Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1938 — Page 3

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T" SARIES i ", d •* \i '.' !i I six o'clock . lii. k n 'io . - usecond anniversary of Mr. ■ L , • .1 Rumsch'.ag. of Long island. N. Hii- |; Basil Iniily. al! <>f this city. jL,. of th" Presby n U'l ' -'id society '.■•ill Im meeting to ton.- ■'! »• ■*■ '-■ K" 1 jo, ~,,,,0n KinUAL rose tea Ewell attended — . (. in.i' iii -al kiimiav ■MLgI v lostesses at the any .... < hnii'li parlors \ ..""tn .on. The : itlmr spring flowers. ill program was .-n*f’’ " hi< li ’cti was served the tea 1 CHAPEL MEET ••■ mission , ' 1 I' 1 rail'''! Hr. )%»K gC * r . met at the home Dwig'i' Brown of Belmont, Ijeba Brown ami Mrs.! MB ' Kt we inhere. Mfte : tit- o; .-nod with prayer '■ aK]|< hnar'z. followed with th" Mweg “I!' :a- Them In.” In the ah ■Mt i. r tii" leader. Mrs. Cnar'es Brown conducted the theme of which was dpt mity of the church in 9 day.” ■ Mrs. B Z' rkel revi, ' r . y clapti ■ s of the study book. Rural America." deal tsitii 'he American negro, tin' |KIiM d the Mexican. Hll interesting report was given S aey Shaw, who was a to the W. M. A. convena: Plymouth the last week Mrs. Tillie Sheehan. Mrs. I NOTICE! K uiiJhljlllill he out of the citv, ■ Jue 12 to 13th. .L'M ■ I Robert E. Daniel. M.D. ..

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CLUB CALENDAR - Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy •hones 1000 — loot — Friday Zion Lutheran Special Choir, Church, 8 p. tn. Pocahontas Lodge, Red Men’s Hall 7:30 p. m. Chicken Supper, Monroe M. E. Church, 5:30 p. m. Saturday Mission Rand, Evangelical Church 'I p. tn. Children’s Day Practice, Zion Re-1 formed Church, 2 p. m. Plate Supper, M. E. Church Base- , ment, 5 to 7 p. m. Sunday Emanuel Lutheran Picnic. Bleeke School, All Daq. Monday K. of P. and Pythian Sisteis Pot Luck Supper, K. of P. Home, 6:30 p. m. 'Corinthian Class, Mrs. Everett Hutker, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday Tri Kappa Business Meeting, Elks I Home, 8 p. m. Mother’s Study Club, Library Auditorium, 2:30 p. tn. Thursday Presbyterian Ladies' Aid Society, | Mrs. J. L. Kocher, 2:30 p. m. Bailey and Mrs. Chas. Rabit were appointed to give the missionary program on Father's Day. i The meeting closed with sentence i prayers In behalf of Miss Mary McKinsey, the society’s living link to Africa. During the social hour, love‘ly refreshments were served by the 1 | hostess. — The Mission Band of the Evangelical Sunday school will meet at the I church Saturday afternoon at three I e’ciock. APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF MIES MILLER ANNOUNCED Miss Dorothy Miller of 513 Marshall street entertained with a party Thursday evening at seven-thirty o'clock for twenty of her most intimate friends. Pastel colors were used in the decorations. Large basI kete and low bowls of cut flowers l graced the entertaining rooms, i Bunco was enjoyed and prizes were awarded to Miss Josephine Wolpert and Miss Mildred Miller.• A lovely two course luncheon was' c-erved. Between courses Little Miss Don-1 na Lou Kortejiber, dressed as a fairy, entered the room carrying a basket tied with a large yellow moline bow. In the basket were small individual coreages. As the guests were anticipating - - - - W T~ ~

