Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1936 — Page 3
fcIN SOCIETY |~flL| Junior-Senior Reception Friday Night at Gymnasium 'B u», b Hi'" l •" ' " IW i,,( ' lu,li " K ,l "' Junior and senior classes and , nc.cy. d the rec eption and dance Friday evening in the decorated gymnasium of the Decatur high school. fiv ’“ seniors were the honored guests at the affair. The , r.-t in-■•<! the members of the faculty and of th- IXcatnt ■T'K- and their wives and husbands. ■BL wine "
K w , pml ■■ ■ . lot the Dole Kltl: ■Lgf ■ depot, cl f ■ *• .1 r for Bob *, fe >c blue Hawks. ■Thef li-dited e . IS COllceaeled .. • ■ Ebert' to .cling as master ■L dK' "' Eugene Friedt. HEj or C .■I• ■ 1.1. follow • b> ■piorßl pi.s’deut. Ira Fuhr Kjj, jresiu- of the Decatur it ■ ■Kt into Kruekeberg Kte Iff' ' liibleu was preKntedkiv d* Sc iiulrz. toil > ■a Kt of life gave a one ac t ■kj, Jtt •!.mi part were Dav. w Ro 1 ,. ■• Two songs were sung t I. Melba Kraft Miirpliy. Jeanette Chris Baker. Rosella ■eareai.: 1 in- Jackson, with ftv-iyni. tlaais at the piano. t<> ■be I*' the banMary Maxine Martin. Imogene Bright, Gwen ■ten, A I !>V, Ralph Steele. Do:. I a'li. Max Odle and ■ ibe e-- was , losecl by dan Whalen.
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■ one,,f tLp “ cant miss” money the year’s picture product. |£.«W es P assa &es from the book ai d of the end of the story. Allen wrote it. but the RjHB tremendous scope, is Wit h adventure, with rich and w ‘ th fine characteris praise for all the perbut especially for Edmund as Anthony’s Scotch beneIff/W f° r Claude Rains, as the on buis; for Akim Tarni--8 a Cuban bon-vivant; tor as the young Anthony JgSWJ’ Gale Sondergaard. as the housekeeper, Faith. March’s as the grownup Anthony regarded as impressive. »how? nt plans Cft » for the roadof “Anthony Adverse” in August, with the general r”* to come in the fall. IJzJ *° lUCky escapes that of Betty avoM* I’* 1 ’* Wko Bwerv ®d the wheel to truck and turned over on its side. She was BtuX 1 8 dozen dresses to the pose for fashion pictures acted as a cushion for her bv hSi Vins her from possible injury glass. got out of it was a fright. Mrtfr Sked Me and rm Telling You’ Love. Brooklyn: Since Young married Joseph lcz . there ha been no talk 3|E to the screen. It a* a Bah f ° r a w hilc yet, anyway. y 1e expected in the family th* “ arshßll . still mum about to gt, . Swan «on rumors, will go n as soon as he finishes I u °rmltory” at Twentieth
i CLUB CALENDAR > Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Mrs. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 * Saturday Delta Theta Tau 4-H club, amateur hour domestic science rooms, 1 Decautr high school, 2 p. m. Rummage Sale, Tri Kappa, Hen- ' sley Building. 9 A M. Monday 1 Pythian Needle Club, K. of P. home, after temple. ’ Pinochle Club, Mr. and Mrs. Solo1 mon Lord. 7:30 p m. Benefit bridge, Elks home, 8 p. m. Tuesday > C. L. of C- Mothers Guest party, 6:30 p. m- - Civic section, library restroom. 7 p. m. 1 Union Chapel Young Peoples’ . Class. Mias Elizabeth Craemer, 7:30 p tn. ■ Psi lota Xi, City Hall. 7:30 p. m. Mary and Martha Class, M. E. Church, 7:30 p.m. Tri Kappa, business meeting 7:30 ’ p. m. Thursday Friendship Village, Mrs. Omer Merriman. 1:30 p. nt. W-’ M. F. Society, M E. Church, 2:30 p. m. ■ class sponsor and Mrs. W. P. Robinson, senior class sponsor, were the faculty advisors for the dance and reception. Other committees were: Invitations committee: Jeanette Christen, chairman; Faye Martin, and Kathryn Kohls. Flower committee: Arthur Sundennann. chairman; Alice Kathryn ' Baker, Rosie Moyer and Byron Orchestra committee: Lewis Smith, chairman. Refreshments committee: Catherine Jackson, chairman; Virginia i Breiner and Wendell Smith. , | As the decorations will be used by the seniors for their reception I next Friday, following the commencement exercises in the gymnasium, this committee was composed of both seniors and juniors. • Members were: Robert Engeler,
Century-Fox, ano a picture tor R-K-O. The appearances together of the English actor and Glamorous Gloria continue to set a record tor discretion They both lunched in the 1 studio commissary the other noon. 1 but Marsha!! sat on one side of the : room and Gloria on the other. ' Quarantine authorities have gummed up Errol Flynn’s plan to make a Hollywood servant otit ot his former house-boy in New Guinea. According to a cable just received by the star, the boy is being held on I Thursday Island, following an outI break of contagious Illness on the [ship tn which he was traveling tn I California The funniest story ot the fire on the New York street set at Twentieth Century-Fox has not yet been told. When it looked as if the blaze might get out ot control an appeal was sent to apparatus in nearby towns. Behs . ringing and sirens screaming, they dashed into the lot. careened onto the I set and connected to a fire plug. But when they attempted to turn on the ' water, none came. , It was a prop plug. Here and there in Hollywood. . . . Rochelle Hudson s farewell cocktail party on the boat
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was given by an executive in the California Fruit Growers’ a s sociation. . . • June Knight evidently wasn't kidding about her new 1 interest in light co m p I e x toned men, for she was at the Club Casanova the other night with Pinky Tomlin. ...
