Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1949 — Page 3

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* •n Society Itemi for days publication must be phoned In by 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30 ajn.) Phone 1000-1001 Miss Betty Melchl , Tuesday Aeolian choir rehearsal, Decatur high school, 8 p. m. Kirkland Ladies club, Kirkland high school, 1 p. m. Sunny Circle Home Economics club of Preble, Mrs. Otto Hildebrand, 8 p. m. Kirkland Ladies club, high school, 1 p. m. Wednesday Initiation and Installation of Business and Professional Women, Masonic hall, 7 p. m„ reception for senior girls, 7:45 p. m. Psi Jota Xi .pledge, Elks home, 8 p. m. Thursday Ever Ready class of Methodist church, Mrs. Jess Niblick, 8 p. m. W. S. C. S. and Ladies Aid S. magazine, “The World Outlook." During the social hour, refreshments were served by the hostesses, and her assisting committee: Mrs. Robert Mills, Mrs. Clifford Saylors, Mrs. Henry Heller and Mrs. Russell Owens. Seventeen members and one child were present. t The Calvary Evangelical Ladies Aid society will meet Friday evening at seven thirty o'clock at the home of Mrs. W. L. Johnson, with: Mrs. Harry McDermott assisting. I _ -

society of Bethany Evangelical U ] B. church, church, 2 p. m. ; Monroe W. S. C. S., church an- j nex, 7:30 p. m. Ladies Aid of Trinity Evangel- ] ical U. B. church, church', 6:30 p I m. 1 Friday i Happy Homemakers club, Mrs. ] Cale Cook. Calvary Evangelical Ladies Aid 1 society, Mrs. W. L. Johnson, 7:30 i p. m. ; W. M. A. of Nuttman Avenue U. B. church, Mary Fry, 8 p. m. 1 < The Happy Homemakers club ] 1 meeting, scheduled for June 7, will ' be held Friday at the home of Mrs. < Gale Cook. \ ( The W. S. C. S. and the Ladies ; Aid society of the Bethany Evan- j gelical United Brethren church ] will have a combined meeting Thursday afternoon at two o’clock ] at the church. Mrs. Lawrence j Woodruff will be chairman of the ] program committee, and refresh ments will be in charge of the June’ < section, with Mrs. Carl Hammond t as chairman. ] The Ladies Aid society of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church will meet at the church at six thirty o’clock Thursday evening. Mrs. Marie Deßolt, Mrs. Violet Schelderer and Mrs. Ralph Roop will be hostesses. The W. M. A. of' the Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church will meet Friday evening at eight o’clock at the home of Mary Fry. A meeting of the Monroe W. S. C. S. will be held at seven thirty I o'clock Thursday evening in' the i church annex. Mrs. Charles Longenberger, leader, will use as her subject "Darkness Turns to Dawn in Africa.” The Ever Ready class of the Methodist church will meet at the home of Mrs. Jess Niblick on North Fifth street Thursday evening at eight o’clock. Devotions will be given by Mrs. O. K. Baker, and the program will be in charge of .Mrs. Hubert Zerkel. Mrs. Niblick i will be assisted by Mrs. John Nelson and Mrs. Frank Krick. Important rehearsal of the AeolI ian choir will be held at eight o’clock tonight in the music room . of Decatur high school. Otho Lobenstein of Monroe has returned from the annual convention of funeral directors held at Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. R. K. McConnell and family have returned from spending the week-end at Tri Lakes. Miss Kathryn Yager and Miss Alice Roth spent the weekend at Heidelberg college, Tiffin, O. Byard Smith and sister. Miss Dorothy Smith of Fort Wayne, i visited in Decatur Saturday afternoon. Mrs. J. W. Breiner and her daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Mawhinney. all of Pittsburgh, < Pa. visited in Adams county over the week end. Saturday noon they were entertained at dinner by B. - - I SPENCER fUD/VIDVALEY DESKNED }* ’4} SUPPORTS OFFER REAL /A ECONOMY | i MWwot. Cwtl / I Ueg Wurl ’ !\ L •h J V My Gu.rante.dl yVj 1 Mrs. Leota Connell 242'/j Madison St. Phone 114 | If no answer, cal! 9072 COLD | FUR I STORAGE I Phone 147 ; mm dry cleaning

