Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1947 — Page 3

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BITmOTHERS ► ntv" Gold star moth. Kco» nt uestS at a lovely B h0 “ thirtv o’clock Saturf Served by the AmenI * t iiarv in the dining K'S in !»»«■ T * l "’ s ■® e , 11V decorated in gold lighted by tall r' 8 ' 1 tuners. A huge bouKi 1,1116 r!ir ysanthemums ■ in table, and bouK 0“ , ~ii rv santhemums Elerry foliage Were U ] S ] ed BK on the Smaller K Gold Star mother, E£ S of the auxiliary and given corsages ■F“mun, president, wel■Kuests and presented I*’ Tehrig. district guest r:i i >«■» H guests. Mrs. Alice E\it Gold star mother, rJ talk, and Mrs. Mary I'Uniondale, Gold Star tian of the fourth disfussed the group on how I* can help the disabled ri a short talk D waß It by Mrs. Ralph Roop, K nf the fourth district of tiy, and Mrs. Effie ■Membership chairman, urgEembership fees be paid by E. 12. Kins the dinner, Mrs. Dan Ejand three selections, acIL at the Piano by Mrs. iHaubold. She also sang Eds Prayer” at the close Iferain. Group singing was Ejlrs. Lawrence Rash, unit Idiairman. accompanied at Eby Mrs. Esther Winter- | miliary's regular social Lvill be held Friday evenlot o'clock at the Legion L BIRTHDAY LaTION held jild Mrs. Otto J. Baker enL with a birthday dinner I the occasion marking the Erios of Mr. Baker, Mrs. fa Straub and Eugene BenL were enjoyed and the hon-l-iests received many lovely Lions dinner was served to L Mrs. Allen Straub, Mr. and njene Bender and son, Mr. L Orel Tschannen and Ist, Mr. and Mrs. Henry BieB, Jr. and Mrs. Gale Cox and Hrs, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Eeand children, Mr. and Mrs. IA. Straub, Sr., Miss Betty it Loyd Lehnenstall and Mr. Ift. Baker. ml Rate in This! I I I / I, / I \ / ! \ H / ij f \ II /U /fl 0 i> J,° catck U P with your ' wri'e for Pattern 9498. , 1 1: 'e this suit! Waist-Petal-edged jacket, over ®twheel skirt cut in just Pieces! * Mttwn gives perfect fit, is Ose - Complete, illustrated fe’’ hows you every step. 98 Jr. Miss sizes 11, S1 « 13, skirt, 2% yds. 1 lor T fh^ TY ' FIVE cents in ! Ben,. Pattern to Decatur S.Jeter_ Pattern Dept, pW on st.. Chicago 80. »ESS your NAME. SKE AND new -s««son to and wL MA^ IAN MART- ' Paly fin er fashion Book ilhistrfe. cents brings !’ , «erns-4n b th k °k easy ’ H**- free the best of ?in the K , ~ a pattern a ’ ay mad-