Warner Oland, Just back from a trip to the Orient, has developed a foot complaint that will hold up the start of his new > Charlie Chan picture. . . ■ George Olsen and Ethel Shutta are giving 1 tile Cocoanut Grove swell music and entertainment, and big c l° w {*’- I/ A Friday night there looks like the old days. . ■ ■ Cracker Hendersons bride, the former Helen Holbrook, in standing In for Madeleine Carroll In “Chinese Gold". . . . And . Chinese pictures, Douglas Macbean has brought a real one back from the Orient. It Is called Song of China” and Mac Lean plans to roadshow It in this country. TODAY’S PUZZLE — The papa of what San , girl now visiting Los Angeles, , warned a certain hint star to keep i his distance?
DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MAY 16 1936
senior chairman; Ralph Hurst, Junior chairman; Lewis Fennig, Roseilu Heart*, Catherine Murphy, Marie Grther, William Tutewllor, William Schrock, Dale Myers, Keith Smltley and Robert Worthman. The Friendship Village home economics club will meet with Mrs. Omer Merrfcnan ‘Thursday afternoon at otjedhlrty o'ctock- Mrs. Chauncy Jones and Miss Eldon Ford will be a.se!eting hostesses. The Mary and Martha class of the Methodist Episcopal church will meet at the church Tuesday even- , ing at seVen-thlrty o'clock. There will be a business mooting of the Psi lota X! sorority at the city hall Tuesday evening at seventhirty o’clock. TEACHERS SURPRISE CHILDREN WITH PARTY The teachers of the North 'Ward, including the Misses Elizabeth Peterson, Della Sellemeyer and ' Florence Haney and John Parrish, I delightfully surprised the pupils i of the school with a May party FriI day afternoon. Games were enjoyed out of doors ' and at the close of the afternoon I the pupils were invited to the first ! grade room where the small tables | were filled with candy, ice cream and cake. j Guests other than the pupils were the Misses Helen Haubold. Sara Jane Kauffman and Supt. i Walter Krick. MRS. PAUL BUSSE HOSTESS TO SOCIETY The missionary society of the Zion Lutheran church met recently with Mrs. Paul Busse with fif- | teen members present. After the business meeting Mrs. E. W. Lankenau gave a short talk ' using as her topic "Katherine Von , Bora, the wife of Dr. Martin Luther.” Mrs. Busse and Mrs. Paul Conrad, the assisting hostesses, served ' refreshments. BENEFIT BRIDGE [ AT ELKS MONDAY ’I Ladies of the B. P. O. Elks are ■ ' planning a benefit bridge party at | the Elks home on North Second i street Monday evening at eight ©’- 11 clock1 ! The party will be for Fike, their I wives and also for guests Tickets are selling at twenty-five cents per person. Mrs. J. L. Ehler is general I I chairman. The Pythian needle club will meet 1 at the Knights of Pythias home ’ I Monday evening after temple. Hostesses will be Mrs. Will Dellinger, Mrs- Grant Fry and Mrs. Tillman Gehrig. The Civic Section of the Woman s c’ub will meet in the library restroom Tuesday evening at seven o’clock. The Young Peoples’ class of I nion Chapel will meet with Miss Elizabeth Cramer, Tuesday evening at seven-thirty o’clock. The Catholic Ladies es Columbia wil.' have a mothers guest party at I the K- of C. hall Tuesday evening A pot luck supper will be served at six-thirty o'clock. The committee in charge of arrangements is Miss Christine Schurger and Miss Clara Meyers, cochairmen. Mrs. Robert Miller, Mrs. Art Meyers, Mrs. Harold Heller, Miss Barie Murtaugh. Miss Agnes Nesswald and Mies Rose Nesswald. 0 ESCAPED MAN (CONTINUED FROM TACT OTO neered the mass escape. The 15th person to encounter the fleeing convicts, an unnamed farmer, reportedly gave the tip that led ito Pugh. The convict was surrounded in a farmhouse two miles west of Sa,vanna by a posse hastily organized by Jesse Dunn and John Russell, prison officers. PRESS SEARCH (CONTINUED FROM gun was W protection against hipackers. It was not until he had been questioned for hours that he admitted the rifle cartridge*—of the same caliber as those used to kill Foster, were left there by a companion. Kimble Funeral Services Tuesday Funeral services for Mirl K. K'.rnb'e, 43, of Fort Wayne, brother of Dwight Kimble of this city, will be held Tuesday morning at the home _f Kinsmore street in Fort Wayne at 8:30 o’clock DST and at the St. Patrick’s church in Fort Wayne at 9 o’cl'ck- Burial will be made in the Fort Wayne Catholic cemetery. o Bloodhound on Own Trail Pasadena, Cal. —(UP) — Bloodhounds can even follow their own scents. iA highly trained one, belaaiging to Mrs. George Flower, could not stand an automobile accident in which its mistress was involved and fled into endless space. The next I day it trailed its own tracks back home-
