Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1938 — Page 3

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9 Bj HARRISON ( ARROLL ■ „ C«Pyri»ht. ISM Aii{ Feature* Syndicate. Inc. Big movie salar .R.-.vn. You can |9®t<e Pr-Hiuction costs have up 25 per . ■ •_ and boxoffice MB * receipts are

down about 30 per cent. The increasing collapse of the foreign market for Hollywood films is one reason. A current smash hit was expected, a few months ago, to reach a world gross of $6,000,000. Due to war scares and

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I various other •twoances, this expectation is ™ shaved to $5,000,000. Every ®y»'ood studio is whacking off ”? ead ' As usual, the SSO a *« people suffer first. But the » are bound to feel the pinch. * lke Marlene Dietrich »■ K 50.000 a picture, win be unJL ot - T? 6 case of a certain , g man has done a lot to fire ' the producers. rSi S he could ho had hitfii'2? 0 t PCtUre ' Then he got w *IOO 000' s asking P ricc ls now Hollywood romance of ?’ between Vicki Mei'J? e rv , o™ e r New York 1 and Dick Purcell. You can Sem.nf annoUncement of their pS?'" l any minute. ** latest Picture Marriage Business'-. hand'd.. 6 the futur * °f his len is t,t a ghter ' Victor McLagaj al * ey . ich for grating bas c PUI land on an in when Bthev 8 thev S °, they can move kelsn’e ? ey get married. McSheila, « . 3., a Prize-winning L 7 - ’tands’over *X S e n \ Andrew ’ ,s the boxing and . f eet and ho!ds top scholi „ ™ nls titles at his °°l near Santa Barbara. « " y^ oU a r ’nd iS M b ™ i , tting a script ?°°ver. e . *° Edgar ? e Parole ouL?‘ CtUre deals wlth J* aske 'i to crit " and Hoover will 10 its « e lt with a vlew Wce mind b effect on the audin ‘mba? ar 'l t y °u at dancing the <>ttet night I , U Ct> ”S* the eM ‘PiwnretAH dozens of di«errPretations of the dance-

CLUB CALENDAR • Society Deadline, 11 A. M. i Fanny Macy Phone* 1000 — 1001 Monday I Dramatic Department. Mrs. Herman Ehlnger, 7:30 p. m. > Art Department, Mrs, Forest - Lake. 8 p. m. ■| Pythian Needle Club, K. of P. Home. After Temple. Research Club. Mrs. Dan Sprang I I 2:30 p. m. Tuesday ■! Civic Section. Library Rest Room i 7 p. tn. | Pinochle Cluh, Mrs. Franel.i Eady, ’ 1 7:30 p. m. Wednesday Frivolity Club, Postuont-d One Week. St. Vincent de Paul Society, K. of i C Home, 2 p. m Adams County Democratic Wo- > men's club, Geneva M. E. church, j t : .3O p. m. Historical Club, Mrs. Frank Krick 12:30 p. m. Union Township Woman’s Club. . Mrs. L. E. Omorod, 208 Third St., Fort Wayne, all day meeting St. Rita’s Study Club K. of C. : Hall. 7:30 p. m. Thursday Eta Tati Sigma Miss Glennys El- : zey. T:3O p. m. Homestead Home Economics 'Club. Mrs. George Auer, 7:30 p. m. j Eastern Star Installation. Masonic Hall. 4 p. m. Eastern Star Banquet, Masonic | Hall. 6:30 p. m. Eastern Star Inspection, Masonic i Hall. 8 p. m. * St. Mary’s Township Home EcoI nomics Club. Mrs. Sam Haggard. 13 ml. West. % mi. North of Pleasant Mills. 1:30 p. m. Friday Happy Homemakers Club, Mrs. I Marion Reber. 1:30 p. m. I enjoyed and the honor guest was given several pretty gifts. Guests included besides the honor i guest, Miss Strickler, Mr. and Mrs. I George Strickler, Mr. and Mrs. Roy i Strickler and daughter Connie, Mr. ■ and Mrs. Luther Singleton and son I Gordon Lee, Mr. and Mrs. O. G. i Strickler and son Paul. Mr. and Mrs. C. W Strickler and daughter! Lavonne and Mrs. Patricia Singleton. Miss Glennys Elzey will be hostess to the members of the Eta Tau Sigma corority Thursday evening

