Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1927 — Page 5

I CALENDAR ■ Wedntsday m \m( ion Bridge—Postponed. fK IN ., U ’|hfta Tau Social meeting— B Missis Mildred und Toot* Keller. B Five Handled club—Mrs. Herman B GUlte. 7:B0 p. m. ■ THURSDAY ■ laF'lonaircs —Moose Home. H 7:30 p. »i. ■ Christian 1 .Julies’ Aid Society--B Church, 2:30 P- m. ■■ | lt ,„i,viotiaii 1 .miles' Aid Society B Mrs. Harry Fernthell, 2:30. H \V. R. C. —2 p. m. g Auiiooi Bridge Club—Mrs. L. 11. m Kleiohetiz, T:3O p. m. B Pnptist Woman's Society — Mrs. B Lake. 2:30 p. m. 8E Fhoebe Bible class of Hcformed ■ chureli parlors. Mrs. Albert AeschilB man. hostess, 7:30 p. in. HR Lada s' Aid Society of Zion LutliB era it ' linrcli —School house, Ip. m. ■ j.|n„.|„. Itible Class of Reformed HR rluii. ■ Mrs. Albert Aescliliman 7:30 HR Loyal Daughters Class of E. V. B church - Mrs. Herb Butler, 7:30. TUESDAY R Friday B j) y. it. ' lass of U. B. Cliurcli —Mrs RB John Hid. RE gp Mary's Chorus Choir —Catholic B school building, 7:30 p. ill. ■ V, n,. n s Foreign Missionary Society B of ME. church—Mrs. J. M. Doan. 2:30. I Saturday K pleasant Mills Kpwortli League liakt B gale—Schmitt's Meut Market 8:30. B Kings llearlds of M K. church—Vir- ■ ghiia Smith, 2:30 p. m. B ' The i’lesbyteriau Ladies' Aid So B t joty will meet Thursday afternoon at B _■ ; an o'clock, with Mrs. Harry Kern B i!iti! All members are urged to attend B The Moose Legionaires will meet B Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock at R he Moose Home. A good attendance HH is urged. R ' v jL R The Christian Ladies' Aid Society R will meet in the church parlors B Thursday afternoon at two o'clock. Rj All members are urged to attend. R Psi lota Xi R Cherry Blossom Dance R The sixth annual anniversary R guest dance, “The Cherry Blossom, R was given last evening in the MaR sonic Hall by the members of Alpha R Delta Chapter of Psi lota Xi. SeveuR ty-five couples enjoyed dancing until R midnight. The hall room took the I appearance of a Japanese garden with pj its elaborate decorations. The lights K had deep shades of fringed crepe ■ paper in pastel shades. Japanese B lanterns hung from the Japam*e parR «>l suspended from the center of the R ceiling, anil were lighted with tiny ■ colored lights. Cherry blossoms were R placed about t.he room over radia- ■ tors, window sills and doors. Large H baskets of garden flowers, tulips. ■ spirea and lilacs were used as a note ■ of floral decoration on tables and I podstals. Lighted Japanese lanterns | encircled the entire room. The H orchestra alcove had a back ground ■ of net work in blue and gold, the | sorority colors. Cherry blossoms E and Japanese parasols were used in B ihe lattice work at each side. Floor B lamps in Japanese%design were used I in the sott lighting effect of the I room. The Cherry Blossom table in 1 the reception room was covered with { a Japanese scarf" and was centered E 'vi h a Japanese basket and parasol. I Large baskets tied with 1 blue tulle ■ bows, and filled with yellow tulips, Hie sorority colors, were also used in the reception room. The refreshment booth was placed under a canopy of gold and blue decorated with cherry blossoms and Japanese parasols. Feature dances Included a Psi lo a Xi dance, during which the lights "'"re dimmed and a spot light turned on a large diamond bearing the Creek letters of the sorority. Dainty powder puffs were given the ladies nml pocket combs to the men as favors. a dance for the benefit of the Hod Cross Flood Relief fund, for which Miss Helen Schroll in Red < ross Nurse attire, sold tickets at the door, netted $20.77. Don Farr's seven-piece orchestra furnished the music for the dancing. The Misses Yi'Kinia Hite, Margaret Kern, Etna Bnakenau and Helen Schroll served lmnch and distributed the favors. Tin l committee having charge of the dance included the favor and decora,iou committee. Mrs. Clifford Saylor s. Mrs.'William Lenhart and Miss Hillle Butler; refreshment committee. Mrs. R. o. Oentis, Mrs. Leigh Bowen 1

