Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1936 — Page 3

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CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Mrs, Fanny Macy Pnonee 1000 — 1001 Wednesday ' Executive eounmittee of American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Leo I Ehinger, 2 p. tn. Zion Reformed Ladies’ aid, ’ church, 2:30 p. m. Frivolity club, postponed indefinitely. , Zion Junior Walther league, , school house, 7:30 p. m. poetponed J one week. Zion Lutheran Missionary, Mrs. r W. H- Zwick, 2 p. m. St. Vincent de Paul, K of C. hall, f 2 p. m. Junior Arts meeting. Miss Zulu Porter, poetponed. ’ ! Shakespeare club, Mrs. J. L. j Kocher, 2:30 p. m, Beulah Chapel ladies’ aid, Mrs. . Charles Fuhrman. Preble. Salem M. E- Ladies' aid. Mrs. Roy Miller, 1 -p. m. , Thursday Christian Ladies' aid, Mrs. Elmer j Harlacher. 2 p. m. Aaron Fox auxiliary, fire station, > < P- ntSo Cha Rea. Miss Cecelia AppelI man ,7:30 p. m. Union Chapel Ladies' aid. Mrs. Ami Miller, postponed one week. Mt. Pleasant Ladies aid, Mrs. , iJeaae Singleton, poetponed. J Young Matrons club, Mrw. Albert - Beery. 7:30 p. m. Eaetern Star, regular and social . meeting, 7:30 p. un. Mooae pinochle and bunco party, , Mooee home 7:30 p. m. Evangelical Dutiful Daughters, ’ Mrs. Amos Ketchum. 7:30 p. tn. Eta Tau Sigma, Miss Mildred Bloeeer. 7:30 p. m. /Better Homes economic club, Mrs. Adolph Hanni, 2 p. ni. Commonweal study club K. of C. /hall, 7:45 p. m. Friday Union Chapel C. L C., Mr. and Mrs. Harve Koose, postponed. Busy Bee class of Christian Sunday evhool. Miss Barbara Jane ~ Kohte. Little Flower study club, K. of ,|C. hall. 7:30 p- m. American Legion Auxiliary Valentine party. Legion hall, 6:30 p. m. St. Marys township home econo-1 mice club, Mns. Ralph Longenber-■ ger, 1 p. m. Pocahontas lodge, Red Men’s hall j 7:30 >p. m. Basketball dance. Masonic hall, Saturday Elks Valentine dance, Elks home,, : 9:30 p. m. Tuesday , Carpe Diem guest day, postponed i indefinitely. The C: I. C. class of Union Chapel . which was to have met Friday with Mr. and Mrs- Harve Koos has been postponed indefinitely. o— Adams County Memorial Hospital . > — —, , i Mrs. Jesse H. Steele. Pleasant • Mills, dismissed today. Mrs. Chalmer Schafer. Monroe- ■ • ville. dismissed today. Mrs. Mary Stuckey of Weet Mon- ■ ' | roe street who has beenseriouely | . ill the past week remains about the | ! 6ame. ;

