Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1949 — Page 3

MONDAY, AVGUST 21, 1949

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% &tcde Os k lovely bride wee Mies Mary Joan Leite, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Leite of 1015 Monroe street, as she exchanged marliege vows with James R. Edington. youngest son of Mr. and Mrs., C. C. Edington, 409 Central avenue, Bluffton, at seven thirty o’clock Saturday evening at the Zion Lutheran church. Beauty vaae4 of white roses flanked the candlelit altar to form a beautiful setting tor the sacred rite, performed by the Rev. Edgar P. Bchmldt. Darwin Letts, brother of the bride, presented a half hour's organ musicals preceding the ceremony, and played , "Sheep May Safely Graxe" as the processional, and used Bell Symphony, Purcell for the recessional. The bridal gown of white faille featured a very fitted bodice fastened down the front with tiny self covered buttons, and accented with a wide ruffle of lace tapering to a point in front and In back. The long sleeves were pointed over the wrists. A short train fell from the full gathered skirt, which was worn over a hoop. A fingertip length veil of illusion' was attached to a half bonnet o( faille, trimmed with matching lace, and she completed her attire with a single white orchid over a white Bible, a gift of the groom. Mr. Leitx gave his daughter in marriage. Shell pink taffeta and lace was ■worn by the bride’s only atten-

Official Badly Hurt Indianapolis. Aug. li— (UP)— Bob Gattla* an official of the. West 13th Street midget speed way. was in “just fair" condition today at Methodist hospital as a result of a freak accident al the track last night. Gattlan was at the official table in the infield during the running

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—Photo by Anspaugh dant. Mrs. Niccum. The gown was mud* with a lace insert at the high round neckline, cap sleeves, and full skirt. Pink asters held in place her shoulder length veil of pink marquisette, and she carried a hand bouquet of pink asters, tied with ivy streamers. Ricky Harvey, ring bearer, wore an all white suit. Charles Reber served the groom as beat man. and Harold Buroker and Jerry Mitt, brother of the bride, ushered. The bride's mother chose a navy blue and white polka dot dress with navy accessories, while the groom's mother wore black crepe with gray accessories. Their corsages were of Rubrum Hilles. Mrs. Charles Parks and Mrs. Edward C. Leitz. of Fort Wayne, grandmothers of the bride, wore corsages of pink roses. The Misses Dorothy Schnepf, Jane Parent, Betty Keller, Anna Schwarts. Mary Ann Baker. Ruth Holthouse and Nancy Bell assisted in serving the one hundred and fifty guests at the reception immediately following the ceremony at the Letts home. The serving table was laid with white- linen and was centered by a three tier wedding cake, decorated with small pink and white flowers and Ivy. and surrounded with ivy. Pink tapers flanked the cake on either •id*. For their wedding trip. Mrs. Edington changed to a navy blue suit, complemented with navy and pink accessories and a white orchid. Upon their return, the young couple will reside at 212 East Central avenue Bluffton. The bride graduated from Decatur high school and was formerly employed by the Schafer store. She Is a member of the local chapter of Tri Kappa sorority. Mr. Edington is a Bluffton high school graduate and is employed by the Bluffton Grocery Co.

of the first race when the leading car. driven by Mike Birch of Indianapolis. was bumped off the . track and through the guard rail. Other officials scrambled to safety but Gattlan was pinned against a floodlight post by the car and sustained a fractured pelvis. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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[SSS Society Items for days publication must be phoned In by 11 «-m. (Saturday 9:30 e.m.) Phone 1000-1001 Betty Terveer Sunday Tindall reunion. Van Wert, 0., fair grounds. Monday Civic department of Decatur Woman's club, Mrs. Paul Hansel, i Ice cream social. Hoagland Antioch Lutheran church, church lawn, 5:30 p.m. Flo Kan Sunshine council, K. of P. home. 6:15 p.m. , Tuesday Rebekah district meeting, Zanesville. Root Township Home Economics club, cancelled. Decatur Garden club, George Rentz cottage. Celina, all day. Delta Theta Tail social. Elks home, 6:30 p.m. Junior Women of Decatur Woman's club, Mrs. J. B. Sprunger, K p.m. Thursday latdles Fellowship of Missionary church, Mrs. Charles Tumbleson, 7 p.m. St Ambrose study club. Mrs Arthur • Friday Union Township Woman's club, cancelled. The St. Ambrose study club will meet at the home of Mrs. Arthur Lengerich Thursday evening at seven thirty o'clock. A meeting of the Junior Women department of the Decatur Woman's club will be held at the home of Mrs. J. B. Sprunger. 306 ft Winchester street. Tuesdayevening at eight o'clock. u Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Miller have returned from West Imfayette where they visited with their son. I-eo J. Miller, and family. They also attended graduation exercises at Purdue university Friday night. Their son was a member of the class and received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. Mr. Miller has accepted a position with the research iab at the university, and will continue to reside In Lafayette. Trade In a Goo-1 Town — Decatur

