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Come and See B OUR FINE SELECTION OF MAYFLOWER WALL PAPERS new stock of Mayflower Wall PaP‘ r s for 1938 has been received and we now J° u will like our wide selection of ne " colorful patterns for every room, lor the Mayflower trade mark, the symbol of Wall Paper quality. Prices As C A Per Low As Uy Roll cleaner 2Sc Kohne Drug Store , Decatur. Indiana

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy •hones 10OC — iqqi Friday Pocahotas Lodge, Red Men’s Hall, 16 p. tn. Happy Homemakers Club, Mrs. Marion Reber. 1:30 p. m, Saturday Rummage Sale, Bowers Building 12S Monroe Street. 9 a in. Sunday i Union Chapel Bible Cla. s, Mr. ■ and Mrs. Herbert Zerkle. 60? West ' Monroe street, 2 p. m. Monday Firemen's Auxiliary Pot Luck Dinner, Engine House. 6:30 p. in. Research Club, Mrs. A. R Holti Louse, 2:30 p m. Corinthian Class Mrs. Elmer Darwachter. 7:30 ■p. m. Tuesday Delta Theta Tau, Miss Martha June Foos. 8:15 p. tn. C. L. of C., K. of C. Hall, after ■ church. Zion Reformed W. M. F.. church parlors, 2:30 p. m. Wednesday Historical Club, Mrs. John Schug, ' 2 p. ni. was given by the leaders. Mrs. Fred I iiiiiou uud Mrs. Ben Kolter. The ■ history of linen was discussed by > Mrs. Charles Schenck. A very nice ■ display of linen was produced by the members. Books were contribu ed for the ‘prisons. I During the social hour which followed, delicious refreshments were 'served by t.he hostess. assisted by ■ Mrs. Harry Crownover and Mrs. Will Evans. Two new members were welcomed into the club. They are Mrs. Harry Martz and her daughter Miss Martz. The meeting nexT month , '’. ill be held at the home of Mrs. i Albert Tink’ham. Members of the Delta Theta Tau sorority will meet at the home of Miss Martha Jane Foos for a busii nesu meeting Tuesday evening at eight-fifteen o'clock. ETA TAU SIGHA SORORITY MEETS WITH MISS ELZEY The Eta Tau Sigma sorority met at the home of Miss Glennys Elzey Thursday evening. Several games of bridge were enjoyed, with prizes being awarded to Mrs. Don Stump and Miss Mildred Koldewey. At the close of the games a delicious'luncheon was served by the hostess. The sorority will meet in two weeks with Mrs. Ray Heller. Friends here have received announcement of the mariage of Miss Feme Dull, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Dull of near Glenmore, Ohio and Chalmer Brodbeck. son of Mrs. Anna Brodbeck of Decatur. The mariage took place at Richmond March 28, 1938. Mr. and Mrs. Brodbeck will reside on their farm i". Union township. i MRS. L. E. ORMEROD HOSTESS TO CLUB ■ The Union township woman's ! club met at the home of Mrs. L. E. ' Omerod in Fort Wayne Wednesday for a n all day meeting. Thirteen members, nine visitors and four children enjoyed the delicious pot luck dinner. Mrs, Harve Koos said gjace, after which the guests were seated at | one large table and several email tables decorated with St. Patrick’s Day appointments Miss Irma Rabbit conducted a

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(oiliest after dinner. The routine business session was held with roll <all being responded to by Irish Jokes. The lesson on "Wall ■paper and finishes" was ably gfve n by Mrs. Thurman Drew, assisted by Mrs. Marjorie Shaffer. Assisting hostesses for the day were Miss Rabbit, Mrs. Glen Roughla and Mrs. Forrest Walters. The next meeting will be held April 27 with Mm. C. O. Brown. ENTERTAINS CLASS AT BIRTHDAY PARTY Miss Virginia Hutker entertained the members of the Star class of the Christian Sunday school Wednesday evening on the occasion of her birthday anniversary. Many pretty gifts were given to the guest o* h >noi Dainty refreshments were st ved by Miss Hutker, assisted by her mother. Those present included Barbara Kohls. Avanclle .Kraft, Dor’s Richards, Eugene Richards. Roger Staley. Belva Burke. Guests other than tueni.iers were Marjorie Linn and Coleen Miller. The Young Matron's club meeting has been postponed until April 19 because of sickness. o EPersonals Among those who attended the Young's All-Star-New York Celtic tilt last night at Fort Waytje were Hugh Andrews, Miss Eloise Lewton. Paul Briede. Carl Gerber. Robert Cole, George Laurent, Carl Baxter and jTie Johns. Mr. and Mrs. Felix Maier and daughter Charlene Lave as their guest, Mrs. K. R. Wplf of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Raymond Gass and daughters Norma Jean. Dorothy Ann and Mary Helen, Mrs. Joe Betters and Miss Anna Keller of Huntington visited with Mrs. E. F. Gass Thursday afternoon. Mrs. A. D. Lewis. Mrs. Charles Buck and Paul O. Lewis of Chicago are guests at the Frank Gillii home. Mrs and Mrs. Puck are sisters of Mrs. Gillig. Dr. Palmer Eicher will return early Saturday morning from Philndelphia. where the spent the past wee x taking a post graduate course. Mr. and Mrs. David Hensley of Marcellus, Michigan spent today with the former's sister, Mrs. Herman Ehinger of West Madison street. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Sauer went to Van Wert this aftemoon»to attend the funeral of Herman Gunsett. a former sheriff of Van Wert county. Mr. Gunsett was a cousin of Mns. Sauer. Miss Gertrude Potter of Duke university. Durham. N. C.. was the guest of Mrs. William Beil Thursday and Friday enroute to her home in Evanston. <ll.

