Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1943 — Page 3

APRIL 2, 1943.

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MACKLIN )NA oV hostess , Marldin w* LioM'7 '<«' el y <>f ,h, ‘ Syrian church at hei fiflt Thursday asJtb Mr* Roy Runyon and Maley a**W n *- I) Eng-'ler, pre»ident for ' pre«idcd at the meetfred Patter*-'” d “ reading from the 14th ( st. John, and c-onclud-rtyer. M ting program was pre|lh Mr* Jatn*» Kocher ■riptur- and Mr*. George Mdiag the paper. ' Wo- „ Bible. Which was preM M . c. ('. Pumphrey, rement »J* made of the dal to he held all day in the First Church of p.. During the social wa« »crv*-d from a pretO trd 'able. R MEETING r church plar meeting of the ml»treaty of the Fins’ Evanlarch held in the woof the church yesterday . with Mr*. Ed Swagger Xratn leader. nJ o« Ketchum gave devo om the book. "Th’ Upper while Mr*. Eugene Runthe |e*on on ”Lstin Amthe busine** meeting, prerby Mr* Earl Fuhrman, ly rated to have a motherbinquet In May. An offer--75 »m g.ven. after which Ming was closed with dy of Victory Study Club ! with Miss Rose Steigonday evening at seven* lock Hter Romen < lull of Monmeet at the nome of Mrs. Chat Thursday evening thirty o'clock. All mem-argc-d to attend the cannNtmtion on Monday pre(meeting. MINOID •OCIETY 4m* aid society of the Mbrtn church met yesheraom at the home of de* Robeuold. with Mrs. (her presiding. During the spe-ning. prayer was offerIm Clarence Hitchcock. Il which a m recently purwas turned into the freaks entertainment commitcomposed of Mr*. Frank Mm Floyd Death and Mm r Foreman The meeting kith the Ixirdk prayer in E JEAN HOFFMAN" MIT ANNIVERSARY r Jean Hoffman, small r of Mr. and Mrs. Harold I celebrated her fimt birthH’ersary yesterday by enU six of her friends with from three-thirty to five- j tsterday afternoon, Lovely I »» gi»*n to the email hot-' refreshments were aerv-;

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CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Friday Pocahontas Ixidge, Red Men Hal), 7:30 p. m. Victory Class of Finat I'. B. Sunday School, Mr. and Mrs. David Wynn, 7:30 p m. Women of the Moose Party, Moose Home, 8 p. m. Nuttman Avenue United Brthren Y. P. M. 8., Misses Ruth and Mary Hmm, 7:30 p. m. V. B Work and Win Class. .Mr, and Mrs. Frank Baker, 7:30 p. m. Mt. Tabor W. 8. C. S.. Mrs. Ora Gilpin. 7:30 p. m Red Cross Knitting. American largion Home, 1:30 to 4:30 p. m. Sunday Harvesters, Mrs. Jack Gray, 2 p. in. N C. C. W. Meeting, K of C. Hall 3 p m. Monday Music Department. Mrs. J. Fred Fruchte, 7:30 p, ui. Our Lady of Victory Study Club. Miss Rose Steigmeyer. 7 30 p m Pythian Slaters, K. of P. Homs, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday C. L. Os C. Hall, After Church. Dutiful Daughters tiass, Mrs Fred Chronister, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday Historical Club Closing Meeting. Mrs. W. P. Robinson. 7:30 p. m. Red Cross Sewing Unit, American Legion Home. 1 to 4:30 p. m. Thursday Monroe Better Homtw Club. Mrs. Raymond Crist. 7:30 p. ni ed at a small table. ■Present were Jimmy Baumgartner. who was also mat king his third birthday: Carolyn and l-arry Hoffman, larrry Sheets. Barbara and Michael Cole. Others present were Jacob Hoffman. Miss Margaret Hoffman. Mrs. Milton Hoffman. Mrs. Russell Baumgartner. Mrs. Earl Sheets and Mrs. laruru Durbin. PARISH UNIT TO MEET SUNDAY The parish unit of the National Council of Catholic Women will meet Sunday afternoon at three o'cloik in the K. of ('. hall. Mrs. Charles l-ose will preside over the business meeting and .Mies Anna Smith, chairman of St. Jude's study club, will have the program. Every woman of the pariah, whether or not i member, is invited to attend the meeting. PARTY HONORING MRS. GUNDERSON Mns. Ralph Hobbs entertained last evening for Mrs. Robert Gunderson of Mercer avenue, who, with her hueband, will leave Saturday to live in lx>« Angeles, California Cards were enjoyed and later a luncheon was served from the dining table attractive with spring flowers and light -d tapers. A corsage marked Mra Gunderson's place. She was also presented with | a gift from the group of friends: Present were Mrs. Dick Engle. ' Mm. Leland Smi'h. Mrs. Tom An- | demon. Mrs. Russell White. Mrs.