und Miss Florence Mugley. Out-of-town guests Included Miss Edna Kennedy, of Van Wert, Ohio; Don Hunsicker, Bronson, Michigan; Eugene McNulty, Huntington; Luster Schug, Berne; Mr. und Mrs. F. E. Vail, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Gerber, Miss Luella Lapp, of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. John Baumgartner, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Stalter, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Straussberg, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Stabler, Mr. und Mrs. Paul Beard, Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, of Portland, and Mrs. Elizabeth Bulch, of Terre Haute. ■ o Personals Mrs. J. R. Blair, of this city, and Mrs. Harmon Boyseil and son, Junior of Fort Wayne, motored to St. Marys, Ohio, today to attend the funeral of John Morris. The condition of Henry Kiick, well known citizen, who has been very ill for a week Is reported improving. “If I let squalls keep me at home I’d never get nowheres.” said Mrs. Lisle Mapes, t'day while dlscussin' th' New York-t'-Pai is fliers. Judge Pusey, who fixed Mrs Em Moots’s alimony at —Abe Martin, Indianapolis, News Mrs. Gerald Mylott spent the day in Fort Wayne visiting with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Click, of southeast if the city, were shoppers here this norning. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Bieberich, of not th of the city, spent the afternoon here shopping. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Vance have returned from Hanover, Ohio, where they were the guests of Homer Priest and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Earhart, Dr. Glen Neptune returned last evening from Indianapolis where Inattended the annual convention of Indiana dentists. Mr. anil Mrs. Louis W. Fairfield. >f Anola, stopped here for an hour’s visit with friends this afternoon, enroute to Berne, where Mr. Fairfield will deliver the commencement address tonight. Mr. Fairfield was, for many years, connected with the Tristate college, at Angola, and served for eight years as the representative :n congress from the twelfth district. o HOSPITAL NOTES Miss Ella Gillion, of Berne, is r< covering nicely from a major operation which she underwent at the local hospital. Miss Emma Fogle, of Geneva, nuclei went u major operation at the Adams County Memorial Hospital tills morning and is getting along nicely. MARRIAGE WILL NOT BAR TEACHER Charles F. Miller, State Superintendent Os Public Instruction, Gives Ruling On Important Question Marriage of a woman school teacher cannot abrogate her teaching contract under the new teachers' tenure law, according to an opinion of Charles F. Miller, state superintendent ot publicinstruction. which sets at rest a much mount in school circles of the state, mount in school eirclesof tlio state. The opinion will affect about la,ooo teachers in Indiana, it is said. Under the opinion, neither a teacher who marries while in the service not a married woman, who receives a contract after marriage may loose her contract because ot' tier marriage. School boards cannot legally write into the teacher’s contract a clause terminating Ihe contract if the teacher marries while in the service, according to the opinion. The new teachers tenure provides that If a teacher lias taught five year or more in the same school corporation after the law lias taken effect, she is then entitled under the tenure law. Old English Tradition All old midsummer eve custom In England was for a girl to walk backed into a garden and gather a rose This bad to bo kept in a clean si ee tt paper and never looked at■ unt* Christmas day. Tradition bad H■ the rose would then be as fu-sh as it bad been in June. The Modern Way ••These youths startle me,” an Atchison parent tells the Glebe. “I heard a young boy tell my daughter the dir Babv, I'm a week old today. because I didn’t begin to live till , * i met you. j

