Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1944 — Page 3

URDAY, AUGUST 26, 1944.

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CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline. 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Wednesday Red Crone Sowing Center, Legion I p. m. Thursday Men's I'nion Prayer Service, ground floor public library. 7:30 p. in ———— I ■ VI, „ and daughter Dorothy, and MUx Bartara Kohlis returned home y»w•terday aft* spending the pudt week at take James. 'Mr. and Mr*. F. J. Schmitt and daughters. .Monica, Honora and Kathryn, returned home yewterday from a week's outing at Rome City. 'Miss Shirley Kiest, who han been Visiting .Mias Mary Jo Huffman, returned to her home lb Chlcag > last even'ng. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kirsch, of route I, have as their guests, Mrs. Charles Prugh and daughters of Dayton.' (J. Mrs. Fred King and son Richard will go to Celina. (>„ this evening to visit Mm. King' , ulster, Mrs. John Kahn, who is oerioiMly ill In Gibsons hospital. Mr aid Mm. Charles Straw of Monroe are atao visiting in Cellm with Mm. Vahn and Mm Don Dibble. <Mr. and Mm Dan M. Niblick are in New York City in the intermt of the Niblick store. Mrs. Lawrence Linn and daughter Dianne are epending ,i 10 day vacation at Camp Sagawau at Lemont. 111. Miss Murtha Carr, a friend of Mm. Linn, is the supervisor and while at the camp. Mm. Linn will act as arts and craft counselor. Miss Dianne Is attending camp with the Harvey, |||„ girl scout*. VIRTUALLY ALL (Contlaued r>vw regs I) Minister Churchill anil Pope Plus XII In which he defended his policy and handed over his disputed authority to De Gaulle 111 ■ ■" 1 o It you are not meek you are haughty.

Wounded in France Pfc. Max Moser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curt W. Moser, 341 South Fifth street, who was wounded in France on July 33. has written his parents that he is now walking around on crutches and is feeling fine. He was transported by airplane from Frame to England, where he is confined to a hospital. The war department reported his injury to the parents and the first letter from their son was received today. UNITED PRESS PARIS (Continue! gram raws 1) Grand boulevard section. The bridges over the Seine were intact but we had to crawl past barricades of trucks, tree branches. and cobblestones. Some fine old buildings were scarred by the xharpnel bin in the main the damage was not great. Near the bureau were several burned out German tanks which the French had destroyed with champagne bottles filled with petrol. Halting the jeep in front of number 2 we found ourselvn surrounded by scores of French women, old men. and children who wept with joy and insisted on kissing us over and over. From the door rushed the caretaker’s wife, Immediately recognizing McMillan, who had spent many prewar years assigned here.

RICTHS Mr. and Mrs Luther Bovine, of Willshire, 0.. are the parent* of a baby girl, born at the Adame county memorial hospital this morning at 4:22 a. m . She weighed 7 pounds and « ounces and has been named Patricia Jean. 'Mr. and Mrs Harold Huffman of Monroeville, are the parents of a baby girl, boro last evening at 5:10 p. tn., at the Adams county hospital. She weighed 8 pounds and 14 ounces and has not been named. COURTHOUSE Marriage License K. Cranston Bernstorf and Eileen K Carpenter. * Jr. Mink Pattern

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WMIIMO 1101 Pfc. Thomas P. Halberstadt, iitatinned somewhere In New Guinea, hus been in a hospital for 13 weeks. Details were not given ax to the nature of hl>< illneas. Pfc. Halberstadt has been overseas since Fidiruary His wife and daughter, reside in Salem, and his [Saren's. Mr. and Mm. Jatn.i F. Halberstadt, reside at Pleasant Mill*. —— o — Adams County *| Memorial Hospital | Admitted: Darleen Fortney, Pleasant Mills; Carl McClure. Wren. O.; James Bassett, 603 North Fifth St., Alberta Worthman Cralgville; Vaileena- Johnson, Eighth street; Glenn Rowden. Mercer Ave.; Ralph Conrad. Preble; Mm. Clara Heller. 903 Dierkrs Street; Victor Buitemeler. Hoagland, Dismissed: Mrs. Jacob M. Schwartz and Incby daughter. Geneva; Wayne M<-into«h. Monroeville; Richard Rothgcfli. Monroeville; Mrs. Betty Yoquelet. Monroeville. ———— —Q- —— PATTON'S TANK (Continues fr»« rags It flight eastward from the roliot lannli coast. First word of the reported thrust Into Reims came from Germar. military commentators, who salt! the Americans crossed the Marne yesterday and lunged on 15 miles northward into the cathedral town. Allied headquarters refused to confirm the German report, but it was admitted probable that Pattor's rough riders had turned north from Troyes over the excellent hard-surfaced roads running through Chalons. Epernay and Chateau-Thierry into Reims. The last official reports had placed the 3rd army spearheads at Rens. Indicating the Americans had driven more than 100 miles in the past three days —a speed comparable to that attained In peace time maneuvers. Capture of Reims would place the American armor within 50 miles of the Belgian border and completely outflank the German 15th army pulling back at top speed from the Dieppe-Amiens-Beauvais triangle alsive Paris. Coupled with the seizure of Troyes, which appeared Io have fallen almost without a tight, the American breakthrough into Reims imperiled the entire German position in northern France and the line of escape for the Nazi forces in southern and central France. Official sources confirmed the headlong flight of the German 15th army from the channel coast, and aerial reconnaissance reports said the main highways leading eastward to the Rhineland were jammed with retreating Nazi

