Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1936 — Page 3

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v in Hol I y wood *mta and Jack would decide EL !as } mini »te to have the cerePerformed elsewhere, any eyent. the railroad company Quae an obliging aid to Cunid. ns t 0 hold the Apache in -J 0 " 8 “ was necessary and S an air-conditioned car to the K° 90 the honeymooners could <OO trip acro-ui the country. Cl . i ' ord ° de,s ’ the Br °a<>- ■ ft’* wi " »* amused at Kight hiS writin S between K and •> a- m. and. when the iFlear h' 7 treely ' takes “ walk ■7.7 ; rain - Ile *** KX »ns o,h ' >r 4 “• m - walking ■L " d wl,h “Pen shirt down KX. ? rd ' When 'wo radio K, . ? halled hlm d °wn and Khe“ < ”" ?s ‘>ons. Odets told ■* lived in 8 ( V lter f ° r Param °unt K Thr-v thC Beverl >-Wllshlre Kof h a ed his wild looking K very ’J and rareless dress and Kre lie finin' Ca ' !t was minutes S 8 harmleM y COnvlnced 'hem he CeX'd" 1 . rSCent JesU was Kx, when v wentlet h CenturyEditor on the tot Z t“ UCk br °ught ■ M rs 1t0.,, who ls a double ■*»r«awth e t A quick wltted t r Uttle £j adl "« the ■’’honed th. , G set an d K«c meeUge : aa ” tant director a ■ no photnl',’. elt comes on the ■When M . “ S are t 0 be taken.” B” d 10 meel a and her guest of , 8 h h J rl , ey Tem P | ’- ‘he ’here was ? . P * dld the •rpMsed trerne ndous air of •xcltetneuL Still-men’s

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Mr*. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Monday IBeearrh cluh, Mr*. Leo Saylors, 2:30 p. in. Joan of Arc study cluh, Mies J<>. ald'ae Waite, 7:30 IP- m. Delta Theta Tau> Mfet“o Florence and Irene Ilolthouse, 6:30 p. m Woman's ch»b, Library hall, 7:45 p. m. Tuesday Zion Junior Walther league, school, skating iparty, 6:<5 p- tn. Carpe Diem guest day, Elks home. Wednesday N. and T. Club, Mrs. Iran Capeheaert. 2 ip- m. Thursday Ever Ready clan, Mrs. R. A. Stuckey. Friday Adams County Federation of clubs, Mrs A. R Ashabaui her, 2:30 ip. tn. ion Nepurud told of the help that coud cone through the home economice cluh and the beautification of i the home. Those (present were the Mesdamee Clarence Drake, JaJ-mes A. King. Harry Merriman, Florenz Leonard, George J. Buckley, Bernard Brown, Charles Keller, Ekno Miller. Herman Lankenau, Donald LeBrun, Ed Heaher. Harry King. Earl Blackburn and Ernest S. Scott. The Ever Ready class of the Methodist Sunday school will meet with Mrs R. A. Stuckey Thursday. Mrs. Leota 'Beery will have the devotionale. (Hostesses will be Mrs. C. L. Walter*. Mrs. Ervin Elzey. Mrs. Forrest Elzey and Mrs. T- G. Riker. PHILO CLASS HAS MEETING The March meeting of the Philo class wan held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Baughn Fridayevening. Several song* were sung after which prayers were given by Gene Miller and Mrs. Gerald Rumple. After a short husineee meeting games were enjoyed and a delicious luncheon was served 'by the hostess as.-,fe-ed by Miss Bonita Baughn. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lake, Mr. and Mr«. Gerald I Rumple. Mrs. Vance Maddox. Irene I Busnaer. June Miller. Mina Wynn. I Bonita Baughn, (Alipe Lake and Ralph Kenworthy. 0 Chalmer Edwards, of Willshire, former Adams county school teacher. visited with friends here today.

