Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1946 — Page 3

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Kmemakers K meeting K. r- lull of I( .*nrnlp met IKx.n th- " f KKd'.-i ' i' on ar,,va! -h-' »»• presented in honor of St Mitchel conduced meeting. following IKtoup .-ng ’ Wearing of Roll < all wan answermu .-azine. \ lesson tn: er'r *a* prM\|.. E-nneth Parrish Brr< found ih« two des-|K,.-,.1r.<l noth appetizing ■vr< Peter Miller gave S.||ng account of her reK Purdue. JK served from a heautlit table, at which | Vll'-r presided Fourand nine gucetx ■ bible class ■ar meeting Bible class of the and Reformed ■rt la-t evening at the ■burl--. Jlelneke. leader, ■en-oii on The Kingdom Sbem-tii Not with ObservuKc "Beauty aw Related to ■ox were sung by Pauline Mix. William Feller lone, ■where I wants Your holograph |tke in appointment Bw for a LOVELY ■OOERN Portrait. ANSPAUGH STUDIO Mr First & Monroe Phone 1662

• • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■« ■«■■■■■■ hen You EAT OUT... J Eat at Rebers! : ■ We are prepared to serve you the ■ finest foods at all times. a Enjoy your noon or evening meal in a quiet, restful atmosphere. oon Lunches 45c; T-Bone Steaks ; Serving Any Hour of the Day or Night — Quality and Price Second to None. ■ DELICIOUS FANCY MIXED DRINKS " — ■' 11 ■ REBER’S 1 N * ■ ■ ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ BOY SCOUT WASTE": PAPER COLLECTION i omorrow, Saturday 23rd ■ Boy Scouts of Decatur will begin Regular ■ Waste Paper Collections TOMORROW. The ■ Drives will be City-Wide and ALL TYPES of ■ Paper are wanted. ave your paper ready—tied in bundles ■ r in containers and out on the curb by J 00 o’clock. . > Future Drive Every ■ Second Month On The Fourth Saturday Os The Month. ■ ■ Save Your Paper For Your Scouts. ■ m■

I and Mi* L. A. Holthonse. Guinea I and context! were then enjoyed. ' and prizes were awarded in .Malli da Hellemeyer and .Mia. I). 1.. ’, Kirsch. Delicious refreshments were i served during the aoelal hour by the houtexMex, Mu. Charles Bel--1 neke, Mixa Eleanor Reppert and i Mrs. Albert Harlow Delta Theta Tun will have a business meeting Tuexday evening at eight o'clock at the Elk- home The Kirkland Township l.adiex club will meet Tuesday afternoon at one thirty o’clock at the x, hool Hostapses will be Mrs. Milton Scherry. Mr*. Robert Koller. Mrs. Ed Koller, Mrs Ernest l.ongenberger and Mlaa Victoria Slone. : burner. Response to tne roll cal) will be ".Most Helpful Magazine" Rebekah lodge will meet Tuesday evening at seven thirty o'clock at the Odd Fellows hall. After lodge, Iho Three Link club will meet Hostexees will he Mrs Walter Lister and Mm. Charles Myers. The Women of the Moose will meet Thursday evening at seven • hilly o'clock at the Moose home. Initiation of a claws of candidates will lie conducted, and the social service committee will have charge of the chapter night program.'Francis Wiebke of Indianapolis, junior graduate grand regent of college of regents, will be the official visitor. Ritual practice will be held Mon- | day evening at seven o’clock at J the Moose home, and al! menibera j taking part are urged to be present. O 1 1" I O — —— o 1 Adams County Memorial Hospital —— o Admitted: Patsy Cause, 1"23 I North Second street. Admitted and dismissed: Mrs. Alfred Van Horn. Monroeville: Mi-e 'Twanette Schrock. Berne. | Dismissed: Mrs. Gordon Leichty and baby boy, Berne. o— Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

