Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1937 — Page 3

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;■ J| «• . Mr and Mr*- "''■ '• ill and Mre. ’"■FreYf Ohio. and ..t -E » and Earl of Mon,n.e, >, .all*rs *•■>•• Mi. anil —t. - •'"; '’■‘; GIK". ut liocatur and Mr. Cut t lUS MENU Moos,, wil! •M-r-to attend I :<M ( a>-a:d.di. n.onu w. 1 , 4 n . fr.ed Md'h.-n. noodle. . [jread and buttervillage ■ has MEETING 5 . ; „.. y.rs. I.reter Sipe ' ... Si:* ntly ,llli! o.in- nomire duh of jMjlirre Sipe. . ■ :■ :i " ;ls bv lf "' I ,r,>si,lent Mrß . I..me from ’. !■ m Sidney. Ohio to ',^K ; : ma An interesting |K.' . ■■, " nt kinds was ; :'•>•!;ted by the present a gift to the X .... .; Mr- ar Voting who ■ meeting a de- . served to the n,.-nbe-one guest. and several small — " V |r ; ■>.-,1 as a new member. MEETING r RESENTLY S' 1'..: s -.-wing society of ... r nil ail day meetat the home of Mrs. a J Ilyberi. Tw-nly seven .... Ku .'I ..-and was an honor ■gß ' Quilting was enjoyed. ißck e-v- Those prewere:

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commuting wife, Ann traveled 18.642 miles by air rail since her marriage five ago to Roger Pryor. They to get 12 days together time before R-K-O summoned back to the coast for ■‘“Cre Goes My Girl". e. the Pasadena station George an( l Virginia Pine gave conK.ns. Pr °° f lhat the ‘ r Fist iS tended They embraced in front - crybody. “There is nothing W rumors.” said Raft, as he Hnn o, the blon ' ,e Chicago beauty RLA he , c , ar which was to carry to Hollywood. ■ ffi Ar " i there never wiu **•" Ks th/ U Mlss Pine > in the optimism ■* u>e moment. Bfeor i an ' a u C story> the one about ■ wo Urphy and Neil Collins. Kon<ln„„o ns was star of the K/ C^ od News" company and Kderstn,| hfUl , Murphy waa hia Km.l- , udy ; Jus t like in a movie K hi’ ( CoUins took “I and EX hy ste PPed into his shoes. He ■lv w i * "?• was drafted by Hol■t!ie bn? rN 1 " 0W is P ,ayin ß one of l av uj° es ln M G ' M 3 "Broad- ■ r„, v ody of 1937”. ■the stn4 Fe S the twist that gives I ' ’wry punch. |tu” U K s , stand - i n for the pic|,e unttaitudM" 8 ’ man Kt S S po|i! Your Questions! Mrs. I'ersity Beach: Th® Unila highlv S? uthern California has l c “’em S ato ) rro h 2 Ught of courße in I £1& »ses in g st Phy ' You can attend I m the evening, if you wish.

