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I under her con'ivh a stroke of his cusshowmanship, Producer 'y has Changed the name 'Dublin by Mistake". lys a woman aviator who Wigan. ’ out here escapes the a influence. The sheriff’s opening its new Fairfax ’with lights and the perarance of film sta rs. "Sx* but Tone and Joan Crawford n, l the hea(il ines, but Veissmi m 1 a ß ainst and similar nst U M n . by Vera steadohannT”- Padwa y and El" ft aga i nst John Me first Lincoln - ‘he eeowtovT’ and Bob nates « Star ’ were sued nates. Sigurd Gurie got Thoma., Stewart, Bob X^ Cted firew orks. WGmh 3nell faccd a secure G h?? a - me J went to Lister” J reedom from 3conS« t Peggy Pears L. c Ri atlon proceedings «r nthars p r °pJo tl'er,M dy “ d , Elai ne 1 her interni d ,a Jacot ®. »orce n s of securworked overI ’s ihe m 0 1 the sc °re. >U ir °3 lUded ! ■ata Ci... 5? d Lielmar' ’’’ Day Lt. C! J2P lin and i «»>«, £ acy “d j ttlre Trevor and |

7*7 LUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Pheno 1000 — 1001 Tuesday Loyal Daughters Claes Picnic, Lehman Park, 6 p. m. Postponed. Union Chapel Missionary Society, Mrs. Charles Bailey, 1:30 p. m, Tri Kappa Business Meeting, Elk's Home, 8 p. ni. Kuni-Joln-Us Class, Picnic, Sun I Set Park. 6 p. in. i C. L. of C. Picnic Supper, Mrs. L. V Houthouse. 6 p. in. Psi lota Xi Business Meeting, Mrs. Carroll Cole. 7:30 p. m Thursday I Phoebe Bible Class, Zion Reform|ed Church Parlors. 7:30 p. ni. I Decatur Elower Garden C! ib. Mrs. I E. S. Soctt, Lake Janies. arrivals Mr. and Mrs. Elmer F. Bcarman I of Monroeville are the parents of a baby son. born at the Adams county I .nemorial hospital Friday evening Lit 6:15 o’clock. The baby weighed seven pounds and ten ounces. He I has ben named Ned Stanford. I * Adams County Memorial Hospital j Admitted Saturday: Billy Gene Grove, son of Mr. and Mrs Paul i Grove of Poneto; Jatricia Schuller, i daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Schuller of Montpelier; Mrs. D. W. 'Price. 11l Monroe street; Edward ! Maxwell. Wooster, Ohio. o— Chicken Population Estimated | New York. —(U.R> —The United I States today has an adult chicken I population of 400.000.000 hens, ac- : cording to the American Poultry I Journal. In relation to population, ! there are about 300 hens in the j United States for every 100 inhabitants. o Big Trout Costs Plunge New Haven. Vt. — (U.R)"—THiile 1 fishing here, Mrs. Albert Proctor. !of Burlington, had to plunge into I the river to land her catch. But ’ she emerged triumphantly clutchi ing a 21-inch trout weighing three ' pounds.

Clark Andrews and, in the east, Madalynne Fields and Director Walter Lang. In New York, Frances Langford and Jon Hall were remarried and Joy Hodges and Robert Wilcox got as far as the license bureau. The Tom P.rowms staged a reconciliation in Hollywood. To intimates of Paul Muni, there is a peculiar irony in his assignment to play ‘The Life of Beethoven”. Muni was a boy violinist (he still plays the instrument) and his father was heart broken when Paul chose to become an actor instead of a musician. After appearing in an incredible number of pictures in the last two years (I checked off 18 and may have missed a few). Mickey Rooney is to get a two-week vacation at Lake Tahoe. He has borrowed hunting and fishing equipment from Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy and Bob Young. The holiday begins on the completion of “The Hardys Out West”. Basil Rathbone wears his own military cross in "Dawn Patrol”. In case you didn’t know, the actor was two and a half years in France with a Liverpool Scottish regiment Started in the ranks and rose to a ! lieutenancy. He won his decoraI tion for thinking up the idea of a daylight patrol in No Man’s Land and for his work as member of the patrol. Did the Helen Twelvetrees-Jack Woody reconciliation efforts fail? She was back with Cecil Sillman at the Club 17. . . . Quite a mystery

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at the same spot when Lyle Talbot brought a beauty from Mexico City, but Buss McHugh took her home. . . . Pauline Craig, pretty redhead in M-G-M’s stock company, gets her final decree of divorce on Aug. 31 and it may be wedding bells soon

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afterwards with Charles Morrison, the agent. . . . Judy Garland will have a private suite of rooms in the new house she is building in : Bel Air. . . . Gloria Dickson caught a 632-pound shark. . . ..And am I 'flattered! Santa Anita park has ■ sent me an entry blank to know I how many horses I want to enter I in the coming season.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1938.