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 —’lool Monday Dramatic department, of Decatur Woman's club, Mrs. Burdette Custer, 6:30 p.m. Art Department of Women's Club, Mrs. Homer Lower, 6:30 p.m. Pythian Sisters, after Temple. Civic Department Dinner Meeting, Swearingen’s, 6:30 p.m. Holy Family Discussion Group, Junior Women department of Decatur Woman’s club, Miss Juanita Maloney, 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Jerome Reed, 8 p.m. Tuesday Beta Sigma Pi, Mrs. Clarence Finer, 8 p.m. - , Adams County Cancer Society, Roy Kai ver 8:00 p.m. Delta Theta Tan, Social Meeting, Elks Home, 8 p.m. C. L. of C. chorus rehearsal, hall, 7:30 p.m. Rebekah lodge, Odd Fellows hall, 7:30 p.m., Three Links club, Mrs. Yoder. itirkland Ladies club, Kirkland High School, 1 p.m. Wednesday Flo Kan Sunshine council. K. of P. Home, 6:30 p.m., banner girls practice, 6:15 p.m. St. Vincent de Paul society, C. L. of C. hall, 2 p.m. Thanksgiving dinner for children of Trinity Evangelical U. B. church, church, 12 noon. Friday Legion auxiliary social meeting, Legion, 8 p.m. ST. PAUL LADIES AID SOCIETY MEETS The St. Paul Ladies Aid society held an all day meeting at the home of Mrs. James Myers recently. Quilting and sewing were done during the day, and a delicious potluck dinner was served at the noon hour. Mrs. Wayne Rheam read the scripture, and prayer was offered by Mrs. Forrest Durr. Roll call was answered with “something I am thankful for.’’ The annual Christmas party will be held at the home of Mrs. Durr. A fifty-cent gift exchange will be held. Those attending were Mrs. Clint Hart, Mrs. Jerry Hart and daughter, Mrs. Dwight Schnepp and children, Mrs. Dan Neireiter, Mrs. Tom Bess, Mrs. Frank Martin. Mrs. Lyle Franz, Mrs. Floyd Smitley, Mrs. Floyd fMyers, Mrs. Forrest Durr, Mrs. Tom Noll, Mrs. Ed. McFarland, Mrs. Duane Rheam, Mrs. Lillie Perkins, Mrs. Austin Merriman and Mrs. Arthur Seheiderer and children. DELTA THETA TAU TO HAVE PROVINCE CONVENTION Miss Rosemary Spangler has been elected to represent Omicron chapter of Deta Theta Tau at the province convention of the sorority in South Bend On November 29. Tau, the largest nonacademic organization of its kind in the United States, was organized in 1903 at Muncie, for the advancement of philanthropy and the welfare of its members. It now has one hundred and fifty active chapters and fifty eight alumnae groups throughout the country. Its national membership numbers eleven thousand. The sorority maintains a mountain school in Brinkley, Ky., for children who otherwise would re-

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WPS! I lIW M r K-' few ii» Uk 1 ■ y & Life < « 'jTW’OSL- '»■ ML J MB* - ./jRi w lilsli X 111! * WIBr i >MuiV „ ...J TALKING TO REPORTERS alter testifying in Washington at the Senate War Investigating subcommittee probe (top) is Maj. Gen. Eennetl E. Meyers. His story that Mrs. Bleriot H. Lamarre was “his girl friend” for four years was denied violently by her husband (bottom, left) who is pictured leaving the witness stand. He termed the General a liar and charged him with “initiating a smear campaign.” At bottom, right, is Mrs. Meyers who defended her husband’s action on the stand. (.International)

ceive little or no education. Each chapter helps through a national fund to maintain the school, pay teachers salaries, purchase books and equipment, pay taxes on the building and grounds and to clothe the children. During the war ye;irs. the sorority established an artificial limb department in the U. S. naval hospital at Mare Island, Calif., and at Wakeman general hospital, Camp Atterbury. Equipment was furnished the occupational therapy departments of Dibble general hospital, Menlo Park, Calif., and Billings General hospital, Fort Benjamin Harrison. Now the sorority is supporting eighteen projectors for projected books, together with thirty books for each machine, which are being placed in suitable veteran hospitals of permanent general hospitals in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, lowa, Arkansas, Oregon, Washington, Kansas, and Colorado. Locally, each chapter helps in the community where help is needed. At present, the local chapter is busy making, plans for the annual Goodfellows club which aids needy families at Christmas time. Mrs. Joseph Murphy has been appointed chairman. Miss Spangler, OhicrOn treasurer, who will represent the sorority at province convention, will be accompanied by Catherine Weidler, president, Helen Barthel and Lois Meyers. ATTEND DISTRICT FELLOWSHIP MEET The senior youth fellowship of the Methodist church, accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. M. O. Lester, attended the district meeting at the Simpson Methodist churcli in Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon and evening. Those attending were Phil Thomas, Helen Baughman, Anna Marie Steury, Bob Smitley, Alva Smitley, Jim Pollock, Elizabeth Haines, Marilyn Van Horn, Dave Pollock, Jim Callow, Bob Doan, Victor Porter,

