Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1945 — Page 3

URDAY, JUNE 9, 1945

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■ f3 MISS |ONARY Ke Kty meets ■ V Ili-i-HHiry society ol God "><‘t T " ( ' KdllY home of -Mrs. Charh;l( i charge of 8 ° ( B uX '111(1 sentence prayers ‘S-jfc'' '">• ,!,e " nembe ”" • Mrs ' , it nvki" w,d two I,oem6 ’ JW, taken from the hook " |>:iie 1-ine." was given W|||, "^B'’ ( .i.' llV i lc p Strickler and .Mrs. - As ' el ' hnsine-us meeting. iby her daughiovt ly 'efieslimente■f„r«ent were Mrs. Ruben 1J M«. •’«<■ lA “ e and Mrs. John Chilcote, Mrs. |K trickier. Mrs. Manley IrClarence Strickler, Ml®. .Miudiel and daughter, JBa'iiee Agler. Mrs. Floyd MitEdith Smitley. Mi®. Edna Mib. Heiibert Hawkins, " Jsi llaiwk'ins. Mis. Glen |K- The July meeting will be die home of Mrs. Ruben tin ~ St Jude study club will ..K Pi™'' Wednesday evening thirty o'clock. All memasked to meet at the home r Anna B. Smith. H M s. HAS MEETING 1 Bisday evening I V ; p. M. S. of the Church of L met Thursday evenhome of Mr. and Mrs. Mattax. ■.ting w;i« opened with the BBsiugin.u ''Hidden Peace,” folIby prayer by the Rev. J. T. and Amanda Ward. Scrip- , read by Jesse Edgell, and ' “Jesus Paid it AM” was v Why the Rev. and Mrs. J. T. jD| Mi®. Gerald B. Mills and t >nard Foster were in change xceei^E ,w?<)n study ' A 6h '° rt bUSi ' was held, and the IS was closed with prayer by 7 o WEytle. .’B* the social hour, delicious 0 were served to the five members and guests >od. ' S. C. S. of the Methodist

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ilkffij By HARRISON CARROLL Features Syndicate Writer Topper of freak . sent Monogram Producer Kes S. Burkett ta the Cedars of hospital, a victim of a

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sprung the trigger and got jgßKedles, luckily not poisoned, in ’ near the elbow. In jerkarm away he tore several and may have to have before the wound can i of Barbara Stanwyck’s pals * Kenvious of a souvenir sent the Louis Stevens in Italy. a letter addressed to Benito shortly before his execu'lle Duce s insurance com- ■ 1 l° ve Barbara’s crack: “I th oy were going to raise the ■•rain." acting sensation, Bill gets top billing over Suand Academy Award aul Lukas in his second rß^B' ‘deadline at Dawn,” but .■' i Eti awonderfulsideli & ht to the on. After all deductions, inW,e >' for War Bonds, are from Williams’ salary, he ML- 7e to hand it to Bud Abbott JO, u Costello. Their five weeks h sona l appearances in the east iHhth the Lou Costell °. J r -> T dation a guaranteed pi do three ■tinpt, Rox y in New York, ■Kor? r! ade!phia and one Bal7 lder a salary plus perarranged by Eddie IKmX’ the fl nal sum for the n 13 apt to be nearer ■Lym« a Ji. and J °fin Conte are oc■hiwa adj °? n to& beds in the hosm at Cam P Roberts. . . . fßtft b l ?? n ‘ over 30, escapes the .n. eaves soon On a threetainment tour ?n the Mk7n r * al sta rlet Poni Adams, Turns " mode1 ’ and Lt . The cast on

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 a. M. Phones 1000—1001 Friday Work and Win class of Fii«t U B. church, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hower' 7:30 p.m. ’ Pocahontas Lodge, Red Men ha’l 8 p. m. Calvary Evangelical ladies aid society, Mrs. E. w. Jackson, 8 p. m Legion auxiliary, Legion home 8 p. m. • Victory close of First U b church, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bolinke 7:30 p. m. Sunday Mr. Tabor W. S. C. S„ Miso Myrtle Clement®, 7:30 p. m. Monday Pythian Sister Temple, K. of P. 7:30 p. m. Needle club, after Temple, Men’s Union Prayer Service, auditorium of Nuttman Avenue U. B. church, 7:30 p. m. Firemen’s Auxiliary, Mrs. Francis Ellsworth, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday Church Mothers study club, Mrs. Ladoyt Miller. 7:30 p. m. Civic Section of Woman’s Club, City Hall, 7:00 p. m. Rebekah Lodge, Odd Fellows Hall, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday Business' and Professional Women’s club, Hanna Nuttman park, 6:30 p. m. St. Luke girls guild, Miss Maxine Erhart, 8 p. m. W. S. C. S. of Beulah Chapel, Mrs. Frank Spade, all day. St. Jude study clulb picnic, Mies Anna B. Smith, 7:30 p. m. Thursday Eastern Star, Masonic Hall, 7:30 p. m. W. iS. C. S. of Methodist church, church, 2:30 ,p. m., executive committee, 1:45 p. m. church will have their regular June meeting Thursday afternoon at two thirty o’clock at the church. The lesson will be given by Mrs. G. L. Brayton and Mrs. Deane Dor win. and Mi®. M. O. Lester will be in charge of the devotions. The executive committee will meet at one forty five o’clock.

