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class “W 00 Z-n class of the WL-- Sunday s.h-1 m-t Tuesh with M ,<s fl”X lV ‘r by H"V '■ « 1 - 1 ” 1 - Anyhow. Kentucky, ath Mrs I""! b'tig read the W' Sd forty -sixth Psalm-■‘Lw.-d and " ' '"" ,r ' “ f " ’ «fIL commit!-* was Riven. It J" Li..l ' b'l-littas cards „,r Hostesses for each W tfe next vear «"<* <!<.<•<! with th- Mizpah ’W‘Sh<"‘" was enjoyed and played Piano selection. •Xring I'in-' "V •’ ( ’^ r ’ M. F our tables of lotto were ■L, and .dis l"'n-r Darwa.htJWrcceived th- first prize and 'fl Unman. •’ prize- The amonc I'.* n" " "ere Bob it and Rev. Lanman. 1"..,.. ! Mrs. Hf, rved reMH Ever •■<-'•■- ,ls the MeE*> -< . Friday school . ...■ Th I' retting al the tH- i'' , a' !i ' Crist at sex' \ -l-l-llil lIOSteHS-.-S be Mr- !’■ Carroll. Mrs. H. fIL j|, # f■. -y and Mrs. Kitson. - ■ mat th h.im-- of Mrs. John K. ■pt Timrokc. at two at th'- ■■ Mrs. Eni, st flb Th.. regular busiK. ... Mee social. Anns of matrimony fl>D FOR LOCAL COUPLE r fast lime between fl. y, of Mrs r a M -i’- W st Madison fl ■ a -.j .I T -reline. son of ami Mis. John A’.bc-rding. niarriag.- will take place e-ru.-i.'. Septemilier Id. fleightthirty u'lba-k at the St. Catholic church. Me> I- i- employed at the and M- Al’>> is ..is . 1 the Schafer S ■IANDYBERRY FAMILY Blds sixth reunion Mfii- six’ii a: ■. lai reunion of the Mandy -,-rv fam ly was held at the ■i Bramljb-ry h..m ■in Monro' A basket dinner was Mred at th.- m- -n hour and prayer Ms offer d by Rev. M. F. BrandyMry of El Reno. Oklahoma. ■A ssion was h Id ■d the officers far the year were M-- -d I’ . lt Brandyberry was Mn*d' titis Brandyberry. Ms-president Mre. Lloyd Kreteseer. ,i:. and treasurer. The Mertainmeiii committee will inB<je Mrs i>- s Brandyberry. Mrs. Blliam Ma:':- and Mrs. Otho LobBitein. ■The next reunion will be held at ■e Berne ark. the first Sunday in Blunt. Rev. M. F. Brandyberry j B* e an iner.-sting talk on “Chris-

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! CLUB CALENDAR > 11 1 "" Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Miss Mary Maty Phones 1000 — 1001 Wednesday Alpha Zeta hridg > club, Mru. Huh. I ert Omlor, 7:30 p. tn. Salem Ladies' Aid, Mrs. Alva Burk *, 1:30 g>. m. Thursday M. K. Ever Ready class, Mrs. | Frank Crist. 7:30 p. m. .Evangelical Woman's Missionary society, church, 2 p. m. U. B. Ladies Aid. Mrs. Hubert 1 Cochrane, 2 p. m. Methodist Woman's Home Missionary, Mrs E. N. Wicks. 2:30 p. m. Christian Ladies' Aid, churi h, 2 P- m. Presbyterian Missionary, postponed from the sth to 12th, Mrs. John Schafer. BaptLst Woman’s Society, Mrs. Ernest Lake, 2:30 p. m. V. B. Work and Winn class. Mr. and Mtn. Arthur (lamer, 7:30 p. m. Friday Baptist Philo class, Mrs. Frank Young, 7,: 30 p. m. tianity.”, Those l present were Mrs. lAnios Brandyberry, Mr. and Mrs. William Martz. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Burkhead and daughtter, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Brandyberry and daught- r. Mr. and Mrs. Otho Lobenctein, Mr. and Mis. Rolla Johnson and children, Mrs. Etta Heffner of Monroe; Reymond Brandyberry of Terre Haute; Mrs. Ethel Branch, Fort Wayne; Rev. 1 M. F. Brandyberry of El Reno, Oklahoma; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brandy.l rry. Miss Florene? Brandyberry. Miss Pauline* Tumbleson. Mrs. Lester Richard. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kreischer. Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Wilj liams and Mrs. Roscoe Elzey of Decatur. MEETING OF DUTIFUL DAUGHTERS The Dutiful Daughters class of the Evang Heal Sunday School m-et Tuesday evening at ih ■ Jiwu«> of Mrs. Dallas Brown. Mrs. Homer Templin and Miss Ethel Tumbleson were the assisting hostesses. Th-e m eting was opened by the president. Mis. Amos Graber who conducted the devotions. Sentence prayers were offered and Mrs. Graber r ad th-e forty-sixth Psalm after which Mrs. Harry Knapp read an article in connection with the Scrip- . ture reading. The regular routine of business was conducted and the meeting was i largely att nd d. The program committee comprising Mrs. HarryKnapp. had charg -of the social . hour, and refreshments were served. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Ivan Stuckey and Mrs. Gerald Cole will be the assisting hostess. • PSI IOTA XI PLANS WINTER MEETINGS The Psi lota Xi sorority held a ! brief business meeting in the mayor's -couit room last evening. Miss Eloise Lewton. program committee . chairman for the coming year gave a report. The sorority will have a —