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F. Breiner of this city and hit sister, Mrs. William Liby of Monroe, at the Breiner home on Third street. Mr. Breiner, Mrs. Liby and their Pennsylvania guests all enjoyed dinner Saturday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Schieferstein. Dr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sauers enjoyed a journey through southern Indiana over Memorial Day. Mrs. Florence Sprunger-Starr of Bluffton will be the soloist at the blossom times tea at the First Presbyterian church Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. W. L. Harper will preside. Miss Olive Perkins, former well known Decatur lady, now a teacher in the Fort Wayne schools, was a Decatur visitor over Sunday. Mrs. Charles Myers and son of Niles, Mich., visited here Memorial day morning. Mrs. French Quinn, sister of Mrs. Myers, returned with her for a two-week visit at Niles. Morris Begun entertained Jack Garner and Phil Terveer in Chicago over the weekend. Mrs. Frank Schmitz spent Decoration day with Mr. and Mrs. James Fisher, of Huntington, and Mr. and Mrs. Luzern Uhrick of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wolfsen and Miss Marion Koontz spent the Memorial day week end at Indian lake at the Wehmeyer cottage. Mrs. Charles W. Yager, of Pioneer, Ohio, visited with relatives and friends in Decatur over the holiday. Mi. and Mrs. Wallace Liniger are parents of a baby girl, born Saturday morning at 11:15 a. m. at the Adams county hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, iVi ounces. Dianne Marie is the name of the baby girl bom to Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Moore. Geneva, at 11:15 p. m. Saturday at the local hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 11V4 ounces. An 8 pound. 3% ounce baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hendricks at 8:27 a. m. Sunday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She has not been named. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Butler are parents of a baby girl, born Sunday morning at 10:46 o'clock at the local hospital. She weighed 9 pounds, 13 ounces. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sheets, Wren. D., are parents of a 6 pound, 12 ounce baby girl, born at 9:42 o'clock Sunday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She has not been named. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh W. Stauffer. Geneva, are the parents of a baby daughter, born at the Adams county hospital Monday morning at 11:25 o'clock. She weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces and has not been named. WjOMTAL FU Admitted: Mrs. Gretchen Evans, Pleasant Mills; Henry Swygert, route 3; Howard Yorman, Rockford, O. Dismissed: C. M. Zimmerman, route 2; Billy Winchester, Berne; Ann Arnold. Jefferson street; Elodee Nye, Willshire, O.; Mrs. Eva Hoffman, route 1; Mrs. Robert Ulman and son, route 3; Mrs. Eli Beer and son, Berne. BERLIN'S (Cont. From Page One) Kreikemeyer was quoted as reaffirming his previous compromise offer to the strikers, who walked out 11 days ago demanding that they be paid entirely in weatern marks and 40 percent in eastern marks. Strike leaders rejected that, offer previously. To get the western marks for the proposed payment, Kreikemeyer said, rail tickets sold in West Berlin beginning tomorrow must be paid for in west marks, which are worth considerably more than the Soviet-sponsored east marks. IBWSI mJ I*7 i into your Home WL k ikeiRIAL MW Smith Druq Co.

Dr. Rutledge Is ' Convicted By Jury Attorney To Seek Release Os Doctor 1 Cedar Rapids, la., May 31—(UP) • —Dr. Robert C. Rutledge’s attorneys said today they would demand ' his release on a habeas corpus writ i but prosecutors said they would : insist on “very high” bail. Defense lawyers Walter Barn- . , grover and R. S. Milner indicated they might petition district judge I J. E. Heiserman today for a new . trial. i Rutledge, 28-year-old St. Louis baby doctor, was convicted Satur- ■ day of second degree murder. Uni der the conviction, he can be sentenced to prison for not less than ’ 10 years. The maximum is life. He was charged with stabbing ' Byron C. Hattman, 29, St. Louis, to death in a hotel room here last Dec. 14 to take revenge for Hattman’s seduction of his blonde wife, Sydney, 23. There was a possibility that Mrs. Rutledge would ’eturn today from her parents' hor a a* Hannibal, Mo., to visit her husuand although he has exacted a promise from her not to do so. “I don’t want her to see me in jail,” he said. The Rutledges were completely 1 reconciled even though she told in detail during his trial of how she dated Hattman repeatedly until last July 31 when the electrical engineer allegedly yot her drunk |

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then seduced her forcibly, over her protests, in the Rutledge’s St. Louis apartment. Saturday, judge Heiserman gave Milner and Barngrover until July 1 to file for a new trial. He indicated he would set Rutledge’s exact sentence shortly after that. Hut Milner said today that the defense may go directly to the lowa supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus to get Rutledge freed. Prosecutor William Crissman said he would demand "very high” bail.

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r The prosecution had demanded a ! first degree murder conviction that would have made death or life im- > prisonment mandatory. The de- ' tense had asked for acquittal on ■ grounds that Rutledge was acting i in self defense when Hattman died.

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Several members of the' .jury, which convicted Rutledge on the fourth baUot after deliberating almost four hours, said he might have been acquitted had he killed Haltman immediately following the seduction of Mrs. Rutledge instead of waiting until December.

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