Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1948 — Page 3

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EARCH club has SING TEA MONDAY e . losing tea of the Research field at the home <if Mrs. HauboKl Monday. Mia. C. D. on and Miw. Leonard Saylors, irs for the afternoon, choae as subject "Modern Poetry." H >ne olice said "Three laxiks tin the finest writ Ina In our Hure and form the nucleus of f home library— 'the Bible, eapeare apd a collection of in their diMmssion. the HE,, tated that*British poetry -i,.-r while American |<oetry Tore vigorously expertand full of youth. Mrs Say her paper by quoting 2 the liucoßc. a Western colanthology. Walter Krick presided at , lt |, table. The hostess. Mrs ‘Sfctold. was assisted by Mrs. A. Mnc F H. Wtllard. ■ , B •Heller. Mrs. Leonard Mrs I! It Myers and Mrs. ■>. loann Cowens of Western fiK.-,.. Oxford. O . was a guest. |HkMATIC SECTION MONDAY HL Dramatic depart cent of the [•ur Woman s club met Monevening at the home of Mrs. ion Maddox. flowing a short business meetthe play "Miss l.ulubelle." by Gale. wt& read by Mrs. H. L. and Mrs William Porter. rely refreshments were later by the hoatessot. Mrs. MadMrs 11. L.« Noli Miss Grace Mrs, I* B. Thomas and Mrs. ■fin steury. * t - JUNIOR MEETS Junior 'Fellowship of the .■lv hist church met Saturday asin the church basement. twenty eight in attendance. H. ■ ■ contests ami group sing were enjoyed At a later hour. refreshments were served hostesses, Mrs Lowell Mrs Sylvester tyrerhart. K William Porter and Mrs. Wat aS Maddox. Giris Missionary guild of t’hapel will meet at the of Veda and Frieda 'William- ■ | Monday evening at eeven thir H »’< iyck. ■ 'lie ft endsnip t ircle of the Zion H in.-elical and Reformed church meet Wednesday evening at thirty o'clock at the home of Homer Barton. Pocahontas lodge will meet evening at seven thir’y at the Red Men hall. Xu sorority will have a Kompliment Catcher 11 \ii j IA * M I i I ' n f I I UM I I k I * s iIS I * Jw JMrl fun <1 G I Ht» H l/r V ’ H i ■•--o HHHBHHBbmTI *nTifcMdk*s ■Sweep the buttons across and ■»n for a line most bewitching' wi'ern 9204 la the scalloped ■“uty you’ve be«n waiting for ■u'll catch compliments galore y"' l you wear It. Simplified ■*ing. Ironing, too. e ■This pattern gives perfect lit. Is y' ’o use Complete, illustrated t'hart shows you every step. ■ Pattern 9204 in sizes 12. 14. IS ■ 20 Hite Id, gts yds 39 In ■ bend TWENTY FIVE cents In ■»’ for this pattern to Decatur < ‘ly .'emocrat. Pattern Dept ■-* N J tfferson Bt.. Chicago SO ■ Print plainly Year Name ■jureM Zone. gIM anj Style ■buiber. ■ >fOW la the time to sew tor yrtng' Fifteen rents more brings the brand-new Marian Martin ■ttern Book eram-fnll of exdt ■* spring fashions for everyone* y,*" l FREE PATTERN printed the booh—two belts to give the New Look. Better have

