Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1948 — Page 3

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ANO W. 8 c. s. XggStO MEETING HELD ''\ Hinman wu* him • iZvm»’ ,!,i ' "’ " f ,ll *' \v in n < uapi-l .Tin- day n and sewing. '/CSaK linn.-i ■■Hi/ -r-.-d " tISH JSMh . ..- - j.-u -i am iq.i-neil *i!'* in « a " <l l’ r “ v ‘‘ r ' - '-"■R . iimi by Marilyn Un’vQIBH ■- . .1 \ i.a .1 > mr'n-i! !:..>:■• was read bi Yager. following Shad. u-ii-wwl th, ■•• •- H..|-|»-i-iug to - K Home”" The ’<.p,< g.n-n by Man Yake '• ’gHK ' an-*«•(••<! — * hil ' lll lil “‘"’ <! " !».• ?i gids®IOMEMAKERS HELD I l<->-• ii..K,'i s In 1 ' ■ ’ ' • ' JwigfijHi ■ i: •' »t ■• ll>!! '■'*■' ' 11 ■ ii ‘ il r. ® 1 " r """■' Hu -,-d by Mr> ' ail Adie;. Jenson <4l "Meo' *as Mrs Hawkins ' WHH I ' immtis '*<•!.• then the eighteen member* aK| in attendance The be held ut Loh in with a best \,.ur Best tlass of the io.-I in the ihunll evening. were given • Hk Usher. Mrs Hoy Taylor Nina Viola . conducted the businenx time Mrs Addie K who sang a solo. Twenloiibem answered II an interesting program ' ! '*'<derer and Mrs TayA refreshment* were ? the hostesses. Mrs ('llf Charles Kenworthy and n,ece /FC mH SATURDAY ' ! , '" 1 !: ;; tt‘tth and Smith tins will a 'iminnati, O. '■A 49 ’*"■ "cdding of the for <- Miss Jane Eleanor of Mr and .Mrs 1 wage of the Age 1/ Bs3k I \ »■ I jl Iwh s } ■ I I mbIM ’ , hat ., niakin(( , a Ka , h ~^^H r Pattern <mj» has has ' y with eyelet edge trim Matching <hat m 4 dly popular lan »*<-n <lrM perfect fit Is gM"-- Complete, illustrated "hows you every step mMBF. “"n*** 1" »!«* 12 «•«* 1« takes 3S ** *d contrast *3l t5 VTrF,Vfc ••«*" ,n WWI h * PAtt*rn to Decatur .. Dept. Bt. Chicago SO. P»a»«Uy Tour Name "* B ” ,e woman sews, what loves to year In onr ,l^B m i’r. RT J V Hook Twl, 'e *• eiettlnr r,u| o« ot news-mak T r!n ’ M ri « h » In the MttMT. and direc - h utility b. t .

* Society items ror days publication must be phoned in by 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 1000-1001 Mlm Betty Melchl Friday Philathea class of Baptist church, Mrs. C. E. Hell, 6:30 p ta. Saturday Rainbow Girls bake sale. Garber's market. Sunday N. C. C. W. district meeting, St. Joseph chun h. Bluffton. 2 p tn. St. Pau.l Golden Rule Class picnic, Berne, noon. Steele Reunion, Hanna Nuttman park, pot-luck dinner. St, Paul Walther league ice cream social, one and a half miles north, half mile west of Preble, 3:30 p.m. Monday Phiialeihean circle of Zion Evan gelienl and Reformed church, picnic. Mrs. Henry Nelreiter. 6 pm C. of C. chorus, hall. 7:30 p in. St. Catherine Study club, Martaret Brite. k pm. Gamma. Nu Picnic, Hanna-Nutt-man Park. 6 p.m. Delta Theta Tau business meeting. Elks home, k p.m. Tuesday C. L. of C. pot-luck, hall, 6:30 p.m. VV. F. W. auxiliary, hall. 7:30 pm. Kirkland Ladies Home Economics club, high school. 1 p m. l.oyal Daughters class of Bethany Evangelical L'. B. church, Shroyers lake. 6:30 p m. St. Mary's Township Home Economics dub, Mrs. Ralph Welch, 7:30 p.m. Sunny Circle Home Economics club of Preble township. Magley parish hall, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Decatur Home Economics club, Mis. John Bauman, 2 p.m. Thursday Decode club picnic. Lehman park. Berne. 6:30 p.m. E. Donald Vancll, former residents of this city, and James E. Morrissey. son of Mrs. Edwin S. Morrissey and the late Judge Edwin S. Morrissey, of Cincinnati. — NOTICEWe will be closed July 26 • 31 inclusive for employees vacation Decatur Dry Cleaners "My SPENCER is so much COOLER!" Jf 'T Yo«/ too. will enjoy cool comfort if your / I Att °^* fl * ,on ®‘ i \¥ J wearing, moderately V'/' priced. It will improve 12.1 your general health I , «j and appearance, tool j Mrs. Leota Connell .fl 209 8. Third Phone 846 SPENCER rSESs*' SUPPORTS

