Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1940 — Page 3

Y. MAY 17, 1940.

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■ring And Dittcour* ■nunt Were Soon ■cd By famous Iler- ■ Mi tlit inc. Says Mr*, ■icr. Enjoy* Life ■in. ■•• ■ . .■••111.1)1 ••! two Vl' IIS 111 health w.ii turned ■< :" ••( •.•»!..) •••! „l ,-ngth ■nt . Mrs Flora Crozier, ■c tn her grat«*fal piihllipraising thin < elehrated ■ha! nn .lh inn. Mrs Crozier ■rll known reaident of 31'»| ■nth St Indianapolis ■ over two yearn I wan In ■*■ health." declares Mm. ■ "I suffered from poor ■io» nervousness. muscular Hati'l •oi'ietlmen my whole ■*■ numb Food upset me ■ s,| l a hot burning return ■ throat I had a constant My rent at night wan ■ ati'l I would waken In the ■ ul’h my handn und feet ■fc-ml limed me to take Re- ■«'! I •••rtaln’y am thankful

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! liik room where refreshments and | entertainment were furnished by the In,Me, -I"., (he Meadamei, Ed Ahr. James Hoagland ami Tillman ! Gehrig. Hostes*!-* for the neat meeting I will le. Ml Karl Butler. Mrs Mary |Mi<Tiiii- ami Mi Alva But fen bar [ ger. MRS HAROLw UAivIILS 18 SO CHA REA HOSTESS Mra Harold Daniel wa ho les* Ito till- ineinlH'i . of th.' So Cha Ilea I club and gu>-’. Mr* .Mark I Braden last evening at her home I on Nlxth street. After a short bn,trie « meeting five game Ilf brldi’i- •*•■•.- played and prl»* given to Mr* Vim ent Bormann, Mrs, larwreme Beal ami Mr- Clyde Butler, Delhloua refreshments were xerved at the (lose of the game* .The neat meeting will be held with Mix* Matie Murtaugh A meeting of the Tri Kappa sorority Will Im held Tuesday evening at eight o i lurk at the mayor's court room In the city hall build Illg All tneinlmrs are urged to ati lend tri kappas have ANNUAL MOTHERS PARTY I he metnlmr* of Tri Kappa entertained their inothet* and a numbei I of guests with a lovely dinner parly ■ last evening at the Masonic hall A delicious three course dinner was I served - mail table* beautifully de-ori t.-d with spring flowers ami . t andl.s of pastel shades In crystal holders. Each guest’s place wa I marked with a pott.-d plant The i entire dining room wa* colorful with bouquets of spring flower. After dinner an unusually Inlet •-sling program wa injoyi-d Mr i James Kocher, Jr., played several selections on the vlbraharp .Mrs Ft-d Smith gave a <lever dem-rip

MRS FLORA CROZIER that I did All those aches and pninn and the numbness are things of the pa«t. and Retonga stopped 1 that terrilii" arid belching. My | elimination in splendid I rent j well at night, and I never have , swollen handn and fest I enjoy I my work and enoy life thanks to thin wonderful tiyw medicine and I want my friends all to know what Retonga will do tor them Retonga may be obtained at llolthonne Drug Co. Adv.

