Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1938 — Page 3

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■ By HARRISON CAKEOLL H Copyright, 193 S I Kiag Features Syndicate. Inc. ■OLLYWOOD—Done up in a ■es Girl outfit—a voluminous Kt, shirtwaist anti one of those Krd sailors, Bette Davis sat in I dressing room on "The Sisters" j set the other day nnd told rne a bit of news ■ tbat ou B bt to __ stir up the femflr SM mine clients ot Si tbis cuiun ‘ n ' She said that for the Tailwagger's ball. Hollywood's most imVJjE ■ ' party in -iZIHj months, she Is Wwo Carroll wearing a copy of one of her *sses in the picture, including a that goes underneath. ih« go-ai will be of black crepe F Pink trims and is a dead ringer '‘My dress that Maxine Elliott w years and years ago. dim lights and the music at ' ~ iC Lamaze had a potent in°n Audrey Sutherland and ® Edwards. ? ey made up their marital row *ent home to celebrate over a of champagne. Ji'enight before, Joan Crawford > ■ tranchot Tone sat talking for «wrin the cocktail room of this L,“ ran J t and later joined Sally , * *nd Norman Foster at din- _ “iiy and Joan knittea while Z™ talked. Witnesses didn't ', e V reconc iliation war ef-ok-'ti J 1 "' !t may bave happened 'Wtime you read this. i w 1 , 5 , how ths film colon y Ik, A>f t h fo T rtUne tellers and the » sentlem Urnaze is a P ale ' bald ‘ named M y rus - He Mhe clal mg . lil<e Eci S ar Bergen Ud n G ues tions on a card, Wde w? Ut y ° Ur initials on the initials arc ‘ yourse,f ' then utly with a Question, apnareard (Mrs ' Charles "“h were as tn? d ' If all husbe S> e “ eVery ’ 'j araers we « In the ■'a racket h^ Ck said: "I know “W, how do J y °? have me buf ‘ v do you do it?” W ! are certainly the tele P a thist J’ ches at the Tnl ?’ ng pong “so has r.n T . adero - The ’“WUjn, wtd J g ‘ e Taps ' a real < «M Ariujda, tb t UU i.

club CALENDAR il Society Deadline. 11 A. M. i Fanny Macy Fionas 1000 — 1001 Thursday ! Christian Ladles’ Aid Society, >! Mrs. Llzxle Abel, 2 p. m. I’. B. Ladies’ Aid Society, Mrs. ■I William Shackley, 2 p. m. i Y. P. M. C., Evangelical Church Basement, 7:30 p. tn. Eta Tau Sigma. Mrs. Don Stump, I postponed one week. Ever Ready Class Picnic, M. E. ■ Church Dining Room*. 5:30 p. m. Evangelical Missionary Society. 11 Church Parlors, 2 p. tn. I Mt. Pleasant Dadles’ aid Picnic, Hanna-Nuttman Park. Noon. Better Homes Club, Monro" High . School, 7:30 p. in. Friday ■ I Union Chapel, C. I. (’.. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sprunger, 7:30 p. m. J Pocahontas Lodge, Red Men’s J Hall 7.30 p. m. Auxiliary, American Legion Home 1'7:30 p. m. J Federated Clubs Called Meeting, II Mrs. Guy Brown, 2:30 p. m . Willing Workers Monroe Sunday ’ School ice Cream Social, Mode! ■ ’ Hatchery. rut. Mrs. Macy led the devotionals, ■reading from Isaiah chapter 13. The I Twenty-third Psalm was repeated ■ in unison. ' Contests were enjoyed and prizes awarded to Mrs. C. E. Hocker and Mrs. Jesse Tricker. Dainty rei freshments were served by the hostesses at the close of the so- ’ cial hour. Hostesses for the September meeting include the Mesdames Martin Zimmerman. Lee Hilyard and C. E. Hocker. WOMEN OF MOOSE TO MEET THURSDAY The Women of the Moose will meet at the Moose home in regular meeting Thursday evening at i eight o’clock. A report of the dis- ‘ trict meeting, held recently at Huntington. will be presented at this meeting. All co-workers are urged to attend Thursday’s meeting. The Y. P. M. C. of the Evangelical Sunday school will meet Thursday

