Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 124, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1938 — Page 3

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r ” MELCHI T A PRESIDENT '■•MF' r -r 111*’ next sell ■ ' :i '' ’ at f, ':iet i\<’ ■k, 1 ''""" l ' ll ’ ■, H?K . a. ■ ‘i ity i' l '’ ■K'. nt' hi'iiim Mrs. e: the pupil* of the school basket dinner which conL school year festivities. IIN-US CLASS [GULAR MEETING bmJoin-Us class of the Ev- | Sunday school met. at the Mr. and Mrs. Garth Jourbday evening with Mr. and bond Eichenauer assisting | hostess. laymond Stengley was in >f the devotionals. During less meeting, Mrs. Arthur was elected persident for inder of the year and Mrs. Reynolds was chosen as t for the absent cards. H. ! gave the closing prayer, the social hour contests eshments were enjoyed. t. Pleasant Bible Class will the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sheets Friday evening at! rty o’clock. services will be held this it the First United Breth-. :h at 7 o’clock. Orchestra will precede the services ok and choir practice will ’ 8. TY ENJOYED ORS AND FACUTY r guests including meme senior class, the faculty, il board enjoyed a kid pari high school gymnasium evening. thirty o’clock a delicious iinner was served under etion of Miss Mildred a. Miss Naomi Ward was of the favors, which were d gumdraps. The dinner id family style with twenat each of the large tables. ■

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■I >J HARRISON CARROLL BB <opyrieht, 1938 9K **"i: IratureH Syndicate, Inc. ' >< >i i The marriage Cicilia Parker and Dick

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V ' ■ but the M G. ■M. star!. Hl . that <• after ■ chores m "Give s A II d y d y". I ■Head <>' eiop. the jS*lll marry at ■■A tv. - -

■JWci. regular■2 by Cecilia and her from Brian Ahernc says B Phillip Reed’s flight to B* Jk °rk to make the sailing of almost came to B JP® H i’ rin gfii'ld. While a stop ■ ,BJ >l '‘ n *t made there to refuel B le s Plane, Reed dropped a through a wing fabric. B ■<-« n ° Ume for P ro Per repairs, I e did a hasty job and the was continued. aftermath to Warners’ stunt before the opening of U1 Hood”. The studio sent ■V«r Howard Hill to visit the E °t the Hollywood correI ■dents and to fire arrows into I hlrw' e^C ’- Either Mr. Hill was not infallible self or someone ■ *'*’ e s tudio. For one has presented a claim for a window and another for a which she says was I” 1 on the ground when an W l ' Pierced a clothesline. kJ* e John Lodges, who wanted a fat w fk will have to be satislaL 'i ditcher girl, born May 2 ml . n - Mrs. Lodge (Francesca is doing nicely. jrJ addition to giving her mother, jjd uni Shirley, a trip abroad, Tenter Anne made it nicer with «ai» a P „Ju wardr °be- Mrs. Shirley vjjf. the Normandie for a long J""T 10n in England, Ireland and continent. jL . foX„, U J e of Bet ty Grable’s party C °° Kan (he ’ 3 going on ° ndl appearance tour) will g c-made ice cream shipped

