co. coroner's exp 20.80 Health com sal 41.35 Vllr 8ame r'00 same 50.00 Zetta Davis, same nn HeleniC Kiotz. dis trev Pvt. Kenneth Allison of tbe 94th Division? at Camp Phillips, 1 son of Mr.

and Mrs. Omerj Allison of Nashville road, has beeri moved 0 Tennessee for maneuvers. Pfc Maurice Lee. Battin, husband of Mrs. Clarice Bj.ttin of 826 Jackson street, has graduated in armament from A.A-F.

Technical Training command school at Lowry Field, Colo. Before entering service March 24, he was employed by Reeves Pulley company. Orville W. Baute, A. S.

N. 35091366. son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baute of Columbus route 7, has been promoted to prPoral.

He may be addressed Company 393rd Engineers S. S. regiment, Camp Claiborne, La. Mrs. Homer whd under went, a minor operation at the county hospital, has been moved to her home at 1109 Sycamore street.

Frederick E. Best, son of Mr. and Mrs, Owen Best of Hirtsville, has been promoted to private first class. He is stationed at! North Camp Polk, La. Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Bbilanger of Hartsyille have received word from their son. Staff Sgt. Arthur Boilanger, who was in North Africa, that he had been moved to Sicily. Another son, Herbert, has been transferred from Camp Bowie to Camp Barkeley, Tex.

A third son, Sgt. Richard Bdilanger, has been stationed at Camp Bowie since June. Pvt. Robert Boll, son of plr, and Mrs. Raymond Boll of th is i city, has been transferred from a Railway- operating battalion it Van Buren, to New Orleans where he is now in the medical corps.

His present addfess is 285th Station hospital, N. O. S. A New Orleans, 12, La. Sgt.

Elmer Bracken, who has been spending a 15-day furlough with his parents. Dr. and Mrs. L. E.

Bracken, went to Friday to visit for a few days before returning to Amarillo Air field, where he is stationed. Miss -spansy Jane Bradleyj who left here Wednesday for service in the WAVES, may be addressed A. S. Regiment 14, Building Naval -Training school (W.R.), Bronx, 'N. Y.

Farris E. 25, husband of Mrs. Kathryn J. Brown of; 919 Sycamore street, has won recognition as a "qualified strik ir" upon: his recent graduation from the Naval Training5 radio school at the University of Chicago, i His recognition was announced by the Ninth Naval district headquarters and with further experience he may be eligible for an advanced petty officer rating. I Mrs.

Buckminster, has accepted a position at Ithe At- terbury Air base. Mr. and Mrs Carl Bullard of Hope have received a lette! from their nephew. John Robert Fow- i' ler. who is stationed at Jackson ville that he has been transferred to the Aviatioh Ord- nance shop.

His address is John itoDert owler, seaman second class, Box 34, Ordnance, S. N. A. S-, Jacksonville, Fla. Dr.

and Mrs. Parker Burtis, 616 Franklin street, are the of a daughter borri at the hospital Monday morning. parents county Eugene Cain, on I leave from North Camp Hood, is Visiting "his family at 1621 Gilmore i street. It is his 'first visit Christmas. He will, be here until Sept.

17. Morris E. Cain, 1452 Lafayette who left Sept. 2 tq enter the Seabees, has been mt to Camp Peary, where he may be addressed: M. M.

2c, U. S. N. Platoon 8111, Barracks 108, Area G-3. Mrs.

Delia Campbell, 516 Union street, has received word that her son, Edwin Campbell, has arrived at his destination in the Panama Canal zone and friends desiring his address may get it fropi her John Doup, aviation ma chinist's' mate, second clasS, who has been attending naval training school in Chicago for a year, and has been home on 10-day furlough visiting, friends and relatives, left for his, new assignment ifci San Francisco, Calif. Don 'Wayne Coombs, aviation machinist's mate, third, class, now has an overseas address which may be obtained from Mrs. Coombs, who resides at 105! Hege street, East Columbus. Pvt. Arvel E.

Davis, who left for start of training Sept. 1, hafe been sent from Fort. Harrison to -the Infantry Replacement Trjaining center at Fort Ala, He is the son of Mr. and Mrs: Baal am Davis of 909 Jackson street. Pvt.

Marcella M. Davis, WAC, daughter of Benjamin H. Davis of Route 1, has graduated from the Motor Transport school of the Second. -Training Renter, Women's: Army corps, at Daytona Beach, Fla. One of 26 members of the graduating class.

Private Davis underwent a 6-week icourse of training in driving, instructions in, care of vehicles and mainten- ance Work. Miss Dorothy Dilts, daughter of Albert Weales, who recently completed her course at the Meth-, odist Hospital School of Nursing at Indianapolis, has returned here' to accept; a position on the nurs- Ing staff Of the Bartholomew coun- A Vii Hi- THE COLUMBUS HERALD Established 1881. With, which Is combined The Columbus Daily Herald, The Columbus Weekly Star. A Democratic Newspaper Published every Wednesday in The Herald-Republican 444 Fifth Columbus. Ind.