WAR IN SPAIN (CONTINTEn FROM PAGE OXE) by the international brigades — was tarted front the country in which the loyalists now were, operating." Front Barcelona came claims of a severe setback for the nationalists who now almost surround Lerida, capital of Leridd Province . and first city of importance in the nationalist drive into Catalonia. , Loyalists hid themselves, thou-, sands strong, in houses and on ■ owftops of it was asserted, and remained quiet while nationalist tanks and airplanes reconnoit eted. Apparently the nationalist lank and plane scouts reported loyalists had fled, it was asserted, and their infantry began marching in. Then the loyalists began a terrific fire, it was asserted—tank *uns against tanks, anti-aircraft b uns against the airplanes and machine guns and hand grenades against the infantry. The nationalists retreated, leav ! ing tanks and many casualties in the streets of the city's suburbs, it was asserted, but, it was admitted, continued their efforts to encircle the city. Macklin Bull Dog Victim Os Mood A bull dog owned by the Mrs. Phil L. Macklin family was a vic- i tim of the high waters Thursday afternoon. Members of the family and friends- were rowing a boat in the flooded areas over the Schmitt field southeast of the Monroe street bridge when the dog attempted to swim out to the boat. It was caught ir. the current and sucked under the water before help could reach it. Conservation Club Will Meet Monday The Country Conservation dub will meet Monday evening at the

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By HARRISON CARROLL Copyright. W3X King Fnturrh Syndicate. Inn. HOLI.YWOOD -When M. G. M. executives look at the test of Frances McNiemey, they'll not only oe passing

an actress but on Joan Crawford's as a director. The McNierney eyefull is the model in "M a n n e quin” with whom La Crawford was s o impressed that the star adopted her as a protegee. Ed Marin was

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supposed to make a test of the one-time extra, but wus busy on a picture, so Joan, with the aid of Robert Young, directed it herself. A young M. G. M. actor, Brent Sargent, played opposite. If the results are good, Frances McNierney will become a stock player at the studio. The story on which Shirley Temple's family won a libel Judgment against an English magazine was so rotten that it burns you to a crisp to think such things could lie printed. The money collected roes to some English charity. How would you like to be leaving on your first vacation in five years and to receive a message at the train calling you bacK to work? This is what happened yesterday to C. A-brey Smith. He was heading for England and his estate in West Brayton, Middlesex. when a Twentieth CenturyFox messenger caught him at the station. Zanuck is so enthused over \rleen Whelan that he has decided to give ner 15 more scenes in ■’Kidnaped”. To C. Aubrey Smith, it will mean a two-week delay in nis vacation. To the picture, it will mean an added JIOO.OOO on the budget, which brings the cost of liming the Robert Louis Stevenson itory up to about a million and a half’ Total of 4.127 tickets were sold to Ltnny Ross’ concert at Moscow, Idaho This is really covering the field tor the population of the town, '920 census, was only 4,476. Maxie Rosenbloom, sometime fighter, more often actor these days, spins a yarn that his first manager was George Raft, who then spelled it "Ranft”. "When he picked me up. I was 15 years old and plenty green. ' says Maxie. "George asked me if 1 wanted a manager and I told him

St. John’s school on U. S. Highway 27. north of Decatur. Preliminary plans for a public picnic will be discussed. All members have been urgeit to attend. o Salaried Employes Os G. E. Given Reduction Schenectady, N. Y., April 1— (UP) —Salary reductions tor full time salaried employee of the General electric company earning more titan $2,000 a year were announced today by President Garard Swope. The reductions, effective April 11. were necessary. Swope said, be-

