Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1938 — Page 3

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■ w HARRISON CARROLL Copyright, 1938 M* * i; '- l'i-»turoi» Syndicate, Inc. >< )D —ln Hollywood . Mfr ..f Binnie Barnes, blonde ;c, film star, joins the nevercontroversy over how much

y vfvci iiurv iuuv.ii it takes for the ordinary girl to dress properly. Miss Barnes, whose status as one of the screen’s best dressed women requires her to spend from $2,000 to $3,000 for one picture such as "Always Goodby’,, declares the business girl

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■■ h easily on S3OO a year, figure won’t buy some of Mg" upngs the average girl yearns M H? 11 '' modifies, “but should be ■ W 1 to cover the essentials for fetching appearance at her parties." Barnes breaks down her into: Street dress, $25; dress, sls; dinner dress, dress, $25; one spring Bia ’> ’ winter c °at, SSO; three at $45. Which leaves or shoes, accessories and • star w as a dress model EladfcT before R°ing into pictures ran four exclusive Lon-B-mia' j 3 all0 P s - She says she ’« ■ d ° U herself - on a movie star’s salary, Mfflih" n * eSSeS 3be bas worn a sl| it on for four years by dyeing BHMFc a year to freshen it up. K Mt a° f a PP fi arance on this ■w, nt 'Ju et .’ sbe rcve als is using ■ t C thin K s that set off ■ Such ’ a r d give !t a new z *p- ■ freis v c langing the collar of a ■ fired,/' 11 thlnk you’ve become I ’urn'on Ma, ' Murra V saved a tidy ■■figXg nsurance by a little vho'T he did iL Harry •''■ ta r T,„ ° doesn't trust his drivBSE A1 ??L an 01d Ford while in I •Mbli t!„! or "Cocoanut Grove", I'W it ~,.! 05 ° OO liability coverage ■ thsSln.. nhc lef t town, he sold B Murrnv c ge „ charlot to Fred Macs' tasking s 6s ’ FreJ transferred ■ average to his own I . o,d one for s 4f > and tost a year’s production for 9 Rainer’s ma and pa 1 o „j over women wearing other Hollywood razzle-

ttera, Mine Patricia and Miss Rose I Mary Fullenkamp. The guests Included Ruth Holthouse, Many Joe Butler, Libby Macy . i Nancy Bell, Irene Andreas, Kathi, leen Terveer, Kathryn Koline, Janet, and Joan Zeser, Marjorie and Katie I Gass, Marlene Laurent, Joan Hlerly, i’ Miriam, Norina Jean and Patty Appieman, Patty Melbers, Patty Meyers, Mary Ann Laurent, Norma and . I Lois Eady and Mary Helen Tonne- ■ Iler. The foreign missionary society of . the Monroe M. E. church will have ' a mother daughter banquet Thursi day evening in the church annex. I Tickets are on sale at the Longenj berger store and at the church in ! the evening. The Ruralistlc study club will ' meet with Mrs. Peter Miller of Monroe Thursday evening at eight o’1 clock. Mrs. Ben Schroyer entertained i with a lovely Sunday dinner for ' Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kirsch and daughter. Mrs. Lydia Kirseh-Nyffler Edgar Mutschler, Mrs. Shroyer and Miss Kathryn Schroyer. HOWARD-McDONALD WEDDING SOLEMNIZED Miss Margaret Howard and Glen i McDonald were united in marriage Saturday afternoon at four o'clock ■ in the parsonage of the United Brethren church in Decatur. I Rev. Janies A. Weber read the I single ring rites. Miss Howard is a , daughter of Francis Howard of 1209 West Adams street. Mr. McDonald is a son of Mr. and and Mrs. Elias McDonald of near Berne. He is employed at the Cloverleaf Creamery. The couple will reI side with the bride’s father on | West Adams street. | MRS. HARRY MOLTZ HOSTESS TO HER CLUB | Mrs. Harry Moltz of North Fourth street was hostess to the members of the Saturday night club and I three guests, Mrs. Carl Pumphrey, | Mrs. John Heller and Mrs. Roy I Archbold, at a lovely six o’clock ] dinner Saturday evening. Bridge was enjoyed and prizes ■ were awarded to Mrs. John Peterson for the club and Mrs. John Heller for the guests. Members present 1 included Mrs. George Flanders, Mrs.' | Nellie Haney, Mrs. L. A. Graham,