I Telephone .6112 entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbus, Indiana I- Subscription Rate, Per year by mail $1.50 VTEWS ON THE NEWS. I You may take jthis as a "plug" for War bonds or however you wish, but you'll have to admit that our military leadership is using Am erican equipment instead of Am erican blood to take its objectives irherever this Can; possibly be lone, ana this takes money fine equipment loney. because annot- be produced 5 even in Am-rica withbut the! use of fine mate rials and! painstaking workman ship. -i A paragraph jor two from an iyewitness account of the landing in the beach at Salerno illus-rates what we mean. the Preliminary bombardment, says ihe correspondent, "'the-- rear admiral ordered hs assault boats to Hgp 'ahead with the landings as planned, jandj signal lights flash- ed the word to the troop-carrying vessels; -And hen the barrage Son the beaches opened up.

Never jjiave I witnessed anything like it either in Tunisia or Sicily; And oneof the British officers or Am erican naval men on board had ever seen anything equal to the eruption of explosives on the ch ahead." The point is that rf we had no. egard for the lives our young men, we. could have' sent them ashore with a less, expensive prep a ration and saved The Germans and (even moreso the Japanese have not shown too much solicitude fori the lives of their men in many of their campaigns, but we jdon't look on ours as "cannon fodder" jif we can do anything about it. Our careful campaigns across the Atlantic and in the Pacific; where the enemy's losses in men have always exceeded jour own, prove it. But in every case the difference has boiled down to superior equipment lavishly I used when necessary.

That kind, -of equip1 iment' used for! that purpose is money well spent it Bartholomew county has es-caped so far one of the conse quences of the meat shortage. From other parts of the state have come reports of livestock hefts on a- scale well above -those in normal times These have run nto thousands bf dollars i and are attributed to 'Criminal- efforts to supply the black market as well a the thieves' personal larders, in some sections the situation has tecome. so bad that it has brought the threat from farmers to form i-rmed to combat the night iraiders. i I I The black market I theory in ex plaining sfome of the thefts is sup ported by their wholesale nature. For example, near Delphi 4.3 hogs nd a heifer were taken in one ht: near Veeidersburg.

40 shoats; in Dearborn county, ten Jjiead of near wO cows." It is supported fur ther by the fact that in some of ijhe robberies the animals have heen slaughtered "St; or near the In Ohio reported finding and hooves of a farmer the heads, hides his cattle in a woods nearby. The farmers part in such thefts will be extra vigilance in, watching his property and a reasonable acceptance of ckirrent market instead of too much speculative withholding of stock from- thus encouraging the development of tfie criminal phases of the law of supply and demand. recent word from Washington that the Government will try "to get the public to curtail its ujse of War-strained public utilities has resulted in some of the editors suggesting that the Government get its house in order i this respect. There seems to be no question that the strain exists on virtually all utilitiesp-water, gjas, electric, telephone and telegraph Consequently, there is no quarrel with, the idea of economizing on the use of them. The point 'is that, particularly whien it cprr.es to the telephone and telegraph, the Government has not set.

a good example. 'The chief offenders in the use of the telegraph and long ttjnce telephone lines," says -t lis- the Madison editor, "are not private business but the swarma of government employes. Wheri one of them is. asked Ian interpretation ofj some regulation and he picks ujf the telephone and calls Washington with the same freedom that one would! call home, it is difficult to feel that a crisis is injpending. There is little doubt that the people will be pleased to coloperate with the government in lessening the Strain rorr utilities hut cooperation is a two party affair and until the pleaders for, curtailment begin to curtail themselves it is going to be "hard get much action from the peo- plf It all boils down to the old maxim that public money is the easiest money to spend, and pub- lie time is the easiest time to wa sU, It't to I to serve as the pilbt of a He is1 JjL Lawrence who enlisted Krmy Air i forces at the age ofj I it, right jaf ter he1 -was graduated from Edinburg H.

S. in 40f Seymout 'police hare naS to step in to control an? epi- emic of those "holt I bombs'! we mentioned around the 4thiof jJuly i.threatenine for Skids caught with the dangerous trivances fashioned from Icon- bolts ajftfa match I. An exchange quotes a eity girl saying- she doesn't see why they should talk ibput rationing butter r. because to make "all ydti need the stuff is a cow, a (have some grass and source points put ths.t the war has had its advantages as well as disadvantages que ting another gal1 that it has been some time since she stepped on a wad of jaw-process chewing there was the iscotchrrjan whose igirl friend got so fatfihe wan tea to break the engagement. couidn get the ring off: he had to tmarry her.

-I IT'S A. WISE FATHER, ETC. The most uncertain job in (the wrld isl being a pre-Peal Harbor father. Just about the timej he thinks he knows where he stands, somebody says something, or sofriething happijis. i.