! After dinner, songs and games | were 1 enjoyed. Prize for being the s, best looking girl was awarded to s; Miss Ellen Mailand, the most "regular looking"'boy, Walter Summers, - best dressed, Principal W. Guy ' Brown. »i Moving pictures were taken of I the affair. Miss Phyllis Tooke and i Don Death directed the singing Miss Jeanette Wlnnes was in r, charge of the Invitations. J I - > The Pleasant Mills M. E. Epworth II league will have a 25-cent supper t Friday venlng. The public is wel- , come - MISS CLEMENTS HAS BIBLE STUDY CLUB ’ The Young People’s Bible Study, I Club of Mt. Tabor Sunday school I held a party Friday evening at the ■ home of Miss Myrtle Clements. ■ Games were enjoyed and delicious refreshment* served. Those present included Ida May. ! Irene, Don and Earl Cottrel, Mary Koos, Pat Chronister, Myrtle Cle-j ’ ments. Mabel Gates, Mrs. Ruth j Daniels. Paul Rich, Hugh Death, Rev. Lloyd Bower and Donald Col- ’: ter. The American Legion auxiliary ! will hold its regular social meeting . Friday evening at seven forty-five o'clock in the Legion Home. All , members are urged to be present to make plans for Poppy Day and to make wreaths and blankets for Me- , morial Day. o WERffINALS Mrs. Lois Black, Mrs. John Peter- 1 , son, Miss Anna Jane Tyndall and | Miss Evangeline Fuhrman motored I to Indianapolis this morning for a | two days' visit. A number of Decatur people have ; received invitations from the E. ' Jane Hamilton Society of Fort Wayne to attend the preview of the Colleen Moore Doll House at Wolf and Dessauer auditorium Saturday I night. June 4th. from eight to eleven o'clock. Mies Moore will appear in person at the preview reception, i Mr. and Mrs. David Hensley of Indianapolis will spend Saturday and Sunday with the former’s bro-1 ther-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ehinger. I Miss Eloise Lewton left Tuesday J afternoon for Indianapolis to attend i the convention oi Federated Clubs. ; Mrs. Delton Passwater, Mrs.

all the way from New England to Hollywood. The sender is a former schoolmate of Betty’s, Mrs. Fred Field, Jr., of Brockton, Mass. While Jackie’s away, Betty remains in Hollywood to finish her Paramount picture, "Give Me a Sailor”. Would like to have seen Spencer Tracy’s expression when he got M. G. M.’s wire on the Lurline. The poor guy is going to Honolulu and the studio has ordered him not to get sunburned. Reason is more color tests for “Northwest Passage”. Dorothy Lamour, they say, has succeeded in lowering the register of both her speaking and singing voice. She has been studying under Phil Bouteljo at Paramount and you’ll hear the results in “Spawn of the North”. Denis O’Keefe, recently separated ' from his wife, is calling at the Seven Seas these evenings to take Iris Lancaster home. She's the pretty singer at this late spot. ... An auto thief snatched Alan Mowbray’s car from in front of a Beverly Hills restaurant. It was a brand new machine, too. ... It looks like wedding bells for Harry Niemeyer, Jr., and Dorothy Louis, daughter of the late Willard Louis. (Remember him in "Babbitt"?) . . . Gloria Dixon is up after several days in bed from a nasty fall on the stairs. . . .

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me hlcuid. o • • Kay Mulvey and Bernie Williams have called it off again. . . . That was Joe Phillips, the v a u d e v i Ilian, with Ann Pennington at Maxie Rosenbloom’s. . . . Things are picking up in the night spots. The Trocadero had a big opening

with Joe Lewis, Mary Martin and Evelyn Fahrney. and the Hawaiian ! Paradise opened its new Cubano room with rumba music. . . . The Lily Pons-Andre Kostelanetz wedding date, June 26, is a multiple of her lucky number, 13. . . . So maybe, this time, she means it. . . - Illona Massie is going places with Michael Whalen. . . . And Patricia Wilder’s latest interest is Bentley Ryan, the attorney.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1938.