CLUB CALENDAR DMdlina, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phono 1000 — 1001 Friday ; SI. Lukes Ladles' Aid Society, < hurt h Basement, all day meeting. I'hllathae class. Baptist Church. ] "' 3u p. m. Presbyterian Itummage Male, Wall Building. 3rd and Monroe Sts. Saturday, Saturday Zion Kvangelital and I cafeteria Supper, Church S to 7 p. m. Presbyterian Itummage Sale, I Wall Building. 3rd and Monroe Sts. Cafeteria Hupper. Zion Evangel) <ul ami Heformwl Church, 5 to 7 P tn iCDTi. Monday Phoelte Bible Class, Reformed Church, 7 if. p m iCDTi. T uewaay c I. of C Mother.’ Party K. of ic. Home, i; 3n p ni Tri Kappa Sorority, Mayor’s Court Room, city Han, g p tioli of the first mother's day (tarty •'Ver given by the sorority, Mrs. John Tyndall read a poem about Tri Kappa ami Mrs. Dan I yndall sang two song*, at companied at the piano by Mrs. Harry Dailey. ,\|| musical numlters pertained to the .Mother’* Day theme Mt- Leonard Saylor* then gave a review of the story "Career Women" in a most Interesting and unusually clever manner. .Mt- .1.1 Helm of Miami, a charter member of the sorority In Decatur. was a guest at the party. The committee iii charge included MiDan II Tyndall chairman, and thMesdaines Paul Sauter, tilady. Chamberlain and Win Bell FOREIGN MISSIONARY MEETS WITH MRS LITTLE The woman’s foreign missionary society of the Methodist church met at the holm- of Mrs. William Lillie yesterday afternoon with Mrs. Jesse Niblick in charge of devotional*. Mrs It W. Graham, program leader, had as her subject. "What •an we do to establish world iH-aie' Mt- Percy Gould conduct-

! led a business meeting laiv.dy refreshments were served by the hostess assisttai by the Mesdames 1.. L. Hann. (I. I, Braden amt J T. .Myers. | The Catholic laidies of Columbia will give their annual .Mother's parly in the form of a pot Im k - supper Tuesday evening at sixthirty o'clock al the K of C hall J DISCUSSION GROUP MEETS THURSDAY tnir lardy of Perpetual Help disImssion group met Thursday evenling al the home of Miss Josephine • Wolpert with Miss Esther Meyer as leader. Tile jtlcovery of the Holy Cross I was narrated by Josephine Wolpert and the Fea t of Corpus Christi was explained by Miss Margaret Wolpert. The lives mid works of St. Monica and St. I ton I face were also discussed. A shoit story was read by Helen ITnian The I lull will meet ill June with Miss Dorothy 1-a Fontaine as the hostess The menu for the ludles Aid cafeteria supper at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church Saturday evening from five to seven o'clock Is as follows: fried chicken. creamed chicken and biscuit's, meat loaf, salmon loaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, baked beans, baked corn, dressing, cottage cheese bak s| apples, salads. potato salad, pie. cake and. coffee o M'/jill • 2U ». white unwatermarked mimeograph, adaptable for all kinds of mimeograph work and nullable for ink uigMture, 75c. The Decatur lAemocrat <4>.

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Former Local Residents Will Observe Wedding Anniversary

Mr and Mrs. John Gerard, form- . er prominent residents of Decatur, |tow living In Toledo. Ohio, will . celebrate their Golden wedding anniversary May 20. |S<o Mr. and Mrs. Gerard were married May 20. DtftO In St Mary’s Catholic church by tin- late Rev. I he< t . Wilken with Bub Ehlnger, I tdeceasedl. Mrs Adah Gass and Ihm Niblick of this city and her sister Mrs. Philip Ardner as at- . tendants. Mr. and Mrs. Gerard together with their two daughters, Irene and Marguerite moved to Toledo twenty-four years ago thia month They have been subscribers to the Iterator Daily Democrat ever since

Mrs. Imulse Shraluka Is ill at her home on Seventh street. ! Mrs. J J. Helm ,ind Mrs. J II , Heller enjoy<-d the day at Mott- . mouth as the guests of Mr. and , Mr*. Cal Kunkel. Mr* la-i- Walters. Mrs. John Peterson. Mr*. Kllzahetb Market and Mrs. Ague* Andrew* left this morning for Holland. .Michigan where they will enjoy the tulip festival for several days Tomorrow they will witness He big opening parade of the festival and watch the poo- . pie scrubbing the streets In their wihkli-h shoes. They will return . home Monday. , A registered Jersey cow has been purchased by C. F Eichhorn of 731 Mercer Avenue, from Christ John Korte, also of Decatur. The animal Is Majesty Fog Polly 11H».'32. according to The Amerl- ! can Jersey Cattle Club. 324 W J23rd Street. New Vork. N V. , i Dave Adams and l-jl Bauer at- , I tended to business in Portland last ••veiling Cui E Peterson has been attending to business In Columbus. Ml**., ['the (last several day* i Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wallace reI turned to their home in lai Porto . today after a several days’ visit . with relatives and friends in De- . • catur. Richard Tei-ple, of this city ha* accepted a lamltion In tin- office* of the Wade Trucking company ’••i Fort Wayne o - I Trade In a Good town — Oeealu*

