Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1938 — Page 3

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IS; HARRISON CARROLL (opjrijht, 1938, till future* Sjndicate, Inc. BHITWOOD—Some of HollyKt stars who are crying for ncl to go away and forget it sight learn a lesson In cheer-

fulness from Deanna Durbin who has had only four days’ vacation since she began making pictures, a matter of two years ago. "1 don’t mind It a bit,” Deanna told me the other day, “work is interesting." Only the other singing and the

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iitars will understand the of work put in by this 15gtrl. She finishes "That Age" and immediately ° the recording phase of t P lctur e. During the she ha ® lessons from “ d - even in the summer’s studies French and does she keep fit? By s anti horseback riding ast Sunday." she told me, ! first & am « °f golf. f about it." 6 [P of us at Slapsy Maxie’s 3aUon Ge ° rge Raft ' PaZ e ° ne r qUeried ' " ls t 0 Paramount from taking Iv w” and kee P‘ n g him l ® der suspension ?" lnrf ht ? aris " bought for “deed, what is? die hots y r Msxie ’ s ia adht Z test spot in Hol>y- ~ " ow - w on Saturday manv V « known t 0 comZ, , SIX ® hows with -or f v »* tu f nover of cusIjh cbmine !Z Bhow - People b and ? Ivan Cntf C ° nStance jtunpion renput Goff are the & n igh Uta aZw. to ‘ d ' r ®il Hascom VUe is called “The h‘Joke a and Vent ’’ Some * to Tur ' 80 Old ‘hey are t* howls whe n n ra p 0n - Thp [ < * ne » out In „ n Ptosenbloom | ®thing an o'd'faahloned kner cont»i? b u and his new monev f' ax ’ e 1® finally S'-StaS'it”,;*™ * ' bou Kht a $4,000 tarted &n‘ g , r Vet , eran has even »*t u nderstand ff*kid, y ° U c S ‘ a and. nd on the "Dead “'fowdyanZ t” y? Are 8 youth* nt c * * had example ,kl •*«»».

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Maey Phone* 1000 — 1001 Monday ■' Tailed meeting section chairmen officers, Presbyterian Indies’ 1 Aid society Mrs. S. D. Reaver*, C:3t» ‘ p. m. Tuesday I Loyal DmiKhters Class Picnic of, j K. V. church at Lehman's park, Berne, H o’clock. Kirkland Home ICconomlce Club, 1 J Kirkland School, Tuesday evening. [ I'nion Chapel A. B. C. Class, Mr. and Mrs. John Walters. 7:30 p. m. Wednesday I'nion Township Woman's Club, Mrs. Marion Stulti, 7 p. m. Thursday Ruralistic Study Club. Mrs. Peter C. Miller, route 6. 8 p. m. church in this city. The Rev. Paul Schultz read the , rites. A wedding dinner was served at the home of the groom's parents < after which the couple left for a 1 week's trip through the east They will reside in Decatui where i the groom is employed at the Riverside garage. j 1 Mrs. Peter C. Miller of route 8 will be hostess to the members of ; the Ruralistic Study club Thursday evening at eight o’clock. The members of the Kirkland ' home economics club will meet at the school to entertain their husbands and families Tuesday evening A program has been planned and refreshments will be served. All mem-

only scattered letter* of complaint And that the moral of every picture is that crime doesn't pay. However, If it will be any comfort to the objectors, the kids will be public heroes in “The Battle of City Hall". They take over a city on Boys’ day and really start to clean it up. ________ 1 You never can tel! what Is going to offend people In pictures 1 The other day, the father of a high school boy registered a violent protest with me over the Hardy series. What could be tougher on parents, he demanded, ,' than for Judge Hardy to agree tc a 15-year-old boy having a car of his own? — It happened In a Hollywood night club. The impetuous Illiana heard a distinguished looking stranger talking Russian. She obtained an introduction, began j asking questions. He was a dancer, the stranger said, looking ! for a job In Hollywood. Illiana called Stan Laurel to the table They discussed ways of helping her countryman land a job. What Illiana didn’t know was that the stranger had given her a false name. It was Anatole Litvak, the director. Today is the first wedding anniversary of Anne Shirley and John Howard Payne. They'll turn bade the clock, wear the same clothes they did at the wedding, Invite the same people to a party. Mrs. Mimt Shirley, Phyllis Fraser, Paula Stone, Walter Batchelor, Bruce Gear and Henry Willson. Lee Bowman will be the only . guest who wasn't in the wedding party. The Melvyn Douglasses (Helen Gahagan) will call their new daughter, Mary Helen. . . . Mrs. Chester Morris, just back from the east, is down to 96 pounds and has