PERSONALS W H. Fonghty, daughter Betty land Mlm Edith Baker spent Friday In Indianapolis. Revilla L. Myers was an overnight guest at the George Squler i home on Fifth street. Mrs. Myers, who has been visitlrig here the past | several weeks, returned to their home in Farmland with Mr. Myers j this morning. • Dr. and Mrs. Ben Duke and I ] dauhter Barbara have returned • home from a two week's trip through the east and Canada/ Mrs. L. C. Vanderllp and Mrs. Charlee Drake of Elkhart spent 1 Friday as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. I Eugene Runyon. Miss Gloria Flmasola will return to her home in Chicago this evening • after a two weeks' visit at the Hite residence. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gentls and sons Bob and Roger will return Sunday from a ten days' outing at • Lake James. MISS LINDA NIEHAUS (Continued from page one) i I i ority of that city. • She was first employed as a p telephone operator at radio staI 1 Hon WOWO. Fort Wayne, in Janti- ■ I ary of this year, and recently pro- ; moted to the position ae secretary i ! of the station's auditor. The grief-stricken parents of the I girl remained in the city overnight ' and were at her bedside when | death occurred. The body was to ’ be returned to her native city > j about noon today. 1 Petersen To lowa , j The body of Petersen was sliippi ed by train last night to the home of his mother. Mrs. Anna Petersen I in lowa City. lowa, for services and burial. Petersen, a graduate of ! I the University of lowa, had been I ' I employed by the United Press for , .three years, coming to the Fort I i Wayne bureau in February. 1 Surviving, besides the mother. "lare: two sisters. Miss Algona of | /Farmington, Michigan, and Miss' ; Rolette of Detroit; three brothers.! John W. Petersen of Chicago. El-1 don C. Peteriren of Clinton. lowa. I 1 and Leo H. Petersen, also of the | I United Press. Philadelphia. Funeral services for Monica Colchin and Jerome Gase will be held ■ Tuesday morning at the St. Mary's 1 Catholic church here at 9 and 10 o'clock, respectively. •; o NEW WAR FEAR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Food in German stores dwindled as huge amounts were collected for the maneuver. This demonstration L will be just across the frontier of the threatened Czechs. Nor does pressure come from the Reich alone. Great Britain, ■ pressing France into line, has I sought to postpone a showdown but i , has left no doubt that she expects I great Czech concessions to Ger- j many. Six British Fliers Are Believed Killed I Felixstowe. England. Aug. 13. — (U.R) —Six fliers were believed to I have been killed today when a Royal air force seaplane crashed I into the sea three miles off shore. o INDIANA CORN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) i Justin reported. “The tree fruits I i were all rather short, ranging from I I 39 percent of last year for apples | to 59 percent for pears, and with i peaches at 51 percent of last year Hay crops continued at a high prospect production of 2.967.000 tons. 28 percent higher than 1937. Production of 44 eggs per hundred hens was high for the season and the production of 21.5 pounds of ( j milk per cow was the highest since i records began in 1925. Merit Citation Is Given Local Youth ' I Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., ; i August 13 —Robert A. Staiter, of j i 210 N. Ist St. Decatur, Indiana first i year trainee assigned to Company , “D" Citizens’ Military Training I Camp Regiment here, has been a-i warded a merit citation for outstanding performance of hie duties. | according to special orders issued | i by Col. L. A. Kunzig. 11th U. S. In-1 fantry, camp commander. More than 1800 boys from Ind- j jiana. Kentucky. West Virginia, and Ohio are enrolled in the August C. M. T. Camp GERMAN PLANE (CONTINUED FV.r,M PAGE ONE) headed off to the northeaet. The plane was about 1,000 feet in the air when it disappeared in the morning haze —about five minutes after the takeoff. Food supplies were loaded into the plane in multiples of five, giv-, ing rise to rumors that another person would accompany the men on the return flight, but Henke denied this. Some of the food was in ther- | mos bottles to keep it hot; other was packed in dry ice.

As Georgia Honored F. D. R. * ... OL - JU

President Roosevelt being given degree 1 Shortly after President Roosevelt was given a doctorate of laws de- ! gree at the University of Georgia, at Athens, above, he called for the defeat of anti-New Deal Senator Walter F. George of Georgia in a speech at Barnesville. The president was en route to Washington I after a long cross-country vacation tour and Pacific fishing expedition. In the photo, Prof. W. D. Hooper circles the president’s neck ! with the hood designating the degree as Dr. S. V. Sanford, left, chancellor of the university system, and Col. E. M. Watson, the president s military aide, look on.