At Crowder * s* i JlHi iWMI » Pvt. Robert Beery, son of Mr. and Mr*. Clye Beery of this city, it* assigned to Co A. 31st Bn. Camp Crowder, Mo. Pvt. Beery entered service on January 14. 1943 He Is a former member of the Daily Democrat staff and has a brother, Stafl Sgt. Don Beery, in service. Dick Steele, Mrs. Joseph Globlg, Mrs. Emma Schamerloh. the guest of honor? Mrs. Gunderson, and the hostess, Mia. Hobbs. WOMEN OF MOOSE REGULAR MEETING The Women of the Moose met last night at the lodge home and after the regular meeting games of bunco and pinochle were enjoyed. I'riz<« were awarded to Mrw. Bert Haley and Mrs. William Noll. Refreshments wore served, with the chapter night prodram in charge of the home-making committee. MRS. MARTIN REPPERT HOSTESS AT QUILTING The ladies’ aid society of the Magiey Evangelical and Reformed church held an all day meeting and quilting at the home of Mrs Martin Reppert Thursday. At noon a [K>t luck dinner was enjoyed, with the regular business meeting in the afternoon. Rev. Meichel read scripture. concluding with prayer, after which Mrs. Flora Hildebrand, president, conducted the blMlneM meeting. Present were Rev. and Mrs. Meichel, Mexdames Sophia Conrad, Susie Bloemker. Velma Gerber. Ix>ulsa Fruechte, Mina Reppert. Martha Bettingen Anna Beineke. Flora Hildebrand. Martha Reppert. Anna Borne. Caroline Fruechte. Amanda Borne, H-itlle Worthman. Emily Worden. Edna Conrad. Mild-WELL-FITTING SLIP tSW- j ' Jrt I JI • I i I yjl ' I ■ I ‘I \ I lull Il\ u \ / S' r yyy 9302 Marian Martin Easy to make . perfect in St . . simple of style—here's just the slip you need It's Pattern 5302 by Marian Martin and has hut three pattern part* The princess style gives ilawle*sly smooth line* under your slim suits and dresses Pattern »302 may be ordered only tn misses' and women's sites U. 14. 18. 20. 32. 34. 3S. 38. 40. 4J. 44. Site IS requires 3** yards 3*-inch fabric and 4 yards lace edging _ Send tIXTIEN CENTS in coins for thia Marian Martin pattern. Write plainly SIZE. NAME. ADDRESS STYLE NUMBER. Send TEN CENTS extra for our Spring Pattern Book —a whole collection of economical wartime Send your order to Dnfly Bsaaoerat Pattern Department, M 4 W. n-vw-rteh StreoL Chicago. lU. ■ecaue of tha slowness at the malls delivery of our patterns may take a few days long* than usual

