Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1938 — Page 3

o v e r o a l e bridge hostess ( ; ('.ivelTlalc of Sortil . .v.ninu MH* and Mrs. Harry Jones o'clock Mrs. CoverK,her daugbu r, Mrs. ~m served lovely two The «>««» “» We « ...., d IJKnn r flowers. ns iH idue were enjoy-1 n J V' S. .1. Ward Calland re-1 high score prize. The not meet again until the OF MOOSE DNNER of the Moose held helrlembe>-!i P Iwnquet at the. , irsday evening. Ini-. candidates followed . n.ioyed and prize.-: were M;,. William Noll. Mrs. i ami Mis- Grace LiclltellI TbAircnnm'e auxiliary will meet M evening o'clock. Mrs. Pauline be the smith TO SOCIETY of God missionary met at the home ol Mrs. Smith Thursday evening, of the members were tnestlfor the evening and enjoyed he Wri nating program. opened with the song,' ReXe the Perishing”, followed by Mrs. Glenn Herbert Hawkins led in Miss Juanita McKenney ilayM a piano solo, followed with by Mrs. Walter BollingMrs Charles Black gave a mistalk after which Mrs. EmSK,wkins and Mrs. Marshall: M duet “Lord Give Me a Visclever playlet "T te Remtided the following cast jMßacters: Clarence Strickler. 1 ,i Treasurer — Charles of Missionary — Mrs. 1 School Supt. — Emery

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K- HARRISON ( ARROLL H Copyright, 1938 Features Syndicate, Inc. ■LLYWOOD—Lights! Camera! ■n! For a year and a half on and for three pictures yDtad End” kids have been ■ng as a unit They are now Big their

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r team and he has his hands i e watch him put the boys igh a scene with James ' ley. is in the boiler room of a rted building and Cagney has i surprised the gang dividing : noney from his stolen pocket- i hen the camera isn’t turning, ! is a running fire of wise- I ks between the kids. They . cut more chatter on the set even the Yacht Club Boys or Ritz Brothers. Uy Hallup wants to put a rent line into the script. eah,” cracks Leo Gorcey, “I 1 you are writing our next picnd so it goes, with Cagney nin g tolerantly and with . , ' a notoriously impatient i. setting a new record for good . * I I last, Curtiz can stand it no 3oys," he yells, “I make you ffer. Fifty dollars at the end e Picture to the kid who makes least noise.” ra» the back of the group es a voice: ’’Okay, gang and II we split it.” for ~Room rx Rrn'ts' 1 1250 ' 000 more to the shAAt therS t 0 act in Jt - R-K-O shoot more than half the pic■dred dollar 1 °" ly a feW ’k hot a el. rO ° m * n a Chea P New nembe'r of to re P lace 1 work i« f n the su PP° rt * n S cast iVe anu r. Pressing slowly. y'jhMt Groucho how long before -moot a scene. __was called at nine this morn-

. CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. i Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 i -- i| _ Friday 11 Union U. R. Church of Willshire It e Cream Social. Church. American Legion Auxiliary, Legion Home, 7:45 p. m. Pocahontas Lodge, Red Men’s i Hall 7:30 p. m. Evangelical V. P. C„ Miss Betty ' Melchi, 7:30 p. m. Sunday C. I. C. Banket Dinner, Hanna- ■ I Nuttman Park. After Church Ser- ! vises. Mt. Pleasant Indies* Aid Society, Mrs. Norvul Fuhrman. Xp. m. Baptist Woman's Society, Mrs. Brice Butler, 2:30 p. tn. Monday , Corintian Clasn. Mrs. Lester Rich I ards. 7:30 p. m. Pythian Sisters, K. of P. Lodge I Home, 8 p. m. Firemen's Auxiliary, Fire Station 7:30. Zion Reformed Sunday School Picnic, Hanna-Nuttman Park, 3 p. I tn. Tuesday Zion Reformed Girls' Guild, Church Parlors, 7:30 p. m. Rebekah Lodge, I. O. O. F Hall, ; 7:"0 p. m. Loyal Dorcas Class Jicnic. Legion Park. 6 p. m. Hawkins. Spirit of Missions —Mrs. Clarence Strickler. At the close of the program, refreshments were served by the hos- ( tess. Mrs. Smith, assisted bv Mrs. I Emery Hawkins. MISSIONARY SOCIETY INTERESTING MEETING An interesting meeting of the missionary society of the First Evangelical church was held in the church entertaining rooms Thursday afternoon, with twenty-nine 1 members and two children present. Mrs. Chester Reynolds was the ' leader, opening the meeting with ' song. Mrs. Ralph Gentis read a portion of the scripture followed 1 with prayer by Mrs. Eugene Run--1 yon. Mrs. C. L. Weber and Mrs Frank ! Butler sang a duet. Miss Etola ’jane Eady played an accordian ’solo. Miss Ruth Lozier conducted the lesson study. Mrs. May Johnson

