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night of Aug. 11 when Bette Davis thrown a massive ball at the Beverly Hills hotel. In the narf.e of the T a i I w a g gers foundation, o f which she is president, Bette will ask all Hollywood to buy dclwts. the purpose being to rai«e money to

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Seeing Eye" dogs sot the Next to the old-fashioned the attraction of the evewill be a demonstration by of these dogs. Tyrone Power has an unlikely place for it, . °rk. the star vows he'll do but sleep on his 1.0-da-’ between "Suez” and James '. know it but Power has reback to M. G. M. 22 nights hst month to make addi|»a l°ve seenes with Norma for "Marie Antoinette". few nights ago, he worked a. m. f i nny about Jane Withers the Fourth of July. 1 ’ Centui 'y- Fox flooded ■davl? e 7 the countr y wi ‘h ' a ‘\ ° f Jane s!l owlng how Dane ‘ haVe a Rane Four th. spreads 8 the art in full I ' unm 1 happened ? So Jane I hard h? ° Arrow head and got her ■ ■ turned shooting a firecracker. ■Xi? 1 readers should he K has been wnru^* 3 ' Kay Franc ‘s I Movable ,hA . g ° n an idea f or ■Kie pah L h ° e , heels ' 80 that the K heels of ™? PerS Can bc used I 4 turned tllP i° US hel ßhts. Kay ■ v ana u • dea over t 0 Orrymath' 13 havin 8 Practical B t =ounti7 e ZS ,li ttle. one of from H P ‘ ° ls ' Will see a ■'Men W h h U7s” Use IS th. 01L t 0 ? e hosP“alred andssom a has Ixsßll re ’ ■ tak^tu P S 0 ° n h e P fi Se J 3 gOin S M e hospital e p t ° h ! breaks out of I W ‘he airpin » n . hlniself carried | 1 r Pori and, although his

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Saturday lee Cream Social, First M. E.' Church, fi to 8 p. m. Mugley Aid Society Bake Sale, Schafer Store, 9:30 a. m, Sunday Wesley Class of M. E., After Sun- . day School. Monday Adams County Chorus, Monroe , 1:30 p. m. Sons of the American Legion,! Legion Home. Tuesday Loyal Daughters’ Birthday Party Hanna-Nuttman Park, 6. p. tn. 1 Kum-Join-l’s Class. Mr. and Mrs. t Clarence Smith, 7:30 p. m. Psi lota Xi Picnic, Sun Set Park. 6:30 p. m. Decatur Flower Garden Club, Mrs. Ransome Barkley, 2:39 p. m. Wednesday . Business and Professional Women’s Club Picnic Sun Set Park. . 6:30 p. m. birthday tea to be held th? last of , August. At the close of the social hour de- .! Ifcious refreshments were served by the hostess. Mrs. Everhart, assisted by Mrs. Homer Ruhl. I ■ The Wesley class of the M. E. Sunday school will have an imporI tant business meeting immediately after Sunday school tomorrow morning. Every member is urged to be I present. Members of the Pythian Needle 1 club will motor to Rome City Wedi nesday, where they will be the i guests of Mrs. S. E. Hite at her cot- • tage. A pot luck dinner wT.I be enjoyed at noon and each member is to bring her own table service. , All those planning to go are to get J in touch with Mrs. W. F. Beery. PURSLEY-METZGER WEDDING OCCURS ij The marriage of Mis® Evelyn MaI I rie Pursley, daughter of Mr. Alev N. Pursley of Hartford Cily and, Indianapolis, to John Paulsel Metzger of Indianapolis and Hamilton I County, took place this morning at 10:90 o’clock in Warsaw. The Rev. . Leo Pursley, brother of the bride. I and rector of Sacred Heart Church

