Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1947 — Page 2

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| . ■' THE • 'RT'OTp T7 r * 11 Ir.:<mational Un;h - H- s T l .!*”™* *** ' 8y LOUIE IL HESTON, D. D. SCRIPTURE: Jude 24, 25| Revelation 16-22: Matthew 2. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm 145:1-13. God's Eternal Rule Lesson for December 28, 1947 THE last Sunday of another year brings us to a very fitting lesson, based on passages of Scripture found in Jude 24, 25, Revelation

16-22, and Matthew 2. The devotional reading is Psalm 145:1-13. ‘‘Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, do-

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minion and power, both now and ever. Amen,” Jude 24, 25. With this benediction, let us pause at the rapidly ebbing shoreline of the departing year, asking the

meaning of God’s goodness and Tuesday , 7; oo — Prayer and mercy as reflected in the Christmas BibJe studv Robert Mcßride> leader season and through all the days of Winchester (CST) our earthly pilgrimage. p rayer mee ting this week. As the Wise Men brought their Sunday. 9:30 — Sunday school, gifts to the Divine Babe in Beth- Fred Zurcher, Supt. lehem, let us today wisely ap- 10:30 — Sermon by the pastor, praise his gifts to us during the Willshire (EST) past year, and examine our hearts Wed. 7:45 — Christmas Program, to see if we are duly grateful. Sunday. 9:30 — Unified Worship * * » service with sermon by the pastor, Rich Gifts for Jesus followed by Sunday school. R„ . „ ~ . . 7:30 — Evangelistic Service. EAD again the second chapter of Matthew, particularly the sec- ( . . . . .. , St. Luke Evan. & Reformed Church tion which describes how the Wise Men brought their gifts — rare and Honduras precious gilts-to the Son of God. H - H - Meckstroth, pastor They were rich gifts, meaning that 9:00 Worship Service & Holy they were costly. We dare not Communion. bring anything to Jesus that does 10:00 Sunday School, not represent a measure of sacri- 7:30 Christian Endeavor. Earl flee. Harmon is leader. Contemplatin' the days ahead, January 1, 1:30 — Worship Serwhat shall be the test of our gifts vice followed by annual congreto Jesus? Shall we give him our gational business meeting.

left-over time? Shall we be satisfied to bring him a pittance of material gifts? Or shall our gifts, like the gifts of the Wise Men, be the first fruits of all his increase? He asks for our love, our loyalty, our glad and sincere devotion. • • • The Long Look NOW we come to the heart of Sunday’s lesson in Revelation 21:3: “He shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples.” God’s eternal rule will be gladly acknowledged and received if all place their hands in his hand at the gate of another year. Nineteen forty-eight holds many question marks. People are afraid. They are confused. And here

comes the message of Sunday’s lesson — “He shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples.’’ The world is passing away, the lust thereof, but they that put their trust in God shall abide forever and ever. God’s eternal rule has been vindicated in history. It will be vindicated again and again in the coming year wherever his people cast themselves in unwavering faith into his care and keeping. We shall do well to read again and again the chapters in Revelation, 16-22, and see how all who walked with God w’ere victorious, and how all who forgot him and forsook his ways, were destroyed. Do we not see the clear application for our day and generation? The nations that forget God do die. • * * God’s Eternal Rule LET us turn now to the verse in Psalm 145, which reads: “Thy Kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.” Every thoughtful person is today wistfully searching for certitude — for the assurance that behind thess dark clouds that lower over our frightened world the sun still shines. Better, that the sun shall break through these clouds. Our lessen gives that very assurance. This is our Father’s world. He lives! He reigns! And he waits to reveal himself to us in wisdom and power. He will not force himself upon us. We must ■ open the door to him. He stands and knocks. Is that not enough to bring us to our knees in the fervent prayer, “Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is done in heaven.” Beginning in the home, and spreading into every area of life, may the truth of Sunday’s lesson become the watchword of America and of all lands as we enter upon the New Year. Thus panoplied, we shall be strong and prepared to meet and master every problem at hand and ahead. "Our God our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come. Our shelter from the stormy blast, 1 : And our eternal home." (Copyright by the International Council ' j of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) I ’ ■ r 1 ' 4 ’

