Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1938 — Page 3

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J gather in ", district meet m«• * ’ d ««’ oM wlll Mn session will comwo o’clock and will be business Bnll a sth , i Mrs. Rnhy Harden Citv district president , n i Mrs. Cecelia Mon>nduct the school ot in log meeting .tartfW *t oUk will be devoted r)l ,. a feature ot this be the exemplification !a Rho degre * hy the . irl? ' club of Hartford ring this, the Rebekah be conferred on a large (Mates from the various e district. Kindred Rebekahs are attend this semi-annual t which several state of-| dltion to Mrs. Monlcal sent and address the ions of the convention, roe M. E. Missionary I meet Tuesday evem o'clock at the home sß ie Brandyberry. The der will be Mrs. Alice ionals will be In charge ■ Crose. rs of the United Brethschool will meet at the , Ruth Williams Tuesfront five to seven o’-, Mtecatur kMM economics | ■ niw: at the home of Mrs. I ■tbinson. 61" W-st Madison Kfednesday afternoon at K < The lead rs. Mrs. Ka?.:::. aud Mr< Russell Hill presra wry st . Kon "Wai! paper style and Kdiff-shades and patKre on the lighting of , ■ Plans will be mad > to atH federated clubs meetings H. Hod Mot day. March Ketoliers and any one else Hd ,:i this lesson are invited Hsen: at the meeting. Hlbsrt Miller will be hostess ■niters of lite pinochle club ■ ■ evening at seven-thirty ■

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where Kay Francis and the Baron Ba rnekow live after their marriage. His family (his father is German and his mother is Scotch) have their estates on the Island of Rugen, but the baron himself has lived in this country for 16

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He has taken out first ftln papers and will become rencan. His business is I r*ood gossips arc trying to ie marriage, but Kay says it * for several months, probuntil her Warner contract 1 September. 'conciliation between Fay ~‘ d John Monk Saunders surprise their friends and, ls „ ther e isn't likely e thTrf - Saunders chartered L p‘ d ? y the storm broke * Fay for a flight over the I home ™ ? hOt bun dreds of n °me movie film. distance you .^itswayte imnt'\.2! yn ’ pe Bmdna and City and at ‘ Ving through Ir's fox VJ gaa Rta tion. er dog T rM ° ff d,ter is thfv rJ search ed as IParamount e (01ympe "as He f° r added scenes LF”"X b " t -a (listin'™ lt found lta wa y ais tance« 289 miles. ln te th spots had fair 1 8to rm and n h Worst nl S hts norma* V enjoy better «Cr\ttb Spent i of ‘terns sol h t e J rocader o in aroc i s greaUv°H ay S columnb all over th» raped Spanish "breros tackm? SCe and a row L p our over the bandM the corner 1 " spindly palm The nlw s of the dan <* the m<SIJ 1 eC ° ratlons clash room ’ but te a f ew „ b cb was needed. Ince ar S ce tebnties in at!lal atti?eu t l^ ble for their — to the

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Monday .Junior Woman’* Club, Mlse Eloise Lewton, 7;.*10 p. m. Music Department, Mrs. C. J. I Beavers, 7:30 p. m. Corinthian Clase. Mrs. Fred King, 7:30 p. m. Evangelical Young Crusaders’ Class. Miss Eata Fleming, 7 30 p. m. Tlrzah Club. Ben Hur Hall, g p. m. Research Club, Mrs. Russell Ow ens. 2:30 p. m. Literature Department, Mrs. Harry Moltz, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday PinochleTti’b, Mrs. Albert Miller 7:30 p. m. U. B. Junior St. Patritk’s Day Party Mrs. Ruth Wil'iama. 5 Io 7 p. m. Rebekah District Meetinfl I. O. O. F. Hall 2 p. m. Monroe M. E. Missionary Society, ! Mrs. F'ossie Brandyberry 7 p. m. Flower Harden Cub. Mrs. Sam Butler, 2:30 p. m. Mary and Martha Class. Mrs. Harry Butler. 7:30 p. m. Kum-Join-Us Anniversary Supper. Evangelical Church, 6:30 p. m. Adams County Nurses’ Association. Misses Beulah Barkley and Rth Stucky, 3020 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne, 7:30 p m. Psi lota Xi Social Meeting, Mrs. Floyd Grandstaff. 7:30 p. m. Tri Kappa Social Meeting, Elk’s Home. 8 p. m. Wednesday St. Ann’s Study Club, Mrs. Veronica Wolpert. 7:30 p. m. Decatur Home Economics Club, Mrs. W. P. Robinson. 1:30 p m Y. M. C. Mr. and Mrs. M, W BarBanber, after prayer meeting Shakespeare Club, Mrs. Jesse Rice, 2:30 p. m. Business and Professional Women's Club, Rice Hotel, 6:30 P. M. Thursday St. Luke's Ladies Aid, Mrs. H. H. Meckstroth of Vera Cruz, all day meeting. Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, Mrs. Charles Fletcher, 2 p. m. Presbyterian Indies’ Aid Society, Mrs. William Affolder, 2:30 p. m. Friendship Village Home Economics Club. Mrs. Earl Sipe. Phoebe Bible Class. Zion ReformledIed Church, 7:30 p. m. 1 Women of the Moose, Moose