'ink wasn't dry on the extras, announc ing Italy's i surrender before new rope on the militaijy prospects? of that hapless section of pop ulace. of whom -if eel that, after all. they didn't have mjich to do with the fact that they're pre-Pearl IHarbor I fathers in jthe first place. any kind of a father is confusing without getting Hawaiian geogra-ply. miised sp! in- 'jit.

jiit ifdw stands," a contemporary; jays, "te fathers are not sure of anything. that they! are I ll THE DAY THE WAR ENDS We are indebted to the Stars' and Stjj-ipes newspaper for this infor-mition on. post-war planning Jay those most interestid-7-tbe boys in uni form The program being mpre fliss planned the 1 1 oys, according to the S. S-, these, "The beer wilj run out in the first hour and a1 half there will; be frantic calls to 1 Milwaukee and I Munich the vats there, will have 1 but been emptied in 20 minutes by the nearest armored divisions. J.

Every woman on alb the the age. continents! between Of' 10 and 90, not under an armed guard, willj be kissed by an American befere sunset, i. 6:30 the first argument about who won the war will have begun and 2.500 Americans, Chinesei British, Australians, Russians, French, Greeks, Czechoslovaks and Cubans will be under treatment' contusions for shock arid will have mysteriously disappeared from the Bll CCl 1. and will be discovered three days later hudd- ling iri ait- raid shelters. 1" thousand P-38 pilots will solemnly swear at 7 o'clock hever to travel again by anything more rapid thin the Erie i Railroad never to go up- more than three stories in any building.

lieutenants will suddenly bee ome 'ery polite to privates from Lheir hoihrie tpwas jwho'se fathers owr good businesses Arabs will wash in celebration and their wives will not i cog-; nize one of them will be I bitten by his own dog. In a park in Munich, a young lance corporal will get bp on a soap box and declare that the German army was never really beaten it -was betrayed by, a large num ber of Eskimos. had insid lously wormed their way into key German govern- ll' Vclock the next morning, all the aspirin will be gone." STINK FACTORY We. understand thatjone of the types of in dustry you don't want the Cham be of Commerce, to, hustle and gerjjisja syntljietic! out the the tory. oine across Ohio" from Nalbany and chief difference between smell it1' arid a skunk make, they say, is that the skunk just works at it when he gets mad about the rubber factory ft; is never happier than when producing ailot of smell whether turns' out any rubber or piot OR MAYBE SOMETHING SHE ET An Indiana farmer's wife went ito consult, the doctor She told him she was afraid she had a dreadful disease! "You know," she said, 'after I get up, dress myself and the cook breakfast wash the prepare the children for strain the new milk and sl; it away to cool churn and work thel 1..

sweep land dust.w. do I the the baby his I bath. cook dinner and wash thel dishes; all afternoon, cook supper and Wash the dishes the children and put theni to bed. sit down Ifor thel evening, I am too tired to! do never used to i feel so. must be the hookworm!" Attica Ledger-Tribune.

1 SANDALS FROM N. AFRICA Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mason and their daughter, Mrs. Thelma Combs, of Pleasant sU E.

Columbus didn't have to put out ration stamps ifor their newest shoes Their son and brother, Corp." Clayton Mason, sent 'em each a pair of grass shoes from N. Africa where he's serving with an Engi neers He's been across seven months. shoes are natrve maae sanaais, which tie on with a string. I Frank Dale Lain of I Edinburg, who underwent a minor' operation at the county hospital, I has been moved to his home. I MrJ and Mrs.

Edward B. Lister have moved back into their! resi- dence, 827 Sycamore street follow- 1 ing arrival of Mr. Lister here Thursday night from Lpuisvill e. where he had been taking ah air- planet mechanics Course. and Mrs.

Lister are now Both he erkipfr oy- with i the sub-depot at Army Air field. Attirbury Miss Grace Lister. 508 Second street, has been admitted to the county nospitai lor a major oper- ationl Staff Sgt. Lucas has been iransrerrea xrom a barrage balloon battalion in California to Fort Custer, where his ad- dress is 666th "Military police (escort guard) company, Pvt. Norman Lucas, ivHid left with the September 1 soldier group, has been sent from ifort Harrison to Camp Mackall.

His new address is 363th Qrdriance Auto Maintenance i Company, 157tH Ordnance battaliorij Camp Mackall, N. C. He is thri se cond of the group reported Camp Mackall. sent! to Richard E. Mahaffey's hew ad dress- is A 1c, ARM U.j Naval air gunners school, Jacksonville, according to word received by his parents, Mr.

aid Mrs, Harry Mahaffey, of HartSville. I Mrs. Charles M. Malsori of 517 Sixteenth street, who rece ntly re- turned from Fort Dix, N. J.

where one yisnen ner nusDana, jpi. wai son, received word he has at Fort Pierce, Fla, where addreas is A.S.N. 355617.69; 257th Ordnance company, N.N.A.T.B. Mr. Albert Mathews has been moved to her home on Route 7 from the county hospital.

