Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1937 — Page 3

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luß PICNIC My ■ Hi.' Decatur home HmME . . nf.-rtaini'il the!.' ■M 1 '" ’ n:< supper Tuesil.ii \ , ! Il M.-mortal park present enjoy Later in the evening ■■7, ~ .p ,1 by th- Miller y. s <>f Monroe conand entertain township woman's .. husbands " lh a Klipi,er I>ar,y I ,-irniug at seventhirty >„ home of Mr. and Mrs. KTlr , 1; Each member Is silverware and ' koihl program han all members and m imila- urged to attend. E —— . RELATIVES BBwiNER RECENTLY : M - Will am M .tc hel on- » pot luck dinner re-■Khon-t-t- ■ l, ’ h " 311,1 15 ■' Mtl IK. Xe'iraska. niid JosS|K. . „• Ph'-w of Wm Mit , MM - . .... first reunion of thsin.- childhood. ■hLu im liei.'d Mr. and Mrs. ! |K .i.mir'iter H-I. n and Mr and Mrs. Arthur MHi.ml I -l>ter Pauline. Mr MrH*-- E " 1 Mitchel and eons |H r Mr. and Mrs. KenMff v ■, .ml daught-r llene, MHia'l'- l i.i.'ence Mitchel. - -i -tie. Dorthea and - M: and Mrs Italpli . J :. < ar’ Lee. Mr. and ' : Mr he! and daughter. y|- .mi Mrs. Wm. Mitchel ' -sts John. Joseph Mitchel. LEAGUE |K«L MEETING . ■ Walther league :li.. ii of Mr. and Mrs. social meeting evening. Games were j-i.l a ' h trial conducted - d scusged for a lake present were Mr. and K Iler. Mr. ami Mr : Mr and Mrs. Herman i ■bsf-100 1315 W. Adams

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I I) HARRISON CABBOLL E ■ tops right, 1937, ■ »m tralurra .*•> ndlcalr. lac — Vacation prob-dvul-led if you are a movie Instead of having a dog or a board while he is in London. | Robert Taylor K h q a a i tr h t

n a s e1 g n t horses, all valuable thoroughbreds. The star is propositioning his friends who own stables and the horses probably will be portioned out to Barbara Stanwyck. Spencer Tracy, Zep p o Marx and Wallace Beerv. As

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s, lace Decry, t the hour of TayRB* departure approaches (he gj*” eight after the opening of g pedway Melody” here). BarSt anwyck gets more and upset. Which makes it hardbelieve her assertions that not remarry. ■ Smust be love in another quar‘B? for weeks t 0 surprise Boy Louis Hayward when he • C/** Hayward is crazy for the ■J't and, up to now, Ida has had 'and watch. i ßta!L 80 ' Calicd P ress previews in PvWood are getting to be a BJ”' The studios set aside a secF ™ seats for the evening, then cut 80 many passes to actors, BT/ agents, relatives, friends BJ~“ e working press, when it ar- ’ ■?’ a lucky to find a seat on the St* drama on the local K~ finds the pictures of Kenny and Jack Benny showing ■h<- lr Li''‘ vck at nearb y theaters, ■l p? ° f . cours e. was a songster W's radio program. And BkL n be odd if, in the end, he BL ™ J t to be a bigger film bet BL**” n y’ Stranger things have 12 her current trip to Hollv- . • Mrs. Castle will meet Mme. »r « W 2* er ’ who 18 technical adK 016 current Astaire pic- # Damsel in Distress". She notice a medal that the wearing. By somewhat incidence, this medal was

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Friday M. E Willing Workers, Mrs . Gifford Hunner, 7:30 p m i Mt. Pleasant Bible Class, Mr and .Mrs, Merle Sheets, 8 p. m . | Public Ice cream social, U B ;church lawn, 7 p. nirt postponed definitely. Baptist Phllathae class picnic ' "UPPer, Mrs. Curtis Moser 7 30 I p. m. I Pocahontas Lodge, Bed Men’s Hall. 7: So p. m. Saturday . Annual G. E. employes picnic . Sun Set park. ■'uesday Pythian Needle Club Picnic, Le-g-'on Memorial Par:;, 3:30 p. m I Rebekah Lodge, |. o. 0. F. Hall I 7:30 p. ni. Root Twp. Club Picnic, M-.nmouth .Gym. Noon. Wednesday I nion Tv.-p. Woman’s Club, Mrs. 1 Harry Lehrman, 7:30 p. m. Thursday M. E. Indies’ Aid. Church, 2:30 ’P. m. , Krucke'.ierg. Mr. and Mrs. Or’ey Walters. Miss Molly Haugk. Miss Helen Bauer, Miss Vera Bleeke, Albert Keller, Ray Parkenson. Harold Sau r. Richard Mailand, G..rge Heare, Oscar lankenau, Earnest UMitzenheiser, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Kuhn and Mr. and Mrs. Herman , Kuhn and son Gerald. The ice cream social which was to have been held this evening on the lawn at the United Brethren church has been postponed indefinitely. The ladies’ aid society of the Methodist Episcopal church will meet in the church parlors Thursday aftern.on at two-thirty o’clock. Mrs. John Doan will lie in charge of an int resting program. A good attendance is urged. Mrs Ph.il Byron of Peru, Mrs. Dich Rehm of Fort Wayne and Mrs. I. W. Macy were guests of Mrs. Wi’llam H. Bell Thursday noon for luncheon. MISS ANNABELLE DOAN HOSTESS TO SOCIETY A very interesting meeting ?.f the Standard Fearers societv of the Methodist Episcopal church was held Thursday evening at the home of Miss Annabelle Doan. The president. Miss Zula Porter,