fingers fairly itched for their cameras. Finally. Jack Haskell, dance director for the picture, could stand it no longer. He came up to the stranger and said: “I am Jack Haskell. Mrs. Roosevelt** You Asked Me and I’m Telling You! Camilla Terris, Los Angeles: Virginia Cherrill is in London and I am not sure whether she is making a picture over there or not. I was told the other day that she and Douglass Montgomery are seeing the late spots together. Just heard an amusing story about Carole Lombard. For years, she has been saving all the portraits of herself that went wrong in the gallery and were never released. Pictures in which she looked awkward or silly. Now she’s had 500 of them bound Into a book. Incidentally. Carole has changed ner mind again about moving and is taking a house in Bel Air. The tennis court sold her. Bill Haines will do a redecorating job from cellar to roof. Add to laughs of the day. In “The Witch of Timbuktu’’. Lionel Barrymore will go almost half-way through the picture disguised as a kindly old lady. A palm reader on the “Poppy” set told Bill Fields he was shortly going to cross the

water. “Water!" shouted Bill. “M ada m. you don't know me!” ... I guess he’s getting well all right. . . . Dick Powell Is back from the desert with a mustache, but ail the big shots of the studio must powwow before it Is decided whether he will wear ft

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in “Stage Struck". ... Al Dubin and Harry Warren, who got the academy award for "Lullaby of Broadway”, are presenting a miniature gold statuette to Win! Shaw, who Introduced the tune. TODAY'S PUZZLE— What well-known star, though she isn’t in pictures at the moment, i« trying to buy the negative of a candid camera snapshot that wa» taken of her the other day?

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1936.

PLAN PROGRAM ! FOR DOCTORS ■Two*Day Technical Pro-! gram Will Be Held At Indianapolis Indianapolfe, Mar. 28 — A twoday technical und scientific program by leading national authorities on cancer and heart dlseast*. has been arranged for Wednesday und Thursday, April 8 and 9, by the graduate education committee of the Indi/ui State Medical Association. Afternoon and evening sessions are to be held in the Riley room tat the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis, following morning clinics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. These meetings, under the direct sponsorship of the State Medical Association, have been set i aside during the annual spring | postgraduate meeting to be held (at the medical school the week of j April 6 to 11. Dr. Gatewood of Chicago, who i has boon the subject of several in- ; teresting newspaper items recent- | ly, due to the fact that he has no - first name, will be the opening speaker on Wednesday afternoon, I April 8, at 1:30 o’clock. He will I speak on "Malignant Tumors of the Stomach and of the Bowel.” Dr. Gatewood is professor of surgery at Rush Medical School. He will be followed by Dr. Charles Christian Wolferth. professor of medicine. University of PennsylI vania, who will hold a heart clinic I in the afternoon and will speak in | the evening on “Observations on ithe Mechanism and Clinical InterI pretation of Heart Sounds.'' The Thursday afternoon program, ■ April 9, will be in charge of Dr. ! Walter W. Hamburger, clinical processor of medicine (cardiology!, University of Chicago, and Dr. Dean Lewis, professor of surgery of Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore. Clinics will be conducted j in the afternoon by Dr. Lewis and . Dr. Hamburger. In the evening Dr. | Ix'wis will apeak on “Neoplastic Dii seases” and Dr. Hamburger on “Coronary Disease — Its Pathology Management, and Outlook.” Out-of-state speakers upon the University program will be Dr. Ralph H. Major, of Kansas City. ! professor of medicine, University of Kansas, Dr. Max Minor Peet, of Ann Arbor, profesor of surgery. University of Michigan, and Dr. Willis Campbell of Memphis. Tennessee, professor of orthopedic surgery, University of Tennessee. Dr. Major will speak at the University auditorium on Monday evening, April 6. Dr. Peet on Tuesday. April I 7. and Dr. Campbell on Friday evi ening, April 10. The morning and , afternoon sessions from Monday through Saturday. April 6 to 11, will be devoted to clinics and didiactics discuss Tons.

