Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1947 — Page 3

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PROGRAMS ■ M t A CHURCH SUNDAY "usually large attend- ■*" Sunday school serv.ee ■ | ,r ' church, at y . worship service, the K' , ti; „ narked the sanc■■'7iri;l,,l with a splendid , ||( . Christinas part of ■T Messiah- »y lhe choir of B assisted Dy the bass ■' Halladay of North MF t accompanists. Mrs. K bier at the organ and B/". lwilt .v at the piano, and B„ .. Krick, director. Medi- ■ f)I , ji. O. Lester, who ■ o’clock eight mem- ■' couth fellowship B' . irl i -neper in the church B‘. were then taken to ■ itai the county home and ■C-s in I-Orator for carol- ■ o', lock. the junior B, a ,„i primary department to another large |H F \ v!) „ remained for the BL social following. They B'L delicious I t freshments B be rs of the W. S. C. S. K. , ls |>|,. evening’s .program ■ presentation B Lester to the Rev. Mervin ■ j' student at Taylor univerBparing for the ministry in church. A large do- ■ us food "’as made by the H eal lv class, a check for one ■- dollars by the W. S. C. S„ sifts by members and ■ in the congregation, aK,., to eiahtv four dollars and E, were given to Rev. Tay- ■. in turn expressed his ap ■bn Kant mills K S. MEETS ■ members attended the of the W. . C. S. of the Ku Mill- .Methodist church, ■btirsday afternoon at the ■ meeting was opened with ■oup singing several ChristKrrls. and a reading was givKlr- John Hailey. Mrs. Erank ■ offered prayer. The program ■used with a solo. "Oh Come ■ Faithful." by Mrs. Glen Mc- ■ president, Mrs. George Foor, ■ted the business meeting. ■BE BIBLE K IN MEETING ■ Bertha Heuer, Mrs. A. R. Kl-i. Mrs. Herman Von Gun Miss Lydia Kirsch were Kes to the Phoebe class of the ■ Evangelical and Reformed ■ Thursday evening at the H. Twenty five members and ■test attended. H Forest Owens read the liday Two-Piecer \i j iA JtL r ■ /l I I ll\ “ ss ’ 11\ 11 ' J 9038 /jBIISI -it daze! Holidays! And this romantic number ern "28) swinging from par- ’ Wy. It’s a FULL circle ’ pertly peplumel top tinv te. 8 Pattern gives perfect fit. is use - Complete, illustrated art shows you every step. ~l ern 9998 in Jr. Miss sizes ’ , 5 ’ 17. Size 13 takes 4% U yd. 35-in. contrast. i U^F NTY ' FIVE cents iT> this pattern to Decatur 'Democrat, Pattern Dept Prtn> L son st - Chicago SO. topL Plainly YOUR NAME. S,ZE tr the wonderful new-season lull MA RIAN MART 1 On Winter Fashion Book this u7 , een cents brings nr n a ». Ustrate< l book of easvf»Mw H^ 11 the b « St Os tej u , f REE — a pattern h,t ’nd^a; 0011, n cay mad '

