Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1937 — Page 3
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ELECTED I* erlON AUXILIARY " Le r S meeting of the auxl- “ *r he American Leg on Mrs. 7 vhrlr was elected pr ‘* d ' Brown, first viceJ and Mrs. Herb Kern. «”* elected were Mrs. secretary; Mrs. .Borman, treasurer; Mrs. chaplain; Mrs. Ad- , y ir. historian; and Mrs- dna a <' l ’ , ' , “ llt,ee lnc!,,d ' * Gladfelter. Mrs. Ralph Roop Harry Miller. Plans for !nenounced later. * Ruev B 4 II t ’ ,ob wIU mo ‘‘ t at Home of Mrs. John Floyd in s ”, Tuesday afternoon at two W c T u members are reid to attend the meeting at the L Brel hren church Wednesday 1 and hear Miss Ethel Hub(anied temperance speaker. [re will be no meeting Tuesday tnioon. n, progressive Workers class the United Brethren Sunday w l will have a pot luck supper HannaXuttman park at six o’L Thursday evening. A good atLce is desired. In case of rain jsupper will be held in the pch 'basement. The Corinthian class of the Chrism Sunday school will meet at the W of Mrs. Ralph Welsch on High 1 teet this evening at seven-thirty [lockThe firemen’s auxiliary will meet , the tire station Tuesday evening seven-thirty o’clock for a bust-' si meeting. All members are urgto attend. The Decatur girls 4-H club will ! Kl in the Decatur high school! amaeium Tuesday afternoon at ©-thirty o’clock. This is an imrtant meeting and all girte are , ked to be there. L The annual picnic of the Busy Bger 4-H club of St. Mary’s townip will be held Wednesday, July ,at the Memorial Park in Decar. Each one is to bring a dish of < Those from North St. Mary’s e to meet at the Bobo school at J W 300 1315 W. Adams
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HARRISON CABBOLL Copyright, 1937, Ki»< Features Syndicate, lac. HOLLYWOOD—Europe isn't ading its usual supply of human «ir and movie wigmakers are teed with a shortage. The pinch I already being Ht on the Mer-
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tin Leßoy protection, 'The Sreat Garrick ’, te which 300 •igs are in use. Hair from the tea is of peasant women tests SBO a MBd in Hollytexd. There is tesree of supply, because our •omen don’t
*u their hair. Result, Perc Westnore, wig expert of Warners, is , r ' rc urgent cables to European ’~ ers > trying to get needed ship“flits. Owen Davis, j r , may be eager £ et I)ack to that mystery girl “Skowhegan, but he put off his "eparture a day to take Gertrude . sen to the Lunt-Fontanne open's m Amphitryon 38". » ! >t. Casualty ot the recent heat ‘ Wa s Henry Wilcoxon, who to- , OUI that you also can £ et Playing with ice. Trying h»' a room ln hl3 valley drv ’ coxon handled cubes of bis a cou Pl e of hours. For Lprance of its dangerous taew thL W ? thou £ht everybody r he paid with bur T ’s fay tn h- t p ?v Of his hngers halfVs sw s t h hl 1 e bOW - 80111 1118 arms s *athed in bandages. Y ° rk racketeer was 4ed Ut recen tly but, before he Regw 016 hope that Phil J° r hIS fOUr ‘ Hil ha. Thou ßh soft-hearted, 1^£ OUr . youngßtera of his re aponsihr> teS t 0 18116 on any more 'Xeteh He ? making ar ' the bov J’ , thou ßh, that will keep leaat temporarily out M orphan asylum. BdX*r ring y ° ur Questions! art has »* James Stew“xl Vi»in ° glsters ' named Mary Vic One's an artist and
CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Monday Corinthian Class, Mrs. Ralph Welsch, 7:30 p. tn. Charm Club, Miss Rose Marla Stanley, 2 p. m. Pythian Needle Club, K. of •». P. 'Home, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday Decatur Girls’ 4-H Club, High School Gym, 2:30 p m. Firemen’s Auxiliary. Fire Station, 7:30 p. m. Busy B 4-H Club, Mrs. John Floyd Monroe. Rebekah Lodge, I. O. O. F. Hall 7:30 p. m. Wednesday Busy Finger 4-H Club of St. Mary’s Twp., Picnic, Memorial Park U. H. W. M. A., Mrs. Bertha Hakey. 2 p. m. Zion Lutheran Missionary, Church Parlors, 2 p. m. Thursday Ruralistlc Study club, Mrs. Albert Rumschlag, 8 p m. Zion Reformed Ladlee’ Aid, Church Parlors, 2:30 P. M. Christian Ladies’ Aid, Christian Church, 2 p. m. M. E. Foreign Missionary Society Mrs- W. F. Beery, 2 p. m. Friendship Village Home Economics Cltfb, Mrs. Don Raudenbush. U- B. Progressive Workers, Han-na-Nuttman Park. 6 p. m. 10 a. m. The picnic will be held instead of the regular meeting. The Ruralistlc study club will | meet at the home of Mrs. Albert Rumschlag, Decatur route five, Thursday evening at eight o’clock. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Robert MiUs and ‘son Danny have returned to Ashland, Kentucky, after spending the past few days at their cottage. Pete Bender returned to Indianapolis after spending the week-end in Decatur ae a guest at the Milton Hower residence. Teen age chums were reunited i for the first time Saturday when Charles Erhart, of Newcastle, who I left the city at the age of 12, vleit--led here with Roy Elzey, Charlie I Chronister and Bill Shralaka. Paul Edwards is in Indianapolis | attending the photographers con--1 vention at the Antlers Hotel MonI day and Tuesday. He was accomi panied by his daughter Patsy, who will visit at the J. Dwight Peterson
the other is a recent graduate from Vassar. The John Beals are Inviting a young Irish cousin of his to live with them in Hollywood. The boy, Patrick Costigan, recently wrote Beal a letter, and the actor liked the tone of it so well that he replied with the invitation to come to California. Zanuck has suddenly recalled | June Lang's ability as a dancer I and is writing in an oriental number for her in “Ali Baba Goes to I Town". The talk is that she will be doing a lot of dancing in future pictures. Which is, of course, how she got her start in the shoo business. As June Vlasek, she once I toured the coast in a revue called "Temptations”. Chatter. . . . The slickest pair of dancers we’ve seen around the night clubs recently were June Travis and Allen Lane. They had everybody in the Century club watching them the other night. Lane’s black eye didn’t escape observation either. . . . Over at the Hawaiian Paradise, another interesting twosome was Glori* Swanson and Gene Markey. . . . Louis Prima picked about the hottest night of th<- year to open his new spot, but his trumpeting was still hotter. . . . The Marjorie Keeler-Tommy Wunder romance is all off, their friends say. . . . Doug- • lass Montgomery is practical-
ly monopolizing Whitney Bourne since she arrived in Hollywood. They |] were pals in London, too. . . - | Never a dull I moment in the life of a movie | star. The sherI iff's office here I contacted Margo and said that her family
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in Mexico were trying to get her i telephone number. Margo was in ; a panic, fearing bad news, until the call came through and it turned out to be the usher in » 1 Mexico City theater. He d pu led ■ the relative hoax to get the num- ’ ber and had spent half a weeks I salary on the call.
DECATVR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. JULY 12, 1937.