dazzle. To break them in easily to the new environment, Luise is donning frilly dresses instead of the unconventional garb she usually wears. Jack Benny’s new house is only half up, but he’s got a telephone in it. He spends so much time bothering the builders that his radio scripters and producers of his new Paramount film, "Artists and Models”, insisted on being able to contact him. Jack keeps the phone in a tin bread box. Ann Rutherford’s another girl with ideas on wardrobe economy. For the Mickey Rooney girl-friend role in “Love Finds Andy Hardy”, the studio budgeted a $l6B costume. Ann designed one for $4.95. Rooney, Judy Garland and Lana Turner graduate from M-G-M’s studio high school in June anil have put the heat on to get class sweaters given them by Louis B. Mayer, with class colors red and white and studio initials. Jane Wither’s name joins those of bankers, financiers, industrial magnates on the board of directors for the California Zoological society. She’ll attend the meetings, too. Unique Hollywood “guest house”. It is an old Pullman car, bought by John Payne, moved to his Malibu place where Wife Ann Shirley will decorate it when he finishes “Garden of the Moon”. It will sleep 24 friends. Blind Alec Templeton’s piano playing shares the draw at the Grove with Fred Stanley’s tenor saxophone. The new Stanley dance tunes are smooth and indolent. . . . Lou Bring’s

rhythms at La Conga a lure for Milton Berle and Judy Stu art whom he is going to marry. ... John Decker, whose paintings adorn the new 1710 play spot, has invented “Box Office”, a likely looking game of the film industry on the style

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of “Monopoly”. . . • It s Maxie Rosenbloom and Tanya Buford, Billy Snyder’s discovery. . . • Balboa gets the Paramount studio party on July 10.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. MAY 23, 1938. .

I CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy •hones 10Q# — loot Monday Eta Tan Sigma, Miss Marie Koi- j ,ter, Fort Wayne, 7:30. Pythian Needle Club, K. of P. | Home, After Temple. Tuesday Pinochle Club, Mrs. William Lis- ■ ter, 7:30 p. m. Mother's Study Club, library re- 1 I ference room, 2 p. m. Kum-Join-Us Class, Mr. and Mrs. I Garth Journay, sth St., 7:30 p. m. Zion Junior Walther League Kid Party, church basement, 7:30 p. m. Civic Section, Library Rest Room I 7 p. m. Delta Theta Tau, Miss Dolores Leonard, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday St. Vincent De Paul Society, K of C. Home, 2 p. m. Union Township Woman's club Mrs. Agnes Rosswurn, 1:30 p. m. Thursday Friendship Village Home Economica Club, Mrs. Kenneth Bferly. Eastern Star, Masonic Hall. 7:30 I p. m. Evangelical Ladies' Aid Society, Church Parlors, 2 p. m. Mother-Daughter Banquet, Monroe M. E. church. Ruralistlc Study Club. Mrs. Peter Miller. 8 p. tn. Baptist Woman’s Society, Mrs. I Brumley, 2:30 p. m. Saturday I G. M. G. Bake Sale, Brock Store. Mrs. O. L. Vance Mrs. Peter- | son. — - o PERSONALS Lawrence (Bud) Amspaugh, who ; is attending Ball State college, vis- ] ited with his parents over the week- ' end. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Rohrer of Detroit were guests over the weekend of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Sprang. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Vance motored to Van Wert Sunday to visit the peony gardens Miss Mary Grace Zimmerman, who has spent the past year teaching in the high school at Boswell, arrived home Sunday to spend the summer vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin I Zimmerman of 617 Jefferson street. Barbara Burkholder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Burkholder, i is recovering from an extremely i severe case of chicken ipox. .| Mrs. David Campbell, daughters Margaret and Betty, and Mrs- Sue Hunsicker, all of Bluffton, visited in Decatur Sunday. It was erroneously stated in Sati urday’s Democrat that the South Ward school held its annual picnic. The item should have read West Ward or Riley building. Miss Eva Anker and Mrs Lois Black spent Saturday In Fort Wayne.

