Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1938 — Page 3

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■ Bv HARRISON ( AKROI.L ■ €«pjr>sht, 1938, ■ Kiuf Feature* Syndicate, Inc. ■ HOLLYWOOD.—Poor Billie Btrke is still trying to get rid of ■eK-acre Ziegfeld estate at Has■tp on the Hudson. Once she

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■optd to get ■■. OOH for it. ■K tells me shwould take ■He taxes are ■ heavy drain |n her. also the pe«P of the ■pounds. Zieg■Wd had a pas- ■■ for trees p shrubs. ■ “If ever we p « little pt, they'd alfigure in

B" says Billie. "He'd say: 'Well, |» »» separate. I’m going to take trees.' And I'd say: 'All right, Iwling, you can have your old Ibees.'" Maxie Rosenbloom, prize letter, night club owner and [® ov:e actor, soon will emerge in |E~ another role. Along with P»e<tian Benny Baker and De’per Myron Schwartz, Maxie is •Pung affidavits of support that permit two Jewish refugees to from Italy to Hollywood. U moving into a new home ms promised to find work “»e for the victims of n Duce's acts. , kfore Peggy Fears was -.tX to do her flrst Bhow at S e - z nick s dub here, long dis--2" w Paged her from New York. «®enthal's latest charges had e“‘ oeen made and Peggy rushed em / pk °ne thinking it was an t» ? eru ; y ca -h from her lawyer, “’tead, the voice of Lupe Velez ' over the wire. ! had» LS rl >” said Lu P e ' ! sou a, ean ’ and 1 had t 0 your gin?a e p^,’ ton papers el llol ® ViruxL p f‘ n * as . saying that Gar y fthat* favor ‘te film star. Mt. No mention for George! probacy ft J a . rouk of Eg ypt tot autL? first r °yalty to ask «ood «?f aphed P lctur es of Holly--1 feques/ f W ‘ G ' M has received there 9 to Lnd 0 " 1 , tS exchan « e over ,ll| t*le‘d"iX e ers PiCtUreSfrOln Gable the funmS 0 Hot to Handle”, is W^ 8t ’? el °drama in ages, you right nn m n, bUt the thriUl! keep Th» S flr. n the edge of your eeat. “re and explosion of the

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Saturday A. B. C. Clan of Union Chapel, Hanna-Nuttman Park, ti p. n>. Mission Bund. Evangelical Church 3 p. tn. Cafeteria Supper, Zion Reformed Church. 5 to 7 p tn. Tuesday Psi lota Xi. Mrs. Geraid Smith 7:30 p. m. Young Matrons’ Opening Banquet Meeting. Mrs. Dallas Ooldner, 5:30 p. m. Loyal Daughters Class, Mrs. Carl 1 Hammond. C:3O p. m. Mary and Martha Class M. E. I Church 6:30 p. m. Kum-Jofn-Us Class. Hanna-Nutt-.nan l*ark, 6:30 p. m. I Tri Kappa Buiness Meeting. Elk's I Home. 8 p. tn. Tri Kappa Executive Committee, ■ Etks Home. 7:30 p. m. I Catholic Ladies of Columbia, K. of C. Hall. 6:30 p. m. ‘ Decatur Flower Garden Clnb. Mrs. ! Roy Runyon. 2:30 p. m. Wednesday Historical Club Luncheon, Mrs. Giles V. Porter, 12:30 p. m. Business and Professional Wo'mens Club. Rice Hotel. 6:30 p. m. Decatur Home Economics Cun. Mrs. Dema Elzey, 1:30 p. n>. Thursday Presbyterian Indies’ Aid Mrs. L. A. Cowens. 2:30 p. m. Order of Eastern Star. Masonic Hall 7:30 P- m. ‘ October 3rd. They will also serve j dinner and supper to members and I guests during the mission festival. After the appointment of various committees refreshments were served by the hostess for the afternoon who were Mesdames Fay Mut- : schler, A. R. Ashbaucher. Dave Adams. Henry Knapp and Forrest Owens. Gift Plane for Government Canberra—<U.R) —Premier Lyons has accepted an offer of Greek residents of Australia to present | the natjon with a defense airplane I "in gratitude to our beloved adopted country in its hour of need.