to climb into the cockpit and take the plane up. This is an actual incident in the ' career of Major Doolittle who ’ performed the feat in South s America. He admits he was I younger and a lot more foolish ’ then. i —— i School authorities at V. M. I. i have refused to let Warners bor--1 row four antique cannons which : were wanted to furnish authentic 5 V. M. I. atmosphere for "Brother f Rat”. The studio offered to insure 5 the cannon for any figure named ’ but it didn’t help. ' "I don't want any of your back- ■ talk. I’m working my head off.’’ > This is the kind of conversation > Press Agent Carole Lombard just ■ handed me over the telephone. ■ And she vowed she arrived at the studio at ten minutes after nine in ’ the morning. Here's the Lombard news flash I of the day. > Selznick has arranged for the , first Atlantic Clipper of Pan- > American Airways to drop a ’ wreath over the site where the I Titanic sank. On the wreath will be the legend: “To those who ■ showed the way to safety on the i high seas." To avoid trouble with Press i Agent Lombard, I'd better add that Selznick is going to make a picture I about the sinking of the Titanic. And wait until you hear this. Gene Fowler has been inveigled by i Carole to come in and do rewrite for her press department. I i Joseph Schenck almost bought ’ Clarence Brown's ranch but left without closing the deal. . . . Lili I Damita and Errol Flynn are touring the late spots together again, : so their troubles must be patched ■ up. . . . Understand Eleanor Powell is working up a tap routine on roller skates. . . . It's another ex- ; cuse to be with Wes Aronson. . . . i The dining room at the Clover club • is open again and Tallulah Bank- : head and John Emery were among I the first guests. Tallulah's play. ’ “I Am Different", opens on the ■ coast as soon as Zoe Akins gives i it a final polishing. . . . Hollywood is going for the new race horse game invented by Joe Hernandez. ’ It’s called "There They Go". . . . . George Barnes and Melba Marshall I were tete-a-tete at the Bublichki . . . ditto Rita Johnson and Broi derick Crawford at the House of . Murphy and Phyllis Claire and Bill • Frawley at the Case Lamaze. . . . ; Penny Singleton has sold her ’ second original story to Warners. I . . . And Uliana now plans to be i Stan Laurel's leading woman in his

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Warsaw, pronounced the ceremony. Mr and Mrs. Matt H. Sche Idler of Hartford City attended the couple. Following the ceremony, a private wedding breakfast was given by the bride's father and Mrs. Pursley In honor of the bride and groom und their wedding party at the Haysi Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Metzger left by motor for Antlers Lodge In northermost Michigan. They will be at home after September 1, at 3333 Carrollton Avenue, Indianapolis. OTTERBEIN GUILD MEETING IS HELD Tlie regular monthly meeting of . the Otterbein Guild of the United: Brethren church was held Thursday I evening at the home of Miss Hilda I Williams. The meeting was a child-' ten's party and the members camel dressed in short dresses, wearing! hair ribbons and carrying dolls, Bal- 1 loons and suckers. Miss Helen Sheets was leader for! the evening with the topic, “The King's Business Requires Consciousness of His Presence", After the program and business I meeting children's games were en-l Joyed. Refreshments were served to the seventeen members and three visitors present. Mrs. C. A. Crider, counsellor, was also a guest. The next meeting will be held August 9 and will be a picnic. o PERSONALS Miss Gladys Doan is visiting in Boswell as the guest of her grandmother. Mrs. Ida Eldridge. Mrs. William H. Bell will return today from Evanston. 111., w here she ■ visited the past several dava. She will be accompanied home by Miss Trudy Potter, who will spend the’ week-end here. Roy Klaver will spend the week end at Rome City, where he will be a guest at the William Bowers cottage. Mrs. Kalver and daughter and Mrs. Gladys Chamberlain have been spending the past several days there. The names of Joe Malley and Miss Anna Smith were unintentionally omitted from the list of persons published in yesterday’s Democrat, who attended the mass at Huntington for Mrs. Helen Berling. Miss Pulia Parent, student nurse at St. Joseph's hospital in Fort Wayne, will arrive home this afternoon to spend a two weeks’ vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roman Parent, of this city. Mrs. Elmo Smith, sons Gene and Paul, and Bob Briede returned • from Sylvan Lake where they spent ' the week. Joe Mart of Pontiac, Mich, is visiting his nephew. Dave Rice of Mercer avenue. He was a resident of Decatur 45 years ago and is looking up hi® old friends. Irvin Goldner is spending two weeks with his brother, Dr. Roy Goldner at Lansing. Mich. Mrs. Goldner is the guest of Mrs. Leo Saylors at her cottage at Lake James for several day®. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Osborn and daughter, Kathryn Louise of Fort Wayne are spending the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Brown and other relatives. Bob Mossburg of Warren visited here laet evening. A. M. Strauss, Fort Wayne, attended to business here last evening. Leo Childs of Findlay was here

Guard Against New Reign of Terror in Palestine 'V W ‘if : t ' W V I Scene of previous riots I ; —— ’ [ Arabs contribute to “cause” [ » * r” z***"MHbi - ■MOwgC* ilil| .S!aaß "•"■‘nriiiiiiiii innx ~ L* - -■ - BE ’ - ” «***&*./-Cr** *L~ZZsBB A ' 7> Jrair . , British troops patrol Jerusalem]Og Zfik J :.J V iew of Tel-Aviv „ L Jim— "1 WAfl — =- —=-=

