Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1942 — Page 3

cIuRDAY. MARCH 28 1942

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Mrtzsprunger Kg solemnized ■v.nt.rda Schwab*. daugli mid Mr*. <’ W II of north of Bern* and (, n nf M* and Mr* |KspriinK<-r of Berne. were K. i,..r ur« Thur day ■ ven o'clock in th<- Men E ;l r<oaage in Berne. were Miss l/iralnc u nd Corman M< K< an The K r „ received hy Rev C II pa«tor of the church. In of the Immefiale faK, ,|.- wore a bßhi blue «llk Kih pearl buttons and tuck* K the trimming. Iler <oat were of beige and *oft K, th matching a<<i n«orie« Kahler corsage wan of gar- ■| . h'n.in wore leal blue «ilk K-d corsage of rose, and Knd Mr* Sprunger left ImKlj after the ceremony on a K daya' wedding trip to unKed destination They will Koine after March 30 al 343 Knilluren street. Berne Kt ide la a »eam«tre<a in th- 1 Kl.nuit.i- tin inc company and Kiate of the Monroe high ■ I tn- ar,etui graduated from Kne high *< hool and la a»*oKuh hl* father in the Berne ■n plant. ■ men of the Zion Evangeli ■ Reformed church Guild are ■g egg* to the church on ■day and not later than ■ay morning. The Guild will ■n Easter egg aale Friday ■nirday Anyone wishing to ■« asked to call Mrs. David ■. Mrs John Beineke or Mrs. ■ Wort liman. |EY CLASS ■MEETING 4 ■ Wesley f'ouplea class met In ■rial room of the Methodist ■ last evening with the preK Mr*. 11. L. Nell, presiding. were taken from the

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I2th chapter of Unman* followed with the laird'* prayer In unlaon During ‘he businew* meeting Ihe class voted to make wig new table* for the social room of the church Game* and contevts were enjoyed and a delicious luncheon served at tables attraclive with Easlei appoint menta. Mosiesse* were Mr and Mrs. J M floati. Mr. and Mrs. Alva laiw «nn and Mr*. Burdette Custer INTERESTING LEADERS MEETING IS HELD A leaders meeting nf th • county home economic* club* wa* held all day yesterday al the junlpr senior high school The meeting war opened hy the president, Mrs E. W Busche. using the club song and creed I. E. Archbold. county agent, Introduced Miss Virginia Barty, th* nutrition specialist from Purdin university Mr. Archbold then eg > plained Ihe request of the government that agriculture should increase Ihe production of tomatoes, sugar beets and soy beans, of Which there Is a shortage The roll call showed that there was a one hundred per cent attendance of leaders and officers at the meeting. Mrs. Ilusche made an appeal for Red Cross worker*. The nutrition specialists then presented her lesson of ‘ Food buying and meal planning Mis, Berry gave a demonstration of low cost food recipes, namely oatmeal trull pudding ami linked potatoes with crewmed pea* and beef At noon a pot luck luncheon was i enjoyed, immediately following which Dr. G. J. Kohne was introduced and made an appeal to have all children over nine mnnth* of age Immunised against diptheria and smallpox The nest leaders' meeting will tie held June It. The Women of the Moose reported a good attendance at the meet Ing heled Thursday evening After candidates were Initiated Mr*. Charles Morgan, chairman of the social service committee, wa* In charge of the chapter night proI gram and social hour. Gaines were enjoyed and prise* won by Mr*. | Harold. Heller. Mr*. John Ixwlie. Mrs. Otto Baker and Mrs. Joe Rnah. A delicious luncheon was served The next meeting will be held Thursday. April !. CIRCLE MEETING HELD RECENTLY The Ituth and Naomi Circle of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church met rmently in the social room of the church with 20 members present. Mr*. Attl • Yost had the devotional* and Mrs. la-o Kirsch a paper entitled "Htewardship of Time.'* The group decided to purchase I a defense bond Mrs. O. L. Kirsch I was apixilnb-d delegate to the Fort

