Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1939 — Page 3

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iHf hllUxA ( ARBOLL c*w«»»i. its* |Mm MMlteM*. I*< - Verv funnv .! ■■’. A' Hollywood he .» th* life of th* bi.t h« v i! k> Jittery over

the preview of "W u thsring Heights" that, after inviting eight people including Ixiretta Toung. he lost hi* nerve and didn't show up Presence ot Mrs. Roosevelt made the preview one of the biggest affairs of the year. The

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8K president's wife ’ ! *ma<- hit With photograpuuiig for doaens of shot* • «t*r*! the theater an.! for j^K u the ■*■** trying to slip out toot to make a tram. arrival of Mr* W"’'' ar : N ,rma Shearer ererntu for the camera " Sorn>a "” lv * d lt bv dvkW“'. the theater Merle Oberon ■1 .** lobby on the arm of Rooaevelt »xit. a* toon at snai.le ~, , i<lnie d bv H , b K? Marlene Dietnch and her ■ I*7 J*"* 1 *" *’»>rb*nk*. ■7“ Parties She Paley and th* David HE* 7. w “ with hl » cousin. "■Tui, ?t rh,nk * Kay Fr “ nc “ ■ Director Fnti I.ang ie.pt te order by <g and by an unobtrusive ” nlc * n,, ‘* “»i.ler Hollywood's W“*’ •t-ue.l th* preview for ! n h " *“ ,,n “y b > ch »’- through th. picture. And ■7 trnumn* at ar would be lJhieT? ,hat ,wo P* K ’P |< ’ 7'**’ bM * UM th ’> Hand her perfume. wi\ r, '.J” mor * "y |n K • bo "’ th * Wl nd" . . . that H&jL y ir ' or Arming would KiL . 1 ,7 m , th * Picture and be ■ m y w 8 Van Dy”* ■*»L2r*“ y - Th * s * iin ' ck Wiled aa usual. E, *‘ anor Powell H* orthe.tr, « 17’ lh * I ‘‘ ad * ! ' 01 W" nWr * at Marcel's* lion?* 1 !," Th * Bun N * v * r world nJ, 0 ? who has dream* MP* the °? hlp ' To lUu *‘ S*' *» which “A. or «anlxalb yL h ’ Individual U E‘> 2000 7,7. ? nat * d ' h * wUI OtoW"'' !J n- l tX an..'**" C ***- S after aompletlng

CLUB CALENDAR •ockty Deadline, If a. M. Jeanette W Innes •tiRRM 1000 — 1001 Monday Fireman’s Auxiliary. Mr*. Fran I cl* Ellsworth, TfSO p m. Research Club. Mrs L. a Graham f:S« p m i _ w Tuesday Tri Kappa Business Meeting, Elk* Home. * p. m. Mt. Tabor Ladies' Aid. .Mr*. Clar-■ I npco Cbroaiator. ?:Se p. «n. Tian Reformed w. M. S., Cbtircb Social Room*. J:To p. tn. C. L. of C. Monthly. Meeting K or C. Hall. T:M> p. tn. P»l 'lota XI Business .Meeting Mr*. Robert Freeby. ? 30 p m Wadnaaday • Rhskespearer lub Mr* A D. Ruttie*. 2:30 p. tn. tMlem law! les' Ahl. Mr*. Katn | Bents. 1: JO p m. Thursday . Monroe M E taPdiaa* Aut. Mr* Charles Rahner. 2pm Evangelical Missionary Society Church Parlors, 2 p m. I’nlon Chapel Ladies* Aid. Mr*. Charles Rubbitt. 1:30 p m Rolland. Robert Edward I* the name ot the j flee and one-half pound boy bom to Mr and Mr*. Orover C. Clouser, •t Bluffton at the Well* Countv Hospital Saturday Mrs. CldMsr was formerly Mias Dorothy Miller of this city. ‘ Mr. and Mr*. Erwin Scduller of route one. Decatur are the parents of a baby firl. born Sunday at >:JO a m. at the Adams county mentorLil hospital. The baby weighed eight j-ound* three and one-half ounce* and has not yet been named. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lehman of Heme are the parents of a baby I boy. bom Sunday at :!• p. m. at j'he Adams county memora! hospi. i tai. The baby weighed six pound* * and fourteen ounces and aas been : named Ernest Ralph Jr.. — o At the market today and will be back tomorrow with new pre-Easter (oats and Suita. E. E. <»ass Store.

