Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1945 — Page 3

; JULY 21,1945.

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- -.-ybEones s. c. s. ■ e.. :*£. of lhe Pleasant ' .. Khurch met Thmuthe home of Mrs. lottejMkh fifteen members -I’- - was opened followed with deMik. John Bailey, month was given fSnMg" inan ~ ,iu " erl 1 Belie Seott - hour, delicious served by the . s' assßed by Mrs. Flora ."/"and * Laura Davis. miKoßs home ecofitpKl Thursday al the . Sylvan WMB. HL members and six Ka'ilMK wafl opened with . "America owed by devotion', ■a -by Mlb- Crystal Rice. The with the •ation “By 1 think f>°y«s an(l the fiMWMßfeci'iiriiinn selections. Yours,” and “Bell viii Trcßrs,” were played by followed with lesson <Hsalads, given by Ge-, |3MHLaum. ■ins hour, delicious esbmenißvere served by the by Mrs. Henry Bible class of the and Reformed ;C; a picnic Thursday ninr toSiaiimi-Niillmaii park. Jp >y fiv® members were preA deßlus dinner was servo’clock at long 'ira. bcßfully decorated with :■ Contests were were awarded MKvorthman and Miss eyer. /'' oe in char S e of the de IndKad Mrs. Charles Bein- , Harlowe, Mrs A. — and Miss Lydia 11QM V, S. dBSS HAS 'ae D, W B. class of the First , church held their ’ Thursday evening tiie chHli basement, k. KBBg. opened with group

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®ARRISON CARROLL Syndicate Writer ■ The ;own swells ■Vi , K Cmdr. Johr Ford has JflHHoted to the rank of cap- — aeeoad four-strip-

er of the war. Capt. Gene Markey is the other. Ford’s leg still is in a cast from that fall on the set but he leaves for Washing ton Monday for Teas signment to active Navy duty. He expects to be in Pacific combat before long.

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MVXVIVIVIt MVe, I hear nothing but suabout "They Were Exthe picture the Navy •WHord to M-G-M to direct .®W” IS mishap befell Roddy igSßn and his mother on their The train was stopped " Bf W ’ Ariz ’ Rodd y and “S jjyjE ! -"en playing the game of ; \ She shoved the cards ..•sSg"Thiß is Just too monoto- ' there was a loud ■Hand water began flooding — C -B c °mpartment. It was al•.gS® to their waists before they out. A trainman, seeking ■ the water tank of the car, nozzle by mistake into f**nt. fcjßr mo °n hint—Dick Powell’s sailing yawl is being outfit- •| a cruise. The weather will it 'Hderful, too, around the latof August when Dick’s m H "Cornered,” is finished. 'i ench Poodle belonging to rJwm arlan d and Vincente Minfrom their car and led Yorlc police a merry chase J.'■ a t 6a - m - when, with the i,?M° Bing in> the pooch jumped water between two tugTook sev en baths to clean I an d muc h off its coat. Mb things holding up Mrs. Ken divorce suit are the final °t a property settlement e difficulty of discovering a Cleatus and Ken have been un der the same roof. . . . of houses, Susan