ing.” be says, "probably oy nine tcv.orrow we will be ready for the first scene. "It takes me 24 hours to think of a joke now and 48 hours to get my mustache on.” Groucho is a shoestring theatrical producer in the picture and Harp-> and Chico are his assistants. One of the big scenes will be where the hungry outfit promise a waiter a part in the play in return for a square meal. The scene will take two days to film and, during this time, Groucho, Chico and Harpo are supposed to eat endless fried eggs and French fried potatoes. No stomach, agrees R-K-O, would be equal to that amount of greasy food. So the prop department will resort to a little subterfuge. The fried eggs will be blobs of custard with a half apricot in the center and the French fried potatoes will be slivers of raw apple. On the “Gunga Din” set, an orchestra is playing “The Blue Danube” and red-coated British officers are whirling around the floor with pretty companions. It is a ball being held in the home of an Indian tea merchant, Joan Fontaine's father. We sit off to one side, watching the dance through the windows of the building. Beside us, on canvas chairs, are Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Cary Grant. They are the boon companions of the story which Victor Mc-

Laglen describes as a combination of "Gunga Din” and “Soldiers Three". It is interesting to see what actors do in the long waits when they are not before the cam era. Victor McLaglen dozes. He has the happy faculty of being able to

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snatch a nap regardless of the noise around him. Cary Grant, an Englishman, is reading a London paper loaned to him by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., an American. Fairbanks is sipping a glass of orange juice which will be followed by a glass of milk. He is on a liquid diet to lose 12 pounds. He has three more to go. At times we are glad to be a newspaperman and not a Hollywood star —but not around payday. |