— M.M— — ■ 111 I I 1———M——M—MM—— I —M—MM——I 111 I —- —"————• .MM—— 1- nore Kight Wingard show* her recordbreaking technique. -m—. RHB g f g X f *4B Notice the foaming "bow-wave" f l J g g ; 'he pushes up in front —a sure jfeMp ' \ jggß ..«n.„.p.,-, s 4 , rar&l.-', d. ri \\ 7 ’Wig.'- r < ■ A MW * jph • | Si r *>‘’picture give* you a good W "S kW 4 T r« > leg drive, f wSI 'W /V ’i r I ■ pivoted at the hips, is in perfect i 2 rhythm with her vigorous arm v stroke. The result is smooth, j J I streamlined speed-record break- WL \ 1 mg speed! ) lOivV wfec-x -- 740 Lenore Kight Wingard-• champion of * J , >JR champions—with 7 world’, and 1« national 9 froo-style swimming records to hor credit From starting gun to finish line, Lenore's under tension. As pic- — g *'< x - ’ 1 tured at right, even her breathing »”* ? /'k> jT must be timed to a second. R W FW (Right) OVER HER AFTER-DINNER CAMELS, * > S LENORE WINGARD SAYS: "’For digestion's sake—yajjjgy ' smoke Camels,’is a rule with me. They help me to enEven after an 880-yard race, I 1 MH joy my food.cven when I feel tired or tense. Smoking lenore conies up smiling. In ® IHh Camels seems to put me in just the right mood at ihousing her cigarette, she pays *1 It mealtimes and helps me to have a feeling of wellparticular attention to’nuldness. I O being afterward. Camels set me right! ” Because 'wißl I smoke < Is .. SdK Camels are so nu’ld-and made from such costly as often as 1 I.ke, thanks to their ®i X JUBq tobaccos —you can smoke them steadily, without mildness," she says. 1 S jangled nerves. At mealtimes. Camels encourage a |a tree flow of digestive fluids —alkaline digestive I s J '"a fluids —and lend a helping hand to good digestion. ' M/LD! Wil »'• . i ' Camels are made from finer, , . gffg Ms RE,, IfiM « ’W WR more EXPFNSIVE TOBACCOS X J ...Turkish and Domestic... r os* Met * r than any other popular brand beh nY G ful*h* ufHOUB ' 1, ygifc- J[ y if FOR FU j«r »*' o, * ,eT *7- “ THE MRS. likes to see me enjoy I|| NO LET-UP from 9to 6. Miss Ida “CAMERA!” Nerves are drawn rim. ne‘“ B *“”' * o«"^'‘" ,rtette STJ- ali a hearty meal,” says Frank Mullady, Gray, buyer, says: "A quick bite finer when a movie is being filmed. "he*rh' ,, * n ' o °v; , s < T- t,> J# °'t D 5 J° pm auto-mechanic. "Smoking Camels is often all I have time for. I’ve Russell Metty says about that: ■' **; d****” 8 ' 3 * s*l’„ f’’- 5 * ptn at mealtimes helps me feel my di- adopted that slogan'for digestion’s ||||JR "Camel’s mildness appeals to me. O'”■ ' < ->.y' ’ s# s P^ ,t vvAß c ' Co,U, ° ' gestion’s tuned up.” Mg|| sake —smoke Camels.”’ They never jangle my nerves.” \ 1 l yz w H^^MMy ill,Wl ''y'' W'''> ,I ' , "WTF4r y w i-MMaHBF “T > r TL"W a Y r *WMbCT \ j Fc r K! T e \!ak“Jk T YI Ir "f -
residence. William H. Bell will leave this] evening for Indianapolis and Bloomington, where he will look after bus- ' iness for two days. Mrs. Amos Fisher had as her guests over the week-end, Mrs. Mae Fisher and son Frank of Warren, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Greiser and daughter Joyce of Fort Wayne | and Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cross of I Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs- Lawrence Beal of: Decatur and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Beal of Fort Wayne were the week I i end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Brandeberry at their cottag> at Hamilton Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Helm and i children left early Sunday morning, for a ten days’ vacation at Big Star Lake, Baldwin. Michigan. , George Meihls of Springfield, Ohio, is visiting on North Second street with his brother, who is seriously ill. Mr. and Mrs. W. G- Teeple had as Sunday dinner guests the Rev. and ’ Mrs. Timmons, Fort Wayne; Mr., and Mrs. Dan Helm and Mrs. Will: Teeple, of this city and Miss Flo- j ria Brown, of Kansas City. KING OF SWING Sk’’ r»ENNY GOODMAN’S “Schoo! of 1 1K Swing”—a painless education in 1 syncopated knowledge—is now beIng heard every Tuesday evening ' over Columbia Broadcasting Sy»i tern’s coast to coast network. 1 sides Benny Goodman, King of ; Swing, this program brings you i the famous Goodman instrumental I quartet, the world's only Swing . i Chorus directed by Myer Alexander i and famous stage and screen stars. Broadcasts are from Hollywood.