been ordered to bed for a rest. . . . The long distance calls to Adrlanne Ames these days are from Gustav Schlermer, the music publisher. .. . Lupe Velez 1 and Henry Wilcoxon a twosome at Phil Selznick’s. . . • Ditto Peggy Field and Billy Seymour. . . ,

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And Irene Castle in a large party. . . . Lou Holtz convulsing a boothful of people at the Vendome. . . . Rube Goldberg’s son, George, is a production assistant on M-G-M's “Listen Darling". . . . And a 12-year-old boy, Jimmy Bronson of Lone Pine, is the toast of the "Gunga Din" location. He pulled Joan Fontaine off a runaway hors*.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRATMONDAY, AUGUST 29,1938

I bom and their families ar» urged’ ! >o attend. The Fourth District of the Auxl-I | Lary of the American legion will meet in Kendallville September 1. All members from here planning to ! attend are requested to call Mrs. Tillman (lehrlg by Tuesday evening The Union township woman's club will meet at the home of Mrs. j I Marion Stuitz Wednesday evening | at seven o'clock. Each member Is ; requested to bring twenty-five cents Husbands and families of the club members are Invited to attend. All members are urged to be present. l MISS LEODORA BRUICK WEDS EDGAR KRUECKEBERG Miss Leonora Brulck. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brulck of Mays-' | ville Road, Fort Wayne, and Edgar Krueckeberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. \\ illiam Kreuckeberg of route 5. Decatur, were united in mariage at St. Peters Lutheran church, Fort Wayne, Saturday afternoon, August 27, at four o’clock. The Rev. Henry Abram officiated The bride was given in marr'age by | her father and attended by her slsler Mies Marie Brulck. Paul Krosch I served as best man. The bride wore a dress of pink I net over taffeta fashioned with a. full skirt appliqued in taffeta. The .square neck was finished with •allored bow ami a pink taffeta bol-i ero completed her dres. Her two tiered veil fell from a chirred cap. with a pearl ornament across the top and at each side. The veil which was fingertip length and satin san-; dais were of a corresponding ghade of pink. She carried a colonial bouquet of pink roses and larkepur in a lace frill, tied with a pink bow. The bridesmaid wore blue netover taffeta fashioned similar to the j bride's dress. A large leghorn hat with blue velvet streamers complet-, cd her costume. She carried a colonial bouquet of pink roses and blue delphinium. Candelabra holding pink tapers 1 formed the lighting in the church. A wedding dinner was served at the home of the bride’s parents. Garden flowers were used in the ; decorations. The bride's table was centered with a three tiered wedding cake and pink candles. The couple will reeide at the home of the groom's parents east of the city. The A. B. C. class of Union Chapel Sunday school will meet at th rhome of Mr. and Mrs. John Walters Tuesday evening at eeven-thirty o'loek' All members are urged to be present as election of office”* will be held. There will be a called meeting of all section chairmen and officers of the Presbyterian ladiee' aid society, this evening at seven-thirty o clock in the home of Mrs. S. D. Beavers. -— * Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Months J ♦ * 1 Saturday, Sept. 3 Mamma family reunion, Fra tike park. Fort Wayne. Sunday, Sept. 4 Brown family reunion, % mile ■ east of Decatur, at Dwight Brown home. Roop annual reunion, Sun Set park. Schnepp and Manley reunion, j Sun Set park. 1 Annual Urick reunion, Sun Set park. L. E. Marr reunion, Sun Set park. Monday, Sept. 5 Slusser - Gause Family Reunion, Wiltshire, Ohio Park. Straub Annual Reunion, Sunset I 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 reuniop, Sun Set park. —o — — f Adams County Memorial Hospital ' V- # Dismissed Sunday: Mrs. Orley Krugh, Convoy. Ohio; Mrs. Clara Bleberlch, route 5. Dismissed Monday; Herman Stoppenhagen, Preble; Mrs. Irene Nevll.j Geneva. Admitted Monday; Naomi Ayanson 6U4 Mercer Avenue. — o ' Jap Lines Collapse Chinese Report Today Shanghai. Aug. 29- <U.R> -The I] entire Japanese line on the north l bank of the Yangtae river collaps-1 ed today and the drive along the south bank has been halted, Chin- ( ese advices said. To the north of the river, in an area about 120 miles from Hankow, the Chinese started a counteroffensive Saturday at dawn and during the week-end reoccupied ' Susung. Taihu and Tsienshan. As, they prepared to storm the walls of Hwangmei the Japanese were 1 reported in Chinese press dispatches to have fled eastward, vacating the entire broad front.