CLUB CALENDAR •Misty Deadline, 11 A. M. Friday Vnerlenn Legion auxiliary, Legion home, s p m. Saturday l’r<«hyterlun chop suey supper, church, 5 to 7 p.m Philathea class of Baptist church Mrs. S. E. Hite, 7:3<i pm. World Friendship Guild, Chop Stiey supper. Presbyter lan church bueeinent, 5 to 7 p.m, Mondsy Decatur Cub Pack. Lincoln school, 7 p tn. Music department of Decatur Woman’s club, Mrs. Herman Confer. 7:11® pm. Junior Women department of Decatur Woman's duo. Mrs. Bill Christen, 7:3h plm. Women of the Moosh ritual practice, Moose home. 7 pm. Tuesday Church Mothens Study club, Methodist church. 6:30 pm Hoot Township Home Economics (lub. Mrs. Joe Morris. 1® a m. Garden Club. Mrs. Ed. Miller, Adams Street. 2:30 p.m. Iteltg Theta Tau. Ellw home, R p.m. Kirkland Towrwhlp Ladies <|nh, school, 1;J0 p.m. Rebekah lodge. Odd Fellows hall. 7:30 p.m, Wednesday St Vincent de Paul. K. of C, Hall. 2 p m. Thursday Women of the Moose. M»i»e home, 7:10 p in. ■ Charles W. Loshe. A-S, son of Mr and Mrs. Bernard Loshe of 316 North Fourth street, who enlisted In the I'nited Slates Navy recently, left March 12 for boot tainlng at Great latkes Hix address is Company 73. Battalion 47. Regiment 27, t'SNTC, Great Lakes. Illinois. ■ o Honorable Discharge Sgt. Elmer Franz, from Camp Alter bui y Robert A Lengerich, SCBlc, from Great Lakes. 111. Walter 11. Franz. A.M.M2c, from Great Lakes, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Llby of route 5, are the parents of a baby I toy. liOrll at 12:40 p.m. Thursday at the Adams county memorial hospital. He weighed 9 pounds. 2 ounces and hM not l»een named Mr and Mrs. Roger Bentz. Berne route 1. are the- parents of a baby daughter, born Thursday afternoon at 4 20 p.m. at the Adams county hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces. .IB Mrs. J. C. Miller returned home la>ct evening after spending the past three months visiting relatives and friends in lx>» Angeles and Van Nuys, Calif. Mm. Mae Marshall has been admitted to the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis for a major operation. Her address as Wad E 6. Mrs. John Sipe, of Portland. Is working temporarily in the office* of the county recorder, where she lx checking oil lease* for her husband's firm Mrs. Sipe was recently discharged from service with the WAC. Examination Shows Arm Is Fractured Little two-year-old Twanette Schrock of Berne was treated at tho Adams county memorial hospital thie morning for » fractured left arm. sustained about two weeks ago when she fell from a chair. The fracture was not discovered until she complained of a sore arm and the examination waa given here. o Attend Highway Meeting In Ohio Clarence Ziner, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Phil Sauer, street commlsaioner and Carl C. Pumphrey, president of the Decatur Community Fund, will go to Ottawa, Ohio, thk evening to attend a state highway meeting. Director Ford of the Ohio department will speak and plans for promoting ths Benj. Franklin highway over U. S. road 224 will be discuMOd. a Bl

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Dream Train Takes Crippled Farm Girl Toward Operation