i CLUB CALENDAR 8ocl«ty Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phaaee 1000 — 1001 Weaneecay St. Paul Ladles’ Aid, Mrs. Ira Mr Bride, all day meeting. Shakespeare Club. Mrs. Earl B. Adams. 2:30 p. m. Thureaay American Ix-gion Auxiliary, Le--1 gion Home, 7:30 p m. Eastern Star Regular Stated Meeting. Masonic Hall, 7:30 p. m. Pleasant Grove M. S., Mrs. Fred Bittner 1:30 p. m. Busy Bee Home Economics Club, Mrs Oscar McMichael. 1:30 p. m. Parent Education Study Group. Homestead Office, 7:30 p. m. Saturday Union Chapel, Ladies' Aid Bake Sale, Brock Store, 9 a. m, | lAnnaul Easter Supper, Moose Home, 5 to 7 p. m. Easter Egg Sale, Mutchler Mar- ' ket. Sunday Pleasant Mills Alumnae, High School, 2 p. m. Monday Research Club, Mrs. L. A. Cowens, 2:30 p. m. Bieberlch, Mrs. Martin Bieberich. Mrs. (Herman Bieberlch. Mre. Chares Bittner, Mrs. George Bultemeier, Mrs. Herman Bultemeier, Miss Emilie and Sophia Ehlerding. Mrs Herman Ehlerding, Mrs. Ern- ' esl Ehlerding. Mrs. Theodore Ewell ‘ Sr-, Mrs. Otto Ewell, Mrs. Albert Ewell, Mrs. Bertha Gaiser. Mrs. Victor Hoffman, Mrs. Fred Koenemann, Mrs. Gustave Koenemann, Mrs. Otto Koenemann Mrs. Kate Linnemeier. Mrs. Her- , man Linnemeier, Mrs- Henry Macke, Mrs. William C. Macke, Mre. W. H. Moeller, Mrs. Rudolph Stolp, i Mrs. Conrad Scheuman, Mrs. . George Schueler, Mrs. Dan Wefel. . .Mrs- Christ Werling, Mrs. William Werling, Mrs. Otto Ehlerding, Mre. ■ Fred Bieberich, Mrs. Gustave Bie- ■ berhich. Mrs. Oscar Hoffman and j the hostess Mrs. Otto J. BieberichPAULINE HECKLEY | WEDS KENNETH ROOP Miss Pau'ine Heekley, daughter . of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Heekley, of Tocsin, and Kenneth E. Roop, eon of i Mr. and Mre. Elbert Roop of Willi shire. Ohio, w ere married in a pretty • cermony at 6 o’clock Saturday evening at the home of the bride’s I parentsRev. C. W. Moore officiated in the single ring ceremony. Preceding the t candle lighted ceremony. Joyce

The spring quarter begins March 29. Dumb like a fox was Warners in timing “The Prince and the Pauper" for release coincident with the coronation ceremonies in England. The picture is an exploitation natural. Thirty-five newspapers have written the studio asking for art on the coronation ceremonies seen in the film. Specially in demand are long-shots that do not Identify principal players. Oddest piece of jewelry of the month is Dolores Del Rio’s ring . . . setting, two and one-half inches deep and ornamented with six tiny bells which tinkle as she walks. It is no Hollywood conceived bauble, but is a replica of the ring worn by the last Aztec emperor. Day's Gossip. . . . We should: have said above: the oddest piece of jewelry for humans. Suzanne, Kaaren's wirehaired terrier actu-, ally wears earrings. . . . Larry Adler, the harmonica player, is so crazy about Simone Simon that he wheedled permission from Warner Brothers to leave the set and attend the preview of "Seventh Heaven”. . , . The ribbers have given Clark Gable no peace since his expensive roadster got stalled in the storm the

other night and had to be towed out by a Japanese gardener. . . . Betty Furness threatens to buy a midget plane and her mother is wild at the idea. . . . The original story for the new Cagney picture, “Hot Oil’’, was written by

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George D. Smart, a sound-man, and Layne Britton, a make-up man, at the M. G. M. studio. They had to talk for weeks to get a studio to read it. . . . Estelle Taylor was at the Case Lamaze with Van Smith . . . their second appearance together. . . . And Bill Howard s Negro cook may soon be able to retire on the proceeds of a list of recipes gathered from other Hollywood kitchen help and published as "Eliza's Cook Book”, _ J

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1937.