ammunition ship was staged ■fit the California coast and cost M-G-M a small fortune: probably SIOO,OOO for the single episode. Never heard such a wild tale of a Catalina yachting trip as Humphrey Bogart has to tell. He and Mayo Methot went in with the Gil- ! bert Gabriels, the Melville Bakers I and the Arthur Sheekmans (Gloria | Stuart) to charter a boat for three days. A little way out, something ; happened to the compass and a i heavy fog set in. The yacht final- . ly reached the Island but the motor in the shore boat couldn't be made to work. Eventually, they teleI phoned back to the mainland and i the agency sent them another i yacht. It was promised at 6p. m. but didn't arrive until almost 9. By this time everybody was in a state of jitters. If Geraldine Spreckels never gets to be a movie star, she can boast of one amazing experience The blonde beauty reported to the Hal Roach studio and said she was there to take a test. They sent her to the makeup department and she was almost ready for the camera when she said: "Say, what studio IS this, anyway?” Her test was supposed to be at David Selznick's, blocks up the boulevard. Stan Laurel says I did him wrong, that he wasn’t buying champagne for his ex-wife, only for her new Hollywood es-

cort, Roy Randolph . . . Irma Warner has returned f r on Honolulu an c Al Ro g el’ promptly took her to dine at Selznick's . . . Hazel Forbes and Harry Richman there, too cutting up tc rumba mus 1«

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and telling everybody good by. Hazel wore £ fortune in diamonds . . . You’!, like Pat Rooney as m. c. at thii spot . . . Margaret Roach, whc used the name of Diane Rochelh when working in a picture for hei dad, Hal Roach, will use her owi monicker as a singer at La Conga . . . The Troc soon will feature ar ice-skating act with 15 people After the show, they roll up the Ice and you dance as usual. It’r the same trick gadget used in some of the New York spots . . . A rumba dancer named Kenembu is really something at the Clut Havana. Balances a glass of beer on his head as he does it.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1938.

I MRS. ROE WYNN HOSTESS TO WMA The WMA of the Sth Street United Brethren church met at the home | of Mrs. Roe Wynn Friday after- ! noon Mrs. Frank Johnson conduct- ’ •<! the devotions and Mrs. Hasel I Foor gave an Interesting paper on "The Southern Highlands of AmI erica,’’ Mrs. L. J. Martin read a i leaflet entitled "Martha's Home- . coming." During the business session, plans I were made to have a sale of linked j goods In the near future. The meetI l:ig closd with prayer, after which delicious refreshments were served ! by the hostess, assisted by her daughter, Mrs. Mina August, Mrs. I Helen Baughn and Mrs. Gladys WaL ‘ ther. The Decatur flower garden club , will meet at the home of Mrs. Roy i Runyon Tuesday afternoon at twothirty o'clock. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. Lawrence Green and ,Mrs. W Guy Brown. All members are urged to be present. The Order of Eastern SI ar will , have a regular stated meeting Thursday evening at seven-thirty o’clock. WOMENS' SERVICE CLUB REOPENS ITS ACTIVITIES The opening meeting of ‘he Busli ness ami Professional Women's club will be held at the Rice Hotel Wednesday evening at six-thirty o'clock. The meeting will be In the lorm of a biographys supper. After ! the dinner and business meeting, members will enjoy a bridge parI ty. witlTMiss Matilda Seliemeyer as I hostess. The ladies' aid society of the First Presbyterian church will meet at the home of Mrs. L. A. Cowens i Thursday afternoon at two-thirty I o’clock. The September section will lie In charge. o —■ PERSONALS Mis?) Mary Kathryn Tyndall, who I has been employed in the auditor's , office for the past two years, has I r -signed her position and will leave Monday morning for Indianapolis to accept a position in the statehouse there. She will be accompanied by her mother. Mrs Dan H. Tyndall. Among those from Decal ur who attended the Indiana Women's Democratic club luncheon at the SpinkWawasee hotel on Lake Wawasee this noon were Judge and Mrs H. M. DeVos. Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, ; Mrs. John Heller. Miss Rerniece DeVoss. Mrs. Dick Bock. Nathan Nel- ■' son and John DeVoss. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Ehinger will ! leave today for a week’s vacation at the Kllborurne cottage at Rome City. They will be accompanied by i Miss Marie Murtaugh and Dick | Deininger. J. Bergholl and H. McGrath of Fort Wayne attended to business in I Decatur Friday. Miss Estelle Wemhoff and Sam Gregory of Fort Wayne spent Fri--1 day in Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Jud McCathry visiti ed in Wabash Thursday. Jay Widdes of Logansport returni ed to his home after spending the I past week here. — -o Medical Association To Liberalize Policy Chicago Sept. 17—(UP)—The American medica asociation moved today to bring medicines closer to the masses by liberalizing its policy on two important fronts. A committee submitted a favorable report on a proposal which embraces at one time group medicine and medical advertising.—The asso-

