Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1940 — Page 3

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CLUB CALENDAR i Society Dead tin*, V, A. M. Fanny Maty Phan** 1009 — 1001 . 1 Monday V. I. H. Class, Dm llohnke. 7:30 pm. , Research Club. Mrs. Dale Ilona. I 2 3<i p m. Music Department. Mia. Fr-d;, Smith. 7:30 p. m. Dramatic Department, .Mm. Carl Gerlier. 7:30 p. in. ( Literature In-part no nt. Mm. , Elisabeth Markel, 7:#o p. m. Art Department. Mina Betty Fils- f Inger. 7:30 p m Tuaaaay Hoot Twp Holm- l> onoinii a ( Club. Monmouth High School. 6 30 ( p m Kirkland I aid ice Club, Kirkland , ( High Hi bol Ipm | ( Woonasday Historical Clute, Mrs. Frank I ( 2 30 p rn. Shakespeare Club. Mm. Palmer Eicher. 2:3<» p. in. Inion Twp Homo E<<>nomi<-s| Cluli. Mm. Marjorie Schaler. All j , Day Meeting. Thumday Church Mothem Study Club. M<* , ihmllnl Church. 2:30 p. m tla McGraw and John Dowtina. both of Goodland Mr and Mm Baker will renide at . 110 South Fourth atrwt The bride | wan formerly employed at the Gen eml EliMtric com puny and the rroom in a local (Minter. ■ I I MRS FRED FULLENKAMP ENTERTAINS AT DINNER Mm. Fred Fullenkamp entertain- ( ed with a nix-thirty o'clock dinner | party Innt eveninr at her horn- 1 on North Second ntieel liotuirina the birthday annlvemary of her i • Ident daughter, Patricia A bowl of ronen centered the din-; Ina table and the auenfn included . Minn Rone Fullenkamp. Herb Ful-1 ( lenkamp of Chicago. Kmm th Flltt , ner. Mian Honemary Fullenkamp of, Fort Wayne. Minn Natirwn Fallen- L kamp. Fred Fullenkamp. the boa-1. lean. Mm. Fullenkamp and the , guent ot honor. j, Mina Amon Graber and daughter il Jane. ITiyllla Hunter and Kathryn 11 Schroyer apent Thumday In Fort . Wayne : . „ . —-- — —

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By HARRISON < A KROLL Kist Fsetorr* s,*dirai* Mnivr HOLLYWOOD — UGHTB! CAMERA' ACTION! On a Warner Brother* sound stage thia week, begin* what ahotml

be one of the moat exciting duel* of 1940. We take you to th* set of "All This and Hniven, Too.” where B• 11 * Da v I a and Charles Boyer, r o m a n t ically teamed for the first time, are doing a acene with moat of the

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other principals in the screen of the Rachel Field best seller. It Is the place in the story where Bette comes to apply for the job . of governess at the home of the I Due de Praslin, played by Boyer Rix people are grouped around the living room of a French chateau in the year 1887 Every one is a potential scene stealer. There’s Barbara O'Neill, as the duke's J jealous wife. Then there are three j children. Virginia Weidler, June r Ixwkhart and four-year-old Rich 1 ard Nichols The last two haven’t had any I previous experience in scene stealI ing but every star in Hollywood i has found out how little that mat- | lent In the case of children You can be sure that Bette I knows It but. in this shot, shea I even a party to the theft Four-year-old Richard is sup I posed to bring her a rose and. ' upon her suggestion. to give it in- , stead U> his mother. Director Anatole Litvak tries to i tell hid how to do it but he talks i to Richard as though to an adult i The youngster is confused and I makes mistakes Bette.' appeals Litvak, "you exDlftin it to him ” . Ro Bette kneels, takes the little boy s hands and tells him bow to act this scene that be ll probably I steal from her. Boyer and everyI body else in the shot Between takes, we tell Bette I about the many letters from fans : asking when she is going to make i a modem picture. "This one was supposed to be. | you know." she says ’They were going to give me We Shall Meet Again, but then we had our difficulties and they got Mias Oberon to do the part. "1 look Uiis story because I like

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1910.