Mrs. William McDon aid who had been in the county! hospital fnr tlrpft tmnt Via ha.n i Woved to her home, 623 Second str Jarjies R. McFadden has been moved to his home in Edinbur froni the county hospital Where he was under treatment. Th address of Harold Mc- Jueeh who was recently: inducted into U. the Navy, is Compahy 1276, Naval Training station, Camp Hull, Great Lakes, 111.

Pvi Frank Meyer has returned to Wash ington, D. afteb! spend- ing Mr. few days with his parfents, and Mrs. Frank Meyer, hear Jonesville. He was transferred from tend Camp Blanding, Fla, to at-Georgetown wiiverfeityj at ington where his address is Wash Company 2516th S.

U. A. S. A. S.

N. 35138290. Platoon 2. Earl Middendorf, electrician third class, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs! Frank Middendorf of Route 8, on a 5-day leave returned Sunday to Nor- irom, va.

Mrs. Charles Miller arid baby were moved Saturday evehine in an ambulance from Barkes and Albright funeral home to their home! in Nashville from the coun- ty hqspital. Mrs. William Mize hajs been moved I to her home 1502 Washington street from the coiin 1 ty hospital. Sgt Harold Mdore, sort 'of Mr.

and Mrs. William O. Moore, of this city, is ill in the hospital at Camp uoropn according to word ireceiv- ed by his parents. His address is A.S.N. 15106202, Station Hospital, vvara tamp Gordon, Ga.

The address of! Flovd Husrh Myers who left here jrectntly tor service with the: Seabees is Platoon 8122, Area C-3, huL S. Naval Construction Training cen- ter, Camp Peary, Williamsburg, va. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nehreni 724 Jackson street, have received a letter from their, son, Donald Carl Nehren, U.

S. Navy seamkn second class, who is now in i Sicily. He stated the country was very different from North Africa and that he liked it and was I welL I James W. Ogilvie, who is sta tioned at Camp Phillips, Kans has been promoted to corporal, ac cording to word received by his wife. Mrs.

Ogilvie has returned home after a 3-month visit with her husband. Pfc. Glen P. Outman of Camp Breckenridge, is spending a 15-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Ira' Outmah Waymansville. He has been on maneuvers in Tennessee with the 83rd Division. Donald D. Pardieck. grandson of Mr.

and Mrs. H. Arnholt, west of Columbus, won first nrize in a national contest sponsored by the National Association of Insur ance companies, with an essay on tire prevention. He is the Son of Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred Pardieck, re siding near Mattoon, HI. Th prize is $100 cash Mrs. Elmo Patton of 608 Pearl street, who went to Indianapolis Friday to consult a specialist, was found to be a little improved. She has been suffering with i high blood pressure, and a heart ailment for some time and hs been under the care of a specialist since June. i Russell Perkinsoh, 18, gunner In the U.

S. Navy at Norfok, Va, has been given the rating of petty officer, according to word received here by his parents, Mr. arid Mrs. Ernest Perkinson, 1524 Lafayette A VAn 1 1 a i I 1 1 Pfc James Albert Pfeiffer of the U. S.

Marines has completed his "boots training at San and is now; attending corporal school, according to word received by He is Paymasters department. His address is Company Headquarters IB Mii. and Mrs. Fred Cookson of 418 Pleasant street. East Colum bus, tare the parents of twins, a boy I and a girL born at the county hospital Saturday night.

Mis. George Drach, who had been! in the county hospital for treatment was moved this morn ing to her home at 1303 Sycamore street. Mils. F. E.

Druart of Vincennes underwent a minor operat'on at the county hospital Tuesday morn ing. Mrs. Charles Foster of Jonesville, who had been in the county bos pitali for observation, has been moved home, Pvt. Joseph 8. Foust has re turned to Fort Bragg, N.

after spending a. furlough with his pa rents, Dr. and Mrs. J. W.

Foust at If ope. He was recently trans ferred from Camp Robinson, Ark. and may be addressed. 15341573, 41st Evacuation hospital. Fort Bragg, N.

Mifs. Chester Freeman, who has been! under treatment at Methodist hospital at Indianapolis, was movd Sunday to her home, 1010 Franklin street. Her condition is improved. Pvt. George Earl Gates, son of Mrs.

Carrie Lane of R-oute 7, who had jbeen in Tennessee, has been transferred to Camp Phillips and his new address, is Company 319trj Infantry, A. P. O. 80, Camp Philips, Kans. Another son of Mrs.j Lane, Chester Lane, was recently promoted to the rank of private first class.

He is stationed at Cfamp Hood, Tex. Palil Grider, 422 Pleasant Street, East! Columbusjinderwent alpin-or operation at thX county hospital Tpesday morning. Pvt. Ernest- W. Hall, who had been! in the hospital in Virginia, is ncme for a Tew days, visiting his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Gerald HallJ at Azalia. His brother. Pfc. Willikm M.

Hall, has been trans-ferrejd from Arizona to Virginia, according to word received by his parents. He may be addressed A.S:iff. 35366885, Battery 448th A.A.4.. (A.W.) battalion, U. S.