| CLUB CALENDAR I Society Deadline, II A. M 3 ' Phones 1000 — 1001 Monday Delta Theta Tau sorority, postponed. * Civic department of Decatur Woman’s club, Mrs. R ay stinge]y> 1 >: 30 p.m. 3 St. Mary’s Society, C. L of C 1 hall, 7:30 p.m. Tuesaay * Beta Sigma Phi sorority, Mrs. James Elberson, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ’ Flo-Kan Sunshine council. K. of P. home. 1 p.m. > 1 Christmas story, followed by the , group singing Christmas carols, led I by Mrs. L. A. Holthouse. Progres- . sive hearts were then played and r prizes were won by Miss Matilda t Sellemeyer. Mrs. George Buckley , and Mrs. M. Worthman. » The Christmas gift exchange fol- , lowed. Luncheon was then served j by candlelight at a long, beautifully appointed table. t —— i PHILATHEA CLASS i ENJOYS POT-LUCK Mrs. Curtis Moser, assisted by t Mrs. S. E. Hite, entertained mem- ■ bers of the Philathea class of the i Baptist church with a six thirty ! o clock pot-luck dinner recently. , The dinner was served at small I tables, with each guest's place ■ marked with an attractive place I card.' Mrs. C. Et Bell had charge of the program, reading the Christmas story from St. Luke. Sacred music was then played, and a gift exchange and contest followed. The January meeting will be held at. i the home of Mrs. Max Schafer. ■ Beta Sigma Phi sorority will meet 1 uesday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. James Elberson. o JpERSOMAIS , Sgt. Robert S. Gentis, of theU. S. army. Fort Riley. Kansas, is home on an 18-day furlough to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O. Gentis and family. James Hoitnouse will attend an alumni dinner of Notre Dame stu- ! dents in Fort Wayne this evening. The group will then go to St. Vin--1 cent’s Villa, where they will stage ! a program for the orphan children. 1 The feature attraction will be Emil Sitko, famous Notre Dame half- ' back, who will entertain the children. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Heller and I son Jack motored to Rensselaer | Sunday to attend the 90th birthday i observance of Mrs. Heller’s grandi mother. Mrs. Mary Eger. They were * accompanied home by their son, J Dick, Jr., student at Indiana Unij versity, who was visiting his grandparents in Rensselaer. Misk Ruby Miller spent the weekend in Middletown. 0., visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Dean Stoutenbourth, and other friends. .Miss June Teeple left today for Ft. Pierce, Fla., to spend Christmas with her father, Charles Teeple and sister, Betty Lou. Vernon Smitley will arrive home this evening to spend the Christmas vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smitley. He is a student at Indiana Central college, Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ward Calland will leave Tuesday for Hanover, N. H., to spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Camp and family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lynch and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Krick motored to Muncie Sunday, where they visited Mr. and Mrs. William Lynch. Mr. and Mrs. William Lynch will leave this week for Florida, where they will visit for 10 days. Both are students at Ball State college. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kocher will leave tomorrow for Erie, Pa., where they will enjoy Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Linn Kern and sons. Mrs. Lois Black and Miss Eva Acker will go to South Bend to visit over Christmas with Mr. Meyer, brother of Mrs. Black. Mr. and Mrs. John W. McPheeters, Sr., of Muskogee, Okla., are here to enjoy Christmas week witn their son. Rev. McPheeters, Jr., and family. Miss Libby Macy, who has been attending Stateson University at Deland, Florida the past year and a half, has accepted a position as secretary in the office of Dr. Leonard, superintendent of schools at West Palm Beach, and will begin her duties January 1. Charles Reyffelt, former Decatur resident now living near Albion, was a visitor in Decatur today. Sgt. Harold Hakes, Fort Knox, Ky„ is visiting here and upon his return to camp he will be accompanied by his wife and son. His wife is the first German war bride of an Adams county serviceman to come to this country. Mrs. Hakes and their boy, Wilfred, will reside near the camp where Sgt. Hakes is stationed.

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Miss Barbara Burnett of South Western college, Memphis, Tenn., and Miss Jean Burnett of lowa State college, are spending the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Burnett. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Webb of Topeka, Kans., were Sunday dinner guests of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. David Downs. Paul Hoile, of Notre Dame university, visited with friends here over the weekend. He is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Otto Hoile, of Fort Wayne. Bob Klepper, of Indiana univer- ' sity, is spending Christmas - with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. t Klepper. Dave Terveer, who underwent an operation at the Van Wert, 0., . county hospital Saturday, was re- , moved to his home here today. ) —■ —