St. lamls. Mo., March 22 tl'Pt So many dreams came true for ’ Minnie Rose Webb today thut the ! fears came In spite of everything The 14-yetirold girl, paralysed , from the waist down by a spinal ! anaesthesia three years ago. had dreamed of a ride on a train. A stream-lined one like she had ! Watched whiz pest her simple cottage so many times back home In , Tennessee. That wish came true this morning when she arrived In St. Louie ! for treatment at the Shrlner’s hexI pital, where doctors hope they can restore life and spring to her limbs. She dreamed she might one . day meet and shake the hand of ' a celebrity. That one came true double. Cuddled In the arms of conductor John W McNamara and i proud as punch in n new blue and white < hot kered silk dress, Mln- , nle Rose was a little bewildered by the Princess 'Welcome. Flash bulbs popped anti so tlid Minnie Rose's eyes. She tried to follow the Instructions to mile ami succeeded for a minute. And then came the flood of tears as she reached for the hand of celebrity number one William Wood-1 field. Jr., imperial potentate of the Shrine. * On the way to tho hospital. Minnie Rose, dazctl by the attention, the flowers and the fruit presented to her by heaven knows how I i many peole. soaked up the tears I with a white hankie. She spruced I up her bine hair ribbon and the artificial flower sprouting out of her darkbrown hair. That was in anticipation of the greatest mo-1 tnent of all. On the hospital steps, I as the ambulanee wheeled up stood a real, live movie star Shrlner Harold Lloyd he of the hotn-rim-l med glasses, who used to keep ' the kids in stitches in the days of sih-nt films. Goggled Haiold not only shook Minilie Rose by the hand. He did something a lot nicer by planting a big kiss on her pab* cheek. Excitement for the girl began Citations Asked In Two Divorce Cases I ~ Actions Taken In Court Cases Here Action in several cases was taken by Judge J. Fred Frucht•• in circuit court Thursday, prior to his going to Portland today to preside as special judge In a Jay ' circuit court case. 11l the divorce case of Fiances Reidenbach against- Herbert Reid enbach. the plaintiff asked for a | citation for the defendant, averring that he failed to comply with ( a court order in which he was to ! give her tem|Mi,ary possession of their auto each weekend Return dale on the citation is March 26. , In the divorce case of Rita and Stanley Smitley. she asked for a citation, charging that he failed to comply with a court order, in which be is to pay 415 per week ’ for support of two children. An account suit, demanding Silo' judgment, has In-en filed tty Howard Raver against laiwrt-nce Hill linger. The complaint avers the defendant owes an unpaid account of 11'13.99. John L. DeVoss is plaintiff's counsel. A petition for a change of name was granted by the court to Anna f>ague. as guardian of Robert Eugene Smith, and the lad's name was ordered changed to Dagne, —— o~ Mrs. Van Bark Sow Dies At Bellevue Funeral services will be held Saturday at Bellevue. 0.. for Mrs. Van Barklew, 69. a sister of Mre Ed Keller and Mrs Frank Bogner, of thin city. Mrs. Barklow died at her home in Believue Thursday morning, according to word received here. oSpecial Meeting Os Local 924 Sunday Robert Rice, international union representative, announced today ( that a special meeting oi local 924, ' I'ERMWA fCIOI will Le held Sun ; day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the union headquarters. Questions concerning the contract with the Gen- : eial Electry- company will be dis- i cussed, he stated. — .o — Radio 'Beulah* Dies After Heart Attack Hollywood. March 22.—(UP!— Funeral services for Marlin Hurt, ■ 40. portrayer of the radio charac-1 ter ''Beulah,” will be held Monday. his wife said today. Hurt died of a heart attack yesterday. His "Beulah” character on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio show in 1944 b»came so popular he organized Ins own CBS pro--1 gram around her.

I Inst night when her father. Jake I Webb, tarried her onto the Illinois f'enttal's (Stl'kgiiaw IlmlhVl nt Rialto. The good people of that : villuge hud passed the lint and . presented her with 451 “spending money." "Daddy, I’ll he walking when I come hack,' she said in a whisper The truin slopped especially for Minnie Rose shortly after mid night, just as she dreamed it would during lh>- three years she sat on the front porch of her farm home and waved to the trainmen. ‘.This Is the happiest moment of my life," her mother said as she pulled off her daughter's coat and prepared her for the journey to St. Louis. Minnie Rose and her mother were accompanied by Mrs. Earl latnier and Mrs. John McNamara, whose hiishunds had waved to the child hundreds of times ax they sped by her home aboard If' trains. It wax Illinois Central trainmen who made her trip to St lamlx possible. They had noticed that she always waved to them from the porch of her home Instead of , running down to the tracks like other children did. One day McNamara, a freight train conductor, stopped his train at the Webb farm to get acquainti ed. Minnie Rose's parents told him iheir daughter had Iteen crippled three years ago as the result of spinal anaesthesia Injected for an - appendectomy. They bad never had enough , money to send her to a hospital to see if an operation would make her, walk again, they explained. I A few days later McNamara j I again stopped his train in front j of the Webb home This time he brought a wheel < hair for Minnie Rose. the •gift of |c trainmen. From then on she was tin.'sweetheart'' of the trainmen and they began collecting a fund to take her to a hospital. I **> --w-• WWW ARRIVING in New York City, Dr. , Lisa Meisner, woman scientist, Is shown at LaGuardia airfield, en route to Washington, D. C., where she will join the staff of Catholic university. She is credited with giving practical emphasis to one of Dr. Albert Einstein’s theoretical formulas which pointed the way toward the history-making atom bomb. (Inttrnational) •