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Miss Vancll is a graduate of Hillsdale school. She attended western colle.-e, HHlins college In Virginia and was graduated from the I'niversity of Cincinnati. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Mr. .Morrissey attended the t’niversify of Wisconsin and Harvard. He was graduated from Tufts university, where he was stationed for three years with the naval ROTC. and graduated from law school of the I'niversity of Cincinnati in June, He Is affiliated with Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. ANTIOCH CHURCH SOCIETY MEETS The Women's Missionary society of the Antioch church held its regular meeting at the parsonage Thursday. Those attending were Mrs. Philip Carver. Mrs. Esta Ginter. Mrs. Jim Beery, Mrs. Roll Hou, k. Mis. Ella Skiles, Mrs. Frank Arnold. Mrs. Bud Johnson and Mrs. Donald Jefferies. The St. Mary's Township Home Economics club will meet Tuesday evening at seven thirty o'clock at the home of Mrs. Ralph Welch. The C. L. of C. will meet Tuesday evening at six thirty o'- l<s k at the hall for a |s>t-luek supper. The committee in charge will furnish the meat. The meeting of the Decatur Home Economics club will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the home of Mrs. John Bauman. '•ls Mercer avenue. The silent auction sale, scheduled to i>e held at this meeting, has been postponed to a later date. All members are urged to attend. The Philalethean circle of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will have a picnic at six o’chx k Monday evening ut the home of Mrs. Henry Neireiter. Members are to bring their own (aide service. A district meeting of the N, W. will be held at Bluffton Sunday afternoon at two o'clock at the St. Joseph church. The laiyal Daughters class of the Bethany Evangelical i'nited Brethren church will have its annual picnic Tuesday evening at six thirty o'clock ut Shroyers lake. Ea< h member is asked to bring u ten cent gift for bingo. Members of the Youth Fellowship of the Salem Reformed church have been Invited to attend the meeting of the Youth Fellowship of the St. Lukes Evangelical and Reformed church Tuesday evening at seven thirty o'clock on the •hurch lawn at Honduras. The regular meeting of the Kirkland Ladies Home Economics club Annual Storewide July Clearance Sale—starts Tuesday morning. 9 o'clock. Store dosed .Monday in preparation for sale.—E. F. (iass Store.

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has been changed to Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock at the high school. This will be a combined meeting with the 4-H girls, including a local exhibit by tlte 4-H girls. The Rainbow girls will sponsor a bake sale at Gerbers market Saturday morning. Tiie V. F. W. auxiliary will have a business meeting and initiation of new candidates Tuesday evening at seven thirty o'clock at the hall. The ('. L. of C. chorus will meet at the hall at seven thirty o'clock Monday evening. The Rev and Mrs. Gilbert A Eddy are visiting relatives and attending to business matters in Dayton, O. 0. M. Swihurt, city superintendent of school* v ln Kokomo, was elected president of the Indiana society for crippled children at the society's annual business meeting in Indianapolis. Mr. Swihart has been active in the society for several years and helped to organize he Wayne county chapter when he was superintendent of schools in Richmond. John H Heller, editor of the Daily Democrat, who has been ill at his home the last two weeks, is reported to be improved. Mr. Heller has been able to sit up the last two days, and his physician stated that his condition was greatly improved. Miss Nancy Bell is entertaining three of her Sullins College classmates at the Bell summer home on lake Tippet anoe. Her guest* are the Misses Ada Wooldridge of Richmond. Va.. Nancy Jean Covington of Magnolia, Miss.. Carol Dailey of Fort Wayne, all of Sullins, and Ruth Holthouse of this city, a student at the College of New Rociielle. The weekend will be climaxed with a boating party on Sunday. Friends In Decatur have received announcements from the Rev. and Mrs John W M< Pheeters. Jr., of Whiteland, of the birth of a baby boy July 6. The baby has been named Fred James and is the third child. Rev Mi Pheeters was pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Decatur. Q n Jbtu < Visiting Hours 2 to 4; •id ’> to 8 p.m.) Admitted: Baby Donna Kay Zehr, Fort Wayne, route lu: Harold Swartz. 712 North Second street. Dismissed: Mrs. Frederick Aspy and son. Jack Bryant. Charles D<- Gualle, famous French leader anil soldier, was born in Lillie France on the 22nd day of November, 1890. Any Panama Hat •/> Price. —Peterson Clothing Co. It