Mexican singer who has gone i long ways since she used to appeal in the stage shows at the local movie houses. Don’t be surprised if Phyllis Welch, Harold Lloyd’s leading woman in “Professor Beware”, gets married to Graem MacDonald, of San Francisco. Mary Lou Lender, the other girl in Harold’s picture, is honeymooning now with Delmer Daves. Lots of romantic news. Marsha Hunt and Jerry Hopper announced their engagement at a dinner party at Eaton's. Odd part of it is. she's had the ring for a year but is now wearing it for the firs. time. Hopper, if you recall, at one time was reported engaged to Martha Raye. Regardless of the Katharine Hepburn and F'ay Wray rumors, an eastern scout wires the tip that Howard Hughes telephoned to Los Angeles seeking a date with Wendy Barrie on the day of his return. It will be an October wedding for Louise Campbell and Horace McMahon. Miss Campbell, under contract to Paramount, has played the feminine lead in most or the "Bull Dog Drummond” series and is getting her big chance in “Men With Wings.” McMahon is a character actor. The two met in the road company of “Three Men on a Horse.” The • wedding will be in St. Michael’s chapel in Chicago, where Louise's parents were married and where she was christened. Heartless ribbing going on these days on the "Brother Rat” set. Priscilla Lane baked her first angel food cake and brought It to the cast to try. Five minutes after tasting a slice, Wayne Morris. Director William Keighley and Ronald Reagon doubled up in apparent agony. Priscilla thought she had poisoned them and was begging the assistant director to send for a doctor when the ribbers burst out laughing. Lief Erikson was tossed from a horse on location for “Escape From Yesterday". No bones broken . . . Mae Murray is in town. She was at the Troc with Bill Howard and others . . . Chester Morris now has a custom-built car just like Clark Gable's . . . Gray with red upholstery . . . Whitney Bourne's the latest sunburn sufferer . . Wallie Beery gets a new plane any minute, a two-motored ship something like Howard Hughes’ . . . And did you know that Pat Wilder’s mama, Laura Brown, used to be a model for Uto coca cola ads 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,1938.

, evening nt seven thirty o’clock In 1 the church basement Instead of I with Miss Virginia Brelner. STUDY CLUB HAS MEETING The church mothers’ study club met In the M. E. church parlors Tuesday afternoon with the president, Mrs. CJuyd llarrle, conducting the business meeting. Mrs. I). Burdette Custer led the devotionals after which Mrs. Gertrude Meyers of Fort Wayne gave valuable information on child train- ’ Ing. The club will meet again Sep- ’ tember 13. At the close of the program refreshments were served by the hostesses, the Mesdames Nathan Nelon. Sylvester Everhart and Wilbur Habegger. The Better Homes club of Monroe will meet at the high school Thursday evening at seven-thirty o’clock. This is the regular meeting. The Mt. Pleasant ladies' a’d society will have the annual picnic In Hanna-Nuttman, park Thursday ’ noon. The regular business meeting will be held in tlusafternoor,. DANIEL BIRCH SCHAFER MARRIES GERTRUDE POTTER The wedding of Miss Gertrude i Willard Potter, daughter of Mr. and , Mrs. Frank Henry Tobey Potter o' J Evanston and Daniel Birch Schafer, son of Chalmer Schafer of Decatur ! occurred Tuesday evening at eightthirty o’clock at the Indian Hill country club in Winnetka, lil. Mrs. William H. Bell, sister of the groom, was one of the six bridesmaids and Frederic Schafer, brother of the groom, served as beet man. Other gueets from Decatur included Mrs. Frederic Schafer, William H. Bel! and Dr. and Mrs. Palmer Eicherl A reception was held at the country club following the ceremony. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Schafer wii! be at home at 610 West Monroe street. COOK SHOTT WEDDING OCCURS Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cook of Decatur, route 6, announce the mari riage of their daughter, Alice, to Ray Shott of Chattanooga, Ohio, a son of Mrs. Mina.Shott. The couple was maried July 21, 1938 in the Lutheran parsonage. The Rev. J. S. Hoensten read the single ring rites. Mies Bonnie Fryback and Gerald Cook were the attendants. The groom is an employe of the Central Soya company. o Adams County Memorial Hospital 0 — ♦ Dismissed: Mrs. Ferd O’Brien, 821 Jefferson street; Paul Kreiger, Ohio City, Ohio; Jesse H. Michaud Willshire, Ohio. Admitted: Mrs. Adam Minnich, Bryant; Mrs. Mary Becker, Winchester st.; Raymond Thieme, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Thieme of Decatur, route 5; Caroline Young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Young of Monroeville, - o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur Another Jewel I heft o Ta 4 1 /wk '"' f * j I & '• 11 W ' I (S .--W ■■ - • * Mrs. Orson D. Munn Theft of $30,000 in jewels from the Southampton, L. 1., home of ■ Mrs. Orson D. Munn, former Ziegfeld Follies beauty, adds another sizable burglary committed in New York suburbs in the last month. The jewels were gifts ' presented to Mrs. Munn by her husband as an anniversary present last April.