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COURTHOUSE Set for Trial The suit for convereloii of orw«u by Winifred Burge** vs. Raymond Eicher wn* set so rtrial on March 30. The suit of the Indiana Liberty Mutual Life Insurance company vn. the estate of Fred Mutschler, amended claim on contract was net for trial on March 2. Ruled to Answer • In the case of the Indiana Liberty i Mutual Insurance company for bank check hy J. K. Dague. the court , ordered absolute rule against the do defendant to answer on or before February 20. Partition Suit The proof of the posting of the ! notice of the ealo of real estate wan filed in the suit for ipcfitfon of partition of Anna Woodward against Edward Butcher. Summons Ordered In the complaint on note suit of of the First State Bank against Orville K*«sler and Otis Hocker, the complaint was filed, and the notice ordered to the sheriff of Adame county for Hocker and to the sheriff of WelU county for Kessler. Appearance Filed In the suit of the Berne Lumber company for the collection of a note from J. O. Niblick, appearance was filed for the defendant by H- B. Heller and the defendeant was ruled to answer. Motion Sustained In the case of Fred Schwartz for the collection of a note from Rufus Mershberger and others, a verified motion of the defendants that the proceedings herein be not maintained was sustained by the court as to the defendant Rufus Mershberger, land was orverruled as to all other ■defendants. Estate Cases A petition was filed by the executor of the estate of Mary Hackman to sell real estate to pay debts. The waiver of notice and assent to the sale was filed by Anna Ulman. Rose Staub. Sylvester Staub, Angolan Hackman. Christiana Hackman. Notice was ordered to sheriff as to Leo Hackman, Bernadine Hackman. Anselem Hackman, Jr., Edward Hackman and James Hackman returnable Februry 24. In the estate of Catherine B. Helm to proof of the publication of notice of the appointment of the executrix wxs filed. The proof of the publication of posting of notice of final settlement was filed, and : the final report submitted. Deed submitted, examined and approved. The final report was approved, and jthe trust closed. I A petition was filed to settle the ! estate of Charles Niblick as insolpent. and the court found the estate - probably insolvent, ordering the set'tlement accordingly. Notice orderbed. Inventory number one was filed, examined and ar proved in estate of William Sellemeyer. o <— Bangs Directs New Fight On Utility Huntington. Ind., Feb. 12 —(UP) —Mayor Clare IV. 11. Bangs today directed a new attack on the Northlern Indiana power company in an appeal to housewives to disconnect igas ranges and purchase electric ■ranges to be served by the municipal .plant. The militant mayor who has fought the private utility from imany sides offered current from the city's “toy” plant at rates less than I these c harged Iby the N. I. P. The private utility, which also (furnishes gas and heat in addition Ito electrical emergeny lost a heavy icustoimer yesterday when the city hall and fire station heating services were disconnectedThe buildings will be heated by icity-operated boilers Recently installed at the order of Bangs. o Decatur Man Is Held On Desertion Charge Ray Frank Lowe, of Decatur has been lodged in the lAdams county pail following a charge filed against him for wife and child desertion. The warrant was issued for his arrest. and being returned to court in the custody of Sheriff Dallas Brown Lowe pleaded not guilty. His bond was fixed at $250 by the court. Unable to furnish bond, he is being held in jail, pending arraignment in court. Flowers The Perfect VALENTINE

HITLER AGAIN ATTACKS JEWS I , German Dictator Bitterly Denounces Jewry At Funeral Berlin, Feb. 12.- <U.R> Adolf Hitler angrily denounced Jewry as a "sinister power" today In delivering the funeral oration at Schwerin ‘ for Wilhelm Gustloff, leader of German Nazis in Switzerland, who w*bs assassinated at Duvos hy David Frankfurter, 26. Jewish medical student from Jugdslnvia. Hltldb charged Jews with responsibility for Germany's troubles 1 of the last decade, as well as' ior t political terror. He referred' to '"the Jewish enemy" as be raised |his voice and said: "But we shall take up the gaunt’,let." Address*,ig the coflin. Hitler con--1 tinued: ' “You did not die In vain." ( Hitler spoke for 15 minutes. He spoke In a soft, sermon like voice except when 1 ■ raised it sharply j to refer to Jews and their "sinist- ’ I er" influence. He charged Jews ' with the "terror an dmurder" of hundreds of Nazis. ' | Gustloff's assassination. Hitler said, was the first Instance in I which the responsible power had i not found tools to perpetrate the ’ I crime and the plotter himself Coini ! rnltted the murder. 1 i “The deed will not weaken Ger- ' i many." said Hitler, “but only the ’ - power which committed the crime." ' Hitler said that *t reflected well ■ on the Swiss nation and on Ger- ' | mans that none of them was will- [ ing to be used as tools in Gust- ; lon's assassination. Gustloff. he said, was a "holy | martyr of the movement." Gustloff's picture. Hitler said, ' | would hang hereafter in offices of ' every Nazi office abroad. PERSONALS The entire interior of the New ■ berry 5 and 10 fe being redecorated , and repainted in jueparation for - early spring sales. , George Glass. Bluffton, Wells [ county prosecuting attorney, was a I business visitor in Decatur this . morning. I I »Reverend M. W. Sundermann of i 342 Winchester street has been ill , since last Thursday. He was report- . rd as some better today although •still confined to his home. Dr C. C. Dayl. Walt Johnson and . Dr. Steinmann of Monroeville visited in Fort Wayne last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holm spent !, last evening in Fort Wayne. James Sprague, Carl Baxter and Paul Briede attended the semi-final Golden Gloves tournmen* at the General Electric gym in Fort ; Wayne last evening. Miss June Riekerd, who fell on the ice four weeks ago and broke her ankle, is up and around, and will go back to her work at the GGreen Kettle Monday. Glen Dickerson has been working in her place. I Mrs. Harry Knapp, of Marshall ' street was ill at he rhome today. (She expects to reutrn to her duties 1 in the county recorder’s office in a few daysFrederick Schroyer, who is a freshman at Ann Arbor, Mich., arrived home last evening to spend ' the between-semester vacation with his parents, Mr. and .Mrs. Ben Schroyer and daughter Kathryn of 710 north Third street. Little Miss Georganne Walton, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. George O. Walton, who was ill last week with bronchitis, is much better today. Mrs. Nettie Manning returned to her home in Andereon this .morning , after a two days visit with her son and daughter-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. Homer J. Aspy. She was acoompan- ' ie<l to Bluffton by Rev. Aspy. Mrs. Callie Schirmeyer, who has been seriously ill with pleurisy for ’ the past several weeks, is much better and able to be up. C. E. Bell was aible to be out yesterday for the first time in ten days. ' Mr. Bell has been ill with la grippe. Mrs. O. L. Exley of Eight street, was taken to the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne thia morning for surI'gical care. Steamer Crew Stricken By Spinal Meningitis Balboa, C. Z.. Feb. 12—(U.K)— The United States destroyer Tattnall, carrying serum and doctors and nurses, sped today to the rescue of the merchant marine ship California States, stricken with an outbreak of spinal meningitis 1,000 miles out in the Pacific. One of the 67 youths aboard the training ship already had died and another was reported dying. The Tattnall expects to reach I the California States early tomorrow morning. o —— 1 Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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r By HARRISON CARROLL Copvriohl. 1956, Kino t'eaturei Fviidk-ate, Inc. HOLLYWOOD—UhabMhad by the ■ recmtnes« of Sylvia Sidney'! niatrlj luoniu! break with Bennett Cerf, the

