Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1949 — Page 2

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Youth Speaker ? fl |w J - Koger Malabarjr. director oi Indianapolie Youth for ChrUl will uddre-a the county-wide Youth Foe Christ ra ly Thuiaday eveuiuit at the Fir.t Meuuouite church at Berne at 7:3# o'clock Accompanying Mr MaUbary will be the Southern Melody Men', quartet and Dr. Max Burke. Youth for Christ* choir director, who iv also a fine naxophouiat. Speciala will Im* furnished by (croups of younx people and a -plendid program is The public is invited. Church To Observe Season Os Advent Special Services At Bethany Church Bethany church, the Rev. F. it. Willard. paHtor, has scheduled special programs in keeping with the advent season, which wiU be held Wednesday nights until Christmas. The. first ot the special programs will be presented Wednesday evening of this week at 7 o’clock. Tb»* theme of the meeting will he “Palestine 2000 Years Ago and Now.” The purpose of the meeting will be to become acquainted with the background and historically and geographically of the birth of Jesus and to get a glimpse of modern Palestine. A film entitled, "The Holy Land" will be presented and a filmstrip entitled "Modern Palestine” will be used in the program. On the following Wednesday cveniag. a symposium has been arrauged around the theme, "What Christmas Means to Me." Five laymen will compose the panel. December 21 the church wUI hold its Christmas fellowship service and a play will be presented by second and third juniors and intermediates. The public is welcome to Attend these services. Berne C.E. Society Names New Officers Berne, Dec. «. — lU< hard Bell'er has bean named president of the senior Christian Endeavor society of the Cross EvaugeiicaJ Reformed church. Other officers are .Mrs. Alfred Marheuke. vice-president: Mrs. Kenneth l.iachty, secretary, and Willis Fox, treasurer. Two Berne Soldiers Receive Dischorges Berne. Dec. •» — Pte. Marvin Sprunger and Cpl. Mardon Smith, i both of Berne, received* honorable diseha/gea from the Untied States : army last week. Pfc. Sprunger was stationed at Fayattevflle. N. C. and Cpl. Smith at Fort Benning. Ga. Both had l>een in the service almut on- year and Iwrinw* eligible for discharge when the Urm for draftees was reduced rec*ntl>.

J*** J ' * -Ht ■ ! ® ' w • fc F 2* JI '" ' T** VKf MfWtMNT Alban W. Barkley and Secretary of State Dean Achaean (right) enjoy a Joke that eeema to Im puazbng Mm Barkley at the Democratic National Committee SI PO-a-plate dinner in New York. Barkley, who interrupted hia honeymoon to addreas the ushering. SSsailed the Administration’s critics and said thal the Democrats’ program baa made the Umtod States mors prosperous than ever. (Intemeheaal)

list Honor Pupils Al Public Schools Senior, Junior High Rolls Are Announced a Names of students who made the honor roll for ’he second six weeks’ period of the first semester in IsXh ith* Decatur junior and senior hiyh I schools were listed today by W. Guy Brown, principal of ike school. Thirty-one senior high school students were on the list. 11 of them with perfect marks; there were 3S on the junior high school roster, three with all A's. The names of the honor students | follow: Senior High Anderson. Betty 4A Bohnke. Harold VA Braden. Saralynsu 4A Cole. Thomas 4A Fuelling. Marilyn 4A Hite. Jacqueline 4A Kimble, Sharon 4A Petrie. Jack 4A lliK-k. Janet 4A Strahin, Lois 4A Thompson, John ... 4A Bleeke, Evelyn 3A IB Davidson. Louann 3A IB Harris, Margaret 3A IB Kohler. Phyllis ... 3A iB Kolter, Jerry 3A IP. McFarland, Edith 3A IB Treon. Pat 3A lb Beehler, Barbara 2A 2B Bowman, Susan 2A 2B Bowman, Susan 2A 2B Butcher, Rheta 2A JB Hott, Dick 2A 2B ' Jaberg. Marilyn 2A 2B Kalver. Carrol 2A 2B I inn, Dianne 2A 2B Myers, Lester 2A 2B Roth. Pauline 2A 2B Smallwood. Helen 2A 2b Strickler. Sharon 2A 2B Thomas. Dan 2A 3B Troutner, William 2A IL Junior High Broun r. Edna Marie f>A Rentz. Jane 6A Smith. Anita 6A Ahr. Sheila 5A IB Busse. Ruth * 5A 11. Dalzell, iMiia SA IB Davidson, Donas 5A 111 Hilyard, Gwendolyn 5A IB Klrchnebauer. Marilyn 5A IB Krick. Marvene 5A IB Neirefter, John 5A 111 I'hrlck, David 5A IB Bowman, Carol tA 2P Elliott, Phyllis 4A 21J Hammond. John 4A 2B Sautbine, Dorcas 4A Zti i Egly, Verljn 3A ’D | Holt. Janet ...._ 3A 3B ' Nelson. Jack 3A 3B Everhart. Janet 2A IB McDougal Carolyn 2A 4iJ Robinson. Ronald 2A 414 , Vizard, Larry 2A 4L Discuss Plans For River Improvement Several people interested in the development of the Wabash river In the south part of Adams county met at Geueva Monday night to discuss plans and hear the reading ot a report from State authorities on the proposal to make the river more attractive. The sponsoring organization is composed ot residents of Adams and Jay counties and is the outgrowth of a c ommittee formed several years ago with a view to eventually making a lake near Geneva in this couaty. No definite at lion was forthcoming from the meeting, but plans were continued to keep the group active In an effort to get state support for the project. —— One really Christian never delights In telling of another's downfall.

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China Nationalists Reject U.S. Protest Reject Protest To Firing On Vessel Hong Kong. Dec. 0. —(UP) — Chinese nationalist foreign min later George Yeh today rejected an American protest against nationalist gunboats firing on American ships trying to trade with the communist port of Shanghai. Yeh informed U. S. charge d'aC fairs Robert Strong that the Chinese nationalist foreign office doce not intend to make a formal written reply to the American protest. The U. S. proteat was made by secretary of state Dean Acheson last Wednesday after a nationalist gunboat fired on the freighter Sir John Franklin of the isbrandtseu line. Another ot the line's ships, the Clying Cloud, wag hit by shell tire from a nationalist destroyer on Nov. IS. The stste department alao protested that incident. (In New York, the Isbrandlsen company, th a full page advertisement in morning newspapers, addressed an open letter to secretary of state Dean Acheson In which it asked for protection of their ships l ("Another American ship carrying an American crew and cargo is. leaving Shanghai tomorrow, Wednesday," the advertisement said "How will you insure their safety?") Although Yeh reiterated the na tlonalist government's right to blockade Shanghai, he promised the Frank Ua. now in Shanghai, would be given a safe conduct to clear the port without interference. The Franklin was hit when she tried to enter Shanghai but no one aboard was injured. Yeh warned that any Isbrandtsen shiiut trying to enter Shanghai in the future would have "rough going." Acheson in bi« protest said that the firing on American ships was a violation of the legal rights of the U. S. but at like same time he warned that vessels trying to enter blockaded Chinese ports did

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