Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1946 — Page 3

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KroISON TO ft?!cHItCOTE y., hM . been mad*' of WJ* .grrw** " f '* *’* KJ. d«Mf«er -f Mr of ' ’ E 1,1 Kenneth <hH 1U- t nd Mrs- J«n£ ■ihHirr «trrH Th* lu al eleven ’" ' o, h k t.ornlw 10 £‘ , K. n TemP'- Ko ” ■ r ,<!..i k IH'PI-" t, ( . '(< rwently E<b- Mff EffrwM <i"'y M — *'** ( NAOMI IfTS , i a nd r,r<,lH ~f mM .I<»I an<l Reform- , Tb«r-la> afternoon J room of lh - ' 1L B»mbeni present. n Graber had rhargt|B, u«ina «•" h -‘ 'OP'*'a< Ufe'a Way ” • sh -1 ‘poem, entitled What jalin Are.” Mrs. Ferd patent. conducted the »<M. following *l'*‘ h lion was h»ld of the meeting, delikßrD'» «elf served by , Mr» Charlo* Myers Myrra and Mrs. Peter MIIIIONARV (AS MEETING w Woman * Missionary | their regular meet*4l) evening at th** In. Waller Peck. Mrn. md »u I” charge of if the Japanese Rrlocam giten by Mrs. Waiud two chapters from rbria’lanity Where You read by Mrs. John Mlrefreshment* were the ten member* and prment by the hostessrk and Mrs. Otto HildeApril meeting will be i bom? of Mrn. Walter i LAOIEt SCHOOL tint «f the Kirkland lut- > Economics cluh wan tyat the school ting vat opened with tilling the dub prayrating the creed in uniUln Arnold and Mrn. it gate demotMiration! king and baking of cunalao demonstrated difbodt of nerving soft cundbbea prepared for the lona were nerved durml hoar. i Ksffar read the scripud the twenty third

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psalm wan repeated In unison. A duet was »ung ny Mra. John l*-yse and Mra. Ham Yager, after which several short po<-ma were read by Mns. Albert Belneke. The hostesses. Mrs. Milton Sber ry, Mrs. Ed Kolter. Mrn. Ernest lx>ngenl>«WK. Mrn. Robert Kolter and Mins Victoria Hloneburner, served dellctotM re f r eahmentn. Twenty-four nieinlteiw and two children were present. ART DEPARTMENT TO PRESENT PROGRAM The general meeting of the Decatur Woman’s club will l>e held Monday evening at seven forty five o'clock In the library. Mlns Kathryn Kauffman will be in charge of the Art department program, featuring two wound and color moving pictures. "To New j ilorifons" and "Canadian Landscapes." Mrs. John T. Myers in assisting Miss Kauffman In the program arrangements. All members of the club are urged to attend this meeting and use their guest tickets. The Pleasant Dale Ladles Aid so-j elety will meet al the chu.ch i Thursday for atl all day moeting. i Mrs. Mltta Byerly and Mie Floyd Arnold will tie hostesses. p O O (Adams County Memorial Hospital o o Admitted: Mrs. Herman Meyers. Willshire. O.: Miss Rhoda Lehman. Berne. Admitted and dismissed: Duane Holmes. 519 West Monroe street; Mbs Janice Ruth Alger. KHS Patterson street; Miss Bernice Bollen hacher. Fort Wayne; Miss Carolyn Sudduth. 909 Dlerkew street; John Affolder. route 2. Dismissed: Mrs. Russel Edged and baby boy, Rictiai I l-a-e, 512 North Third street; Mies Patty Gause, 102.1 North Second street; Mrs. Roger Bentz and baby girl. Suelen Kay; Mrs. Darrel Donald Clouse and baby boy. Gary Dean, route t: Mrs. Richard Swygart and baby boy. 722 Line street; James Miller route 8. Mriis Mr. and Mrs. Raymond MeAhren of Ossian, are the parent* of a baby girl, horn Monday. She weighed 5 pounds. 5 ounces and has been named Miriam Joan. ii i ‘ o •— Lack of houaing in many areas of Wyoming Is limiting employment.

