Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1950 — Page 3

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CATHOLIC LAINE* HAVE INITIATION ON BUNDAY One hundred and thirty member* and guests of the Catholic Ladle* at Columbia attended the Initiation ceremonies for twenty four candidate* from Decatur and «l*teei> candidate* from Van Wert, Ohio, held Sunday afternoon at the K of C ball. The impressive initiatory work was put on Sy the DecaturJ degree team. Si* supreme officer*; nnd a delegation from Van Wert were special gueata. Mr*. Helen-! M. Doyle, supreme president. gave j the obligation to the candidate*. Mr*. William Keller, preeldent of the local council and also a *u {■rente director of the order acted ( a* toastmlstres* for a banquet •erred at the Moose home at five thirty o'clock. The table* were beautifully decorated with fall *p polntment* and lovely favor* marked Individual place* Corsage* : ;.nd gift* were presented to the, supreme officer*. Mn* Doyle. Mrs., Anna M Davis, supreme vice-presi-dent; Mia* Mary Lett supreme secretary; Mr*. Emma Durkin. Mrs. Frances Gerding and Mrs. ' Keller, supreme director*. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Sei-' ntetx was also a guest at the ban , quet and gave, a very interesting j talk highlighted with comments on ’its recent trip abroad. Mr*. Davis. | who also returned recently from a European trip, gave a very inform-' ative talk. Mr*. L. A. Holthouse *c<»mp cnled by Mr*. William Gass, sang two selection*. The meeting adjourned with the group singing; ‘ God Bless America.” After the banquet Mr*. Keller entertained the supreme officers rt her home. MIM LORETO LOM ENGAGEMENT TOLD Mr, and Mrs, Charles C Lose of! this city, have made’ knirwh lfieengagement of their daughter, i LiilfeW W"-.the--Vitfag»--«<Mam4 Apartment*. Fort Wayne, to John, Rk h*rd Eichhorn, aoB or Dr and Mr*. Glen F Eichhorn, also of j this city Mis* lx>*e i* employed by the ‘ , Internal revenue agent* in Fort Wayne. Mr. Eichhorn I* associated with th* Bower Jewelry Store in this city. No date has been yet for the Wedding. A LADIES AID MEET* WITH MR*. STRICKLER The I-adles Aid Society of the First Christian church held Its tegular meetimc Friday evening at the home of Mr*. Gerald Strick-. Her Own Choice J® • tJ Issi A (A • i I \ \~" i ~f „ _.l . Y ; 111 SIZES _ Shell Im* mighty pleased with this. Mommy! Buttons march from collar to bcm in a slanty Hue — ’ easy for young fingers to reach! Easy for you to wash n’ iron too! This easy-to-use pattern give* perfect tit. Complete, Illustrated Bow Chut show* you every step. Send TWENTY-FIVE cent* In coin* for this pattern to MARIAN MARTIN, care of Decatur Dally Democrat, Pattern Dept.. P. O. Hot 6749, Chicago M, 111. Print plainly TOUR NAME. ADDRESS. ZONE. SIZE. STYLE NUMBER. New season style* for you to •ew! Send Twenty Cent* for our Marian Martin Fall and Winter Pattern Book. Fashion* tor the young and young in heart pin* Christmas Idea* galore! A tree pattern ot a blouse to make from a yard of 39-inch fabric I* printed ta the book.