DECATUR DAILY DEMQCRAT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1935.

Fate of Nations Hangs in Balance at League Conference

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The fate of nations hangs in the balance as diplomats of leading powers gather at the League of Nations council hall at Geneva, Switzerland, to confer on the italo-Ethiopian crisis. More is at stake than the destiny of Haile Selassie and the people of Ethiopia. Will Mussolini pursue his dangerous program regardless of consequences? Will Great Britain resort to force if her colonial possessions are threatened? Mill France side with Italy to retain her

dinner bridge meeting, then a potlu k dinner and program meeting alt mated with business meetings. Misti Bernice DeVona will entertain in two weeks at which tim? a pot luck and program meeting will be held. The Work and Win i lacw of the United Er. thren Sunday School wifi meet with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Garn r Thursday evening at aev;.nthirty o'clock. Mrs. Frank Bohnke will be th2 usslstfß’* Jiffs ECONOMICS CLUB HOLDS MEETING The meting of Ik? St. Mary’s township Home Economics Club Mrs. Fred Hilton. Seventeen memwan held recently at the home of ’ hers, fiv visitors and a numb r of. children were present. The meeting opened with the club song and Mis. Ottis Shifferly led in prayer. A short business meeting was conducted and it was decided to hold the next meeting one week earlier, on September 19. Cam;n > and contests were enjoyed and re-I freshmente were eerv d by Mrs. Hilton, assist d by Mru. Milton, Chronister. Mrs. Ed Koos and Mrs. ; Ben Teeple. ■ ADAMS COUNTY COUPLES MARRIED IN CEREMONIES Three weddings of Adams county ■ young people took pla. •? ov r the the week-end. Miss Esther Fricke of Monroe and Melvin L. Habegger of Fort Wayne, a former resident of | Berne, were married Saturday even-1 itig at five o’clock, at 811 West Creighton avenue, Fort Wayne, 1 where the couple wil make their; homo. Herman Habegger. brother of the groom, and Miss Mabie Fricke, the bride’s sister, attended the couple. Rev. P. L. Eicher officiated at the single ring ceremony. The bride wore a gown of olive gre n with brown accessories. She, carried a bouquet of yellow chrys- j anthemume. The bridesmaid wore a ’ dress of dark orchid with brown ac- j ceescries and carried a bouquet of, pink ast-rs. Following the cer mony the ■ couple were honored with a wedding dinner at the home of the ' bride’s parents at Monroe. They | left on a short hon:ymo.m trip.; The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Fricke of Monroe and ■ was graduated from the Monroe | high school. Mr. Habegger is a son! of Mrs. Caroline Habeggar of Berne, I anj was graduat’d from the Berne high school. He is employed as manager and treasurer of the Allen county Cooperative Association, Fort Wayne. Kneuse-Templar Miss Ida Kneuss of Berne and Arthur Templar of Fort Wayne were married at the Missionary church in Berne Sunday, at the close of the morning worship ser-' vice. Bev. Dr. DeWitt Johnson, pastor of the People’s Tabernacle of Fort Wayne officiated. Gladys Schindl >r Chrisman played th-e wedding march and Clyde and Vincent Sprunger sang several selections. Mrs. Chrisman played the piano softly during the ceremony. The bride wore an ankle length gown of bridal satin with lace yokes and flowing veil. She carried a large bouquet of white roses. The bridesmaid, Miss Ida Hirschy, was attired •