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CLUB CALENDAP. . •safety Deadline, 11 A. M. Saturday Rainbow Girls rummage wale. First Evangelical church. Sunday Parish meeting,of N. C. C. W.,l Catholic- school auditorium, 3 pin. I Monday Junior girls of Legion anxillary, I .eg ion home, 7:30 pm. I nion Chapel Otterbein guild. Miss Rose Merriman, 7:30 pm. Kirkland Township P. T. A, Kirkland gymnasium, 7 p m. Decatur Woman'* cluh, library. 7:15 p.m. Tuesday Psi lota Xi sorority, Mra. Herman Krueckeberg, 8 p.m. Tri Kappa sorority, Elks home, 8 p.m. Catholic Ladles of Columbia, K of c. hall, after church services, Wednesday Zion Lutheran Married Couples club, churc h basement. 8:3o p.m. inion Township Woman’s chib. Mt*., George Morris, 1:30 p.m. Thursday Presbyterian Mlselonury society. I Mra. I*>ls Black, 2:30 p.m. Ht. Luke's Girls guild, Miss Lucile Beavers, 7:30 p.m. Ladlea Aid society of Salem Evangelical and Reformed church of Magley, parish hall, all day. Pleasant Dale Ladies Aid socleI ty. church, all day. Woman Confesses Strangling Niece Second Announced Detroit Confession • Detroit, Mar. 30—H'PI—Police aaid today Mrs. Muriel Wrightman, 23. had confessed strangling her 10-weeks-old niece "because she was prettier than my own baby." It was the second announced confession of a child killing here in three dayw. Earlier, police sail Mrs. Jeanette Grosso. 36, had admitted beating to death her four-year-old niece. Anna Lee Ratliff. Detective Sgt. Delbert Ray mond said Mrs. Wrightman. of Algonac. Mich., surrendered to police and admitted the slaying, which she said occurred last December and had been "preying on my mind ever since.’' She said "tier decision to surrender resulted from reading ac counts of Mrs. Grosso’s purported confession. Raymond said a check with Algonac authorities disclosed that the baby, Shirley Ann Little, was found dead in her crib last December with a corner of a blank et stuffed into her mouth. Death at that time was attributed to accidental suffocation Eye-Catching J®! 11 'll lift J W /f Mimi 9010 SIZES i/i/link Ilhl MOI r'l I /'■ J, 1 | h» 'llll w w IB Marian Martin Want to look prstty as a pin-up Junior Miss’ Make this adorable "number”—Pattern 98|io. Such easy sewing, yet so ultra flatter Ing! Wear it morning, noon and night. Pattern 9010 comes In Jr. Miss shew 11. 13, 15 and 17. Slse 13, dress, 2% yards 35-inch fabric. Send TWENTY cents In coins for this pattern to Decatur Dally Democrat, 'Pattern Dept., 155 N. Jefferson St., Chicago 30, 111Print plainly YOUR NAME, ADDRESS ZONE. SIZE AND STYLE NUMBER. The Marian Martin Spring Pat> tern Book to now ready . . . It’a yours for Fifteen Cents. Full of smart styles for the fsmlly plus FREE pattern for the new "bag-on-a-belt'* printed right Inside 1 the book.

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v N ©iLE I WMS Riy 11. O’Haro, quartermaster, second daws of East Detroit, Mich., received the navy’s two-millionth honorable discharge certificate at Great Lake* personnel separation center last nigh>. The navy has already reached the two thirds point In demobilisation of its men. ftfflJJirALS Mr and Mr*. Edward f* Gelmer of Redlands, Calif, are upending several weeks hero with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Florian Gelmer. Edward Gelmer was recently discharged from the army. Ernest Karlen. Ralph Burkes. Murray Hedges, Robert Kraft and Earl Steele, local employes of the Kraft Foods Co., attended a fivestate conference of Kraft Focal* held recently at lndiana|H>iiw. The general subject of the conference wari how to build production of more milk to meet unfilled consumer demand. Twenty members of the Dramatic- department of the Decatur Woman's club enjoyed dingier at the English Terrace in Fort Wayne la*t evening, and later attended the Civic theater production of "Blythe Spirit." —_o Honorable Discharge Mary laiulse Frank. Y2c. from Great latkes. 111. Pfc. Joseph D. LaTumer. from Camp Atterbury. T-1 Arthur Anspaugh. from Camp Atterbury. o — , G. E. Stockholders At All-Time High Schenectady. March 30 — The Genera! Electric company announc. id that its stockholders, a* of March 15. had soared to an all-time high of 213.233. W. W. Trench, company secretary, said the total shows a gain of approximately 7,fi00 in the numiter of stockholders on record a year ago. o - - Fort Wayne Man Is Drowning Victim Fort Wayne. Ind.. March 30 - tl’l’t—The body of Emerson G. Arnold. 59. Fort Wayne, was found In the Maumee river here late yesterday. Coroner E N. Mendenhall termed the death "drownhig, prob ably suicidal."