, | RURAL CHURCHES [ Union Chape) Evangelical United Brethren D. H. Peiiett, minister Sunday Bible school, Thurman I. JDrew, superintendent, 9:30. Divine worship, with message by the pastor, 10:15. Youth Fellowship, Rose Merri-1 n man president, 6:45. n Adult Bible study, 6:45. Evening worship, gospel message by the pastor, 7:30. Prayer service Wednesday, 7,30. Choir rehearsal Sunday and Wednesday evenings following the regular service. A cordial invitation is extended r to all. • o j Monroe Methodist , W. L. Hall, minister 1 Morning worship 9:30 Special i recognition will be accorded our young people who are at home from i college for Christmas vacation. j Sunday School 10:30. , -M. Y. F. at 6:15. i Evening service 7:00. * Watch Night service New Year’s s eve from 8:00 to 12:00. An interest- ■ ing variety program is being plan- ' ned. ■ Evangelistic meetings, Jan. 11-18. — o United Brethren In Christ 1 Willshire Circuit Duane A. Reahm, pastor St. Paul (CST) f Sunday, 9:15 — Sunday school. ; Eddie McFarland, Supt.

o Rivarre Circuit U. B. Church L. A. Middaugh. pastor Mt. Zion 9:30 a.m. Sunday school. 10:30 a.m. Class meeting. 7:30 p.m. Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. Pleasant Grove 9:00 a.m. Sunday school. 10:00 a.m. Class meeting. 7:00 p.m. Christian Endeavor. 8:00 p.m. Preaching service. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. Mt. Victory 9:00 a.m. Sunday school. 10:00 a.m. Preaching service.

6:30 pun. Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, prayer meeting. o Mt. Tabor Methodist Circuit Clifford C. Conn, Minister Beulah Chapel Mr. Donald Shady, Supt. Church School at :30. Worship Hour at 10:45. All officers and teachers for 1948 should be there for the installation ceremony. Also newly elected officers of the W. S. C. S. will be installed. Pleasant Valley Mr. Donald Byerly. Supt., Worship service at 9:30. Church Scool- at 10:30. Officers and teachers for the new year will be elected this Sunday. Plan to be there. Mt. Tabor Mrs. A. E. McMichael, Supt. Sunday School at 9:30. We should have a good attendance this Sunday. We are counting on you being there. Mt. Pleasant Mr. David Cook, Supt. Sunday Schodl at 9:30. We had a wonderful attendance last Sunday. Were you there? Then you will want to be there this Sunday too. o Local Man Found Near Railway Intersection Nade Haley, local plasterer, was found Christmas evening a'bout 6 o’clock near the Pennsylvania-Erie railroad intersection in a semiI conscious' condition. He was taken to the Adams county jail by city police and a local physician administered medical treatment to ward off pneumonia. This morning he was reported recovered and was expected to be released some time today. No charges were expected to be filed. Haley was first noticed by a railroad watchman. It was at first feared that he might have suffered frozen hands or feet. It is not known how long he lay in the snow before bein® diitoytred. I'rodr In a Good Town — Mocniaz

J Jjr rMMr. ..y Spjjjßß *2l White House photographer holds no scare for friendly “Feller.” BHn ? ■ "'LI JfcJ “Feller” discards packing-case to call the White House his home. ARRIVING AT THE WHITE HOUSE, “Feller,” a gift pup for President Truman from Mrs. P. J. Marsden, former nurse to the executive’s mother, is popular candid subject. (International Soundphotos)