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lead an Interesting letter from Rev. I Lehman, president of the mission at Beverly, Ky.. Mrs. Johnson was named delegate to the missionary convention, to be held at Oakwood July 28 to :tl. The meeting closed with prayer by Rev. George Lozier. During the social hour which followed, refreshments were served by Mrs. Reynolds and her committee. HOMESTEAD CLUB MEMBERS ‘ ENJOY PICNIC AT BERNE Members of the Homestead home economics club enjoyed a picnic in Lehman park in Berne Thursday with seven members, seven guests r and twenty children present. At noon, a delicious basket dinner was served with contests for the children in the afternoon. Prizes were given to Virginia and Billy Hutker and Eloise Keller. BIRTHDAYS CELEBRATED AT BEAVERS' COTTAGE Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Beavers en-i tertained at their summer home at Hamilton Lake over the Fourth honoring the birthday anniversaries ( of their son, Glenn Beavers of Toledo, Ohio and their son-in-law, Dee ( Fryback of this city. A birthday dinner was enjoyed i with covers laid for the two honor guests and also Mrs. Glenn Leavers of Toledo, Richard and Miles Parrish and Mrs. Dee Fryback and daughter Kathleen. ABBOTT REUNION IS HELD RECENTLY 1 The Abbott reunion was held recently at the Worthman Cabin on Heseen Cassel Road. The reunion , was held earlier in the season than usual honoring relatives from Tampa, Fla., who are Mr. and Mrs. Alt Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Abbott and daughters, Lois, Marjorie and Ann. Clarence Abbott was elected president for the coming year and Maynard Hetrick was chosen secre- ( tary-treasurer. The basket dinner " was served for about 106 guests. Others present were: Mr. and Mrs. John Worthman, son, Jack, and s daughter!!, Joan; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Mahler, son Ronald; Mr. and ' Mrs.’ Ernest Sills and daughter, Em- ’ ma Ellen; Mrs. Nellie Abbott and children, James, Richard, John. BetI ty, Connie, Marian and Marjorie; Mr. and Mrs. Robert I>agemann; Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Abbott and son, Harold; Mrs. Alice Markley ‘ and daughter, Martha Ann; Mrs. ( Lana Gordon; Mr. and Mrs. James . Graham and son, Bobby; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stogdill; Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Koch and son, Jerry, all of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mns, Nelson Abbott, Miss Frances Abbott, o f Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Abl bott and children, Robert and Eleanor, of Scott, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Clark Abbott and children. Wendell. Patl sy„ Donald, Vernon and Kay, of Craigville; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Abbott and children. Walter Lois, Esther and Roscoe of Convoy, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Homer Klopfenstein and children, Stanley. Wendell and Bruce, of Portland: Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Hetrick and daughters, Rose Mary and Janet, of Beine; Mr and Mrs. Harry Heckley and children Doris, Garth and Dale, of Craigville; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wolfe and daughters. Dorothy, Evelyn and Patty, of Bluffton; Mr. aad Mrs. | Wilmer Worthman and children, Luella, Edna, Donna Bell, Donald, Alberta and Dale; Mr. ana Mrs. Chancey Worthman, Mrs. Forrest Diehl, of Markle; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark and children, Harold and Carol, of Roanoke; Mr. and Mrs. Fort Worthman and child) en, Justine and Virgil; Arthur, Alice and Vera Gahman and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gahman, of Craigville. Members of the Zion Reformed Sunday school and church will enjoy a picnic Monday afternoon at Hanna-Nuttman park at three o’-i clock. Supper will be served at six. o Mrs. Arthur Ambler and daughter Effie of Washington D. C. have returned home after a month’s visit with the former's mother, Mrs. John Schug of South Third street. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Galloway of Baltimore, Md., are guests at the I Winnes home at the corner of Fifth and Jefferson streets. I Miss Arliss Hoover of Eaton is a guest of Mrs. Fred Smith. Dr. anil Mrs. Harry Jones of Berne visited in Decatur Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. William Bell have | returned from a two day’s visit at i Bloomington. Mrs. Edward Saurer of Bluffton I arrived in Decatur today for a I mouth’s visit with her eon and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Saurer, Mrs. Charles Dunn of Maryland i stopped In Decatur Thursday for , brief Visit with friends enroute i from Springfield to Indianapolis. ! Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Beavers, Mrs. I Dee Fryback and daughter Kath- ' leen have returned from their sumj mer home at Hamilton Lake i Mrs. John Tyndall has returned