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I a surprise they were not disaip-l 'Pointed when the corsage given to i Miss Helen Loehe revealed a tiny note with the message “Dorothy [ and Grover. July 9." I Miss Miller Is a dauhgter of Mr. ■ and Mrs. J. C. Miller of this city. Iler fiance is a son of John Clouser of Bluffton. The wedding will be ! solemnized at St. Mary's parsonage 1 Saturday afternoon July 9, at 4 o'clock. I DELTA THETA TAU BUSINESS MEETING A regular business meeting of the I Delta Theta Tau sorority was held | Thursday evening at the home or Miss Mary Miller. Several new com- , mittees were named and a money making project discussed. Plans were also made to attend | the national convention at Indianai polls next week. SHOWER GIVEN MISS HOAGLAND The Misses Clara Ellen Mumma. Marlowe and Phyllis Hoagland and Mrs. Ralph Roop united In enter- , taining with a shower at the Roop residence Thursday evening honorJitig Miss Rosamund Hoagland, i whose approaching manage. July 11, to Dr. Kenneth 'Brown of New | Albany has been announced. Several games of bingo were en- , joyed and prizes were given to Mrs. I Russel Deßolt, Miss Hoagland and 1 Mrs. Vera Nelson. The prizes were (then presented to Miss Hoagland. A delicious luncheon was served at small tables centered with rose ■ buds. The table bearing the shower ' gifts was candle lighted and also I held a bowl of flowers. Guests included the Misses Hoagland, Mildred and Lillian Worthman. Julia Passwater, Kathryn Hill, Dorcas Hoagland, Margaret McGill Joyce and Arline Roop. The Mesdames Earl Hoagland, Vera Nelson and Robert Nelson, all of Fort Wayne; Herb Kern, Ruesell Deßolt, Lionel Brentlinger, James Hoagland, Homer Bittner, Hattie Nelson and Roy Mumma. 0 ♦ 4 Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LEE 4 4 Q. To whom should one send az- ! eeptance or regret to an invitation ; when the names of two or more hostesses appear on the invitation? A. The envelope is addressed to , the one at whose house the party is ' to take place. Or, to all the names ! exactly as in the invitation if it is [ to be at a club or hotel. . Q. What is the correct size for | uinner napkins? A. About .twenty-two to twentyI four inches square. Q. Is it considered good taste to use terms of endearment in death I notices? A. No. I 0 PERSONALS Leo J. Miller arrived in Decatur I Thursday from Purdue university, | Lafayette, for a few days’ visit with [ his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Miller. He was accompanied by a classmate, Charles DeStefano of Long Island, New York. The boys ! will leave Sunday for Henryville,, where they will enter the Forestry ) summer camp at Clark county state I forest for an eight week’s training course in forestry. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Helm of Mi-; ami. Florida who have been visiting j in Indianapolis and Chicago ar-. rived in Decatur today from Fort Wayne where they will visit with relatives and friends before going to New York. The Rev. George O. Walton and I Charles Teeple attended the synod I held at Crawfordsville this week, as delegates from the Fort Wayne Presbytery. They returned Thurs-1 day night to Decatur. , Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Gerber and i Charles Heckman attended the graduation exercises at Concordia .College in Fort Wayne Thursday, evening. Miss Phyllis Franke. Mrs. ‘ Gerber’s niece, was in the graduating class. After the exercises they , attended a reception at the E. A. ( Franke residence an North Anthony I boulevard for relatives and friends. Miss Eleanor Pumphrey and Miss | Glennys Elzey left today for a several day's trip through southern Indiana, including a visit to Brown county. ' Dr. and Mrs. S. D. Beavers and g-andson James motored to Lafayette Thursday morning where their , grandson, Robert, has completed his freshman year of engineering in j Purdue university. Accompanied by ; him, they continued to Terre Haute where they attended the graduation ( exercises of the doctor's niece, Miss Pauline Buckmaster, who has completed a four year’s course in tlm state teacher's college there. They then visited at Indiana University, Bloomington, and at the Brown county state park, returning to Decatur last evening. I Mrs. Avon Burk visited in Fort | Wayne today. • ' | Work on new glass fronts lor the Morris & Joe barber shop, the Citizens Telephone company and the Wentzberger Confectionery is progressing. The work is nearly completed at the Monroe street barber