singing, was presided over by the vice president, Mrs, Della Baker. Mrs. George Hill was in charge of the devotions and Mrs, Judson Passwater offered a special prayer for the boys in service. Group singing followed, after which Mrs. Homer Bittner gave the special number. Roll call was answered by the twenty one members present. A number of calls were reported and the meeting was closed with prayer by Mrs. Will Pennington. Mrs. Manley Foreman was program leader. Hostesses for the meeting were Mrs. 0. P. Mills, Mrs. Homer Bittner, Mrs. Ed Newport and Mrs. Noah Sheets. ENS. ROBERT PORTER IS MARRIED JUNE 14 At an informal wedding at the summer home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Conant of West Falmouth and Newtonville, Mass., Miss Sylvia Gilman Conant became the bride, June 14, of Ensign Robert Chalmer Porter, USN, son of Mrs. Chalmer O. Porter of Huntington. The four-thirty o’clock ceremony was performed by Dr. D. Brewer Eddy of Chappaquoit Island, West Falmouth and Newtonville, Mass. The bride wore her mother's wedding gown of ivory satin and Chantilly lace, with a train and long tulle veil. Her bouquet was of white summer flowers with orchids. Miss Elizabeth Farley of Newtonville and Hyannis, Maos., was maid of honor, and Private John C. Porter, USMC, only brother of the groom, now stationed at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich, was best man. .Mrs. Porter is a graduate of Northampton school for girls and Bradford Junior college. Mr. Porter was graduated in June 1944, from the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Mrs. Chalmer O. Porter attended the wedding, whi<h was arranged on short notice as her son's ship has only recently returned to Boston for a short perid. Mrs. Porter is visiting for a few days at the Cape with Mr. and Mrs. Conant. Caroline Kinsman entertained a number of her friends Thursday with a theater parly, the occasion being her birthday anniversary. Tho'se present were Mary and Nola Grandstaff, Marilyn Manlier, Phyllis Reef and Caroline Alger. o Home should be the father’s kingdom, the mother’s world, and the children’s paradise.

Peters and Dick Quine still are looking for that small place on a flat bit of ground where Susan can be carried out in the sun. She’s getting along famously and, when her strength permits, will accept a radio offer. ... Lt. Robert Harthum monopolizing Janis Paige.... Congratulate the Frank Lloyds on their 32nd wedding anniversary. ... GI song writers submitted over i 300 tunes to Helen Forrest in one ■ week of her hospital tours. She is ■ referring two to a publisher. . . . i Nice triumph for Singer Georgia . Gibbs. Nine years ago she made i her first public appearance in Boston’s Raynor ballroom. She returns . soon but to the Boston Symphony , hall, which, oddly enough, happens to be right next door. Town’s steadiest twosome: War- . ner Starlet Joan Winfield and , Maj. Hon. John R. Fenmore Hesketh, of General Montgomery’s staff. , ' Despite the heat wave and the [ newspaper strike, Abbott and Cosi tello’s first week at the Roxy set a • house record of $125,000. Unj daunted autograph seekers threw . rocks through the windows of the [ boys’ dressing room and tossed ih , their books to be signed. r HOLLYWOOD HI —L. ; A. Civic Light Opera association’s ’ revival of “Rose Marie’’ did a tre- > mendous $91,000 in two weeks, beating “Carmen Jones’" record by $2,000.... Cara Williams off to I New York and Miami. . . . Brian ■ Donlevy will supply service hos--1 pitals with 48 prints of his own 16- . millimeter film suggesting means j of self-entertainment. . . . Sabu and Merle Oberon met at Universal for the first time since 1940 > when he was in London working . for Sir Alexander Korda. ... Jea--1 nette MacDonald’s dressing room . for her Detroit concert was a for » met voting booth. . . . Honeymoon* 1 ers Estellta and Chuchu Martinez . finally sampling domesticity in a i borrowed apartment. He says she is the best 19-year-old cook in the world. . . . Orchestra Leader Ted i Straeter’s transportation headache 1 finally solved when the Army flew t his band to Santa Barbara for a i camp show... . Edgar Bergen has i bought a small plane to facilitate . his many trips to entertain the i Gl’s.