dinner coats, full dress and evening gowns of some ot the other customers. Dorothy di Frasso and Sonny Chalif do an exaggerated rumba and. as they go off the floor, she laughs and delicately nolds ner nose. . . . Arleen Whelan (just a few months ago she was a manicurist at the Roosevelt hotel) dancing with Richard Greene. Zanuck's new English actor. . . . And he has trouble finding the button to operate the trick swinging tables along the wall. . Frances Langford with Jon Hall. He kisses her hand several times in front of everybody. . . . Artie Stebbin's girlish wife takes off ner hat and shakes her blonde hair free as they dance the rumba. . . . And. as it gets on toward 1 a. m . Anne Shirley eats a big piece of strawberry shortcake with whipped cream while her husband. John Howard Payne, puts down a tall glass of parfait. . . . Later, the pleasure of driving home without listening to the swish of windshield wipers -and seeing the stars overhead again. Spunkiest of the Barrymores Is Lionel. For days he was in the Good Samaritan hospital with his leg hoisted on high. Recently, he has been confined closely to his home. But when M. G. M. needed him for a scene in ‘‘Test Pilot”, he rode to the studio In an ambulance. and did it. They made it as easy as possible by letting him sit at a desk. Madeleine Carroll's hike out of flood-isolated Malibu was noted by all the papers But she told me an amusing sidelight. Frank Capra was among

those who gathered at the beach colony to wish her and Director George Marshall good luck on their venture. And Capra insisted on giving Madeleine hitch-hik-ing instructions —the full rou- . tine that Claudette Colbert

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went through in i "It Happened One Night”. i "Except that I wore trousers,” ’ she said, "and didn’t have a skirt that I could lift a little to attract i attention.” “ Os course, it ended on a note of i anti-climax. Miss Carroll bid t Malibu a misty-eyed farewell and . she and Marshall set out, carrying ■ knapsacks filled with food and r whisky—and were met around the ! first bend by the rescue party._

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1938.

Spring Is in the Air Again! tftiw > ii uh mi ‘ ' K .< ‘ : V X"-— -jlr\ * \ i V* ' >j^r '/f \ V *’ . ’ \ * |k’- W: . VKianf] X. Spring is obviously in the air again at Miami Beach where pretty Vivian Faulkner, dance starlet, took advantage of the sunshine to. do some cavorting on the beach. ♦ ---

, Home, 7:30 p. m. Saturday Fried Chicken Supper. United Brethren Church, 5 to 7 o'clock. The St. Luke's ladies’ aid society will have an all day meeting at the home of Mrs. H. M. Meckstroth of Vera Cruz Thursday. A'l members are urged to attend. The ladies’ aid society of the United Brethren church will serve a fried chicken plate supper at the ; church Saturday evening from five t r . seven o'clock. The public is invited to attend. Miss Eloise Lewton will be hostess to the members of the Junior Woman's Monday evening at seven-thirty o’clock. The meeting of the Decatur flower garden c.’ub has been changed from the home of Mrs. Floyd Arnold to that of Mrs. Sam Butler Tuesday a'ternoon at two-thirty o'clock. St. Ann's Study club will meet at the home of Mrs. Veronica Wolpert Wednesday afternoon at seven-thir- . ty o’clock. The Pythian Needle club will meet this evening at the K. ot P. home after Temple. Hostesses will he the Mesdames Charles Beineke, James Hoagland and Satn Butler. A good attendance is desired. Approved Tax Bill Will Not Meet Needs Washington March 14 —(UP) Under secretary Roswell Magill ot the treasury told the senate finance sommittee that the house approved tax bill will not meet the government's revenue needs, a finance committee member said today. Sen. David I. Walsh, D.. Mass., said that Magill suggested restorations of the tax on closely held corporations which was eliminated by the house as a means of increasing ! the revenue to the desired amount. — . FIRST STATE BANK . < 'OVTrKT’WT. I- H< .M PAGt ONK) of the best managed and most successful financial institutions in the state. Approval of the deal has been I given by the federal banking agencies. BRITISH PREMIER ?nN’’'TWrKn FROM PA(TR Slovakian minister at Berlin that it would be the earnest endeavor of the German government to improve Germanic - Czechoslovakian relations. "The Czechoslovakian government Informed his majesty’s govgovernment that although it is their earnest desire to live on the best possible neighborly relations with the German reich, they have followed with the greatest attention developments in Austria between the date of the Austro-Ger-man agreement of July 1936 up to the present day.” Rides In Triumph Vienna. March 14 —(U.R)—Fuehrer Adoif Hitler rode in triumph into j Vienna today and proclaimed to the nation that the German Empire, which he has expanded from the Baltic to the Italian border, will never again be disrupted by its : enemies. "Whatever happens,” Hitler proI claimed, "this German Reich will