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One result of the Japanese invasion of China has been to develop an efficient and modernized army, something which China lacked before the regime of Chiang Kai-Shek. The Chinese fighting man of the past was a sort of comic opera person who was as much a bandit as a soldier. Today, however, China has an imposing standing army of

i Legion Speaker I® l«il ■ < Irt y Daniel J. Doherty 'lndianapolis, Aug. 10 —Daniel J. Doherty, of Massachusetts, Nation- ' al Commander of The American Le- 1 ‘ gion. will head a lengthy list of ' World war heroes and distinguished 1 guests who will attend the 20th an- 1 nual State Convention of the Legion i in Indianapolis, August 20 to 23, B. W. Breedlove, president of the con- 1 vention contoratlon has announced. X , Other distinguished convention guests will include men who held I high command in the armed forces in the World War from Indiana, i those who received unusual cita--1 tions on land, sea and in the air for conspicious bravery, Hoosiers who I attended the Paris caucus, where the Legion was born in 1919, and high national and state officials of Legion. The state convention corporation and Russell R. Rhodes, of Peru, Department Commander, have announced the convention program. The Forty and Eight play and honor tociety of the Legion, will have its torchlight parade through downtown Indianapolis Saturday night, August 20, Charles Crippin, of Ind- | ianapolis. grand chef de gar, has announced. The Auxiliary of which Mrs. Harry Behmer, of Logansport, is present, wil lopen its convention Sunday morning with an outdoor processional on the World war memorial plaza. This will be a colorful affair with the pages wearing white, the women pastel colors, and there will be a great array of district and unit colors. The Auxiliary will then join the Legion in a joint session in B. F. Keith’s theater. One feature of this session will be a tableau in honor of the dead, prepared by ’ Ralph Glare, of Indianapolis, and ' memorial exercises. The Richmond band, the LaPorte Drum and Bugle Corps, and the Kokomo Color Guard, all state champions, and the all-state baud, will be among the brilliantly uniformed musica loutfits participating in the finale of the drum and bugle con- ' tests to be held in Perry Stadium, | | Sunday, August 21, Paul Gastineau,, of Indianapolis in charge said. Following Monday morning business sessions the Big Parade of the i

crack troops trained by German militarists and supplemented by a large force of reserves. There are more than 2.000,000 men in the field and the manner in which they have stubbornly contested the Japanese advance indicates that their baptism of fire is forging them into a powerful fighting machine.

Legion, uader direction of Charles Warfel. will take place. Scores of brilliantly arrayed musical outfits and uniformed groups will take part. The Parade will cover a two mile route downtown with the troops from Fort Benjamin Harrison taking part. Monday evening there will be a commander’s, dinner, under the direction of Lawrence F. Connaughton, and a ball. All Legionnaires are invited to this -premier social event. The convention will close on Tuesday with election of officers. William Hyland, of Evansville, Harold Shindler, of Newburgh, Dr. O. T. Rurflinger of Bloomington, and John Watkins, of Bloomfield, are candidates for State Commander. Mrs. Gladys Huckleberry, of Salem is the only candidate in the field for Auxiliary president. Advance convention registrations for the state convention have exceeded previous years. Joe J. -Speaks, Housing Chairman, said. Many do-wntown hotels are eold out and registrations should be made at once. o — ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Le®oy Rowden of route 1, Monroe are the parents of a baby boy born at the Adams county memorial hospital Wednesday afternoon at 2:34 o’clock. — Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Holthouse of 115 Marshall st. are the -parents of a baby girl born this afternoon at < 2:10 o’clock at the Adams county -