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000—1001 Tuesday Rebekah lodge, Odd Fellows hall, 7:30 p. m. Root township home economics club, Mrs. Charles Johnson, 1:30 p. in. Wednesday Union township home economics club, Mrs. Theral Stults, 1:30 p. in. St. Mary’s township home economics cluji, Mrs. Verlando Clark, 1:30 p. m. Thursday Circle 1 of W. S. C. S. of Methodist church, Mrs. O. L. Vance, 2:30 p. m. Circle II of W. S. C. S. of Methodist church, Mrs. Earl Colter, 2:30 p. m. Circle 111 of W. S. C. S. of Methodist church, Mrs. John Doan, 2:30 p. m. Circle IV of W. S. C. S. of Methodist church, Mrs. Floyd Acker, 2:30 p. in. • mums Mrs. Dwight Darr and daughter, Judith Ann, have, returned home after spending a week in Lima, 0., visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Ted August and daughters. Miss Teresa August accompanied her aunt and cousin to this city for a two weeks’ vacation with friends and relatives. Miss Mary Catherine Peterson lias returned home after a three weeks visit in Saginaw, Detroit and Bay City, Mich. She was accompanied home by Mrs. Adeline Wagner and Donald Phelps of Saginaw, who will visit relatives and friends for several weeks. * Mrs. William Christen and Miss Mary Jane Wilson will return home Sunday from Lake James, where they have spent the past two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. J, Dwight Peterson and son John of Indianhpolis are visiting here over the weekend with Mrs. J. S. Peterson, after an outing at Clear Lake. They will leave Monday for Lake Webster, where they will visit with J. Free Frisinger a few days. At Ossian the American Legion post has changed its name to the Scherer-Ogg Post No. 135. The two names represent the first men to lose their lives in the first and second world wars. It was formerly the Earl M. Scherer Post, 135.. o O O Adams County j Memorial Hospital o o Admitted: Miss Dorothy Witten, Van Wert, 0., route 5; Mrs. Joe Smalley, Ohio City, O. Dismissed: Mrs. Harry Dull and baby girl, Wren. O.; Carl Baxter 312 Line street; Mrs. Adolph Bultemeier, route 2; Mrs. Elmer Bearman and baby boy, Tod Leslie, Monroeville; Mrs. Lawrence Harris and baby boy, 218 North Third' street; Mrs. Merle Riley and baby boy, Gale Nelson; Harry Moltz, 116 South Fourth street. 0 Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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Will Is Probated In Circuit Court The will of the late Tereashia Womack has been probated in the Adams circuit court, nominating G. Remy Bierly as executor After providing for the payment of any debts, she bequeaths her real estate and personal property to her husband, Burg Womack during his lifetime and the fee simple to her granddaughters, Beatrice Miller Black and Thelma B. Miller Davis, share and share alike. The will further provides that her husband may, if he so desires, give her household goods, and other personal property to . the same granddaughters at any time. The will was written last. April 24. o Cancel Agreement With Westinghouse The General Electric company has announced the cancellation, by mutual agreement as of Aug. 1, of its license with the Westinghouse Electric corporation in the field of electric lamps. A new agreement has been entered into under which each company grants to the other a simple nonexclusive license under its lamp patents and patent applications in existence on August 1. The new license provides for no royalty payments and contains no limitations on quantitites or prices at which patented lamps may be sold. o Two Youths Sentenced For Robbing Soldier Indianapolis, July 21 — (UP) — Two Indiana youths began 10-year sentences at the state reformatory today for slugging and robbing a Camp Atterbury soldier Thursday. John Smith, 21, Austin, and Harold Cooksey, 23, Crawfordsville, were given speedy trials by Judge William D. Bain in criminal court yesterday and the sentences were passed only 36 hours after the crime. They were, charged with luring Pvt. James Vaughn into an automobile, driving to the southern edge of Indianapolis and slugging and robbing the soldier of sl9 and his uniform. o Sentenced To Life For Tavern Slaying _______ • Indianapolis, July 21 — (UP) — William J. Eiffe, 52, faced life imprisonment today for killing a man he accused of giving him a “hot foot” in a tavern. Eiffe was convicted of second degree murder by a Marion county criminal court jury last night tor shooting Clifford L. Gose, 32, truck driver. Eiffe had pleaded insanity. After the jury verdict, Judge William D. Bain pronqunqed sentence and gave Eiffe’s attorneys a 30-day perod in which'to file-an appeal. Max Johnson Enrolls In Medicine School