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By HARRISON CARROLL Copyright, 11138 King Feature), Syndicate, Inc. HOLLYWOOD—June is a big month In the Cagney family. Jimmy's 19- - year-old sister, Jeanne, is grad- '•■'' 1 uating from I Hunter's college P in New York. M heaped with J honors. Her Fl lassmates have ‘W I voted her the . * V m best actress in . S the school and k * ■ the girl most Kk .ikely to sue- HSL ' In addi.ion, she has “ ame s Cagney iee n awarded .he coveted Phi Beta Kappa key. Cagney already has offered to ponsor her in Hollywood, hut she vants to continue her studies and necome a doctor. Hard luck pursues Western Star Jene Autry. Back at the studio ifter five months of wrangling vith Republic, he was ordered to icd as a result of knee injuries mstained in a film fight. Meanwhile, lawyers are working >ut a settlement of the various suits filed by the actor and the Um company. Autry is asking more time off for personal appearinces and permission to make one yutside picture a year. Understand Republic will proluce two western series, one with Autry and another with Roy Rogers, singing cowboy, who was mshed in to pinch hit for Autry ind who made a smash hit in his irst picture. Smiley Burnette, otund comedian whose services ! ire desired by both stars, will do me more with Rogers, I hear, and hen return to work with Autry ixclusively. If it can be arranged, Max Reinlardt wants Maureen O’Sullivan to May the role of Marguerite in his loming coast production of ‘Faust”. There's already been alk back and forth. Ruby Keeler is another Hollywood star temporarily out of her ilcture. She got a spider bite on ler right arm and it's swollen to wice normal size. R-K-O is shootng around the actress in “Mother Carey’s Chickens". Don’t believe “The Toy Wife"

F.D.R. PLANS I WESTERN TRIP Roosevelt To Leave Washington July 7 For San Francisco — | Washington, June 10 — (UP) — I (President Roosevelt said today ha | lias completed plans for a crosscountry trip to San Francisco where he will embark on a cruise as far south as the equator. 'The chief executive plans to leave July 7, going to Marietta. O-. for the i celebration of the founding of the I Northwest territory. j On July Bhe will proceed to Covington, Ky. i Mr. Roosevelt said that plans for I speaking engagements were indeI finite. From Kentucky he will cross into Tennessee, and move west either byway of St. Louis or Memphis to Oklahoma, arriving in that state I July 10. ’ From Oklahoma he will go to Fort i Worth, Tex., the home of his son, Elliott. 1 After a short visit the Roosevelt ' special will head for Wichita Falls i and Amarillo, Tex. j He then will visit Pueiblo, Colo., , arranging his itinerary in order to see the Rdyal Gorge. | 'From Colorado he will travel through Utah and Nevada to San Francisco. I Before boarding a navy cruiser for his Ocean voyage, Mr. Roosevelt will tour the Yosemite National Park which he has never seen. | No Early Adjournment Washington, June M—(UP)—Administration leaders today definite- ; v abandoned .plans for adjournment j 'of congress this week. They hoped that early agreement in conferences , on the recovery and the wages and i hours ibills would make adjourn-1 ment possible by next Tuesday. I (Senate and house conferees on, the $3,723,000,000 appropriation bill to finance the New Deal’s pumpi priming program against depression, meeting for their second session today, will seek a compromise , oin three major points of disagreement. They already have agreed to shop, with all glass Installed. Glass instalation has been started at the I other two business houses. Harry Maddox and family are in I Springfield, Illinois, visiting friends and relatives. While there, Mr. and Mrs. Maddox will attend the commencement exercises of their son, Watson, who is graduating from Illinois college at Jacksonville, Illinois.

will add to Luise Rainer's prestige. The old Sarah Bernhardt vehicle (it was “Mademoiselle Frou Frou" then) creaks despite all efforts Like Bette Davis in "Jezebel", Miss Rainer plays a Louisiana beauty who makes trouble for every one Both heroines are responsible so: a man being killed in a duel. Similarity between the two ends there. Miss Davis’ was a positive character, causing tragedy by het pride and headstrong behavior Miss Rainer’s Frou Frou is a silken, superficial girl who nevei grows up. Os the two pictures, "Jezebel’ I has much more stature. Likewise Miss Davis’ performance is richer better rounded. Margaret Lindsay tells me there is nothing to the Alfred Vanderbilt f engagement rumors and she doesn’t ( think there ever will be. He was scheduled to be a summer visitot to the coast, but, according to present plans, may not return here until November. The late Rudolph Valentino has two pictures playing simultaneous- < ly in Los Angeles, “The Sheik” at the Four Star, and “Son of the Sheik" at the Criterion. Ought to have a humbling effect on any of Hollywood’s current crop of stars who have an exaggerated idea of their imp or- i tance. ... Up in Eureka, poison oak left side of Jack ■W I Rue’s face ■ and the Warner troupe are hav- ■ in g to shoot m I right profiles Hk J| exclusively. . . . Lot® of preview W Hil P ,audit s last night for “Speed T „ i » to Burn”, Jerry Jack La Rue Hoffman’s first effort as a producer. He used to be one of us on the Hollywood beat. . . . Robert Gleckler, film heavy, has dug up more than 30 varieties of flowers around his Tolucca lake estate in an effort to find the cause of his son's asthma. Doctors now think the boy may be allergic to cats. . . . Ben Blue’s latest rumba partner at the La Conga is Sugar Geise. . . . And Mike Romanoff is bestowing his royal attentions on Dorothy Hayes, a Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox cutie.