; WWWtrFflg i r * mBI •/ wW*9Ulv * wME’ * 11 3 >■ left, dork ranch mink coot; center, blend chlffen wild mink; right, Reseion broadtail with mink trim. Women now recognise more keenly than ever the sound economy in owning a fine fur coat, perfectly matched and natural as to pelt, becoming as to shade, superbly eut and fitted in a classic silhouette, but personalised by interesting detail. Esther Dorothy, woman furrier, has created a collection with these pointe in mind. The model shown center above is a dark. deep, rich ranch mink made on simple Ones. It to full-length with drop Shoulder line and sleeves cut wide with deep, turned-backed notched guffs. Center to a new type called “blond chiffon wild mink” because ot its lightness and flumness Th.Wide pelts are used to created a beautiful seven-eighths length coat with ample revers and generous turned-back cuffs on wide pouch sleeves The Russian broadtail, right, to trimmed with mink cuffs, the • bein < W* MM fabric with snug watotUne, bloused in the back, and tailored, neck hug.lng collar.

troops ami transport Allied warplanes bomhed and struied the fleeing enemy columns all day yesterday and on into the night, while other aerial formations piled the Heine river crossings high with Nazi dea<| and the wreckage of enemy tanks and equipment. Alxjut 270 German trucks and 56 tanks wore dertroyi-d by lowflying American fighter-bombers and rocket-firing British planes, along with 29 troop-packed barges caught on the Seine yesterday. o Jehovah's Witnesses 122 N. 9th Street Sunday, August 27 Book study, 7 to 7:45 p. m. Al) people of good will are invited to attend thc-e timely Bible studies. — —oNAZIS WITHDRAWING • Continue.! From Pagn i) eight miles northwest of t'antlano. cleared of Germans. Activity on the long-quiet fifth army front was confined to patrol clashes. No Damoge Caused In Fire This Morninq The Decatur fire department wae called to the Robert Butcher residence. HM2 Russel! street, this morning when a gasoline move flared up and was feared it would get out of control. The flame was brought under control at once, however, and no damage waa caused. — Allied Planes Raid Ruhr Valley Targets London. Aug. 23—(VP)—An estimated “50 flying fortresses and Llberatoro attacked German oil installation* in the Ruhr valley today, continuing the great aerial offensive to shut off the Nazi war machine'* sources of fuel. Strong forces of fighte.- planes accompanied the fleet, which struck only a few hours after British Itombera, had hammered the Germans from Berlin to the French seaport of Brest. 0 Attend Convention Os State Red Men ——■ i i 3 J M. ' Mat" Brelner. A. N HUton. Walter Butcher and Charles Cook, are among those who left today for Madison, to attend the alate convention of the Improved Order of Red Men. They will represent Pocotallgo Tribe No. 203 of this city at the conference, which will close at midnight with a program in one of Madison's city parks along the Ohio river. o - ■.. Woman And Grandson Are Burned To Death East Gary. Ind. Aug. 23—(VP) —Firemen Investigated today the deaths of Mrs. Lottie Lake, 57. and her 4-year-old grandson. Donald l<ake. Jr., who she vainly attempted to save as flames gutted her home yesterday. Preliminary Investigation, firemen said, pointed to an explosion

