Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1937 — Page 3

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Ma I nit I at e o SERVICES K . tp|) . | s „rority held Imr d * , h services Tuesday **■ the .1. W. Calland resid K '.he M.sdamw W. J. Boek- “■ Kaliei. Ray Keller. CharMiss Kathryn Kohls. v ’’^K| X -tliirty o’clock, a lovely two was served at small centered with rose bowle. t were each present".! gift front the sorority. a 1,1 ief business meeting anted for bridge- At of three games, riven to Mns. Leo Say(l Mrs. Carroll Burkholder. Fred Smith was general fur the affair. D y B. Clase of the United Sunday school will meet : .W Franklin at th<- par-Thur-Hay - veiling at sevenMrs. Earl Krider will assisting hostess. > :i. Zion Senior Walther league : evening in the , , of lite Zion Lutheran at seven-thirty o'clock. - j c. Magley of North Fifth Hgy will be hostess to the memth.- Root township home ■n;.. c.luli Tuesday afternoon o’clock. Assisting hoswill be Mrs- W. R. McCoy Elizabeth Ruckman. All are invited to attend. held * Micers installed Psi lota Xi sorority held iminitiation services Tuesday 'H'o^K, h , n at the home of Mrs. ChaiKr ?orter for the Misses Evelyn and Jane Krick. the services the following , ‘ were installed .by Mrs. Al- . Beavers, retiring pres-ident; Kt Jerald Smith, president; Mrs. vice-president; Mrs. I)eßolt > treasurer: Mrs. „ Saylors, secretary; Miss w Young, assistant secreBn. Mifie Eloise Lewton, corressecretary; Mrs. 'A. R. Holtpress reporter. members of the sorority . to Miller's Tea Room. they enjoyed a lovely three r/cx f S B *h«ne 300 1315 W. Adams

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fey HARRISON CARROLL S Copyright, 1937, S HPt* n K features Syndicate, Inc. ..^Hollywood- -With a million »; in his cartoon feature, "Snow--4 white and the Seven Dwarfs", IK. Walt I) isn <■ y I ran st ‘" sit ' ,ai ' k ■ : I an(J laugh -she Bra -B creator of 1 ■ Mickey Mouse ■ s<**|| has been offered z JtaiaM this amount for I the en g* l s 11 S . <«MBj|l rights to his ■ Bfe^HTl feature alone IU F" HIBI william Morns IL». WBI jr - ° f the fa_ mous agency, ■ BBa' a ** Disney was ready to B* put the money B’® the line. Disney turned him figuring to do better. will, too, for England B.b c: azy for the Disney product. ■'Am- lints to 25 per cent of the market. I On this basis a little easy figurdisc loses that, if Disney turned a million for English rights, ■ lie i pects the film to make over 1 men in the world, if E wltet we hear is true, are the I Way lenders who are letting Hol- ■ lyWi-od extras have the $lO to join E ' ! ’T Screen Actors' Guild— are g B* n< / them have it for sls payth e nex f day. sa Johnson’s contract with I Twentieth Century-Fox calls for ■M to supply meat to the 200 I members of the expedition going the Tanganyika country to I “9 backgrounds for "Stanley and I ■lngstone”. The youthful widow f BExp’orcr Martin Johnson will ■■■the only white hunter on the Mt y . ■feefection to the movies of Henry I «|yior will not break up the I fe rcc Radio Rogues" act. Jimmy [gwlywood and Eddie Bartell have I a hew partner and are going on as I Wai. Which is good news for | is one of the funniest acts of | all. . ■Wins we ring Your Questions! I ® r d Fisher, Pittsburgh: After s months, Marie Wilson has [ JBovered from her automobile HBident and will go into the