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• sure, if he naa cnougn money to support me, but that 1 ate pretty 1 ( heavy." The association, says Maxie, was j short lived. Raft got himself a job . as a Charleston dancer tn vaudi- ! ville and Maxie, perversely enough, started almost right away to makt money In the boxing game. It was no time ago that Holly- 1 wood was laughing at Maxie's ambitions to be an actor. Now. I i he is makin a his tenth picture. i ( “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse”. If you don't think the movle.l ( are nertz, read this. On “The Toy ( Wife" set, they suddenly needed n roast. None was available so tne 1 property man fooled the camera with an old baseball mitt, garnished with parsley. A pampered member of Paramount's "Spawn of the North' troupe is a trained seal named Butch. Down at Balboa, they wanted him to Jump out of a sec- ( ond story window into the water But his owner, H. W. Winston, balked. Butch, he said, was too valuable to be trusted to the Pa?ific ocean. The studio tried putting a wire corset on the seal so it couldn’t ! i get away. But Butch refused to act. Finally, they spread a net n the water and stationed men to ' pull it in as soon as the jump was I made. Butch was too quick for them. 1 He slithered out of the net and , was heading for China when boats finally caught up with him. Never a dull minute in the movies. The Allan Joneses are heading for New York where he makes a personal appearance. It’s their ■ first trip away from Hollywood since the birth of the baby. ... An

ad vanced medical student tn Washington, D. C., has written asking Errol Flynn to pose for pictures to illustrate a paper he is preparing ... In the nude, too. .. . Such nerve! ... Jo Ettien, the five-foot beauty, who’ll represent T. W.

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A. at the American bowling congress for women, has trimmed such Hollywood bowling experts as Harold Lloyd, Tyrone Power and Don Ameche. . . . John Carradine will build . little theater on his two and qne-half-acre estate at Palos Verdes. . . . And Chester Morris gets to air those magic tricks for the first time professionally at the StateLake theater in Chicago.

cause of a 36 per cent decline in orders for the first two months of the‘year. He said many shop employes. paid on an hourly basis, had ■ been laid off and many were workI ing less than the regular 4()-hour i week. o Couple Captured After Wild Chase i ' Bedford. Ind.. Apr. I.—XU.R> Raymond Tabor. 27. and Lucille Eds. 22. were held in jail here today after being captured by authorities late yesterday following a wild automobile chase.

C. C. BANQUET (CONTINUED FROM PAGIJ ONE) menace, are the return to pMturo of much of the land, the us i of slue vel type cultivating tools, terracing, ptrip farming, cultivating in regard to the contours, conservation of moslture by the digging of depressions In the land. Mr. Hawkins stated that more damage is being done by water and slieet erosion than by dust erosion. I RE( H C. HOWER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) i made in the Decatur cemetery. The Rev. Thomas R. White, chaplain at ■ lie Pendleton institution, assisted by the Rev. R. W. Graham, of this city, will officiate. The ’body will be returned to the Zwlcx funeral home from Anderson Saturday afternoon and may be viewed there after 4 p. m. Saturday until time for the funeral. INSPECTIQN OF (CONTINUED FROM x’AGE ONE) and Mrs Walter Krick. The banquet, at which 155 guests were served, followed the installation. Mrs. Jack Little and Mrs. George Thotnas were in charge of the dining room and Mrs. W. I’. Robinson was in charge of the kitchen. Immediately following the banquet. inspection was held. Music during the inspection was furnishled by the pianist, Mrs. Ralph Roop; soloist, Mrs. Walter Krick, , and violinist, Mrs. R. W. Graham. Mrs. Fisher gave an address on, | "Service is the price we pay for the space we occupy. " Special guests at the meeting other than Mrs. Fisher included associate grand patron Ben Bennett of Fort Wayne: past worth grand matron, Mrs. Lettie Dickey, also of Fort Wayne: district deputy. Mrs. Dan Tyndall of Decatur; grand Martha, ■Mrs. Eva Hamilton of Waterloo; deputy grand matron. Mrs. Harve ■ Smith of Paulding. Ohio; past grand

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Esther and past grand Electa, MraJ John Peterson of Decatur; pnrit district deputy, Mrs. Eatellu Coulter of Poe. During the Inspection, the following class of candidates was Initiated: Mrs. Mary Maxine Brown of Mt. Lebanon. Pennsylvania, Miss Louise Haubold, Miss Edwlnna Shroll ami Mrs. George Meyers of Decatur. Guests were present from Bluff ton. Fort Wayne, Geneva. Ossian, Huntington, Huntertown, Dunkirk. Hartford City. Monroeville, Poe, Portland, South Whitley mid Paulding, Ohio.

DECATUR COUNTRY CLUB announces a pre-opening DANCE SATURDAY, April 2 — 9 P. M. This Pre-Opening Dance open to the general public as well as all members. Gene Sheridan’s Eleven Piece Orchestra of Fort Wayne will furnish the music, and will feature its regular lady soloist. Admission fifty cents per couple—no men admitted without lady escorts. Delectable food and soft drinks available. Paul Schulte. Mgr. .John Elsesser in charge. Chicken dinners available at all times if appointments made by phone in advance. •

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Hartford High School Marks 20th Birthday The Hartford high Hchool in Hartford townxhlp lx commemorating itx 20th birthday. Twenty years ago this xprlng the school wax founded. Before that time the high school was located at Linn Grove. o ■■■_— Men! $2.50 Shirt FREE with each suit purchased Saturday al the Essex Men’s Shop. T-F