Young Girl Killed By Hit-Run Driver New Albany, Ind., May 23 —(UP) j—Floyd county authorities searched j for a hit and run driver after the discovery today of the body of Ruth 1 Sisson, 15, who failed to return home last night after spending the : evening with friends at a Jeffersonville skating rink. Lloyd Walk found Ruth’s body as | he walked to school this morning. The skull had been fractured and many other bones broken. She had not been criminally attacked, Police said. Alleged Kentucky Killer Captured Valparaiso, ;Ind., May 23—(UP)— A posse today captured Ora Minix, 22 years old, on a farm near east Kouts. Indiana- They said Minix was wanted 'by Breathitt county, Ky„ officers in connection with the murder Oct. 18, 1937 of Edward Stacy. The posse, led by Sheriff Freeman Lane surrounded the farmhouse and took Minix without trouble. Also taken in custody were Auey Minix, 17, Ora’s brother, Warren Sumwa, 20, and Shermaln Prater, 30, all of Breathitt county. O' Thomas Voglewede Given Appointment Thomas J. “Tom” Voglewede, son of Mrs. Charles Voglewede of this city, a senior in the college of engineering at the Univeeity of Detroit, has been appointed junior engineer with the national advisory committee for aeronautics at Langley Field, Virginia, word from Detroit stated today. This committee operates the largest laboratory in the world in its particular field. Tom win graduate i from the university June 7. Marshall Circuit Court Judge Quits Plymouth, Ind., May 23—(UP) Albert B. Chipman, for It years I Judge of Marshall circuit court, re-

Chicago Needy Pickzt Stations TtM'sSjr H IL J : I"’ are human/ .<! haw doth! P : - M-P > i Tickets stage demonstration When relief stations in Chicago closed because of lack of funds, needy staged demonstrations and picketed all branch offices. It was feared that the crisis might extend to June 1 since the city is dependent upon the state for subsidy to take care of its relief problem.

signed today to 'become a member of a South Bend law firm. Judge Chipman gained fame as a jurist by settling the rekonwned Gary squatter claim case after years of litigation. John W- Kiteh. a Democrat, is expected to succeed Chipman. o Favor Curtailment Os Mail Delivery Evansville, Ind., May 23 —(UP) — Resolutions favoring abolishing Saturday and Sunday mail delivery, and the establishment of a national civil service corurt of appeals were adopted by the Indiana association of letter carriers in a closing session with the .Indiana federation of rural carriers. The auxiliaries of both organizations also met. o State To Receive Bids On Highways Indianapolis, Ind.. May 23 —(UP) |—The state highway commission tomorrow will receive bids on eleven state road projects with an estimated cost of $1,750,000. The improvements will take place in Washington, Adams, Marion, Wells, Putnam, Hendricks, Owen, Morgan, Dearborn, Henry and Hamilton counties. Two other projects , for construction of two-lane high- | way on route 40 in Vigo and Clay 1 counties were withdrawn due to right of way difficulties. —o LATE FLASHES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) works administration grants and ; loans for power plants. Barkley made the announcement on his return from a congressional leaders conference with President Roosevelt. As reported to the senate for immediate debate, the bill prohibits use of PWA money to help municipalities build power plants in competition with private utilities. Barkley said he planned an amendment to this provision specifying that an exception be made I if a city has made a '“fair offer” I for an existing power plant and has been refused. j, County Has Panther Scare ■ — Eexline, Tex. —(UP) —Children ; in this area are not permitted to ! ride alone on horseback after cows at dusk since ranches along Carl rizo creek found several calves .killed by either a panther or mountain lion. The large cats are not native Ito this area, but occasionally one strays down the Carrizo from the neanby mountains. First Aid Kit in Cane Budapest.—<U.R> —A “physician's walking stick” is one of the latest : inventions registered in Hungary. It is hollow, and contains a complete first aid outfit of 25 different instruments, medicines and anesthetics. o Pear Tree Bears at 130 Years Hiram, O.— (U.R)' —A pear tree, | known to be nearly 130 years old, still produces a crop each year. o Old-Style Currency Appears Canton, O.—|(U.R)l—Bankers here i I report there is still a good deal of (the large-sized currency in curcu- 1 lation, although it was supposed I Ito have been replaced in 1928, I