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Herbert Foor. 20. of Decatur, route six. has arrived at Due West. South Carolina to begin a five montliri <ouree prior to his appointment as an air cadet, according to word received from the air base. Meanwhile, he will serve a* an air crew slud -nf. Corp. Dan Christen, former Home grocery employe, arrived here y«*terday on a furlough, while enroute from Camp Duvis, North Carolina to Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where he is to attend a radio school, beginning next Monday. Corp. Christen is the won of Mrs. Alice Christen, and one of her three son* In *ervb <■. Hi* wife is visiting here with him. Jame<« “Woody"’ Ixnigh. wth the merchant marines at Sheepshead Bay New York, has written to say that he is feeling fine anti asks liis friend** Io write to him Hm address la: Section 309. Service 04081, U. S. M. F S.. Sheepshead Bay. N V The address of Pvt. Leo Merlin F*-;»s»-l. who entered army survlcu recently, k Flight 474, Squadron 612. Clearwater, lai., according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Heber Feasel. . ... - o~ ■■ James Deßolt, younger son of Mr. and Mr*. John Deßolt. Jr. of 310 N. 4th street, has beuil dismissed from the local hospital after !>elng confined there for nearly three weeks with a fractured left leg. sustained in an auto accident. The lad is Improving v* ry nicely but will be confined to his bed for several weeks. Cecil Cole, a former Decatur resident and son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cole of North Fifth street, will return to hk home in Santa Monica. California thk weekend after a week's visit here with his parents and other relatives and friends Mr. Cole, who arrived her - from a two weeks' businivs visit In Washington. D. <’ by plane, is a government airport inspector. Thk is his first v’sit to Decatur in ten yearn. MIS. James Elinger will return red Hildebrand, Helen Beery, Ida Akio present were Charles Deffinger. George Gerlier and Fred Bloemker. BELL-ALLIS APPROACHING WEDDING Announcement has lieen made of the approaching wedding of Miss Eleanor Aills of Miami. Florida to Richard I* Bell, ako of that city, son of Mr, and Mrs. Fred F Bell of Fort Wayne, former Decatur nudents. The bride-elect is a nurse and Mr. Bell is with the operations division of Eastern Airlines in Miami The wedding will be solemnised Sunday and the couple will reside at 19H N. W. Fourth Street. Miami. The Dutiful Diughterw class of the Evangelical Sunday school will meet at the home of Mm. Fred Chronister Tuesday evening at •ev-en-thirty o'clock All members are asked to please he present The Catholic laidirn of Columbia will bold the monthly meeting at the K of C. hall Tuesday evening after Lenten services. The music department of the Woman's club will meet at the home of Mrs. J. Fred Fruchte Monday evening at seven thirty o'clock.

In Florida wi < - 1 V Pvt Robert Lautaenheiser. formerly of Adam* county. Is serving with Uncle Bam s armed fere** at St Petersburg. Florida He is assigned to 5*9 Technical School Squadron in that eity.

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today or tomorrow from Williamsburg, Virginia where she visited with her lisuband, James E. Ehinger. E. M. 3-c. who k stationed at Camp Peary. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cole, Jr. have returned to Michigan City after a three days’ visit here with their parents and other relatives and friends Bill Howell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Howell of W<st Monroe street, has been confined to hk home with an ear Infw-fi-m elnce last Sunday. o Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Johnson of Austin. Minnesota are the parents of a lialiy girl. Istin at sou- o'clock Wednesday afternoon. March 31. She weighed eight pounds, nine and three quarter ounces, and has le-en named Sandra Sue This is the second child and «econd girl. Mr. und Mns. Walter Johnson of North Second street are the paternal grandparents. Adams County Memorial Hospital Admitted Mrs. Doyle Bollinger, Fort Wayne: Paul Hurless. Willshire. Ohio; Lee Hilyard. 110 South First street (and dismissed); Mrs. John P Eicher, Geneva. -16 16 JAP ZEROS (Coutlausd Prom pm* I) Invasion arc north of Australia. The south Pacific airmen have just completed their 15th dally pounding of Nipponese troop and **U|>ply base* on the northeast New Guinea coast. In the latest raid, th*- Allied attackers swooped down nf tree top level to bomb and machine-gun the Mubo area and the adjacent Kitchen creek vicinity. General MacArthur's fliers also (tombed tie- "Tanimhar islands south of Dutch New Guinea and Finsch hwrhor in northern New Guinea. — o Bags Pheaiant in City Pltt«i>iirgh ('tile - i UPt Joe Mercurio went pheasant huntliig. and w ilked between 25 and miles without ever spotting a bird. The m xt day. in the center of the city.