their stint in the picture, the ant actors will be destroyed. Also GO beetles that have been imported from Africa. Sonja Henle's championship skates, th* pair on which she won the last Olympics, will be loaned to the San Francisco fair—but nut Until the star has worn them tot the first shot of her new picture, "Second Fiddle." To give you an idea of what Sonja thinks of these skates, she has them insured for 110.000. Freddie Bartholomew is 15 and he gets his first tuxedo. He wore tt at a stag dinner given for him i by his Aunt Cissy The English heritage, huh? Dressing for din > nsr. It took the combined persuasion of James Cagney and Maxie Rosenbloom to get George Raft into a projection room to see a rough cut of "Each Dawn I Die." For eight year*. Raft has refused 1 to see rough cuts of his pictures. It dates back to the time he ; looked at the rushes of his first effort. "Mcarfsce." He got sick 1 «ad had to be helped out of the room Dorothy Lamour may hate eai rong* but the ad* ballyhooing her New York appearance featured ' her in the familiar garb . . . Joan

C r a w f ord and Charles Martin hated so much to aay foodby that, when she left here, he rode aa far aa Pasadena. Bh* had her ehauf* feur drive on to pick him up ... Bob Hope will join the Tolucca lake film colony on his return from England.

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He has bought a two-acre estate there . . . Now it's Wendy Barrie 1 with Rudy Vallee at La Conga - . • 1 And Tommy Lee with Gertrude 1 ' Nieson at Marcel's . . . Ferlke I : Bores' triumphant bit In "Love As- i fain" has won her a part in "Lit- , tie Mother" . . . And you can be t I sun she'll get screen credit this ’ time . . . Lona Augustine, who i plays the piano at the May company here, got plucked right off the - lob for a week's work with Ginger I i Rogan in the same picture . . . > Victor McLaglen is limping around I ' on a dislocated knee . . And Holly- ' wood la amused by the fact that i Nancy Carroll Is now featured on ■ Broadway in “I Must Love Someone.” wui-ti was written by her ex- ; husband, Jack KlrkUnd.

DFCATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, APtUL 3,19 39.

PERSONALS

Mr and Mrs. C.-orge q . Bayton. tihlo visited bare over Sunw n ”* r *■** r *M*rty Miss Mollie Forblng. Amo* Siunebunier, with th" i ighi-of way depsrtmeni of the stat* biabway commisalon. was here (l ver Wmiday. He |. checking iities now ot» IS3 and 23f and will aUrt soon on number three Dick f|< M h .«nployed in Wabash county as u highway engineer, viabed hl* family here over Sunday. Mr and Mrs. Ralph Uentls, and Mr and Mrs. Arthur R. Ilolthonae. were Sunday evening guest* of Mr i-und Mr*, r. O. Porter of Huntington. Mr*. Guy Johnson ba* returned ’o Columbus following a t'slt here w.th friends. . The spring vacation at Indian:*' university starts Wednesdiy noon . he Decatur and Adam* county stu dents are planning to come tom* tor the holidays. Robert Worthman la home from Hall State college. Muncie, for the Eister holidays Judge Huber M I* Voss reutrnej Io Indianapolis today. lam J. Miller son of Mr. and Mr* Charles J. Miller bap enlisted and been accepted In the V. 8. Army. He has been assignee to H sdquarter. Co 11th Infantry, which consists of the Intelligence Division, communication division etc stationed at Fort Genjamin Harrison. Indiana. Mr. and Mrs Charles Keller and children and Mr. and Mrs. George Trlcker of Fort Wayne spent Sunday with Mrs John Peterson. Mr. and lira. Chatlea Colter and Mrs. Martin Beery of Kendallvlll-* acre guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mrl Colter Sunday. Ro iert 11. Hite of Detorit Michigan vlsifed Mis* Madge Hite and ' relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hoffman and son. Robert visited P. B. Dykei man and friends here enroute to i cort Wayne to spend the day wlin I their daughter, Mr*. Clifford MeI Cormick. Mrs. Harvey Teeple of Second . Street is able to be out today after a month's illness. Jeronis* Grot house, employe ot i F.-lckle's Place here, returned to his duties today after being confined | to his home at Delphos. Ohio for in I days suffering from a throat Infection. Cletus H. Hocker visited over Sunday with his parents. Mr sad Mrs. C. E Hocker. Hob Worthman. of Hall S'ate. was a week-end visitor In the city. Mrs. William Div Ison ul For* Wayne is seriously ill at her home. She had a stroke last Wednesday Mrs. Davison is well known in the city and I* the mother ot Mrs. Robert Fritginger. Mrs. Ben Schramk. of this city, nas received word o’ the death of her cousin. O. E Bruckner at Chattanooga. Ohio Funeral service* uere held Bunday In Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. James Fisher and children of Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Torn Fugate and Miss Mary Fisher of Indianapolis visited with Frank Schmlti and family Sunday. John Cook of North Ninth Street i* still confined to his bed with llllies*. Roscoe Robert, and Raymond Raudenbush. triplet sons of Mr. and Mrs. Haner Raudenbush. celebrated their sixteenth birthday anniversary Saturday. April let. —■■■"■———w— — LONDON DEBATE (CONTINUED FROM PAOK ONKI war; Utlnov signs Siberian fisheries agreement with Japanese ambassador. — o — Too Many Oak Streets Redding. Cal. —<VP|—When Leo Constant complained to the city council that failure in opening Oak street forced him to use the alley to get into hts home, he started something It developed tha* there are three Oak streets In the city, cne on the east, west and south