Plane in Which Japs Shot Down American Pilot

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Closeup of wreckage of Chinese transport plane

Fourteen persons lost their lives when this Chinese transport plane was shot down by Japanese airmen on Aug. 24 while en route from Hong Kong

As Chamberlain Visited Hitler — - ~ i.—.. I, i i ' Z e Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Sir Nevile Henderson, Prime Minister Chamberlain This historic photo, sent by radio across the Atlantic, shows Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, right, as he was greeted by Joachim von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister, on arriving at Munich, Germany, after flying from London. Sir Nevile Henderson, British ambassador to Germany, is in the center. Chamberlain returned to Ixmdon to confer with the British cabinet following his conference with Hitler at Berchtesgaden, a parley at which the Reichsfuehrer was believed to have stood firm on hie demand for autonomy for Sudeten Germans.

11 nation's opposition to group medi-J cine following a policy laid down I by the last special session of the A. M. M„ has been so bitier that , the federal government reently an-1 nounced it proposer, to prosecute 1 the asociation as a "trust." , o i 1 i Urges Tightening Os State Marriage Laws i Bedford, Ind.. Sept. 17. — (UP) — Tightening of Indiana's marriage ■ laws and physical examination of ‘ couples before marriage are need- > ed badly. Fred Schick of Indian- ■ apolis. chairman of the Indiana ■ Junior Chamber of Commerce • committee on marriage laws, told . the organization's seventh annual I , convention last night. •, Laws should he further revised. Schick said, to prevent couples | from other states entering Indiana i I to obtain licenses to avoid more ! stringent home laws. I DRIVE IS LAUNCHED J (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) i [ Lankenau. superintendent of the > General Electric plant; Henry ,! Bromer, manager of the Decatur Casting company; Ferd L. Litter- ■ er. attorney; Walter Gard, Penn- | sylvania railroad agent; made ! brief remarks favorable to local ■ ' efforts in support of the rebuild-1 ' i ing program which will provide, employment for Decatur men. Offer SSOO to fund J Ward Calland. vice-president; and general field manager of the, , Centra) Sugar company, followed! the other speakers and expressed i appreciation for the fine coopera-1 tion extended locally to the suga: company and the McMillen ind'S-i ’ I tries since their establishment i I I here. Mr. Calland read a letter signed ■ by the three local companies, in I • which they agreed to donate SSOO ■ ! to the fund if sufficient money [ ■ could be raised to assure the re- ■

to Wuchow, China. N. L. Woods of Winfield, Kas., pilot of the plane, was one of three who escaped death when a hail of bullets raked the shin.