never again fall asunder. Nobody can force it from its road. "No threat, no misery, no vio--1 lence can ever cause this oath to i be broken. "We are now 74.000.000 persons ' in one reich," Hitler declared. “Nobody can turn us from our way.” Through streets jammed with hundreds of thousands of cheering ' Austrians; through a city buried . under the Nazi swastika and i swarming with German regulars, Hitler was driven in jubilant procession to the center of the former . capital of the Hapsburgs — now German. , The great ring boulevard circling the city and the streets leading into it were jammed almost bej yound belief. The university, situated in the ring, steadily poured forth storm troops in brand new black uniforms who had entered in civilian clothes 1 a few hours before. The uniforms arrived by the truckload, apparently from Germany. Approximately 500,000 crowded the streets. Hitler stood in his big six-wheeled military automobile with upraised right hand while his i newly-created German citizens j broke into tremendous waves of acclaim which roared over the city I like the beating of the surf. The bells of all the many churches pealed. The great bells of St. Stephens rang as they sei- ; dom have been heard. I The roar of jubilation reached its height as Hitler passed the opera house in the heart of the ; 1 city. Hitler smilingly responded, his right arm straight out in salute. o Fort W ayne Nurse Is Critically Injured Huntington. Ind. March 14 —(UP) —Mrs. Lavada Simmons, 13. Fort Wayne nurse, was reported near death in Huntington county hoepi- , tai today from -injuries received when the automobile in which she i was riding skidded off the highway near here and crashed into an embankment. She suffered fractures of .both jaws and a broken back. The driver of the car. Charles Krick. 56. Fort Wayne, escaped with minor injuries. o Culver School Fire Loss Put At $90,000 [ i - Culver, Ind., March 14 —(UP) — (Authorities today sought the origin I of a fire which swept a building of the Culver Summer nava l school . here, causing damage estimated at $90,000 Approximately 125 boats used to t:ain culver naval cadets were desstroyed in the blaze late Saturday. School officials said the loss was 1 covered by insurance and that the (equipment would be replaced soou. o— Coal Commission I' Chairman Resigns . Washington. March 14—(UP) — . | Sen. Joseph F. Guffey, D., Pa., an- . nounced today after a White House conference that Charles F. Hosford , has resigned as chairman ot the National bituminous coal commis- ! sion and that President Roosevelt ■ wil.' accept the resignation. i Since suspension of minimum i (price schdeules by the commission , last month, the coal commission ■ has been under severe criticims. 1 The schedules, regulating costs to i. virtually every consumer ot soft I coal, were suspended after their op--1 eration had been impeded by feder--1 al courts.