Armir Air base, Richmond, Va. Mifes Wilma Ruth Harrington, who i had been employed by the V. E. Sprouse comnanv. has ac cepted a position at the Atter bury) Air base as un.der clerk-typ ist the personnel office.

Mil and Mrs. Robert Harrington of 1206 Cottage avenue are the parents of a son born Tuesday morrang at pen county hospital Sgl. Henry Harris of the VJ. Marines is home on a 10-dav fur lougrf. He is I now stationed at the Marifee induction center at Evans- ville, Elmer Hass of 801 Third street has jbeen moved home from the county hospital where he was un- oer treatment.

Paul Henderson of Route 7. who ihaxi been in the county hos- pital for an appendectomy, has oeeni moved to his home. Pvt. Russell E. Henderson.

In ducted into the Army recently, has been! transferred from the recep tion center at Fort Beniamin Harrison, to the Infantry Replace- mentJ Training center at Fort Mc Clellan, Ala. He is the son of Mrs. Emma Henderson of 507 Jones street. Gerald Robert Hendricks, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Wayne Hendricks of 5Q1 Gladstone avenue, East Co-lumbjus, underwent a minor operation at the county hospital Tuesday morning Pfcj. Raymond B. Hodgin left Friday for Fort Dix, N. after spending a 12-day. furlough visiting bjis parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Fred R. Hodgin, 635 Reo street. He had been on maneuvers in Ten-nesseje for three months. Robert Hoffman, seaman second class! in the U.

S. Navy, and son of Rjrs. Muriel Hoffman, is now stationed at the Navy yards in Philadelphia, Pa. -4 WifHam E. Hulse, husband of Mrs.

Ruth Hulse of Grammer, was awarded the advanced rating of firemSan second class upon his recent graduation from school for diesejman at the Naval Air Technical Training center, Navy Pier, Chicago. Announcement of his rating was made today by Ninth Naval District headquarters. Mrj and Mrs. Norman T. Johnson pf Washington, D.

are the parerits of a son, Thomas Scott, born recently at Mrs. Johnson was formerly Miss i Audrey Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harrr G. Hill of 1434 Sixteenth street, Mrs.

Hill is now in Washington with Mr. and Mrs. JohnSon and son. Pv. Albert; W.

Jpnes, son of Mr. and Paul Jones, has returned to i the University of Georgia at Athens after a few days'( leave which he spent at his home; here. He has been accepted for training under the Army's Specialized Training program. cPn John B. Joy has returned to Cjamp Phillips, after spending a 15-day furlough with his wttfe at Elizabethtown.

He had been Ion maneuvers in Tennessee before being transferred to Camp Phillips where his address is 80th Reconnaissance troop, A. P. O. 80. Mrs, Georgia Kendall of 320 Sixth street has received a letter from jher son, Paul, who enlisted in the Marines.

that Vim lace avenue, returned home after spending a week with her son, Pvt. Shenhan Lucas, who has been serkusly 111 of; spinal meningitis at Halloran General hospital at Staten island, ft. y. The condition of Pri vate Lucas is Improving. Some persons looking for em-t ploymer4 will find these State jobs -for-l' other reasons than attractive salary, however.

Many of the positions ppen may be filled by are not rugged persons enough for industry including dis abled veterans bf military service. Veterans are given preference by law in Ifllling. state jobs. Another advantage of some of the places open is that, in addition to pay, full mainten nee is provided the workers including as we lodgings, laundry stand and this medical service. And some of work is said to be ideally suited fear married couples.

Per- sons1 interested may consult the Employment service or the Public Welfare department. -'j LVictoyj gardeners who found it a i good hobbyjj as "well as good economics and plan to take another try at it next spring, are advised by the Department of Agriculture, to make use of this fall's crop of falling leaves to improve their garden soil. This "material makes qUickTrotting compost, oi inlay -be spaded into the ground this fall to break down into humus which will make the soil easier to work next' yearjand capable of storing more water. Many pf the vacant lots were used foi- gardens for the first time this summer, consequently jhad never be eh "built up" vegetable: cuiture, and this is'i undoubtedly the reason why some of the gardens were disappointing. It should help, to get the leaves in the soil i instead of burning! them.

Anotl ev word about dehydrating vegetables: Bcience has; further cut the is! lipping bulk of such food by compressing it, so that a half-ton of cabbage, for example, can be reduced to 544 potfnds when dehydrated and put into a pack-age of one cubic foot when compressed So far, the advantages of these inewly-developed I processes lie almost altogether in saving hipping space in getting? vitamin- bearingjj- vegetables to the armed forces "ijrseas, although eventually some of the. benefits may accrue to the average householder. It is one brick of. compressed'; carrots weighing two and 'one-fourui pounds will when re- ponstituted seryei 50 'to 60 men, and that 16 such bricks Will fit into a 5-gallon can. '1 i The biher day came across an interbteting analysis pf what it costs to drive an automobile, on the basis of gallons "of fuel rather than rh leage.