Italian Minister To Sweden Slain Mentally Deranged Compatriot Killer ( Stockholm. Dec. 26 — (UP) — Police today disclosed the full story of how Alberto Bellardo Ricci, departing Italian minister to Sweden, was stabbed to death with a pair of scissors by a mentally deranged compatriot wjio | was on eight hours leave from an asylum. Ricci himself had intervened in behalf of his slayer shortly before Christmas, obtaining for him the Christmas holiday from an institution where he had been held since 1940. The killer was identified byj Swedish authorities as Giuseppe Capocchi, an Italian who was ordered detained seven years ago after an attack upon two fellow countrymen. He was suffering from Schizophrenia (split personality) nut had Improved sufficiently to be considered safe for release. The stabbing took place at thq Italian legation in Stockholm yes : terday afternoon, where Ricci was holding a traditional Christmas luncheon that also, marked his impending departure to take up a new post as Italian representative in Chile. Capocchi. released to visit hie wife, a flower vendor, and three children, called at the legation and asked to be permitted to see Ricci. He said he wanted to demonstrate a new invention, a pair of scissors with detachable arms. The first secretary of the legation counseled the minister to turn Capocchi away. “No, I can’t help feeling sorry for him.” police reported Ricci as saying. “I cannot kick him out on Christmas day. I will give him a couple bottles of wine before he leaves.” Ricci asked a servant to show Capocchi to his study while the minister himself went to the kitchen for the wine. When he entered to the study Capocchi leaped

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upon him. stabbing him six times with a pair of scissors, once directly through the heart. Police said Capocchi believed the minister had been responsible for his detention in 1940, although Ricci was not minister at that time. They said Capocchi admitted, after a night of questioning, that he 7 went to the legation to kill tile minister. o

Isolate Agent Os One Common Cold Point Possibility Os Making Vaccine Washington. Dec. 26—(UP) — The U. S. public health service anndutfeed- today that it has isolated the agent which apparently causes “one kind of tough common cold.” By cultivating the agent in fertile hens’ eggs, it “has pointed to the possibility, but not the probability” of the development of a vaccine to combat the ailment. Drs. Norman H. Topping and Leon T. Atlas used 200 men volunteers from among the inmates of the District of Columbia reformatory at nearby Lorton, Va. in their research. They detail their scientific sleuthing in the issue of Science magazine which appears today. They told a press conference that they suspect that there are several kinds of common colds, ranging from hay feverlike sniffles to severe grippe. They call the agent they isolated and studied under an electron microscope the V 144. This cold is an infectious disease which is passed from person to person. They concluded: it is caused by an agent which they have not yet defined, and which looks like — but can be distinguished from —influenza virus. About 500 of the 2,000 men inmates at Lorton volunteered to try to catch artificially-induced colds for $3 weekly while they were used in the research. About 200 men were used.

Nasal washings from the nose of a new cold victim were com-

biued with sterile skimmed milk and introduced into the noses of some of the volunteers. Other volunteers who served as controls were given non-infected washings. All the colds originated from washings taken from the nose of a young scientist who showed evidence of a developing cold when he underwent a routine physical examination.