Harry Fuhnnan of 227 South Third afreet in "pending the winter in Orlando, Florida Mm. William Beineke of 421 North Sth afreet la aerlounly 111 a' her home, having auffemd two heart attai k« Mr. Beineke in alao < onDlied to hia le-d Their daughter. Mm Mary Bunnewltg of Milwaukee. Win. arrived In Decatur laM evening to Im- at their br-dnlde. Mm. Catherine Kauffman and daughter Kathryn are in St. Untie attending the funeral of the former'a brother, t'harlen Smi)ok> who died Friday. February hi in Monrovia. Cal Mr and Mm. Iceland Frank vlnlted in Fort Wayne Thumday evening Mm. Felix Maier ban boon confined to her le-d at 1109 Went Monroe Htreet for the pant three weekn. Joe Johnn wan aide to be down town thl« morning after a week’* illneaa. Mm. Fred Patlemon in HI at her hom" on South Second ntreet Mm, Pattemon In confined to her l»-d ’ with a aevere <old and throat Infect lon l-ewia Selking Os route 1 looked after huHho-MH In Decatur thia morning Mm Guy Brown la able to laup after a tw-veral week*' lllt>e»» of Influenxa H W McMillen, preaid- nt of the Central Sugar Company returned laat evening from a bnalnena trip to Denver, Colo Avon and Sim Burk of the Burk Flevatom. were among the feed dealers who attended the party given by the M< Millen Feed Mills in Fort Wayne last evening M G Reitz, manager and Tom Allwein. trnflb manager of the new Central Soya company at Gibson City 111. were among those who attended the M< Millen Feed Coni party's party In Fort Wayne last evening ——- - '"O' ■ ■■ — Dr, Charles Kaadt (■ranted New Trial Fort Wayne. Ind. Feb 21 tl’P) Judge Thomas W Slick, sitting in federal court here, today granted a new trial to Dr Charles Frederick Kaadt. operator of a diabetes Institute at South Whitley. Indiana. *ho recently was convicted of using the mails to defraud Kaadt was found guilty on one i count of a six court Indictment, iand the grand jury recommended I leniency. Trade In a Good Tewn — Oeeatuz

i It and because we had the treat luck of being able to get Mr. Boyer to play the Due. He s absolutely the only one who should play him " However. Bette la sure that her next picture, and possibly several more after that, will be modem. Warner Brothers plan to star her in "No Time for Comedy" and In a | remake of •'The Letter." Then, there's the possibility of her appearing with James f, sgney In a modern story. •'And. of course." concludes Bette. "I'd love to do •The Little ! Foxes " It's no wonder the Hollywood stars always are coming down with Its. On a set cold enough to give you goose pimples, poor Irene Dunne m working in her nightie thia week. | Its a scene in My Favorite ; Wife,” where she and Cary Grant ! are quarreling He slams out of the room and Irene sits up in bed. pounds the j covers and kicks her feet in anI noyance. Director Garson Kanin turns to Soundman John Trlbby. ■ Did you hear a funny noise?" he aaka •'Yeah." says Trfbby "It sounded like a hot water hag gurgling ’’ They look accusingly at Irene and she starts to laugh. •All right." she says "You caught me " Still laughing, she produces the hot water bag that had made the noise when she kicked her feet under the covers It's warmer, but still hardly tropical when we visit the ••Torrid Zone set to watch Ann Sheridan, in a copper-eolored and low-cut eve--1 ning gown, put over a song number. "Ml Caballero." In a smoke--1 filled set representing a Central American saloon I The crowd of Latin extras are supposed to be taking it big and they don't need any urging from Director William Keighley. With Pat O'Brien, we watch the scene. •What do you play. Pat?" we I ink Tm the head of a banana company." II "And what does James Cagney 1 ’ nlay ?” I -Oh.” My« Pat. ”Hr’• a guy who | Is always trying to quit and I won't j let him." "Sounds exciting." we suggest. Pat laughs "It ought to be," he replies "You know what It is. don’t you ? It’s really Walter Bums and Hlldy Johnson In the tropica!"