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Admitted: Donna Faye Venis, 215 South Seventh street; Adam Bienz, route 5. Admitted and dismissed: Son- ! ja Strahm, 1140 Master drive; Mrs. ■ John E. Brown, route 2; Jerry Pace, Geneva. Dismissed: Marian Exline, Ohio City, O.; Mrs. George Wemhoff, Decatur; Mrs. Claude D. Collier and son. David. Homestead 43; Randy Beitler, 946 North Twelfth Mrs. Clarence O. Counterman, Hoagland. (> Girl Scouts To Sing Carols On Tuesday Decatur Girl Scouts will sing Christmas carols at the Adams I county memorial hospital and coun-|

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Mr. and Mrs. Ira C. Gerber, Berne, are parents of a baby girl, born Sunday at the Adams county hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces and has been named Karen Ann. A baby son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Houser, Bryant, Sunday morning at 11:45 o’clock at the local hospital. He has not been named. Funeral Is Held For Local Man's Brother Funeral services were held Sunday for Charles W. Singer, 69, who died Friday at his home in Poneto. Burial was in the Grove cemetery near Poneto. Survivors include a brother, Dowell Singer of Decatur. Charles C. Kelley Dies Near Auburn Charles C. Kelly, a resident many years ago of Adams county, died Saturday afternoon at his home near Auburn. Surviving are his wife; four sons; five daughters; a brother, and a sister, Mrs. Harve Sipe of Berne. Funeral services will be held al 1:15 p.m. Tuesday at the home and I at the Auburn Nazaretie church, with burial at Auburn.

General Chennault Weds Chinese Girl Flyinq Tigers Head Is Wed In Shanghai Shanghai. Dee. 22—(UP)—Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault of Flying Tiger fame was honeymooning today with his new Chinese bride, 24-year-old Anna Chan, newspaperwoman and daughter of the former Chinese consul general in San Francisco. The two were married yesterday at Chennault’s home, Hollyheath, in the Hungjao suburb of Shanghai. Chennault, 57. was divorced early this year by his first wife. He has six sons and two daughters by his first marriage. The bride was given in marriage by her father, Dr. Y. W. Chan, who formerly served in San Francisco and recently was appointed consul for Kuching. Sarawak. The bride’s stepmother, who recently arrived from San Francisco, also was present. Best man at the wedding was Col. Thomas Gentry, Chennault’s longtime comrade in arms, and the bridesmaid was Miss Cynthis Chan of Canton, older sister of the bride. Chennault won his commission in the first world war after enlisting as a private and came to China in 1937 as air adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. In 1941 he organized the American volunteer group, the Flying Tigers of Burma fame who scored spectacular successes against enormous odds in aerial battles with the Japanese. Chennault resigned as commander of the 14th air force on July 14, 1945, and retired from the army last summer after spending a short time in the United States. He returned almost immediately to China, where he now is chief of air transport for the China national relief and rehabilitation administration. 0 T No Mid-Week Service At Methodist Church There will be no mid-week service at the First Methodist church on Wednesday. ' 'l M VS IOHSj Ug" > - v Wis®ilil i i ON HER ARRIVAL at LaGuardia Field, N. Y„ from the U. N. Human Rights Commission meeting at Geneva, Switzerland, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is met by her son, Franklin Jr. She told newsmen that the Commission, of which she is chairman, “did a very good piece of word for the Russian delegation’s co-operation despite their abstention from voting on human bill of rights. (International)