CLUB CALENDAR ••slaty Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy • Phenes 1000 — 1001 Friday Rebekah I axis*, Red Men Hall. 7:3n p. m. Study Group of P. T. A., Lincoln Rchool I to 2 10 p m American le-glon Auxiliary. Laglon Home, 7:M p m. Parent-Teacher Association, Lincoln Hchool, 2 So p. m. lied Cross Production Center. American tw>glon Home, 1 to 4:30 Wesley Couples Class, Methodist Church, 7:10 p m. •aturday Tri Kappa Colled Meeting. Mayor's Court Hoorn. 7:30 p m. Eastern Ntar Installation of Officers. Ma*onl<- Hall. > p. in. open to public. Zion Evangelical and Reformed Young People’s Choir. Church. 7 p m Monday Pythian Needle Club. K. of P I Home. After Temple. Pythian Bisters Tempi* Meeting. i K. of P. Home, 7:30 p. m Red Croea Production Center. Leglon Homo. 11:30 to 4:30 p. m. Home Hygiene Classes, Lincoln | , School. 7 p. m. Research Club. Mrs. Leonard I Saylors, 2.10 p. m * Tuesday Olive Ridw-knh latdge. 1. (>, O. F. Hall. 7:30 p m, Kirkland latdles' Club. Kirkland High Hcbool, 1:30 p. m Wednesday Shakespeare Club. Mrs. Arthur Suttle*. 2 30 p m Red Croea Sewing Project, Legion Home, 1 to 4 p. m. Thursday Pleasant bale latdiea* Aid Hoc- ; iety. Mrs. William Griffiths. All Day. Missionary Society. Fira: Presbyterian Church, 2:30 p. m Wayne regional meeting to be held In April and Mr*. A R. Ashhancher as alternate. During the social hour lov- ’y refreshments were served by Mrs Jennie Gehrig and Mrs. George Buckley. The Olive Rebekah lodge will meet in the I. O. O. F hall Tuesday evening at seven-thirty o’clock. The Hartford City lodge will be preaen' and wil present the “Dove” to the Decatur chapter. All lodges In the diwtrlct will he represented and the district deputy president. Henrietta Markley, will be a special guest Every member is asked to lie present not later than seven o'clock. BIRTHDAYS CELEBRATED WITH POT LUCK DINNER Mrs. Nettie Hannon of Hits city entertained with a pot luck dinner recently marking tie- Irirthday annlveisarie* of her daughters, Mr-. ‘ John Ballard and Mrs Ed John I

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-on (inputs were Mr. and Mrs Ed Johnson and children, Wilma Jean and I . i' . Jean < laidd. De<niur. Mrs bun HUI and Mrs. Flossie Wrlsbeit and Mr. and Mrs. John Bailaid of For, Wayne >Mm. Ilatmou accompanied the Ballard* to Fort Wayne ‘o visit with them a few day* SOCIAL MEETING WELL ATTENDED Twenty-six members of ihe American Imgloti Auxiliary me st la*glon home lari night and enjoyed the soi lai evening Hostess** wer* the Mesdame* Frank Crist, Harold Tiernan, Imwrence Walters. Claence Welter and Adolph Hauermelster. Games were played and the grand prise awarded tn Mrs. Tillman Pehrig Refreshment* Were enjoy’d at the close of the evening. Mrs. la-ltoy Beer and so'i Roderi lek of route 3 shopped here yesferi day. Mr and Mr*. Dale Ros* ol South Second street spent the day in Fort Wayne Mrs. J Ward Calland way aide I to Im- dismissed from Ihe hospital today to her home on Jefferson street. Mrs Calland. who wan seriously 111 for several week*. tS very much improved according to report* thin morning. Mli»« Margaret Joa/i Franklin, who ha* le-en visiting with her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred V. Mills, for the pest eleven day*, re- 1 turned to her home in Hartford 1 City, yesterday afternoon She wa* ! accompanied home by her parents. Rev. and Mrs B II Franklin who | spent the afternoon visiting here | Ned Johnson went to Fori Wayn*‘ this afternoon, where he met Mini , Virginia Guy of Plymouth, who re- , turned to Decatur with him to b<- , the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnson and son over the weekend Robert E Litchfield, of New l*ondon. Connecticut, visited here recently with Mrs. Ben Schrank and Mrs. Sophia Smith. ff FR O M K MEN K K in jjj Service Ul Harold G. Sauer, son of Mr and I Mrs. Phil Sauer, o< this city, who | la stationed In the air corp* at , I Salinas. Ecuador. South America i must Im* in a "soldier'* paradise". Harold writes that in Salinas their i dollar* are called sucres and that , he gets 11180 in their money for i one of the go««l old American kind. ■We can go to town, spend a lot ol money and it still doesn't cost i much." he writes ■ —- I Pvt. bale Hoffman, SOU of Otto ’ Hoffman of near Decatur, ha* lieen i transferred from Camp Croft, South Carolina to ('amp Blanding. I Florida, according to word receiv- i — I ed by hl* slel<-r. Dorothy Hoffman . To prevent fraud, the Census , Bureau has suggested setting up a | central "index of deaths" against i which birth certificates might Im-', checked Federal investigaiors re• t [sirt thut some person* have at- I tempteil to pa*s off the hlrlb certi- ■ flcutes of deceastsl persons as their own.