i tlub calendar Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fenny Macy Phones 1000 — loot - Wednesday Orchestra Practice, First U B J Church, 6 p. m. Choir Practice, First U. B. Church 1 8 p. m. st. Vincent De Paul Society, K of ( C. Home, 2 p. m. . Union Township Woman’s club , ‘ Mn*. Agnes Rosswurn, 1:30 p. m. Thursday St. Mary's Township Home Economics Club, Mrs. John Feasol, 1:30' 1 p. m. Friendship Village Home Econo-! mice Club, Mrs. Kenneth Bierly. Eastern Star, Masonic Hall. 7:30 I p. m. Evangelical Ladies’ Aid Society,! ■ Church Parlors, 2 p. m. Mother-Daughter Banquet, MonI roe M. E. church. Ruralistic Study Club, Mrs Peter! j Miller, 8 p. m. Baptist Woman's Society, Mrs.| Brumley, 2:30 p. m. Little Flower Study Club, Mrs. I Hugh Daniels, 7:30 p. m. M. E. Ladies' Aid 'Society, Mrs. I Clyde Butler, 2:30 p. m. Friday American Legion auxiliary, social meeting. Legion home 7:45 p. in. Mt. Pleasant Bible Class, Mr. and f Mrs. Chauncy Sheets, 7:30 p. m. j Pocahontas, Red Men's Hall Afternoon Quilting. Saturday G- M. G. Bake Sale, Brock Store. Evangelical Missionary Society, Rummage Sale, Graham Building 8:30 a. m. Mission Band, Zion Reformed Church, 2 p. m. Ralph Yager, Misses Gladys Doan and Madeline Spahr are attending the convention of Indiana Feder® tion of Clubs at Indianapolis. Robert Cook arlved home Sunday ' from the University of California, I Beitkley, Cal., to spend the summer vacation with his mother, Mrs. Dora | Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Graliker are attending the state bankers' ! convention at French Lick. Charles Sether has returned from a business trip to Lexington, Ky. John C. Goodwin of Newcastle, Indiana visited here and attended to business last evening. Mrs. Harry W. Sutton and daughter Sybil Ann, of Akron, Ohio, are I .spending two weeks with Mr. and | Mrs. G. T. Burk. Mr. Sutton will spend Memorial Day holiday here. — — —o Adams County Memorial Hospital ♦ ; ♦ j Dismissed Tuesday evening: Ed, Bollen bach er, Portland. Admitted Tuesday evening: Mrs.: Ralph Evane, Larwell. o Paoli Court House Is Damaged By Fire Paoli, Ind., May 25—(UP)—Authorities were searching today for the origin of a fire in the Orange I county court house which caused damages estimated at SIO,OOO. The fire was first noticed at the ■ top of the second floor of the 88- ■ 1 year-old brick building and fire-1 men brought the blaze under con-' trol while the official records of the county were removed to safety. Unofficial reports said defective wiring caused the fire. o Gottschalk Appoints Five Prison Guards Indianapolis, Ind., May 25—(UP) l Thurman A. Gottschalk, superinten- ' ent of state institutions, today an-j nounced the appointments of five guards to the present staff at the Indiana state prison at Michigan City. Those appointed were Leroy A. McClintock of Martkleville; John ' K. Oelslager, Jr., of Portland; Alva R. Burdge of Flora: Clarence Delinger of Anderson, and Leroy G. | Malone of Seymour. o Hammond School City Is Sued By Teacher Hammond, Ind., May 15—(UP)— | carl Bocock, 42-year-old former Hammond school teacher, filed a $50,000 suit against the Hammond! ! school city yesterday, cha-glng he was dismissed “for no reason.” He - had taught at the technical high ! school for nine years. Bocock said he was told his posi- | tion would be abolished and he; charged another teacher was hired | . in his place. He contended he must be charged with incompetence, im- ' morality, neglect of duty or iuswb-' I ordination. -1 1 Trn.tr In A GnoU Town — »»e<nf.» Phone 300 1315 W. Adams ’ I -