British troops massed at strategic points in Palestine following fresh outbreaks between Jews and Arabs in which many were killed and scores wounded. Street sniping and bombings marked the reign of terror which was worst in Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. British forces were taxed to the utmost to prevent open civil war as mlnia-

today attending to business connected with the Krick-Tyndall Company. Funeral service® were conducted at the St. Marya Catholic church thin morning by Father Selmetz for Henry Thomas, veteran cigar manufacturer. TWO MEXICANS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) as a material witness. It is considered possible that he will be charged along with Velez. Make Two “Buys” Two “buys" were made through agents of the authorities, leading to the arrest of the pair. Upon conviction Velez can be deported, given a sentence of up to five years, or both. o . - — Decrease Is Noted In Unemployment Southampton, England, July 16— 1 (UP) —Unemployment in the United State® decreased during June, Frances Perk ins, secretary cf labor said today as she sailed for New York on the liner Washington. Miss Perkins, who joined President Roosevelt's commission studying labor problems in Britain, said: .“I have received a cable stating that for the first time sinie November, unemployment figures in the United States for the month of June showed a decrease.” o SAM INSULL DIES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) death was announced after the arrival of Dr. Gros. Insull became a world-famous figure when his utilities empire crashed, ruining thousands of investors. Indicted on charges of fraud, he took refuge in France and after a long fight against To Hollywood • J ■ w & ■ . ... \| Cw i W ■ i 8.. I “ Tommy Bopp ! Having completed a film in England, Tojnmy Bopp, juvenile freckle-faced actor, returns to New York and will head for Hollywood to resume his career there.

Abducted, Left Tied to Tree • mt k Nettie Costin Seized in Louisville, Ky., by a nattily-dressed bandit who gagged her escort and tied him to a tree, Nettie Costin, 21-year-old member of a prominent Louisville family, was taken on a wild automobile ride to near French Lick, Ind., and also was tied to a tre° and gagged. She cut her bonds with a sharp stone and was rescued by a farmer. Miss Costin’s escort was John Schachtel, 26-year-old attorney.

extradition, fled to Greece. From there, he figured in a fantastic flight and pursuit by a Greek vessel across the Mediterranean to Turkey, and was returned to the United States. At his trial in Chicago, he was acquitted. o Divorce Lost, Meats Won Redwood City, Cal.-XU.PJi —H. Walton Heegstra, divorced by his wife on a charge of cruelty, won a division of community property. It amounted to S3OO, which he is to board out at his divorced wife's case at the rate of SSO a month. Serenades Every Day Seattle —(UP) —J. W. Essex has been serenaded by I.OOv voices morning, noon and night for several years now. And he likes it. Essex is the proprietor of a canary farm. His annual crop of 1,000 high grade roller canaries is sold all over America. o Tax Assessor Abliging Fort Worth. Tex —(UP) —An automobile license with your telephone number——that was the offer made to Fort Worth motorists by John ißourland, county tax assessorcollector. “It adds a lot of office work, but it makes people happy" Bourland said. o Writer Busy in Prison Tehachapi, Cal.— <U.R> — Roberta

ture battles broke out in the streets of many of the principal cities. Two British warships, the Emerald and Repulse, were ordered to Haifa where the situation was most serious. Both Jews fmd Arabs adopted an uncompromising stand, Arabs in other sections of the Near East backing their brothers in Palestine with contributions.

| Hall, writer, confined in the wo- ’ men's state penitentiary here for I forgery and fraud, is making money by her writings to pay off the losses of her victims. In her covering letters that accompany her remittances she states that she desires to clear her conscience. Thankful for Suicid* Gas Schenectady. N. Y.—(U.K)—Sixty-three-year-old Milton Warn decided against drowning because of “too much trouble" in finding his | body, so he committed suicide by gas, leaving a note thanking the I New York Power & Light corporI ation for its “donation.” o Child Grabs Fender, Lives Cleveland.—KU.R> — Little Phyllis ■ Vercbio, 4. is still alive because she grabbed the fender of a mov- ! ing automobile that bore down on her and clung to it until the car stopped. She escaped with minor injuries. Caddies to Study English Del Monte. Cal.—Caddies on the tour golf clubs of this city are to be taught to ont-English the English when it comes to English. A school has been opened where they will be taught to convert such expressions as “Dis ball is yerz; dat one ain't” into "I believe sir. this ball is yours, but that one is not."

