Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1947 — Page 3

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*^K S ” iv of Victory Discus|Mv* r "’...' <. Mary's parish "■ c \V. met last ■ B" ■ -',7 With the !M| : ' t!lr month of the ... of the week. Miss gS '''7.,. . hairman for the K n«o interesting topics. ■ -he Mass" Hennas meeting. - elected presH 7.0. P. Miss Hild a Hei ‘ Herman --s then closed meeting will <»> January 26 ’ ■’' ....m: w. re Miss Heiman ■; S! -irmeyer. Mrs. Herman v . Henry Braun, Mrs. ■mieiman Mrs. Elmo Miller. Case. Mrs. John AlKl V,.. Nick Braun. Mrs. K, J Case ami Mrs. Edward PEOPLES class SLEIGH PARTY K R|IT 'loin I’s class of the t Dale church held its K meeting at the home of \t r - William Bryan recentsleigh ride ■ sleiHi tide the business K, opened with group singM’hy Martha Liby. Following h y the Kev. Russell Welrefreshments were t,y the committee. A gift was then held. K, attending were Billy AhnMan Byerly. Jim Arnold, Hugh Paul Weller. Barbara K Martha Liby, Junior ArnMuth Landis. Darrell Arnold. ■ hati'iis. Konald Byerly. Mary Karger. Marjorie Byerly. Don Ky.idi.. Bryan. Marilyn Bryan, Kid M rs . Dale Liby, Rev. and Weller and Mr. and Kfilliam Bryan. Kday DINNER ■ SUNDAY ■ Elia* sudduth was the lion-. K's-e at a birthday dinner on ■y, Fullowinj the pot-luck din■irs. Sudduth received many ■ gifts. ■se attending were Mr. and ■ Ted Sudduth and children, ■ : - Fred. Ruth, Carolyn and ■, Mr. and Mrs. Harris Sud- ■ Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sudduth ■lighter. Shirley. Mr. and Mrs. ■ Sudduth and children. Kath- ■ Frank and Don. Mr. and Mrs. ■Plasterer and son, Jess Ed■iest Sewing Ever! K [Wi r ; w K 7 |iCE xK' 5 / 1 |m Jg ■ y J L JI -sj [ A o i n ks /T\ JI \ 'LIm U v] nv!! ! ' v ' k ' e for a busy Moth- ; lU , raain Pattern piece to i • r - ONE for the blouse! i ~' s simple, too. Make this i i tj[n * ee outfit. Pattern 9249, 1 "to gives Perfect fit, is j ChT \ Complete ' illustrated Herr 924? WS y ° U every step ’ ’ 810 e- Comes in sizes 2 ’ #1 Turm,2! ya - "b-m. 1 for , h^ TY ’ FI VE cents in tt ly Denin S pattern to Decatur j N jXr rat ' Pattern Dept, Prln nu?" St ” 80, . kss 7nx y YOUR NAME, i Kat size an,, h' Get *° D(lerful new-season I Mi »nd Wf r nt MA S IAN MART ’ ' fc Only «f? ter Fash,nn Book | 'llls 11 teen ce “ts brings I ** Pa!te n, ated „ book of “’’new. PR aR th e best of I rJ 4 ‘a the h„ v ~ a Pattern iud L? k ’ a mad- •• X

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M Phones 1000 — 1001 Tuesday Delta Theta Tau sorority, Miss Joan Wemhoff, 621 North Fjft ,. '' street, 8 p.m. Preble Township Sunnv Circle s Home Economics club, Mrs fmt s Hildebrand, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday , I nion Township Woman's club Mrs. Harve Koos, all day. Calvary church New Years Eve , service, 8 p.m. to 12 midnight Thursday Knights of Pythias and Pythian 1 Sls ters New Years dinner. Kof P. home, 12:30 p.m. Sunday I Aeolian choir rehearsal, Luth- ■ eran church, 2 p.m. 1 ward. Elias Sudduth and the honored guest. Members of the Aeolian choir are asked to attend rehearsal Sun day afternoon at two o'clock at the Lutheran church. — 0 • Personals Rev. J. R. Meadows of this city, editor of Prayer Band Magazine, will have charge of a “Singspiration” program at Riverside Park church in Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon starting at 2:30 o’clock. It will be a day of praise and music, starting the New Year. L. C. Runnion of Pleasant township has been elected president of the Van Wert fair association. Attendance for the 1947 show was 12,000 less than the previous year but still totalled 160,000. Chai Wayne Snider, Willshire lad who had an eye injured while at play two years ago, was taken to Fort Wayne this week for an operation for removal of the eye. Miss Betty McKinley, of Indianapolis, and Miss Margaret Miles, of Lake Wawasee. were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Linn. Mrs. L. Gray Paddock, Mrs. Wayne Schnepf, Mrs. W. A. Redmond. Mrs. Robert Heiser, of Lima, 0.. and Miss Mary Smith of Purdue university, attended the annual Christmas dinner given by the Fort Wayne alumnae of Zeta Tan i Alpha, national college sorority, in! honor of members who are home idays.from the various schools for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas and children. Neil and Annette, of Mankato, Minn., are visiting with' friends here enroute to their home after spending Christmas with relatives in Ohio. Mrs. Charles Dugan left today for Boston, Mass., where she wil visit ' with her daughter. Miss Frances j Dugan, for several weeks. She also i plans to visit with her daughter in : Philadelphia before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Fry back and Mrs. E. A. Beavers have returned home from Toledo, 0., where they visited over Christmas witli Mr. and Mrs. Glen T. Beavers and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Bair of this k city are visiting for several days in Bedford. Mr. Bair is a former resident of Bedford, where he served as county recorder of Lawrence county before coming to Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith and son Merlin of Midland, Mich., are visiting here with Mrs. C. N. Christen and other relatives. The