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Byford Smith, Jay Barnett, Don Smith, Dan Mills, Sarah Krick, Nancy Krick, Francis Morris, Ann Dietsch, Norma Brown, Sally Ahr, Curtis Jones and Neil Hesher. The annual Thanksgiving dinner for the children of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church will take place Wednesday noon in the church dining room. All children of the church are invited to attend. The Junior Women department of the Decatur Woman’s club will meet at seven thirty o’clqpk this evening at the home of Miss Juanita Maloney. Members are directed to take road 224, turn right at road 101 to the second crossroad, then left. The Maloney home is the first house on the right hand side of the road. o — Mr. and Mrs. Glen Johnson, of Marion, visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Johnson. Miss Jane Ma'dox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Maddox, of Third street, first quarter junior in the college of commerce at Ohio State university, has been pledged to Lambda Alpha Sigma, national women’s accounting honorary. Mr. and Mrg. Dale Death, Mr. and Mrs. Ben McCoullough have returned from a hunting trip in Northern Michigan. The party bagged one deer, with credit for the kill going to Mr. Death. Mrs. John s. reterson left yesterday for Detroit, Mich , where she will spend the week with her son Robert Peterson and family. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Peterson stopped in Decatur enroute to their home from Bloomington, where thel attended the Indiana-Purdue football game, and Mrs. J. S. Peterson accompanied them home. Mrs. C. L. W’alters will spend the

Thanksgiving holiday with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs., J. C. Donovan, of Fort Wayne. Miss Betty Graliker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Graliker, 327 North First street, has been appointed regional chairman of the international relations commission, NFCCS. Miss Graliker is a senior at Mount Mary college, Milwaukee, and president of the international relations club there: ' Miss Virginia Burnett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Burnett, 309 North Seventh street, will sing with the lowa State college festival choir on Sunday, December 7, in the annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah. The Messiah will be sung in State gymnasium at three o'clock. Miss Burnett is a sophomore in the division of home economics at the college. Miss Anna Smith, George Wemhoff and Ronald Smith motored to Fort Wayne Sunday to attend the solemn pontifical high mass celebrated by the Most Rev. John F. Noll, DD, bishop of Fort Wayne, to commemorate the diamond jubilee of St. Peter’s church. St. Peter’s church was founded in 1872 by the Rev. John Wemhoff, a former pastor of the St. Mary’s church here. Mrs. Raymond Keher is assisting with the clerical work at the Adams county memorial hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bowman and daughters had as their Sunday dinner guests Mrs. Sarah Schindler, Miss Clara Schindler, Mrs. John W. Schindler, Vaughn Schindler, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schindler and daughter, Anita, Mr. and Mrs. Hallman Schindler and daughters, Sarah Jane and Sally, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Nussbaum, Pauline Nussbaum, Bob and David Nussbaum, Mr. and Mrs. Loris Rich and daughter, Karen, and Jerry Stucky, all of Berne. Admitted: Mrs. Albert Zuercher, Berne; Master David Colchin, Homesteads; Mrs. Ed Warren, 910 Monroe street; Mrs. Glen Smith, 604 Mercer avenue; Roy Schwartz, Berne. Dismissed: Shirley Ann Rupert; Miss Doris Welker, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Richard Kelly and daughter, 308 Walnut street; Miss Esther Schmid, Glenmore, O.; Mrs. Gerhard Heckman and daughter, Decatur. o — The greatest expansion of the U. S. since the Louisiana Purchase occurred during the administration of President James K. Polk. HMM Mil. M ■■ ■imMii-M : ■:!! MT nMIII