gossips are already predicting a revival of her romance with the gruy-haired out dynamic B. P. Hchul b e r g Stranger things have happened in the movie town, hut Sylvia, of the emotional eyes. Is certainly not cone e n tratlng upon her former prodticer-arlni i er

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In her appearantes around Hollywood. She was nt the Trocadero recently with Norman Krasna. for InMance, while S hulberg was there alone. Upon at least a few occasions recently, when the actress was reported a." the film executive's companion. the girl actually was Tamara, who Is about the same type. She was In the “Roberta’’ cast on Broadway, wasn't she? In the excitement of her Interrupted trip to New York (she was called back for added scenes in "Sky Parade") Katherine Pe .Mills forgot to mention another important fact that has just com.- out about her childhood. Her name is reprs- not Katherine at all. but Katherina. The evidence is a copy of her birth certificate. which she sent for in order to take out additional insurance. Os course, you know that the actress wxs adopted by ’he C. B. De Milios when she was nine, and that her real parents were Mr. and Mrs Edward Gabriel Lester, of Vancouver. B. C. What major studio had to call off a preview the other night when h was suddenly discovered that the company hadn't close-) the deal for the story of the picture? We just heard the story about an i eminent foreign director who was recently brought over to work at a certain Hollywood studio. The new- | comer is a swell guy, they say. but must have believed all those legends about the luxury of studio offices. Anyway. lie was giving direction, about the furnishing of his. and was telling an amazed minion of the studio manager that he must have this and that. “And. oh ye«." he concluded. “I'd like to have a fur rug on the floor '

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The man from the business office just couldn't stand It any longer. “Well, In that case." he snapped, “you'll have to wu>t until j shoot a supervisor'" Madeleine Cai roll, whose real name, incidentally. Is O'Carroll, has rented : Mrs. Clark Gable's house In Beverly Hills and will tie with us for quite a spell. Seeing her again renews 1 the conviction t..at she is one of the most beautiful blondes ever to come io Hollywood. She’ll make a couple ‘ of pictures for Walter Wanger before 1 her return to England. The newest method of clocking ' laughs at previews is to record them on soimd-trai while the picture Is being shown. By running the film again at the si .dio, along with the < tra sound-tr..ck. producer then has a definite cheek of what gags went over the best. Secretly, this 1 system has tu-en used al three recent previews. It Is done very simply. They install a mike on the darkened stage and run the connection to a sound-truck In the alley. HOLLYWOOD TICKER-TAPE— Marlene Dietrich's new escort around the la’e spots is Willis Goldbeck. the writer. . . . Rumor Is that Gloria Baker, Howard Hughes' new Interest, is taking a screen test at Columbia. . . Alma Lloyd's horse. 1 Flashing Colors, a Christmas present from her da l. Frank Lloyd, the

director, has flnished In 'he money In four out of six races. Which is better. 1 believe, than any other Hollywood- owned horse has done . . . Janet Gaynor gave the stay--p-laters a thrill by going out two •lights in a row with Robert Taylor. ...It