BUSINESS IN ■ s STATE LOWER Business In Indiana Declines For Eighth Straight Month Bloomington, Ind., May 23.—<U.R> ' —Business conditions in Indiana I declined tor the eighth consecu- ■ tive month, according to the Indi--1 ana university bureau of business ! research. '; The review said farm income • gained nine percent in April but ' was 29 per cent less than April of t 1937. Farm prices declined three percent in April and were 24 per cent under last year's levels. Livestock prices jumped six percent but | remained nine percent under prices . of April of last year. Retail trade in April did not respond to the usual seasonal rush and was eight to 15 per cent under ' last year’s level the review showed. Automobile" sales were 29 per cent under March of this year and ' 51 per cent less than those of ■ April, 1937. ■ While the steel mills showed a ‘ fractional gain, due to the low 1 condition of automobile, construe- ■ tion, and railway activity steel is ’ not expected to improve much in ’ the next several months, according to the review. Almost a double drop was recorded in coal mining, the review recorded due to warm weather and general business dullness. Pay rolls finished their seventh I consecutive month of a downward trend, according to the review fig- ■ ures. o—i. Lepers Placed at 5 Million Toronto.— <U.R) — Although the i'• numreb of cures is increasing, i [ there are still 5,000,000 lepers in ■ ‘ the world, Emery Ross, general i: secretary of the American Mission to Lepers, told the African com- ' tmit toe e hfeetoain cmt'wyp AR . mittee of the foreign mission coni ference here. o Art Thefts Invited ( Orlando, Fla. —(UP)—A gallery containing about $5,000 werth of pictures remains open without an attendant in Orlando. If a thief steals one of the pictures it will be considered a compliment by the , artists. o Texan Has 3 Home Towns ißonham. Ten. —(UP)—For 20 years, E. C. Parker has refused to show favoritism to either of three towns. Parker lives at Ector, gets his mail at Savoy and Works in a drug store in Bonham. — o Great-Grandfather at 55 Youngstown, O. — KU.R)' —lgnatz Laubert, 55, is a great-grandfath-er. Mrs. Edward Bogan, his granddaughter, is the mother of a baby son. The maternal grandmother is , Mrs. John Baker, 36. o Root Stops 60-Foot Plunge Cleveland. — ((U.R)' — Mrs. Ruth I Burke suffered only from shock when her dress caught on a proI jeettag tree-root, halting half-way | her plunge down a 60-foot cliff.

WILLSHIRE NEWS Miss Betty Altheon of Willshire was chose n Peony Queen VII lust week at Van Wert for the 1938 Peony Festival, which Is to be held In Van Wert June 8 and 9. Betty wae chosen queen out of a group of eleven beautiful girls. The three Judges were Dudley T. Fisher Jr, staff cartoonist of the Columlms Dispatch C. R. Corbin of the Toledo Blade, and Miss Dorothe Carey, Dayton News fashion artist and women’s editor. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Myere and son Gene were dinner guests Sunday of Mrs. Harriet Colter. Mr. and Mrs. John Byer were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kuhn in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hileman left Tuesday morning for a several days’ sight seeing trip through several of the Southern States. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Reynolds spent the week-end in Fort Wayne the guests of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Geisler and daughter were Sunday dinner guesta of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Geisler. The Van Wert Co. Brotherhood of the M. E. Church was entertained in the Willshire M. E. Church Monday evening. A banquet was served at 6; 30 to one hundred and two men by the Ladles Aid. An interesting program was rendered. { Vi bra harp music, Miss Mildred I Wolfe. The guest speaker for the evening was Rev. E. Burns Martin