a&ehind the Scenes ty In HOLLYWOOD Y

By HARRISON CARROU Kl*( Frstsrr* H>*dlrslr Writer HOIXYWOOD. - QUIET! ACTORS AT WORK! On those same acres where Douglas Fairbatiks once cavorted through "T h e a Thief of Bagdad" and where Dorothy Larnour later fought the elements in "The H u r r I c a n e,” Producer Samuel Goldwyn has erected a Russian collective village for his picture. "The North Star " Harrison Carroll The aet is a scene of tranquil activity thio week, the quiet before the Nazi storm that messes up the village and its inhabitants. Director Lewis Milestone ("All Quiet on the Western Front") U shooting a scene with Dana Andrews. Anne Baxter. Jane Withers and Farley Granger, the l?-year-old North Hollywood high school boy. whom Goldwyn hopes to convert into a star over-nlghL AU the players are without makeup and the girls are lumpy figures, wearing cuarse garments and scarves around their heads I*robiem of the moment io to keep a flock of geese quiet so that the dialogue can bs recorded. Notvxiy knows exactly how to quiet a gooee without cutting its head off and yet It must be done Mr Goldwyn wants this aet to be fight and it ion * fair to cubmlt him to any more shocks Not after the classic remark of Benno Schneider. Ute of Broadway and now learning to be an apprentice movie director Mr Schneider Io Russian boro and. with some pride. Goldwyn took him out on the lot to display this set “How's that?" asked Sam. •Perfect." was the reply. "»• for OM iMnc-* producer bfCAiM o hufn&fi GUtftlon niirk. "The only trouble. Mr. Goldwyn,”

2nd Lieut. tiHL " ■fibn 1 i -1 Uhii ' * i Wendell Mann former labora tory worker at the Centra! Soya company. Is a second lieutenant i in the U. S. army. Lieut. Mann has been in service for more than two years, volunteering through selective service. Since entering, he has come up through the rank* to reach his present commbsioned capacity. He started hh service at Fort Knox. Ky.. and after being transferred to Camp Atterbury, was sent list k to a new hospital set up at hi* original camp, where he is assigned to the laboratory ’ He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. i Robert J. Mann. His father is a ; former Deutur teacher, now living at Antwerp. Ohio. A brother. ' Pfc Ted Mann, is also 111 service with the army in Texas. t a pheaeanl walked right up to him, and he grabbed it. It was the only t bird he got throughout the entire ■ season. o Hears* Now Fire Truck , Milan. N. II CUP) A little Yankee ingenuity has converted an cutmoded hearse Into a life-saving de I vice. Members of the town's aux- ' lllary fire department obtained a serviceable truck by taking a 1934 hearse and adding to It a 500-gal-long pump, six pack pump*, a hearchiigbt und two ladder. o_. ALLIED CONFERENCE (Contlnusd Frvm e»g* I) members of congress might wish to partlciate. Hull says that the ’ question would be freely talked ' out with any who were interested. 1 He adds, however, that the con- ' ference was primarily for tech- • nlcians and experts on given sub--1 jects rather than a'conference of * food producers. I ■ .i . o - "■— Never Misted Since 1870 i Salem. Mass tl'Pt — I*outs A I Blcod. who is edging 80. h.u* retired ■ after working in his grocery store every hiislne** day for <2 years. Blood started work at th r store in IH7o, served under three owners an I IM-caine proprietor In 1909 I Now, after 150 years ns a grocery i store, the establishment ha* lieen ■ Iranstornieil Into a phannacy by ,' th** new ■ wner.