)er. ~i Mr*. Dan Roop read the scripture from the sixth chapter of .Mathew. During the business meeting plan* for a nursery room were discussed and plans made. The following yearbook committee was appointed: Mr*. William Kohls, chairman, Mr*. James Dawson and Mrs. Elmer Darwmhter Mr* I James Klti/iettreadsstorymtltl ied "Pumpkin Se*'d*-~-bv Dr Dehiel ' ter from Mr*. John Chambers, inI Waling. ‘ .... Mrs William Teeple r<-ad a let- i j siting the ladies to hear Dr Arthur Holmes, of Butler Divinity School | at Indianapolis, speak at the First ; Methodist church on November 17 Dr. Holmes will speak on "Love Thy Neighbor,” The project In ' < onnection with thl* program is a knit garment for a refugee grand- , mother and the ladles are asked ltd bring s garment or knitting ' material to this meeting. ■ (In December 9 the ladles of the ’ < htirvh will be hostesses to the vis- : l minister* and their wives of. ’ the Decatur churches. i At the close of the meeting lovely refreshments were served 'by the hostess, assisted “biy!' Sier ■ mother, Mrs. William Kohls. . ■ The American legion Auxiliary i will hold their regular buslne** | meeting at the Legion home Friday (evening at eight o’clock. The meeting of Eta Tat Slctn.-t sorority, scheduled for Tuesday evening, has Iteen postponed. I The Work and Win class of the I Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church will have their annual ; Thanksgiving dinner at the church 1 'Thursday evening at six o'clock ! All members are urged to come land bring their families and ! friends. I The Baptist Women's -Mission JRSM, ch social rooms Thursday after- ‘ noqyi at two o'clock Hostesses will, '■be Mrs. Sam Hite. Mrs Hric-e But- ’ Iler and Mrs John Metiger. Mr*, j ' Bryce Daniels will he the lesson leader. J The Salem Methodist Woman's Society ot Christian Service will entertain the W BJ'S. of Beulah < hapel church Thussday afternoon at owe thirty o'clock in the base-1 ment of the Salem church All ladies of both rltun he* are invited to attend. * Mrs. John Br'cte Will be hostess for the meetlug of the Holy Cross oiscnssion club Wednesday evening at eight o'cloc k. * t The Decatur Woman's Society of Christian Service will meet in the lecture room of the First ■ Methodist church Thursday afterl noon at two thirty o'clock. The lad- < les of the Geneva Methodist‘c-bur--Ich will he the guests Mrs. <> G. , Baughman will lie the lerson leadI<r and Mrs Harry Dailey will ■give the devotions. GIRL SCOUTS Due to cold weather the mem- . hers of Brownie Troop I will meet j in the as&midy room at Lincoln school Tuesday at three thirty o'rtloek instead of going cm a hike 1 as had previously lieen planned.

Cl* jw mHarMraNfaMi** j comnns ■MMMNNtateai MMr. d*v* WwvT ’ Do function »l monthly Ji ailineiiu make you »ut- T M let pstn, feel nervous. W ■tr*ng*4ymU*ss.weak K —*t such limes, or Just before your period’ Then try Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms Pinkham's Compound baa a eoothing antispasmodic action on one of woman’s most important or•ene. It not only rsilsves UU* months , ly pain but also pre-perlod nervous, tense emotions ot tots nature Regular use help* build up resistance against such female dlstrea*. Truly the womsn s friend! ’ | LYMA L FINKRAMT SSaSS

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S*cl*ty item* f*r day’s publication must be pbansd In by It a. m. (Saturday t:SO a. m.) Phon* 3 2121 Phym* Acheuan MONDAY Pychlan Sister potluck' supper mid inspection. K, of P. home, G pm. I nion Chapel Glrjp Guild. Mis* Janet Bn»wn.”T:3»> p ro. Our of Fatima discussion club. Mrs. Jesse Sutton. Jr., * p m. Music Section ot Woman's club, Mrs. Harold Grant. 3128 Fairfield I Ave.. Fort W*>ne. 7:30 p.m. Mother* Study Group of Root Township. Monmouth school. 7:30 ptn. Union Township Farm Bureau Square ‘Dance, ('l<<m'* Lake. 9 to , 12 p.m. Dramatic Department of Woi man's club. Mr*. Roy Kalver. 7:30 rm. j. Literature Depart men’ of Wee i nan's dub. Mr*. A. R Holthouse, 7 30 p.m.. Junior Women of Decatur Woman’s club. Miss Lois Chronister. 7:45 p.m. American Legion Junior Auxiliary, legion home, i p m. I Art Department of Decatur i Woman's club. Mrs. Adrian Weinhoff. .7:46 p m. Adam* County Home Economics i clnb chorus rehearsal Berne Ist hool 7:30 p. m. TUESDAY Eta Tau Sigma sorority, postI !>oned Tri Kappa sorority business I meeting. Elk* home. 7:30 p.m, Catholic- Ladles ot Columbia. C. L. of C. hall. 7:30 p.m Rebekah* Ixwlge. Odd Fellow* hall, 7:30 p m WEDNESDAY Holy Gross discussion elub Mr*. John Brite. s p.m. I Historical club. Mrs W- P RobhnbbltrT’W p tn Kps I lon Sigma chapter of Beta . Rlgma Phi, Miss Evelyn Frohnapr tel Spjn. 4' ZfCM Utthwran Mlssirmary-Socie-ty. c hurc l] parlor*. 2 p in. Delta Theta Tau sorority called meeting. Miss Mary Ann iaiurent. S pill. Presbyterian Ruth Circle. Mrs. L, E. Lynn S pm. i Preabyterlan Naomi Circle, Mr*. Royal Friend * pin. Profit and Pleasure Home Economics club. Mr*. Charles Schnepp. 7 30 p m Business and Professional Woman's club, Moose home 6:30 p.m. THURSDAY Methodist W S C S.. lecture room nt First Methodist c-lcurc h. 2 30 l> nL I Salem Methodist WSC S church basement. 1.10 p ni, Work and Win r-las* of Trinity 17.4' H. church Thanksgiving din per. c-hnn-h. 6 p.m Baptist Women'* Missionary Society church social rooms. 2 p.m. Women of Moose potluck supper Moose home 6:30 p.m. Order of Eastern Stcr stated i meeting and friends night. Mason- ;:< home. 7:30 p,m. [ Presbyterian 'Marr flrcle. Mrs (Bertha Rice. 1:30 p.m j Presbyterian Martha. Circle Mrs. ,M. A. Frisincer. 2:30 p.m. FRIDAY American I* g ion Auxiliary bus! ices* meeting, legion home. 8 pem Fort Wayne district meeting of Roadside Council Inc. Indian* Service Corp, audltorlurs. Hunting c tori. 2 p.m.

Admitted: Mrs. Mildred Allison. Monroe: George Dutcher. Adams ( county home;. Mrs.. Emma Jllum. I ecatur, Melvin Strahm. Monhre. Admitted (and dismissed > Miss Phyllis Elliot Decatur; Terry Hi!yard. Decatur. Dismissed: Robert Colter. West Madison street; Mrs. Genevive i Aiigust, Rockford, O.; Mrs. Jac k +1 irttvjf Ttnd-bahy-wnt-Btcptren-Vxw.-!<lty: Mrs. Carolyn Bbroff. Decatur; I Clyde Stulls, Portland; Jim Roy, Monroeville; Mr*. Weldon Soldner jthd baby girl, Berne.

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AMAHAMUNCOIN (top) was shot to death by •ctor John Wilke* Booth (lower) in a Washington theater in IMS. Booth was hunted down and killed by V- 8 soldier*.

—' k Hnliert Fuelling of Decatur, local technician for the Adam* rounty artificial breeding ***ociation, attended the second annual technicians', conference at Purdue < enter. Indlauatmlis last vyeakMiss Frances Ibigan. dhiiiihter of Mrs. ('. A. I>ugan ot thia city and director of the Windsor school W' Bmitonr'Mas*:; was a weekend guest of Vassar College. Bm**’ k.«mp*l«. .N..Y. A baby daughter w*s born to Mr. ,and Mrs. Paul Hucklngham. o< Fort Recovery. O„ at tile Adams county memorial hospital Sunday at 7:45 turn. Sbr weighed 7 ixiuad*. 6 ounces. Mr. and Mrs. William Kenny are the* parents of a baby son, born, at the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday at M:37 p.m. He weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nussbaum. Herne, -are parr nt* of a baby daughter, horn at 1 15 pin. Satin day at the local hospital She weighed 6 pounds. Di ounces Petition Filed For Vacation Os Streets The city of Decatur, through attorney Robert S. Anderson, filed in circuit court a notice of filing ami pendency of petition for vacaUuu of st reel ami alleys Thu. petition named la-Roy and Anna Taylor: Jesse and Doris Daniels, and Jerden and Ethel Saninann as defendants. The purpose of the petition Is ostensibly to close certain alleys and what is known as Short street, between the Pennsylvania railroad tracks and Seventh street in order to construct the building fqr .the new power plant at, that site. UNITED STATES «)—«<■—a rrM Face oae, report as soon as It is read this afternoon. But Grows said the U. 8. would not reply to anything the Russians might say today. in a special report to the world organisation sent through the U. K mission. MacArthur amplified his communique of last night with this statement: "Tlie UN: force* in Korea are continuing their drive to the north and ■ Tlretr rrrorrs to tresTroy further the effectiveness of the enemy a* a fighting force are proving (Uccmsful However, presently iu certain areas ot Korea. The CM force* are meeting a new foe. It is apparent to our fighting forces, and our Intelligence agencies have con- ■ ftritMd :Uw tHaf UN •«• presently Jn hostile contact with deployed tor action against: force* ot the united command.” , Although MacArthur did not aak for new diploriiatic action by the UN at this time, the 7<*y»ur-old supreme field commander of the world organisation said: "The continued employment of Chinese communist force* In Korea ■nd the hostile attßude assumed by such forces, either Inside or outside More*, are matter* which it 1* Incumbent upon me to bring at once to the attention of th* UN.” If you have *omething te **ll *r room* for rent try a Democrat Want Ad It bring* r*aUlt* .