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tp RECENTLY—Miss Ida Mae Collins, 615 Adams street, daughpv o « 'J? 1 Mrs ' Geor S e Adams of Pomp, Ky„ and William H. Fish- . on of Mrs. Agnes Fisher. 1111 North Second street, were united n marriage recently in the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren iooTt ’ P r ' p' lar ' es E- White officiating. The couple is residing at L.S North Third street. (Photo by Edwards)

Smiths are former residents of this city. Attorney Arthur E. Voglewede, who underwent an appendectomy last Wednesday at the hospital, expects to return home tomorrow. He is feeling fine. 0 — (Visiting Hours 2 to 4; and 7 to 8 p.m.) Admitted: Ray Cramer, 924 Winchester street: Mrs. Wilbur Krugh, Ohio City, O.; Mrs. Ralph Pritchard. Ohio City, O.; Russell Dibert, Ohio City, O.; Lester Meshberger, Berne; Geraldine Coyne, Monroeville. 0

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DANCER Bernadette Fischer from Philadelphia builds a snowman in the heart ot New York’s Times Square district The metropolis and its environs wore a snow mantle of ,25 4 inches, the greatest snowfall in the city's history. (International)

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Filling Station Man ■j Killed By Burglar Aged Hoosier Found Dying In Station i Columbus, Ind., Dec. 30 —(UP) — A 70« year-old filling station operator was fatally injured today by blows on the head believed to have been struck by an ax-wield'lng . burglar. , The victim was James F. Pelley , of Taylorsville, five miles north of - Columbus. Police said the aged man's unconscious form was found on the floor of the service station he opei rated at Taylorsville by Mrs. May Smiley, who stopped at the station to wait for a Columbus-bound I bus. He died two hours later in | Bartholomew county hospital without gaining consciousness. Hospital authorities said pelley j had been struck on the back of the | head five times with a sharp instrument. probably an ax or a hatchet. The gashes were from two to three inches long and the ■ instrument had penetrated the man’s skull. A rear window in the service . station was broken. Pelley’s daughter, Mrs. Maxine Weaver, with whom he made his home, said he was carrying about SSOO in cash in his pocket when he left home to open the station. The I money was missing when his body was found by Mrs. Smiley. Police advanced the theory that Pelley caught the intruder inside when he opened the station for business shortly before 7 a.m., and that the burglar struck Pelley on the head before escaping with the money. 0 A school of mackerel is so large it sometimes stretches 10 miles in length and a half mile in width, according to skippers of the Atlantic Coast Fisheries Company's trawler fleet. A screwdriver that furnishes its, own light is one of the latest in tool novelties. A tiny light bulb and battery are in its handle.