u many as there were couples on the floor. Trickiest was by Ben Blue and Pancho Villa’s daughter, Rosita. Tom Brown and the bride are pretty good at it. Carl Laemmle, Jr., (with blonde tennis star, Jane Stanton, again) is halfhearted. Alice Faye is a smoothie. But you ought to get a load of . your correspondent. Unquestionably the worst rumba dancer on any floor. Even if they didn’t figure in so many photo finishes, Bing Crosby s horses are camera struck. Twentyfive ot them will work in the crooner's next picture, "Sing Your Sinners ”. One of the three-year-olds will have a big part, the horse which saves the fortune of Bing and his whole family in the picture. A young eollegian has been hired by Marie Wilson as a tutor. Marie quit high school after one year and now she wants to finish the four year's course and, perhaps, continue on to a college degree. Mrs. Rooeevelt spent a busy morning visiting the studios and. later, Marion Davies called on her at her hotel. The president’s wife ■lade a hit with Hollywood. . . . dune Travis turned some antique furniture over to an auctioneer and now her mother is busy retrieving it. Some of the pieces had been in the family for years. . . . Eleanore Whitney is touring the late spots with Herb Copeland, manager of the Warner theaters in Atlantic City. . . . James Blakeley may be signed

by Warners for I one of the parts ■ in "Brother I Rat”. ... Pat 1 Ellis, no longer I a blonde, was ■ squired to the I Clover club by I three men. . . . I The Ralph BelI lamys were only ■ renting the, I house that was ■ hit by the flood. Their loss is in the furnishings.

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; . . . Broderick Crawford will grab • a plane to Hollywood and to Rita i Johnson as soon as “Os Mice and I Men” closes on Broadway. . . . And r Jay Strauss submits the day’s ■ laugh. At Third and Fairfax, there is one of those doublejointed billboards with faces for > two advertisements. One pub- > licizes a local cemetery and the ■ other "You Can’t Take It With ■ You”.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1938.

iat seven-thirty o’clock. The Civic Section of the Woman’s ■ Clirb will meet In the Library rest room Tuesday evening at seven I o clock All members are urged to attend and bring their books to contribute to prison library week. St Rita’s study club will meet at the K. of C. hall Wednesday evening at seventhirty o’clock. Mrs. Clayson Carroll and Mrs. Frank Schmits will have the leason. Reservations for the banquet to I be held at the Masonic Hall, following Inspection of the chapter Thursday afternoon, must be made not later than Wednesday noon. The 1 price of the tickets is fifty cents and reservations may be phoned to Mrs. W. P. Robinson or Mrs. Jack Leigh. Dick D. Heller of Indianapolis visited with his sister, Mrs. I. W. Maty, Sunday. Chalmer Porter has returned from a two week's vacation In Florida. Miss Ruth Alt of Fort Wayne ; spent the week-end with her par-1 cuts in Decatur. Mrs. Ben Duke has returned from i a several week's visit with relatives ! : in Nashville. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepqjer,' daughters Mary Margaret and Alta Ruth and eon Bob left Sunday i I morning for New York City for a week’s visit with their daughter. I Miss Dolores Klepper. E. O. Stetler of near Willshire. Ohio was a Saturday afternoon ' business visitor In Decatur. Miss Bertha Heller of Indianapoi lis was the guest of her sister, Mrs. ; John Tyndall over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Nyffeler I and son Sherman of near Pleasant Mills visited in Decatur Saturday afternoon. Dr. Palmer Eicher left Sunday for Philadelphia, where he will attend the post graduate course of the Philadelphia county medical society, being held there this week. Miss Florence Holthouse cf Indianapolis visited over the week-end i with her mother. Mrs. Minnie Holt-1 house. Luther Gilliom of Indianapolis arrived in Decatur Saturday for a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. William Lister and son Billy - have returned from a weeik’s visit in , 1 Berne with the former’s mother, Mrs. Mike Bieberetine. Mrs. Bieber-, stine, who has been ill the past ( week, is some Improved. Charles and Jim Ehinger left today tor Bloomington, where they j will visit at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house for several days. Jim. who is a senior in the Decatur high | school, is planning to enter Indiana University this fall. Miss Marjorie Helm of Fort I ; Wayne was the week-end gue<st of Mrs. I. W. Macy. George Holmquist, formerly of Hlodkwood and the Fort Wayne • country clube. is in charge of the greens at the Decatur Country club. Paul Schulte, owner of the country club is in charge of the place. Mr. and Mrs. Al Steele and Oscar Edwards of Richmond visited Mr. and Mrs. George Hakes and Mrs. Ethel Elzey over the week-end. Scores of Decatur persons drove I to Fort Wayne Saturday night, Suncay and this morning to wa'ch the victory celebrations of the South , Side Archers, state basketball champions. Paul Schmitz spent Sunday in Indianapolis visiting Dr. and Mrs. Tom Noble. Mrs. Magdalena Christener of near Monroe was dismissed from the local hospital today. She had been confined there since January 31, suffering from a fractured hip. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Braniee and ' children of Wort Wayne visited with Mr. and Mrs. Luzerne Uhrick Sunday. Earnest Anderson. Jr., of route 2, Berne was dismissed Sunday from the Adams county memorial hospital where be had been a patient for I the past ninety-one days. He was admitted December 26 as a result of injuries received in an automobile ■ accident. ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Omar Merriman of Monroe route one, are the parents of a baby girl born Friday night. The baby, weighed 13 .pounds at birth and has been named Rowena | Ellen. — Mr. and Mrs. Russell R. Byers of Willshire. Ohio, are the parents of a baby girl born at the Adams ; county memorial hospital Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The baby weighed seven pounds, five and I 1 one half ounces and has been nam-I ed Judith. Mrs. Byers was form- j I erly Miss Genevieve Kitson. er Phone 300 1315 W. Adams !