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1 «>» YORK _ *'.ll, <>. Th»*tr* Guild has a hit at last.' And it** because aomeone forgot'

hi*tory and the; Blbla and the pulpit and got I’hillp Barry to write a play which fits beau*lfg| Katharlne Hepburn iik* a glove. It** railed ’The Fh 11 adv lah la Story", and if we said it fits Ka y Hepburn like a glnv* leg , because Mill

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> Hepbunh cant Jutt step into any r»le and make It sound or look ■be « such a markedly individual ui,or . m “ii* And when they’re made to order, and by an expert with the dramaturgic *V* Mr ' B,rr T- the reZilt I 'Ti.- TL hln f .*?, r ° n J ur » with. »»“'*f*«P»«*a Story’* |» • m h • • •” od pl, y for Mi** Hepburn and a good - play I for the audience, and the Gudd k?" Uck “ b-tppy for the re*t of the aea»on. TJ . i “S! 10 ". »"‘»r* around I I racy Loni who is the able Miss Kl.?o tt, ?■ v M t rn * d * *** . !** Haven, blueblooded Philadelphian «ho led I her ( to the altar, find* she has no ll "R for the domestic. C. K. (Joseph Cotten) promptly pro**"ds to drink himself into a ” at *. Mtaesthesia against his I narital shipwreck. There’* * di. vorce, and Tracy decides nheTl i marry another PhiUdelphia artsI Fentonl”"* 4 KUtr * , «* (Frank . The procedure for such an th, ‘ lrnl< * purlieus of the , C, (T ®f Brotherly Love is I marked with publicity. When rracy wants to marry, it's a story for the papers. Consequenty. in comes Macaulay Connor. I ’nr rood-looking reporter (Van Heflin), and while Tracy cele. i brutes the coming nuptial* with a sufficiency of champagne her|

' sides. The council instructed the ' city engineer to ascertain which I thik street Constant lived on. TEACHER GROUP BATTLES SLASH Federation Against Cut 1 In Levy For Retire- , rnvnt Fund* Indianapolis. April 3 <U.R>-The Indiana Federation of Public School Teachers Is on record today after a week-end meeting here against any slaslfcs in the state tax levy for the teachers retire- ' ment fund. • ' The present levy of 2.« cents r should "under no circumstances"' • be reduced, according to a resolu- ■ tion adopted by the federation. . The state teachef' retirement board I fixes the tax levy for the retire- . me nt fund. > Mrs Edith Van Winkle, presl- , dent of the federation, said that reduction of the tax levy might . mean depletion of the teachers' retirement reserve fund. Another resolution adopted askj'ed Gor M Clifford Townsend to find funds to provide for a state attendance officer, no provision ' for which was made by the legislature In the new biennial budget. o —- $20,000 SUIT (CONTINUED FROM PAPE ONE) go the shame and humillatiou of be- ■ ing taken to city court In the police • ear and again paraded as a criminal i ">efore the court; but tha*. he was | never tried and never given a hearing and on June 27 was given bls • freedom." I The plaintiff avers "that he had t always lived un upright life and had ■ ■' I ■■ I I