explained Schneider gently, "is that this is a collective village, and you are a capitalist, and you own it.” Over at Columbia, tn a set representing a German broadcast!! g station. Director Al Green is shooting a scene for "Appointment in Berlin " George Sanders is a Brit- J ish intelligence agent pretending to be a Lord Haw Haw; Marguerite Chapman is his German sweetheart and Gaie Sondergaard Is a member of the antl-Hitler underground . movement. The set is luxuriously furnished and, through ths windows, can be seen blownup photographic replicas of real Berl.n streets "Amazing, isn't it?” says DirecI tor Green, "how we take it all for granted.” He means the desks, the chairs, ths back-drops, etc. Grsen dates ' back to IRIS as a director. There were no well-stocked proprooms in those days on* of Al's favorite stories is how he got the furniture to make a certain picture He knew a certain family who always went away over the week-ends As soon as they would leave, a crew from the etudlo would borrow all their porch and garden furniture. Al would uee It in the picture, then return it on Sunday. The family never waa the wiser. Bob Hope Is lounging on the set of "Right About Face," waiting for Director Sidney Lanfleld to line up the camera. "I have a story for your column." says Bob. He hands me a letter. It'e a squawk from an Indian who heard , Hope eay on the radio. ”1 work with Paulette Goddard and Dor- ; othy Lamour all day and then I go home and dream about Indiana." The letter writer is pretty »ore about it He thinks Bob has belittled his race "How do you like it ?" say* Bob. "1 guess be doesn’t know that, back in Oklahoma City. I was made Chief Eagl* Beak of the Klc-vae. How dare he talk to a chief like that ? We Klowaa are a rival trlbe and are likely to do something about it"

OHIO CO-ED, CLUB HEAD SLAIN

MYSTERY SURROUNDS the slaying of Lucille Maris D'Aprano, 23, senior at Kent State university, Kent, 0., and George W. Reynolds, Negro manager of thr Twin Lakes Country club, found shot to death near Kent. Miss D'Aprano, a Cleveland girl, wax head waitress at the club where other Kent State co-eds worked. Reynolds, an ex-convict, served two years in the Ohio State penitentiary for stabbing a man to death in Akron in 1935, police records show. The Ixxlles were found in an automobile which also contained a ,32-caliber gun. Coroner R. E Amun has returned a verdict of double murder. (Interattional)

Senate Committee Blasts John Lewis Condemns 'Hint' At Threatened Strike Washington. Apr. 2 --(UP) The senate Truman committee bluntly told John I*. I.i-wai today that ho ha* no right to endanger the nation's war needs by calling a coal strike. The committee condemned Ta-ww i for saying his nowtrike promtae, to the president is no longer binding. A special report i wiled by the Truman iiiveatlgators of thr war effort after Lewi* testifio! before th*rn sayw: '•No citizen has the right to Jeopardize the nation's existence In war tins- The nation need miiat !>*• recognized a* paramount.” The committee condemned what it called the mine union chief's hint that he hue the right to call a »trlke If he decides the government has not performed it* duty to I Lewis hud called thr "littleatee!” 1

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r *fako your home "■■■■■■■■■ißßßßißßßßß cheery, — surroundlogs bright. Luitaquik Rnsmel comes in II colors fog furniture, woodwork or metal. Dries Io 4 hours. No ridges or brush marks * . . ttlj >meelhreg. Washable Kohne Drug Store MUMMWMfWMMfWWWWWIMMMMWMWVWWmAfRAAAAfW ATTENTION BLOOD DONORS! Registrations of parties wishing to donate blood for the blood plasma will be held in the Com* missioners’ Room, Court House, SATURDAY 10a.m. to Ip.m. Regiktrationa will alno he held at the Berne High School Herne. Ind.. SATY RDAY from 2 to 4 p. m. ♦o Registrants will leave Decatur Wednesday. April 7 at 10 o'clock a. m. Anyone giving blood for the third time will be awarded a silver medal.

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labor. wage ceiling formula a violation of labor's no-strlke pledge. Caution Retailers On Making Point Change Indianapolis, Apr 2 (UP) Retail rn*-at dealers are cautioned against using any system of giving change in ration points except tile legal method of one-point red rationing stamps Th*- office of price administration says that Soiiit- stores n-portedly have been making and distributing their own slips of paper itl lieu of one-point ■tainps. Housewives thus are I forced to patronize the same I establishment in order to use the Improvised credits. OPA officials advised shopper* to accept in cfiange only the onepoint stamps which an- negotiable at any stores handling foods under the meats and fats rationing program IS EPILEPSY INHERITED? WHAT CAUSES IT? A beokl«l contwntng th* *ptnkn* el famou* doctor* on ttu* lnt*r**t>ng subject wig b* sent FRfr. while they test, to eny feeder writing to the tducetionol Division, s)f Fifth Ave. New York. N. Y. Dept D-449