I Honor Submarine Crew Members at Pearl Harbor ■> * > fA. ts 5 Y i\h fr'r II 111 VI ■ ■ffj-j I ct It ' *. —l.l. N. Phonephoto In recomitlon of their eucceaafui performance of an unnamed mlaalon for the V 8. war department la enemr-controlled watera, offlcere and men of the U. 8. aubmartne Trout are ahown aa they were decorated by Ueut. Gen Deloe C. Bmmona. commanding general of the Hawaiian department, in cere■naniea at Pearl Harbor. Hawaii. Bmmona ia ahown pinning the Silver Star on one of the offlcera. Ueut Qomm Frank W. Fenno, captain of the Trout, received the Diatingulahed Service Crow

Mrs. Malinda Darwachter Is One Os Leaders In War Work + oih lorI

A pair of nimble but gged hand* industriously twirl needle and yarn through an Intricate movement with a speed that Is almost taster than the eye; u pair of bright, twinkilns eyes snide these same hands through the almost me, hanleal motions; a rishi foot co it ven iently relaxed over the left swings back and forth In a inonotoiis pen-dulum-like swing and worm a "boy on the front" gets another pair of warm, red socks from Decatur's "ace knitter." Mrs Mallnda Durwachter “There’s nothing to it; I've been knitting since I was live years old I didn't learn. If Just came to me," this and nothing more ia Mrs Darw.ichfer's explanation of Iter prow ess as an exjiert In knitting, de spite her *2 years. Well, Il was partly u case of necessity this art of knitting with the D--< attir lady. "There were eeven of us." she c onfided, "and I did the knitting tor the whole family in those days. We made practically all of our own clothes " And now that same early child luhhl training amazes those who watch her al work In the Red Cross sewing and knitting project. conducted weekly at the American la-gion home Healed before a huge white banner emblazoned with a Red Cross, symbolic of the order which sponsors the project, the sight of Mrs Dai wachter- surrounded by girls and women of all ages all young er than she. of course is not an uncommon one. The knitting work ia done every Monday and Friday afternoon and she seldom misses. With a spry step that Vigorously belles her Milodd years, she Is one of the first to lake her place In the knitting ting and one of the last to leave Shi- may Im- the oldest of those in her knitting circle but that's not her greatest accomplishment She 1s one of the most proficient and is among the leaders in "production" despite atty snpfmsed handicap that age might bring (llassM? No. not for Mrs. Darwachter not when she Is knitting When she read*. yea hut thia knitting can Im- done without the spectacles. "Paddled Own Canoe” "Elmer I that's her son* went to

I i the first World War on Monday as | i ter my husband was buried on Hat I urday. and I really paddled my own i ’ canoe from there on." sin- assert • ed. "I'd like to have done more knltt- ' Ing In those days." ehe declarer), "but then I had other work Io do. i 1 But now Ido plenty I iptill all day and knit at night Then of course. I am here at the la-glon on Monday r and Friday afternoons." Sime last summer when sinstarted knitting with the other ladles at the la-gion. Mrs Dar--1 wachter has completed 3S pairs of socke. Os thia number. 35 have been sent out - probably are h--lng ’ worn by men in service. Mrs Durwachter ia well known . and highly respected among real dents of the community expel lair ly among her crewotk»rs In knltt--1 ing. who have learned to know her ' more intimately She has been a • lifelong resident of the vicinity ' and for the i-aot 4«< years has lived I at 611 Short street. —- o- - - - ARRIVALS i Mr ami Mrs Henry IDlger of t Fort Wayne are the parents of a baby daughter. born last night at • the St. Joseph hospital in Fort . Wayne. Mrs llilger was formerly Miss Mariella Alberding of this chy I —, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin S'cttry of I 1 Mercer avenin- are the parents of a baby boy. born at the Adams I county memorial hospital last night I at II lit o'clock Hi- Weighed six pounds, thirteen and one-quarter ounces. His name is David Michael > I Mr. and Mrs. Martin Stucky of Willshire. Ohio are the parents of ! a baby daughter. Rose Ann She was born at the Adams county me- I i mortal hospital this morning at I . 1:25 o'clock and weighs eighI pounds and five ounces. William Michael ia the .tamo of | ihe baby Imy horn to Mr. tud Mrs. | i William Wtavenik of Monroe at the I . Adams county memorial Hospital I this morning at 9:05. He weighed 1 seven pounds and nine ounces Mrs. i Htavenik is well known here,