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline. 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Wednesday Decatur Home Economics Club, Mrs. A. J. Beavers, 1:30 p. m . Blossom Tea, Methodist Church, ■ 4 p. m. St. Ann s Study Club, Veronloca Woipert, 7:30 p. m. Ladies Aid, Zion Reformed Church, 2:30 p. m. Zion Senior Walther League, Lutheran Church Basement, 7:30 p. m. Thursday Philathea Claes, Mrs. Ira Bodie, 7:30 p. m. D. Y. B. Claes, Mrs. H. W. Franklin. 7:30 p. m. Union Chapel Woman’s Missionary Society, Mrs. A. F. Knepp, 1:30 p. m. Ruralistic Study Club, Mrs. Herman Uleman, 8 p. m Women of Moose and Senior Regents Escorts, Moose Home, 7:30 p. m. Ladies’ Aid Society, Evangelical Church, 2 p. m. Loyal Daughters’ Class, Mrs. Frank Lynch, 7:30 p. m. U. B. Progressive W’orkers. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Deitsch, 7:30 p. m. Eta Tau Sigma, Miss Mildred Blosser, 7:30 p. m. Christian Ladles’ Aid, Mns. William Teeple, 2 p. m. Dinner Bridge Club, Mrs. Gladys Chamberlain, 6:30 p m. M. E. Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, Mrs. Charles Fletcher, 2:30 p. m. 1 Friendhip Village Home Ec Club Mrs. Allen W’olfe, 1:30 p. m. Friday i Mount Pleasant Bible Class, Mr. and Mrs Chauncey Sheets, 8 p. m. Busy Fingers 4-H Club, Miss NeI va Lou Crownover. Tuesday Root Twp. Home Economics Club Mrs. J. C. Magley, 1:30 p. m. 1 course dinner. Roses were used in the decorations. The places of the initiates were marked with a corsage and a gift. Tables were formed for bridge and at the conclusion of three ■ games prizes were awarded to Mrs. 1 W. P. Schrock, Miss Irene Zwick and Mrs. Gerald Smith. ENTERTAINS FRIENDS ON 18TH ANNIVERSARY Miss Catherine Fairchild entertained a group of friends at her home in Salem Tuesday evening on the occasion of her eighteenth birth- * day anniversary. Out of door games

Warner picture. “The Perfect Specimen". One reason she stayed off the screen so long was that part of her scalp had to be kept shaved, due to her head injury. , Another victim of a tragic auto- ’ mobile accident, Mary Blackford, ; continues to improve slowly. She ! walks about 150 feet now and is ’ able to lift her arm. So nice, too, ! that Mary’s friends in the Holly--1 wood younger set still visit her ' faithfully. Especially Russell 1 Hayden, the western star. i A steeplechaser named Ginger, running at Bramham Moore in England, is named after the R-K-u star Its owner is Lieutenant ' Richard C. Westwood of the Bengal ' Lancers, who met Ginger when he was here months ago. Chatter. ... A match we hope to see is scheduled at the Beverly Hills Tennis club. Charlie Chaplin and Fred Perry vs. Groucho Marx and Elwood Vines. They 11 play after Perry and Vines return from their tour* . . Honeymooning June ling spent $55 telephoning her mother from Honolulu but the' < weather.°. The impostor posing in Mexico as ,Fay Wray __ will be prose- ' cut e d if the actress can catch up with her. Fay hasn't . been out of Hol- ■ iywo od. . • ■ WsE<i<i|BßF Neil Hamilton is telling the AgggßW? world that English tailors didn’t make him a single suit Fay Wray that fit. Isn’t this heresy" _ r . . John Wayne, the ex-U. I S. C. footballer, is taped up fromi crack ing an old shoulder injury . . . Rillv Seymours, true to Holly li tradition have been dining whilh ’is a long time to stay married anywhere but especially in Hollywood.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1937.