.1. .m.. i - . r Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Months ♦ I ——♦ Sunday, July 17 Annual Thomas Archbold Reunion, Ossian high school. Sauers annual reunion, Sun Set park. Pleasant Mills Alumni Picnic, Sun Set Park. Annual Moose picnic, Sun Set park. Sunday, July 24 Parent reunion, Sun Set park. Sunday July 31 Haggard Reunion, Lehman park, Berne. > Borne annual reunion, Sun Set park. Myers family reunion, Sun Set park. Cowan reunion, Sun Set park. Hoffman reunion, rain or shine, Sun Set park. Sunday, August 7 Ninth Brandeberry Reunion l>hman Park, Berne. Weidler Reunion, Hanna-Nuttman Park. Fuhrman reunion, Hanna-Nutt-man park. Dettinger annual reunion Sun Set park. Johnson reunion. Sun Set park. Brunner annual reunion, rain or shine, Sun Set park. Sunday, August 14 Durbin Annual Reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Hitchcock reunion, Hanna-Nutt-man park. Rellig and Roehm reunion, Sun Set park. Dellinger annual reunion, Sun Set park. Miller and Snyder annual reunion, Sun Set park. Sunday, August 21 Steele Reunion, Franke Park, Fort Wayne. Eighth Annual Weldy Reunion, Hanna-Nuttman Park. Roebuck reunion, Memorial park. Davis family reunion. Sun Set park. Annual Kuntz reunion, rain or shine. Sun Eet park. Chattanooga Zion Lutheran picnic, Sun Set park. Sunday, Aug. 28 Hakes Reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Parker reunion, Sun Set park. Davie annual reunion, Sun Set park. Sunday, Sept. 4 Roop annual reunion, Sun Set park. Schnepp and Manley reunion, Sun Set park. Annual Urick reunion, Sun Set park. L. E. Marr reunion, Sun Set park. Sunday, Sept. 11 Wesley reunion, Sun Set park. Barker annual reunion, rain or shine, Sun Set park. o — Student Hunts Indian Relics Cleveland (U.R) —George J. Veith. ■Western Reserve University dental student, spends all his spare time on long hikes in search of Indian relics. Most of his specimens are found by following the plow, he says. Safe Robbers Work Hard Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. — (UP) — Burglars pried loose a 150-pound safe buried 2 inches in concrete and took the vault and contents away with hem when they burglar- ' ized a mid-Hudson river oil com- . pany. Statement of Condition of the 11.1.1501 S MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY Peoria. Illinois 835-840 Jefferson Building 'On the 31st Day of December, 1937 E. A MeCORD. President G. P. EDWARDS, Secretary Amount of Capital paid u p •$ Mutual Co. GROSS ASSETS OF COMPANY Real Estate Unincumbered * 6,726.00 Mortgage Loans on Real Estate (Free from any prior Incumbrance) 11,755.00 Bonds and Stocks owned (Market Value) 56.485.61 I Cash in Banks (On Interest and Not on In- , terest) 20,(38.5, Accrued Securities (interest and Rents, etc.) 447.4Other Securities - None Premiums and Accounts due and in process of collection - 6,318.6a Accounts otherwise secured 4,407.36 Total Gross Assets * 106,878.61 Deduct Assets Not Admltted * Net Assets * 1ii1,u42.,s LIABILITIES i Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks S 43,352.48 Losses due and unpaid 24,0.>0.6J Losses adjusted and not due None Losses unadjusted and in suspense - ■ None Bills and Accounts unpaid -’,424.4b Amount due and not due banks or other creditors None Other Liabilities of the Company — Taxes 1,662.110 Total Liabilities 3 71,490.47 Capital f J?,?,? Surplus > 30,0.i2.31 Total » 101,542.78 STATE OF INDIANA. Office of Insurance Commissioner. I the undersigned, Insurance Commissioner of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the Statement of the Condition of tlie above mentioned Company on the 31st day of December. 1937. as shown by the original statement and that the said original statement Is now on file i n this office. In Testimony Whereof. I hereunto; subscribe my nunt and affix my official seal, this 21st day of June. IV3B. (Seal) GEO. H. NEWBAUER, Insurance Commissioner. •If Mutual Company so state. JULY 16—83*