Mr. nnd Mrs. I. A. Knlver left Saturday afternoon for Chicago, to I attend the 80th birthday anniversary party of the former's mother, Mrs. Sarah Max. Harve (Smith, well known farmer nnd Democrat of southeast of Derail ur, sent the money in to renew his Decatur Democrat, which ho has been taking for more than 50 years He is in good health and is looking forward towards the next election with his usual Interest In polli tices. Mr. and Mrs. August J. Mohr of i lantlsville, Kentucky, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. O Remy Bierly and family. Mrs. J. Ward Calland left this I morning for Madison, Wis., where i site will be the guest of her daughter. Martha Ellzazbeth for several days Miss Calland is attending the University of Wisconsin. Mrs. Frederic Schafer left this morning for Shelby. Ohio, where s-he will spend severa' days, having been called there by the death of her grandmother, Mrs. Mary All--1 wein. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ward Calland, I Mrs. Elizabetn Markel and Mrs. I Paul Graham visited in Wabash Sunday with the Haiderman family. Mrs. Clem Voglewede left Sunday for Indianapolis, where she will visit for six weeks with friends and relatives. ‘Albert (Johnny) Hain returned to work Sunday at Lose Bros, atter bej ing confined to his home because I of illness for the past few weeks. Norbert R. Holthouse of Indiana- , polls spent the week-end in Decatur at the home of his mother. Mrs.

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I Minnie Holthouse. Clank Lutz, prominent local attorney, today was receiving the well-wishes of his friends on the I Occasion of his birthday. Bow'ers from Fort Wayne, Mun- j ole and other nearby cities juirtlclpated in the howling tourney a: Mies recreation Sunday A girls’ team composed of Mrs. | Al Schneider, Mrs. Carl H. Mies. ! Mrs. Oren Schultz, Miss Eileen Wells and Marie Zeser bowled at the Catho’ic Community Center in Fort Wayne Sunday. Mtes Fern Bierly, deputy county . clerk, today marked her 2'lat birthday. Miss Blance Fugate and Floyd Krick of Fort Wayne visited at the , home of Mr. and Mre. James Krick 1 in Klr'kland township Friday even-! ing. Mre. Paul Scott and Miss Cath- I leen Frauhiger of Bluffton visited in Decatur this morning. ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Gerald G. Smith of I 117 South Ninth street, are the par- | ents of a ba’.iy daughter, born at the Adams county memorial hospital Saturday afternoon at five o’clock. The baby weighed seven pounds and eight ounces. She has been named Mary Jane. This is the second child and second girl. Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Lytle of 445 South First street are the parents of a baby boy, born at the Adame county memorial hospital Sunday morning at 4:62 o’clocGc. The baby weighed seven pounnds and five ounces. He has been named Donnie Eugene. Emily Rose is the name of the eight and one-half pound baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cook at , Warsaw. Mre. Cook was formerly | Miss Elizabeth Beihold, of this city.

COURT REFUSES AL CAPONE PLEA Supreme Court Refuses Review Os Jail-Term Validity Washington, March 12 — (U.R) The supreme court today denied the petition of attorneys for Alphonse “Scarface Al” Capone, | notorious Chicago gangster, for a review of validity of the one-year I jail term he must serve in Cook I county jail on conclusion of his ! term In Alcatraz penitentiary. Capone is scheduled to lie released from Alcatraz next Janui ary, rn the basis of time off for I good behavior, under the 11-year 1 imprisonment sentence imposed on him after his indictment in June, I 1931. and conviction on charges of 1 violating federal income tax law. Imposed on him at the same time, as a result of conviction on ■ a misdemeanor count of the same indiqtment. was a one-year jail sentence which, barring further court action, he must serve on his release from the federal penitentiary. The one-year sentence is to lie served in the Cook county jail because only felony convictions are grounds for imprisonment in federal penitentiaries. o JOHN JENNINGS (CONTINUED Fanil PAGE ONE) economic problems, included asking rPesident Roosevelt to pardon i Tom Mooney; indorse the nonpartisan league; condemned Sen-

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I ator Frederick VanNtiys' attitude ; toward the new deal; asked repeal of the neutrality act, and con demned- the filibuster on the antilynching bill as a subterfuge to defeat the wages nnd hour hill. They also demanded passage of , the wages and hour bill, prohibiting child labor; a boycott of Japanese, German, and Italian made goods; condemned Japan’s action in China, and declared against any change in the Wagner labor act. Charles R. Dietz of lAtfayette, director of the third WPA district, speaking at the final session yesterday. said that his department Is j confronted with a serious problem in providing projects for WPA ’ | workers. ‘ He urged the organization to use its Influence with county, city and township officials to create . more projects. He said that the . WPA would be continued nt least , 10 years. o , t Adams County Memorial Hospital I Admitted Monday: Mine Ethel Er- ’ vln, 716 Elm street. i Dismissed Monday: Mrs. Uw- • rence Schroeder, 827 Walnut street. ’Te-esvlgs In A Cnnd 'l’nww liiiw 1 ’ i Phone 300 1315 W. Adams