JAMES A. OAMMB (topT waa *hot down by disgruntled offlee - Meker Charles Gulteau (lower) In Washington tn 1881, died three month* later. Gulteau waa hang*A

Purdue Center Offers First Aid And Safety Dr. R. M Bateman, director ot . I the Fort Wayne Purdue Unlver i sity Center announced today that - first aid and safety will be offered. < starting November 13. 6 to 10 p.m The class which carries two . . semester credit hours I* being ■ ’ taught under the auspice* of the i American Red Cross, and upon completion of the class. Red Cross . first aid instructor certificates will L be awarded The class in limited to 30 persons. Registration should be Made *a rtie cdtar. JMfWTtwamf ■LftMX ......... . NORMAN RESIGNS (CaMtawet Fvma Fas* One) off thp tour, cents sought, and reducing salaries and operating expenses by about one-hslf for next . year. I Heretofore, the McMillen Founda- ■ tiou h»d provided half the cost i of the recreation department, hut

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WKUAM McEINUY (top) was shot by Leon Cxolgo*x (lower) while on • trip to Buffalo, N. T., in 1901. McKinley died eight days later. Caolgou waa executed for th* crime.

did not do so fur 1951. The commissioner* were likely to approve the requeat of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce in their afternoon sesnlotf today, the request for the use of the court house during -the afternoon of De ! eeniber 4 That is the day when Santa Claus comes to town, and executive secretary ot the Chamber, R. W. Pruden. asked that children be able to go in there follow ing the parade to meet the bewhiskered gentleman. During the morning session the board allowed claims for the month •as well as received the county fibtiie sUpfflritettaeftr "fflMf 10-aith inn- - >ep.,rrMurder And Suicide Attempt Is Probed Indianapolis. Nov 6 — (VP) — State polk-e luvaallgated an apparent murder-suicide attempt today. In which a 36-year-old woman office worker was killed and her exconvict lioyfrlend wounded, *erioualy-.

MANKUN 0. KOOMVat (top) escaped when bullet of Gulaeppa Zangara (lower) killed Chicago* Mayor Anton Cermak in Miami. Fla., in 1933. Zangara got th* chair.

Reds Experimenting With 6etm Warfare Proof Is Found In Korea Laboratory Pyongyang. Korea. Nov. 6—e-(CPI-Proof that cornmuntot countries are conducting experiments iu germ warfare was uncovered here toady when U. S. intelHg«n<:» ■gents found 5,000 di>w-ase-inf«ate<i: rat* and mice in a makeshift I church laboratory. The experiment! had been un dcr the supervision of a Russian woman scientist. Only SBu of the plague carriers were still alive and 2»0 of them were mad from hunger ' A captured North Korean doctor , who hail worked with the woman scientist said the rat* and axle* were inoculatedi with disease* such as bubonic plague, encephalitis and eulrrawaddy fever Immediately after the Inchon landing*. The doctor said the animal* were sprayed with a chemical that encouraged fleas. He said when the fleas desarted the animals they would spread the diseases faster than the rat* and mi< : e American authorities were put on the trail of the germ warfare unit when agents ot Maj. George F. Gormlie. intelligence officer of the 187th paratroop regiment questioned the North Korean doctor The doctor said the original laboratory was in Pongang. hut that it was destroyed after the Inchon landings Some of the equipment and cages of rats and mice ‘ ware mo»<>d Into the church in a ' rmsll settlement about eight miles north of the city.

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He said rhe woetaa .arjeetirt Who organised <ad directed the project disappeared and was believed to have fled with North Koreas and Russia* official* wko abandoned the capital before it was captured. The civilian doctor said some of the -rata and mice were left at the homes of vlllager* who were not fold they were dlaeaaed. When paratroopers cloned la on the settlement they ware prepared to kl" the guard* at the eharch. They had to destroy an ■ animals and spray the entire area i thoroughly with neadeatroytag < hem teal* . The parairoopers did not find the guards at the church When i they entered, they found mure than 4.M0 of the animals dead in their cage*. Some 3W still were alive but mad with hunger after sot eating for a week. Oar busdr «i and eighty were collected from the homes of villager* Intelligence officer* said they did not belie** any of the animals had escaped before allied troop* arrived. Mrs. J. C. BlockiMß . Dies At Bluffton Mrs. Lucile Blackman, wife of Dr. J. C. Blackman of Bluffton, died Sunday at the Wette county hospital following a heart attack. , Both Dr. and Mr*. Blackman are (well known in Decatur Surviving ’ are the husband; a daughter. Mta. . Robert Moon ot Bluffton; two grandchildren; a brother, Everett I Friddy of Warren and a stater. Mr*. Dwight Mir4'a<Be ot ladteah- ■ poll*. Funeral services will bo held at ■ 3 p.m Tuesday at the John funoral ufflciariag. Friend* are requested l.oine. the Rev Motthew Worthama to omU newer*.