—— I-I ■■■■—■■ Hl ■ , I She Married His Brother HF s ,° f th * •"nuriewly-elala Smith Reynolds, Is p ? d i! c VL ®°n>rieing friends who felt she would wed Holmes, with whom oho had been seen for two years, the torch i singer eloped to Washington with hie brother, Ralph, 23. The couple I returned to her Greenwich, Conn, home.

•ye* *rv opened U hl* handtotM ’ masculinity. ' Whun Tracy <‘rlnk» champagne bar Inhibition* drop away with t> ” *'"• occM'on •he. full of bubbling wins, took off all her clothing 'and d.mbcd to the roof, there to gr».t ths moon. She doesn’t do It in tha present instance, but she doe* come to a realisation that thv handsome (on nor i* preferable to the aristocratic Kittrsdgu. and “••pito thv fact that plans for the >«ddiM had gone on apace, vhg tails kittredga sa Result. Kittredge pick* up h» marble* and leave* tha I .ord homestead. J art what happen* la something you’)l have to find out al the plsy. because It wouldn’t be sporting to tell you how Miss Hepburn finally decide* to dismount from the twin horns of the dilemma. A* we said. Miss Hepburn’s part is a superbly architectural piece of caning and playwriting She does a fine workmanlike job with the excellent tools Mr. Barry has given her The rest of *h* ra»t h entirely in keeping with her, and the play strikes a high incidence of good theatre and workmanship, both In stag ing and presentation. The direction of Robert Sinclair la everything it should be. The settings by Robert »imon<l Jones are hi* best. And the Guild Theatre H one of the moss comfortable in the eity. "The Philadelphia Story" is the week's sole opening, and good enough to he alone. lt*s better than three bad plays, and even two bad plays and one fair one. Mr. Barry hasn’t any preaching to do. He makes you feel that at least one playwright is concerned gith people rather than classes, and doesn't give the idea that dimply became certain people are rich they are inexpresr!Ttllw’t Th* people in The Philadelphia Storv" are rich, beautiful, and to a degree famous. It’s a lot of fun and you don’t have to worry your pretty little head about the "human values’. They're there, and yM don t mind them a bit.

t a good reputation, hut that he has I l«een greatly injur'd in his good name and credit among hia friends and acquaintances, has suffere-l much mental anguish, great humi*i.dkia. shame and disgrace and physical suffering and has beet dami eged In the sum ot 130.000." In the second paragraph the coml plaint cha-gea that the plaintiff waa forced to undergo the "humiliation at answering a great number ot ’ questions in reference to hi* name, what be did and was doing and i Larged him with the crime ot high- ’ w.y robbery upon George Backvl.' ■- ■■ *> ■- A. B Won at 7V San Jose. Cal <UJ> Mrs. Laura Racon Bailey, 7>, has received her A.B. degree after four years of study at the Ran J oar State ; College It was her fourth diploma from the institution, having received her sheepskin from the ' general elementary division -in I*9C. hsr kindergarten primary credentials in l»o2 and a home making secondary degree in IhH Hollywood Buys Railroad Reno. Nev (U.R) The bankrupt railroads instead of going Into the hands of receivers are now goimt into the hands of Hollywood Federal Judge F H Norcross has authorised the sale of the equipment ot the historic Virginia and Truckee Railroad to a movie com pany for JG(Mi. "Rraas Betsy." the line's best locomotive, wss pur chased last year by a film company Prisoqsr Carves Peach Stont* Lorain. O.— <U.R) —A miniature cabaret consisting of II tiny mon I keys carved from peach stones has been completed by John Botchlck. who la serving a sentence at the London. Ohio prison farm. The II monkeys have glass-bead eyes and I Ivory teeth.

