Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1945 — Page 3

IESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945.

".’[‘ c L woS'““ ts en,,,r 11 lof the fifth dis|red t ” e ( m national council of mien 'Sunday. The bene*"n'f the meet Sacraon ° Mowed by a meeting in i« s , f all Marquerite the visiting parhparty wfilcouit?. '1 Helmet, vice-president, * C a the business session Sow nS new officers were toJ °* d and installed, presint, Mrs. John O’Shaughllroeville; secretary, Miriam DecatUr: t J H Brunton, Decatur; Jon’Mrs Bernard Geis, SlSheßev. Joseph HenSrict moderator, instructhlß wiy elected officers in Various duties and responKeete asked for prayers for lees of the San Francisco ■prrn.ee, that Hie world may , a just and lasting peace. The C girls chorus entertained itwomeniibers. after which the Joseph J. Seimetz, guest Jker, gave a very interesting on Catholic action. rfreslunents were served by the ary society of the. St. Rose rc li Committee chairmen, anBcei by Mrs. Geels, are as folg. organization, Mrs. John Del'j r , Decatur; press and pufoJlrs.Z.E.Malcolm, Bluffton; rature and libraries, Mrs. Charj Miller, Decatur; discussion tpe. Mrs. Harold Dawson, Monrille; immigration and AmeriIzati'on, Mrs. Charles Lose, Deir; national Cotholic school of ial service, Mrs. Augustus Leimber. Bluffton; religious activity. Clem Wyss, Hesse Casyouth, Mrs. Joseph Krouse, Yo- ; clean reading, Mrs. Irenaeus s, Decatur; parent-teaoher, Mrs. s id Durkin, Decatur; industrial blems. Mrs. Herbert Wagner, er. — GUITARS We need 200 student OAHU Guitars at once. Do you have one not in use? Why not sell it for cash? Honolulu Conservatory of Music For Information Call Ralph Johnson, Rice Hotel. Guitar classes now being started.

; ■■■■■■■■■■»*■. ■ «ii» M Annual Meeting B 1 First Evangelical Church ■ WEDNESDAY EVENING ■ ■ SPECIAL PROGRAM ARRANGED * ■ IN TWO PARTS. * ■ -First— —SECOND— Z a |H Fellowship Service, Annual Business 38 6.30 p. in. Meeting, 7:45 p. m. ® ■ oasKet supper, coitee Annual Reports. « H and rolls furnished. Election of class 1 S Dr- I- Q. program. leaders and trustees; ■ All Members are Urged to be Present. * M 8 8 B 8 8J I — 8 is 1 —i ~ Jut-Ill 1 ? ■■ -f~-’ IV'" " I We Think I It’s Worth H Mentioning While ordinary business birthdays aren’t celebrated, we think it’s worth ’H mentioning that this month we start our for-ty-eighth year of service 2? to Decatur. Birthdays, even business birthdays, B are important. IW ZWICK-’S » 1 & FUNERAL HOME it®

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TO HAVE SPRING CONVENTION (Plans are being 'completed for the annual spring convention of the Adams county Christian Endeavor union, to be held at the Berne Evangelical and Reformed church Thursday evening, May 10. The convention will open with a carry-in supper at six fifteen, o’clock, followed by an address by the Rev. Charles P. Culver, who has spent fifteen years in China, not only as a missionary but also as a correspondent for the Associated Press, and as a memlber of the American consular service. He is widely known Vhroughout the 'United States and foreign countries as a lecturer on conditions in the Orient. (Convention committees appointed are as follows: fellowship program committee: Marguerite Michaud, chairman, Roy Gillion. DeWayne Felber, Betty Craig; table committee: Ellen Beer, chairman, Hetty Alice Metter, Jeanette Sprunger; decorating committee; Floreida Sprunger, chairman, Galen Fox, Ardus Gene Sprunger, Imogene (Schindler, Phyllis Sprunger: ushers: Frederick Liechty, chairman, Stuart Lehman, Paul Lloyd Baumgartner, Hugh David Sprunger. o W. C. T. U. INSTITUTE TO BE HELD IN BERNE FRIDAY 'The Adams county W. C. T. U. institute will be held Friday at the Berne Evangelical church. There will be two sessions, the first beginning at two thirty o’clock and the second at seven thirty o’clock. The complete‘program follows: song, “Lead On, Oh, King Eternal,’’ led 'by Miss Frances Burkhalter; devotions, Mrs. C. Oberli; crusade hymn and crusade psalm in unison; salute to flag, “Star Spangled Banner”, greetings, Mrs. Delton Passwater, county president; our cash and carry system, county treasurer, assisted by the local teasurer; our measuring rod, county corresponding secretary and local secretary; “Our Jewels,” and white ribbon recruit service, Mrs. Fred Blum, our armed forces, Mrs. Edna Shady, director of the soldiers and sailors department; our students Miss Margaret Rohrer, alcohol education director; literature and publications, Mrs. 'Charles Hocker; offering; special music, Yager sisters trio; closing prayer. (Preceding the evening session, a carry-in luncheon will be enjoyed. Members are asked to bring their own taible service. The evening session will (begin with an organ prelude by <Mrs. A. C. Smith, followed .by song service, led by Miss Burkhalter; devotions, the Rev. tC. P. Maas; vocal solo, Mrs. Calvin McWhirter; address, the Rev. JF. 11. Willard, pastor of the First Evangelical church in this city; vocal trio, Marquerite Michaud, Loraine Burkhalter, Gyneth