The New Albany editor (jtiaptes an anonymous "calcu lator to! the effect that using your three gallons of gasoline a week eofets you $1.50 a gallon. were are me ngures lor a lyear driving Federal: Use tax 5.00 10.50 6.24 40.00 52.00 100.00 21.84 25238 State license Gas tax (156 gal at 4c) Insurance grease, etc Depreciaition on car Gas (156 gal. at 14c) Year total Dividing the $252 by 52, you get $4.52 per week, and dividing that by thred you get $1.50 per In some respects, the veterans of World war I can figure that they w4re ''born 25 years too soon." Tthe equipment used by to day's soldiers is constantly being including those items designed! for their safety and comfort as well as the. ones intended primarily inflict discomfort on the enemy. Latest thing" of the sort to; comej to the public's attention is a new-type water bag, for use chiefly in desert and tropical sectors.

Tjhii one is said to keep water to 15 degrees cooler than the type Liised in the last war. The jsrime of 'this piece pf equipment, the improved canvas JUisterf is to sterilize water and present disease; but by employing the principle of evaporation the new one also improves the taste and. lowers the temperature. Mihy a 1918 veteran can tes- i A 1 111 1 a A. tify that both the taste and tem- perature could stand improve- ment.

NO SALE At the Bruce auc tion sale the other day Mrs. S. Bonnell, who had charge, sold accident She had put it lfi bureau and forgotten it. the sale it was gorie and it took her i some time to beeri. remember where iti had Dal Taylor was1 just as surprised find it in1 the drawer ft the bureau she'd bought (Bonnell got her hat back Bohall kilt a large rattlesnake hunting squir rels i ml the knobs south of Brbw nstown last week He, Donald stiller and Wallace McComas went down to hunt with Mil-was ler of Brpwnstown.

he off. by jlMmself when he across the rattier. came Was rat- five foot long and had ties and a button. is being released to farmers to Will pests," says the Rushville Rep. "and if any game gets in the way, that will be just too j.

Edinburgh Courier suggests that for settling lot of problems there isn't anything as simple' and Inf lective as a kick the Speaking of War bonds as who isn't these days? an Edinburg boy, before starting off on a little trip, sent, his mother $1,000 to it- center to 171st Engineers Combat battalion, Camp Carson, Colo.1 1 I Pvt; Kenneth L. Rager, who left with the soldier group Sept. 1 for start iof training, has been sent- to Camp Mackall and his address is 3538th Ordnance Auto Maintenance company, 157th Ordnance battalion, Camp Mackall, N. C. Mrs.

Malinda Raidy of 1132 Ninth street, who underwent; a major operation a week ago at Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis, is improving and will be moved soon to the home of her brother, Walter Horman, west of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Reeves, 528 Second received -vord their son, Sgt. Donald L.

Reeves, has arrived in England. and Mrs. James Richards of 1823 Elm street are the parents bf a son born at the county hospital Tuesday morning. Pvti Russell E. Ricketts, an Armyi aviation student, has been transferred from Miami Beach, land his new address is 7139 Barracks, 345th College Training detachment, Des Moines llowa.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eden Ricketts, 2126 Elm street. Corp. Bert Runyon of the U.

S. Marines is now on "a nice, little island" in. the South Pacific where there are many cocoanuts and bananas' but it is "pretty hot," according to a V-mail letter received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Runyon, 1444 California street.

It Was their first word from him in three months. He said he had been in New Zealand. f. Award of a marksman medal in rifle shooting to Pfc. William T.

Sanders, son of Mrs. Minnie Sanders, near: Hope, was announced today by headquarters of the Ordnance Training center at Camp Santa Anita, Calif. Service sons of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Schnell of Route 7 are stationed iri Florida, one in training as a Navy flier and" the other as an Army flier.

Their addresses are Seaman, second class, Roy M. Schnell, V-5, Section 4, U. S. Ni U. Naval Air station.

Lake City, and A. C. Myrl H--Schnell, 409th Training Group, B. T. C.

4, Squadron L-l, A. A. F. T. Miami Beach, Fla.

Mrs. J. L. Schooler and daughter, Carolyn Ellen, were moved Wednesday to their home at Seventeenth street and Park avenue from the county hospital where the baby was born Sept, 2. Pfc.

Edwin Schuette has been transferred from Camp Hood, to Camp Robinson. where he may be addressed Company 61th Tank Destroyer battalion. He recently returned to camp after spending a few days there with his wife and relatives. "fJc Koutei 2 have received word from their son, Victor F. Settle, that he has been promoted to corporal.

iHe is stationed at Fort Lawton, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shattuck of Elizabethtown have returned from Front; Royal, Va, where they visited their son, Lester Shattuck, who has been in service since January training war dogs. MrSi Harry Sohn of 2735 River side drive was moved to the coun ty hospital Sunday morning for observation.