WYOMING SOLON ATTACKS BILL Sen. O’Mahoney Clashes Repeatedly With Sen. Joseph Robinson Washington. July 12 —(UP) —Sen. I j Joseph C. O'Mahoney, D., Wyoming, charged in the senate today that the administration substitute I judiciary bill “might some day” ' wreck every vestige of human liber- ! ty under the stars and stripes. I Opening the sixth day of debate | I on the court enlargement bill, O’Ma- j I honey contended the administration is trying to hammer its measure through the senate without perm-itt-] : ing full verfbal clashes with major-I ! ity leader Joseph T. Robinson and , i charged indirectly that the subst!- 1 I tute bill was purposely drawn to, power over appointments ot the 1 supreme court in order that the I 1 White House “might hold a club” over the judicial branch of government. "The majority leader (Robinson) talked for two hours denouncing the opponents of this bill but he ■ failed to explain the bill” O'MahonI ey shouted- “This bill has not been i explained.” o F. D. R. VETOES well aware, I am definitely seeking the balancing of that budget.” The bill thp president vetoed was divided into two sections. The first extended for one additional year the three and one half per cent interest rate on certain federal land-bank loans and would provide a four per cent interest rate on such loans tor the period from July 1. 1938, to June 30. 1939. The second section provided a reduction from five to four per cent in the interest rate on land bank commissioner’s loans for a two year period. EAST CHICAGO STEEL t (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and intention to treat labor fairly in the manner in which you outlined. Believing in the sincerity expressed in your declaration, I was prompted to take the initiative in asking the steel workers organizing committee to terminate the strike and ask the men to return to work, believing that your guarantee of good faith expresesd in your communication was a fair attitude toward labor and that it
I was best for all concerned. | “The welfare of 7,000 workers and the community in general as | well as the company was concerned, so I felt justified in informing II the representatives of labor of your | labor policy and using the same | as an argument and construing the same as a moral obligation on your part to cßntinue such labor policy.” o COURT HOUSE Petitions Filed A petition to sell personal property was filed In the estate of Andrew Gottschalk. It was submitted | and sustained and the personal pro-| i perty was ordered sold. A petition to compromise the: 1 claim against Flora Swartz was - I filed, submitted and sustained. A ' petition to file a current report was i filed, submitted and sustained and | the report was ordered filed. The report was filed. Marriage Licenses J Orville Blymer, 21, Rawson, Ohio 'farmer to Marguerite Oman, 21. Gerald McClellan. 23, Hicksville ■ Ohio service station attendant to Lola Felger, 18. — o “Unwritten Law” Is Killer’s Plea Anderson, Ind., July 12 —(UP) — Earl Berry, 36, was held in jail to- ' day while prosecutor Cecil Whitej head studied his confession of the "unwritten law” killing of his friend, Arlo West, 36, to deoide if he will seek an indictment for murder. i Berry walked into the police station yesterday evening and eaid he has shot West to death as he lay on a bed in Berry's residence be’'cause of attentions he was giving to hie wife. — o Over 2,000 WPA Workers Dropped Indianapolis, Ind., Jnly 12 —(UP) —John K. Jennings, Indiana direr- ' tor of the public works administraI tion, today announced that a total ! of 2,114 workers were dropped from ‘ the state's relief rolls last week. He said approximately 7,000 persons have been returned to private ■ industry since Washington officials ' announced the drastic reduction in ■, WPA rolls six weeks agoH More than 3,000 workers will be i dropped from WPA lists this week i to comply with orders requiring Ind- • iana officials to reduce the state I quota to 47,000 by July 15, Jennings i said. .| — o II George Naubauer, state insurance • 'commissioner of Indianapolis, was : A a business visitor in the city today.
FAMOUS MUSIC COMPOSER DEAD George Gershwin Dies In Hollywood After Short Illness Hollywood. July 12. — (U.R) — Friends of George Gershwin suggested today that a twinkling piano and muted horns play the ' Phapsody in Blue over the body i of the dead musician—a requiem to its creator, a genius who with little training "anil technical knew!