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Monday Men's Union Prayer Service, auditorium of Baptist church, 7:30 p. tn. Men’s Union Prayer Service, auditorium of First Evangelical church, 7:30 p. rj*. Pythian Sister initiation, K. of P. 7:30 p. in., potduck, 6 p. m. Corinthian class of Christian church, Mrs. Elmer Darwachter, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday Midweek service, Calvary church, 8 p. m. W. M. A. women of First United Brethren church, church. G p. m. Rebekah lodge, Odd Fellows hall, 7:30 p. ra. Root township home economics club, Mrs. Herbert Banning, 1:30 p. m. Delta Theta Tau, Elks home, 8 p. m. Civic section, Mrs. Wm. Clouse, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday Fellowship service and annual meeting, First Evangelical church, carry-in-dinner 6:30 p. m., annual meeting 7:45 p. m. Union townhip Home Economics club, Mrs. Rolland Grote, 1 p. m. St. Jude’s study club, K. of C„ 7:30 p. m. St. Mary’s township home economics cluib, Mrs. Fred Hilton, 1:30 p. m. Church Mothers study club, Methodist church parlors, 2 p. m. Thursday So Cha Rea, Mrs. Russell Byer, 7:30 p. m. Ruralistic study club, Mrs. Amelia Beckmeyer, 8 p. m. (Ruth and Naomi circle, church parlors, 2:30 p. m. St. Vincent DePaul, K. of C. hall, 2 p. m. St. Paul ladies aid society, Mrs. Lee Mcßride, all day. Stated meeting of Eastern Star, Masonic hall, 7:30 p. m. Presbyterian ladies aid society, church parlors, 2:30 p. m. W. S. C. S. Circle I, Mrs. Clifford Saylors, 2:30 p. m. W. S. C. S. circle 11, Mrs. Walter Krick, 2:30 p. in. W. S. C. S. circle HI, Mrs. Frank Krick, 2:30 p. m. W. S. C. S. circle IV, Mrs Ernest Uhrick, 2:30 p. m. Friday Red Cross Knitting Center, Red Cross headquarters, 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Philathea class of Baptist church, Mrs. Norman Kruse, 7:30 p. m. American Legion auxiliary, Legion home, 6:30 p. m. (Progressive .Workers class, Mr. and Mrs. Ed iDeitsch, 7:30 p. m. 'Philo class of Baptist church, Mrs. Jerry Rumple, 7:30 p. m. Schindler; offering; reports of committees; song, “America,” benediction. o . The Philo class of the Baptist church will meet Friday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. Jerry Rumple, Homestead — o There will be a meeting of the St. Vincent DePaul society Thursday afternoon at two o’clock at the K. of IC. hall. Mrs. Elmo Smith is chairman of the meeting, assisted by Mrs. Arthur Voglewede and and Mrs. Raymond Kohne. o The Ruralistic study club will Sundress and Blouse MARIAN MARTIN .4* A \ \ sizes jMeO 'Km™ 2 ' 10 r 1 1 JW n. !" T I’l frt * vl t u Just cut out for fun in the sun, Pattern 9255 ties in crisp bows at the shoulders. Blouse (included) converts it into a cute jumper. So few pattern parts, it’s easy sewing. Pattern 9255 comes in sizes 2, 4,6, 8 and 10. Size 6, sunfrock, takes l’/ 2 yards 35-inch fabric. Send Twenty Cents in 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 onr Marian Martin Spring Pattern Book! Basy-to-make clothes for all. Free Blouse Pattern printed sight in the book. Bond No®. _