CHICAGO BELIEF LOAD IS EASED Illinois Legislature Passes Bill To Relieve Needy Chicago, Muy 25— (U.R) —Gov. Henry Horner will sign a $4,500,000 , stop-gap appropriation bill today I enabling immediate distribution of I food to SI,OOO Chicagoans who have I subsisted for a week on meager | rations provided by the federal ' government. The bill, which had received house approval Monday, was passIcd by the senate early today. It ' reached the governor’s desk in the minimum time of five days. It has been the only major Issue considered by the legislators since they convened in extraordinary 1 session Friday night. A companion measure, permitt- | Ing the Illinois emergency relief | commission to increase its allotments also was passed and awaited signature. The appropriation will be divided among various counties. About $329,000 will be available to meet I Chicago relief's crisis until June 1 , when regular monthly allotments, l to be increased to $3,500,000. will I be due. The legislative action allayed threats of actual suffering among 34,000 families, left without the means of clothing, shelter and proper food when the Chicago relief administration's funds and supplies ran out last Wednesday. The majority had been placed on a diet consisting mostly of beans and rice, distributed by the feedral surplus commodity corporation. Leo M. Lyons, relief commissioner, said that with the June funds he will be able to supply a balanced diet and medical supplies for all of the city’s 97,000 relief families but believed he will lack funds to provide clothing and pay rents. Mayor Edward J. Kelly estimated that June grants still would leave the city $1,000,000 short of meeting its relief load. o TRANSPORT PLANE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Morrell. R. P.. New York. Veblen, E. H., employe of the i Douglas Aircraft Corp., Santa Mon- : lea, Cal. Brandon, James 1,., LaGrange. 111., pilot. Merrifield, Austin (Bud), Los Angeles, copilot. Macek, Mildred, Milwaukee, hostess. The accident was the second air ' disaster in the United States in i eight days. On May 16, a new j Lockheed transport plane crashed I on the side of a mountain near ' Saugus. Cal., killing nine persons— I three men, four women, and two i babies. Destined for service with j the Northwest Airlines, it still was i in the hands of its builders. The bodies of last night’s victims were taken to the Cuyahoga county morgue here. It will never be 1 known whether they died in the I crasli or were burned to death, but | all evidence indicated that all had : been killed instantly, before flames I enveloped the wreckage. i The plane fell across a ravine. It had started clipping trees 150 ' feet away. It was intact from its rear door back, but forward it was twisted and broken. One wing was thrown back of the ship, the other I forward. One motor was ripped | out and thrown far forward. James Wynn, the airport towerj man, did not agree wWh his superior, Berry. He said he saw the running lights of the plane and had been about “to talk her in" when lie lost sight of the lights and thought something had happened. A few seconds later he saw the flames. Carl Reik. of Independence, said he watched the plane flying low, headed for the airport. Suddenly lie noticed that one of its motors 1 was sputtering. “Then I saw a flare drop as if the pilot was hunting a landing spot.” he said. "Flames seemed to be shooting from the left motor and the other one apparently was not working. Then the ship zoomed up with a roar as though the pilot was trying to gain altitude and also to blot out the flames. I heard a great roar and she went down." In Washington, the department of commerce announced that its Inspectors would begin an investigation today to ascertain the cause. Harold T. Crary, vice-president of United Air Lines, announced in Chicago that the company would make no statement as to cause until the department of commerce finished its work. He said that in 11 years of operating between New York and Cleveland, the company had flown 44,000 trips and that this was its first passenger fatality. Brother A Suicide Chicago, May 25 —(U.R) —L. Arthur Doty, formerly of Decatur, HI., one of the passengers killed last night in a plane crash near Cleveland, had left Boston to come to Chicago where his brother, Harold E. Doty, had committed suicide. Harold Doty’s body was found early yesterday on the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rpilroad. He apparently had thrown himself beneath the wheels

of a passing train. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by suicide late yesterday. A note, found in his pocket, said that he hud been despondent because of domestic difficulties. On the reverse side were these words: "Coronel's Jury. Justifiable suicide."

— o Refuses Petition To Rehear Appeal | Chicago May 25 —(UP)— The United States circuit court of appeals. by a 2 to 1 decision, today re- ' fused a petition to rehear an appeal of litigation Involving the Citizens' Gas Company of Indianapolis. In a decision April 18, the court . reversed the decision of Judge Robi ert Baltzell of the Indianapolis dis- ' trict federal court. Judge Walter C. I Treanor, formerly of the Indiana state supreme court, dessented. o ■ Cardinal Pacelli Assails "Godless” Budapest. Hungary, May 25 — | (UP) — Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, ■ personal representative o' Pope j Plus XI bitterly assailed today the ' “fist o fthe Godless raised egainst Christ’s church," in the formal apening of the 34th international Eucharistic congress. He declared that it was the duty of all the faithful to fight the aggressors against Christianity who have formed a front to persuade all nations that they can prosper only ■by abonding Christ's Gospel.” ■ o Attend District Library Meeting Miss Ruth Winnes, Mrs. R. D. ! Myers, Mrs. John Parrish and Mrs. C. D. Lewton have returned from Waterlop, where they attended the district meeting of librarians and trustees Tuesday. A large number of persons were in attendance at the meeting. o Waterloo Youths Admit Robberies — Auburn, Ind., May 25 —(UP) —' I Four Waterloo (Ind.) youths await-l I ed arraignment in De Kalb circuit ' court today after they allegedly con- ' fessed numerous burglaries and I thefts in the vicinity of Waterloo ' and Auburn. Harold O’Brien, 20, and Warren L ' Eugene Albright, 18. and two juven- j lies were held.