I maintain the Senate’s work relief j total of $1,425,000,000 for the first I eight months of the 1039 fiscal .' year. i In the conference on wages and hours, leaders expected the NorthSouth fight over flexible wage standards to be compromised before nightfall. It was understood that conferees had retreated before a filibuster threat and had tentatively agreed to wage scale provisions which carry no time limitations. But the possibility of adjourn- , ment Tuesday was extremely doubt.l ful, despite satisfactory developJmenta in the two major confer- . ences. j Congressmen close to President s I Roosevelt still reported that be was . seriously considering a request tor , railroad-aid legislatio nat tnis ses- , sion. Such a move might delay ad- .' journment as much as two weeks. | However, Mr. Roosevelt told his . press conference today that he did . not contemplate sending any furi ther message to congress on the J railroad situation. .[ o ' Al Feeney Continues Lead In Vote Recount ,| Indianapolis, Ind., June 10 —(UP) -Al G. Feeney, unsuccessful Dem.'ocratic candidate tor the nominai tion of Marion county sheriff in the I May primary election, today still | held a plurality of 647 votes over , his successful opponent, Charles | Lutz, as a recount commission continued its wonk. , 1 Wide discrepancies in the vote of i a fifth ward precinct and other irre- • gularities in a sixth ward precinct were found by the special recount I commission yesterday. Feeney asked for a recount after several of his workers had reported ■ that numerous ballots appeared to ■ have been marked by the same per- ' son. —o G-Man Head Refuses Comment On Wedding Miami, Fla., June 10—(UP)—J. Edgar Hoover, head of the federal bureau of investigation, refused to- ■ day to say either yes or no to re- ■ ports that he and Mrs. Leia Rogers, mother of film star Ginger Rogers, might be married. ' Mrs. Rogers, in New York, admit- ’ ted she and the chief G-man weie 1 "Quite good friends,” But replied to 1 a question as to whether she and Hoover would be married: "That's pip to him." 1 "I don’t think my personal affairs are of interest to the public,” HooI ver commented here. "AnJ that’s ' I not saying yes or no.” _o jTrade In a Good Town — Decatur

I, U, FACULTY CHANGES MADE Trustees Make Changes In Faculty At State University Bloomington, Ind.. June 10. -flj.R) Trustees of Indiana University to- ( ; day mimed Dean S. E. Stout ex- ' ecutive dean of the university college of arts and science!. He will have direct supervision uver 2S de--1 partments comprising the college. His assistant to aid in administration of the college will be 11. j Merrill Ross, Instructor in the j 1 psychology department, it was announced. Rapid growth of the university has necessitated separate administration of the departments of the ' I college, Herman B. Wells, preslI dent of the university, explained. I This is the case with the profess-; i ional schools and has been regarded for some time as a necessary step in the college's administration. ' ( he added. At the meeting, the trustees also named President Emeritus W. L. Bryan professor of the Mahlon | Powell foundation fr the academic I year of 1938-39. He will deliver I a series of lectures on philosophy as provided under the will of the late Mahlon Powell of Wabash, j Dean Stout, a graduate of Gram! I River ami William Jewell colleges, holds a Ph.D. degree from Princeton and has studied at the University of Missouri and the University of Chicago. He was a professor of Latin at Indiana university j in 1914. Prof. Ralph E. Cleland, head of' the department of b'ologv a’ | Goucher college in BaltimoiA has accepted the position as head of ( the university department, of botany, President Wells announced. Cleland will replace Dr. Paul ( Weatherwax, who has filled the ( position since Prof. D. M. Mottier resigned a year ago. Weatherwax will resume teaching and research work.