PERSONALS Mrs. E. J. Beardsley, Alexandria. Mr. and Mrs. C. S- Beardsley of Vaiejo. Cal., and John R. Beardsley of Ok'ahoma are week-end guests at the Wlnnes residence, 421 Went Jefferson street and at the residence of Mrs. M. F. Rice. Miss Mary Coverdale of Fort Wayne and Clarence Beavers will spend the week-end in Ijifayette, where they will attend the 8. A. Eformal spring dance thia evening. Miss Kathryn King will visit her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Shin of Fort Wayne over the week end. She will attond the ' Senior prom Saturday evening. Miss Francile Oliver of Monroe visited in Decatur yesterday. Roy Kalver will leave today for Chicago where ho will visit until Tuesday. Ho will be accompanied i home by Mrs. Kalver and daugh- ; ter Carroll, who have spent the past ten days with friends and relatives in Chicago. The Misses Alice Allwein and Coralene Townsend and Tom Allwein left this moruing for Greencastle wliere they will attend the spring dance at the Phi Psi house at DePauw, this evening. Mrs. Mary Holthouse and daugh- ■ ter Margaret will spend Sunday in Bloomington, where they will be guests of the former’s son, Bob. and attend the Mother's Day din- 1 ' ner at the Phi Delt house. Mrs. Mary A. Shaffer of Route 3, has returned to her home after a visit at Grabill, Ind., Mrs. John Fisher of Columbus, ' Ohio, is the guest of her sister, I Mrs. Elizabeth Market today, j Robert Ilolfhouse, son of Mrs. Mary | Holthouse of this city is a member of one of the fraternities at Indiana University, which Wednesday i ate hamburgers in which were i pieces of ground glass. None of the | 92 boys in the Phi Delta Theta and De'ta Tau Delta fraternities was injured by the glass, inadvertently ground into the hamburgers by a grocery clerk, who chipped off a piece of a milk bottle in the grind- ( I er. The boys were put on a special i diet of cotton and mashed pota-, , toes. Mrs. J. J. Vega of Chicago is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry | Thomas of North Fifth streetAttorney H. B. Heller attended to business in Indianapolis. Mis. D. D. Heller who has heen quite ill with the grippe for a month past is much improved and able to sit up a part of each day. Robert Cranter was a business visitor in Indianapolis Friday. 0 ; — F. D. R. LEADS late returns, with a total of 13.174 votes to his opponent’s 10,787. Townsend threats to defeat U. i.S. Representative William A. Eki wall apparently failed. Ekwall I was leading his nearest opponent, Charles M. Thomas by a 3,000-vote margin. Harry Kenin. who favored pensions but did not campaign on the Townsend plan, was running almost neck and-neck with Thomas. o President Signs Appropriation Bill Washington, May 16. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt today signed the peace time record $572,500,000 army appropriation bill providing funds for military and non military activities of the war department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937. Mr. Roosevelt at the same time gave final approval to the so-called four department bill, making appropriations for the "State, justice, commerce and labor departments. He also signed a joint congressional resolution authorizing the United States to participate in the forthcoming Pan-American conference to be held at Buenos Aires, Argentina, or at the capital of some I
Quadruplets Visit Quintuplets in Canada WL rW t w ■ t A
I i -a Along with an invitation to visit the Texas Centennial, the famous Keys quadruplets of San Antonio, left to right, Roberta, Mary, Mona and Leota, brought Dr. Allan R. Dafoe, sentcr, a gay serape
otner south American republic 1 during 1936. ——— .. .(j —. JEWEL ROBBER .nfDNTINUF.D FROM PAPE ONE) Information resulting in the arrest of Venetuccl and Scardini. Both were held on federal charges of transporting stolen automobiles over state linos. Klotter, Maaonick, Becker and William Gestman, a jewelry salesman, were arrested earlier. It was expected that Dahlhovor would be returned to Indianapolis today or tomorrow. Still sought as members of the gang wore Elmer Martin, wounded in an affray at Lima, Ohio, and Lee Jackson, hoth members of the Brady mob. - -o — S4O Jobs Go Begging Oregon City, Ore. (U.R) —Clackamas County had so many FWA projects going on that the county officials could not find enough carpenters to go around. The jobs pay $1 per hour, S4O a week.