- ; edge, composed music so great : that it made jazz respectable throughout the world. Whether his family would permit it was not known. Funeral arrangements had not been made, but it is customary for the requiem of musicians to be music. A full symphony orchestra played Schubert's unfinished symphony at the , funeral of the late Ossip GabriloI witch, conductor ot the Detroit I symphony, who died last SeptembI er. | Gershwin's body will be sent ‘ east today on the Santa Fe. Ira I Gershwlh, his brother, will fly to ■ New York, where funeral services ■ will be held Thursday at Emanuel ; ■ Temple. A memorial service will : ' be held here Thursday at the same i I hour as the New York service, con-1 • ducted by Rabbi Edgar Magnin at ■ , Wilshire Temple. Gershwin died yesterday of a ■ brain tumor. He had been strick- • ! , en last week. There was an em-, i ergency operation Saturday night.; • He was only 38 years old. : Messages of condolence came to | I the brother and to their mother ■ | and sister in New York from the ' I musical great and music lovers in II all parts of the world. Paul WhiteI man, the jazz- band conductor who ■ I rode to fame with Gershwin and : | the Rhapsody in*Blue, joined with ’ ] the conductors of symphony orches- ’ tras, classical composers, Tin-Pan ( Alley tune smiths, operatic singers and blues crooners in mourn-' ing the man who was considered) ’ one of the great composers of the ' generation. 11 0 j California Killer Pleads Not Guilty > 1 Los Angeles, July 12—KU.R)—Ali bert Winfield Dyer, 32 year old WPA crossing guard today pleaded not guilty to three counts of i murder when he was arraigned i before Judge Thomas L. Ambrose 1 . for the slaying ot three little)
Inglewood girls. Previously Dyer had gone before the county grand jury and confessed that he lured Melba and Madeline Everett and Jeanette Inglewood, last June 26, and in the Baldwin hills strangled them and then ravished their bodies Q — 4 Adams County | Memorial Hospital ♦— ♦ Admitted Sunday; Mrs. Bernard Kruse, route four. Decatur; Fred Hintzman, Hoagland. Admitted Saturday: Cecil Gause, Jr., 927 N. Fifth St. Dismissed today: Ralph Braun, Berne. ■ o ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Neireiter are the parents of a baby 'boy, born at the Adams county memorial hospital Saturday morning at 11:31 o'clock. The baby weighed nine pounds, 1014 ounces at birth and has been named John Daniel. — Russian Aviators On Long Flight Moscow-, July 12 — (U.R) —Three Russian air heroes sped out over the Arctic toward Franz Josef I Land and the North pole today. I en route to the United States on ] a flight in which they hope to 1 break the world distance record of 5,657 miles. | At 2:17 p. m. Moscow time (7 : am. EDT) they were in position ]77 latitude 51 longitude, which i placed them about 200 miles north- : west of Nova Zembla. Their destination is San Frani cisco or Los Angeles. o Attendance At State Parks On Increase Indianapolis. Ind., July 12 —(UP) ' —Attendance at nine Indiana state park* Increased 14 per cent in the first week of June over the same ,period last year, it was announced | today. 1 Attendance in the nine parks was ■18.463 so far this year compared to 874,497 for all of 1936. The figures are taken from the number of admission fees received. Heart Attack Fatal To Sports Promoter New York, July 12 —(UP)I—Jack 1 —Jack Curley, 61, who promoted everything from flea circuses and onepiece bathing suits to heavyweight | wrestling, died of a heart attack to- ! day at hie Great Neck, Long Island,
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home. ? Curley did what most eports ex- - perts had believed was impossible. 1 He restored wrestling to public fa- ■; vor after it had 'been denounced as i ■ the most crooked of all off-color i ; racket*. Under Curley’s touch, I wrestling flourished after 1929, and ( thousands paid to watch his exhi- . i bitions throughout the country. o 1 Woman’s Club Gives Equipment To Park I The Woman’s club of this city has I donated a new tennis net and a complete corquet set for recreational activities at the South Ward playground. Work on the tennis ' court was completed recently and i the court is in excellent condition. Q . Bible of 1822 Used Wingham. Ont.—(U.R) —A 115-year . old Bible is used to conduct seri vices at the Masonic hall here. ;i o II Pupils Lose Sit-Down i Corvallis. Ore. (U.R) —lt seems that thirteen is an unlucky number for sit-down strikers. Thirteen t fifth graders who conducted a strike to force their teacher to dis- > miss school for the summer found . that their parents sided with the f teacher. — o i Special Pictures To Be Shown Here , The motion picture, “The Body ' Beautiful”, which will be shown at 1 the Cort theater here for two days, 1 Wednesday and Thursday, July 14 and 15, recently made a 19 consecutive day run at the Riley thiater In ' I Fort Wayne. i A total of 37,66i5 paid admissions I crowded their way into the thea- ! ter to see the picture, a story of one »' girl’s mistake. The picture, for adults only, will be shown continuj ous during matinee and evening , hours- “Lady Eve” will also appear j on the Cort stage in person during ; the presentation of the movie, advt. 1 J CHANGE i OF ADDRESS I Subscribers are requested to give old and new address when ordering paper changed from one address to another. For example: If you change your address from Decatur R. R. 1 to t Decatur R. R. 2, instruct us to change the paper i, from route one to route