iaBBhaBKKK3K3SK9EIKanSXI SUN. MON. TUES. 10c Matinee 1:15 Sunday I TWO SMASH FEATURES! - . I "y\ xim jJfej ■ W 1 WwHEN' Sa Sg Sp 1M... •MEN STEP IN DON TERRY JACQUELINE WELLS ROBERT PAIGE Gene Morgan - Paul Fix Screen play by Arthur T. Horman Directed by C. C. Coleman, Jr. A COLUMBIA PICTURE . -. X-XC-X-.v -x — ADDED HIT — A rollicking comedy romance! “SALESLADY” Anne Nagel, Weldon Heyburn Evenings 10c-20c o—o Tonight & Saturday BU C K JONE S in “OVERLAND EXPRESS” ALSO — "Flash Gordon's Trip to i Mars;" Cartoon and Novelty. Tonite ONLY ONE DIME Saturday 10c-15c—First Show 6:30

Plan State Sunday t School Convention The annual State Sunday School convention will convene at Winona Lake on June 14, 15 nd 16. Among the outstanding leaders that have been secured to lead the 1 children's workers, young people's, Vacation Bible school and adult ; conferences are G. A. Lehman. Win. P. Dearing, Dr. Raymond I Schultz, JI H. Mueller, Miss Elizahath Taft. Miss lone Catton. R. J. McLandreSs. Miss Nellie Young, | Mrs. Violet Geiger ami many oth-i ers. The program is being arrang- 1 ed to guarantee help for every de-' pnrtment in the Sunday School I (and it is hoped that every Sumiuy j School will be represejited to get i I the benefit of this great convention. The local committee at Winona ( Lake is plapnijig to provid)' for j the entertainment of the delegates, at 50c for bed per night per per-1 son and 25c for breakfast and the 1 state committee has made special 1 plans by wVlch delegates can register up until June 11 for sl. As-1 ter that the registration will be j ( JI.2S. All registrations are transferable. The registrations may be I mailed to Miss Frances Burkhalt- ( [er, Berne, who is the county secretary of the Adams County Cuncll [ |of Christian Education. The interior of the City Confec- 1 tionery, recently taken over by John Joseph, is being remodeled and re-[ decorated.

■HMMSBBRRMUMBanMBPMOWWHRHSBIBBJHBBffIaKWUg —======! SUN. MON. TUES. 4 L A Continuous Sunday from 1:15 NBWI.OW ao<! , 25c ■ | THE GREATEST TRIUMPH OF THltlt GREAT STARS Never have the thrills of ac- / la \ hon, romance and laughter \ in the face of danger been I 80 gloriously combined I The ' ' “King" and "Queen" of the \ / screen plus the Academy's \ , I / new Award Winner in the - most spectacular heart'\Ak throb of your movie days! GABLE 1> / : av Hundreds of planes . . a cast of thousands 1 . in the most stagger- « mg epic of th, a>r m ever produced' IS vMr FLEMING’S ■ “Uli I With LIONEL BARRYMORE and Mighty Cast. ALSO — Color Cartoon, ‘‘The Big Birdcast." 0 0 - TONIGHT AND SATURDAY — EXTRA! ADDED ATTRACTION! Complete Official Motion Pictures of the world's welterweight championship fight! Henry ARMSTRONG vs Barney ROSS Blow by blow! Better than a ringside seat! A thrilling story of two fugitive sweethearts who had to choose between their romance and the pulse-pounding excitement of a life of crime! "STOLEN HEAVEN” GENE RAYMOND, OLYMPE BRADNA. LEWIS STONE Glenda Farrell, Porter Hall, Douglas Dumbrille. ALSO—Newsreel Pictures of Indianapolis Auto Race. 10c-25c O O COMING — “MAD ABOUT MUSIC" Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, i

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Indiana farm PRICES LOWER Farm Prices Continued Downward Movement During May I. - » Fafayette. Ind., June 10.- 'U.R/ - Indiana farm prices continued their ( downward movement during May, ' reaching 96.6 pointe, a decrease of ! 2.9 points from the average of the 1 preceding month. M. M. Justin, ; Purdue university agricultural statistical! working in cooperation [ with the U. S. bureau of agriculture, reported today. Only five of the 17 Important farm commodities showed price increases during the period, accord- | Ing to Justin. They were corn, I hay, apples, eggs, and wool. Oats ' showed no pricec hunge from 28 I cents a bushel and all other com--1 modltles registered doclines. Purchasing power of Indiana ’ farm products dropped two points from April to 77. while the figure I for the elire coutry decreased a ■ point to 74. The 1910-14 price index equalled 100. During the same period the Index of prices paid by United States farmers jumped from 125 in April to 134 in May. The wholesale I price index for May was 114, a . point lower than in April. I o Trn«le In ,4 <,<»<»6l Town — Jlecntnr