were enjoyed and refreshments served. The honor guest received many lovely gifts. Guests Included the Misses Faye , Martin, Edna Morley, Phyllis Taytor, Ruth Smith, Jaunita Noll, Dorethy Hhberreg, Inex Birch, Ireta Fairchild, Elva Martin, Velma Hlanley, Pauline Carver, Edith Habeg- | Ker, Mabie Wolff, Alice Meyers, Mabie Manley, Elsie Habegger, Ag[bes Miller, Henrietta Spangler, Mari cleie Pancake, Helen Fairchild. -Messieurs Bob Martin, Willis Tayi lor, Morton Railing, Eddie Trieker, I Bob MdßTide, Gordon Welker, Bob , Teeple, Richard Rayl, Junior Gephart, Alton Railing, Austin Merriman, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Fairchild and daughter Mona Lee, T. L. Fairchild and children Richard, i Walter and Dora May and the honor guest, Miss Fairchild. MRS. G. T. BURK HOSTESS TO FLOWER GARDEN CLUB Mrs. G. T- Burk was hostess to the members of the Decatur Flower Garden club Tuesday afternoon at her home on South First street, with Mrs. Lawrence Green and Mrs. Henry Heller assisting hostesses., The meeting was in charge of the | vice-president, Mrs. R. A. Stuckey. I The year books were distributed. An Interesting paper on "Roses” was lead by Mrs. Henry Heller. Mrs. I Green told of mildew and black spot and how to control it. A contest concerning flowers was I enjoyed, with Mis. Chester Reynolds winning the prize. At the | close of the afternoon the hostesses served lovely refreshments, using a color scheme of yellow and white. The Philathea class of the Baptist Sunday school will meet at the home of Mrs. lira Bodie, Tenth street Thursday evening at seventhirty o’clock. DELTA THETA TAU PLEDGES EIGHT Impressive pledge services were held last evening at the home of I Miss Flothilda Harris when the following were pledged to the Delta Theta Tau sorority: The Misses Mary Martha Terveer, Eloise and Dolores Leonard, Mary Kathryn Holthouse, Vivian Lynch, Mary Miller, Martha Jane Foos and Mrs. LeI land Smith. A lovely luncheon was served during the social hour which followed MRS. GRAHAM BRIDGE HOSTESS Mrs. L. A. Graham entertained i with two tables of bridge Tuesday I evening at her home on North Fourth street. A number of games were enjoyed and high score prize was given to Mrs. Roy Archbald. Guests included the Mesdames Archbold, J. H- .Heller, Nellie Haney, O. L. Vance, Harry Moltz, George Flanders and John Peterson. A lovely luncheon was served at the close of the games. POPULAR COUPLE MARRIED THIS MORNING Miss Agnes Braun and Cornelius Geirner, ipopular couple of this city, were united in marriage at St. Mary’s Catholic church this morning. The nuptial mass was celebrated at nine o’clock. Rev. Father Joseph Selmetz, pastor, officiating! The ring ceremony was used. Attendants were Miss Florence Braun, sister of the -bride and Mr. Aloyecus Geirner, brother of the groom. Mr. Geirner is a popular young

iiir i| i|| V YOU’D probably jump out of your chair if a crystal gazer should tell you that burglars were plotting to break into your home. Yet that’s what they may be doing this very moment. /ETNA-IZE S** M today about • RoJdenco Burglary policy written through The /Etna Casualty tt Surety Company of Hartford, Conn. The Suttlea-Edwarda Co., Agent Jack Leigh, I. Bernetein and A. D. Suttles, solicitors. Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. Aetna Automobile Ins. Co. Aetna Life Insurance Co. SUTTLES-EDWARDS CO. Agents Decatur, Ind. Phone 351

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Mayor Daniel Knapp, of Monroe, Mich., whose call for volunteers to disperse the picket lines at the New‘on , P wa J answered by hundreds of local youths and Legionnaires, instructs some of them to be careful with their firearms, just before they convoyed the first batch of workers through the factory gates. A score of nicke’s were beaten and gassed whe" ♦•’•v attempted to repulse the convav.

man of this city and is employed at [ Appleman restaurant. He is a son : of Fred Geirner. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Braun of south of the city. They will make their home in this city. —' — o Word was here recently of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Wa'lace Miner of Mishawaka. The baby has been named Frederick Allen. Mrs. Allen was formerly Miss Clara Reppert of thia city. Miss Martha Elizabeth Calland left this morning for Chicago to attend the wedding of Miss Elizabeth Fisher and Dale W. McMillen, Jr., which will occur Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J J. Heim stopped in Decatur enroute from Pontiac. Michigan where they visited with Mrs. E. B. Newton and family and j Mrs. Florence Devilbiss. They con-1 Unued to Fort Wayne where they met their daughter, Marjorie. They will return to Decatur this evening and will remain overnight with Mr. and Mrs. Avon Burk. Mies Marjorie I Helm will enter International business college at Fort Wayne. H. W. McMillen and C. E. FindJayson are in Chicago where they will attend the wedding of the former’s brother, D. W. McMillen, Jr. Thursday evening. E. M. Lichtensteiger, Mns. Sol Lord, Mrs. Bob August and Miss Grace Lichtensteiger left this after-1 noon for Moline, Illinois to attend J the funeral services of their aunt, Mrs. Caleb Cline, sister-in-law of Mrs. Henry Lichtensteiger of this city. They will return Thursday. Mrs- John Heller, Mrs. Carl Pumphrey and Mrs. Roy Archbold motored to Fort Wayne this afternoon where they were the guests of Mrs. John Peterson at a D. A. R. garden party. A representative of the Indiana' Taxpayers Association will be here the evening of June 24th and would like to meet those who are interested in holding the tax rates of the various units of the county down to the minimum. The discussion, according to the announcement, will center around the laws enacted by the last legislature.