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\- t ■ The Eighth Air Force 353rd Fighter Group in England, of which First Lt. John E. Davenport of Monroe, is a member, recently raised its total of enemy aircraft destroyed beyond the 500 mark when pilots of the unit accounted for 65 German planes in three missions over Europe. Lt. Davenport, a pilot with the P-51 Mustang group commanded by Col. Ben Rimerman, Omaha, Nebr., is credited with the destruction of one of these on the ground. He wears the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster. The 23-year-old son of Mrs. Rosella E. Striker of Monroe, was graduated from South Side, Fort Wayne, high school in 1940 and was employed by the General ing the army air forces. He has been serving with the 353rd since Electric company prior to enterSeptember. 1944. (Corrected from yesterday’s paper) meet Thursday evening at eight o’clock at the home of Mrs. Amelia Beckmeyer of route 1. The 'Philathea class of the Baptist church will meet Friday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the borne of Mrs. Norman Kruse. Since this is the end of the church year, much business will be transacted. Miss Jessie IWinnes will have charge of the social hour. — —.—o The Ruth and Naomi circle of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will meet Thursday afternoon at two .thirty o’clock at the church. —- -oThe Progressive Workers class of the First United Brethren church will have a class meeting Friday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the home of Mr. and IMrs. Ed Deitsch. -r- * . The American Legion auxiliary will 'have initiation services Friday evening, beginning with a pot-luck supper at six thirty o’clock.

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By HARRISON CARROLL King Features Syndicate Writer HOLLYWOO D—Hollywood’s ■haunted house” has a new owner. Jo ahead and laugh, I did; but it’s i strange and fascinating yarn. t. The house be-

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versal picture, “Uncle Harry.” Geraldine, steeped in Gaelic folk- , lore, really believes in things that are scoffed at by more common- ( place souls. Anyway, she created quite a furore when she was rent- ! ing the Karloff home some time ago by relating stories that it was haunted by Poltergeist, mlschie- , vous spirits whom she can explain to you better than I. In all serf- , ousness, she told of a mirror that . detached itself from a dining room . wall, floated over the heads of her husband and herself, and returned to the wall without breaking. Also of a clock that jumped from one room to another and of other phe- j nomena. , The thing got to the point that ( Karloff filed a damage action j against the Irish star. All this vastly amuses Siodmak, the new owner. “I’m not worrying j about Poltergeist,” he tells me. “I j like the house.” ——l Newest feminine doodad to win < popularity in Hollywood is a charm ] bracelet made from coins of the j allied nations. Lana Turner has the , most interesting one. She started it j with a Turkish coin that dates back , to the Turhan Bey’s great grand- ] father. It has been passed on from ( generation to generation. Turhan < got it on his 21st birthday. 1 1 R-K-0 Producer Nat Holt has ' eliminated the exposure of the < “Sawing a Woman in Half” trick 1 from “George White’s Scandals of ' 1945.” American Society of Magi- i , ciana put on the pressure and th* J

BKHi IMiW Home From India , Sgt. Jesse L. Carper of the liaison force, who has been spending a 21-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Carp r, route 2, Decatur will leave Thursday for the rehabilitation center at Santa Ana, Calif. iSgt. Carper entered the army in February, 1942 and left for overseas duty in India in March, 1943. While stationed in India he became ill with malaria and was confined to a hospital there for sometime, arriving in the states about a month ago. Thie Carpets have another son in service, Sgt. Robert Carper of the army air force stationed at Midland, Texas with a 18-29 crew. He entered the army in Octdber, 1942. He is expected to fly home about May 5 for a 21-day furlough. Q The Assistant Adjutant First Lt. Ray E. Bailey of Monroe is now stationed atPerrin Field, Texas lAAF Training Command school as Assistant Adjutant, after returning in Decemlber from a tour of combat duty in the Asiatic Pacific Theatre. .Son of IMr. and Mrs. Sam Bailey, Monroe, Lt. Bailey flew 46 missions as pilot of a B-24 Liberator with the 13th Air Force, and was awarded the Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters. ■ 0— Word has been received by Mrs. Helen Marfoach of 'South Eleventh street, that her husband, Sgt. Waldo C. Marlbach, was recently advanced to tha.t rating. Sgt. Marbaoh entered the service in July, 1942 and has been overseas since June, 1944. Hie,is now located somewhere in Germany. o Cpl. Arnold Erxleihen has recently report-d to .the army air field at Lincoln. Ne'br, after spending a 15day furlough in Decatur with his wife and two j year-o!d daughter. After assignment hie will receive 10 weeks training as a nose gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber. His present address is: Cpl Arnold Erxhiben Sqdn. L, Lincoln army air field, Lincoln, 1, Nebr. o — Fvt. Elmer .J. Fisher is spending a 30-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and JMjjs: jFislier of Walnut .street, after completing eight 'mouthy oversea duty. pvt. Fisher war; wrtunded twice and spent sometime in a hospital in Eugrdpd -before returning to the states. He has