Clarence W. Streitelmeier of 811 Werner avenue has been moved home from Methodist hospital in Indianapolis where he was con- fined for five weeks. He sufferfed crushed heels in a- fall from barn and underwent operations his feet at the hospital. He is a on re ported to be getting( along satis- lacioriiy. Sgt.

i Dick Thayer, an Army Air force aerial gunner, has- been transferred from Lowry field, to Salt Lake City, Utah, where his address is Provisional squadron Army Air base. He will be 24 years old Tuesday. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon ard R.

Thayer of Flatrock town ship. Mr. and Mrs. Marion C. Toliyer of Indianapolis, former Columbus residents, are parents of a son born Monday in Methodist hospital at Indianapolis.

The baby was delivered by Caesarien operation. The son has been named John Jeffery. They have a daughter, Martha Mais. The grandparents are Mrs. Martha Stevens and Mrs.

Louis Ritzenthaier pf this city, Co mmissioners Allowances The i following claims were al lowed by the commissioners Iof Bartholomew county at their regular session in September, 1943. Oral D. Wilson, elk sal Irene Ketnei dep elk 83.0 Weed Prti? Co, clerk's 12.5 Stilwell nrufar Store, fi.60 Jaa Albrigrht, aud sal 226. Bfi Mina Sullivan, dep aud 87.60 Grace Anderson, same 87.50 Albright, aud exp 11 .00 Hull's Business Mach, same J4.8S Burford Prtg Co. same 213.50 Same, same 15.00 Same, same 10.00 Same, same 8.75 Miller-Bryant-Pierce, 4.B0 Weed Prtg Co.

same 1.28 Geo Donhost, treas sal 163.33 Ag-nes jDonhost. dep treas sal 13 Hull's Business Machines, Treasurer's exp Burford Prtg Co, same 12. 0 Stilwell Drug Store, same 3. )0 Wm Clem, rec sal 106. 6 Ellen Capper, dep rec sal 33.

(3 Clem, rec exp 3. )0 Burford Prtg Co, same 54. )5 Weed Prtg Co. same 3. Walter: Oneal, sher sal 166.

6 Glen Howe, dep sher sal 125. '0 Henry Monroe, same 50.00 bame, same .450 Ethel Flora, same 1 1 1 1 1 38 35 carpenter Drug Store, same 19.90 Helen -C Klotz. same 7.58 etta Davis, same 15 00 Harry Hartman. com sal 2666 Jphn BallinKer. same 26.6ft r1 civilian 31.05 ina eii i eiephone Co, same 8.4L The Avery Press, same 41.6? aiKer, co atty i Geo G-oesker, 125 00 Stella Morgan, same i 40 00 George GoesVfer, house (extra labor) 30 00 Stella i Morgan, same s'oo Pub Serv Co.

same (and jail) 93 21 Same, -same 9135 ilunicipal Water Office, same! 2881 Gardner Moore, same 9- 58 Thomas Electric Co, same r' (and jail) K.77 Same, same 15.48 Sanco Products Co. same 10 41 First National Bank, same lin 94 Albright, same 5 00 Col's Fire Dept. co house-co farm-jail i 570' A Railton Co, co jail 18.41 Gardner Moore, same 1.50 Edw O'Haver, co farm supt Maggie Neville, co farm 3H.08 Runge. co farm exp 32.98 Ed O'Haver, same io.no Public Service Co, same ..1 21.98 Frohman Bros, same ol.S8 Carl Vorwald, same 46.15 A Tross. same 2.57 Same, same 6.90 The Glassner Store, same 19.62 I Parker, same 60.08 Dan same j.

3.50 Sanco Products Co, same j. 43 06 Same, same 1. 32.30 Montgomery. Ward Co. same 4 77.12 Bottorfl.

same 12.77 George Barkes, Insanityji 12.00 Geo Barkes, ambulance 12.00 Same, soldier burial 00 Hathaway Sons, same 75.00. Evening Republican, public' printing 45.61 Columbus Herald, same 45 61, The Indpls Commercial, same 16.80-Barfh Co Hosp, inmates state inst 5.00 Dr Haws, co phys 41. 6S Ind Bell Telephone Co, telephones 102.71 vvicnman r-state, tax refund 28,81 Linnie McEwen, His soc 10.0ft Kenneth Jackson, co hi supt 161.20 Jessie 'Richards, co hi depdj Walter Trotter, gas fund 90.00 George Miller, same Norris Newsom. same i 164.50 Norris same 24.25 Frank Teley, same .72.30 Robert Yeley. same 18.00 Ruben Frazier Bey.

sanie 30.00 Harold Bey. same 30.00 Howard Newsom, same 187.50 Ben E. Crumpton, same 17.50 Frank Runge, same 172.50 Balam Allman, same 14.85 Glenn Hansen, same 14.85 Arthur Harris, same 81.00 Chas Hiatt. same 562.50 Lawrence Bringman, same Geo Brown, same 17.50 Edw" Strietelmeier, same 94.90 Fred Fledderjohh, same ....) 54.00 Antion Minex. same 42.00 Edw Borgrnan, same 3.00 Irwin Moorman, same 3.00 August Kleffman.

same 48.60 Herschel Kleffman. same 48.60 Virgil Hubbard. 1 same 76.60 Niel Johnson, same 6 4.00 Homer Pasley, same 70.0(1 Carl Wichman, same 13 65 Elmer Wichman; same 6.50 Otia Tomlinson. same 45.00 Carl Hoeltke, same 20.00 Charles Wheatley. same 5.00 Ralph Snyder, same 158.60 Frank Kobbe, 189.00 George tseits, same vzo Edw Stevens, same 2.93 Harold Spaulding, 30.00 Adam Eudy, same ........1.