in blue crepe trimmed in pink and carri d pink rases. The groom wan attended by his brother, Harry Templar. Jr. Mrs. Templar is a graduate of the Fort Wayne Bible Institute. Mr. Templar is employed as a barber. Th- newlyw ds left Sunday afternoon on a short honeymoon trip t rough southern Indiana. Kirkland-Habegger The marriage of Miss Dorotha Kirkland of Fort Wayne and Arley I Hab gegr of Lima, Ohio, a former I resid nt of Berne, was solemnise d Friday evening at Genoa. Ohio. The single ring ceremony was read by i Rev. John Nussbaum. Mr. and Mrs. Milo Habegger att nded the couple. I Th? bride wore a gown of rust qrtp? with brow accecsories. The Bridesmaid wore dark green with ■ brown accessories. Th? groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Habegger of Berne and attended the Berne high school. He is employed at the Vogue Furni-: tur- manufacturing company at; Lima, Ohio. I The Philo Class of th-? Baptist, ■ Sunday school will meet with Mrs.! Frank Young Friday night (promptly at seventhirty o'clock. o ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Harold Owens of Monm iiith are the parents of a ten pound girl baby born Tuesday. Sep-j umber 3. This is the second child i in the family and the second girl, j The baby has been named Carolyn | Louie ?. Mrs. Owens was formerly Misa Erma Gage. o Man Is Returned To Fort Wayne — Henry Doermer, 52, of Fort Wayne was returned this morning to that city. He was lodged in ; the Adams county jail Tuesday. ! night when he requested night 1 policeman Hunter to take him to the sheriff and mail a letter 1c Governor McNutt. I His wife is now being held in Fort Wayne on a charge of pois-: ■ oning the family food several ' months ago. As a result one of I his daughters died. Doermer himi self was held in the Allen county i jail for three weeks and later re-1 ileased. He told Sheriff Brown that ho ’ i had “something- which would i I knock their case all to pieces.”: He had the sheriff mail a card to I the sheriff of Allen county stating that h? was here. Veteran Diplomatic Officer A Suicide ■ . Washington, Sept. 4 — (UP) —i George Hanson, veteran foreign ser- j , vic- officer and former consul gen- ' eral at Moscow, committed suicide ; at sea aboard the S. S. President, I r-olk, the state d partment was ad•j vised today by the dollar steamship ; I I line offices at New York. I Details of the suicide were not in I; the brief message. i Hanson. American consul general I at Harbin through the troublesome 'days of the Chinese-Japanese crisis i ■ in Mankhuria, was transferred to ' I Moscow as counsul general when • | the United States resumed diplomaII tic relations with the Soviet in 1933. I t

as an ally against Germany? Is it possible that Hitler will attempt to bring Austria under Nazi control if the European balance of power is upset by a war? The answers to these questions rest largely on Pierre Laval, French premier; Anthony Eden, England’s undersecretary of foreign affairs; Hitler and Mussolini. And as the diplomats confer, the symbolic sentinels of the Ethiopian and Italian forces face each other in the shadowy background.