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'> • Adams County Memorial Hospital | !♦ ♦ Dlamliaed Saturday: Mrs. Orville Plasterer. 116% South Ist street ~ Mrs. Benjamin Shell, 1115 West Patterson street: Mrs. Noah And- . I rews, route 5. ’ , Admitted Saturday: Daniel Kitson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kitson, 216 North Ist street. o Red Tape Over Washboard Bristow. Okla - <UR> Eddie Nesser will not send his 60-cent brass washboard to Syria. Informed at , the post office that the postage on I the washboard would be 80 cents ; and that he would have to address the package in four different languages, he gave up in disgust. 0 Old Wine Found in Cave City Moscow —(UP) —Wine distilled four centuries ago has been discovered in Georgia in the Soviet . (’aucasus during excavations at Vardzie a "ekyscraper cave city” on i the shore of the turbulent river Kura. o — Mouse Tricks Police Chief Cleveland. O.— ,(U.Rz — Although caught in the act of stealing Police Chief George J. Matowitz's bird seed for hungry sparrows, the thief scrambled through the chief's fingers and escaped. The thief was a mouse. 1 o Statement of Condition of the MANHAri'AN MUTUAL AITOMOHILE CASUALTY (OMPANY 1 New York, New York General Motors Building* . I On the 31st Day of December, 1931 1 RICHARD WOIKE, President L. L. RESNICK, Secretary . Amount, of Capital paid up •> Mutual Co. GROSS ASSETS OF COMPANY ; Real Estate unincumb- ’ | cred $ None ; Mortgage Ix>ans on Real 1 Estate (Free from any ’ prior incumbrance). . 34,500.00 . Bonds and Stocks owned (Market Value) . 391,275.55 ' Cash in banks (on inH terest and not on Interest) 105,973.49 „ Accrued Securities <ln11 terest and Rents, etc.) 435.41 ! Other Securities None . Premiums and Accounts due and in process of collection 129,642.83 Accounts otherwise se- • cured 16,028.10 1 Total Gross Assets $ 677,855.38 Deduct Assets Not Admitted 3 11,434.05 Net Assets . . I 666,421.33 LIABILITIES Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure t outstanding risks S 100,457. »1 : Losses due and unpaid 366,867.05 i Losses adjusted and not i due None i Losses unadjusted and in . I suspense None 1 i Bills and Accounts unpaid 29,462.89 Amount due and not due ’] Banks or other Credii tors — None I Other Liabilities of the ■ Company 3,262.50 r ( Total Liabilities $ 500,049.95 Capital .6 Nona Surplus S 166,371.38 Total » 666,421.33 1; STATE OF INDIANA, s ] Office of Insurance Commissioner. I I, the undersigned, Insurance Comniissioner of Indiana, hereby certify ?' that the above Is a correct copy of z I the Statement of the Condition of the above mentioned Company on the 31st day’ of December, 1937, as shown by the original statement and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. 1 In Testmony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my offi9 1 cial seal, this 21st day of June, 1938. L (Seal) GFXU H. NEWBAL’ER, i Insurance Commissioner. (♦ls Mutual Company so state. JULY 16—23. o i Statement of Condition of the j LONDON A LANCASHIRE INDEMNITY COMPANY OF AMERICA Administration Office Hartford Connecticut 20 Trinity Street r i On the 31st Day of December, 1937 GILBERT KING AN, President JOHN URMSON, Secretary I Amount of Capital paid . up . *1 750,000.90 I GROSS ASSETS OF COMPANY ' Real Estate unincumbJ, ered 5 None i Mortgage Loans on Real | Estate (Free from any )i prior incumbrance) None | Bonds and Stocks owned (Book Value) 4,615,566.82 I Cash in banks (on interest and not on in- ' terest) 532,466.64 I Accrued Securities (Ini terest and Rents, etc.) 50,525.64 J Other Securities None Premiums and Accounts due and in pro-oess of » collection 1.109,768.77 Accounts otherwise se- > cured 60,894.59 Total Gross Assets >6,369,222.46 Deduct Assets Not Ad- • mitted . . 3 353,523.96 > Net Asset.® >6,015,698.50 LIABILITIES Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure < outstanding risks >1,976,561.73 • Losses due and unpaid None ' Losses adjusted and not sj due None I Losses unadjusted and in > suspense 1,688,299.85 Bills and Accounts un- > paid 5,000.00 Amount due and not due Banks or other Credi- ! tors 393.124.94 I Other Liabilities of the • Company - None I Total Liabilities >4,062.986.52 ! Capital > 750.000.00 ■ Surplus >1,202,711.98 Total >6,015,698.50 STATE OF INDIANA, Office of Insurance Commissioner. I, the undersigned, Insurance Commissioner of Indiana, hereby certify that the above Ir a correct eppy of the Statement of the Condition of the above mentioned Company on ' the 31st day of December, 1937, as shown by the original statement and .that the said original statement is now on file in this office. 1 In Testmony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix nay official seal, this 21st day of June, 1938. (Seal) GEO H. NEW BAUER, Insurance Commissioner. •If Mutual Company so state, JULY 16—33.