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By HAMMON CARKOI.I Alag >estarrs Sjspirals WHIM HOLLYWOOD-There It, a very funny story about the Mary Mar-tin-Richard Halliday elopement. For weeks a salesman hail been

trying to talk I Halliday Into buying an ex- ; pensive car. He finally persuaded the story editor to try it out , for one week- • end. It was > while riding I around in this I car, at 2 a m. I that Mary and I Halliday decldI ed to get mar-

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ried. The drive to l-a* Vegas and back put more than 600 miles on the car and now ' Halliday feels he HAS to buy It. Here's something else that wasn't printed Arriving In Las Vegas, the film couple got the management of a hotel to help them arrange a quick ceremony Seems as the |>eople who run the place often serve as Cupid's aid to Hollywood elopers. They have a special teai son to be sympathetic The hotel Is owned by Character Actress Sara Haden and her husband. Newcomer John Shelton, who's playing Lana Turner's bridegroom In "To Own the World." would like j to be the real life bridegroom of Ruth Hussey He told me that they had talked It over seriously, but that nothing Is definite and he doubts If there J will be right away. "I want to marry Ruth. That goes without i saying," he declared, "but she hasn't agreed. Everybody seems . to think it would be bad for our careers. I can't see why myself. ' Almost everybody In the business i Is married." i The old story! How many young ; players have fretted over the problem of love versus career! Film stars easily can change their telephone numbers but not | their addresses. One of the ways the addresses get noised around is through the stores where the | Hollywood people trade. The Stores take all possible precautions but can't entirely prevent leakage of Information. Myrna Loy has an Idea that may solve the problem. She and a group of friends are planning to rent an office in Beverly Hills where all their packages can be ' delivered. The stars then can send i their chauffeurs to pick them up Myrna aays she is going to put the idea Into operation as soon | as she finlshrs "I Luve You Again'

their marriage, continuing the pap- . er after they moved to Toledo. I Mr. and Mr* Gerard are visiting In Vincennes. Indiana, with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mr* Francla J Robb and sons for i the month of May and will lie join- . ed next Bunday by their other . daughter and family. Mr and Mrs. I 'Frank William* who will help J celebrate They are both enjoying i gisMi health and want all their I friends and relatives to know they ’ still have a warm apot in their hearts for their old home town ' u .Mr. and Mrs. Gerard are with I their daughter. Mrs. Francis J II Robb. 14 W Syeiunoi • street, Vili • ceiinea. Indiana

$53,000 In Insurance Paid In Thia City I Polit y holder* ami le-iieflt larie ■ In this city received I.',3.ihhi last year from Insurance companies, according to the annual n |e,rl of the National I’uderwrlter. , Payments In Indiana totaled *f>tl 2«m.mm. Name* Usti-d in the report of Decatur people who carried in ! suratii e and whit h wan (mid th ls*n eflclarles Im hided. Jessie Biirdg. .Curtis Cline Casper Dilling. (h- --, inent L. Walters anti Emma I Worthman. Indiana ranked 13lli in lite insurance payments among all states In the union and 12th in nice of popuJ illation Payments made to Fori I Wayne residents totaled 12 2r,0.0ia) o I Special Service At U. B. Church Tonight ’’Will Hitler Win This War?" Is to In- the siiliject of the address of Rev Harold I. Ntephens at the First rnitisl Brethren church to night This la to be the final hi a series of three special services al flic > huri-h and will start at 7 3n o’llm-k iCDTi All of the addresses have been well received and Hie meetings , have been attended hy large < rowds. Rev. G T Rmiselot. church I .; pastor, reported today. Tonight’s i address Is expected to lie of un , usual Interest in view of the pre valent Euro|e-aii situation Th" . gt-neral public la extended ;• cordi ial Invitation tn attend the service. I No two former President* are bulled in the name city