Miss Juanita Johnson. Dorcas Byerly, Car! and Wilson Mann of I>. catur are spending today in Indianrrolis att nding the State Fair. Mies Phyllis Jean McFarland has returned home from a week’s visit I at the Ithan McFarland horn? near' Portland. P tirrt Holthouse who fltent the I summ r at Dunes Park arrived ' home Tuesday. He will leave T.hurs- . day for Bloomington, where he will ; . resume his studies at Indiana Uni-; versity. Jerom ? Keller and Fred Busse : have return <t from a three day s ! i fishing trip to New Haven. Edwin Kauffman has accepted tire , position of bookkeeper for the | , South Side storage and Van Oo„ j . Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Jo? Gause of Bar-1 | berton, Ohio, visited at the Wood-. I son Ogg ho.r. ? over the week-end.! Labor Day Mr. and Mrs. Gause i and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ogg and ' family, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thompson of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. E. Gaus? and Hom r Gause were guests of Mrs. Harry Rowland at Rockford, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lough, daughter Gr?tehen. and sons, James and : Eugene, hav? returned from Sturi gis, Michigan where they visited | Mrs. Ace Curri r and Mrs. Dorothy I i Krontz. Miss Idora Lough has returned to her work at Sturgis, Michigan after | a visit with her parenta in this city. ! Herman Myers. Forrest Elzey. I Martin J. Mylott and George Stults i attended to business in the PWA| ] office at Indianapolis today, relative to the sewage disposal plant’ 1 and the new turbine project. 1 Ralph Roop was in Fort Wayne, i today on business concerning the I WPA projects. j Mrs. John Heller is the gueat I t.his we kof her son and daughteri in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Dick H Her of Indianapolis. Mrs. Flor, nee Copeland of Ind- ' ianapolis is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kocher. Mr. and Mrs. J seph Berger of , lola. Kansas arrived last night to be th? guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. ' Holthouse. Mr. Berger is on his way ito Atlantic City to att.nd th- interI national convention of the 1.0. O. F. , which will be held starting Seiptem--1 ber 16, being one of the two deleI gates from Kansas. Rev. C. M. Prugh. Jess Rice, Bert Gage and Pet? Reynolds attended jth? regular meeting of the Bluffton ; Rotary club Tuesday vening. I The Misses Amelia Noll and Bt s- { ' sie Kable motored to Grand Rapids. Michigan Friday forth? week-end. They were accompanied by Mrs. Forest Johnson and children who | had visited relatives and friends for ! the past two weeks. Miss Frieda Heyerly returned the ; first of this week from a two i months' visit with relatives in Switj zerland. Sh? has resumed her duties 1 at Mi-Lady’s Beauty Shop. Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Peterson. I daughter Shirley, and son, Joe of ! Torre Haute spent Several hours - visiting in Decatur Monday afternoon. i Amos Graber was a Fort Wayne business visitor this morning. Dr. and Mrs. Ben Duke and daugh- , ter returned yesterday fram Nash-

I ville. Tenn, where they spent the i past mont i. Dr. Duke has conn, leted a poet graduate course at Van- ■ derbiit University. They also visit d Dr. Duke's home at Crab Orchard, Ky. W. A. Klepper k? looking after business in Chicago. Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Smith and Mrs Danilo Santini and children I will leave Friday for Cass Lake and ! other pointe in Michigan. They will icturn to De.atur the following I Wednesday. Mins ivciua Werling of Preble I has aeeumed her new duties as 1 stenographer in th? Nathan C. NelI son law offl e. i Mr. and Mrs. Jambs Sprague are ! attending tie State fair in IndianaI polls today. I Henry D hner of Union township I will visit in Indianapolis tomorrow. C. R. Smith of Preble was a Decatur business visitor this afterI noon. Janies Alberstadt of Pleasant Mills has complet d his new gari age and will open for business to- ! I morrow. The JlisH it Mary Merriman and Agnes Fuhrman sp nt the week-end at North Webster and Barbe? Lakes Sunday they attended the twin reunion at Warnaw. Fathr Ambrose Kohne and Ken- | neth Harris of Goodland, Indiana, j stopp’d at the home of Mr. and - Mrs. John Alberding. Tuesday, en-1 route to Canton. Ohio, where the | I latter will enter the Preclouts Blood ! Seminary. Mr. Harris in a n -phew of Mrs. Alberding. Mr. and Mrs. John Alberding and family had as their gu ste Sunday j Tena Dulazak, Allie, Maurice and | Katherine Peters of Remington. I i Indiana. Charley Dulazak and faj mily of Wabas'i. Mr. and Mrs. Ed-1 ward .Alberding and daught r of. Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo ’ Mill r and children and Mary Mey-1 ers of thin city. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schuller and eon Louie, Marven Wietfeldt and Miss Vera Wietfeldt have returned from Indianapolis wh’re they spent several days att nding the State Fair. o TROPICAL TOLL CONTINUED FltOM PAGE ONE deposit it in a heap three blocks away. He believed the death toll in some of the camps would be exceedingly high. I It was impossible for the present to estimate the number of injured, but officials feared the figure would run into the hundreds. Many communities on the keys, particularly Islamorado and lower Metacombe. had not been heard from but on the basis of accounts by survivors, officials feared the death toll is "possibly great.” Train Overturned Miami, Sept. 4—<U.R>—The special train which had been sent to the Florida Keys to evacuate way veterans working on highway projects, was overturned by waves but everyone wa.s saved, accoi fling to a wireless message received at Red Cross headquarters here today. The message said: "Relief train that went for camps 1. 3 and 5 had to stop be- ' low number 1, and 20 or 25 men ! got aboard. A short distance from ■ the camp the train wa.s overturn■I ed by waves. All were saved by