PERSONALS Thetus Hocker of Austin. Minn., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hocker over Sunday. Marcellus Miller is spending several days in Chicago, where he is attending the national radio convention. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Brewster and daughter. Joyce, are spending the week-end in Decatur visiting friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. William Douglas and son Harold of Union City, spent yesterday in Decatur visiting Mrs. Douglas’ elater, Mrs. A. J. Beavers. Hiram. Newkirk of California. Kentucky, Henry Brandyberry of Buthy K>nlucikiy, Mr. and Mre. Walter Kober of Warren, Ind., visited Mrs. Eva Kober Friday. Mns. Kober is ill at the home of her daughter Mrs. Dorphus Drum of Fornax street. Packed Houses At Amateur Contest Two packed houses attneded the Decatur high school amateur program laßt night atthe Adamstheater, and through! y enjoyed the hour long stage show. First prize of |5 was won by Walter Zuercher of Bene accordian player; second prize of $3 went to Bud Anspaugh of Decatur, impersonator; and Don Death, vocalist won the third prize of $2. Judges of the contestants were Mrs. C. E. Bell, Miss Grace Coffee and Dr. Fred Patterson. Harry Moyer, acting as ‘Major Bowes", was master of ceremonies of the program. The Blue Rythyim Boys of Berne. 12-piece orchestra, murnished the music. The affair was a financial succeed and the money raised' will be used to defray expenses of various high school organizations. The standard of taient of all the contestants was high, and they received many compliments from the sipectatore. >— « Adams County Memorial Hospital • ♦ Dismissed Mrs. Bernard Terveer, West Madison streetMrs. Raymond McDougall, and

luiby. Carolyn Ann, of West Monroe St. Mtn. Walter Krick, 612 N- Second street. Mrs. Chari,w Shell. Wren. Ohio, and her twin boys. Leon Gene and Vaughn Dean. Mrs. Oren Schultz, 72(» Elm Street. Charles De Bolt, Willshire, Ohio. Mrs- Chwter Nott, (fenlau was taken to the homo of her father, George Wcinhoff. Admitted Mns. Doyle (Harger, of Craigville and Mrs. Ferninand Wiens, Berne. o — — Lowland Residents To Abandon Homes Chicago, March 28-(UP)—Low-land residents in five otatee watch ed the Ohio and Mfesisuippi rivers creei., up over their banks today, and prepared to abandon their homes at a moment’., notice. Upstream cities on the Ohio marked the pausing of the flood crest. At Aurora, Ind., 125 families returned to their silt-covered home* which they abandoned earlier in the v. eek. At Ixmfeville. Ky„ the rfeing waters threatened the two-mile wholesale dfetrict. Doctors inoculated 800

Slogan Contest GOVERNOR'S COMMITTEE ON PUBUC SAFETY This contest is conducted by the Indiana Bureau of Accident Prevention to secure a safety slogan. The slogan selected will be adopted for use throughout the state under auspices of the Governor's Committee on Public Safety. GRAND PRIZE STUDEBAKER DICTATOR SEDAN Contest closes Midnight April IS. 1936 YOUR SLOGAN Every citizen of Indiana is eligible except employees of the Studebaker Corporation and Indiana Accident Prevention Bureau. The winner will be chosen by a committee of judges. Their decision will be HnaL NAME Street or R. F. D. City or Town Fill out plainly and mail io BUREAU OF ACCIDENT PREVENTION Room 121 State House Indianapolis. Indiana

Wife Stands by Mate in Crisis i Ml — SE W y J|g|i LAHR: 7.W « Perry Griffin Madge Copeland "" Despite the fact that Ferry Griffin, 24, former preacher of Mo., abandoned his wife and three children to run away with hit sister-in-law, Miss Madge Copeland, his wife came to his aid when the runaway pair were arrested on charges of banditry at Harrison-., ville, Ma. Quins Acquire Twin Cousins ' ' W “A <->W I Mb -fe. ' W I f * < * | j xx. I - X-xi! H ’ll i ' ' L j \l* m,' L 4 i’\ 'stf Kr I 1 f iftw v wl X*l i ' 11. V I xatSL —X®. The famous Dionne quintuplets acquired twin cousins when two daughters were bom to Mr. and Mrs. George Dionne of Chicago, second cousins to the Ontario Dionnes. George Dionne, father of the new arrivals, is shown inspecting the stork’s gift with his two —sons, Louis and