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of 822 North Third street are the I parents of a boy bady. born at the Adams comity memorial hospital Saturday evening at 10:20 o’clock. The baby weighed eight pounds, and three-fourth ounces. o ! # ' Adams County Memorial Hospital • ♦ Dismissed Sunday: Clem Munch.' Monroeville; Ernest Anderson, Jr.,. route 2, Berne. Dismissed Monday: Mrs. Magda’-| ene Christner, route 1, Monroe; Mrs. Henry Leichty, Berne; Mrs. Arnold Germann and daughter Velma Marie, Ohio City, Ohio. Admitted Sunday: Mrs. Ernest Kruetzman, route 2. Decatur. Admitted Monday; Charlene Hamerick, route 6, Decatur; Harion , Taube, Monroeville; Glen Reynolds, Hoagland o WORK PROJECT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) city will provide the material and in the alleys and sewers the property owners will supply the material. The sidewalk project will be continued this year. — o ENROLLING IN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ject. but many of the clubs have held regular meetings through the winter. The enrollment will be completed i by April 30 and the club work will begin immediately after the close of the schools. Anyone desiring enrollment cards may secure them from Mrt. Mann or the county agent’s office. — o— EASTERN STAR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) W. Tyndall, the guests to be some of the grand officers of the grand chapter, officers from all the chapters in the district and all the members of the Decatur chapter. The full schedule of the inspection dates is as follows: Mar. 29—Huntington. Mar. 30—South Whitley with Columbia City. Mar. 31—Decatur.

I Apr. I—Shiloh of Fort Wayne 1 (afternoon and evening). Apr. 2 —Poe and Monroeville. Apr. 4—Star of the East of Fort Wayne (afternoon and evening). i Apr. s—Rome City of district 21 I (afternoon).. Huntertown with i Curubusco (evening). i Apr. 6 —Geneva with Portland. Apr 7—Fort Wayne chapter (afternoon and evening). Apr. B—Ossian8 —Ossian with Bluffton. Apr. 9 —Leo with Harlan. Apr. 11 —Dunkirk with Pennville and Redkey. Apr. 12 —Warren with Roanoke and Andrews. School Thief Given Three-Year Term Bluffton, Ind.. March 28—(UP) i --Kenneth R. Ulrich. 31, Fort Wayne, was under sentence of three i years at the state prison today for I ’he theft of'property from the Rock-, , (reek center school. He was sentenced in Wells cir-i cult court after he pleaded guilty to the theft. Officers said he also confessed theft of property from schools in Allen, Whitley and Huntington counties. o Evansville Church Destroyed By Fire Evansville. Ind.. March 28 —(UP) —The 55-year-old St. Paul’s Episcopal church, near tne downtown business district, was destroyed by firs here yesterday, causing damage (estimated between $75,000 and SIOO 000. I The blaze which lasted more than two hours was believed to have started In the basement from the furnace or the wiring of a $150,000 memorial pipe organ. More than 100 firemen battled the blaze, the city’s seventh disastrous fire this year. 0 SENATOR WALSH (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) senate approval, a final vote on passage will come at 5 p. m. The thousands of telegrams—al-; most unanimously opposing the ad ministration bill — were directed particularly at senators whose position is doubtful. Oppositionists said the final out

come rested with about six or seven doubtful senators. The office of Sen. Guy M. Gillette, D., la., reported the volume of communications was “something fierce,” running about as heavy as during the supreme court fight. I

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Heading the list of “best-dressed women in America", selected recently at a New York convention of fashion designers, is Ginger Rogers, blond movie star, who was picked as the “All-American" choice because her tastes best typify those of Um average I

' and mostly from lowa. Sen. Sherman Minton, D.. Ind., administration supporter and chairman of the senate lobby committee now investigating activity against the bill, said he had reIceived only 12 or 15 telegrams, all

young woman. Others so honored included Helen Jepson, opera star; Dolores Del Rio, movie actress; Kitty Carlisle, stage luminary, Mrs. John Kennedy, wife of the new ambassador to Great Britain, and Kathryn Cravens, radio commentator.

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all against the bill. “Only four or five of my telegrams were from Indiana,” he commented. “I think they are following the technique they Indicated before our lobby committee, by ! bombarding doubtful senators."