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Spring Brings Surge Os Cleanup Business Much Work Despite i Scarce Materials With th- arrival of spring wcath- ( t-i . paint* rx, pap-r hatigt-rx, gard eners and window washers an- do Ing n land office buxine k. Local ,1 painter* and paper bangers say that th'-y have eufffclent buxinvx- ! booked ahead to last several , months. ■ lateal stores have g big selection . of wall paper and fairly large sup jplies of paint. Outside paint h still a ecane item, but several Decatur i stores han- a fairly large supply on hand. Garihnc are plowing up vacant lots and alleys are being • denred of an accumulation of |ii*h- - and rubbish. Yards are be | lug rolled and gram seed is being i scattered around on the bare spots Remodeling Is in progress in -"veral local houses and new I building lx contemplated an soon as lumber and other equipment Is available. Lumber lx till scarce, and local lumber yards are lieing besieged every day for materials. Local carpenters and contractors, however, are keeping busy with remodeling jobs. Plumbing •supplies are xtill on th- hard-to-get list. Bathroom fixtures, soil pipe and fittings are among th- ecarce I items, according to Im ai plumbers. Walter Walb Named Company Director Walter W Walb. Fo.t Wayne businessman. han been elected a dii rector of the Northern Indiana i Public service company. It wa* anpounced today by Dean 11. Mitchell, president. In addition to Mr Walb, the foil iwing directors Were elected at the annual meeting of shareholders of th- company: Dean H Mitchell, Edward It. Andenmn, Da i vid L. Bement, and Averill (' Colby of Hammond. Clarence W Bader of Gary. Jay Samuel Hartt of Chicago. Walter J, Riley of East ! Chicago, and Philip T. Sprague of Michigan City. I - o Trade In a Good Town Decatur

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Truck Loaded With Whiskey Overturned Fort Wayne, Ind., March 22 tl'Pt A tractor and frullor belonging to the | R C. D. truck ing company of Richmond. Ind. overturned last night on Ind. 27 south of Fort Wayne. The cargo. 2"" cases of whiskey, and the driver e-eaped injury. — 00_ Pins-Sized Gangster Enters Guilty Plea Admits Postoffice And Bank Robberies Springfield. 11l Mar<h 22 tl'Pt Robert U-«- Robertson, pint-siz-ed gang leader who boasted he could blow any afe In the country In seven minutes, t'alay faced trial on charges of robbing an HHnolx po-tofflce and a state bank. Robe ston. St. Lottis, self-styled "King of the safe crackers," plead ><l guilty to robbing the Medora. 111. isi-toftlie and the Chextcrfleld. 111., -tat- bank. He also confessed a score of other robberies in mid western states. Hix dark haired wife. Margaret, and Walter Kargol, Chicago, also pleaded guilty to the robbery charge* in federal court yesterday. They appeared In court under a nt-w fedetal law. effective Wednesday. under which defendants may waive grand jury action Pleadings and prosecution may proceed on the legal report of the district attorney under the law. Edwin Burnett, St. latitis, tin other gang memlter. was In court, hut refused to waive grand jury proceedings at thi- time. District Judge Charles Briggle continued the cases. He said a hearing date would be set later. — o . Trade In a flood Town — Decatur

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CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors who so kindly n«sixted us In our recent bereavement. We appreciate the acta of '• kindnesx shown to ns. Carroll Hu sett and Family. ~ j ... ~.0, CARO OF THANKS I wish In thi- manner to express '' my uppredatiun fur the klndi neaaea. cards, flowers and wetlW'lshes received while confined in the local hospital. Forrest Elzey. ~oTrade In a Good Town Decatur o —-— G.E. Union meeting, Sunday p. m. In ion Hall.

Night Coughs due to colda .. . eased without "doaing”. • i i * —— Men’s Stone Rings wide selection in a large variety of stones and mountings. Bower •i Jewelry Store N. Second St. r "" " ' """ '