and has a little time to p,ck the office and the person to be in f charge of it. Tough luck for William Famuni' i They are cutting out one of his ( biggest scenes in "The Vilhan Still j i Pursued Her"—the one where he ■ recited 'The Face on the Barroom ! t I Floor." Most of the picture Is burlesque • but this piece was delivered I straight. Bill did his work too Well • At the sneak preview the audience I didn't start laughing again, even [ when It was supposed to. So out i comes the recitation. I Contrary to what Hollywood • thinks, Laraine Pay’s boy friend ■ Burnett Ferguson, probably will • I not do missionary work after he ■ finishes his two years' training and ' service with the Mormon church In New York She tells me that at I the end of the two years Ferguson . can take up any work he likes—- ■ and that he wants to get a job as ■ a film cutter, with the Idea of I i eventually becoming a director i I asked her If they are planning I to be married She said she didn’t ■ know, that they'd have to wait and I see how they feel when Ferguson i comes back. If Producer Jules Levey wants i to, he can have five out-of-town i premieres for his Universal plr- • ture, "The Boys From Syracuse" ' He's received blds already from five towns named Syracuse , . in I New York. In Ohio, In Indiana, In ; Kansas and Nebraska. • • i Cedric Gibbons, whose marriage | to Dolores Del Rio recently | smashed up, will vacation In Honoi lulu. . . . George Brent Is taking a course In navigation and hopes to | enter his schooner, The South Wind, In the 1041 race to Hawai! . . . Frances Farmer and Harold Clurman of the Group theater were confabbing at the House of Murphy . . . Judy Parker Is the latest beauty on John Carrolls arm. They were at N T G'a . . . Cagney's going In for sulky racing. Will take a horse back to Martha's Vineyard ... A new Hollywood late spot that plana to feature a South sea atmosphere Is looking for a parrot that uses cuss words. . . . Wallle Ford Is the only movie celeb who had to build a new swimming pool each year. He uses the stream In front of hie house and the winter floods partially fill It with debria . . . Rosalind Keith is the year's strangest casualty. Her face was so badly pecked by a butcher bird that she had to go to a doctor There won't be a scare, but it frightened the l.fe out of her.

Doubt Driver Os Ambulance Eormer I Resident Os Berne A vain attempt to establish the Identity of one Louis Wehrley, re- : portedly from Berne, Indiana, who narrowly escaped death In a bomli Ing raid In France last night and today kept newspapermen 111 IKcatur. Berne Fort Wayne. Indian a|will«, etc etc . feverishly busy , Press assie iatlons late last eve [ ning reported that Wehrley, tm am- ' bulnnce driver for Ho American volunteers organisation, escaped from German Iroups Ihui raptured i his ambulance and Its wounded 1 meupants during n Isnnhlng raid Tin- n port gave his nddr- •* aBerni- Indiana. Then cam- the "clmk nt- IjHe today no definite trace of sm h a I person had la-ell found after a , I prai tb ally nil night < hi-i k with j postal authorities in Monro*- and Heme, town otto ial* veteran re»i dents, i-ii Two young men. nlioiil 25 years old. name of Werner, employes o. ■ the Dunbar furniture fu iory. dal reside in Bt-im- until ahoul It rears ago. n<-<•irdinp to the most authentic source* These young men moved Weal at that time and have, to th*- la-st knowi-ldgi- of Berm- iD-ilh-i be. n «. «-n .nor hard of bon- since It is •-••iiKidi-rcd |Missil>le that ’ laiiiis Wehrley" might In- a son of a relative of one of these pi-i son*, hence th- Bern- address. A proliable emit radii Hun to Hila fai t, however, can been seen by the assertion that this Wehrley family i wa* native German and probr.tdy ■ pru-Germ hi in sympathy it b a--t 'to the point that one of them would not lie operating ?.n amlm lance of the Allies. Their names were Ji>hn and Joe j Their father’s name was Weiner A mixup in th- fir** name*? Po** Ible but highly i.iipnili.ibb- Il I* , believed Venerable Be. ne residents, who*' I rendlei turns .if Bertie ami It* re*> ! dents ar almost as obi us the town i itself say "no lautls Wehrley evei lived lr-re ' t’oitlil ”l.nui* Wehr i ley’s" address have been Berne. Sw i’z.-i laml ’ Emphalh ally no ay l pres* association corre-'pond* nt* Thus, unless some hitherto un j found person ventures forth with positive priMif that a 'Ta>ul* Wehrley" did at one time live In tlntown of B-rn-. Imllami. Hr-dos wan liin:- and tired of* liecklng