H. R. Gleeson and J. J. Cunninglium, who were on the train." Strikes Mainland Jacksonville. Fla., Sept. 4- <U.R) -Lashing hurricane winds turned their fury on the mainland of Florida near Cedar Key today t.'ler having whipped the west -oast throughout the r.lght with heavy properly damage. Gov, Dave Sholtz ordered Adj. G<-n. Vivian (olltns to mobilize ■ the Florida national guard for relief action ul any part of the ntati* needing aid. Reports from Tallahasse ii’iout noon i,.nd the center of the aiorm, , with winds of Ul) miles an horn reported, was passing near Cedar ] Keys. North Florida was threat- . en-d with gale winds. Tampa reported damage th-re woulii amount to approximately j $1,000,000 from the hurricane that i passed just west of there at 2 a. ! in. Coast guard headquarters at Mobile dispatched the cutter ; Seneca and the patrol boats Nike i and iTrion to the Tampa. Bay to : aid in storm rehabilitation work. o Railroad Starts New Truck Service The Pennsylvania railroad today announced a new service. Beginning tomorrow trucks wil run from Ert Wayne to Richmond. The ■south bound truck will arrive in Decatur at 9:3'1 A. M. and the north | hound truck will arrive at th-e station at 1:45 p. m. These trucks will handle all of the L. C. L. freight and give second day service out of Cincinnati and Chicago. Explains Reduction Figure In Contract County Agent Archbold explains this week why the acreage reduction figure in the new wheat contract has been placed at a niaxiJ mum of 25 per cent. This figure has been placed in i the contract, Mr. Archbold says, merely to give a margin of safety

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to the wheat plan in the event a series of exceptionally good crop years threaten to result tn an unwieldy surplus. As much reduction as this may not .be necesuary In any year, but the 25 per cent Is a safety margin. For instance, the figure for 1936 hus been set at 5 per cent. The initial contract provided that a reduction of as much as 20 per cent might be asked for. the county agent stated, but he pointed out that the most that was asked was 15 per cent in 1934. The required reduction was 10 per cent in 1935. — o- -— — New Flood Threat Imminent In Ohio Athens, 0., Sept. 4 (UP)—A n- w flood threat app ared imminent today wh n the Hocking river and iLs tribuParities went out of banks. At Mineral. €>., 23 faunili s were trapp d in their homes by rising waters of Graus Run -c reek and had to bs taken out in boats. Small creeks were reported to have overflowed tDeir banku and flooded lowlands In the vicinity of Chillicothe and Circleville. Heavy rains have fallen in South Centtral Ohio, bringing many rivers up to flood stage. o —• Seek Settlement Os Railway Labor Fight Washington, Sept. 4 —(UP? —Offic r--, and Union leaders of the Wabash railroad met today with the National Meditation board, seeking a settl m-ent of wage diffk-ulties which provoked a strike call last Saturday but wao postponed at the board’s request. William Lis ruon. Mediation board chairman, expressed belief that th-s problems between the railread and union workers would be ironed out in the conference. o Unusual showing of New Fur Coats. Watch Thursdays uauer.—E. F. Gass store.