made from a motor fragment of the plane in which Castle crashed to his death in the war. Mme. Grenier's husband, an officer in the Royal Flying corps, presented her with the souvenir. Answering Your Questions! Laura Boynton, Santa Monica: Fred Astaire's hrst screen dancing partner was not Ginger Rogers but Joan Crawford. Remember those two numbers they did together in "Dancing Lady”? Speaking of Astaire, Irene Castle is out.here to confer with him and with R-K-O about the celluloid biography of her late husband, Vernon Castle. The title, "Castles in the Air", has been cleared for the film, and is a honey. Shirley Ross has studied the piano since the age of five but gets her salary for singing, a natural gift in the development of which she has never had a lesson. Funny place, Hollywood. Chatter. . . . Michael Bartlett was pulled In by the Ensenada gendarmes for taking a picture of the local jail. It's against the law down there. . . . Hollywood eyebrows raised when Maxine Jennings dined twice with Director Fritz Lang. But It's a false alarm. Her husband. Rudolf Ising. knew and approved. . . . Fans do the funniest things. a ■—

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A New Rochelle you t n, who signs himself "Pickle". Heinz. I has sent Judy Garland a tennis ball each week for a year. On each ball ne letters in the starlet’s name and that of a I song. ... A tip j to stay-up-laters: Aggie

Auld’s hula dancing at the Hawaiian Paradise is the tops of a difficult art. . George Lait will serialize the st ory of the Cosmopolitan picture, Alcatraz" • Leaders of college cheer Gene Raymond the other night. It was his birthday » nd i party since returning from their . honeymoon.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1937

~ —— Mattern Seeks Missing Flyers

Ki 1 1 ysfai Vi'* I' T 11 S i ■ 1 g ssURS 11 MM I ’r ’ 1 1 ' I Mattern’s plane~*||

One of the main hopes for rescue of Sigismund Levaneffsky. “the Russian Lindbergh", and his four companions, lost on a flight in the 1 polar wastes while flying from Moscow to San Francisco, is Jimmy Mattern veteran flyer, and his Co-Pilot H. S. Jones. They took off 11 from Los Angeles for Fairbanks. Alaska, and then started a series of search flights between there and the North Pole in an attempt to find the missing Soviet airmen. Four years ago Levaneffsky rescued Mattern when the latter was forced down in Siberia on a 'round-the-world flight.

was in charge of the meeting. The j fol’owing officers were elected for : the coming year: Miss Gladys Mil- . ler, president; Miss Jeane Zimmerman, vice-president; Miss Anna; Jane Tyndall, secretary; Wanda I Fry, assistant; Miss Annabelle i Doan, treasurer. A handkerchief shower was then given, h .noring Miss Agnes Nelson a member of the society, who Will ' leave th first of September for Chi-, cago, where she will enter nurses’ ; training at the Michael Rees? hospi-i tai. Lovely refreshments were served j during the social hour. ■ j The Pythian Needle club will ' hold its annual picnic at Legion I Memorial park Tuesday afternoon at three -thirty o'clock. All mcm- I bers are urged to be present. MR. AND MRS. MARTZ VISIT RELATIVES HERE Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Martz of I Dewey. Oklahoma, formerly of Ad- . ams county .are enjoying a visit in this community for the second time , in thirty-four years. Mr. Martz is ! the son of George W. Martz of I Berne. He had been working as a field man for a t Akiahoma oil company for the nast nineteen years. A basket dinner was held, honoring Mr. and Mrs. Martz, at the Lehman grove last Sunday. Present beside-) the I. nor guests were Mr. ami Mrs. George W. Martz, Mr. and

1921 —“Miss Americas” —1936

■ j • y: ; I dBR I / ■ / yg; - * y 4 SjjjHßr VaR EL * <**&£&*'* ■■ W < r / mW Lt JdftM’-jK j .Margaret Gorman] J f Veronica Coyle]

An interesting contrast in styles and beauty fashions is provided bv this comparison of two "Miss Americas . On the left is Miss A’merica 1921”, Margaret Gorman of Washington, D. C., first to be chosen Her height was then five feet one inch; bust, 30 inches; waist 25 inches; hips, 32 inches; calf, 12ft inches, and ankle, 7% | inches On the right is last year's “Miss America", Veronica Coyle of Philadelphia who is five feet four inches tall; bust, 34 Inches; waist 23‘za inches; hips, inches; calf, 13 inches, and ankle, I ’ Bft inches. — 1

