Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1939 — Page 3

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I honor, thta pic ~*lth Norm* Shearer Dica Chase and Hedy quibble. over the When Henry M ‘ to Africa. one of hl* ■ton. w*. a portable ** h * through mile, of jungle. . < c’, , l “ ry ’ ro * know. • tath-tub but . big “ t £* n r, < ln < a. to * Spencer Tracy u *e !•” Stanley and Livt,. ,c, ! on ,r « ued '* Ttacy look , O r !,?', Wron « p,ac *« Jrried the day, too to hi. bathing ta , frtag Spencer another "**. v Th * ,rUh of h«ve voted that he ‘ J* rt< ’rmance of ary tor during 1938 h ? d puh,act wheri •frd. Heyburn uw.t •• Frank, and hl. tnlSjJ*^* nU ** J,cklr t | mw broke up of th * i« w! Ck U to,d m * h< 01. »M ,bOut r ' ,<ly t 0 “d flkht. Mnl? b “* nt oVer Vl '- fining . decl.ion In '~L ni m celtbl< 10 court ac many

of Mrs. Itarl Moffett Thurrday at-! [i er noon Mra. Harman Kratt called the mowing io order. Mra. Jam,-* Anderxon had the drvolloi.il, rwad-i i g scriplure from the book of Luka I foliowad by prayer. Roll call waa anawered with Bible vaniaa. Mra G. T. Mark nreaenii-d Ibe aid society with a quilt top, plana were made for a pin axle to b« I held In April. Al the conclusion of the meeting. Mra. Moffat* served drllclotiA rnfraahmrnta to seventeen member* praaont The next meeting will to held In two week* at iha home ot Mrs.| I’.ml Daniels , The Eastern Star will me*t| Thursday In the Masonic Hall tor the official vlalt ot the Worthy : Ct and Matron. Mra. Ruth Meir* ot Greensburg. At tv.o-lhlrty o'clock Inspection and bahy dedication will' bn held, at alt o'clock a chicken' dinner will be nerved and at seven- > tairty o'clock ptrdic tnatalhuion will b • held The price of the dinner will j ■ • fifty-cenl* and reservation* must i b.Atmde not later than Tuesday eve ning to Mra. Adrian Raker. Mra. Na,'han Nelson or Mra. Paul Edward*. | VIRGINIA PATRICK WEDS LESTER DIEHL Announcement has been made ot the secret marriage of Mia* Virginia Patrick of this city to Lester IM <hl of route four. Bluffton. The -eremony was performed at Auburn March I*. 193*. Bout are employed at the Cloverleaf Creamery, Inc. id Decatur MRS. CROWNOVER HOSTESS TO CLUB The Bt. Mary's Home Economics club met Thursday afternoon at the j home of Mra. Ha r ry Crownover. : Thirty-seven members were pre- ' sent. Mra. Artie Jackson, president I presided St the meeting, which <-t>ened with the singing of the club tong, repeating of the club creed , and prayer led by Mr*. Murrey Hol- | loway. A abort business meeting waa held and Mrs. Fred Hilton gave a report on her recent trip to Purdue university. Miss Mary Koos l.sve the lesson on "Ugbtlng tbs ! Home." Lovely ref'eshm, u*.s were served by the hoatras. assisted by Mr*. Sam Haggard. Mra. James Dah<M. Mr*. Harry Mart* and daugh- I 1 ter. Betty.

time* over asserted damages tc home* that moat of them now have the condition of all fttmish--1 irtgs notarised before t)«y take , over a place. Jamea Stewart t* .■olng thia one better and having picture* taken of all valuable* m the Malibu house he rents Well. I've seen strange things happen In Hollywood night elutw. but a recent night's experience was the topper Was having dinner at Marcel a when a jroung goat suddenly plopped its forefeet on my table and started sniffing the celery Nope, 1 wasn't seeing things. It waa a real goat Jack Barrett found It in Catalina when it waa five days old and has raised It on a bottle. It Is now 10 weeks old and he brought it Into Marcel's on a leash Meet FYank Morgan, the dude ranch operator Frank's going to build a swank play spot on his property near Palm Springs "1 really was a cowboy once.” he says "Worked at It for eight months on a ranch near Las Vega* ' William Garg an imported shamrock* all the way from Ireland to give to pals at a St Patrick * Day dinner. They cam* from Galway, wher* Mrs Gargan'a family, th* Kinney*, have lived for 800 year*. Started the journey as seed* planted in peat moaa . . . There * a deal on for Mnreel Lamaxe. the Hollywood restaurateur, to lake over a

swank eatery on Treasure taland, San Francisco wo r Id '* fair. He'd work there briefly but th* place would retain hl* name for th* duration of the fair . . . Also rumored that Phi) Selznick la dickering for the ft Case, once un-