Washings from bis nose were introduced into the noses of five volunteers who had been in strict isolation in the institution hospital for six days. Within 36 to 48 hours all five developed colds of varying intensity. Agents in the nasal washings from the sickest of the volunteer victims finally were cultivated in fertile hens’ eggs. Although this work foreshadows the possibility of a successful cold vaccine. Topping was guarded in his predictions. “We must do a lot more before we can talk about a vaccine,” he said. “We must purify the agent, find out how it can be killed safely and more about natural immunities.” o— ——— Trade In a Good Town — Decatur 0 IN THE ADAMS CIIKT IT COURT NOVEMBER TERM. l‘.M7 cu se no. iima JOHN H. SPRINGER VH PEGGY .1. SI’Rl NGER The plaintiff in the above-entitled cause having filed his complaint therein, together with his affidavit and the affiddavit of the disinterested person that the defendant, Peggy .1. Sprunger, is a non-resident of the State of Indiana. •Now, therefore Peggy J. Sprunger is hereby notified that unless she he and appear in the Adams Circuit Court on the 2nd. day of February, 1348. it being the first jurdicial day of the February, 1948 term of said court at the Court House in the city of Decatur, Indiana, to answer or demur to said complaint, that the same will be heard and determined in her absence. That said cause of action is an action for divorce. IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I. have hereunto set my hand in the seal of this Court this 29th day of November. 1917. Clyde O. Troutner, Clerk of the Adan’s Circuit Court. D. Burdette Custer, AttorneyDec. 12-19-26 O NOTICE Notice is hereby given to the share holders of The First State Bank of Decatur, Decatur, Indiana, that there will be a meeting Tuesday, January 13, 1948, at its officie between the hours of 19:90 a.m. to 2.30 p.m., for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors of said Bank for the coming year of 1948. H. >l. Kruevkeherg Cashier Dec. 12-19-26 Jan. 2-9

Geneva Officials Resign Positions Menno Hanni, member of the Geneva town board, and Mrs. Hazel Banta, Geneva clerk-treasurer, have resigned their positions, effective January 1. Mr. Hanni will be replaced by Loren Hoffman, and Mrs. Banta will be succeeded by Mrs. Richard Potter. o- — INDIANA'S (Continued from Page 1) geons to attempt an operation to separate the boys while they still were alive. When doctors refused saying that the twins could not survive an operation, Speer said that he and his wife never wanted to see the children. The twins were never named. Th dilemma continued until the boys began to fail Dec. 17. They were born at Bedford, Ind., Nov. 29 and then placed in an incubator at the James Whitcomb Riley Children’s hospital here. 0 SNIPING (Continued from Page 1) a heavy covering fire from mortars. Observers said the battle was the fiercest staged in Palestine since the United Nations partition decision Nov. 29. Jews deployed in military formations and cleaned out the Arab positions with hand grenades. The battle for control of 300 yards of road swayed back and forth until British military police and armored cars arrived. The British forced the ragana squads to withdraw and then drove the Arabs away from the-highway. Arabs and Jews clashed in many other sections of Palestine during Christmas Day and two British soldiers were killed by a bomb thrown into a Tel Aviv case. o GREEK (Continued from Page 1) leader of the national liberty party. , Police said the plot was uncovered Dec. 9 when two communists were arrested after a shooting affray. The purported plot entailed plans for widespread sabotage as well as the assassination of Gonatas. A war ministry statement said the attack on Konitsa began late yesterday with an assault on a height defending the town from the north. The pressure was maintained into the night by the guerrilla forces consisting of two brigades and two battalions, the ministry reported. o QUIET HOLIDAY (Continued from Page 1) tion of the Blessed Sacrament. Members of the congregation received Holy Communion and the traditional Christmas songs were sung by the choir during the high masses. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor, extended greetings to the parish members. o GRAND JURY IN (Continued from Page 1' house are in immediate need of washing and cleaning, the windows being in such a condition as to present a very unsightly ap pearance for the principal build ing of the county. “It is further recommended that Additional help be furnished the janitor, because it is the opinion of the grand jury the building APPOINTMENT OF A DM INISTR ATO R ESTATE NO. 4395 Notice i« hereby given. That the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Theodore Schueler late of Adams County, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. Gustav Schueler Administrator Bee. 23, DMT Severin H. Scliurger. attorney Dec. 26-Jan. 2-9 GETTING UP NIGHTS OFTEN A SIGN OF MIDDLE AGE • Many folks 40 and over have to get up sights—have frequent desire to pass water - have backaches, too, because of minor functional kidney disorders. If this is your trouble, flush out your kidneys and bladder with Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root. It quickly works to increase the flow of urine, help relieve excess acidity, and ease burning sensation . . . helps bladder irritation that gets you up nights. Swamp-Root is truly nature’s own way to relief. Millions have taken it for three generations ... often with wonderful results. Caution: Take as directed. For free trial supply, write Dept. C, Kilmer & Co., Inc., Box 1255, Stamford, Conn. Or — get bottle of Swamo-Root today at v<r 4r«xstora. A. J. ZELT The Rawleigh Dealer 230 South 4th St. Phone 1081 Decatur Indiana INSURANCE Leo “Dutch” Ehingei FIRE — WIND — AUTU 1720 No. 3r4 St. Phone 570