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seems too bad about the major studio dance director who is hiring college boys for big numbers, thus taking work away from Hollywood's regular hoofers.... Bernie Toplitsky was dining Marjorie , King at the Case I-amaze the other night. . . . And James Blakely's socialite mother, Mrs. Grace Hyde, was determined to fly at least part of the way to Hollywood, so she got off the train at Albuquerque and ■ finished the journey by air. DID YOU KNOW— That Greta Garho, although famed as the world's champion camera lodger outside the studio, has posed for 3.000 portraits?

WOULD EXTEND NEUTRALITY ACT Senate Committee Agrees To Seek Extension To May, 1937 , Washington. Feb. 12 (U.R)—The ( ■ sont'.’o foreign relations commlttoo 1 voted unanimously today to aak ; tli<- aenule -to extend until May 1. 1937. the existing neutrality act deslKnod to keep the Unitod States out of war. The action would poatpono I>io[ proposed perman-1 : ent neutrality act. The committee also unanimous-j ly agreed io amend the existing (law by adding u provision banning loans or credits to belligerent nations. Another proposed amendment, •■xeinbting American republics I from application of the act if at I war against a foreign nation, u.'so i was agreed upon but it may t>e ■ eliminated when the inmate takes I final action. The existing law expires Feb. ' 29. Decision to abandon attempts . to enact a. new program caine j after President Roosevelt expressed desire for early congressional I adjournment. Chairman Key Pitt-1 i man said the extension resolution « could be whipped through the I senate with little delay. The ! house also is expected to agree. Sen. Hiram Johnson. R.. Cal., who had planned vigorous opposition to the permanent neutrajity , program, said he would support the committee's extension plan and agreed with Pittman that action could be speeded up so that the issue would be settled before ; the present statute expires. o — Manchester College Student Is Killed North Manchester. Ind., Feb. 12— , (UP) Wilbur Sellers. 20, Onekanea Michigan youth and North Manchester college student, died at Wabash county hospital early this morning from injuries received late Tuesday when the motorcycle on which he was riding collided with a truck. Sellers, a sophomore college post office will) a large sack of mail on his motorcycle, and could not get stopped in time to avoid crashing into a large oil truck crossing the interse. ilon ahead of him. Sellers was given first aid treat-

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linont nnd rushed 4o tho hospital. (I'hyslclans Mid ho bled Internally from the time of the accident until J he died, almut seven hours later ! Locate Bodies Os Two Frozen Men I I n ■ ~ 1 Charlevoix, Mich., Feb. 12. (U.R) I Coast guard otfleora, flying in a I plane over ico-covered lake Mich- | igun. reported to headquarters to- ( day they had located the bodies of I two men adrift on un ice floe eight | miles west of Goodhart. I Advices that the bodies of Claud.' | Beardsley, 51, and coast guards- ' man Earl Cunningham, 3X. had | been sighted on tho ice were re- [ luyed to headquarters as Clayton I Brown, 25 year-old son-in-law of ‘ Beardsley, oniy survivor of the I three mon trapped for more than 1 49 hours on tho ice, fought for lii,s life in a Charlevoix hospital. A land searching party of six guardsmen and u dozen Indians walking across the ice blocked lake increased their efforts to get > to the bodies after tho plane had . dipped and pointed out the direci tion in which they lay. It was bo- ! lieved the land party would re- | turn with the bodies in tho late ■ afternoon. o Army Fliers Escape Injury In Crash Atlanta, Feb. 12— (U.R) Four I army fliers parachuted to safety i without injury today when their army bomber ran short of gas as i it was preparing to land here and ■ crashed. '■ 11 * ' «--0— I !*■■■ II Fare Rides Ambulance Tiffin, O-. —(UP)— A Tiffin ine- : briate wanted a taxi, but called the wrong number and got an ambu[lnce. Undaunted, he gave the drivei lii-.i address, climbed in. and was I sped homeward to the .shriek at a siren. \t his door, he emptied his pockets of S 3 cents into the astonished driver’s hand —his cab fare.

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