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The Union Township Woman’s club meeting.' scheduled to be held August 26. has been cancelled. The St. Mary's township club will entertain the Union township club at a safety program on September 30. . The Ladles Fellowship of the Missionary church will inert at the-home of Mrs. Charles Tumbleson In Berne Thursday evening at seven o'clock. Mrs. Emtna Pennington, Mn. Mabie Beckman and Mn. Hugh Holthouse and daughter, spent the weekend at l.ake Gage. Miss Joan VonGunten and Miss Carol Kirsch left Sunday for Indianapolis where they entered Robert Long, hospital school of nursing. 1 I SgjOSRITAL I v* Admitted: Mrs. Hilas Colchin, Homestead: Mrs. Martha Meibers, Madison street; Ixrla Atkins, rural route, Decatur; James Andrews; Dillon Jordan. Dismissed: Mrs. Roma Gehm, Celina, O.; Mrs. Glen Baughman and son, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Gordon Bukhart and baby girl, fourth street; Mrs. Gertrude Thompson, Rockford. O,; Mrs. Elizabeth Lehman. Berne; Fred Almandinger, Ohio City. O.; Charles Minch, Decut ur; Mrs. Sophia Thieme, Decatur; James Rhodes; Mrs. Martin Solis and baby girl; Judith Ann Schlnnerer. Willshire, O. Mr and Mrs. Martin Solis. Decatur rural route, are the parents of a baby girl, born at 11:05 p.m. Saturday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces and has not heen named. This Is the twelfth child in the Soils family. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Scheumann. route 2. are the parents of a 7 pound. 10ft ounce baby boy, born at 1:40 am., today at the local hospital. He has not been named. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webster at 9:10 p. m. Friday at the Adams county hospital. She weighed 5 pounds 14ft ounces.

Expects October Ruling Indianapolis. Aug. 22—(UP)— Attaches of the U. 8. district attorney's cffice expect a ruling in October on the appeal from conviction ot Abraham Levi, <7. Elwood junk dealer. Levi was convicted of corporation tax mrasion and conspiracy to steal government property. A hearing on his appeal was held in the U. 8. circuit court ot appeals at Chicago last May 27, the day before the court went into vaca-

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i w ** I I ■ U-oL m FHIUFPINE PMSIDtNT Elpldio Quirlno (right), visiting New York City. Is shown outside St. Patrick's Cathedral with Francis Cardinal Spellman (center) and Governor Thomas E. Dewey (left) after lunching privately with the Cardinal. In a statement to the press. Quirino said he was returning home neither empty-hearted nor empty-handed. (International)

' - ■ ■ ■■■ 7? . -4k J PHYLLIS KtSMEI, 10. Green Bay, Win., will compete as "Miss Wisconsin" in the "Miss America" I - beauty pageant at Atlantic City in September. (International) Big Animal Sought New I—A large animal, suspected of being a panther or bear, was reported today to have attacked cattle In this areu less than 60 miles from Chi<*go. * More than 200 farmers ami volunteers armed with shotgun* searched Messenger woods and the fields of Homer township for more than five hours yesterday without finding a truce of the beast.

September 8 Set As Farmers' Day At Fair The ever popular Farmers' I»uy Parade will lie held Thursday, September N, during the Indiana State Fair. The dates of the Fair are September 1 thru 9. . Floats, bands, and hobbies will make up the content of the pa;ade to be presented on the mile track in front of the Grandstand. 31,000 has been put up for the prizes. Floats will be judged on clear i meaning or the story ft tells - carrying out the theme of the parade ■ cleverness and originality and beauty of decorations of float. Pets and hobbies will be judged on presentation of the pet by the child • cleverness of decoration and originality of actions and showmanship in the parade. Bands will be judged on playing merits, marching and showmanship. So far. 9 bands. 2s floats and 30 pets have been entered in the parade Certificates of participation bearing a gold seal will be awarded to ail participants in the parade Celebrates Birthday By Parachuting To Safety Dansville, N. Y.. Aug. 22—(UPl ' -Bernarr MacFadden, who believes the secret of staying young Is acting that way. was convinced today that observing his Slst birth day with a parachute jump was the right celebration for a man of his age. » . |