Mrs. Menno Wltwer and daughter, i all of Berne; Mr. and Mrs. Ira' I Martz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Martz and family, all of Fort Wayne. E. C. .7 Martz, Edward Martz. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Barkley, , Mr. and Mrs. Roy Runyon and grandson Kay, David Fuhrman, Mro. Ira Fuhrman end son. all of Decatur; Miss Louise Reidenbach of Van Wert, Ohio; Miss Mary Tablet and Mrs. Angie Hendricks of Moniae. — ROOPS ENTERTAIN DECATUR GUESTS ; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Roop and daughters, Helen and G'ennys, entertained a number of Decatur people Thursday evening at their home ' South of the city. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. I Oscar Lankenau, Mr. and Mrs. ' Frank Butler, Miss Rose Fullen- : kamp, Mias Rose Kleinhenz and Miss Letty Lang, all of Decatur, ' and Mrs. Levina Roop ri Monroe. Later in the evening delicious home made ice cream and cake 1 were served. MRS. MOSER HOSTESS TO BAPTIST WOMEN Mrs. Curtis Moser was hostess to the Baptist Woman's missionary society for a business and program meeting Thursday afternoon. Mrs. C. E. Peterson was the kader and her genera! subject

was "Casement Windows". Mrs. Peterson also gave the devotionals. Mrs. Florence Sherman gave a reading entitled "Life’s Journey". Interesting articles were read by Mrs. Bina Buhler, "A Church of the Open Country," and Mrs. C. E. Bell "Be Heroes." Mies Anne E, Winnes gave a splendid review of the book. "Mansions." by Henry Van Dyke. Lovely refresliments wer> served by the hAstese during the social hour. Mrs. Jesse Tricker and daughter were guests other than members. o EPERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Mills have returned from a several days’ trip through Ohio. They attended the Mills reunion at Newark and visited with .Mrs. Mill’s brother and other relatives near Mt. Vernon. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hellei, Miss Martha Macy and Miss Mary Jo H-effman are visiting in Fort Wayne this afternoon. Robert Heller went to Indianapo'lri today to attend the national convention of Young Democrats. I Mr. and Mrs. George Flanders will leave Saturday morning for Detroit. Michigan, where they will meet their daughter, Mrs. Gladys Chamberlain, wh- will arrive from Buffalo by boat Sunday morn-Ing. Mrs. Max Boxe-11. who has been Pl for the ipast two weeks with a severe attack of mumps, is some better today although still ccnfined to her bed. Mr. and Mrs. John Tyndall and Miss Bertha Heller ,-.f Indianapolis were dinner guests at the John Heller residence Thursday evening. Roy Ka'ver left today for Lakeside, Michigan, where he will remain for a week. He w-:tl return to Decatur the last of August, accompanied by Mrs. Kalver and daughter Carol Fay, who spent the summer at Lakeside. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Cli-ppinger and Mrs. Margaret Morris of Van Wert, Ohio visited with Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Peterson last evening. Dr. Palmer Eicher and son Philip and Luther Giiiiom returned this morning from Grand Beach, Mich., . where they visited with the Arthur Giiiiom family. Mrs. Eicher remained in Michigan City, where she will

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. visit friends until Saturday evening, when she will be joined by Dr. i Eicher and they will continue to . Chicago for a several days’ visit. ' j Miss Margaret Mylott of Chicago ■ S.nitrly of this city, and a girl 11 companion from the J. Walter Thompson advertising office, are i enjoying a vacation to the Ber- ■ muda Islands. Dun Schafer, who has been conI fined to his home the past week I with mumps, is much better today. .| — o EXPECT CONGRESS ICONTINUED FKOM PAGy ONB) family dwelling at $5,000, exclusive of land costs and slum clearance. ■ These latter two items, it was estimated. would bring the cost per uirlt to about $7,000. —- o Drag River For Body Os Woman Clinton, Ind, Aug. 20 —(UP) — Police today dragged the Wabash river here for the liody of a young woman believed to be Mrs. Worley Price, 40, of Clinton, who jumped or fell off the highway bridge last night. Witnesses said the woman I wore clothing similar to that worn by Mrs. Price when she left home earlier in the evening. o Prominent Fort Wayne Banker Dies Suddenly H I Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 20—(UP) Funeral service was set for Monday afternoon for Abe Ackerman, 70, prominent banker who died of a I heart ailment Thursday at Atlantic City. N. J. He was president of the first joint stock land bank and »ietime president of the Lincoln Trust company, pi-lor to its consolidation with the Lincoln National Bank in

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L Signs Resolution To Establish Commission ' Washington, August 20 —(UP) — 1 President Roosevelt today signed a congressional resolution establish-

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ing the Genera! Anthony Wayne Memorial commission. The commission is auth-riaed to study plans for construction of a memorial at Fort Wayne, Ind., in memory of the revolution try war hero.