Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1950 — Page 3

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MARTHA J. WRMMOFF TO WED DAN C. HOLTHOUSK Mr . auto Mrs. Frank J. Wemhoft . ot 4305 Arlington avenue. Fort Wayne bare announced the wugagement of their daughter. Martha JU to >* n 0- Holthonse. ana of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Holthouse of this city. The wedding will take place at St. John the Baptist church. Fort Wayne, this fall. The brideelect a graduate of ' Central Catholic high school, at- I tended Mt. Mary College in MU- ' aaukee. Win., and is employed Th' the contract department of the i Home Telephone and Telegraph i < ompany. Mr. Holthouse graduated from ! Decatnr high school and Indiana university, where he served as editor at the Indiana Dally Rtodent. He Is employed in the sales promotion department of the Tokhefm oh Tank ami Pump company. Fort Wayne. '*■■■ ■■ 4 WRKN SENIORS TO GIVE PLAY FRIOAV The senior class of Wren high school will present the "hilarious ' comedy. "Flxlt. Incorporated" on Friday evening at eight o'clock. Members of the cast are: Deun Miller. Donnie Kraxh. Carol Brown. Rita Thor Tom Kroner. i Minnie Myers. Roger Stevens. , Janice Dull. Chrystal Owens, Gene Chronister. i Special musical selections will be presented between acts of Ihe • play. . ST. LUKES GIRLS GUILD IN MEETING The Girls Guild of the St. iAikes Reformed church mot nt the home of Alice and Doris Dick recently. The lesson was conducted hy Doria Dtrk. Norma Jean Funk had char-:.* of the business meeting, at whlcn

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isSSM M — s-a-- . Aw—- u'*> ntih. ••whwsjr lowma »Mv MMy • I*™"*' ile—Rlmst muaf thdl ebsoatJ iaa saw sewweswVv vvvOOw* er— y/"iv<ww vvv Wg Ilan. (Saturday 8:80 a. m.) Phene 1000-1001 Betty Terveer t Monday Corlnthlap class ot First Christ lan church. Mrs. William Kohls, 7:30 p.in. Girls Missionary guild of Union Chapel, Veda and Frieda WllUamson, 7:30 PUL St. Mary’s society, C. L. of C. hail, lift p.m. Our Lady of Fatima study club, Mrs. John Terveer, 8 p.m. Ladies Firemens auxiliary, Mrs. Eugepe Beam, 7:30 p.m. Bancta Marla study club. Mrs. L. R. Zlntsmaster. 8 p.m. Adams County Home Economics club chorus. Monroe school. 7:30 p.m. Bt. Catherine study club, Mildred Ixtshe. 8 p.m. Tuesday Kum Join Un Class ot Bethany Evangelical U.B. church, church, 7:30 p.m. Loyal Daughters class of Bethsny Evangelical U.B. church, Mrs. James Staley. 7:30 p.m. C. L. ot C„ C. L. of C. hall. 8:3(1 p.m. Decatur Garden ..club, Mrs. Noah Bixler. 2 p.m. Pleasant Mills P.T.A., Pleasant MIDs school. 7:30 pm. - , Tri Kapiia inspection dinner. Latberag church. 8:30 pm. time it was decided to support the! International Christian university', as a golden deed for May. A short fHm was also shown by tbe Ker. Meckstroth. . Those present were Gladys Mankey. Beulah Hertsili. Norma — ; —.—

F NOTICE l am hark in my beauty shop and wish to extend a welcome to all old and new customers. HELEN HOWELL ( , 221 N. Second St. Phohe SS « | Member of the Indiana Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Ass'n. Inc. •’ ' J: -.J_J I I I I -Jtwa*** AjaJ -—max WtMT X „ b I your pocket? 1 Under thia compulsory medical plan, wage earners | 1 would pay extra taxes. Employers would pay extra | | too. The self employed, however, would pay Ute en- ■ tire tawouL of their own pockets. k f In other uxmit, the farmer mutt pay twice at much * J for Socialieed Medicine! I And that’s only the Imginning of sky rocketing | governmental costs to grab chunks of your income. | Our Nation's health in at an all-time high under * ■ the present system. Ijet's keep it that way. Tell the Congram of the U.S. A. you are opposed I I to government controlled health insurance, but favor f voluntary health insurance. Your future depends on $ what Congruaa does. Eternal vigilance is the price of 1 B mMOUL I YOl’R FAMILY PHYSICIAN t 'and all Members Os the * .1 --M-~- Adams County Medical Association • —i-a; .. ....