FIVE KILLED IN ENGINE BLAST Freight Train Explodes In Montana; 15 Men Are Injured Missoula, Mont., July B.—<U.R>— ! The locointive of a 75-car Northern Pacific railway freight train exploded in Hell Gate canyon, 27 miles east of Missoula, early today, killing five men and Injuring 15 others. The explosion was heard for miles. Heavy steel plates of the engine, one of the largest freight types built, were hurled over the train. Ten of the wooden cars were splintered along the right of | way. The wreckage of the engine \ was hurled into the Clark Fork I river. The dead: Ernest Weston, engineer. Elva Dunlap, fireman. Ernest Bedilion, brakeman. A 15-year-old transient whose personal effects indicated that his home was in Norfolk, Neb. An unidentified transient. Railroad officials reported that more than 100 transients were riding on the train. Fifty men were said to have been riding in one box car. The wreck was the third recently in Montana. Two others occurr-1 jed on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. I Paul and Pacific railroad. More, • than 45 persons were killed in one I at Custer Creek, and a youth was killed in a second near Roundup. Derailment of the cars ripped the rails apart for several hun- ' dred feet. Officials said it would be at least 24 hours before service could be restored. A worker in a powerhouse a mile away, one of the first to reach the scene, said the engine exploded before leaving the rails. Steel plates tore into box cars in the center of the train, he said. o SEN. VAN NUYS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) • our republic has been confronted I at intervals been properly analyzed . and solved . . . “During the past five and a half years, it has been a great privilege I to be a member of the United , States senate and to assist President Roosevelt and the administra- ’ tion in the proper solution of this complex situation . . . the task 4s not yet completed and I have enter- ; gained the ambition to serve yet ■ another term . . . ' “After having been actively Identified with the Democratic par- • ty in Indiana for more than 40 ■ years, it is only natural that I should take pride in presenting my candidacy to the people of Indiana ' through the vehicle of that party.” : Van Nuys again refused to comment on his recent charges, when he still was planning to run for re-election as an independent, that Indiana's statehouse administration is “vicious, corrupt and vice-rid-den,” indicating that this problem might be disposed of later in the campaign. He intimated that next week’s convention would shy away from taking any definite stand on newdeal reform measures he has opi posed by saying "I couldn't run on a platform inconsistent with my views on federal legislation.” He , from a several week’s visit in Bluffton with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tyndall and children. She was accompanied home by her small granddaughter, Joyce. Robert Fritzinger, Walter Brunnegraff and Herb Brown returned this morning from the Northern Peninsula in Michigan with one of the catches which "you read about” including six muskies weighing as much as 24* z 4 pounds each. The to•I tai week’s catch was about 200 pounds.

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will appear before the convention | platform committee later today to discuss his views on Its contents. | Present at the "harmony confer-1 cnee" besides McHale, McKinney' and Sullivan were Alex Pursley, Townsend's closest advisor; Dick Heller, the governor’s executive | secretary; Bowman Elder, another I Townsend aide; Dan Tobin, labor leader; state chairman Omer Stokes Jackson; Sen. Sherman Minton and Virgil M. Simmons, chairman of the state conservation . commission. Planned Carefully (Copyright. 1928, by United Press) | Indianapolis, July B—(U.R) —The' reconciliation between Gov. M.| Clifford Townsend and Senator Frederick Van Nuys was not an i impulsive gesture of the governor’s , but was carefully explored In ad-1 vance, principally at a secret conference last Sunday, the United Press learned from a most reliable source today. Townsend telegraphed Van Nuys last Monday that the Democratic convention would be “wide open" I to his candidacy for renomination. 1 But before he did so, it was ascer-I tallied that this gesture of peace; would be successful. Lieut.-Gov. Henry F. Schricker consulted Van Nuys. an old. longstanding friend, at Washington, several weeks ago. Schricker then ' became extremely reluctant to run for the senate seat of Van Nuys because he believed a compromise could be brought about between the statehouse and Van Nuys. as well as his ambition to become governor in 1940. The Van Nuys reconciliation took impetus when Frank McHale, Democratic national committeman counselled a truce with him, and it is reported that before Van Nuys returned to Indianapolis from the last session of congress, he was advised by McHale that peace was in sight and to be temperate in what he said when he reached home. In this connection, it will be recalled that when Van Nuys returned here last month, he didn’t fire !