Famous Film Family at Home Z -xwg. •'A.-.w. I f ~ A .—** - ■ 7 A 7 ■Kral ~ Mr. and Mrs. Franchot Tone The title once enjoyed by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, who were recognized as “the first family of filmdom”, appears slated to become attached to Mr. and Mrs. Franchot Tone, whom Hollywood points out as one of its happiest couples since Joan Crawford, the former wife of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Tone middle-ni-ded it. •Six Doomed to Die for Killing, r The largest number ever sentenced to die for one crime in New York state were doomed when six young men, ranging in age from 18 to 31, were given the death sentence for the murder of a young subway collector in a $250 holdup in New York last September. The doomed youths, shown receiving sentence, included, left to right, Salvatore Scata, 18; Joseph Bolognia, 23; Theodore Di Donne, 31; Dominick Rizzo, 26; Sam Kimmel, 21, and Eugene Bruno, 2Lr
and sombrero when they visited the Dionne quintuplets at Callender, Ontario, Canada. The Keys sisters are the only adult quadruplets iu United States. —i
Adams County Memorial Hospital ♦———————————— ■■ — Leahline C;u>e, route 2, Willshire, admitted last night. Mrs. Wilburt Nusabaum, Berne, admitted this morning. James Ehlnger, 609 West Madison street, admitted this morning. Mis. Ray Diffendarter, Geneva, dismissed today. MORE MEN WORK _(CONTINUE! > FROM PAGF. ONE) cedure of registration may be obtained through the homesteads office or from any of the township trustees, o - ■ . NEGROES SLAY (CONTINUED FROM PACIE ONE) collapsed and the man ran out. He was struck by a blast of bullets and fell backward into the fire. Walles, caretaker of the ceme-
tery, hud been asked to vacate the hottse. He hud refused and for seyerul days he and his idster ihad patrolled the grounds, arm>*d with rifles ajid revolvers. ■ — ——— -o —— Artichokes In Trouble Berkeley, Cal —(U.R) California'!! artichokes are being peatered with a post. It la called the plume moth The University of California has undertaken to find scientific means for the eradication of the Insect. — o Goose and Lamb Pals Bcrke'ey, Cal. — (l'P)--A Canadian honker gooae and a lamb, inseparable companions ,on a Modoc
Webb-Vallee Fight Back in Court tn O ■ j. r ■ fl >. Fay Webb Vallee? w J Rudy Vallee ) t The stormy domestic career of Rudy Vallee and his dark-eyeo «♦ tranged wife, Fay Webb Vallee, took a new turn when the daughter of a Santa Monies, Cal., police chief, filed suit for divorce in Hollywood, alleging that the famous crooner was given to temperamental outbursts and abusive treatment. Four Die in Night Club Blaze '4 t Y f Betty Bloitom Four persons lost their lives and 11 others were seriously injured when a San Francisco night club was set afire by a torch which police said a guest had playfully wrested from the grasp of Betty Blossom, below, "flame dancer”. One of the victims, Douglar Geary, is shown being carried from the ruins. Successors to Late Huey Long i y p : A . . it, I < I fy Irn HHHnMr A I ' WF— J i 1 B [Lindsay] Crucial test of whether those who fell heir to the political domain of the late Senator Huey P. Long can carry on his machine is expected to come up during the present session of the Louisiana legislature when the political fate of his “heirs”, including, left to right, Gov Richard W. Leche, Lieut. Gov. Earl K. Long, brother of the late ’ Kingfish, and Coleman Lindsay, president of the state senate, will be determined. Leche began his administration in a manner sharply in contrast to the dictatorial methods of Dong when he signed an order removing all police and firemen from political control.
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•[county funm near here, understand i each other perfectly. When) th, - ' goose Is lonely and wauU the laimh I [ for c/.wnpauy; it honks; when the ’ lamb wants eompauy It lilcatv. Each •always responds- <' Liquor Stamps Collected II ■ "■ 11 Austin. Tex (U.R)—A new kind <|of philatelist is Miss Beverly Boli ton, 8. She collects liquor and beer ; stamps Frequent changes in the liquor, wine and beer stamps are expected to make Beverly's collee- - tion valuable some day. o 1 Trade in a Goed Town — Decatur