pntvmns to 'provont spread of typhoid fever. Madfeon, Ind . reported the Ohio pn.s«,Nl the fiO-fnot a'age and would remain that 'high over the endBRUNO’S FINAL , • JV’OOTtNt'ED FROM PAGE ONE) and that it would not be grunted. He has eaid he would not grant a reprieve unless attorney general David T. Wllentz approved legality of such action. With Wilentz and the governor bitterly at (aids over the executive's procedure in the case there was little prospect that he would do that, Auto Crosses Glaciers Palmer, Alaska— <U.R) —Rev. H. M. Jackson of Anchorage recently made the first automobile trip from Anchorage to Palmer. Ho made the 45-mile trip over hardfrozen ground in four hours, crossing the ice on thte River Knik and four small glaciers in his car. - — — —o Wild Turkeys Restocked Leesville, Tex.-<U.R) -State game wardens have launched a restocking program on Texas plains to

bring back the days when thousands of wild turkeys roamed the wooded thickets. Turkey hens have been released near here and gobblers will be stocked later. o Insurance Firm Has Firemen Washington, la. (U.R) -An insurance company hero has its own lire department. Officials of the Washington County Farmers’ Mu tual Insurance company purchased n fire truck, and obtained pledges from city workers to drive it in case of necessity. 0 DECATUR CITY erON'TINITED l-’ROM PAGE ONE) Mr. Myers was always public spirited and took an active part In city and community affairs. He was a member of the varsity basketball team during his high school years and was called on frequently to take part in home talent plays. He had a fine and wholesome sense of humor, was loyal to his friends and enjoyed

Trooper Plays Uncle to Young Flood Victims zz W- F’A P .JHlkoi WiMb i These child victims of the worst flood in the history of Hartford, Conn., are sheltered in the state armory under the watchful eyes of state militia. All factories and municipal services of the Nutmeg capital were at • standstill as the Connecticut flood waters inundated more than three-quarters of the city. No Game Today—Wet Grounds Because of Flood I F J ■L-x*'’ [Cincinnati ball park |.

“No game today—wet grounds because of flood” I might have been an appropriate sign to post at the I Redland stadium of the Cincinnati Reds’ baseball |

Ohio River Floods Invade Cincinnati Suburbs I . ' ****** * .QlWg’ ■ • ’ * — * -■wveiiwa^;,„aft ' x ' ‘c—[Race track flooded f ** F ‘W > -- J B ***®*-— lij® * .*<A-.. - x. < ’ K Xk . X- / afc ■■KsT-\ xNi;' 7 X ' " MMMtarvtM ' | Homes under water j

Two of the sections of metropolitan Cincinnati worst hit by Ohio river floods were the suburbs fdong the river east of the city, below, and Coney

■Jihe companionship of friends. ' | Mr. Myers gained wide experience dining the past year us city attorney through the many legal contacts made in behalf of tho city with the PWA und other federal ; und state agencies. Throe weeks •|ugo he un<l Councllmcn George 11 Stulls and Forest Elzey wont to • Washington to appear before the , PWA relative to obtaining approvl al of city projects. I During the la,st two weeks Mr. i Myers was an uctivo member of the sales committee for the Centennial Good-WIH bonds. He was much interested In the success of j Decatur's celebration of its 100th birthday next August. Besides being city attorney, Mr. Myers was a member of the Deca- . tur board of public works und safety. He wa,s a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church, the Masonic lodge and B. P. O. Elks. Mr. Myers is survived by hfe wife and son, his mother, who is : , visiting In Ashland. Kentucky. ! 1 with her daughter, Mrs. Roller'. |

park had the season been in progress. This scene was typical of the manner in which the Ohio river played havoc with many sections of the metropolis.

Island amusement resort outside the city limitsj top, where the race track was completely covered by water.

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Mills. Tho Zwlck and son ambulance left for Indianapolfe at 11:30 o'clock this: morning to return tho 1 body. Funeral arrangements have ’ not Is-en niazic. I o i Ore Display Arranged i Vancouver, B. C. - (U.R) - The most comprehensive display of i British Columbia ores and past und !present-day mining activities ever , I assembled is being prepared here as a feature of the Vancouver Goliden jubilee celebration to be held i this year. Tho exhibit will consist ■of 5,000 specimens. _— — .<>. — Sisters Prefer “Victoria” Toronto. Ont. (Ul'i The Misses Mortimer and Else” Clark, daughters of the lute Sir William M. Clark, one-ticne Lieutenant-Gover-nor of Ontario, still use a horns, drawn ‘victoria’’ to travel about the city. Theirs is the only horno-drawn I carriage nt ill in dally use here o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur