Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 13 January 1948 — Page 3

TUESDAY, JAftUAjIY. 13, 1948

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.EOLIAN CHOIR TO APPEAR M VAN WERT MONDAY NIGHT The Aeolian choir of the Decatur leneral Electric Co., under the irection of David Emhler, will preent a program at the Lincoln high ehool auditorium in Van Wert, O', londay evening at eight o’clock, he program is being sponsored by jta Zeta chapter of Phi Beta Psi □rority, with the proceeds going rward cancer research. Mr. Einbler has outlined the folding program: “Sing We All Now With One Acird,” Praetorius; “Softly Now the ight of Day,” Doane; “The Lord’s rayer,” Forsyth; “In Joseph’s ovely Garden,” Dickenson; “Onard Christian Soldiers,” Simeone, y the mixed choir. “Winter’s Song,” “Whiffenpoof ong,” men’s glee club. "Over the Rainbow," Arlen; Phere Are Such Things," Ringaid, by the all-girl choir. "The Holly and the Ivy,” Boughin; “Sit Down Servant,” “Coming hrough the Rye,” Simeone, choir. “Schoen Rosmarin,” Krieslerould, “O Susanna,” Foster-Gould, ano duo. “Aren’t You Glad Yoou’re You,” ingwald; “Blue Skied,” Berlin; rhe Old Gray Bonnet.” Wenrich; Battle Hymn of the Republic,” ingwald, choir. YTHIAN NEEDLE LUB IN MEETING I The Pythian Sister Needle club sld its opening meeting of the sar Monday evening after the regar Temple, meeting. t , The business session was presjid- , 1 over by the president, Mrs. Fredrick Striker. Mrs. Otto Beeler, Pythian Needle ub representative on the safety sfense council, spoke briefly con- , srning the safety movement now . iderway in Becatur. , Bingo was then enjoyed and priz- . i were awarded to the winners. Delicious refreshments were serv--1 by the club officers, Mrs. Strikr, MTs. John Beery, Mrs. Harl ollingsworth, Miss Barbara Roop id Mrs. Revia Stauffer. < Miss Doris Schafer was a guest the club. The club will convene again Janiry 26 with Mrs. John T. Myers, rairman of the entertaining comilttee, assisted by her daughter, its. Harriet Mills, and Mrs. Joanna itson and Mns. Vera Gause. ’■ r NTERTAINS WITH IRTHDAY DINNER Mrs. Grace Moser, 928 South hirteenth street, was the honored nest at a surprise dinner Sunday i observance of her seventy second Irthday anniversary. * New for School O** fi i \\ \V’ \ A 1 I til BW wHk z / I■■1 ■■ 1 EH /I'nS/iTT In 4 1A J I jdl HM I : l"'Kv tn,lwSl f l l V 1 \ I If. I W 948 6« / / * / sizes f J 6-14 j < Send her off to school looking I retty and up-to-date in this! Pat- < >rn 9486 is so becoming to grow- i ig girls! These spandy new ■ ishion details will please her — | ny midriff, pockets pleated to Hind the hips! This pattern gives perfect fit, is | isy to use. Complete, illustrated 1 ew Chart shows you every step. I Pattern 9486 comes in girl s zes 6,8, 10, 12, 14. Size 10, 2V 2 irds 39-inch. (Send TWENTY-FIVE cents In : >ins for this pattern to Decatur 1 ally Democrat, Pattern Dept, t >5 N. Jefferson St., Chicago 80, j I. Print plainly YOUR NAME, ] DDRESS, ZONE, SIZE AND . PYLE NUMBER. SEE the wonderful new-season . yles! Get our MARIAN MART- 1 4 Fall and Winter Fashion Book >w; Only fifteen cents brings >u this illustrated book of easy-i-sew patterns—all the best of hat's new. FREE —a pattern ’inted in the book, a gay mad- 1 ip hat and bag. ’

