Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1945 — Page 3

I AnDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1945.

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I X-E ARE WED ' N I /■'CEREMONY I ' W Stella .Merkle, daughter of I > Wil \lr-. Ernest Merkle of Ohio I » and 'T/ 3 Martin D - }la,ie 8‘ I ; ‘Kldwh son of 131 ns, Dan H. I rWwr of north of Berne, were |'‘W’ i , l marriage Tuesday even1 '"“Ribruary 6. at seven o’clock at | ’"Kme of the (bride's parents. | rS‘- v "’ alter K -' Meyer ! ’Wat the single ring ceremony, 2 Hjjp.i in the presence of the |families. Mr. and Mrs. ' ,untzinspi ' steter and ? W in-t of the bride. attended t/-,Su :)!■•- g.\gM [i .beyirer wore an aqua wool ’’lack accessories, and of pink carnations. Mrs. was attired in a black >" with matching accessora oorsage of pink earj'*?Me'(liately following 'the cereIwflS) dinmi was served to the and families. I 'Wbride is an employe of the Kicctr'c Co. in Fort Wayne, continue her home there fill® iiriT'cnt. The groom, a forof the Central Sugar < > is stationed at The Oregon. light to wed I liK) JAMES W. ECK here have received inviigsKto the wedding of Miss BeaS-’ d./ugliier of Mrs. G. A. f South Eleventh street, I v-dßill WP(I ,r>t - James W. I United States Naval Re-G-rM O " Saturday, February 17. j -J wedding will take place at in the Chapel Room of ) .i-jßtle Church Around the Cor29th street, New York I ißhriii' cl-< t's mother and her |®)lk. Adrian Burke, will atwedding. I 'W'Lishr ic a graduate of Deca■school and during the I rn-gp months has been enrolled school of modeling York City. f lEecR, whose home is in |te a graduate of If'raßrania 'University and has ihrrßmoiv than two years in the |ngfßhf couple will make their ejbdMi New York City. SOAGUNDER WEDS DAVID HOUSER | d Mrs. Harley Gander of

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|hJ»By HARRISON CARROLL / *t Features Syndicate Writer f ' ShI.LYWOOD. — Coming down I IjflKl Canyon from a party at I MB Carroll’s house the other ! ; -K Kathryn Grayson, her music ■ » teacher, Mrs.

White, and three other friends narrowly escaped serious injury when another machine sideswiped and •wrecked Kathryn's station wagon. No dice on Collett Lyon’s Las Vegas di-

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- - o — — Alan Dinehart, Jr., Who’s :'-'®een promoted from sergeant , gjßfttenant. refused to sign the papers. Annoyed but S*®bs, Collett is back in town ••Jtcbably will sign for another /'W to follow up her role in ; * Sal.” music business was dum-•cr®-d when Warners named Dreams, Sweetheart” from Canteen” as its acad®gsward’ song contender inOs the smasb ‘ bit > "Don’t W Me In >” frt)m same pic- * 1 .Wasn't Warners’ fault. The ’2■ ruled that the Cole Porter wasn’t eligible because it W composed specifically for : W wood Canteen.” Warners y it from Fox. J®e Emerson wishes she was yW to bave a bab y but ® be !sn>t can’t imagine how the 'W S started unless it was be--2w? be attend ed a shower for Wynn. jy Romanoff and Agent Noll •?1P- swa PP ed harsh words at »4T llo;i ' '• ‘ Tbe Army gets Blaine (composer of “The JW Song”) Feb. 26. His coHu g h Martin, already is tZB 8- ' ’ • Joan Biondell and are having dates. . . . «;^Bt eni ’ )ers of Xavier Cugat’s Z’’W“ a win have to be spread 12 hotels in New York, many of their wives in Cugat’s Beverly Hills • I asked Glenn Ford if the hospital halls waiting son to be born was w ° rse !n Marine boot he said fervently: “Oh, At 5:30 a. m., after