Society items for days publication must be phoned in by 11 a m. (Saturday t*3o a.m.) Phone 1000-1001 i Mist Betty Melchi Wednesday Friendship circle of Zion Evan gcdlcal fhd Reformed church, Mrw. Homer Barton, 9 *:30 pm. Delta Theta Ta't social meeting. Elks, h pm • Auxiliary Drill and Degree teams, Legioft Home. S p.m. Wnlon Towtudiio Home Economics club, Mrs. I'halmer Barkley, i, I:SO p.m. St. Vincent de Paul society, C. L. of hall, 2p m. Phllalethean circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Miss rieanor Reppert, x p.m. Ladies Shakespeare club, Mrs Milo Black. 2:30 p.m. Historical club. Mrs. Henry Adler, 2 30 pj!l. Bethany circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, ‘‘Mftt. Wesley lx*hman, X p.m. W. 8. 8. of Methodist church family night. chur< h. 8:30 p m. Thursday Ralnltow Initiation. Masonic hail, 7:30 p.m. Utile Flower Study club, Mrs.; Hugh Daniels, 7:30 p.m. Faithful Workers class of Union Chapel Evangelical U. B. church, Ht|gh Nidllnger, 7:30 p in. Heidelberg class of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, church. 7:30 p rft Union Chapel Ladles Aid society. Mrs. Ralph Rice, ail day. Girl Scout leaders ami council party, home economics, room, hUh school, 7:30 p.m. Art Department meeting, postponed. Ruralistk- Study club, Mrs. Richard Kable, 8 p.m. Monroe Methodist W. 8. C. S„ Church Annex, 7:30 pm, laifties Aid see lety of Trinity Evangelical U B. church, church, 7:30 p.m. Ever Ready class. Mrs. Forrest ' Elzey. Magley Uulles Aid society, parish hail, all day. So Cha Rea, Mrs. Rlctfard Ehingen 7:30 p.m. W. 8. W. 8. of Bethany Evan 1 geli.4l U. B. church, ehurch parlors. 2 p.m. Pleasant Dale Ladiejj Aid solely, church, all day. Presbyterian Missionary socidly, Mrs. James Elberson, 2:30 p.m. Friday Pocahontas Lodge. Red Men Hall, 7:30 p.m. 1 Ave Maria Study club, Mrs. Gerald Durkin. X p.m. Council of Church Women, library. 2 p.m. Work and Win class of Trinity Evangelical U. B. church. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baker. 7:l# p.m. Saturday Happy H'Jhtlers 4-H club of Washington township. Deßolt school, 1 p.m. Bake sale. W. 8. W. 8. of Beth any Evangelical U. B. church, Coles Market. 9 a.m. , Rummage sale, Methodist church basement. Monday Gamma Nu sorority, fire station. 7:30 p.m. Decatur Camera club, Decatur high school. Girl's Missionary guild of Union Chapel, Veda and Frieda Williamson. 7:30 p m. Kirkland Township P. T. A. potluck. gym. 6:30 pm. • busineni' meeting Monday evening at seven thirty o'clock at Rhe fire ata'lon. Beg Pardog The family night program, by the W. 8. Cq S. of the Methodist church, will be held this evening at six thirtyjo'clock at the church, instead of Thursday evening as erroneously stated in Tuesday evening s Democrat. o __O Disaster Insurance Kenneth Runyon. 71 17 II L I Sav It With • FLOWERS J from > 1 1

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Rev. James R. Meadows of this I city, editor of Vl'-tory Prayer Band Magazines annutmceathat Rev. Alex 1 llatthauer of Anderson will be the| speaker ala meeting to be held at the Gospel Auditorium in Hartford ( CltjX next Sunday afternoon atj 2:30. Rev. Batthauer is s. converted| I Russian who came to tills country,' to worship "in true holiness.'' 0 Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Welty Sprunger. Berne, are the parents of u baby girl, born this toornipg at 2:20 o'clock at the Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed •> pounds. Io Qpnces and haw npt l»een named. • Visiting Hours 2 to 4: «fid < <o x p.m. I Admitted: Mrs. Hulda Sipe, Berne. o Hanna Family Scion Charged As Forger ( True Bill Returned By Jury In Buffalo — Buffalo, N Y„ March 31— <UPt ( —A two-count federal indictment was returned today against Mark A. Halina. HI. socially prominent Buffalo businessman and scion of a prominent Cleveland family.) charging him with forging two checks of $30,000 each. Hanna was < hared, with fortjHTi ’he name of an irticie. C. H Hanna. < a Cleveland financier. The che«'ks wer«*drawn on the Cleveland Trust 1 Co. and were payable to the <?• •endant OnP check was drawn on 1 or about Maji'h 5. 1949. and the other about three days later. If convicted. Hanna faces a pos slble prison term of 10 years on : ••ach count -for violation of the national stoleft property act. The 47-yearoid great-grandson of the late Sen Marcus A. Hanna of Ohio was taken into custttiy in New Orleans on March 1* after the fpteral bureau of Investigation had spread a dragnet over eight states. Assistant U. 8 attorney Henry W Killeen. Jr, said that Hanna also was believed to have passed a I nit’mlier of bad checks among socially prominent Bus 'al'Snlar.s with whom he associated In some of the city's most exclusive clubs.