of (leaning fluid as the cause of I the fire. Dennis Lake, 2, who was found ■ severely liurned and (IVercoinv l>y ■ smoke, anil his eider brother were spending a summer holiday with their grandmother. ■ o~ ——— Aurora Girl Killed In Auto Accident i— - — ' Aurora. Ind., Aug. 26 —(VP) i Cortillla Putnam. 6. wae killed yesterday when an automobile driven by her mother Mrs. Margaret Putnam, overturned after a tire blew out along Indiana 4X near here They were returning from the Dearborn county fair. Two sons of .Mrs. Putnam and a neighbor, L. Fry were Injured. . — Jackson To Address , Great Lakes Grads dndlanapolle. Aug. 26 —(VP)— Senator Samuel D Jackson, Democratic candiate for Governor of Indiana, aaid today tha- he had accepted an invitation to addries a graduating class of bailors Monday at the Great takes. HL. naval Irainiii rttatlon service school. Lafayette Ensign Killed In Crash Lafayette. Ind., Aug 26 -(VP) Services were arranged here today lor Ensign Raymond L. Finch, 21. Lafayette, a flight Inatructor at the V 8. naval air station at Ottumwa. la., who was killed yesterday In a training plane crash near Kenyon. Minn. Naval officials said Finch and marine 2nd Lt. Henry Mank, of ('hero. 111., who was seriously Injured. were on a routine flight when the crash occurred. Vnder provisions of tile quota immigration law. about 153,900 aliens could be admitted annually te the V. S. Grade crossing accidents ha»e resulted In more than 16.000 deaths tn the ('. 8. since 1920 1 ' 11,11 PROMINENT attorney John Foster Dulles (above) has been chosen by Gov. Thomas E Dewey, Republican presidential nominee, to represent him in a series of conferences with Secretary of State Hull on postwar international plans. (International)

New Moose Sui 1 George E. Gwilliam of Harrisburg, Pa., was unanimously elected ( Supreme Governor of the lx»yal Order of Moose at Its 56th Annual International Convention held in Milwaukee. W!s„ the week of | August 2<>. Mr. Gwilliam was tarn in Plymouth. Pa . tlie city of adoption of his parents (deceased) who migrated from Wales. He was 1 ; JE GEORGE E. GWILLIAM ’ I ... |>| .-. r - - - - ■ r -_ - gw I Modern Etiauette I By ROBERTA LEE • < j Q. Should a 'young woman ask I her escort to come in when he f brings her homo from the theater or a party? ' A. She should not aek him in A few word* of thanks for a plea- , -cant evening should lie Mid as her 1 escort leaves her at the door. Q When presents are given at a birthday party, should they be , opened or kept until the party is 1 over? A. It lx customary to open a gift >i Immediately upon ir* receipt. The I fact that present* are offered at a birthday party* does net affect that custom. Q How .ihould the president of a cfatto be addremed when the person I* a young woman? A “Madam President.” 0 YANKEE TROOPS (Contiaued »»eaa Fans 1) At the oppewite end of the Rivie- ' ra. American troops pushed four i miles northeast of Can nee and capI tured the resort town of Antkbes, 10 ' mile* southwest of Nice Allied destroyers engaged enemy coantal batteries on the Island* below Cannes and started numerous fin*, including one in an oil I

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f By HARRISON CARROLL 4 Mlsg Fralirrs B>sdi<ats Writer HOLLYWOOD—If Kay Francis continues her hospital tour, it will be against the advice of Navy doctors. The star has been bedded

between shows < in Seattle, result of a fractured cartilage on her . second rib. She incurred the in- . Jury before leavin g Hollywood in a fall at a swimming pool The indicated treat ment to three weeks in bed weighted down by sand

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Harrison Carroll , packs So far. 4 Kay has refused to cancel her appearances. Another filmland casualty Is Ida Lu pi no. Ida has had her right hand re-broken for proper setting. She tas been doing tests for "Pillar to Post" with her hand in a cast. The iriginal injuro went unsuspected Apparently, a small bone was broken in the hand when Ida fell tome weeks ago, fracturing her inkle. , • Don't be surprised if Rita Beery, sx-wife. of Wallace Beery and Vermica Lake's great pal. weds Col Al Bodie cf the Air Corps, around -he Christmas holidays. Shes wearing a canary diamond on the proper finger and admits the romance to serious. The colonel has teer. much service and has been lecorated with the Purple Heart. And speaking of the Beerys. Carol Ann will play TWO roles in Father Wallie s "Airship Squadron Four"—a Navy nurse (her first Idult part) and a native girl elephant driver. She’s going on location to Del Mar and couldn't be more excited. Ray Milland suffering from a remrrence of dengue (breakbone) fever which he contracted on his Pacific junket. He's still sticking before the camera. . . . Recently divorced Rudy Vallee at Bob Dal■.on's with Judy Starr, an old romance. ... Bandleader Bob Chester pt two toes broken in New York *hen «R base viol fell on his foot