Those attending were Al and” Audley Moeer, Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Jackson and Larry, Barbara and Eddie, Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Welker, Wren, 0.; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Welker and Gary and Diane, Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Johnson of Wren, were afternoon guests. The Women of the Moose will meet at the Moose home Thursday evening for their regular meeting and ritual practice. The executive meeting will be held at seven thirty, followed by ritual practice. Members not attending ritual practice will be unable to go to Fort Wayne on January 25. Melvina Reed, the senior regent, should be notified if members are not able to attend. The American Legion auxiliary drill team is asked to meet at the Legion home Wednesday evening at eight o’clock. Th Adame County Federation of Woman’s club will meet at the home of Mrs. Delton Passwater, 219 North Ninth street, Friday afternoon at two thirty o’clock. Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry will give the topic “The Club Woman.” Assisting hostesses will lie Mrs. J. F. Sanmann, Mrs. L. E. Archbold, Mre. John Tyndall, Mrs. A. D. Suttles, Mrs. Gerald Durkin and Mrs. Harmon Gillig. Members are asked to notice the change in the meeting. The W. S. W. S. of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church will meet Thursday afternoon at two o’clock in the church basement. Mrs. Ray Stingely will be the leader. Pocahontas lodge will meet Friday evening at seven thirty o’clock at Red Men hall. The election of officers will be held. All members are aeked to attend. The W. S. W. S. of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church will meet at seven thirty o’clock this evening at the home of Mre. C. E. White. Mrs. M. O. Lester will be the guest speaker. The Pleasant Mills Methodist W. S. C. S. will meet Thursday afternoon at one thirty o'clock at the church. 4 -o Mrs. J. C. Stephenson, formerly Miss Harriet Kunkel, arrived here Sunday from her home at Sand Point, Idaho, and will remain for a ten days visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Kunkel. Mr. and Mrs. William Linn have returned .from Indianapolis. Mr. Linn attended the annual clothing convention being held there. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith of LaGrange county left Sunday for a month’s visit in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith will go on to Oregon, where they plan to make their future home. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Gilpen and son. Max, and Mr. and Mrs. Douglass K. Gilpen, attended capping exercises for Miss Donna Gilpen at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne Sunday. Mrs. George E. Moody and infant son, Gregory Ellis, and Mns. Margurite Smith of Canoe, Ala., visited last week with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mel verd Ladd, of this city. Mr. Moody arrived here over the weekend to accompany his wife and son home. o

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(Visiting Hours 2 to 4; and 7 to 8 p.m.) Admitted: L. C. Hartley, Bryant route 2; Edward Scheuntan, Ossian, route 1. Admitted and dismissed: Herb Scheuman. Dismissed: Donald Gene Shifferly, Monroe; Mrs. Clarice Rich, Berne; Mrs. Lyman Courtney and daughter, route 1; Lester Meshberger, Berne; Mrs. tErnest Fullencamp and oon, Alvin Frederick, Walnut street; Miss Phyliis Geisler, 331 North*Fourth street; Mrs. Martin Zimmerman, Jefferson street. o Dr. Amos Reusser Resumes Practice Berne, Jan. 13 — Dr. Amos Reusser. veteran Berne physician, is back at work after recovering from an extended and serious illness. Dr. Reusser, who has been practicing here for more than 50 years, resumed office hours and Sunday delivered his first baby since his recent illness. I o Forty per cent of the railroad revenue in Pennsylvania is from freight consisting of products of the mines.