18.00 Albert Hickey. same 195.00 James L. Hendry, same 75.60 Edw Runge, same 01. 6U Howard Campbell, same 155.40. Garrah Chambers, 142.80 Geo.

Snider, same 141.60 Cliff Carroll, same 154.80 Hary Day same 134.40 Homer Sconeld. same 141.90 Lee Hartman same 141.90 Grandville Lee, same 243.10 W'arren Sipes same i 167.40 Frank Trotter.1 same 154.80 Jesse Reno, sarfne i 141.90 Sam Malson. same 1 29.80 George Fulp. same 1 141.90 Henry Golden, same 154.80 Paul Patram. same 142.80 Lovd same 138.60 Daniels, same 96.25 Louis Price, same 1-50 Irving Bros.

Gravel Co, same 324.30. Nellie Newsom. same 10.20 Thos Fivec-oat, 1 same 66.00 Fred Fledderjohn. same 15.00 e. rvoDiitt uavis.

same at.ja Ida Meyer, same 56.78 Burnside. same 134.84 Daniels, same A. B.C. Vulcanizing Co, same 2.00 Silver Kervir Station, same 4.50 The Firestone Store, 25.42 1 Austin Sylvester, same 35.00. Shell Oil Co.

same 40.08. National Reffining Co. 97.72 The Pure Oil Co. same 261.44 Southern Machine Co. same 2.06 Golden Foundry Co.

same 7.30 Leppert. same 18.74 Adams, same 19.21 Rov Lee Dooley. same 9.37 Frank Yeley. same .69 Frank Trotter, same 3.60 Bottorff. same 1.10 Amos Lumber Co, same 10.88 The O'Neal Co.

same 44L44 Cols Creosoting Inc same 51.70 Westermeier Hd, Co, same 36.49 Wende-1 Bros, same 2.95 The Joseph Krotjt Co. 2.00 M--H Amick. same 188.66 Ind Bell Telephone Co. same 4.85 Kenneth Jackson, same 62.80 Pub Sei-vice Co. same 1.00 Donald Force, same 753.00 Edgar same 243.87, Morris Pressor, same 703.38 Meshberger Bros Stone, Corp.

same 25.89 Dorothv Wallhre Wei de 8 173.00 Iula Wagner, Wei sal 155.00 Lucile Sulton. sained. 120.00 Hazel same 120.00 John same 110.00 Myrtle Rvan. saime 120.00 Mary Beth Clevenger, same 95.00 Hazel Fitzpatrick, same 95.00 Hazel MrKain, same 35.00 Charlotte Buxton, same 100.00 Frances Clar.kson, same 75.00 Bettv Currv; same .75.00 Wallace, welf exp 69.20 Lucile' Sulton i same 11.20 Hazel Stewart, same 12.95 John Weeks, same 4.50 Myrtle Rvan, same .9.65 Marv Clevenger, same 8.15 Fitzpatrick. same 14.85 Mr-lCnin same SO nn Burford Prtg Co.

same 1.50 lawman iroe Mig co, sami? 4.83 Burford IrTtg coj same .75 I. James R. Albright, auditor in Trf fnr Bartholomew countv. Indi ana, do hereby certify that the above is a true iuh ana correst list or allowances maae Dy tne hnnrd of county commissioners at their regular session in September, JAMES R. ALBRIGHT.

County Auditor. FINISH FIRST NAVY AIR WORK Two Naval Aviation cadets from I Holumbus have I comnleted i months of physical conditioning and' ground school work7 at the TT SS Naw Prn.Pllh Athens, Gs, it was announced by tne scnooi neaaquarurs. They cadets are Francis Arnholt, son of Mrs. Minnie Am-holt of 305 Hege avenue, and Robert E. O'Haver.

nn and Mrs. Roy O'Haver of 2211 oevenn, streei. mey are bein 41 aval Air ata ,4 04 -r sta tion at St. LrruJ xtn progressiva flight begin ploma last Saturday. rived at Sheepshead Bay, Brook- Uyn, N.

for training. Mr. and Mrs.j Paul Dinkfns ofj Chicago are the parents of a 7-' Mrs. Sherman Lucas of 639 Wal- pound son born September there, New-1 ton. Mrs.

Dinkins was ottnerly Miss Dotty Thompson of this city. Her husband is in the U. S. Reserve at Great Lakes. iNaval I i' if.