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any bitter blasts at the statehouse organization. His principal statement of interest was that the "two percent" club might Ire Investigated by the senatorial campaign committee. Then he relapsed into! silence unbroken all the time h>*| was here prior to leaving for his’ northern Michigan summer cottage The first break In the situation occurred a week ago Tuesday when j a dose friend of Townsend con-1 ferred with Henry Schricker [ Exactly what was said is not . known, but Schricker spoke In such discouraging terms about his pro- i posed senate campaign with state- ’ house backing that this friend of Townsend felt impelled to go to: the governor and report. Meanwhile, the pressure on the 1 governor from local candidates was ! becoming increasingly great to end ’ his feud with Van Nuys for the I benefit of the party. At this point, Tow-nsend was! represented as sincerely reconsid-1 ering his "purge" of Van Nuys. j The governor had been proceeding I under the idea that the rank and : file as well as his advisors and party leaders were behind him in I Ills battle against Van Nuys. When he learned that this was not the case, plus the urgings of expediency for both the 1938 and! 1940 campaigns of a united party. I Townsend is reported to have I undertaken some quiet conversa- 1 lions with his advisors. He intimated what was on his mind a week ago Thursday at a press conference, which provided the first clue to what was coming. When the governor satisfied himself that tlie gesture to Van Nuys would meet popular approval. Townsend is reported to have telephoned Van Nuys at his Walloon Lake, Mich., home. The governor asked Van Nuys if he would be prepared to meet him half-way in settling their differences of opinion on various questions. Van Nuys is reported to have replied that ho would .be glad to do so. In order to make certain, a secret

YOUNG KILLERS ARE EXECUTED Slayers Os Indianapolis Druggist Executed In Electric Chair Michigan City. Ind.. July 8 — (U.R) — Vurtis Neal, 22, and Hugh Marshall, Jr., 19, who committed murder to obtain $1.20, were executed early today in the state prison electric chair. Marshall, Madison, Ind., youth, was the first to walk to the death chamber. The current was turned on at 12:08 a. m. and he was pronounced dead at 12:12 a. in. Three minutes later Neal was strapped to th. cbeir and lie was

conference was arranged and held —last Sunday at Kalamazoo. Mich. Attending It were Van Nuys. Alex N. Pursley, fifth district chairman and Intimate advisor of Townsend, and Dick Heller, the governor’s executive secretary. *There may have been others. This conference explored the differences existing between the statehouse and Van Nuys and was able to effect a basis for a compromise at other parleys this week. When Townsend then received the report after the Sunday conference that Van Nuys was sincere and also had a conciliatory attitude, his telegram to Van Nuys and statement concerning the situation were drafted. Van Nuys returned to Walloon Lake, and the governor then released the telegram and statement here. So complete was the rapproachement, it was learned, that one of the governor's aides will act as a Van Nuys floor leader at the state convention as a harmony gesture, since the senator is expected to be renominated on the first ballot.

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pronounced dead at 12:19 a. ui Throughout the day, the youths' attorneys had tried desperately "to stay their executions, first in the Shelby circuit court, whore they were convicted, then in the state supreme court and finally before Gov. M. Clifford Townsend Both ate hearty last meals of filed chicken, french fried potatoes, green beans, biscuits und gravy, pineapple pie and one pint of ice cream apiece. Their last hours were spent writing letters to friends and relatives. Earlier In the day Marshall had been visited by his father, a brother, David, and two girl friends, Miss Phent Ernst and Miss Mary Chevaler. all of Indianapolis. Marshall was baptized by a Catholicpriest in his “death row” cell a few- hours before going to the chair. Neal had no visitors during the day. .. — The two youths were convicted of the slaying of William Bright, Indianapolis druggist, on Jan. 3, 1937. When Blight's car stopped for a red light at a street intersection, they climbed Inside, waved guns in his face and ordered him to drive southward into Shelby county. On a country road they ordered liim from the car into a cornfield. There they shot him, found $1.26 in his pockets and dumped the body into a nearby river. They were arrested several days later. The state supreme court upheld their death sentences several weeks ago and Wednesday denied a petition for a rehearing. Attorneys yesterday filed a writ of error coram nobis in Shelby circuit court in an effort to halt the execution but the supreme court refused to grant a stay. Gov. Townsend likewise refused to intervene. 0 Stork Doubles Back •Las Vegas. Nev. (U.R) — The stork vieited th esame house twice in one day here when Mrs. Russell Bean and Mrs. Lloyd Dixson, sisters. gave tbirth to cousins.