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STATE RESTS MURDER CASE New York Youth On Trial For Murdering Sweetheart New York, Muy 25- (U.R)- DonHid F. Carroll, Jr., boggi-d “the Lord to kill him" after he hud ululn Ilin pregnant sweetheart, the youth’s 13-year-old brother testified at his murder trial today. The witness was Douglas Carrol), who went home last March 24 to find 18-year-old Charlotte Mstthlesen dead and the gun with which she was killed lying on a sofa In the living room. The boy was the first witness called by the defense after the prosecution rested. The state used only seven witnesses to support Its charge that Donald. 16-year-old son of a retired army officer, killed his sweetheart "wilfully, feloniously and with aforethought” and then backed out on a pledge to kill himself. Douglas said ho "took the gun and put in on the shelf in the pantry." "Did you hear anything?” defense counsel Sydney Rosenthal asked. "I hoard Donald upstairs praying to the Lord to kill him,” the boy ' said. i On cross-examination Douglas re- ! peated his story of putting the gun I away, and assistant district attorney Joseph V. Loscalzo asked what he heard Donald say. "He said, 'Lord, Lord, kill me’.” Douglas replied, “and then he was crying." The state concluded its case after Dr. Harry Schwartz of the . medical examiner's office and Dr. Alexander O. Gettler, city toxicologist, testified concerning blood stains on the dead girl's dress. The prosecution relied chiefly on I the boy’s confession in which he ! described his relations with the girl i and her insistence upon suicide when she learned she was to beI come a mother. i At the conclusion of his testi- ' niony Douglas walked to a seat | between his father and Fred Matthiesen. the slain girl’s father. i Both men smiled, and Matthiesen, I who has expressed the hope that | Donald will be acquitted, patted k the lad on the head. Leonard Sternbens and Thomas | Beamers, 16-year-old classmates of

the defendant, were the next witnesses. Sternbens said that two days before the tragedy Donald gave him a school bag and "told me lie didn’t expect to use It any more." Beamans, a fraternity brother of Donald's, said "he and Charlotte were thinking of dying together." The day before Charlotte was killed, Beamans said, Donald remarked, "I don't see why she should take the rap for everything." Charlotte. Donald told him, hud wanted to be “the only one to die," Beuinun said. They considered Jumping in front of a subway train but Donald, the witness said, discarded that plan because it was "too bloody.” The boy then mentioned, Beaman continued, that he and Charlotte would go up to his room and commit suicide with his father's gun. In taking his fraternity brother into his confidence. Donald said lie and Charlotte were "just kids having a swell time, but Charlotte is pregnant,” Beaman testified. OPEN KIRKLAND (CONTINUED FROM PAG 1-7 ONE) Lochner will lie in charge there. A trained and experienced tench-

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Ing staff has been secured and those In charge hope to make the school a profitable and enjoyable means of Christian education, n FORMER LOCAL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) perimvntul Piithology. Society for 'cine, Association of American Experimental Biology and MediPhyaiclana, Western Surgeons Association. He has published research articles on surgical shot k. physiology of the liver, gall bladder and spleen and production of peptic ulcer. British Freighter Is Sunk Near Spain Valencia, May 25 — (UP) — A British freighter was bom>bed from 'lie air and sunk off Valencia today. The ship, the Thorpehall, was hit by two bombs from a seaplane a- ! lx>ut a mile off Valencia. The planes scored two direct bits, j One officer an done member of the I crew were wounded. o Fresh Lime-Ades, Green Kettle J