□Behind the Scenes HOLLYWOOD A Y |

*My HARRIttuN lABMULL I Utag FSatUNS s»adl*M« Writer HOLLYW(K>t> — R«- un< Illation reports are contnnrd by Mr* I Donald Barry, wife of Republic s • mbloora star. Mhe says she and I her actor-hus-aK band went hack ■ I together two I M weeks ago and 1 ■ that, naturally. I Bl she la dropping M her divorce ac- 1 M lion ■ Mean while, * ■ Republl' I* ■ planning an sx- 1 K traordinary dual ■ billing for Barry H on the screen I HarrisonOrroll w|J| Mll| br known as Donald "Red" Barry But. in "Remember Pearl Harbor" and other features, he'll appear on the credit sheet as Donald M Barry. Plenty of concern at Paramount. J I Josephine Bloom, stand-in for Bu-. san Hayward, has come down with i the measles and virtually none of of the principals in "The Forest Ranger* ‘ have had the disease. I Henry Fonda's injured finger I* broken tn several place* as well as being terribly lacerated. If the accident ha<l happened 10 years ago. the star wouldn't have had a chance of saving the digit. But | mtslern drags may be able to stave off infection. I Another heartless pet-murderer apparently Is loose in the valley. Brenda Marshall's Rhodesian lion dog came home with a .22 rifle I bullet In it* shoulder. Doctors removed the pellet and the dog will live but may be crippled. | Brenda was so upset that she enold toirdlv do her dav's scenes :

when- for a number of y-i** she | 1 wa* proprietor of Milady'* lleauiy 1 I Shoppe jlmiVi- tin- Gr<- n Ke:tle. I Rt-IM-cca Ellen is the name of 1 the Im by daughter bom to Mr. and Mr*. Glen Dickerson of 121 Mon km- street at the Adam* county I memorial hospital Friday afternoon at I io o'clock She weighed five pound*, nine and on*- half ounce- ' I Mr. and Mix. John Siniin**rnian

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for "The Constant Nymph ' Casting of the new Judy Our* land musical. "Me and My Gal." la, itself, a little drama of ths show buiin*M. Playing ths romantie lead opposite Judy is a newcomer from Broadway, Gene Kelly Playing the second feminine lead la Marta Kggerth. Several years ago In New York, Msrta Eggerth starrwd In a mualcal show called "Higher and Higher." one of the chorus boys in tha production wa* you g -ei sed it— Gene Kelly. The forthcoming Eleanor Powell tour of the Army camps will ba fur six weeks and the star will carry much of her wardrobe from "Xhip Ahoy.” Eleanor says she's not only going to dance for the boys but also with them. HOLLYWOOD PARTY LINK: Milton Berle's mama is back in town after two months In Fiori-la. She is looking for a place of her own. ~ . Now that she ami Clayton Moore have called it quita, Mary Francis will resume her ca- | reer in the stage musical. "Musis t<> My Ears." ... The My Bister ' Eileen” troupe threatens to establish a record (in length I run at the Biltmore theater here. Current record (seven weekst was set by the Lunts in 1927 in “Rtrange i interlude.” . . . Eddie Norris and ' Dona Drake an Item at the new Vine Street Radio room. . . Bill Bye and Mary Cassidy at the Coocoonut Grove, and they arrived on bicycles . . . Artie Shaw and hia bride. Betty Kern, dropped in at the Palladium to tell the boy a ! good by. Shaw said he has to report right away for a conference . with the New York draft board. ... On Joan Crawford's birthday, her dressing room at Columbia waa i loaded to the brim with flowers.

*lt> North Second street ar«- the parents of a luiby daughter, horn Friday afternoon at 2:<>3 o*< lock. She weighed seven pounds and three fourths ounce o Expansion of plants for war production and other projects essential to the war effort will make HH2 the biggest year In th-- history of <(instruction, according to the Department of Commerce