BUND REPORT MADE PUBLIC G-Men Make Public Report Os German Bund Activities Washinginn. April 3 <u.R> The G-men today made public finding* that the German-American Volks bund, the American natl organlu Hon. comprises between <.UM nnd J.IM Individuals seeking to In i •UH and perpetrate in German-! American* "a pride of German background and love fog Ger many “ They found i bat Bund leader Frltt Kuhn t>artl< tpated with Adolf Hitler In the abortive beer cellar putsch In Munich oh Nov » 1»23: That German Is the mandatory tongue In Bund schools where an(l Semitic literature Is distributed That at Bund camps the star* •nd stripe* and the swastika are raised and lowered together; That one camp was dedicated as “• Hille plea-e of German soil In America ** The report readied no conclu siona as lo whether the Bund violates any federal law and produc J •d no definite findings that th<organisation Is dominated or con- 1 1 rolled by Hitler The federal' •gent* reported, however, tha* Kuhn contended that the Bund is "not a part" of the German nasi psrty The agents found no evidence of use of firearms during Bund drills or by the uniformed Bund stormtrooper* The 1« volume* of the G men « report, complied after a year's investigation. are being studied by the department of justice and have been submitted to the bouse committee <>n unAmerican actlrl-i ties. The report quoted Kuhn as stating his belief that "nailism and national socialism, such as exist In Germany today, hold the only The Bund is the controlling i 1 hope for the future of the world li organisation for several smaller J units, each devoted to a particular phase of pro-German activity. , the report said Adams County *1 I Memorial Hospital I I A , Admitted—Helen Liechty, Berne, r (emergency); Mrs Donald Redding . Fort Wayne; 1 Dismissed — Jesse Sutton. 11b • South Sixth street; Ranson Harris. I North Manchester; Sylvester Birch, route one. Monro*; Mrs. Robert Wemhoff and baby, Sop Eighth street; Martha Blakey, route two, , Decatur. — ■ O'' TWO LOCAL MEN (CONTINUED FROM PAPE ONE! the father. J. D. Lee of RoeehiUJ Virginia and three brothers Punersi arrangements have not been completed. Both vehicles were almost entire- !> demolished. City's Efficiency Surveyed St. Louie —tUPt— A group ot and bankers, aided by a fto.OOd appropriation from the city treasury, are making an "efficiency survey" of the municipal gov ernment here. The survey was prompted by a city deficit caused hy increased services and declining revenue from real estate In several downtown areas.

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Slays Suitor A Mrs. Mabel McArthur (above), 38-ysar-oid divorcee and former Win* tar Carnival Queen, shot Benjamin Dow. St, to death when he began breaking up the furniture In Laconia. N. H., home where she lived, according to her story to pelle* Ati tboritiee said there would bs ao charges tiled.

Headlights On Skates Kitchener. Ont.— (UP) —Head- . lighta un skates for night skating on unlighted rink* und ponds have ' been Introduced here by Robert Hcheslerman. 1«. Each skate carries a standard electric light bulb In a socket attached to the sole ' of his boot. " O' - ■ '» Tin Can Cook Injured San Rafael. Cal. (U.P) When , the nation begins to live entirely | ■ on canned goods, as sometimes I* predicted. It may he necessary’ lo give hus>mnds Instruct lone even in the simple art of serving canned goods In the absence of his wife. Wesley J MVigne put a can of tamales in water to boil The water soon boiled away, and juat as lai Vigne rushed to rescue th" tamales the can exploded He went to a hospital. i-i ..I > - Turtle Bears IM7 Mark East Dennie. Mass HJ.R) -Enoch E. Walker has found a small gopher turtle on whose shell J J. Martin carved hia name June 17. I**7 Th- gopher- oi box—turtle

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la six Inches long nnd fnttr Inch* > > across Ruch turtle* seldom grow largar Frosh Girls Want Carver Hollister. Cal — <U.P) —A survey lof 100 girls of the high school * freshman • lass revealed tha fact that only »ne planned to be a housewMM - —— ■ ■ tt l » - * Wooing Too Noisy j Cleveland. ().— ■ (UR) Over-ard-ent pursuit of two women brought two young men before n Cleveland judge ng charge* of disorderly cogduet. The reason: They honked the horn of an automobile for four houa outside a home where two women sought refuge from their advances

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