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Burns Prove Fatal To Leesburg Woman Warsaw, Ind., March 3»—<l*P» Service* were arranged today for Mrs Posey Tharp. 5(1, who died yesterday of bur»M suttallied In u I kitchen stove explosion at her j home near Leesburg. Mrs. Tharp apparently threw kerwene on a i coal fire. o Young Parents Ask Children Adopted Say Three Children 'Make Them Nervous' Omaha, Nob.. Mar. 30—(CPI— I A young war veteran anti his 20-year-yld wife offered their three children for adoption today because "they get on our nerves.” Public defender Joe fxively if artel legal proceedings for Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Van Horn. The young parent* hope that the juvenile and county court* will approve their plan to have an elderly couple adopt the youngsters. Lovely said never In hi* II years as public defender had he handled a case like this. ”1 never heard of parents giving an excuse like that Io get rid it children,” he said. Van Horn. 26. and his wife, who was only 15 when they were married, turned the children over to Mr. and Mr*. John Yunick six months ago. Now they want the Yunk ks to have the youngsters , permanently. The elderly couple filed adoption petitions In county court yesterday. "The children are so happy there, we want them to stay,” II Mrs. Van Horn said. "The Yun 1 L icks love them ami would like to ; keep them. "It’s not that we don’t love them, too. But when they are around, we get nervous and argue. “We get along fine when they 1 aren’t around, so we decided majbe things would work out Itetler for everyone If we offered them for adoption.” Tin- children, low headed and chubby, are Tommy. 1, Carolyn. 3, and Stanley, 2. "They are nice children, but we have decided that we don’t want any more." Mrs. Van Horn said. Van Horn, a taxi driver, served In the army for several year* in ■ this country. Yunick. 50, live* with his wife on a small farm near Omaha and works for a re* tail furniture company. "It’s going to be fun raising these wonUerful ki<l*»” Yun| k said. "We’ve never had any chilj dren. wo we feel that it will be a privilege to get them.” Mrs. Yunick. 51. said «he could not understand why any parent* would want to give up "three such beautiful children." "We’ve grown to love them.” - she said. "They seem to love us and we want them with u* al ■I ways.” Ixively said that under Nehras-

Christens Ship For Life-Saving Buddy Sgt. Harry Lehman Christens New Ship j Ex-Marine Hgt. Hairy U-hmun. i son-in-law of the Rev. G A. Eddy of this city, wa* to return today to his home in Payne, Ohio after christening the I’HS Roliert Wilson, named after a buddy, who saved the lire* of Lehman and two other* on Tinian In July. 1911. Sgt. I>hman. Wilson and twoi other* were mi patrol, eiawllng through thick underbrush, when! | Wilson saw something ahead that 1 the others could not. Suddenly warning then to slay back be threw himself forward on a Jap hand grenade The resultant ex--1 plo-don showered the four with dirt and gravel Wilson wa- killed. | Wilson was posthumously awardled the congressional medal of l honor and the new navy destroyer ; was named in hl* honor, while : Rgt. I -eh man wa* chosen to christ 1 en the vessel at Bostoti. z Sgt. la-hman and hi« wife. Thaiya. daughter of Rev. and Mrs., Eddy, were childhood sweetheart*! In Payne. Ohio, where the couple now reside They wore classmates in high school and while Thalya went to beauty culture school, la-hman enIDted in the V. s. marine corps.! While he was overseas both hi* parents died at their home in Payne. In January, 1915. he and Thalya were married in that city, with the bride’s father performing the ceremony. In October, 1915 he was discharg-> i ed from service ami the coiyde established a residence in Payne. ! where he now i* serving a* a anlcsin.in for the Lincoln National . Life Insurance company. O Orders Defendant Pay All Arrears During action in the first of several divorce cases, scheduled t • be heard in Adams circuit court this morning. Judge J. Fred I Fruchte ordered the defendant to pay all support money in arrears l>y next Saturday In the case of I Viola Oser against Lloyd O*er. Action in four otliei* hud been ' , scheduled for this morning, but II i was apparent at a hit, hour that' I some of these would b.- <■ ntinucd ! i to a later date. o iTrade In a Good Town — Decatur ka law It will take six months to I complete legal proceedings. In i vestigatiolis will be male by juvenile court authorities before u county judge rules in the case. Meanwhile, the Van Horn'* are planning to give up their Omaha apartment and go to Minneapolis, Minn., for a vacation if the a<lop- I Hon is approved. "We’re not going to give the iliildren up entirely, though,"; Mrs. Van Horn said. "We’ve re- ' quested visiting privileges."

The Brownie* of troop VII met recently for their regular meeting Plans w<-r<- made for a hike, and the meeting clueed with the Friendship circle Carolyn Melamgal. scribe. The Girl Hcouts of troop V met Thursday evening in the Girl Scout I loom at the Lincoln school. The meeting opened with th- first stanza of the nati >nal unt lent, follow- , ed with the pledge to the flag and 1 the Girl Scout laws. Game* were j played and the meeting closed with the Friendship circle and the Girl Scout promise.—Beverly Elliott, •crlbe. The meeting of Girl Scout troop VI was held Tuesday a’ the Lin-' eo'n schisil The meeting opened j with the Girl Scout promise, after which several te-ts were passed Game, were then played, and th<meeting chtued with the Friendship i circle Ann Keller, scrilu*.

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