Winchester (street, announce the marriage of their eldest daughter, Jane, to ISASgt. David Houser, son Os Mr. and Mrs. Fred Houser of Os- . sian. The nuptials were read Saturday. February 3, in the Methodist church at Hinesville, Ga. by the Rev. (Frank Nalls. Miss Guilder attended the Decatur junior-senior high school and was formerly employed at the Schafer Glove 'Co., in this city. Sgt. Houser recently returned from eighteen months of duty overseas, and is now stationed at Fort Ord, Calif. AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY HAS BUSINESS MEETING IThe business meeting of the American Legion auxiliary was held Friday evening at the Legion home. A number of reports were given by 'the various chairmen and Mrs. Leo Ehinger, chairman of the service sales, has ordered purses and billfolds to be made and sold t>y the 'veterans. A report was also given on the new membership drive. It was announced that two hospital beds had (been issued and anyone desiring information is asked 'to call (.Mrs. Elmer (Darwaahter or Mrs. Harold Tieman. (February Hieing Pan-American month, a book review will be given on the social night, February 23. SENIOR CLASS PLAY AT PLEASANT MILLS (The senior class of tdie Pleasant Mills high school will present “No.body But Nancy," a farce comedy in three acts, at the school gymnasium Wednesday evening at seven thirty o'clock. (Members of the cast are: Dora Mae (McCullough, Eileen Gephart, Veda Williamson, Marvin Sprunger, Doris (Byer, Robert Miller, Lee Whitacre, Verlyn Geyer, Jean Raf and Cleora White. Donald Strayer is business manager and Lee Speakman and Otto Huffman Jr. are stage managers. The February section of the Presbyterian ladiets aid society will meet at the home of 'Mrs. Dale Moses Thursday afternoon at two thirty o'clock. A silent auction will be held and all members are requested to bring an article to sell. Those who do not have transportation are asked to call their chairman or the president. - . (The Willing Workers class of the

the big event, they had to give Glenn a knock-out pill. . . . Mary Lane, former Twentieth CenturyFox cutie, is divorcing Elbert Franklin, son of the late theater magnet, Harold B. Franklin. When the movie, “George White’s Scandals of 1945,” comes your way, pay special attention to the hot samba duet by Swing Organist Ethel Smith and Drummer Gene Krupa. They went so completely to town recording it that Miss Smith caught her foot in a pedal, was pulled off the stool and sprained her ankle. As of today, she is walking with the aid of a cane. Pretty swell of Abbott and Costello to come to the aid of the fupd drive of the Santa Barbara Recreation commission. The boys are arranging a world premiere of “Here Come the Co-Eds" in Santa Barbara and will make a personal appearance, According to a letter June Haver was showing around “The Dolly Sisters” set, Farley Grainger has grown two inches since he joined the Navy. Farley was June’s best beau until he left Hollywood. Veronica Lake finally got home by plane after all and poor Andre De Toth chased all over the countryside trying to meet her. He drove down from Long Beach, to Palmdale (100 miles away) and then to Burbank only to have the plane finally find a hole in the clouds over its original destination, Long Beach. HOLLYWOOD HI JINX: Caroline Grey has left Sonny Dunham’s orchestra and friends are betting their romance is cold. ... Divorce ' coming up for Dorothy Schoemer (she was one of the “10 Lucky Stars” in Warners’ “Thank Your Lucky Stars”) and her film-cutter . husband, Leo Shreve. ... Showing ; the family garden to a friend, : John Emery said: “Unless my wife’s hat blew out the window, i that thing over there is a cauliflower. .. . Peter Lawford , grabbed a final date with Singer i Eileen Barton who shifts from the [ Frank Sinatra to the Milton Berle , air show. ... Jo Carroll Dennison i and Phil Silvers at. Billingsley’s i Tropics. . . • Pretty Nancy Wood ' with Attorney Milton Golden again, ; again and again. . . . The poor : race horses, says Arthur Murray. , One stopped him the other day and asked for a nickel to buy a • cup of oats.