MM —vdMa—sa n “wvvwMwMjr Ladies Shakespeare club, Presbyterian church. 13:80 p.m. Pal lota XI oorortty, Elka home. 8 p.m. Hairdressers association, Vera Bnrber. 7:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran Missionary tociety. church, 3 p.m. Decatur Homo Economies chib. Mra. Frank Crist, 3 P*. Thursday D.Y.B. class of Trinity Evangelical UM. church, church. 7:30 p.m. So Cha Rea, Swearingens, 8:30 pm. ' LoRMo Fellowship of Missionary church. Mra. Leonard Johnston, 7 Ml ‘. Friendship Village club. Klmaey school, 1 p.m. and Eileen Funk EMher. Alice and. Doris Dick. Mrs. Clark Funk. Mrs. lAvmard Funk. Velma Btrahm. Mra. Alton Coraon. the Rev. and Mra. IL H, M-'kMndh, Mrs. Albert Dick and Pauline Seesenguth. HOME EC COUNCIL Will meet Tuesday The Adams county home economica council will meet Tuesday at the annex of the Monroe Methodist church for an att day session. The meeting will start al nine for-i ly five a m. and will be dismissed I at three fifteen. p.m. Discussion sill be In charge of the state executive member. Mrs. I Ciwrewee -Kisner of Bluffton. ... ~T Items on the agenda that will be decided will be: sending delegate? to the state meeting ob August I-2-.1; making plans for the surTH< I>arty\wich the home ecui ijcnwU-s < horus If they so desire: -|Low to assist with the 4-H show. • * pot-luck dinner will be enjoy , . .1 l.y all at main. Membets of. the president’s council are: Mrs. Thcral Stolts, 1 MrsSjl.nu Houk. Mrs. Arthur

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Koetieman. Mrs. liulda Leyae Mrs. 1 Boyd Stepler. Mra. Paul Erp. Mrs. R. C. Hersh. Mrs. Harry McDermott. Mra. Glenn Schasdt Mra. Eva Brewater, Mrs. C W. R. Schwarts Mrs. Harold Zeigler, Mrs. Louis Martin. Mra. Frances Blery. Mrs. Noah L Ihhegger, Mrs Noel HemphHl. Mra. Charles Baker. Mra. E. W. Busche, - Mra. Albert Beineke, and Mrs. H. Frey. The Ladles Bhskexpear. cMh i n til have its closing meeting Wednesday In the y*resbyterian church. ■ Jkt twelve thirty o’clock, a revered oish luncheon trill be served, and . members are ashed to bring table service and a covered dish The coffee, meat, rolls, butter and cream wUI be furnished. Mrs. George Buckley will he chairmen. > assisted by Mrs. Walter J. Krick, Mra. 8. D. Beavers. Mra. C. A. Dugan. Mra. John H. Heßet and Mrs. C. E. Peterson. The Hairdressers association will meet Wednesday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the home ot Vera Barber. r „ The D.T.B. Hara of the Trinity • Evangelical United Brethren cknrch will meet Thursday evening at seyon thirty o’clock at the church. Charles Johnson, of the Indiana I Boys school at Plainfield, visited I here over the weekend with his ■ grandmother, Mrs. Josephine ' Baumgartner. M. F. Ilahnert visited his patents. Mr and Mra. Joe llabner: : over the. weekend and attended funeral services for Sgt. Calvin CL Ilahnert. Other,guests at the Hahn ert home Sunday, who also attend I ed the funeral services were Mr. and-Mrs, F. Ilahnert. Decatur: I Mr and Mrs. Willis Jensen. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Hahnert. and i Mr arid Mrs. William Mellineer of |Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Wayne 1 Hahnert and children. Michael and . Richard, of Huntington. — Mr. and Mrs. Emil Blessing, of Elkhart, visited In Decatur during . the week-end. Mra. Blessing is a t later of Mra. Eugene Runyon. Mrs. Gertrttde Hite, ot Pellam. ’ Greater New York is visiting the : j Misses Pan- and Madge Hite and J ! other, relatives here. ■I State Troopeu Richard Myers r I made a successful chase from 1 [Preble so Ossian whiCEAdded when 1 like fugitive'. Gene Klelnkntght. i Twas arrested on charges of speed-! [ Ing and reckless driving Both cars wera damaged some in the i w Hd ride Mr and* Mrs. Carl Gerfier. Mr. 1 and Mrs. Clifford Saviors and Mr. I and Mrs Joe Thompson of De - catur had charge of the annual spring danFe at the Bluffton Court- b trv club Saturday night: < ! Mr and Mrs. W. W Ulan of Van Wert. Ohio, were Sunday af‘■ternorm visitors at the home of the Rev. and Mrs J. ft. Meadows. The Wren high school comwTfl be h<’ht“ May-Ml-with 17 to "receive diplomas. The address will be lA> I.lnxd Dull a . <t< acher of Findlay. Ohio. The class will enjoy a trip to Washington D. C . June 5. it has l>een announced by H- F. Wise, superin- i tendent. There are 12 Itoys and fjve . girls ill the class s_,Fxe4 Engle well known local man. will undergo surgery again) 1 tomrij-row at St Joseph hospital. : Fort WajWf. whv’r? he Tins been a patient several weeks.-The opera- ’ lion Is to correct punftnre of ’the bladder sustained when he was struck by a car here. Mrs. Engle > Isiterl him Sunday. The eldera anil their wives gave , ;a reception at the First Presbyter|!an church for 15 new members; received In the church ftaeter. \ congregational dinner will be giv- 1 ,i<n for the new members May 3. O{MTAL Admitted Baby Gerald Kntltle; Mrs. Mary Eckhardt: Mrs. Harold Brown. Monroeville. Dismissed: Mra. Kenneth Sanders and Imby Isiy Monroe; Mra. Ralph Merriman and baby girl: W. L. Sipe; Kathryn Grogg; -George Gungkind. Indianapolis; : Mra. Kathryn Bedartscher. Berne; 1 Mra. Mary Heckley. Cralgville. j Mra, Gerald Fuhrman and baby hoy; Ralph Mesael; Mrs. Lewis Koenemann and baby boy, route 1; Mrs, Hester Peckham. Sturgis. Mich.; Mra. Rasaeil Den-more Ashley Mich.; Dale Khlttle; L+ toy Taylor;- Artie Jackson; Mra. Gorman Fox; Robert Eyaasoa. There were ’pairs of ihoes and slippers produced In the United At*tei l£ l#H7“ |