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Harrow Volunteers To Help Save Condemned Italian Slayer, Caruso New York, May 18. —(United Presß Francesco Caruso ilever heard of Clarence Darrow, one of the nation’s most noted crimin|l lawyers. Yet. the tragedy of Caruso, illiterate imllun laborer, bus stirred the hearts of thousands, and Harrow bus volunteered his services to those trying to save Caruso from the electric chair. Caruso, crazed by grief when his son, Joe, died lust February of Diphtheria, thought in Ills Ignorance that Dr. Casper Pendola, who attended the boy, had killed him by injecting anti-toxin. So he strangled the doctor and cut his throat. A jury decided that Caruso should die in the electric chair. Since Caruso was sentenced the ranks of those who think that first degree murder was a severe sentence for his irrational act have grown until at last the noted criminal law yer was enlisted. Alexander Murky, chairman of the Caruso defense com mittee, today said Darrow had volunteered to defend the Italian without charge on an appeal. Darrow was on his way from Philadelphia (c Chicago today. —o MORE THAN 30 CHILDREN AND ADULTS KILLED (I'O.NTIM’KD l-'HOXI I’AGE ONES) building and dash into his car. Explosion Destroys Auto A shot like from a rifle sounded froih- the machine and an instant later it went up with a second migh ty explosion. Only two hours before the school explosion, Olander said Kehoe’s house and . farm buildings had been dynamited. Two passersby, Glenn Smith, postmaster of the town, and Nelson MeFarris, 70, Smith's father-in-law, also were killed by the automobile blast, as was E. E. lluyck, superintendent us the school. o Seeks Information About Beginning School Pupils Letters asking for int'oi niation re garding the number of children whe will enroll in the public schools of tin city for tile first time next full are be ing mailed out to' school patrons b> j M. F. Worthman^ superintendent ol the city schools. Tfit- fatter states that r all children who will he six years ot age on or before September 5, 1927 j will be permitted to enroll at the open , ing of school next fall. Parents of stici . children are requested to fill in the enclosed blanks and return them ti the principal of the school to whicl ihe children will be sent, not latei than Friday afternoon, May 20. o Youthful Crimes Arc On Decrease, Statistics Show Indianapolis, Ind. — < INS) —Figure: compiled by the Indiana Board ol Charities reveal that crime among youths under 20 is decreasing. Os per sons committeed to the six Indian, penal institutions in 1925, 24 per cei.t - weie under 20 years. During 1920 tin percentage had dropped to 20. On the other hand, the class from 20 to 30 years old, mounted from 32 to 34 per cent. "Youth is adventurous by nature. A decade ago. the boys stole watermel 1 mis and fruit in their Frankish way. ' but today, due to the large urban pop.u ' lation, they are arrested for taking junk, auto tires and other less agri 1 cultural products. These offenses art ' oftentimes magnified out of propor ' tien.” » o- ' Eleven-Year-Old Girl Awarded Carnegie Medal Little Falls, N. Y.— (INS)—Eleven • year old Susanna Mizerak, has jusi • been awarded a Carnegie medal for • her heroism. Suzanna was standing on the high ■ cement embankment of the Barge > Canal here on September 21, 1924 • when 4-year-old Poseph Piohotu fell ' into the water, which was 12 feet deei i q-iic water was six feet below tlid • edge of the cement plank. Without stuping to take off her clothes, Suzanna plunged into the wat% er caught hold of the boy and swam with him 22 feet to a- ladder in the! canal wall. — o The Well-Educated Man A well-educated man may not know many languages, may not be able to speak nny but his own, may have read very few hooks. But whatever language lie knows, lie knows precisely, whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly; above all, lie is learned in the peerage of words; he knows the words of true deseent and ancient blood at a glance, from words of modern canaille.—Buskin.

