Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1938 — Page 3

Sl DAUGHTERS ; VE party ' L Loyal Daughters class of the -Jgelkal church met Tuesday the home of Mrs. Frank Dinner was served at six gjck io twenty-two members ami r pelts. The long tables were ' During the evening an exwjh held and the class gave nutlet', the teacher, a gift anti ,In turn presented eu< It rnetn»with a gif l - A tetter from the a Bird Mission was read, thank- • the class for the Thanksgiving „ that they had sent. jrORITY HAS . hR ISTMAS PARTY Psi lota Xi sorority held its anul Christmas party at the home X rs Floyd Grandstaff. The home i, decorated in keeping with the •joa. Ten tables of bridge were tanged and prizes were awarded Mrs. Gerald Smith, Mrs Frank Uy and Mrs. Fred Patterson. A tely luncheon was served at small H e s centered with miniature silf Christmas trees. A gift exinge was held at the close of the tty. Out of town guests o' the sorin' were Mrs. Jesse Sellemeyer of ilifornia Mrs. Chalmer Porter of Islington. LASS HAS ARTY TUESDAY The Ever Ready class of the Zion formed church met Tuesday evejug at the parsonage. A short busjess meeting was held and games md contests were enjoyed with rites being given to Mrs. Lee lyers. Glen Roop and Leroy Cable. (Christmas gift exchange was held ad Rev. and Mrs. Prttgh served jtely refreshments to the twenty ambers present. The next meeting rill be held January fifth. jTERATURE DEPARTMENT HAS PARTY AND MEETING The Literature department of the Toman's club met Monday evening j the home of Mrs. C. C. Langston. 1 short business meeting was held. Sirs. Ralph Yager was in charge of lie program with the subject, “The litMty.’’ Mrs. ‘Henry Heller gave I short talk on the “Prophecy of Christ's birth." Mrs. Frederick Hafer told of "Christmas Customs

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« Another Christmas Comes .. urp’ll bp staring- a New Year straight in the face. And « and before know ’ foot slipped - We’re off! Off to a brand ij than, as tne iooiei newstart! „ it raav have been, is merely another snap shot in our | The P ast ~^. te Let’s took fora future that will be bright -a cheerful

! CLUB calendar Society Deadline, 11 A M, Jeanette Winnee Phones 1000— 1001 Wedneaday Decatur Home Economics Party, • Mrs. Frank Schmitz, 1:30 p. m Little Flower Study Club Party, ! Mrs. Mary Foos, 6p. tn. ■i Zion Junior Walther League, •| Church Parlors, 7:30 p. m, Thursday • | Baptist Junior Church Party, t Mr.a nd Mrs. John Metzger, Cto 8 p. m. Eastern Star, Masonic Hall, 7-30 P. M. ,in Other Lands," and Mrs Yager • gave the "Origin of the Christmas 1 Carols". Alice Langston sang the ! carols after Mrs. Yager told the • story. Mrs. Yager concluded the • program by telling of Handel’s I "Messiah." Lovely refreshments in 1 keeping with the season wre servt cd by the assisting committee, Mrs. I Frederick Schafer and Mrs. Henry • Heller. » ‘ W. A. S. HAS - CHRISTMAS PARTY t The annual Christmas party of I the W. A. S. club was held Sunday evening at the home of Miss Ruth Ann Borns. Christmas games were played and prizes were awarded to Miss Geraldine Heimann, Miss i Josephine Daniels, and Miss Ethel . Miller. After the games a Christmas . exchange was held and lovely rei freshments were served at the close i of the party by the hostess, assist- > ed by Miss Lucille Baker. 1 ENTERTAINS WITH 1 CHRISTMAS PARTY r The Tri Kappa sorority was bost > to about forty-five children at the | Elks Home Tuesday evening. Stories were told and Christinas carols were sung during the evening. The rooms were decorated with lighted • Christmas trees and holly and the ‘ little guests were seated at long • tables decorated with candles. Be- . side each place was a large red t stocking filled with candy, ruts and ‘ fruit. Dainty refreshments were 1 served, after which Santa Clans apf peared and distributed gifts to each i one. The children, as they left the t party, were presented with a gift