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Christmas Program Presented Sunday By High School Pupils i “Adeste Fidelis,” the annual Christmas program presented by members of the Decatur juniorsenior high school student body and faculty, was witnessed by a capacity crowd in the school auditorium Sunday afternoon. The program, which each year highlights the Christmas season, was presented in a reverent and impressive candlelight setting, with students portraying the various characters associated with the birth of Christ. Background and lighting for the Nativity scene were also made by members of the student body, under the supervision of the school faculty. The eighth grade chorus took part in the presentation, and opened the program with a processional and the song "From Lands Afar.” The high school choir furnished the ifiusical background for the various scenes. Despise not the clay of small things. — Zachariah. o Gifts at Bakers. 293t9 Q SHARP CUTS IN (Continued from Page 1) The Herter program is at sharp . variance with the president’s. It calls, for example, for an independent corporation to handle the aid plan. Mr. Truman asked for a powerful administrator working under general policy directives of the secretary of state. The president’s program also faced close scrutiny in the sen- ' ate. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., 0., who says the $17,000,000,000 blueprint would “wreck” the domestic ! economy, maintains that largescale expenditures are not essen- [ tial to European recovery and that the administration picture of r Europe's plight is “overdrawn, , 0 FIRST LIST IS (Continued from Page 1) 125,000 pounds of wool tops, 25 carloads of butter, eggs or pota toes, 300,000 pounds of cottonseed oil. 250,000 pounds of lard, 1,000 ’■ tons of mill feeds and 1,000 tons 11 of cottonseed meal. Any trader who exceeds the limit in any one commodity must report all of his holdings each : day. Indiana firms listed today included: Wheat futures, Oct. 31, 1947— ■ Acme Evans Co., Indianapolis, hedging. 750,000 bushels short; Lawrenceburg Terminal Elevator, Lawrenceburg, hedging. 210.000 short; Ura Seeger, Marshfield, speculative spreading, 280,000 long. Bran futures (in tons), Oct. 31, 1947—Ura Seeger, Marshfield. I speculative or spreading, 250,000 long. Soybean futures (in bushels), Oct. 31, 1947—Indiana Grain Coop. Inc., Indianapolis, hedging, 435,000 short. Corn futures (in bushels), Oct. 31. 1947—Indiana Grain Coop. Inc., Indianapolis, hedging, 860,000 long. | 165,000 short. | Lard futures (in pounds), Oct. i 31, 1947—Central Soya Co., Fort I Wayne, hedging, 8,240,000 phort; I Bert Sicanoff & Sons, Indianapolis, I hedging, 1,300,000 long. ■ 0 Skating every Tues., Fri., Sunday Nights, 7 till 10— t Sun Set. 297t6 r ■ Double-K Nuts 1 for Christmas s ; Holthouse Drug Co. ) - —

"I i ,f mBI Viiibl ■Kw JHI J ML x * Governor Herbert Mildred Stevenson ON JAN. 3, Ohio’s Gov. Thomas J. Herbert and Mildred Helen Stevenson of Indianapolis will wed in Indianapolis’ Tabernacle Presbyterian church, with the governor’s children, Mrs. Metta Stevers and Daniel J. Herbert, as attendants. The couple, who met in 1946 when the bride-to-be was secretary to Herbert’s physician in Columbus, 0., will honeymoon in Florida and be at home in the Ohio executive mansion after Feb. 1. (International)

Fireman Killed In Auburn Train Wreck Auburn, Ind., Dec. 22 —(UP) — ’ Police blamed a heavy fog today for an accident in which the engine of a New York Central freight train overturned, killing the fireman. Engineer P. F. Harmon of Toledo, 0., told authorities that, the train hit an open derailing device. He said the heavy fog prevented him from seeing that the detail was open. The fireman was M. Polson, also of Toledo. He w r as thrown from the tender and buried under the load of coal. o Noblesville's Mayor-Elect Dies Noblesville, Ind., Dec. 22 —(UP) > — Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Fred L. Baker, 70, I mayor-elect of Noblesville. ) Baker died at his home yesterday s following an illness of 10 days. His physician said he was a victim of 3 heart disease. t The mayor-elect, who already 1 had announced several of his city appointments, would have taken office Jan. 1. Survivors included the ' widow, a son and a sister.

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BUFORD SENNETT, 22, confesses 7-month-old slaying of Georgia Weckler, 8, and admits throwing the girl’s body into Blue river, Wisconsin. Sennett is now serving a life sentence in Wisconsin state prison for the murder of Carl Carlson, which accompanied attack on Carlson’s sister-in-law, Janet Rosenblatt, a University of Michigan coed, flnternational)