—- - — Vandenberg Takes It Easy \ \ C.. < • I V I < I A. Iti i I \ ’ ■- ■■ Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan In Washington, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan is reputed to be one of the best-dressed men in congress, but on the beach at his Lake Michigan summer home near Holland the senator finds solid comfort in this manner. Vandenberg is vacationing but he works several hours a day, hoping to take an active part In the political campaigns this fall. _

’ memorial hosiptal. The baby weigh ed .seven pounds, six and one half ounces and has been named Sue Ann. Mrs. Holthouse was formerly Miss Jeanette Clark. o Four Allen County Girls Make Escape Fort Wayne, lad.. Aug. 10. —(U.R) —Four Allen county girls escaped early today from the Fort Wayen state school, a mental institution. State and county authorities were asked to search for the young fugitives. One of the escaped inmates. Effie Uhrick, 16, Fort Wayne, was to have been released Aug. 16 ou an indefinite parole. School authorities pointed out that the escape, made shortly before the girls were to assemble for breakfast, apparently had been well-planned. Others who escaped were Marjorie Kirkman. 20, and a 15 and 12 year old girls. o Baltimore Man Is Killed In Crash Laporte. Ind. Aug. 10 —(UP) — Walter M. Jones, 51, of Baltimore. Md„ was killed instantly today when his car crashed into a truck loaded with newsprint on U. S. iiighway 30 south of here. 0 Stan Green and Ray Baker were among the squirrel hunters who started out this morning on the opening day of the season in search of game.

PERSONALS Fred Fullenkamp and family, who are vacationing in Minnesota,! write they are having a wonderful time and catching a lot of fish. Laura Kuhn, Martha Borehns, J Lawrence Hone and Orville Gibbons of Rockford, Ohio were business callers in Celina Thursday. Mr., Hone left for Seattle, Washington, Friday evening for a several months vteit. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kane and children of I-afayette visited in Decaturi Sunday with Miss Tillie Melbers. ‘ Their daughter, Aloha, who was cri-l tlcally injured In an automobile accident this spring was able to accompany them. Miss Kane, who suffered a fractured skull, jaw and many other injuries, underwent a severe opration on her brain. No hopes were held for her at the time but after remainisg unconscious for three weeks she began to improce.| Mrs. Carl McConnell of Willshire, Ohio, who has been a patient In the local hospital for the past week is Home improved. Mrs. MeCour.ell has ■been suffering with a streptococcus infection. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gaffer o£ this city. Rev. Paul Schultz and family have returned from a vacation visit' to Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tricker of Gary visited with friends and re-1 ! latives here over Mondaj' and Tuesday. O | 0 Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Months | ♦ ♦ Sunday, August 14 The annual reunion of the Durbin family is to be held August 14 instead of August 21 as formerly announced. Hawkins Reunion, Hanna-Nutt-man Park. Hilyard reunion, Riverside park, Findlay, Ohio. Tumbleson Reunion, Memorial Park. Hitchcock reunion, Hanna-Nutt-’ man park. Durbin Annual Reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Sunday, August 21 23rd Martin-Leimenstall Reunion Mrs. Lena Martin’s. Lindeman and Btoemker Reunion, Sun Set Park. Crist Reunion, Lake George. Smith Reunion, Sun Set Park, all day. Martz Reunion, Lehman Park Berne, 9 a. m. Hawkins Family Reunion. Hanna Nuttman Park, Basket Dinner. Rellig and Roehm reunion. Sun Set park. Dellinger annual reunion, Sun Set park. Brentlinger Reunion, Welker’s Grove. Steele Reunion, Franke Park, Fort Wayne. Eighth Annual Weldy Reunion, Hanna-Nuttman Park. Roebuck reunion. Memorial park. Davis family reunion, Sun SetJ park. Annual Kuntz reunion, rain or' shine, Sun Eet park. Chattanooga Zion Lutheran picnic, Sun Set park. Sunday, August 28 1 Tester Reunion, Sun Set Park 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. Monday, Sept. 5 Slusser - Gause Family Reunion, ' Willshire, Ohio Park. Straub Annual Reunion, Sun Set Park. Anderson Reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday, Sept. 11 Wesley reunion, Sun Set park. Barker annual reunion, rain or shine. Sun Set park. Miller and Snyder annual reunion. Suu Set park.

Dancing Harold Greenamyers Orchestra Thursday Night Aug. 11 EDGEWATER PARK Celina, Ohio 10c Admission Park Plan Your favorite orchestra.

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