Three Ohio Persons Killed Near Muncie Muncie, Ind.. Aug. 13.— (U.R) — ■ Three persons from Columbus, 0.. I died lass night from injuries received when their automobile skidded on a curve and crashed into a telephone pole. Another was injured slightly. Archibald Steckel, 70. the driver, i was killed instantly and his wife. lona, died soon after admittance to the Ball Memorial hospital here. Mrs. Ella Boschaar died four hours after the crash. Mrs. Court Michaels of Tiffin, 0., suffered minor injuries. The party was en route from. Columbus to Muncie when the acI cident occurred. o i City Adopts Petunia Kankakee, 11l —(U.R?—The city of I Kankakee today had an official I flower — the petunia —and also a

Ermine Wraps for Beach Wear! ' 3 ' .t 1 I i T f«< -w 7'wx * < W tTO 4 11 I || gwgS' S t./ » SB J 1 S ■>7: amaamm A 3-. : ■ X ' ” . - Models on Atlantic City boardwalk You can be sure that these two young ladles don’t go near the water when they’re garbed as above, for both are wearing ermine wraps, a feature of a fashion parade in Atlantic City.

new slogan, “two petunias in every pot.” The city council adopted the flower on request of the Garden Departments of the Kankakee Woman’s Club which threatened election day reprisals if their demand was not met. o Family in Store Since 1760 Millbridge. Me.-KU.R>-The Wallace general store, stocked with supplies ranging from molasses to rubber boots, has been in the Wallace family here since 1760. On its books are records of sales to American troops at Machias during the Revolutionary War. i o Shepherd Dog Is Midget Springfield, Mass.-nfU.R) — Though Arthur Penno’s German shepherd i dog is more than a year old. it | weighs only 12 pounds and stands 14 inches high. Brothers and sisters of the dwarf dog have grown to normal size.

PETERSON NEWS * ♦ —— ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Elite Skiles and children, Reg and Betty, and Mr. and Mrs. Ora Brentllnger and children, Lauren and Billy, spent the I week end at Snow Lake. Mrs. Frank Spade, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lelehty. Ralph Spade and Miss Fern Pusswater spent last I week end In Detroit visiting Mr. and Mrs. Burt Tricker. Charles Werlhig of Indianapolis was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Straub and daughter Virginia last Saturday. Mrs. Effie Bowers accompanied .Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bowers to visit Mr. and Mrs. Don Seipies of La Otto. .Miss Annie Winnes of Decatur, ; called on Mr. nnd Mrs. W. B. Weldy last week. Layke Scherry was home from Danville for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Straub, son Junior, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl . Straub and son of Willshire call- [ ed on Mr. and Mrs. Al Straub Sunday. o — 500 Sheets B'/ 2 xll, 20-Ib. White Automatic Mimeograph Hond $1.05. 500 Sheets B'/ 2 x 11, 16-lb. Special Mimeograph, White 35c. The Decatur Democrat Co. ts Nebraska Winners < * r j J [ / • WK k Charles J. Warner, above Gov. R. L. Cochran Winners in Nebraska's gubernatorial primary, Gov. R. L. Cochran, top, Democratic incumbent, and Charles J. Warner of Waverly, Neb., Republican nominee, oppose each other in November. »————W I HI „

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Radio Row Ends in Divorce Miami, Flu. —(UP) — John M. Ixiftln liked the radio playing softly. His wife, Deborah, liked it loud and blaring. He removed a tube so the notee wouldn’t be so loud. She smashed the radio. Ixiftin was granted u divorce. p Big Cod Landed With Hands York, Me. —(UiP)- Though without hocj; line or sinker. James J. ' Sobes, a chef, plunged 111 after a

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John Crowley and wife A New York WPA worker and World war veteran. John Crowley, shown with his wife, above, has offered one of his healthy eyes to little Helaine Judith Colan, Chicago's "glioma” baby, now in New York for examination. The baby, whose left eye was removed in a life-death-blindness decision three months ago, .now may lose the right eye.

Jimmy Explains His Income

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Walter Davenport and Jimmy Roosevelt ” Replying to a recent article in a national magazine which stated that Janies Roosevelt, eldest son of the president, had built up a large fortune in insurance business since his father took office, Jimmy confers with Walter Davenport, left, editor of another national magazine on a forthcoming article telling his side of the story.

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large cod he saw chasing wuaJler i fish Into shallow water at a bath- | lug bench here. And he landed his ’' prey a four-foot, 34-pound cod, I, Lights 'Cracker as Cigarette 1 Lawrence, Mass. (UP)- James i Dorman, 58. absent-mindedly took | from bls pocket what he thought l wild a cigarette, placed it between • | his lips and applied a match. The , "cigarette" exploded burning him . pa In fitly. It was a firecracker.