,This Starlet Always Has Her Lincs Perfect > | sUS A N HAY \V ARD |l' fl| Jf/c [I i i , W M I : K X ' iI ; \ Helght 5 feet 3 Inches] pinkie 7finches]* f»B|>s 3« Inches] u

There's one rapidly advancing young lady in the screen colony who displays perfect form in any part. She is Susan Hayward, starlet of Warner Bros., who has been hailed as having the best figure among the crop of promising newcomers. Lewis

Ickes Urges Approval of Billion-Dollar PWA Loan _ -a /iME-l Ji I Jr mH S I ' M gSHto-J?u. ..IS >-• I '' ■ » A Secretary Ickes, seated center, with appropriations committee

Armed with data on the new pump-priming program, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes goes before the house appropriations committee in Washington to urge approval of a $1,000,000,000 PWA loan and grant fund recommended by th* president in his recovery message. In the photo,

of the Wayne St. M. E. Church, Ft. 1 Wayne, Indiana. Dr. Martin gave a very interesting talk, "On the 1 Trail of John Wesley,” The Senior Class Play Friday evening and the play "Aunt Minnie] from Minnesota" was exceptionally | given iby the cast of characters. Mrs, W. W. Purks delightfully entertained the Dorcas Sunday School! class Wednesday evening. Business transacted by the president, followed by u program of music, readings and bf.jle character. A dainty two course lunch was served. Several guests were present. Mrs. Judson Paaswater of Decatur is a guest of Mrs. Byron Avery, a few days. The Missionary Tea and Mite Box opening, was hel dat the home of Mrs. J. A. Cox Thursday afternoon, May 19 The meeting was in charge of the president, Mrs. Mary Morrieon. The candle lighting service was used and all the boats were met by the W- H. M. S. A playlet, "Holding Up The Light" was given hy five ladles. Memorial services was hied for Mrs. Annie Taylor, de ceased one of the members. The Mite Box collection was sl2 80 Tea was ipoured by Hrs. S. A. Bruer and and Mrs. Morrison. The table was ] laid with a lace cloth, decorated ] with a bowl of flowers and candles The Musical at the Willshire Auditorium Tuesday evening, was attended by a large crowd and was • given by the high school and the 1 grade pupils, under the direction cf Edward Service. 1 Mrs. Herman Hyers and Mrs. Harriet Colter were Decatur visit-

Hippe, physical instructor, who helps keep Miss Hayward in shape, found that her hips measured exactly 36 inches; her height is five feet three inches, and her ankles are seven and one-half inches.

seated, left to right, are Representative Buell L. Snyder of Pennsylvania, Secretary Ickes and Representative Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia. Standing are Assistant PWA Administrator Howard Gray and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Elbert Burlew.

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tors Saturday afternoon. 1 Mrs. F. A. Defter and daughter 'Kathleen were Fort Waynj shop- | pars Monday. Letter Makes Fast Time | Peterborough. Ont. —(UP) — A i letter mailed in Wellington, N. Z., j arrived here, completing the 9,000 i mile trip In eight days. It apparentI 1/ traveled from Wellington to Au- ' cklaml by train and was flown to Sun Francisco on the inaugural 'I Hight of the Pan-Asmerican AirI I ways clipper. o Skull Leads to Arrest Montreal. dU.RI Lucien Vincent, 17,has been sent to jail on a charge ; of "profaning a body." He was arrested while walking down the ' street with a bag containing a ' skull and ornaments. o ——— South Wales Likes Beer ' | Sydney. <U.R; The approximately 2,600.000 people in New South ' I Wales drank 23.764.000 gallons of I beer last year, spending $67,200,''ooo on drink. In 1932 they only ‘ drank 18.000.000 gallons. < J Phone 300 1315 W. Adam#