Moore sang, ’’The Sweetest Story' Ever Told." The room was beauti- j fully decorated with flowers. Miss Helen Roop, sister of the bridegroom, attendee uh maid of honor ami Holman Egley wan man. The bride chose a gown of powder , blue chiffon und carried pink roses ' and white sweet >peus. Miss Roop] wore pink lace over pink satin and carried paste) colored sweet peas. Following the ceremony a wedd j Ing dinner was served to the mem-I here of the immediate fanilies and a few friends of the couple. The bride is a well known music ! teacher and the groom Is engaged In I farming The couple will be at home to their many friends one-half mile south of Willshire, Ohio. The parent education study group under the direction of Miss Mary Gordon of Fort Wayne will meet ut the Homestead office Thursday evening at seven-thirty o'clock. Any one interested is cordially invited to attend. PYTHIAN SISTERS NEEDLE CLUB MEETS The Needle Chib of t.he Pythian | Sisters met after Temple Mondav, evening at the K. of P. home. Twen-ty-five members were present. At the close of the short business session the ladies were invited to the dining room by the hostesses Mrs. E<] Whitright, .Mrs. Harve Baker and Mrs. M. E. Hower, where lovely refreshments were served. Games were enjoyed afterwards and prices were given to Mrs. Sam Butler and Mre. Frank Carroll. At the meeting of the Civic Section of the Woman's Club, held In the Library rest room Tuesday evening, every member voted to aid the women’s fie'j army in Its drive for the control of cancer. — o ;i PERSONALS A E. Buckles and hie eon. Dr. , Buckles of Hartford City were visitors here yesterday afternoon, the doctor being one of the witness in 1 the law suit in progress here. Attorney Ewer of Fort Wayne was a business visitor here. Otis Roberts, special investigator for the attorney general, Omer Jackson and for Governor Townsend was a visitor here last evening hie call as he explained it being entirely social an<j unofficial. S. Perry Hull, superintendent of the Waterworks at Huntington. has sent an invitation to Mayor A. R Holthouse to extend to city officials to attend a one day meeting of waterworks superintendents in that city. May 21. A school for managers of water departments will te held. The man who came nearest guessing the exact vote which President Roosevelt received in the election missed the total only 111 votes. Roosevelt received 27,752,309 votes and the gness was 27)752,420. Page Mr. Hurja. Business will cease in Decatur from 12 o’clock to three o’clock Fri-1 day afternoon In observance of the Three Hours. Services will be held in the churches. Mrs Jesse Schwartz ie ill at her home on North Second street. Mrs. Ed Weisling and children Bobby, Dick and Mary of Findlay Ohio will arrive today to spend Easter with Mre. Weisling’s sister Mine Rose Fullenkamp. Charles Springer is ill at his home I northeast of Decatur. Mrs. Avon Burk has been ill at 1 her home on North Fourth street for the past two days. Mrs. Leo Saylors visited in Fort Wayne Tuesday. Germany Once More Demands Territory Berlin, Mar. 24.-KU.RX-Col.Gen. ' Hermann Goering demanded today that other nations "give Germany the necessary territory to produce first rate vital necessities" for the reich’s economic independence. Goering, food dictator, reiterated Germany's “land hunger" and need for territorial expansion. He followed his announcement of decree to aid farmers and make the reich self sufficient, by saying at the opening of a reich’s textile exhibition: “7 stressed in my speech at the * MADAM SILVIA Greatest ever in your city, county or state. The lady with the radio mind. Seventh daughter of the seventh generation. Born with double veil. First time In your city. Gifted character reader and advisor. She has helped thousands in every walk of life and she can help you in all affairs of life. A secret you should know, the power to control your trouble and disappointments. She tells your future complete and gives initials of friends and enemies. Come today and consult this gifted lady. Satisfaction guaranteed. Readings, 50c. Hours 9 a. m. till 8:30 p. ni. Located | in house trailer at west side J filling station, corner 13th and | Adams streets. ♦— — *

Captured in Fur Holdup ¥ W I b .Lrt OB L Ya iMiiiJll 11 f Us H Bandits robbing a fur shop in New York City came to grief when police battled with them, killing two and capturing four others. Above, one of the captives struggling with a detective after refusing medical aid from an ambulance surgeon.