BERNE NEWS ■y t- M. SCHWARTZ Elmer Fluer-kiger. driver of a .gasoline truck for the Eastern Indiana Oil and Supply Company, ew-aped Injury when .the truck he was driving skidded on the i< y toad and turned over. None of the gasoline was spilled but the truck was badly damaged. Berne's old school building whi< h has not been in use since the construction of the new school, will lie »old at public auition on March d. The building Is a two-story brick structure, and Was eret ted in I HUH. It Is located one block south of Main street The town will probably buy the 10l and make a park out of the site where l-and concerts and other similar entertainments can Im- held. • Lloyd Blhersteln. 36. of thia place who was Injured In an auto accident last Sunday, is aide to Im- up and around He left the hospital on Monday. Two woin--n riding In the machine that collided with the Hlliemtein car. were killed The arci•lent happened on Federal road 27. 5 miles south of Fort Wayne, The Berne business places will close for three hours on Good Friday The business men have decided to cooperate With the Ministerial Asao« lation in sponsoring a Good Friday service. The service, a union one. will Im- at the Mennonite church. This will Im- the first time In several years that the Berne stores will be < loseu for this occasion The Berne f'liamlw— of Commerce has the highest enrollment in history E. J Schug < hairman of the membership committee for 194<» an iiounces that llfi members have already paid up and the final total will lie more than 126. Frank Nusslwum. owner of the Nprunger Music and Llechty Jewelry Store la constriicling a fireproof 22-60 feet addition Io the rear of the building. Th* building Is a part of the champion block and was the only portion not built to The alley following the destrttctlM of thia liliM k by fire In 191* Elmer Llechty. Berne town clerktreasurer annoume-, that he has received a supply of registration blanks Any one not registered i» urged to do so. as the May primary elmlloh Is just a few weeks away Approximately one half of the automobile owners of Berne and community who Iniy their plates in Berne have pur< hased the 1940 tags, nn-l the deadline Is l-ss than one week away Alsiut 1200 sets of the new plates have lieen sold at the local branch, and there arthat many more ear owner* who i have not yet bought them. Gl-n Neuenschwunder. Monroe township trustee, is still confined to his home here, recuperating from a b-g operation at th- Adam* county hospital recently He is recovering rapidly and egpei Is to lie un and around in a few days. Mr and Mrs Reuben Haln-gger of this place are planning to move to a farm near Wooster. Ohio, next week. Mrs. Habegger is a native of the Wooster community Mrs. N. J. Hchiimai ker of west of Berne, returr-d tn her home this week after attending the funeral of her uncle. William Allier. 7k. of Cleveland. Ohio Mr. Alder was killed instantly when struck by a hit-and-run driver, on a Cleveland street The victim was on his way to work at the time The marriage of Mia* Viola Stauffer to Jacob Amstutz of this place, will occur next Sunday afternoon. February 25. al the Defenseless Menuonite church west of town. The couple will reside in Berne. Miss Una Suckau of this place, teacher in the Monroe high School, has returned to hwr work alter missing a day or two because of an injury suffered when she fell. Many farmers of thia community are enjoying electric lights and power for the first time Power lines built by the REA were completed recently and the current turned on. Most of the lines In thia port of Adams county are a part of the Jay county rural electrification set-up The Beane Bears are working overtime In preparation for (he sectional tourney al Decatur next

COOK WITH ELECTRICITY HEE THE NEW ERIGIDAIRE ELECTRIC RAMIES $ 102’5° up VHKICK BROS. Mr. Fanner TRADE IN THOSE OLD APPLIANCES ON NEW UP-TO-DATE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. I HRICK BROS.