lawdies Probe Os Hollywood Morals Judge Opens Lone For Semite g Holywood. April 17. — <CP> — Judge Stephen 8. Jackson today began his investigation Into HollywmM morals JlM***-. Jackson Is here on a one-man Ingniry tor the U. 8. senate to determine why the Him colony's scandals get "unfavoraHe exploitation" in movie advertiring. Although Jackson promised the survey would not delve Into private Ilves ot stars and movie producers. a group of clergymen said even that method of Investigation was a waste of time. The judge, once director of the movies’ seE+ensorship office, was assigned to make the Inquiry by a aubcommitee headed by Sen. Edwin C. Johnson. D.. Colo. Johnson Introduced a bill to. license flliti store. **l hope to begin talking to some persons In the Industry thia weak." Jackson said, "but I don't have any definite appointments.” Three of th- four ministers who commented puhlh-ly on Jackson’r mission were skeptical about chances of success of a law to enforce morality, either in Hollywood or Washington. "All It will do Is drive them underground." the Rev. William (1. Backlund of the Eleventh Bate list Church said, commenting on film colony figures suspected ot Immoral conduct The Crescent Heights Methodist Church's pastor, the Rev. John 11. Engle, said b» was “not half to concerned about Hollywod as I am about Washington itself,” Gill Department To Three Grass Fires City firemen answered three alarms over the weekend and today. all of them for grass fires' and none of them causing any damage. The one grass fire Saturday was near the ‘Erie railroad tracks near Mer'cef avefiUe"; Rte ’ day there were two. within I minutes of each other, one of them 1 along Stratton lane, the other in the 700 block of Mercer avenue. Mr. and Mrs.- Everett Stauffer, 1 Benie. are parents of a baby boy. born at 11:55 p.m Sunday at the j Adams county memorial hospital ■ He weighed -A -pounds, F 5 ounces. | A baby boy was born to Mr. and i Mrs. Harold Hoffman, route 2 at 7 24 o'clock Saturday evening al /the local hospital. He welched 7 pounds. 12 ounces and lias l>eeii named Michael Dean. A fi pound. 6 ounce baby girl was horn to Mr - and Mrs William j Staveab-k at 2:41 p.m Saturday at the Adams ymunty 1... Boiuue«,lJ)U v is. the tiiUfie <if the baby girl born to Mr. and “StrS*" John Beery at S o'clock Saturday : night at the lia-al iioHpltal. Sire ' weighed fi pounds 3 ounces. Mr. and ,Mrs*~XH<F"Toiiiig--u*» : parents of a 6 pound. 31* ounce baby girl, born Saturday morning .-al. ..<l'l Jock at the .local him.■/jdtuL-- j J Mr. and Mrs Noel Agler are l-arents »t a baby girl, born at fi p m. Friday-at the Caylor Clinic, !n Bluffton- She weighed 7 pounds, I 8 ounces Mrs Agler is the former Norina Baker, of this city. I - ,