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Workers Vote Strike Chicago, Aug. 22 — (UP) —-An "overwhelming majority" of the 40.000 CIO United Farm Equipment Workers at 11 International Harvester plants have authorized a strike to enforce contract demands. Gerald Fielde, FEW International Harvester council director. said today. The union is completing its tabulation of the strike vote taken over the past and a ha.R Fielde based his statement on final tabulations for all but two of the voting plants. Two Die In Auto Mishap Huntington. Ind.. Aug. 22 (UP) —Two persons were killed today and six others injured when three new 1949 automobiles collided at the Intersection of U. S. 24 and a country road west of here. The dead were Edward T. Cleaver. 49. Lagro. Ind . and Ida May Ellis, seven months old. Wichita. Km. Police said Cleaver drove off a side road into the highway in the path of a car in which six members ot the Howard Ellis family of Wichita ware riding. A third auto driven by Beeny Govan, Detroit, sideswiped one of the cars as they careened after the collision, ft also was wrecked but Govan was unhurt.

W ' w ■ J J -■ ■X ~OUCE throughout Eurdpe and in North Africa are decking Roger Senandj, 38, a Frenchman, and Renee Remy. 28. Partaienne, for questioning in the 3786.000 Aga Khan jewel robbery. Senandj is believe□ leader of the four-man machine gun gang which robbed the Aga while he was in his car on a Riviera road, f/nternationa/) The silver haired expondent of pep and power through determine tion took a 3,000-foot birthday leab over the Dansville airport Satan day and landed in an alfalfa field almost in the arms of his blonde wife. He said he felt f just fine "

Hurricane Nearing Florida East Coast Small But Powerful Is Preliminary Report Miami, Fla.. Aug 22— (UP)— A I small but growing hurricane held ’ a steady pace toward the Florida | coast today, as President Truman prepared to fly into an area stand 1 Ing by for the season s first tropic- ! al storm Mr. Truman was sure to arrive here, do his business and get out tiefore any danger could develop He was due to spend only one ; hour and 45 minutes In Miami The hurricane blew up suddenly in the Atlantic above Puerto Rico, and set out on a w-at northwe.tt | course that remained unchanged I this morning At 4 a. in. (CSTt the weather , bureau placed Its center above 440 . : miles cast of Nassau in the Be-j hamas. Strong gales whipped the set for 40 miles to the north of the storm center. The highest winds were estimated at 90 miles per hour. . The resort coast lay before the • 1 storm, its beaches and hotels crowded with summ»r vacationers Among them were some 10.000 at-1 tending a veterans of foreign . wars convention here. Mr. Tru-1 man was to fly down to address them, arriving at 9:35 a. m. (EST) Weather-wise residents of the coast went to stores this morning to get supplies to carry them through the blow If it continues to head this way. Such storms ' customarily make a wide northward turn, but nothing can he said positively about a hurricane The visit of Mr Truman was planned some time ago, and there was no Indication that the weather would lie bad for him. His visit had been scheduled in advance to last for sonly 105 minutes. with the return takeoff set , for 12:20 p. m. The hurricane was described as small, but "probably increasing in intensity and size" It was first spotted by reconnaisance planes ■ about 350 miles north of Puerto | ! Rico in the Atlantic, birthp’ace of many a norm that has built up strength over the sea and swept ■ the resort coastline. Quake Stirs Northwest By United Press Violent earthquakes shook the Pacific northwest and British Co ! I lumbia last night but residents re , ported only minor damage today RcientisU said the shocks were i 10 times as severe as the recent earthquake which hjt Ecuador. A Mexico City observator re-’ ported another earth shock was re i corded about the same time as the Pacific northwest tremhlors It estimated that the quake was 2,900 miles southwest of Mexico City. ' either in Peru or the Pacific Seattle, still highly conscious of an April 13 quake which killed I seven persons In the Pacific north j west, reported two broken water mains, a cracked street, and brofc i l en dishes Boats were torn from i their moorings in laike Union by waves stirred up by a shock which ■ | came at 10:15 pm ('ST and con J ; tinued about eight seconds. Trade in a Good Town — Zecatur

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