week. The Bears are all in fairly ' good condition at the present. Burry. who became sick Just before the Central of Fort Wayne game last Hatiirday. has returned to school. The Bears, while- hoping to i win the sectional realize- there is a tough job ahead for them and If they lose It will not Im- Iwcau ■- of over-confidence Indications lire' that a large numlter of season tickets will Im- sold here- for the four- ' ney. Jerome Btelner. < . iner Bernenet star whose parents no* live al Decatur, has just broken the alltime Butler I'nlvesrlty individual scoring record. Hteiner now has I scorisl Htfc points, two more than the- old record of IXB sei ten y-ars i ago by Oral Hildebrand now a star < pitcher with the New York Vanke»es. Steiner, who I* finishing his college career In a blaze of glory. ' misses] three gam- s be-caaue of 111- ' ness. but has two more games to 1 play, and will probably finish the se-ason with more than SOO point*. BEET CROWERS fCONTINUKD FROM PAGE ONRI of the cooperative contract under which sugar lieets are grown Another feature of these meet Ings will be a play entitled “Farmer Hiram In Person.'' In which various fleldmen of the sugar company will play the characters Admission to each of these meetings will Im- by ticket Three tick eta have been mailed To each heel \ grower Ticket stubs turtn-d In al the tloor will cpialify those- attending to receive door prizes which will lw* awarded nt the close of eu< h meeting ID-fteshm-nla will Im- served to all present The letter sent out to sugar beet glowers inviting them tn attend these various mec-tings, calls attention to the advance of the price of sugar during the last World War and urges each beet grower to take advantage of the full acreage allotted him for 194 U under the proportionate share arrangeI rnent of the sugar act Benefit payineiits will again be ' paid hy th- government on snmr | beet* grown in 1940 the same as for the past three years Sugar lieet growing in this area ! is expected to Im- definitely stimulated this senson In view of the prospects of better returns on the sugar lieet crop anti the present low prices of most other faun commodities I'nder the proportionate share I determinations of the sugar section of the I' S D A . it will lie possible for growers In the Decatur a*i i to ini !•-.<«>' th-- planted acte age approximately l.M® acres, nlsive that planted in 193 P o — FARM TENANTS CONTINI'KD FRO* rAOK OMBI vid<-d by the Wagners Prize* Are Awarded Prize* in the master farmer! group were awarded as follows ' First Ktigeni- George. Van Werl - county. IK>; second. William Evans. Van Wert couniy third : Henry Smlil--y. Van Werl county: | W J Dull. Mercer county. Ohio Highest beet tonnage per acre j laindrum and Bailey. Adams conn . ty; Dan Schwartz. Adams county: I Homer Murphy. Van Wert couniy j Highest cash return per crop acre: William Evans, W J Dull I Henry Sniltley Best soybean yield p--r acre W J Dull. Raymond Rlngger. Adam-1 county Best corn yield per acre- Ray I mood Rhiggei Best wheat yield per acre K--n neth Scott. Wells county Best oal yield per acre Eugene

Loved Child—but Killed Her I A ; ’ k di S Mr*. Betty Hardaker A naw picture of tragic Mr* Betty Hardaker. H-year-old Palm Springs. Cal, mother who killed the five-year-old daughter she loved because “she waa too good ’ to live. Mt*. Hardaker repottedly waa a member of a voodoo cult which believe* in human aacrlfice.

George Valuable prizi-s. including ftiniitare and household appliance* were awarded to the winners The wive* of the farm tenants were each given EG by the company. The Zarin tenstits on the C.immi acres owned liy the company areGlenn Adams, Ft. Jennings; Deoh Applegate, Rockford: Victor Malfalt. Woodburn; Darrel J. Hunter, Van Wert; Gillw-rt A. Mowery. Poneto; Walter Wah hie. |b-< ator; Henry A. Smithy. Vsn Wert. Cyril DeKi-yser. Van Wort; llom--r Murphy. Convoy. Arthur Bauer. Convoy: W J Dull Marla Stein; Wm Neadstlne. Decatur; Daub I A Si hwarlz. Monroi-, (Mho g- Chester Gustin. Antwerp; Victor A Jake Deiagrange. Woodburn; Myles Lhamon. Van Wert; Myron Hunter. Van Werl: Raymond Rlngger. Bluffton; Harold Conby. Markle; W II Evans. Convoy: Vost llersi hlwrgor. Woodbum; Monr<w> Byer lh->atur; Harry (I la-lzhner Koikfotd; W J Smith, Monroeville, laiwrente lioohrman, WoodhnVn; Eugene George. Rockford: Clifford Perry. Van Werl; W L Conley. Will shire; John laindrum A Rolw-rt Bailey, Decatur; John Hunsak--r. Middlepoint; Ki-iitu-th Sciat BlttlTton; Otren Myers. Dixon; Will Schnepf, Decatur. o BRITISH HEAD ICONTINI'ED FROM PAGE <I!»BI our part should be ready to seek a settlement with any government that bail subscribed to those alms mid giveii'prisif of Its sincerity It was for Germany, he said, to take the next step and slow the world thin once for all sh- had abandotusl the thesis that might was right. Chamberlain almost contemptuously criticised Russia's war on Finland So easy did Germany's compi-st of Poland appear, he said, 'thnt the apprentice i Russia - thnnghr he could safelly make a similar attempt In Finland, but though the Russian apprentice had nothing to learn from his master in brutality he had not yet mastered his - raft nor acquired his fore- “ In what was interpreted as mi Indlre. i Invhathm to neutrals to join the allies. Chamberlain spoke of their sufferings at Germany's bund*. All small slate* near Oeri many ' ure living hi a perpeltlal nightmare of fear." In- said t'hainbetlalu said that German war alma were In two phases "the destruction of (his na:ion mid domination t>f the world - "Wi- are fighting to alxdlah the I spirit of militarism arid the acct - i inulallon of armaments which it I paup-i izing all Europe end noi - l-ast Get ma tty hetsell “How are these nima to la- xI cured? First the independence of the j Poles and t'z-i h* must he *-• med. "Secondly, we must have Minntangible evidence that will satisfy | us liwt any pledge* or assurance* ' given will la- fulfilled “Therefor- Il I* for Germany to take the next step and show :ts 1 she has om-e for all aha nd-nn-<t the ' thesis that right is might Charnlierlain reiterated that Britain would not treat with the \ present German government. b«I cause “under the present German . government there can be no securj Ity for the future SAYS BRITISH (CONTINUBD or PAJU HX) ; British planes had ntta- k—l a third I'-lioat off the northeast toast of iMotland yesterday scoring several direct hits after whl- h the sub-