| building of the tile mill. The letter follows: "To the Decatur Chamber of Commerce: “If sufficient money is subscribI ed to assure the rebuilding of the , Krick-Tyndall Tile company, we ' desire to make a contribution of ‘ SSOO. I "We make this contribution | wholly on account of the excellent suport and cooperation which w« have always received from the citizens of Decatur, not because of any obligation on our part, but because of a sincere desire to see the best things come to Decatur. "Respectfully yours, “Central Sugar Co., “Central Soya Co. “McMillen Feed Mills” By “H. W. McMillen, vice-president. Central Sugar Co.” The letter electrified the crowd and received an enthusiastic applause. It was moved that Chairman DeVoss appoint a committee of five to seven men to prepare plans for a local canvass among industries and merchants with the hope of raising SB,OOO to match the tile company's fund to rebuild the industry. The money will be placed in trust and' not turned over to the company until actual work in the construction of the plant got underi way, it was explained. Chairman DeVoss announced he would name the finance committee j and that final plans for a local I canvass would be made next week. o Golfer Takes to Cance Norristown, Pa. — (UP) — The I Whitemarsh golf course was under five feet of water in some spots foli lowing a week of heavy rain, but i Bob Ransford wan't to be denied I his regular practice round. He borI lowed a canoe, loaded in his clube ■ and paddled and swung his way j around the 18hole course. I o Trifle In A <»<H»d Town — Drcntnf

CZECHS READY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the Sudeten country was almost 1 completely quiet this morning. Many people surrendered their 1 arms to the authorities, It was asserted. after u government ban on weapons, and a number of Sudeten 1 German leaders left for Germany. COXSTRUCTION (CONTINUED FROM PAOl? ONE) male patients, two dormitories for udult females, dormitory for building, school and recreation building, four residence buildings, and unmarried females’ dormitory; Epileptic Village, men’s Infirmary; Tuberculosis Hospital at | New Albany, hospital building and power plant; Deaf School, boilers; aintorles nt Indianapolis, I«ebanon. Spencer and Attica; Four-H building at the state fair-, grounds, and walks, drives and { landscaping of state institutions.'

British Actors May Be Called Home by War

A i - ; - i safe! fcl *7? ■■' - WJbx ** »J| t it David Niven Basil Rathbone Donald Crisp

Should war be declared in Europe, these British actors now appearing in Hollywood films would be summoned home. Basil Rathbone and Donald

At 80 He’s Father Again—Mother Is 27 While his cronies toddle their great grandchildren on their knees. 80-year-old Daniel Hart of Goshen, Ind., proudly displays his wcekold baby girl, bls daughter. It was the fifth child born to Hart s 27g? ’ year-old wife since they were married nine years ago. " "L v ' x . ■ v - f ,-aagSMB Daniel Hart and wife and child

Shattered Ruins of New York-Boston Death Bus

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Death toll passed seven in the head-on collision of this New York to Boston bus with a trailer truck at

I „■ . 4 Adams County Memorial Hospital j 4 —— 4 Admitted: Robert William Siusser, route 1, Poneto; William Kua-vi-l. Monroeville. Dismissed: Mrs. Weldon Ix-Roy Zelir and son Jack I.eßoy. 404 MiBarties street. ■ - ■- ■ — —o ■■■■ HITLER DEMANDS (CONTINUED FROM ”-1017 ONE) would be sooner. Certainly the atmosphere Is! more ominous than at any time! during the present crisis. Foreign newspapermen have suit i cases packed, ready to jump to,’ the Czechoslovak frontier. Embassy staffs remain on duty late unci return early. On the roads, one can see Sudetens, who have . i fled from Cze. hoslovakiii, with their cars loaded with posses-; sions. Epic and span units of the . i army march along the great new 11 highway to the border. Tank i

Crisp are majors in the British military reservs and David Niven is a captain. Niven is a graduats of Britain’s Sandhurst, similar to West Point.,

i Charlton, Mass. More than a dozen other persons 1 were injured in the terrific impact.

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trucks In convoys carry iilrpluue gasoline. Then- were id least 100 army airplanes on the Hue nt the nillliiiry airdrome outside Munich yesterday. MUSIC PROGRAM (CONTINUED FROM PAOB ONE) Mrs. Walter Krick. _ Take Up Thy Cross"--Ackley. Rev. and Mrs. Graham. Wliistllng Solo—Martha K. Callui.d, "Now The Day's Over" Wilson Ladies Chorus. o Curiosity Cools Cat Stillwater, Okla.—ftj.R)—A case where curiosity cooled the cat. One day the animal, a stray, wandered Into the bathroom of the F. E. Sherwood home here and fell into a bathtub while it was being filled with water. "The cat apparently like the experience,” Sherwood said, "because I found it in the tub several times after that, wading in cool water."