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Petrillo's Second Irial Opens Today Music Czar On Trial For Act's Violation Chicago, Dec. 30 — <UP) — James C. Petrillo’s second trial for violation of the Lea (antiPetrillo) act, opened in federal court today. The president of the American Federation of Musicians (AFL) was charged with trying to force a Chicago radio station to hire more musicians than the management thought were necessary. Petrillo pleaded innocent to the charge iKst Nov. 12. The leader of nearly all the nation's music makers went on .trial while most of his members worked overtime to complete as many recordings as they are able before Jan. 1. Petrillo ruled recently that none of the members of his union would make any records after the present contract with recording companies expires. He said he made the move because recordings are replacing live musicians in many instances and because the Taft-Hartley act forbids royalty payments to unions. The Lea act, under which Petrillo was being tried today, forbids a union form forcing a radio station to hire more musicians than it requires or desires. Most of the supporters of the measure admitted freely during congressional discussions that it was aimed directly at Petrillo. Petrillo was accused of calling a strike against Chicago radio station WAAF on May 28, 1946, in an attempt to force the station to hire t more musicians. Federal Judge Walter Labuy dismissed the original complaint on Dec. 2, 1946, on grounds tKat the Lea act was unconstitutional. Labuy ruled that the act violates the fifth amendment “because of indefiniteness and uncertainty in the definition of a criminal offense,” and because it restricted freedom of speech. The case went to the U. S. supreme court and on June 23, by a majority of 5 to 3, the court upheld the constitutionality of the act and ordered Labuy to try Petrillo for violation of the law. The amended information was filed last Oct. 15 and Petrillo pleaded innocent before Labuy on Nov. 12. He asked for an early trial. Conviction on a charge of violating the act carries a sentence of one year in jail, a SI,OOO fine, or both. o Question Youth In Philadelphia Fire Philadelphia, Dec. 30 —(UP) — Edward K. Lannon, 21, was held in $2,500 bail today for questioning about the $1,000,000 fire that swept five mid-city buildings Sunday. Police said he was found prowling near the ruins carrying 18 boxes of matches and a flashlight in a paper bag. Fire marshall George Gallagher said Lannon first admitted then denied having set the seven-alarm} fire, which destroyed a row of brick buildings occupied by wholesale hosiery, dress, shirt and shoe | firms. (J ; Trade In a Gooa Town —'>«<“atu

YOUTHFUL KING s — (Contlriup'l trinn l'nv<- !i Bucharest announcement of the creation of a republican state closely followed the forms customarily employed in official declarations of the U.S.S.R. It was directed to “workers, peasants, intellectuals, soldiers, commissioned and non-commissioned officers, and citizens” and proclaimed “the popular republic of Romania, ’he fatherland of all those who work.”) Aids Communists Washington. Dec. 30 —(UP) — American diplomatic officials said today that the abdication of King Michael of Romania “takes the brakes off” communist plans for complete Sovietization of that country. These officials believe the 26-year-old king quit his throne in protest over recent constitutional changes invoked by the communists. rather than for “purely personal reasons.” They doubted that yesterday’s disapproval by the Romanian cabinet of Michael’s plans to marry Danish Princess Anne was the prime reason for his abdication. The abdication had been expected for some time in official quarters here. Some officials said the king apparently ruled against the move at the time he attended the royal w’edding in London to avoid being described as a “coward” by the communists. 0 The Wolverine, first iron warship ever built, was launched at Erie, Pa., in 1843.

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TO LEAD LEFT (Continued from Page 1) succeeded the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. h»7had to fire Wallace i from the cabinet for publicly re- , pudiatlng the administration’s firm i policy toward Russia. Wallace had been made secretary of commerce by Mr. Roosevelt as a reward for 1944 campaign services after the : vice presidency had been denied him. Democrats were inclined to minimize publicly the importance of Wallace’s bolt from what used to be the New Deal-Democratic coalition. Democratic national chairman J. Howard McGrath said Wallace’s candidacy was "expected" and that it would not cost the Democrats any sizeable number of votes. Some Democrats nevertheless had been alarmed for weeks by the former vice president’s pretty obvious maneuvers toward leadership of a third party. Rep. John A. Carroll, D., Colo., said Wallace was only helping the presidential aspir ations of Sen. Robert A. Taft. R.. O. Republican leaders were openly joyful. Rep. Clarence J. Brown of Ohio, chairman of the executive committee of the Republican national committee, said Wallace’s candidacy “assures that which has been apparent to most of us — that Mr. Truman will be defeated and a Republican elected in 1948.” Over the Mujtual Broadcasting System last night, Wallace charged that both major parties were war parties in their leadership and policies. He said the menace of war “can be met and overcome only by a new political alignment in America which requires organization of a

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new political party." Then he plotted his hat into the ring in these words: “To that end I announce tonight that I shall run as an independent candidate for president of the United States.” Wallace made no mention of Communist support for a third party. But he said he was aware that he and his followers would be called "Russian tools and Communists.” "Let the fear mongers not distort and becloud the issue,” he said. “We are not for Russia and we aren't for Communism.’ FROM SNIFFLY, STUFFY DISTRESS OF X A FEW DROPS J *' i WORK FAST .. . RIGHT k WHERE TROUBLE IS >Xj Instantly relief from head cold distress starts to come when you put a little Vicks Va-tro-nol in each nostril. And if used in time, Va-tro-nol also helps prevent many colds from developing. Follow directions in package. VA-TRO-NOL back plaster I Blessed relief for ff / / \ simple BACKACHE! 71* '/ [ Cleen, easy to use, effective. Warms, sup- OtJV |vAK^ ports, t9cl» grutl Holthouse Drug Co.