marine disappeared, and that a ' fourth I'-lsiut was ramno-d and < damaged hy the 3.741-ton British steamer Asiath Tin- daily Herald I said it umlersliaal the fourth I'-houl | later was sunk by BriHsli planes ARRIVALS Mr and Mrs. Paul Wlllimn Conrad of 32<t Winchester streel are the parents of a Italiy daughter >M>rn at the Adams i-omily memorial huspitqj Ftiday afternoon at 354 o'cliM-k Th.- baby weighed seven pounds and six ouiu-mi She has lw->-n nam-d Virginia ItosThis Is th-- second child nod first girl — • o Sweden Abandons (iold Standard Stockholm. Feb 21 ll'pl Swe-I 1 1 den went off the gold standard be - day u» the government convokwl a ' special session of fuirliumi-ut sot Sunday afternoon and fm -d a -Ilf - flcult diplomatic situation as re-' ult of Russian denial that Red army planes had la>mli--d the Swedish frontier town of Pajala Th- government agreed to es-1 falilisti foreign ex< hang-- control. I The bill, tabled in purlianient this I afternoon, will Im- debated an.l pasx-d tomorrow mid become eff»-i -

Louisiana’s Next Governor oS rtf [JI Her-- is Louisiana's next governor, Sam Houston Jones, am! hi* wife, shown In New Orleans. Jones, 42, defeated Gov. F-atl K Ixing In a Democratic runoff prtn'jxry, which i* tantamount to election. Mother, Children Stowaways ' 'ill wMmE- . 'o When th* 8 8 Vulcania docked in New Yorx. the** four pi-tsona, Mr* Margarets n» Leroae Ma lden Alvarez and her three children, were aboard -as stowaways. Mr* Alvatet is an American citizen, retiding In ITula lelj-hia. She boarded the boat at Lisbon, snuggling herself and family Into a third cla»s cabin occupied by another woman. She was not disiovcred until sh< attempted to pas* Ihiough Immigration.

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live Munday No opposition Waa expet-ted o Fort Wayne Youths Held As Robbcrw Fori Wayne. Ind . Feb. 24 'U.p> Pollc- announced ih- soluilon loday of a aerie* of burglaries with I hi- arrest of three youths. They charged Marshall Souers, Ift. and Dean Gaskill. 21, wliff tiurglary, and Ray Ixtvln, 19, with rereiving stolen rixxls All are from Fort Wayne. Police i-stimated the total loot obtained from the thefts at It.loo <> • Catches MB-Pound Tuna Liverpool. N S ll'Pl A new world's record tuna was landed here by J Frank Johnson of White.stone N. V fishing with rod and | line The giant Hina weighed *6B pound* mid It took two hours mid 27 minutes to land o Bible Far Every Soldier Weston, (ini (U.R> When Can- ' alia s tlrst rolltlngent l-aves for ’ England, every man will Im- glv-n la spi-i-lal edition ot the New Ti-stu- . tnent. containing a message from the Kins