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CONDEMNED MAN GETS REPRIEVE — i State Supreme Court Grants Stay Os Execution To Hicks Indianapolis. June 16 — (U.R) — 1 The state supreme court last night i granted seven more months of life I to Heber L. Hicks, convicted par-[ ticipant in the “head and hands” I slaying of Harry Miller, retired) Cincinnati fire department cap-1 tain who was scheduled to be i electrocuted June 25. Hicks was granted a stay of - r execution until next Feb. 4 while j the court reviews his conviction.; Hicks claims that the crime was I not committed in Indiana and that I the state has no jurisdiction. The stay came five days after j Hicks' three accomplices in the I gruesome murder had been elec- j trocuted in the Michigan City i prison. Since they had pleaded guilty they could not appeal. They I were William Kuhlman, John Jos- j eph Poholsky and Frank Gore [ Williams. i Miller was slain June IT. 1936, after a battle in his New Trenton, Ind., summer home and his body mutilated to prevent identifies- , tion. Hicks' accomplices charged that he plotted the crime to obtain ; possession of Miller's $150,000 fortune by influencing his sister, j Miss Flora Miller, whom he had served as chauffeur and companion. c. o MURDER JURORS <continued FKOM r'_yj? ?yw> were unable to agree, but the court instructed them to continue their efforts. After almost 10 i hours more the count remained unI changed and the jury of 12 farm- : ers was sent home. Finkenbeiner allegedly beat and kicked Holcomb to death in the Wabash county jail bullpen during an argument on March 10, 1935. He was brought to trial in June, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Finkenbiner obtained a new trial, however, on the plea that the jury became pre-

judiced when he was compelled to wear handcuffs in court. The prosecution explained that this was necessary because he broke out of jail four days after being charged with the murder. | At his second trial here, Finkl enbiner took the stand to deny that he committed the crime. His attorneys placed the blame on Charles Moore, the third person in the jail the night of the crime, who was held a s criminally insane and who is in prison now. i o Fort Wayne Killer’s Conviction Affirmed — ! Indianapolis, June 16. —(U.R)~The < state Supreme Court late yesTer- [ day affirmed conviction of RayI inond Fortune for the slaying of ! Oris M. Dokken, Kohler, Wis., dur- | ing a poker party holdup at Fort j Wayne in February, 1936. | Fortune is under, sentence to die 1 in the electric chair at the state prison in Michigan City July 8. He was tried and convicted of the [ murder before Judge Sumner Kenner in Huntington circuit court on a change of venue from Allen j county. Dokken was killed during at- [ tempted holdup of a poker party at the home of C. J. Stier, Fort Wayne. Testimony at the trial indicated Dokken lunged at Fortune in an attempt to seize his 1 gun and the bandit fired as he backed away. I o Wounded Youth Makes Escape From Hospital Peru, Ind., June 16. (U.R) State and local police searched northern Indiana today for Elmer Foster, 18-year-old Tennessee youth held as a kidnapping and robbery suspect who fled from Duke memorial hospital last night despite a bullet wound in his neck. Foster was shot Sunday night when he attempted to escape from local officers. Knoxville, Tenn., authorities want him for trial. Shortly before midnight after attendants at the hospital left his room, Foster escaped without being seen and there were no clues to which direction he took. o New Nelly Don Dresses have arrived at FL FL Gass Store._

ROOSEVELT TO f HOLD MEETINGS 11 President, Congressmen Plan “Peace And Love ' Feast” Soon Washington. June 16. — (U.R) —. President Roosevelt and congress- ; ional leaders today arranged to j hold a Democratic "peaeff and love , i feast" on an Isolated Island In ! Chesapeake Bay over the June 25 27 week-end. • The Democratic goodwill huddle ( i was arranged to provide an oppor- ( ; tunity for a free and private discussion of issues which have arisen between the president and his congressional leaders. The gathering will be held at . the swanky Jefferson Island sports I club—a social organization of senate and house Democratic mem- [ bers. The three day session was planned by Mr. Roosevelt and legislative leaders to make the preaident available during three days and I nights so rindivldual conferences with all of tile 407 Democratic members of the senate and house. The Jefferson Island retreat is located in Chesapeake Hay, off An- i napolis, Maryland. Speaking of the gathering, Steph-. ien T. Early, White House secretary said: “Charges have been printed in | the papers for a long, long time ( that President Roosevelt lia« been 1 aloof from the Democratic majority and individual members of con- ’ gress. [ I "By accepting this invitation of' senate and house leaders, the president no\V is planning to spend three whole days with the Demo- ’ cratic senators and house memi . I bers. "That is something he could not ' do at the White House because ' of the press of business and limit- ’ ed accommodations. "At Jefferson Island, the presi-i dent will be available for all Democratic congressmen to talk . over any matter or question they, I desire." in addition to Mr. Roosevelt and . * Democratic congressmen, Early ■ said all members of the cabinet ■ except Secretary of Labor Fran--1 ces Perkins, and heads of indepen- " dent agencies with problems on L their hands, will attend. The party will include the three; ’ White House secretaries, Marvin! 5 H. Mclntyre, Early and James' • Roosevelt, the president’s 29-year-1 8 ' old son. —„ 1 LATE FLASHES (CONTINUED FROV. . AOK ONE) t clash in which nine were killed. I today reviewed motion pictures of ..tile battle taken liy a Chicago , minister. They refused to dis- , close any conclusion they had i drawn after seeing the film run ’ off. They said this was but a “formal preliminary investigation” I and that their material would be