Max E. Johnson, of this city is included among the 52 civilian students announced as having been accepted for admissio in September to the Indiana University School of Medicine. The 52 civilians in the entering elate will be augmented by 36 men chosen by the navy. • One Man Is Killed In Bus-Truck Accident Bedford, Ind., July 21 — (UP) — A 50-year-old Heltonville man was killed and 14 persons injured last night when a truck sideswiped a small school bus cfcwded with 28 passengers. George Stevens, one of the 28 persons returning home from work at the nearby Crane naval depot, died on the way to a hospital. His chest was crushed and one leg was broken. ««*' 20-YEAR-OLD Bonita Granville, child movie actress who “grew up” into adult roles, has announced plans to marry Russ Caldwell, also 20, in about two weeks. The bridegroom-to-be is a > former soldier now being tested 1 for the movies. (International)

ttulW Itfßß Ens, Thomas Andrews, who waj (seriously wounded while in the South Pacific, has arrived home to spend a 30-day leave with life parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Andrews of route 4. At the completion of his leave, he will report to Mare Island hospital, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have three other sons in the service, all of whom are over--eas. They are Sgt. Francis Andrews, stationed in Trinidad, Pfc. Spencer Andrews in Germany, and T/5 Richard Andrews, with the army in New Calidonia. Byford Macy, who has served three years in the South Pacific, has received . his honorable discharge and returned to West Palm Beach, Fl’a. After a brief visit to Chicago he and Mrs. Macy will reside in Florida, where he plans to enter business. Lt. Lawrence Anspaugh left this morning for his camp in Georgia after p two weeks’ leave spent here and at Lake James. Mrs. Anspaugh will leave today for Connecticut, where she will visit her parents a couple of weeks before joining her husband ir. the south. Pfc. Charles W. Busse of this city was recently promoted to corporal. Cpl. Busse is assigned to the station hospital, Camp Hood, Texas. Sgt. Bud Townsend has arrived home after service in the European war and is enjoying a furlough before reporting for reassignment.

r "j I | " ■ ||iF ■ h •v ■ S it 1 ■r .Z g. (HE FBI has arrested Karl Horst Wacker, 20, above, member of the Nazi espionage service who entered the United States masquerading as a battle-shocked American soldier suffering from loss of memory. Wacker, who was repatriated from the United States in February. 1944, landed in Boston June 16 with other military personnel and was arrested in Camp Upton hospital, Long Island, (International) ’ iH UR xUe & % • kxJkHras isK: S CROWN PRINCESS JULIANA of the Netherlands is shown with her (youngest daughter, Princess Margriet Francesca, just before she land her other two daughters sailed from New York aboard the S. S. Queen Mary for their native Holland. Young Princess Margriet, who was bom in Ottawa, Canada, two years ago, will be I setting foot on Dutch soil for the first time. (International) NOTICE My shop will be closed from July 23 to August 6. BESSIE’S BEAUTY SHOP

Huntington Child Is Killed By Truck Huntington, July 21 (UP) Sharon Ann Smith, 2, daughter of city policeman and Mrs. Robert C. Smith, was killed instantly yesterday when .-li< - was hit by a Huntington county farm bureau grain truck driven by George A. Linderman, Huntington. o Approximately two per cent of the total weight of iron and steel in this country is lost annually duo to corrosion, according to Dr. Hugh McDonald, director of the Illinois Institute of Technology corro-ion laboratory.

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Capital expenditures for equipment and other improvements made | by railroads in’ 1944 totaled $560,- [ 112,00(1, the neatest for any year i since 1930 when they amounted to ! $872,608,600. nComesHome I The American Legion Auxiliary presents the following information based on the GI Bill of Rights for the benefit of returning veterans: A. First is the widow, second a

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I child or children under the age of I 18, and if there is no widow or child, father and mother, then to the person who bore the expenses of the I veteran's last illness and burial, i (Parent must show dependency exfeting at date of veteran’s death ) ■ compensation or pension? Q. Are pensions paid to widows and children of service connected veterans of World War who die of some other cause? A. Yes, widows receive $35 a month, first child $lO additional, I other children $5 each. To be enI titled—income of the widow must ■ not exceed $1,000,000 annually or ! widow with minor children $2500.00 ! annually. Q. Are parents included? A. No.