HEAR The Nationally Famous Depa>w Haiversity Choir TONIGHT 8:00 O'clock in the Hecatar High School Aaditorim AdmCsaton 50c and 25c

Sharp Earthquake In San Francisco Area Berkeley. Calif.. April IT. —<CJ»> A sharp earthquake shook the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay yesterday, only two days before the 44th anniversary M the eathqaalte and tire Ibat destroyed san Francisco A University of California earthquake expert described the tremhlor as "sharp, small and local." 'IT TMBF seconded M-. lU-W a.m. IPBT> and lasted one and onequarter minutes. Folia Institute Is Opened At Capital Indianapolis. April IT. —(UP)— A two-week polio nursing Institute opened today at the Indiana Unlveraity medical center, attended hy narees from Id Hoosier bosllUliße . r _ . The Institute was the % first of two polio preparedness programs arranged in advance of the nunmer months, when polio normally is at Ito height.- - The second program will he for physictons June 7. Last year was Indiana's worst polio year on record. Princess Elizabeth Expects Second Child April 17. —(UP) — Princess Elisabeth, heiress presumptive to the British throne.. Is expecting a second child this summer. Buckingham Palace disclosed tonight. In 15 words, probably the only Information it will issue until the baby Is horn, the palace substantiated persisted! reports that ElUa both is pregnant again. — "Her Royal Iftghness. the Pritt, vess EHxabeth. Duchess of Edinburgh, Will undertake no further public engagesients.” the - palace ' statement said. Go-To-Church Drive ■ Launched By Legion 1 L • _ • J Indianapolis Ind.. ; April 17. — 1 11’Pi-.* National commander i George N. Craig ot the American I l.m-ion has launched’a godv-c hurch drive. The campaign opened yesterday in many cities across the nation, and will.get under way later in other communities |jotne 17.50"" Legion (Mists were expected to participate. Craig said that he hoped all Leglnndlreft would attend clfttrrll ■ennnn^_ EXPERIENCED BEAUTICIAN Full or part-time work. HELEN HOWELL BEAUTY SHOP 221 N. Second St. Phone 55 or 18523 MNRAAAAARRMAAMRnWWWMM | Peeved? M> NEED TO BE! coining a dress isn't a catastrophe when our expert cleaning service is so easily avaYTabte. KELLY’S DRY CLEANING ' Phone 14?

II I MSMASD J. CMm, M. M, Fair Haven, Vt., smiles happily an being released from Vermont debt- ) art jail at Rutland, whets he had been confined since April, IMS, for failure to pay 83.600 traffic | death judgment. tlntemattmmU 1 ASSAILS | prints ot the crew members of the : missing plane. Hendpraon reported there was j no sign of lite iji the era area where the raft was found. The I Baltic han l*m whipped t>y viol-1 ent tmles situe the Privateer was , reported missing because "ge need to be < loser than 1 ever to, God in these times of greatz peril." i [g; ihffiSpoH

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I ttILSCMTS : Brownie troop 1* mM Wedwea day attartraoa at the Ltoroto I school The foUowing new officers | were ejected: gresMeat of the ' Mayflower. Marr Um Übrfc*: < the daacing DaWes. ;Karea JeDeries; preeHMit of the Bmy bet. Niaa MRtaa; acribe, Husie Battoa The girls then learned the Girl Beout premise and laws nnrinj ™^?ri<'E’ L ' I wilt be out of my oFics Apr 21 to May 8. Nurse will be in charge during my absence. ML GERALD KOHNE •

|MMW A W » painT»l Bring ua your painting and — -v W-t— rw» decorating prootems. vyc re always glad to help. The NU-DAlme includes House Paint . . . Enamel . . . PrimeleM Flat Wall Paint ... Fioor Porch Cement Paint... varnish ... NU DA Kil-Rot Preserva- ;. trim amd p int ,ng suj p.ies L MrutM in fttitit Farmee and other publication!. B. J. FEASEL Faint A Wallpaper More 270 N. 2nd St Decatur