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Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Marble, Geneva, are the parents of a baby girl, born at 6:30 a.m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and has not been named. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis M. Smith, Marion, Sunday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the local hospital. He weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces. 0 Parts Os Fingers Lost In Accident John King of near Pleasant Mills is reported recovering from a painful injury sustained when, his hand was caught in a corn picker last week. He lost parts of several fingers on his hand, which was badly lacerated. He was brought to the local hospital. Hawley Resigns As Medical Director Washington, Nov. 24 —(UP) — Gen. Omar N. Bradley today announced the resignation of Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley as chief medical director of the veterans administration.

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Hawley, who came to the VA at < Bradley's request, will leave Dec. ] 31, Bradley told a news conference. Bradley, veterans administrator, | also is leaving to become army . chief of staff. Bradley will relin- ( quish his post Dec. 1. -- ( Uphold Convictions Os Jehovah Witnesses Washington, Nov. 24 —(UP) — In its fourth 5-to-4 decision of the current term, the supreme court today upheld convictions of three members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect who deliberately walked out ; of a wartime conscientious 1 tors camp. The witnesses contended they were entitled to absolute draft as ministers. The court cases on which it has given written opinions during the fall term. o — Baby Suffocated In Sleeping Bag Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 24 — (UP) — : An eight-months-old baby, one of eight children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ray, was suffocated accidentally today in a zipper-t’astioned sleeping bag. Coroner James V. Richart said the baby was dead nearly eight hours when its mother found it in its crib this morning at the family home at St. Mary’s Village. A fire department resuscitator squad tried for 45 minutes to revive the infant. h> Plans Slander Suit Against Gen. Meyers Dayton, 0., Nov. 24 —(UP )— The Dayton Herald said today in a copyrighted article that Mrs. Mildred Lamarre will file a slander suit against Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers for his statement that he had a wartime love affair with her. o BRITAIN'S STAND (Continued trom Page 1) and non-Arab countries who are luke-warm on the issue have based their objections on the argument that the UN has only the power to “recommend” a solution and not to enforce one. “These doubts are nurtured for political reasons,” he said. “These I doubts are the work of certain states and the mandatory who do not want a settlement.” I Tsarapkin's strong appeal of partition came as the Palestine problem neared a crucial test vote in the special committee. The outcome, certain to be close, I hinged on 12 or 14 of the 57 na- ’ tions still “on the fence.” Their

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decisions will determine whether partition passes or fails. The Soviet attack on Britain's failure to help find a solution was the strongest made in the committee. He said Britain’s attitude was “incompatible with the principles of the UN organization” and declared the British reservations were calculated to make the plan unworkable.” o . PUT WESTERN (Continued from Page 1) authority to regulate installment • buying. Communists — Chairman J. Par- • nell Thomas of the unAmerican „ activities committee asked the house to formalize contempt citations against 10 movie figures who refused to say during recent reds-in-Hollywood hearings whether they were communists. The committee charged they were. Thomas rejected arguments of the 10 that his committee breached the constitution in asking their political affiliations. Tax Front —Bridges introduced • a bill to let married couples in . all states split their incomes in order to pay lower federal taxes. This privilege is granted now in 13 states. Rep. Walter C. Ploes- . er, R., Mo., proposed that congress exempt from income taxation all corporate income up to $25,000. Committee chairman Harold Knutson announced that « a new $4,000,000,000 quickie personal tax reduction bill is being drafted for the regular session • which starts in January. Housing— The senate banking committee approved a bill under which the federal housing administration could insure an additional $1,000,000,000 worth of housing . loans. Russians —Rep. Thomas A. Jen- • kins. R. 0., introduced legisla-.. : tion to bar immigrants and visit- v ors from Russia and her satellite nations. As the anti-inflation debate swelled, the American Bankers Association opposed installment buying curbs on the grounds they , would force consumers to cash in their savings to buy essential goods.

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