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Monday Research club, Mrs. A. R. Holthouse, 2:30 p. m. Pythian Sister Temple, K. of P. 7:30 p. m. Fireman’s auxiliary, Mrs. Arthur Baker, 7:30 p. m. Pythian Needle club, K. of P. home, after lodge., T uesday Delta Theta Tau Valentine party, Elks home, 8 p. m. Dutiful Daughters class of Evangelical church, Mrs. Fred Chronister, 7:30 p. m. Valentine recital by Decatur Philley Playmakers, public library, 7:30 p. m. (St. Jude Study club, Miss Anna B. Smith, 7:30 p. m. (Rebekah lodge, Odd Fellows hall, 7:30 p. m. 'Dorous class of First Evangelical church, church parlors, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday Wesley class of the Methodist church, 8:30 p. m. Church Mothers study club, Methodist church, 2 p. m. Business and Professional Woman’s club, K. of P. home 6:30 p.m. Red Cross Sewing Center, Legion 1 p. m. Beulah Chapel W. S. C. S., Mrs. Milton Hofifiman, all day. 'World Friendship Guild of Presbyterian church, Mrs. Fred Smith, 8 p. m. Youth Fellowship class, Methodist church, 8:30 p. an. (Women’s guild of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, church social rooms, 8:30 p. m. (Mothers of World War 11, Moose home, 7:30 p. m. Thursday Men’s Union Prayer Service, ground floor public library, 7:30 p. m. St. Luke’s ladies guild, church parlors, all day. Phoebe Bible class, Zion Evangelical and Reformed church basement, 6:30 p. m. Willing Workers class of Bobo U. B. church, (Mrs. Henry Miller, 7:30 p. m. 'Presbyterian ladies aid society, Mrs. (Dale Moses, 2:30 p. m. 'St. Paul ladies aid society, Mrs. Floyd Mitchel, all day. Rainbow Girls, Masonic hall, 7:30 p. m. Friday Red Cross Knittinfc Center, Legion, 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Bobo United Brethren church will meet Thursday evening at seven 'thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. Henry Miller. All members are requested to be present. Mothers of World War II will meet Wednesday evening at seventhirty o’clock at the Moose home. The honor roll books have been received and anyone desiring one is asked to call 1187 or 778. The .books will the sold at seventy five cents. The St. Paul ladies aid society will meet at the home of Mrs. Floyd Mitchel Thursday for an all day meeting. 'A pot-duck dinner will be served at the noon hour. The World Friendship Guild of the (Presbyterian church will meet Wednesday evening at eight o’clock at tide home of Mrs. Fred Smith, with Mrs. Bertha Rice as hostess. The Women’s guild of the Zion Today’s Pattern SIZES fSh - -I\ 2-to /W -W /W « i -w' « I MARIAN MARTIN All set for Easter in this jaunty outfit. Pattern 9158 consists of a pretty princess dress, a cape with an airy swing. Both can be cut and stitched in jiffy time. Pattern 9158 in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Size 6, frock, 1% yards 35-in.; cape, 1% yds. 54-in. fabric. Send Twenty cents m coins for this pattern to Decatur Daily Democrat, Pattern Dept., 155 N. Jefferson St., Chicago 80, 111. Print plainly Size, Name, Address, Style Number. JUST OUT! Send Fifteen Cents more for our Marian Martin Spring Pattern Book! Easy-to-make clothes for all- Blouse Pattern printed right In the book. Send Now.

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A Marine Officer w1 * H > *wl JI '■ Marine Second Lieutenant Claren Justin Neuenschwander of Berne, Ind., recently was graduated from the officer candidates’ class at the Marine Corps School, Quantico, Va., and received his commission in the Corps. A former student of Butler and Miami Universities, he is the son of Amos N. Neuenschwander, 255 West Water street, Berne. Lieutenant Neuenschwander now is receiving ten weeks of specialized training at Quantico before being assigned to active duty with Leatherneck troops. Evangelical and Reformed church will meet Wednesday evening at eight 'thirty o’clock in the church social vooms. This meeting will be held after Lenten services, which will be held at seven thirty o’clock. The Dorcus class of the First Evangelical church will meet Tuesday evening at seven thirty o’clock in the church parlors. (The meeting of the Friendship Village home economics club, scheduled for February 15, has been postponed to Thursday, February 22. The Touth Fellowship class' of the Methodist church will have a Valentine guest party Wednesday evening at eight thirty o’clock at the church. Rebekah lodge will meet Tuesday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the Odd Fellows hall. o EfopOCALS Dick Strickler of Willshire, 0., is ill with scarlet fever in the naval hospital at Great Lakes, 111. He is an apprentice seaman. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Heller and son Jack of Fort Wayne visited here Saturday evening. — ——o '~7 — — ♦ ♦ Adams County Memorial Hospital I ♦ ♦ Admitted : Mns. Anna Tricker, 3’20 West (Oak street; Mrs. Mary Ann Becher, (104 South Fifteenth street, George Myers, 516 North Fifth street; Miss Hannah Sprunger, 506 West Franklin street, Berne; Mrs. Ira Sprunger, Berne. Admitted and dismissed: Miss Lina Sprunger, 508 West Franklin street, Berne; Rev. Luvester L. Young, Dixon, O.; Reuben Swartz, Geneva route '2; Miss (Lucinda Hurst, Berne; Miss Ruth Ann Mourey, Monroeville. (Dismissed: Mrs. Elmer Scott and baby girl, (Marilyn (Sue, 438 Mercer avenue; Miss Barbara Ann Yoder, Berne; Mrs. Harry Dale Habegger and baby boy, Larry Wayne, Berne; Willard MdConnehey, Homewood; Mrs. Arthur Wilder and balby girl, route 4; Mrs. Floyd Shoaf, Willshire, O.; Mrs. Bill Smith, o'2B South Thirteenth street; Mrs. Mirta Harp, Rockford, Ohio.