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, i ffERffINAIC l Rev. Joseph J. Semietz pastor St. , Mary’s church and Rev. Ambrose j_ Kohne of Goodland, are enjoying ai, vacation and fishing trip in Wiscon- ] sin. 1 1 Several Mexican children made i their first 'Holy Communion at St. j Mary's church Sunday morning at j.< the 8:30 nines. The communicants 1 were accompanied to the mass by < their mothers and relatives. The fa- J milies are employed In the sugary beet fields in the local territory. j t The work of rebuilding the elec- : trie distribution lines in th° south j part of town is proceeding rapidly. With the building of the hew circuits the old interurban poles oil Winchester street, as far south as the Magner home will be removed. The work practically completes the rebuilding of the entire city circuit. • Judge H. M. DeVoss, son DeVoss, and Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede returned Sunday from French Lick where they attended the Democratic Editorial meeting.; Harry Dailey, who attended summer school at the University of Colorado, returned Sunday to his home here. Miss Agnes Reed left Sunday for Fort Wayne where she entered the Wayne University of Beauty Cut- j lure. Dick Gillig, Dick Reed, Walt, Art and Norb Kessen attended (he ball game in Cincinnati Sunday afternoon. Mrs. W. G. Colerick and Mrs. Helene Carrier, of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Hugh Gassney and daughters, the Misses Lenore and Harriet Gassney. of Millwaukee, Wisconsin, visited with Mrs. Sam ACker, Friday Mrs. Dan Shafer of West Monroe street has gone to Evanston for a two day’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. «. T. Potter. Edwin Stephenson of New York City was the week-end guest of Mr. . and Mrs. John Heller at Klinger Lake, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. David Adams and daughter Marjorie, Mrs. Walter Deitsch and Mrs. Ed Miller have| returned from a week’s motor trip through Western and Southern Ind-^

ima. They also enjoyed a visit to | Cincinnati and along the Ohio ( River. Wayne Beavers, of Evanston, 111., | returned Sunday to spend part of j a two weeks vacation with his parents Dr. and Mrs. S. D. Beavers, of this city. Today he left with Robert Beavers for a short visit relatives of Adirondack state park in New York state. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McKean spent the week-end with the latter's brother, W. E. Nidlinger and family at their cottage at Rome City. Dr. Roy Archbold motored to Peru Sunday where he visited his daughter, Mrs. Phil Byron. He was accompanied home by Mr?. Arch-; told who spent the past week there. Mrs. Byron who was ill is reported as being very much improved. Mrs. Henry Coyne, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Myers and Mr. and Mrs. Wilmur Raudebush and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jhon Floyd at their Lake George cottage. CLAIMS FILED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ment in this section, dropping to 3,355 checks for $40,716.76 last week against 3.747 checks for $45,728.05 the week before. Almost half a million dollars has been paid, the actual figure on Aug. 24 being $497,827.83. "On the same day benefit payments in the state went over the $7,000,000 mark. In the first three weeks of August almost $2,000,000 was paid, with 56,911 checks going out last week, valued at $667,983.27." FORMER DECATUR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) knocked out. Baumgartner is a former Decatur resident, having moved to Wells county sometime ago. Indiana Man Found Dead In Automobile Plymouth, Mich., Aug. 29 — (U.R) — Robert A. Mouch, New Castle. Ind., was found robbed and slain today. State police found that Mouch had been shot in the head and that