i DECATUR t : Laundry & Dry Cleaners r e ’ Announcement J wQb "* * Ixio-'t Importance. .[ I he Decatur Laundry ' :l ”'* * ,r ' ' leaner* an- ' nounces ils new jUxe ” ’v ean ’ ’Wj| Service < Jnl m| A service that will / -V' ■ actually save Dry CleanAa rjow! al * n K '’ills because it lasts B longer. FASHIONS FINISHING that will outlast ordinary pressII® 1 J in K- ?■ , rS * his scrvice is K ,ven you from our own modBo' 6 Aifl ern equipped plant in V H|| Decatur. We have re- ' .uWIII centlv installed all new W' finishing equipment. Men’s Suits 75c Ladies Plain Dresses 75c Men’s White Suits SI.OO Ladies 2-pc. Dresses $1 I Decatur Laundry and Dry Cleaners Formerly the FARR WAY—Under New Management.. Phone 131 We call for and Deliver ALL WORK GUARANTEED

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presented to the LaFollette committee for the final decision. Three Killed Jacksonville. 11l , June 16 - (U.R) A couple and their two children were killed near here today when the auto in which they were riding was struck by an Alton railroad company gasoline passenger train. The dead were Ray Fletcher, 25. ills wife. Mildred. 24. and Edward Joseph, 3 years, and Eva May, 1 yc-ur. Appeal Ruling Washington, June 16 (U.R) The Internal revenue bureau asked department of justice aid today in appealing to the court from a board of tax appeal ruling that General Motors Corp, was not deficient $15,342,369 in Its Income tax payment for 1926. The bureau asked the department of Justice to carry the case to the circuit court of appeals after deciding not to acquiesce in the board of tax appeal ruling exonerating the company of any 1926 deficiency. 0 - Illinois Miners To Receive Wage Boost Chicago, June 16.— (U.R) —More than 217,DU0 Illinois members of the United Mine Workers of America will receive wage increases of 10 per cent and more under terms of an agreement with the Illinois Coal Operators Association. The agreement was reached yesterday after 10 weeks of dellber- | ation. It is retroactive to April 1, when the old contract expired. The new contract will be in ef- ‘ feet until March 31, 1939. It increases the basic pay scale from $5.50 to $6 a day. It also provides for a five-day 25-hour week, i time and one-half for and recognition of the union as sole bargaining agent. o Indianapolis Minister Is On Helf are Board Indianapolis, Ind.. June 16 —(UP) ' —Gov. M. Clifford Townsend today 'aippointed Rev. Marshall A. Talley of Indianapolis to be a member of the state welfare board, succeeding victor O’Shauglineesey of Lawrence- ! burg, who resigned last week. TalI ley is a Democrat member of the state legislature. 0 It's a ‘‘Skunkchuck’’ Ashtabula. O. (U.R) — Roy Kennedy is the owner of an animal he believes a cross between a skunk and a woodchuck. The I head, tail and body are like those of a woodchuck, the feet and fur I are like those of a skunk. A dog i caught the animal in a stump on I a farm in Jefferson township. Paralysis Clinic Planned Salida, Colo. (U.R) An infantile paralysis sanitarium. modeled after the nationally famous Warm Springs, Ga„ institution, is being considered here as a WPA project. Waters from the Poncha hot springs, said to have therapeutic value, would be used in treating victims of the disease. o —— Choose your dress from the new Nelly Don’s just received. E. F. Gass Store.