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Bip 1 MM Lt. Robert Yksrt, stationed at) Hondo, Tex., spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cal Yost, 322 North First street. (Several Decatur youths will arrive home this week froim boot training at Great 'Lakes. Among those who have completed the indoctrination course into tihe navy are, Leo Borne, Tom-Colter and Tom Lutes, Who have been assigned to service schools. o Mr. and Mrs. Grover Henry Bleeke, route 3, are the parents of a baby girl, born Sunday at 6:24 p. m. at the Adams county hospital. SUe weighed 6 pounds, s'/ 2 ounces and has not been named. Mr. and Mrs. 'Earl Lantz of Berne are the parents of a baby (boy, born Sunday morning at 10:38 a. m. at the Adams—county hospitaL— He weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces and has not been named. L (J — Negro Convicted Os First Degree Murder Evansville, Ind., Feb. 12—<UP) — Frank Quarles, 26, negro handyman convicted of murdering his former employer, Mrs. Julia Gottman, 80, was scheduled today to be sentenced to the death penalty Thursday in Vandeniburgh circuit court. A jury on one woman and 11 men returned a 'verdict of guilty to a charge of first degree murder Saturday. Quarles’ attorney claimed the defendant had confessed under duress'to the crime o protect his common-law wife who pawned jewelry taken from Mrs. Gottman. o— Conners' School At Purdue This Week Tomato champions, farm labor problems and (1945 canning crops will share the spotlight in the 19th annual canners and fieldmans’ school which will be held at Purdue university Feb. 13 and 14. Several Decatur men Will attend. The session will open Tuesday morning with a forum on a series of topics relating to growing of corn, peas, lima beans and sweet corn and including a study of insects, mechanical picking, new hybrids, production methods and fertilization. Leading the discussion will be Glen Smith, USDA botanist stationed at the university. | o Army Paratrooper Asks 'Furlough Job' Valparaiso, Ind., Feb. 12 —(UP) —fCpl. Ray Kenworth, U. 6. army paratrooper, who was wounded during his 33 months overseas, returned home on a 21-day furlough today and immediately applied for a ‘‘furlough job” in a local war plant. ‘Td rather help the war effort than loaf,” Kenworthy explained. He wounded in Italy after overseas action in North Africa, (Sicily, Italy and France and hoped to return to the European theater “if the war against Germany lasts that 'long.” o Tests indicate that the substitution of roller bearings for “plain” bearings in railroad rolling stock has reduced the. starting resistance of trains by 88 percent.

| / JH ■ S 3 " '* j s SERVICEMEN'S WIVES the nation over are going to like this legislator, Rep. James G. Fulton of Pennsylvania. Why ? Well, he proposes that as soon as shipping space becomes available the wives and families of servicemen on the Pacific isles be moved out there to join their husbands. "It would be a great morale builder,” the 41-year-old bachelor congressman said. He has served 30 months in the Nayy. (International) 60,000 Tons Os Bombs Unloaded On Berlin (London, Fell). 12— (UP) —Berlin has been hit with approximately 60.000 tons of bombs —about one ton for every 70 persons—during the war, the air ministry announced last night. (About 15,000 tone of bombs were dropped by the U. S. eighth air force and the reOst by RAF bombers. The ministry said reconnaissance showed that most of Magdeburg, industrial city and reception center for refugees 75 miles west of Berlin, had been destroyed by recent Allied bombings. , —o A portable refrigeration plaht, designed to preserve meats and bases, has been designed for the U. S. Navy by Carrier Corp., Syracuse, N. Y. The plant can be landed and put in operation within a few hours after the base has been established and will hold fresh foods for hundreds of men. The giant U. S. B-29 bombers each contain more than 3,500 ball and roller bearings in moving parts of motors, guns, bomb-sights and operational equipment. fxtra Red Points COME AND GfT 'fM 2 red points for every pound of used fats you bring to your butcher! i SAVE USED FATS-FOR BATTLEFIELD MEDICINES

26 Are Hospitalized After Train Wreck Redlands, Calif., Feb. 12.—-(UP) -Twenty-six persons were hospitalized today after a packed Chicago-to-Los Angeles Southern Pacific California and a 97-car eastbound Southern Pacific freight train rammed head-on yesterday on a single-track curve one mile west of here. — o Warsaw Physician Is Taken By Death (Warsaw. Ind., Feb. 12—<(UP)— (Rites will be held tomorrow for Dr. (Samuel C. Murphy, -59, founder and operator of -t‘he -Murphy medical center and physician here for 32 years, who died Saturday midnight

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after an extended Illnees. — His Widow, Mre. Hazel Melick Murphy, head nurse at the center, whom he married laet month while on hie death bed, is his solo survivor. i to relieve stuffiness, Invite if nose fills up It’s wonderful how a little Va-tro-nol up each nostril relieves stuffy transient congestion. Also relieves distress of head colds! Follow directions In folder. VICKS VATRONOR