REMY PROMISES : FURTHER ACTION ; i Mayor Duvall And Buscr Await Arraignment June h; Released Under Bond Indianapolis, Muy 18 —(United Press Tim Indiana political Investigation, which started so bravely eight months ago und has dwindled Into an airing of Murlon county afTairs, moved forward today under the direction of William 11. Remy, Marion county prosecutor. Mayor John L. Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser of Indlmapolis were under charges und further action was promised by Remy. What the future turn of events will lie, the prosecutor's office did not. say, but it was declared that i "pay dirt” had been struck and Inti- i mated that additional charges are to tie placed. New tactics have been applied to the investigation and Remy and his tides assert that the charges against Duvall and Buser— Duvuli's brother-in-law —are the result. Emsley W. lohnson, special prosecutor believes thut the course now being pursued s the “key” to the aim of the probe. Remy, however, lapsed into silence tin! would make no predictions about he possibility of new affidavits or other developments. ”1 have nothing to say,” he said. Unruffled and cheerful, Mayor Duvall is awaiting June ti when he is to ie arraigned before Judge James A. Collins of Marion county criminal court. He and Buser have been released on $5,000 bond apiece, signed , by Schuyler A. Haas, city corporaion counsel. “These charges; are ridiculous," Duvall said and confidently asserted bis belief that in the end, nothing would come of them to harm him. Violation of the corrupt practices lict and filing a false statement of ■ampaign contributions are charged igainst. the mayor Buser Is named jointly with Duvall in an affidavit illeging they conspired to make a •alse statement. More specifically, Buser is accusal of permitting the mayor to sign a alse statement to which his name ilso was attached, A total of seven affidavits was Tied against Duvall, including that 1 laming Buser. o SAM BERNARD, ACTOR, IS DEAD Famous Actor Dies Aboard S. S. Columbus, Enroute To Bremen, Germany, According To Wireless New York, May 18 — (UP)—The leath of Sain Bernard, famous actor aboard the S. S. Columbus enroute to , Bremen, Germany, was announced tolay in a wireless message received from the Columbus' captain and given 'iut at tin- offices ot the North Gar--1 man Lloyd steamship company. Tlie message said: "Samuel Bernard died last night.” Bernard was 64 years old. He was born in Birmingham, England. The Columbus sailed from New York Tuesday. PIECES OF MISSING FRENCH PLANE IS REPORTED SIGHTED i con tim i-jo Kite it i*ac;k om:» air and naval attaches to determine whether to search for Nungesser or to investigate tlie possibility thut the discovery of the bottle may have been a ' hoax. Tlie reported discovery of a bottle from Nungesser at Falmouth followed . . -■ —. 1 NOOZIE Many A Han Thinks He’s Going Along SfAQOl'Hl.'f vihen v HE 16 MERELY PKIOO BOSTONIAN SHOES FOR MEN ToHa-T-Myea & Son J CIGTMIND AND SHOtS J FO*. dad AND LAO - * DECAT Uk" INDIANA"

close upon uu unconfirmed report that fishermen at Eqiilsau, France, had found a bottle containing a message allegedly signed by Nungesser and Coll und (luted May 12. It is suld that the writers were without food und hade farewell to all. Marine authorities in France suspected u lioux, remaiking tliut experienced aviators would liuve specified their latitude uud longitude. The bottle resembled u french wine bottle und was fouud near Mamieles rocks near tills town. Mariners remit) lu-d thut it was improbable that tlie bottle had been put afloat by Nungesser since It wus unlikely that it could travel from the point mentioned to tills portion of the English coast in the nine duys tliut Nungesser lias been missing. o Quaint Turkish Customs In remote part* of Turkey many luaint customs are still In practice, n spite of the modernizing Influences that have been Installed. In case of n ieath the town crier stilt goes shouting the news through the streets. Blotches JMarißeaufy Zemo for Itching, Irritations, Pimples and Blotches. Apply Any Time No more worry about ugly Skin IrriJtations. For youcan haveaclear smooth skin. Zemo, the pleasant-to-use clean liquid for Itching, Blotchy Skin—banishes Blackheads, Ringworms and Pimples. Use any time. Get Zemo now. At druggists—6oc and SI.OO. zemo FOB. SKIN IRRITATIONS Adams Theater Last Time Tonight BETTY ~ 3RONSON * 'Qjrzy Q. paramount Qkture __ HETTY HRONSON joins Clara Bow in (he “IT” ranks. And she proves it in Elinor’ Glyn’s RITZY! —A Iso— Topics of the Day, Aesop's Fables and Rathe News. 10c 25c Thursday and Friday—“SORROWS OF SATAN" with Adolphe Menjou, Carol Demoster, R cardo Co r tez and Lya DePutti. D. W. Griffith production. Sunday & Mondey—JOHN GILBERT in “FLESH AND THE DEVIL” with GRETA GARBO and Lars Hanson.

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