,1 fl ■ ■owMBLiMI I L • ;t- I MB SB i BERNE BRIDE—Miss Dorothy Roberta Sprunger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Sprunger, of Berne, became the bride of Wilbert William Lehman, son of Mrs. Ida Lehman, Berne, in a recent ceremony performed at the First Mennonite church, the Rev. Olin Krehbiel officiating. The couple is residing in Geneva. (Photo by Edwards)

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Tuesday Church Mothers Study club, Mrs. Malcolm Locke, 8 p.m. Beta Sigma Phi sorority, Mrs. Clarence Ziner, 7:30 p:m. Monroe Better Homes club, postponed. Dorcass class of Bethany Evangelical U. B. church, Mrs. C. E. Hocker, 7 p.m. Rebekah lodge. Odd Fellows hall, 7:30. Dutiful Daughters class of Bethany Evangelical U. B. church, Mrs. Dick McConnell, 7:30 p.m. Associate chapter of Tri Kappa, Mrs. Leo Saylors, 7: 3CF p.m. Delta Theta Tau business meeting, room 202, Decatur junior-senior high school, 8 p.m. W. S. W. S. of Trinity Evangelical U. B. church. Mrs. C. E. White, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Profit and Pleasure Home Economics club, Mrs. Eva Engle, all day. Flo-Kan Sunshine council, K. of P. home, 6:30 p.m. Business and Professional Women, hotel dining room, 6:30 p.m. World Friendship guild, Mrs. Leo Nussbaum, 8 p.m. Ladies Shakespeare club, Mrs. J. R. Denny, 2:30 p.m. Woman’s guild of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, church, 7:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran Walther league, church basement, 7:30 p.m. Wesley class of Methodist church, Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Custer, 8 p.m. C. L. of C. chorus rehearsal, hall, 7:30 p.m. St. Ann Study club, Mrs. Ralph J. Roop, 7:30 p.m. W. S. C. S. of Mt. Pleasant church, Mrs. Milton Fuhrman, all day. American Legion auxiliary drill team, Legion home, 8 p.m. Thursday Women's guild of St. Luke Evangelical and Reformed church, church, all day. Do Your Best class of Trinity Evangelical U. B. church, church, 7:30 p.m. Missionary society of Church of God, Mrs. Kenneth Mitchel, 7:30 p.m. , Progressive Workers class of Trinity Evangelical U. B. church, Mr. and Mrs. 'Edward Hesher, 7:30 p.m. W. S. W. S. of Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, church, basement, 2 p.m. Women of Moose, Moose home. Pleasant Mills Methodist W. S.C. S., church, 1:30 p.m. Friday Adams County Federation of Woman's clubs, Mrs. Delton Paisswater, 2:30 p.m. Pocahontas lodge, Red Men hall, 7:30 p.m. Union Good Friday Services At Berne Berne, Jan. 13 — Union Good Friday eervices will be held at the First Mennonite church March 26, from 12 to 3 p.m., members of the Berne ministerial association announced today. AU of the Berne churches will cooperate in this service and Berne business places will close during the three-hour period. I o It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. — Disraeli.

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Molher Confesses To Strangling Son Murdered Child To Collect Insurance Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 13 — (UP) —An attractive young mother confessed today she strangled her three-year-old son to death with a diaper in order to obtain SI,OOO from the child’s insurance policy to meet loan shark payments. Mrs. Alec E. Fitzhugh, 21. wife of an electrician, showed solicitor Emmett Perry how she squeezed the diaper around her blond, blueeyed son Johnny while he slept in his crib. The mother said she thought she could solve her financial worries by collecting her child’s insurance policy. She told- the soliciotr that she wrapped the diaper around his reck and twisted it “for I don’t know how long.” “T then released it and saw that I had left red marks on his neck.” Perry quoted her as saying. “He did not cry.” “I became frightened because of the marks. I then placed the diaper around his neck again and twisted it much longer.” Perry said her only tears during the questioning came when she told of garrotting the child. “I then pulled things from several dresser drawers to make it look like a burglar killed Johnny,” she related. Mrs. Fitzhugh, who lives in a garage apartment behind her mother-in-law’s home, said the slaying occurred about 12:30 a.m. Her husband had gone to work at the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., an hour and onehalf earlier. The couple’s other child, a three-months old daughter, was asleep in the mother’s bed at the time. She told officers that about 1 a. m. she picked up the child’s lifeless body and carried it to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Bertha A. Fitzhugh. From there she called a hospital. A few minutes later hospital attaches said she called