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from the sorority. Those Is charge of the arrangements were Mrs. Oladyn Chamberlain, chairman; •Irs. Carol ‘Burkholder, Mrs. I-aw-icmce Linn, and Miss Marjory Johnson. MUSIC DEPARTMENT HAS MEETING MONDAY The Music, department of the Woman's club met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. C. E. Bell. Twentytwo members and one guest, Mrs. Jr see Sellemeyer of California, were present, Santa Claus presented each one with a gift und then before it could be opened each had to perform a stunt. The committe” for the evening was Mrs. Avon Burk, chairman: Mrs. W. A. Klepper, Mrs. E. D. Engeler, Mrs. Homer Aspy, and Mrs. H. W. Thompson. Personals The George Crist farm of southwest of Decatur was sold at public auction this week to Frank Crist for ?G6 per acre. Mr. and Mrs. Boh Eyles of Indianapolis will spend Christmas with ''lrs. Eyles' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lose and family. Keith Hunt, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hunt of Fifth street, is now with the Hawaii Conservatory of music in Pensacola, Florida as | chief instructor. He had worked as an instructor in the Fort Wayne schools but was recently transferred. Robert Beavers will arrive home this evening to spend the holidays with his grandparents. Dr. -md Mrs. S. D. Beavers. He is a student in Purdue University. Mrs. C. A. Dugan is in Indianapolis for Christmas with her daughter, Mrs. Louis Haerl and family. Miss Frances Dugan, a teacher in Boston. will join them Saturday. Mrs. Dugan plans to leave next month for St. Petersburg. Fla., where she

will enjoy the next several months. Mr. and Mrs. France Conter and ' daughter Miss Gloria of Crown i Point will arrive Friday to spend ) Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. H. L. I Conter. The snow is ginig a Christmas appearance and will make it easier for Santa Claus. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Selletr.eyer ot'; Los Angeles, who are visiting here this week, plan to leave Tuesday for Miami. Fla., for a few days vis-. it with Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Helm, i From there they will go to New Orleans. then on to Dallas. Texas for a visit with the Schafers and Britt-, sons and then to El Paso for a few days’ .business, enroute home where they plan to arrive about January 15. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown of Geneva were visitors here last evening. Dr. Stewart Niblick of East Chicago has been appointed secretary of the city board of health there. _ -o CIO TO FIGHT < CONTINUED FROM PAG® ONE) the American Federation of Labor which has announced its intention of supporting modifications in the Wagner Act, Lewis announced the CIO will fight any move to amend i he act in any fashion. In addition. Lewis said, the CIO will demand increase appropriations “for adequate administration of the act ” The CIO disclosed its legislative program shortly after president William Green of the AFL presented the federation’s legislative objectives. drafted at a meeting of 102 AFL unions. In conjunction

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EXPERT TAXES HIS OWN LIFE Disappointed In Love, Radio Man Builds Own Electric (’hair Chicago, Dec. 21. —(U.R> —John Hersh, 39, a radio technician, was disappointed in love after an eightyear courtship. Yesterday he constructed a makeshift electric chair, turned on the current and killed himself. His former sweetheart. Mrs. Nell Lane, 35. a widow, accompanied by a friend, Charles Smith, found Hersh's body in his workshop. It lay on a canvas folding chair. Police Capt. Edward Kelly said Hersh had connected a radio transformer to an ordinary wall plug, stepping up the normal 110 volts to approximately 3.000 volts. Two wires led from the transformer, one tapped to Hersh’s bare left arm and left leg. The other he held tightly in his right hand. When Mrs. Lans entered the workshop she found the page of a calendar pinned to Hersh's shirt. It bore a printed warning: "Danger! Turn electricity off before you touch me." Police found two other notes Hersh had written, one addressed to his mother. Mrs. Fannie Hersh, the other to Mrs. Lane. In the note to Mrs. Lane, he hade her "Merry Christmas and goodbye." The message to his mother described his suicide as “the only way out.” He said Mrs. l-ane had not returned his love and that everything had gone back on him. "You tell Nell 1 will haunt her the rest of her life. I still love her.”

POLAND DENIES < JONTTNUTID Ff’.O.M PAGE ONE) assumed importance in Poland because of suspicion that it was sponsored by Nazis as a part of Fuenrer Adolf Hitler’s efforts to expand German Influence eastward. Hitler Makes Demand London. Dec. 21 —(U.R) — Adolf Hitler has demanded a halt of the world wide Jewish boycott of German goods in return for financial cooperation in resettling 700.000 German Jews in new homes enroad, it was learned today The demand was part of the plan offered the intergovernmental committee on refugees by Dr. Hjaimar Schacht, president of the Reiehsbank, last week. It was studied by George Rublee, American executive director of the committee. and financial experts of Great Britain, France and the Netherlands. But it was understood that the powers had turned it down because tie United States. Britain. France and the Netherlands were unwilling to commit themselves to buying more German goods. Several points in the German plan were considered excellent, however, and Rublee will go. to Berlin and discuss means of transferring (00,000 Jews from the Reica. Notable among these poiirs was Germany's plan for organizing the emigration of Jews in an orderly way which would cause ihe least possible inconvenience to receiving countries. Rublee, a Washington lawyer, was expected to go to Berlin in January and seek a compromise with the announcement. Grsen predicted that the senate would refuse to confirm the nomination of Donald Wakefield Smith for another term as a member of the National labor relations board. , CIO general counsel Lee Pressman said the CIO drive for a hill compeling compliance with Wagner act ties in with the unsuccessful drive last year for amendment tu the Walsh-Healey contracts act. The amendments would have “Blacklisted” all government contractors convicted of violating the Wagner Act. rendering them ineligible for further contracts ” “A similar bill was blocked in the last session of congress by a reactionary clique in the rules committee, led by John J. O’Connor— who was retired to private life by the voters of New York in the last elections,” Pressman said.