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der the aponsuiship of Clara Bow ... Arc Joe Rlvkin and June Lang picking up where they left offT They were together at Ruby Foo's . . . And that waa Leroy Branner. the attorney. with Frnncl* Robinson at La Conca . . . Walter Brooks 111 I* Ma-y Br an * newest escort She amazes atay-up-laters by drinking cream In coca colas ... On the , 24th, Eleanor Powell will give a on--girl dance show for the kids at the Vista Del Mar orphanage. Last year, she took ipo of them to •ee the Roller Derby.

DECATVR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY. MARCH 24. 1939.

CLUB CALENDAR Society Dssdlins, 11 a. M JHnstto W Innes •hones 1000 — 1001 Friday Pncshoniss. Ixnlge Rnorr*. 7 so p. m. St. Mary'* IMrMt Women Os Decatur. K. of <* Hall, Attar t httn n. American legion Auxiliary. La> | ghm Home, 7 so p , B1 Saturday Mangellcal Mlsalott Hand, t'hurrn Parlors, 3 P. M Elon Reformed Mission Hand. • 'hurch Parlors, J p m Union Chapel Otterbein Oull.l Bake Hale. Brock'a Store, p a. m. Pythian Sister Rtimmsge Hal*. K. of P Home. 9 A M to 9 |». M. i Sunday Women Os The Moose District I Meeting, pent. Monday Christian Missionary Society. Mr*. Fred King. 7:30 p tn Research Clitik Mr*, lam Saylor*. !;>• p. m Musk Department, Mr*. C. J. Beaver*. 7:30 p tn. Dramatic Department. M-s. John ! Peterson. 7: SO p. m l.heratnre Department. Mr*. Milton Swearingen. 7;So p. m. Art Department, Mrs. W. fluv Drown. 7: SO p. tn Junior Women. Mis* Catherine Jackson. 7:30 p. m. CYO Meeting. D. C. H. S AudiI torlum. k p m. Tuesday Kirkland Indies' Club. Kirkland High School. 1 p. m. I Rebekah lavdge. (hid Fellow'* Mall 7:30 p. m. Wednesday St. Vincent d« Pari. K. of c. lun 2 pm. Historical Cluh. Mrs. David Casnp--I*ll. 1:30 p m Shakespeare Club. Mr* Burs Burt Townsend. 2:30 p. m. Adam* County Women’s Chorus.' Moose Home, 1:30 p. m. Thursday Eastern Star Dinner. Masonm' Hall. 6 p. m. Eastern Star Met ling. Masonic, Hall. 2:30 p m. The St. Vincent de Paul societv will meet Wednesday afternoon at ■ the Knighia of Columbus Hall al '.WO o'clock. Hostesses will be Mrs ' Andrew Zeser. Mrs. Kd K'l'er. and Mrs. George Stultt. o Fred Mills has Installed a near! electric sign In front of hi* tourts'' home on Mercer Avenue. The house 1 i« now called the "Silent Rec» Tour I :*t Home ' Miss Marjorie Carroll, of Indiana-: |4>ll*. I* confined to bed at the horn.-1 jf her parent*. Mr. and Mrs. Clays >n Carroll of this city. She will be Il bed for a few weeks. It In expected. Henry B Heller. Henry liehner. | Jim Hendricks and John W. Tynda I' ! attended to business In Indlanapoit* Thursday. A letter from Aunt Jennie Fut -' rr an who ha* spent the past seven' weeks at St. Petersburg. Fla., aayi' she will leave there for her home In Marion. Ohio nest Tuesday. She ha* had a wonderful time a* she gi-i day* does and write* In her usual happy language, saying it this way. * I have had a nice time and think the sunshine has rejuvinated my spirits, my stomach and may gall; 1 t.iade my little pocket book look like It had a fall, but th*' doesn't! » -trry me. I feel so young and good: | I'll go back to Marlon and eat up, all the food.' The clothing stock from the Pet-: craog Clothing company, damaged fire recently, was shipped to Chicago yeatrrday, having been putchased Iby an Insurance salvage tompan y. Amo* Ketchum, mauual training teacher in the Decatur high school and Ernest Curtis, principal of the Monmouth high school, have been Invited to attend the eighth annual convention of the Indiana Industrial Education association, which meets at South Betid. March 31 and April 1. A commercial exhibitors display of shop equipment and supplies will be held, in con-, nectlon with a program, which | will be addressed by Dr Herman i B. Wells, president of Indiana university. , Workmen for the Cltlsetu Telephone company were still stymied today In pushing the cable across Second street from the Covet dale alley to the Elks home. About 4<*> feet across the street the cable struck an obstruction. They hava i gone down more than eight feet In the hope of clearing the bulwark which evidently la under the street. Fred Mill* appeared wearing hl* straw hat yesterday, the first of the season Howard Earnest of Bluffton was a business visitors here today. The Friday evening Lenten services will 'i>e held at St. Mary'.t Catholic church this evening. Ira Fuhrman has purohaved the old Fuhrman farm on the river road, ■north of Decatur and'4* ramodellnT the house. There are four and a half acres in connection with the place, i Mr. Fuhrman Intends to make a du-'