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again and told them the boy was dead and asked them to call police. Mrs. Fitzhugh told solicitor Perry that her husband had borrowed SSO each from three loan companies and that one threatened only yesterday to sue or garnishee her husband’s wages. Solicitor Perry said he asked her what they did with the original $l5O loan. “We wasted it and got in debt all over again,” she answered. She said her husband earned $1.46 an hour. o— Dominican Air Crash Fatal To 30 Persons Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, Jan. 13 — (UP) — Thirty persons, including many Dominican Republic baseball stars, were killed when a Dominican airlines passenger plane crashed in the country, reports reaching here said today. Press reports said the plane crashed between Barahona and Santiago at a point about 16 miles from Ciudad Trujillo and was completely demolished. Victims included almost all local baseball stars, who were competing in a national series game Sunday at Barahona, as well as the pilot and a year old baby. All the dead were buried on the spot.. o DENIES FARM (Continued from Pas<> 1) for price control and rationing was in answer to a question by committee chairman Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich. Vandenberg praised Andetson for “the most direct answer” yet furnished by any administration spokesman on that question. Anderson gave this thumbnail sketch of the effect of export* on domestic prices: Wheat — prices “ought not” to be influenced. But when the government is known to be purchasing wheat that knowledge sometimes drives up commodity market prices. Meat — no pork, beef or lamb will be sent to Europe for the next 15 months. “Nothing involved will change in any way the necessity or lack of necessity for price control or allocations.” Corti — the corn picture, although “not extremely tight,” justifies small exports. Larger exports would have a “bad effect” on the corn market. Fats and oils — “not so sure” about the effect of exports on prices. Ferilizer — export or eight percent of nitrogen production may have “a little, tiny” effect on the price situation. Anderson said fruits, sugar, dairy products, eggs, tobacco and cotton could be exported without "concern” for domestic prices as long as present shipping schedules were

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•Speaks Wednesday Itl !Bl|k The Rev. Maurice Bergquist, a delegate to the international, in-ter-denominational youth convention at Oslo, Norway, will be the guest speaker at the Church of God Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. He returned last week from visiting England, Africa, Egypt. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Hollanfi and France. Rev. Bergquist has been serving in youth evangelistc work in many states for several years, pointnig out the need for full-time Christian workers. observed. Anderson said U. S. farmeds now are producing one-third more food and fiber product* than they were before the war and that they will continue to need European markets. o BRIG. GEN. GRAHAM (Continued from Page 1) modity. Graham was emphatic that he never capitalized on inside information. SPLENAMINS If you fool run-down due Io vitamin deficiency, tupplomont your diet with Plenomint. Juif two • day keep vitamin deficiency away. 144’> 4079 SMITH DRUG CO.

“At no time did I ever get any information from anyone except my broker,'’ he said. Before Graham left for Rio De Janeiro last year with Mr. Truman. Brisker said, he told him that he must leave instructions for handling the account. He testified that Grahan) left no instructions but “agreed to my suggestions.” Brisker admitted that he “might have cut corners” and Ferguson asked what he meant. The witness answered that “you might call it taking discretion” but insisted there was . a distinction between that and a “discretionary account.”

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tonrnr asked him to make a purchase, without setting a time op price, he might wait a day or so before placing the order. Discretionary accounts. in which a person gives a broker complete authority to act without the customer’s knowledge, are strictly circumscribed by rules of the Chicago board of trade.) Ferguson said today’s hearing ended the subcommittee’s investigation of Graham’s speculations. He said the group's next scheduled hearing is Jan. 23 when millionaire oilman Edwin W. Pauley and Republican presidential aspirant Harold Stassen are slated to renew their feud face tn face.