Io retain the best features of the German plan while finding different means of financing the mass emigration. He was expected to obtain the approval of all the governments represented on the intergovernmental committee. Although Dr. Schacht's plan has not been revealed. It was reported reliably that Germany's demand tor cessation of the Jewish boycott, which has caused inestimable harm to German trade, was one of its principal features. — • * Adams County Memorial Hospital j —— . . — Dismissed — Ixtretta M. Bieberstcin. R. R. 1. Herne; Robert Gresley, Hoagland. Admitted Mrs. Robert S. Scott, 1 Geneva; Christ -DoknecUt, 12b Third Street; John Hoskins, Bryant. ♦— • * Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Ironing Hint Be sure never to iron directly on a fabric which is moistened with peroxide. Wait until the peroxide is washed out and the stain dried before attempting to iron. Otherwise. you are liable to leave a rust stain where the peroxide was formerly. Fresh Bread Do not put fresh bread into the box containing stale bread. The nice fresh taste of the bread will disappear in a short time. Keep the box cleaned out, and there will be no difficulties of this kind. Red Tiles When the red tiles of the fireplace or porch floor .become dull, rub them with a cut lemon and a little salt; then wash with warm soapy water.

CHRIST BOKNECHT CONTINITP.P FROM PAGE day afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home of the son on Nuttman ave nue and at 2:30 o’clock at the Zion Lutheran church with Rev. Paul W. Schultz officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be returned to the home of the son Thursday evening at 7 o'clock from the S. IC. Black funeral home and may ,be viewed there until time for the funeral. o Hanover College Gym Is Damaged Hanover, Ind.. Dec. 21—I UP) — When fire broke out in the root of the Hanover college gymnasium building late yesterday, students quickly organized a bucket brigade and aided firemen in extinguishing it. Damage was estimated at |3,V00. Other students carried out an electric scoreboard, football and basketball equipment and stage decorations. Two fire trucks from Madison

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whose high regard we cherish. There is nothing very sentimental about selling Coal. Lumber. Fencing. Paint and Supplies — but • we’re just old fashioned enough to believe there is room for sentiment and a friendly relationsh.p in W any business. So at this Christmas-time, we’re stretching out to you a Hearty. Sincere TH ANKS tor the many favors granted to us. We hope that health, happiness and prosperity in abundance be yours during the full period of 1939. CORDIALLY YOURS, fit Cash Coal & Supply | R. A. STUCKEY JJ

were sent to aid the fight. By the time the fire was extinguished, the basketball floor was flooded with water, It was not burned, however, o Miners Are Ordered To Pay $1 Assessment i Washington, Dec. 21 — (UP) United Mine Workers union memj Lets will be assessed $1 in January to "reimburse the Union's treassury," It was learned today. Officials denied that the funds would go to the congress of Industrial organization. They said both l the I’.MWA and the CIO aie operating "in the black" .but that an assessment was ordered to Improve the miners treasury. o Indiana Woman Fatally Burned , Madison. Ind., Dec. 21—(UP) — Mrs. Nettie Von Dessen, G 4, was burned to death last night when her clothes caught fire from an overturned oil lamp, Her body was found by her husband. Fred Von Dessen. Authorities said she apparently knocked the lamp from t.ie table accidentally. Suspect Is Held in Angola Bank Robbery Buffalo, N. Y., Dee. 21 — (U.R) Lawrence Hah 34. of Fort Wayne, was held by federal agents in connection with the robbing of the Stuben county bank In Angola last November. Agents of FBI office held a warrant for Hale. It was issued at the United States commissioner's office hi Fort Wayne. A woman who was also taken into custody, was described as an i attiactiv< blond and about 22 years old.

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Noted Lexicographer Dies In New York New York, Dec, 21—(UP) —Dr. Frank 11. Vizeteiiy, Lexicographer, scholar and editor of .Funk & Wagnulls dictionary for muny years, died at Fifth Avenue hospital today. He was stricken two weeks ago with pleurisy and pneumonia. He was 74. Vizeteiiy, son of an English prln- I ter, was penniless when ho came to ’ the United States In 1881, He ob- I

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talned a clerical job with Funk •% Wagnulls, and worked for that firm up to his death. Four-Year-Old Girl Is Drowned In Pond Noblesville, Ind.. Dec. 21 —(UP) The four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard William watt drowned yesterday when she attempted to walk across a frozen fish pond at the home of a neighbor. The ice gave way and she lost her life in four feet ot water. '