To Observe Golden Wedding < tk .■> j Jo •

Mr and Mrs Thoma* Flsbwr. of this city, will commemorate their | golden wedding anniversary Sunday. March H at their home on Adams street. Mr and Mrs. Fisher were married March J« lk«9. In the ! bride s home at Tocsin, with Rev Johnson, of the I'nlted Brethren church rocrlvlng iho vown .** The couple will hold open hou»- ffimday from 2 until r. and 1 until 9 pm. and cordially Invite their friends and neighbors to visit them | Their two sou- Carl of thia city, and Harry of Bouton, low*, will attend the celebration

— I p’e* of the house and build a double enrage. Mrs R D Myers return'd yes.terday from Kingston. North Carolina. where she has been visiting j her daughter and son In law, Mr. iund Mr*. John Row land. I Mr. and Mrs. John H. Metier reI turned home Thursday afternoon f om a four week's vacation In Mti;tni, Florida, where they visited ; trlth friends and their daughter and I granddaughter. .Mrs. Fanny Macy I and Libby Macy. j Mrs. Charles Poe I* visiting friends and relatives In Sh-’lbyvil!.y I this week. Earl B. Adams made ■ tuslness ,r ip to Indianapolis this morning. Over 100,000 Farmers Participate In Program — - laMayette. Ind . March 21 —<L’P> I—More than lOI.OUO Hoosier farm- ' er* intend to participate In ttee 1939 agricultural conservation proi gram. L. M. Vogler. Indians AAA ,|chairman, said today. Cogler said the survey covered 39 lof the 9* counties Ir Indiana He I inserted that 75 percent of 'he crop land will 1»e covered by the proI gram He urged farmers wishing to obj tain corn loan* on their 1939 crop ‘ o visit their county chslnman at once. The deadline for the loan* is March 31. Six Men Executed In South Carolina Columbia. S. C.. March 14 -<U.B I —Bl* men died in South Carolina's 'electric chair today within 45 min- ' utes. They were executed for the murder of J. Olin Sander*, guard 1 .captain, during an attempted' j break from the state prison In December, 1937 Those to whom the state refits-1

France’s Envoy to Nazis Returns (/ if -My. *!-»3a 1-u/j ,aSI& VWbcij ■-J*. cSa Ji-’W *1 L Wuji jjFVifefaiji.', * A v. •' 'L*AMMc. <

Thia International Illustrated New* radlophoto shows Robert Coulondre, right, French ambassador to Germany, on hta arrival Ln Puns following his recall as a manifestation of his government's disapproval ot Nazi expansion in central Europe.