Ann Blyth’s broken back now carries autographs of 36 Hollywood celebs. . • . The loyalty of screen fans, argues Joan Davis, is amazing. She has received six- letters complimenting her on her performance in “George White’s Scaftdals and the picture hasn’t even been released yet. Alan Hale greeting everybody with a smile on "The Time, the Place anddhe Girl” set. His theater seat plant has a backlog of orders for 5,000,000 seats. All they need now is materials. According to latest word received by Lauritz Melchior, his castle at Chossewitz in Germany, near the Polish border, virtually was undamaged by a year of Nazi use and by subsequent Russian occupation. His agent says the only things missing are a fur coa t a " jso ® e shirts. Melchior, at M-G-M for “Two Sisters From Boston,” chiefly was worried about souvenirs o. his 32 years in opera. Big laugh at a certain studio is the “clothes feud” between a borrowed designer, who is doing the wardrobe of a feminine star, and the studio stylist, who is dressing one of the featured actresses in the cast of a current comedy. Studio stylist scored when he managed to get a fabulous fur coat from New York for his protegee, while all the star had was a mink jacket. HOLLYWOOD HI JINKS: Anne Sterling, ex-mate of Tommy Warner, Jr., heading back to Mexico for two weeks, then on to New York for a play. . • . Herman Hover will open a Giro’s in Honolulu after the war. . . . Comedian B. S. Pully is dating Sonya Yarn . When “One Touch of Venus finally gets under way, there’ll be a part in it for Mocambo’s redheaded cigaret girl, Barbara Powers. . . • Music Publisher Ralph S. Peer says American hill-billy tunes are a terrific hit in Spain. . • • Preston Foster, arms full of packages, trying to sign autographs outside of Greenblatt’s delicatessen Diana Lynn and Bill Moss at the Trocadero. . . • Lois De Fee, six foot 4% amazon, once married to a midget, having a gay time at Charley Foy’s. She has a new husband now, an Air Force lieutenant. • . . Ruth Harrison the agent, and Howard Tullus, local advertising man, will follow up their Mexican elopement with another marriage in Beverly Hills. • • • Workmen are so scarce that r.en Dolan and Shirley Ross are trying to do some of the work on their one-room guesthouse themselves.

In Germany • ininniwr Ag|| ,<: ||| Pvt. Arthur Werling, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Werling of Decatur route two, serving with one of the famous army engineer corps, was in Germany, when the European war ended. The engineers are credited with getting the army across the Rhine and other rivers over which troops had to be transported. Pvt. Werling entered the army in September, 1944, and took training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. He went overseas last March. He attended the Friedheiin Lutheran school and worked on his father’s farm before going into the armed forces. There will be a meeting of the Eastern Star next Thursday evening at seven-thirty o’clock held in the Masonic Hall. There will also be initiation and the district deputy will be a visitor for the evening. A good attendance fe requested. o T

Special Services And Meetings Os Churches In Area First Evangelical There will be no Sunday school session tomorrow at the . First Evangelical church due to -the ,r» finishing of the floors. A worship service will be held in the church basement at 10:10 a. m. -— 'o XMLOCALS iMrs. John Acheson left Friday for Green'Bay, Whse. to spend the weekend with her husband, John Acheson. EM 2/c. IMr-. John ScJieimann is visiting relatives in Springfield, O. —. o Democrat Want Ads Get Results Today’s Pattern

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, JC I ml till !J>!ii!nill!!!!!l!lirnlHIII lili Thi: newspaper is in receipt of a .copy of the Lilb'erator, a one page new (paper, printed by the 97th Signal I’iit‘alion in Germany. One of the circulation managers is T/4 Arnold Martin, son of Mi®. Sarah M. Martin of Decatur route six. The copy is dated iMay 30. It contains items of interest to the enli-ted per. onnel and a story about Beckum, Germany, one of the oldest cities in Europe, which has history dating back to 2,0-00 years before Christ. . The address of Floyd A. Reed, S 2/c, has been changed to Bn. 4, Brks. 0'313, N. T. S.—T. A. I).— C. E. N., Shoemaker, Calif. iStafif Sergeant Robert E. Keller left today for Minimi Beadh, Fla., after a 10-week furlough. Sgt. Keller, before coming home, had seen three yeai® service tin the Pacific theater and it was his first furlough since entering the army in 1941. 'Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bollinger have received word from their son, Pvt. Charles W. Bollinger, who is now stationed with the U. S. Engineers at t'he following address: Co. A, Ssth Bn., 18th Gp„ ASFTC, Camp Claiborne, La. 0 . Ack-Ack As early as 1909 both the United States and Germany had anti-air-craft guns.