MAJOR PROVISIONS OF YAX CUT LEGISLATION WPHIS maximum a VOU® ••■ MASONS! twee’s—** HUSBANDS e*S ■**•' la* iewM*iu BISSONS AS er oldr* weeW ♦— *e ’•*•* fe* *eipe»et «M A pj.f intnr-" tt* ham ■ •••'* (•< «■ M«y !—*•♦’••<- ••■***•••• -j»-w * •<.«««*•• (NFFIRSNCIS between House and Senate belle will ue ironed out and an expected presidential veto can be over ridden by 1* votes according to Senate s 7H-1I approval of the measure (JrttraatiOMl) |

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Report No Violence On Exchange Strike Police Massed To Prevent Violence New York. March 31 —(WPI — New York police massed one man tot every two strikers before the stock arvl curb exchanges to prevent a recurrence o r yesterday's "lie down" strike. Some 3tH» pickets were In the line, with police spaced every 10 feet Pickets biHied loudly alb persons enteiing the exchanges but there w as m> violence Police commissioner Arthtr Wailander hurried to the scene to take command of a reinforced uniformed ptdice detachment in an effort to prevent a recurrence of the violence ycuterday when 12 persons . were Injured and 45 were arrested.. Officials of the United Flnani lal I Employes lAFI.I said they may call their members ou» of 2S brokerage houses in the Wall Street financial dlstrlti today to make financial transactions on the big boards more difficult. The union demands 39 to 315 weekly raises for it»< 1,100 memlters In the two exchanges All 45 of the strikers who were at rested yesterday have been paroled or released on bail for < hargc- ranging frotg disorderly conduct to th rd degree assault. Police sai<l the figV began when pickYts employed "football tactics" to prevent briers and supervisory employes from entering the stock exchange building shorty before 9 am. However, he union in telegrams to the mdh'or and members of the city council, charged that the dis-, turbance was "delllterately provoked by the police." Local Man's Mother Is 111 In Chicago Mrs.*Sarah Max. 90-year-<dd Chicago resident ans mother of I. A Kalver of this city, was reported to l>e slightly Improving in*a Chicago hospital today after suffering a heart attack several days ago Mr and Mrs Roy Kalver of. Det atur were with Mrs. Max In Citi- * ago earlier this week until the arrival from Florid# of Mr. and M ,1. I A. Kalver. o Man Arrested On Speeding Charge Carl V.sAipdal). Liberty. to lie arraigned in justice of peace court here Thur'day to answer to a ha :e <»f Speeding Officer Ed Miller arrested hint about 9 15 o'clock last night, charging he Brose 50 miles per hour in a 30-mlle zone on Thirteenth street. Weighfy car. be measured so closely that the mark of a peuell on a piece of paper is easily weighed