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Farmer Sought For Slaying Daughter Indiana Farmer Is Sought For Killing Glens Valley, Ind., July 16IVPt State police widened their search today for George l«eonard. 47-year-old farmer who shot his daughter to death with a shotgun because he didn't want her to marry. Ix-onard. the father of nine children. fired two shots into his daughter Frances. 23. while her mother and two sisters watched in horror. Then he jumped into the family car and fled. Members of the family said nard vigorously opposed Frances' approaching marriage. Leonard recently tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets. "I've been waiting to do this for a long time.” Leonard was quoted as saying as he fired the shots at his daughter, whom he is said to have called his "favorite." The shooting took place in the living room of Mr. and Mrs Elmer Utterback, uncle and aunt of the slain girl. Mrs. Bernice Leonard. 47. the victim's mother, and her two younger sisters, Sandra Kay. six. and Glenda, nine, were the only witnesses to the shooting. l/*onard was reported driving south through Franklin shortly after the slaying, and authorities in Kentucky were alerted to be on the lookout for him. The murder victim had been living in the Utterback home for nearly a month because her father had refused to let her have dates when she was at home Mrs. Ix-onard said her husband had been “brooding” since he learned that his daughter planned to marry a Bargersville truck farmer. The mother of the victim said lawmard also became "enraged" when three other daughters had married against his wishes She said Francis and two other sisters had gone to live with the Utterbacks when their father took the overdose of sleeping tablets shortly after he learned of her marriage plans. Holiness Group To Meet Sunday The monthly meeting of the Adams county holiness association will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Monroe Gospel Tabernacle. The Rev. James Payton, of Edgerton. 0., will be the guest speaker and the public is invited to attend TRUMAN'S from Freni Page One) consideration but no floor action. On minimum wages, a senate labor subcommittee considered a Re publican proposal to boost the minimum hourly wage from 4ft to 6ft cents an hour, and a Democratic bill for a 75-cent minimum, plus broadened coverage. The controversial Taft-Ellender-Wagner long-range housing bill was bogged down in the house rules committee when the regular session concluded House supporters of this senate-approved bill said today they will resume their efforts to bring it out of the rules committee by petition.

Mr. Truman served notice he also will ask congress to consider civil rights bills, extension of social security benefits, funds for public power projects and revision of the law to admit Eiircgj pean displaced persons to this country. He maintains that the DP bill passed by congress before it adjourned is "antisemitic" and "antl-Cathollc." Sen. William Jenner. Ind . pledged "full cooperation to enactment of an all-inclusive civil rights program" but he added that the presl dent's motives in seeking it at this time were "purely political U. S. BOMBERS (Cont. From Faee r»n»> blockade of Berlin and disclosure that U. S. officials fear the Soviets may extend the ground blockade of the former German capital to Vienna. Austria. Air force officials also were silent on whether the B-29's will be used on the air supply run to Berlin. It was learned, however, that the bombers will “see service" on the continent of Europe The two groups were made up from the 28th air force at Rapid City. S. D. and the 307th at MeDPI air base. Tampa. Fla. Each group Is composed of three squadrons of 10 planes each | One group will be based at . Scampton England The other group will be divided, with on<squadron at Waddington and two *it Marham. The B-29's are c-arrving regular) and spare crews, the air forcesaid Maintenance crews and supplies wl'J be transported In C-54 transports. The air force said 1.50 ft personnel are involved in the flight. While in Europe, the B-29's will , be under command of M. Gen ' Curtis Le May. commanding gen-1 eral of I'. S. air forces In Euro I pean theater. DUALITY PHOTO FINISHING Satisfaction Guaranteed Hnlthniiap Dr tier Co.

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PERSHING (Cont. From Pave One) in the midst of World War I dead "When the last bugle Is sounded." Pershing had said. "I want to stand up with my soldiers." Hi* death was a signal for mourhing both here and abroad Mr Truman ordered fags dropped to half-staff on all public buildings, and at all military posts and naval stations The White House said he will soon set a date for a national memorial observance. The President praised Pershing as a "great captain” whose "brilliant leadership, steadfast courage , tireless energy, unswerving loyalty and constant devotion to duty"' earned him the nation's "unlimited | gratitude and affection." Tributes and messages of con 1 dolence poured in to Pershing's ! sister and his son froboth the great and the unknown*who had served under the General Gen. Douglas MacArthur it: I Tokyo said Pershing was "the embodiment of all that is best: in an American soldier." "To those of us who followed his victorious banners 3n years and more ago.” said Mas Arthur, "he I represented the legendary ideal of a past era." Eulogies came also from (Jen Marshall, Gen Omar N. Bradley, army chief of staff; defense see. I retary James Forrestal. army sec ; retary Kenneth C. Royal), navy I secretary John L. Sullivan, air secretary W. Stuart Symington, 1

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Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of Now York and hifndrods of others. ’ Pershing will be buried just 3ft years from the day his American forces launched their great t-oun ter-offenslve in France, a drive that carried them tn final victory. At the Capitol, his casket will rest on a catafalque of rough pine boards built in 1*65 to serve as a bier for Abraham Lincoln. The funeral procession from the Capitol to Arlington will begin at 1 p.m. Monday. Burial will be ut 3 <>'< lo< k. Annual Storewide J u I y Clearance Sale—starts Tuesday morning. 9 o’clock. Store chtsed Monday in preparation for sale.—E. F. Gaiw Store. Snutleud FLOWER SHOP Potted Plants. Mixed Hou<iuets, Corsages, Flowers for your every need. All Funeral Work given special attention. Phone 1853 207 Liberty Way (across from court house) _ _ _