ed "show mercy because they showed no mercy" in killing Sanders were: J. V Bair. 28. Sumter. S C; Clayton Cram*. 29. Rmhester. N Y.; William IL Gentry. 25. Summerville. Ga.: Herbert Morrnian. 42. Detroit. Mich.: Roy Buttle*. 29. Simpsonville, 8. C.; George lyingard. 23. Lexington county. 8. C. “Bluebeard" on Tria) ■ ’if Ewkh Ni 4. * '■’V' tiPiWSwMMw

Eugene Weidmann

Eugene Weidmann. rises during his trial in Pari*. France, sot | murder, to accuse his eo-defend-ant, Roger Million, with the slaying of Janine Kellar, one of the live victim* of a "murder sot profit" gang

BATTLE FOR POWER ' tcryriMUßp hiom paor om i united bl* chief foe* but which overcame in on* si rid* many of < the factor* Interfering with *»!*| control of the resource* of ,*n<r*l Furop* J Rut or. th* .tfher side of th* pic | inre the swift aggression* of the ' last weep have had an adverse effect <m Hitler's future plana | Great Britain has te-m so aroused by the ''march to the east" .h*' It la unlikely she will again ac cept th* fuehrer'* word that be I* leady for stabillkathm of peace Juai a* the former kalaer'a “Ber 'ln i>> Bagdad" drwwti of empire threatened ' British economy. Ibv' Hitler march I* striking at Lon-j don * i-onimrrcial life blood again mi nerlnusly that even Prim* Minister Neville ChamlierUln can! forget his fears of >ommunlsrt long enough to talk of joint Itrii Isb-French-Sovlet military •* well •• political action. At th* moment. Poland I* a key factor in the Britl*h-led earn- 1 palgn to unite th* big European power* against further expansion | by Hitler but If the Warsaw govI ernm*nt contlnuea to healtat* about arousing Natl anger there are indications that the three 1 great nations which made up th* ' ‘prewar triple alllan.-e will b» t 1 ■ Priced to go ahead alone or face

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* lb* firnafmi l of division and Inded clsiun that would merely airength«tt tb* Nail Faat'lai twriiirr»hl|i For almoat th" flrat tlm* alnrei th* world war. Rovlei Rusal* haai Indicated ibe threat to her rich > 1 I’kratn* ta auffli lent to ptumpi ro-j operation with Britain and Frants Inatead of ptiratilng her paat tarilea of trying to make hoth fa« data and democracls* appear: futile and Weak Whi-ther that ' altitude will bo maintained loti*' enough In put over an effective! front against Hiller, however, la. qitcertaln It la certain, however, that the anti Naal front mnat act swlftb : br-cauae today'* devdopnu-nia Indicate that the Hpanixh civil war la virtual! yover and thm natlap-' allat Gen Frandaco Franco may complete negotiation* for unconditional aurrend*-. th,- repnh- 1 j licana «' anv tini». t'otulu-lon of in* siutn.Mi <-on J Old would leave lhe way open for Italian Premier Benito Mtiaao ' linl to upon np or offer away to pe«<-eful net tie men i In hl* bld , for additional power In the Modi | terranean at the qxpenae of! France Hl* apeech on Bunday' I* expected to Indicate which l course he will follow, although! laith British and Front h clrchs! Indicate hopes that he will adopt I a moderate attitude >ii.iiii — In A faasaaßl T**wn *•>«•(••«**

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Harold Zimmerman To Edit College Paper Richmond. Ind.. Mar, 24 Harold Zimmerman sophomore at Earths in college from Dwatur. baa peen named editor-in-chief of tip. I campus newanaper. The Karlham I I’iml Zimmerman, active in campus affairs, has been serving an inanagj Ing editor of the popor fnr the past few week* He stated Thursday ' that he will not select hl* staff tint It th* first of April. YOU GET fi GALLONS OF THAT (i(N)D “MAJOR” HI-TEST GASOLINE for Si* oo “CADET” GASOLINE 6 Gallons 93c WHITE STOVE GAS 15' /c per Gallon. “MAJOR” KEROSENE I <>c Per Gallon SPECIAL PRICE DRUM LOTS SHEWMAKER SERVICE B’s No. SECOND ST II DECATUR