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►reme Governor educated In the public schools of his native city, attending Wyoming Seminary and also WilkesBarre Business College. leaving schted. he entered the business of general insurance that his father had established. Mr. Gwilliam has been very active In political life. He waa Recorder of Deeds in Lucerne County. He was appointed Manager of the Stale Workmen's Insurance Fund of Pennsylvania, whose home office is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. For many years Mr. Gwilliam has been an ardent supporter of the tayal Order of Moose. Prior to tils being elected Supreme Governor, he served as Noble North Moose of Susquehanna tagion. District Deputy Supreme Governor, Supreme Councilman and Supreme Prelate Aside from his affiliation with the Moose, Mr Gwilliam la a member of the Masonic Bodies: P. O. 8. of A.: Jr O V. A M ; K. of P.. and V. M. C. A. He is trustee of the First Christian Church of Plymouth; Director. Wyoming Valley Motor Club, and Director. First National Hunk of Plymouth. Pennsylvania. ■Mr Gwilliam is married to the former Laura Hughes, and has one son. George E. Gwilliam Jr.. who Is a Second Lieutenant sen - Ing as a pilot somewher in the Pacific. storage depot. Several gun emplacement* were destroyed. ■American infantry, with armored support, captured Avignon, 50 miles northwxt of Marseille and famous for it* mineral waters, after taking Carpentras nnd Cavalllon. three and a half mile* northeast and southeast respectively. ■Allied headquarters announced that the Americans had tvwung north from Avignon up the Rhone valley, part of a complex system of river* and canal* linked with Germany Iteejf byway of the long and winding river. 0 Soya Company Picnic For Employes Sunday Central Soya company employe* and their families will be guests of the company at the annua! picnic, to be held Sunday afternoon at SunSet park 'Luncheon will Ije served at noon and during the afternoon, and at 1:30 and 4 o'clock, a special entertainment will be presented by ark Ist* from the WUB tarn dance program A drawing will be held between the dhows, and contests and games will feature the afternoon. Employee are requested to display their badges and register for each member of the family. Go Boating on bhroyer Lake.

I. . . M-G-M's Jim Warren (the ac- | tor-artist I saved a seven-year-old 1 neighbor girl. Sue Earhardt, from I serious loss of blood. She went - through a garage window and cut J her arm badly enough to require 14 i stitches. Jim applied a tourniquet, t ... Somebody wired Martha O Dris. 1 coll a lei of 50 orchids from Hawaii, r She's dying of curiosity. • . - Today's Irony: Keye Luke, one -of the best known Chinese actors ot 1 Hollywood, didn't get a part In I Dragon Seed,'’ but now he has been hired to do the newspaper art I campaign on the picture. Keye was i an artist before he faced the cami era. I I Having finally located an apart* , ment in Beverly Hills, Peggy Ann I Gamer and her mother will move out of the former Shirley Temple bungalow at Twentieth CenturyFox. their home for weeks. How* i ever. Peggy Ann will be allowed to . use the bungalow as a dressing , room during her "Nob Hili" role. Remember Betty Hutton's for* i mer hairdresser, Doris Harris, who joined the WAVES? She's ata* tloned near San Francisco and has been knitting socks for Alan Ladd. The rest of the girto found out who they were for and it looks as If Ladd will get enough socks to last him years and years. After frowning on leg art for so long, Linda Darnell to doing portrait stills in opera-length hose for "The Great John L.“ ... The mosquito bomber Joan Fontaine christened at Toronto has flown the Atlantic and to In the fight over Europe. It's called The Joan." . . . Author Charles Jackson only waiting recovery from an illness to go east and complete the sequel to his sensational book, "The Lost WeekEnd " . . . The kids at the Alexander theater in Glendale clapped for three minutes when the screen flashed the preview of Abbott and Costello's “In Society." .., Dancers Rosario and Antonio, at Cl roe, are among the few artiste to be awarded Mexico's "Hono.- of the White Doves" Nijinsky, Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt were others to get it. . . . Marion Hutton to taking French two nights a week at Holly, wood High School so she can leant to talk to a new maid.