J H I w U mC THIS IS "MARJORIE" and the crutches that a wounded soldier who called himself “Al” left behind him at the stage door canteen in New York. A canteen hostess, Marjorie Greenstein, 19, so encouraged Al to discard his crutches and dance, that he no longer had need of them when the evening was done, and prior to his visit at the canteen he was afraid to walk. (International)

i x liiMb ■ ■ ABOVE is an informal snapshot of; Albert E. Langford, 63-year-old textile executive of New York, who was murdered in the foyer of his Park avenue apartment. More: than 100 persons have been questioned by scores of detectives working on every possible clew in an effort to solve the baffling crime. (International)

A Liberator tjgj Pfc. Marvin L. Beery, son of Harve Beery of Decatur route two. a paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division in the Philippines, was one of the American paratroopers who helped free the 2,146 prisoners at. Camp Los Banos last February. He entered the army in March, 1944, and received training at Camp Fannin, Texas and Fort Benning, Ga. He served in New Guinea in November of last yhar and then joined the American liberator forces on the Philippines. His sister, Mrs. Ray Shackley lives in this city. Paratropoer Beery is a graduate of Kirkland high school. Girl Scouts of troop 3 will meet at the jumior-.senior high school building at 1 p. m. Saturday, June 16. Bring a noree 'bag lunlch. We have father’s day gifts to deliver. —Leader.

COURT HOUSE Estate Cases The inheritance appraiser’s report in the Ollie L. Spangler estate wi >5 filed. The net value of the estate was placed at $3,'834.57, and the foil awing tax due from the heirs: M iry Eliz.:tbe'h Shendeldecker and Orlando F. Strete, $38.91 each. The appraiser was allowed $5. iT.he final report by William 6. Bowers in the guardianship of John S. Bower.* was filed, covering a period from 1937 to 19'44, with receipts of $2i8,83i3.24 and dislbursemen’s of $27,41'9.22, and a balance on hand of $1,424.02. The guardian was discharged and the sureties releastd. . .■_!— o_!—^o—. — o o Adams County Memorial Hospital I o —-—* o 'Di.mised: Jack iStephenson, Monroeville; Max iMyeiu, Monroeville; Mfoj Lorena Nus i’iaum, route 1; Kail Reinking, l‘Cil6 Nutunan avenue; iMrs. Bernard Johnson and balby .boy, route 6. o Ozarks Community Is Hit By Flash Flood iNewfberg. Mo., June 9—(UP) — This tiny Ozarks community counted four dead and three missing today at its stricken residents mobilized to care for more than 50 families made homeless by a "flash flood.” •The entire town was without lights, drinking water or electric power lust night in the wake of the rampaging flood waters. Damage ten'i-a lively was cutrmatcd at $501,000.

I. O. O. F. Regular Meeting MONDAY, 7:30 p. m. and every Monday thereafter, corner Monroe & 2nd Sts. (Second Floor) Missionary To Speak At First U. B. Church —O'Miss Helen Ball, a missionary from Velardi, New Mexico, w’ill be the guest speaker for both morning and evening services on SUNDAY, JUNE 10th in the First United Brethren Church of this city. Miss Ball has spent two years in this mission teaching in both the third and fourth grades and also helps in the work of the local church. She is a gifted speaker and the public is cordially invited to attend these services, which will begin at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.

A”.-’CiA japan ■ ? uuo7«>BEA ,0 HANKOW iBEC ~Jr 'J: SpyCHINA Mn p ac ifi c Ocean ' ADMITTING THAT OKINAWA had been reduced to an isolated island, the Japanese radio began warn- • »v»n ing its people of imminent invasion of the homeland islands, while General of the Army Douglas MacArthur stated that invasion was inevitable. The map, left above, shows distances from Okinawa to key “targets-for-tomorrow,” while the map at the right shows the last vital moves in the bloody campaign for Okinawa itself: (1) the new landing of Marines who attacked Naha airfield, and (2) clearance of the eastern coast of the enemy by American forces. (International) 'TAX' “is ™ IK--'-Photos courtesy Everfast Top left, plaid gingham blouse; below, Gibson girl striped blouse; right, yellow and white striped model. ~ This is the season of the year when the blouse and skirt will come out into the open, with or without the jacket. For this reason, crisp cotton with varying trims comes into its own in summer. A most important fact in the collection is the wearers’ guarantee that fabrics are proof against sun, suds, l ’ chlorine and hot irons. Colors are clean and bright. The casual blouse, top left, is in red and white hair-ribbon plaid gingham. It has long, folded-back sleeves and a high neckline finished by a self-fab-ric bow. Below is a Gibson girl striped blouse with a tucked bosom-front. It is short-sleeved and has a 'bow-tied neckline. The classic V-necked model, right, is in yellow and white stripes. It has a twobutton front closing and short sleeves, and is the type that goes equally well with slacks and skirts.

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