studio courteously bowed to theii wishes. The smutty pictures ring ex. posed by the local district attorney's office went in for all the frills. Some of the confiscated 16 millimeter films Were even in color. . . . Love suicide of Actress Peggy O’Neill, apparently over a trivial I quarrel, couldn’t have been more I tragic. Friends say she and Writer I Al Mannheimer, Jr., soon would have announced their engagement. . . . Hear nothing but raves about the latest Jimmy McHugh-Harold Adamson tune, "There’s a New Flag on Iwo Jima.” Some say it’s better than their "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer.” . . . Congratulate Actor J. Farrell McDonald on his 39th year in pictures. You can write him care of Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox, where he is appearing in “The Dolly Sisters.” McDonald made his first film in 1906 for the old Selig company in Chicago. He played nine out of 10 characters in the story. Sonny Tufts’ vacation, his first in six pictures, off to a bad start. He finished “The Well-Groomed Bride” and came down with flu. Probably will cancel his week’s fishing trip to Mexico. But he and his wife, Barbara, still will get their trip to New York. Gene Tierney had to go to her insurance company to get a chimney sweep. She was afraid to light a fire for fear it would burn the house down. HOLLYWOOD HI JINKS: Scenarists Marc Platon and Barbara McEvoy, writing Tschaikowsky’s life for the screen, are working from his diary in which he made entries for 34 years. . . . What’s happened to the Ben BogeausDolores Moran romance? He was at the Mocambo with his ex, Mimi Forsythe, while the blonde Dolores was with another party. . . . AJ Herd and Luscious Martha Vickers at the Crillon. . . . Hats off to Sybil Brand, the Naval Aid Auxiliary and the management of Ciro’s for their plan to entertain 200 wounded servicemen. . . . Town’s only one-armed orchestra leader will be Chuchu Martinez at the Trocadero. He had the arm shot off as a child during one of the Mexican revolutions, ,— — --

longed to Horror Star Boris Karloff and the purchaser is Universal Director Robert Siodmak. Oddly enough, the person who started the legend, Irish Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, has one of the leads in Siodniak's new UniTT - IS

The Air Medal Sgt. John J. Helmrich, Jr., of Decatur route 2, has been awarded the Air Medal for “meritorious achievement in aerial combat.” The award was announced by Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner, commanding tlje Second Air Division of the Eighth Air Force in England. Flying as an aerial gunner on a B-24 Liberator of Col. Albert J. Shower’s 467th Bomb Group, Sgt. Helmrich has already participated in six bombing missions to Germany, most of which were carried out in the face of intense flak from enemy ground defenses. A graduate of Kirkland high school, Sgt. Helmrich was working on his father’s farm prior to entering the service Aug. 19, 1943, at Fort Benjamin Harrison. (Corrected from yesterday’s paper) befn awarded the 'Purple Heart, one oak leaf cluster and the good conduct medal. o Pharmacist mate third class Cail Frederick Fuelling, 20, of 409 Winchester street, has been transferred from the U. S. Naval Hospital, Charleston, S. C.. to tli U. S. Naval Convalescent. Hospital. Asheville, N. C. He is the eon of Mr. and Mrs. Otto C. Fuelling of Decatur. Prior to his entering the navy at Toledo, on July 29, 1943, he attended Decatur junior-senior high school. His brother, (’pl. Lawrence Fuelling, is serving with the army engineers. 0 — (Charles Wagonier, representative of the Portland Cement Company. Muncie, called on friends here last evening. (Mayor John Stults haa been kept at home with a severe cold the past day or two. Mrs. Dorothy Durkin, who has be n quite ill the past week, is reported improved. J. N. Bulkhead, the Monroe auctioneer, was a caller last evening. He said a good shower right now would help. Dr. Ben Duke will return this evening from Shrer-port. La. where he has been visiting bio son-in-law and _daughter. Cap*,-and .Mrs. James Stephens and daughter, P ggy Dare. IMr. and Mrs. Roy Young and son Rotbert. Mrs. Marion Young and Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Yoder visited Marion Young Sunday a* the Robert Long hospital, ward D.. in Indianapolis. Mr. Young underwent a major operation Friday. Mrs. J. C. Maycline .and daughter Susan, who have visited here the past two weeks with Mrs. Mayelin’s parents. IMr. and Mrs. Ben Shroyer, will leave Saturday by automobile for her home at Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Fred MoWrer and son Steven of Huntington will accompany them for a visit in the I south. Mis. tMowrer was formerly Miss Jane Graber of this city. Funeral services were held this afternoon for Mrs. Loverna Weimer, 83, of near Willshire, O. She was the widow of Henry Weimer, well known citizen of that section. Dr. 'N. A. Bixler attended the regional meeting of the Indiana association of optometrists in Peru Monday. <