sportspalast last autumn that Germany in nowise intends to cut herself off from international trade. If, however, the others refuse to give Germany the necessary territory to produce first rate vital necessities they should not he surprised to see the indefaticable German genius searching for new methods of making German independent." o Man And Woman Are Held In Shooting Indianapolis. March 24.— (U.R) — Police today held a man and woman for questioning in connection ■ with the shooting of Clayton Potts. 74. during a $2,500 holdup at the C. & G. Potts foundry. Authorities refused to reveal the names of the suspects. They were arrested last night after it was discovered the man had an unusually large sum of money and police were not satisfie dwith his story how he obtained it. Potts, company treasurer, remained in a serious condition at St. Vincent's hospital suffering from bullet wounds in the abdomen and left arm. Q Dr. Dieckhoff To Be German Ambassador Berlin, Mar. 24.—KU.R>—The Am- ! erican government has cabled that Dr. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff. state secretary of the foreign office, would be persona grata as ambass-

The True Expression of the Easter Spirit Rosea. Hyacinths Lilies v* Hydrangeas Tulips Azaleas Carnations Primroses Snapdragons Sweet Peas Jonquils WnfiT w ■ Calendulas DECATUR FLORAL CO. Nuttman Ave. - PHONE 100

ador to Washington to succeed Dr. Hans Luther, it was said authoritatively today. Official announcement of the appointment. long forecast, was expected soon. Dieckhoff has served as chief of the political department and of the Anglo-American and Near East department. He was counselor of the Washington embassy between 1922 and 1927. He has served also at Tangier, Istanbul. Valparaiso. Chile; Lima, Peru: London and Prague. o Farmer’s Guide Loses In Court Os Appeals Chicago March 24—(UP) —A verdict of the district court at Indianapolie, awarding $37,000 damages in the conspiracy euit brought by the Indiana Farmer’s Guide against the Midwest farm paper unit. Inc-, stood reversed today by the U. S. circuit court of appealsThe Indiana Farmers Guide charg,ej the Midwest group, which includes five member farm journals, with violation of the Sherman antitrust law by offering rates on group advertising. Extortion Letters Reported Received Hollywood. March 24 —(UP) — Extortion letters received by Anna May Yong, Chinese film beauty, and Mre. David O- Seznick, wife of the producer, sent police today in search of a man they believed was

a maniac, while they held n.n aged doctor an a materia) witness. Miss Wong was threatened with disfigurement und her futher with maiming unlesn she advanced S2O--for the production of u weird motion picture scheme the note writer claimed to have concocted. Mrs. Selznick was ordered to pay $20,000 In unmarked bills with the threat that her two small none will lie blinded and crippled if she failed. Homes of both were ipluced unde? guar(l. * - ♦ YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED Enclose a tbree-cent stamp for reply when addressing any I question of fact or information i to the Daily Democrat’s Service ' Bureau at Washington. I,egal ' and medical advice cannot be | given, nor can extended re- | I search be undertaken. Be sure . all mail is addressed to the I Daily Democrat's Service Bur- | | eatt, 1013 Thirteenth street, I Washington. D. <’. ♦ ♦ Q. How do prunes grow? A. Prunes are dried plums of a certain type, or fren.li plume capable of being dried in the son without fermenting or souring when the pit is not removed. Plum trees producing such plums are often called prune tree®. Only a few varieties of plums are capable of being converted into prunes: as moet of them, when dried with the pits, ferment and sour. Q. Who originated the term, "cur vival of the fittret ’’ A. Herbert Spencer originated it and Darwin approved its use in “The Origin of Species," Chap- 111, when he wrote. "The expression of(ten used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient." Q. Has any driver won the 500mile Memorial Day Auto race at Indianapolis, three times? A. Louie Meyer of Huntington Park, Calif, won in 1928, 1933, and 1936. Q. Doee the Panama Canal contain salt or fresh water? A. River water is in the locks, but as no special effort ie made to exclude salt water from mixing with the river water, the water in the Canal is both freeh and salt Q. Where were the Olympic Games held in 1916’ A. They were scheduled for Berlin but were not held on account of the World War.

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President Roosevelt and Son James When James Roosevelt went tor an automobile ride at Warm Springs, Gn., lie had a distinguished chauffeur, none other than the president of the United States who occasionally takes the wheel when driving through the countryside where he annually vacations.

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