Confesses Slaying Os Wife And Judge I ® * ’ Missouri Farmer Is Held For Slayings Moun'ain Grove. Mo.. Mar<ij>3l--(UP) Ernmt A. Scott. 4H-year-o!d .Mountain Grove farmer sought tn i the slaving of his estranged wife and a Missouri circuit judge, surI rendered voluntarily to a neighbor today. reportedly admitted both slayings to Sgt. E E. Barkley of the state hlghway.patrof after surrendering at 6 am. to Jennings Tucker, a neighboring farmer. Weight codnty prosecuting attorney Frank Collier filed murder < barges against Scott at once for the slaying of Mrs. Scott. (The other (.laying occurred in Douglas county.) • Scott carried his rifle with him. Os the yayings he said only: “It was all like a dream." Wcgtt allegedly shot judge Charj les II Jackson. 54. to dlf-ath last Monday and 4# minutes later fatal- ' ly wounded his estranged mate, Mrs. Verla Scott. 43-year-old mother of nine children. An Jntesive search for Scott was 1 headed by Col. HWgb Waggoner. 1 superintendent of the state hig4iway patrol. | immediately after the hunted 1 DirrtA-r'e surrender, state and local ■ authorities swarmed into Mountain 1 Grove. Among the members of the : search party was Powhattan 11. ( Ja.-fcon, Kansas City attorney and brother of the slain judge. Scott was placed in the Mountain Grove <-By jail, pending possible , tssnsfer to the Wright county jail), at Hartville, alrnut It miles from 1 here.® Judge Jackson was killed at the) I Andrew Torkelson farm nine milMv 1 southeast of Mountain Grove. Torkelson said he retailed that Scott shouted at Jackson before firing the single shot which mortally wounded the jurist. "You broke up my home with your decisions," Scott said, according to Torkelson. "but you're not going to break up any more." 1 Mrs. Scott was slain on the lawn at 'fig; home <f her mother. Mrs. .Mary Rainey. In Mountain Grove. Mrs SdOtt had taken seven of her children to the Rainey cottage last Sunday. o Four-Month Bride Slain In New York Woman Strangled By Husband's Neckties New York. March 31.—(UP)— The nar£e ot tlx- "Revenge” slayer who strangled a four-month brKswith her husband's neckties thee stabbed her six times was believed j by police today to be among the hundreds of friends and business icqualntances listed in her 15 address books. The body of Mrs. Vera Uitlto. 38. a well-to-do business woman, was, found lying face down in a pool of blood on their fashionable mld-i town apartment by her husband.! ‘ Robert, when he reTSrndß home last night from his insurance company office. Two gray neckties were knotted *' around her throat, a brown and | yellow Be bound her ankles and a blue and brown tie held her wrists She hud been stahtied repeatedly in th? chest with a knife. She had not beet!’ raped The slaying was labled “a crime of vengeance" by detectives, who said the many valuables remain Ing In the apartment apparently rulcfi out the likelihood that a hid committed the crime. However* the slayer had gained entrance by taking apart the lock fin the front door of**the thirdfloor apartment and Mrs. Lotito's wedding and eniftgement rings r NERVOUSM . cranky‘ewy RKHith’? Ars y»U troubled by distress of ternaM functional periodic dls'-urb-an.-es? Dnes thia make you tre)j»o tired, high-strung, nervous—st su< b times? Then so try Lydia B. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to retiree such symptoms! Pinkham's Compound la made eepectaliy /or women ft also baa what Doctors call a stomachic tonic effect' Any druguxge V LYDIA L PINKHAM S

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Virre fnissing. Police believed thgJ Mrs. Lotlto was slain about 3 31) p m., shortly after she returned Jiome from a nearby travel bureau of she was co-owner. PdUce said they had no Immediate suspect in mind, but they planned to question the hundreds of persons whose naßP's apiirared in the 15 address hooks found in the apartment aihi &t the travel agency. Mrs. Lotlto, whose first husband. Eugene Moriarlty, died in 1940, met Lotito during a Bermuda ! cruise two years ago. They were; married Nov. 22. 0 Michigan Extension Services Head Dies Chicago. March 31 — (UP* — Authorities said today (hut the body of Charles Asbury Fisher, di rector of the University of Michigan's extensiou service, would be sent to his home at Ann Arbor (or burial. Flohur. 63, was stricken by a fatal heart'at tack late yesterday on u train in the LaSalle street station here. He was en route home from a meeting of the national committee on extension services when he became 111. Residents and visitors of Kenosha. Wis.. contributed between 'eight and nine tons of pennies and meters. Q. ... Eatinx potatoes, Kathadin, only $3.25 per cwt. Guaranteed.—Hammond Bros. 75t3 8 TIRED ? Does Your BACK BOTHER YOU? Spencer Suprt designed esdally for you 1 give relief by proving pose. Mrs. Leota Connell H 209 S. 3rd Phone ' I SUPPORTS I ; fr».F AA4»s#a, Ba«k aaA ItMGle

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