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(Miss 'Madeline Spahr visited in 1 Indianapolis over the weekend and 1 attended th ' inauguration cere- t monies for Dr. I. Lynd Esch, the t new president of Indiana Central I college. — o Rev. and 'Mrs. William Feller, 310 Jackson street, are the parents of a baby boy, born this morning at 4:50 a. m. at the Adams county memorial hospital. He weighed 8 pounds. 10 ounces and has been named Paul Alan. (Mr. and Mrs. Jerry O. Carper of Norristown, Pa., announce the birth of a son, born April 11. The baby weighted 5 pounds and 13’/ 2 ounces and lias Ibeen named David Oliver, and is the first child in the family. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Philip Carper, route 2, Decatur. o | Adams County | Memorial Hospital j ♦ ♦ i Admitted: Dan Reynolds, Decatur; Mrs. Carl Schnepp, 507 Marshall street; Mies Pearl Mesbberger. Berne. 'Dismissed: Rosetta Jackson, 100'3 West Monroe street; Mies Kathryn MdComas, Monroeville; Mrs. Ben Monroe, Monroe; Norman Schlemmer, (Monroeville; Owen Carrier. Dixon, O; iMis. William Lawrence and baby boy, Linley William, Bryant route 2; James F. Byer, 949 Mercer avenue. o Ration Calendar Processed Foods Blue stamps C 2 through G 2 valid through April 28. H 2 through M 2 valid through June 1. N 2 through S 2 valid through June 30. T 2 through X 2 valid through July 31. IWeats T 5 through X 5 valid through April 28. Y 5 and Z 5 and A2 • through D 2 valid through Juno 1. E2 through J 2 valide through June 30. Red Stamps K 2 through P 2 valid through July 31. Sugar Stamp 35 Ttlid through June 2. Gasoline No. 15 coupons now good for four Shoes Airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 In book 3 good Indefinitely. Always present book 3 when making purchase as stamps are invalid if re moved from the book, gallons each, through June 21. B and C coupons good for five gallons. Fuel Oil Period 4 and 5 coupons valid through Aug. 31, 1945 have the fol Mew stamp to be validated May I. lowing values: I unit, 10 gallons 5 units, 50 gallons; 25 units, 25t ; gallonß. All change-making cou pons and reserve coupons are nov good. New periods 1,2, 3, 4 cou pons also valid now and goo< throughout the heating year. Stoves All new heating, cooking an, combination heating and cooking stoves, designed for domestic upe.

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for installation on or above the floor and for the use of oil, kerosene, gasoline and gas, are rationed. Certificates must be obtained from local board. Used Fats Each pound of waste fat is good for two meat-ration points. 0 _ Pnl-’s w**h Germs Di Ab-x'inder Fleming, the fans sc ent,st who discovered peniI'iit, has the unique hokiby of >mt'nr with germs! He takes vari>us urgiinisms which, when they innb.ite produce different colored ninnies of bacteria He brushes hc.se organisms onto a culture mehi’n, sets them aside to incubate, d li<s the germs do the rest. 7hen the colors are set, he has his erm painting Some of the "picores' he has produced in this manner are the British flag, a street cone and the flour delis. o Flaming Bullet One of the most outstanding small arms ammunition developments during this war is the present type of incendiary bullet. It was born of an emergency caused by the use of self-sealing gasoline tanks on enemy airplanes. Igniting on contact, with a wide spread of flame, the incendiary bullet has sent many an enemy plane down in flames.

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