is entirely too large for one man' to adequately care for ami dean. It is the further opinion of the grand jiyrj that as the courthouse is the cewfer of attraction and im portant in the county it ghoul 1 present a much better appearance than it does at the present time.” The grand jury, for the firstime in years, did not recommend the installation of an elevator at the courthouse. Members of the jury were: Fred Adler, foreman: Albert Tinkham, John Affolder, William E. Snow, Ella Reef and Otto Peck. 0

REPORT SNYDER (Continued from Page 1) funds. Congress allowed $1,254 - 000,000. Snyder’s recommendations on increasing personal exemptions and extending the split-income benefit would be the same in principle as two of the major provisions in the $5,600,000,000 tax-reduction bill already introduced in the house by chairman Harold Knutson, R„ Minn., of the ways and means committee.

Knutson’s bill would increase

SALE CALENDAR DEC. 27 Earl M. Cripe, mile South of City Limit. . „ ana, Beautiful Suburban all Modern Hom? Eltha 3,B land. Midwest Realty Auction Co J anl 6 «?■ DEC. 27—Mose Myers Heirs, 5»/ 2 miles east, 2 miles Z"?- 4 east of Berne. Suman Bros., Aucts SD ° h 1116,1 JAN. 3—Floyd Lewton & Alfred Rausch. Adams anti ah First farm east of Williams Elevator 7 n J‘ en catur, 2 miles south and 1 mile east of HoaJioL” 0 ? 11 S.,S rs s,,e - Eoy & Ne<l JAN. 5 Holhs f l °‘X r s & ea st rt 30 Registered Holsteins and dairy N ’B Johnson and Melvin Liechty, aucts P 6D ' Roy JAN. 6-R. W. Lowther, owner, Osie May Lowther, Executm 1 1 west of junction of U. S. 30 and 33 on U S 30 S’J ■ south or at northwest corner of California &■ v. Fort Wayne, Ind. General farm sale Roy & nT.II & Melvin Liechty. Aucts. y & Ned JAN. 7—Mrs. Fannie Amstutz, Linn Grove, Indiana and also >■ farm 1 mile south of Linn Grove on road 116 and t 3 mile west. Building, 80 acre farm and farm Roy & Ned Johnson and Melvin Liechty, Aucts ■ JAN. 10—Jesse E. Stoller, 1% miles off the Fort Wayne ikw -■ ( the Leesburg road or 5 miles east of junction ot,U S 3 Leesburg road on Leesburg road. General farm sale I & Ned Johnson and Melvin Liechty, Aucts. I WANTED | GOOD, CLEAN, BIG RAGS, I | Suitable for Cleaning Machinery. ’ Cannot use underwear stockings, pant! coats, overalls, or any similar materia ■ Will Pay lb. i Decatur Daily Democrat F6l ALL LIVESTOCK AND POBLTI' Here is a FREE CHOICE conditioner which balances, and puts the "Finish" on your feeding program. STOCK-GRO contains only its original pure ingredients. Quality controlled in manufac turing, STOCK-GRO contains the right combination of Milk Sugar and Lactic These two factors help do the 1 job most feeds can't do alone. J Feed this 'conditioner FREE S : I CHOICE, Or dissolve it in drink- K 'SgSj ’ ing water or feed it in mash. ASK US ABOUT STOCK-GRO TODAY I Stiefel Grain Co. pecatur, Ind.

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