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NEW YORK.—WeII, it’s happened, ham’t it’ The <’r Circle and the Pulitzer award for the be-t play of the year went to William Saroyan the name’s familiar, isn’t it?- for “The Timo of Your Life." We still don’t like it. We wouldn’t, a* the num said, like it if it were good. And it isn’t good. It’s ju.-t plain bad. Hut it took the prize. And it isn’t becaUM we didn’t warn all concerned. The gentle render will recall that when we got around to Ing “The Time of Your Life” we said that it would have been a fine play if some smoke odd<-n derelict on the Bowery had guzzled a dozen iiuirk shots of the po son they sell there for liquor, rolled under the table, and dreamt it all. It had all that silly preciosity that lies on th<- obver e of the medal on which Saki made his tamp a generation ago. It’* > Just too, too cute We think Karuyan no genius and we take a mean pleasure in see.ng him get the highest awards offered playwi ighta. The week’s happenings were ur.di-tinguished nlong Broadway. "Out from Under," a play by i John Walter K»l!v was produced nt ’he Biltmore Theatre by Brock! Pemberton hut did him little credit. The idea—a small town ; editor wbj indulge* hi* libido for i th<- ‘ ~ii’h Seas by writing n book | about it is rather thin. It made i rather a thin evening's entertain- | m- nt depite the heroic effort of I Luth W. -ton, Idm Alexander. ; Viola Dean, Philip <»l,-r and i John Robb A -omi-.’l' t m ire it ten- ting i

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play was "The Strangler Fig,” by Edith M-i er, from the mystery book by John Stephen Strange. It was produced nt the Lyceum Theatre by William Herz. Miss Meizcr has a lot’s nnd 41*tinmiUhed career as writer of scripts for the radio. That wi’t probably account forth- fact that the play is siiprhod. the lines poorly conreßcd and trite, and the situation* badly handled. From the aural point of view the play might have neen a suecc «. If one was to hear it over the radio and listen to it as one doe* usually v.ith half an ear - it might have gone over. But the theatre is another horse of a different t’nt. Situation* whichmight have b< en intensely dramatic rouse giggles when they emp out without rhyme or reason. Lines which might curdle •he blood as one sits in the living room half-listening to the loud -peaker are merely ridiculous when one sees them delivered. There was a deal of murder in "The Strangler Fig." which is a rapacious tropical vine, strangling all it touches, finally strangling itself. Miss Meiser’s initial effort at playwriting can ba • all.-d successful if she profits from th- weakness of "The Strangler Fig.” She is an able actress with a sense of drama. Once she achieve* the • hangs of pace required in the leap from radio to stage, -he will produre plays worth seeing. By th- way, we forgot to tell you that Mr. William Saroyan’s play, "Ixjve’s Old Sweet Song,” la- opened ami is even now »n---deari" • it- If to nil and sundry.

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