| he apparently had been slugged before tbe shooting. The body was found in the front I seat of Mouch's automobile. The I machine was partly in a ditch beside the lonely road. Police found fingerprints on the car and footprints beside it which they hope will lead to the capture of the slayer. ———o Major A. DeSeversky Reaches Kansas City — Kansas City. Aug. 29. — idJ.R) 1 — I Major Alexander P. De Seversky.' i trying for an east-west transconti-1 nental speed record, refuelled here ■i today and immediately took off ' again on the second leg of his trip. St. Louis. Aug. 29. —iftJ.R) — Major , Alexander F. De Seversky, attempting to l.eak the westward airr plane record from New York to Burbank. Cal., passed over St. > Louis at 8:45 a. m., today, officials at Lambert Field reported. U. S. May Give Help In Raeket Crusade Chicago, Aug. 29. — <U.R>— Possibility of federal intervention in Chicago's war on gambling loomed today as state's attorney Thomas J. Courtney's "hatchetmen” began the third week of their “purge" 1 of handbook and policy operators. Postal inspector Robert E. Lewis , invited Courtney to turn over to him any evidence tending to show ; the operators were violating the postal laws. , o Twins’ Convention Is Held In Chicago Chicago, Aug. 29 —(UP) — Ann and Virginia Maenza, 21, Birming- | ham, Ala., as alike as two peas in •! a pod, were selected as the most 1 J identical twins last night at the ! first international twins' convention. The judges could find only one i difference between them, a matter | of two-tenths of a pound.. Virginia . j weighs 110.8 and Ann ill. The girls won the pria? from ’' nearly 750 sets of twins after a pari ade through Grant Park, t j The most unidentical twins were

j Don and Dona Koehler, 13. Chicago, and the most beautiful, Ruth and Esther Selzer, 22. Chicago. Rosella I and Estrella Dillie. 83. Minton Ind., were the oldest present. o » ♦ ' Mr. And Mrs. Henry Miller Commemorate Golden Wedding Date !♦ ♦! In a dinner and open house fori relatives and friends Sunday after-j S noon and evening Mr. and Mrs. i Henry Miller, of Preble, conrmemoi- | ated their 50th wedding anniver j . snry. I Mr. and Mrs. Miller were married I i 50 years ago August 26, in the Flat- 1 rock Lutheran chtircn near Hoagland. Shortly after their marriage the couple moved to Preble township, where they have resided since. Both are in apparent good health. Mr. : Miller is 77 and Mre. Miller is 78. i Four children also took part in the celebration. They were: Mrs. Walter Bultemeier of Root township, Gustax Miller of Preble town- ! ship. Henry Miller, Jr., of Preble township and Paul Miller of Wells : county. Twelve grandchildren also attended. Approximately 60 personz were in attendance at the Miller home Sunday in commemoration of the golden wedding. Hines Reported Seen With Dutch Schultz New York, Aug. 29 —(UP) —Charl leeW.Hughes former hotel manager in Bridgeport. Conn., disatfied today that he saw Tammany leader James J. Hines in Bridgeport in 1935 with Dutch Schultz, whose $20,000. 000-a-year policy racket Hines is accused of having protected Hughes pointed to Hines and said he had seen him in the lobby of the hotel Barnum, where Schultz lived for a while in 1935. He said he also naa seen Hines, with ultzs’ bodyguard, in a barber shop 1 ultze' bodyguard, in a barber shop in Bridgeport. He placed the time ns August or September 1935. o 1 Trade In A Good Town — Dtratir

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Sixteen Year-Old Is Held After Killing i Lebanon, Ind.. Aug. 29—Vernon i Hinton, 6, was held on an open ! charge here today after a fight in i which Carrol W. Towell, 17, was ! killed. ! Hinton told police Towell attempti "d to start a fight and struck him. j Hinton said he struck back, knocking Towell against the corner of a j building fracturing his skull. I ~ ■- ■ - ■ —-

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