Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1953 — Page 3

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1553

PSI IOTA XI SORORITY t MEETS LAST EVENING \’ f An entertaining reading of the book “Honeymoon tor Seven*' was \ presented by Mrs. Dallas Bailey I before the Psi lota Xi sorority last evening at the home of Mrs. Arthur Holthouse. + : The; social meeting featured a - Thanksgiving theme with delicious refreshments being served later in the evening. The hostesses for the occasion were the Mesdames Tom Lutes,. Sylvester Everhart, Dick Gehrig, Robert Gentis, John Halterman and the Misses Harriet Gerber, Shirley Fuelling, and Marjorielu HilL , ) Christmas gifts were collected for the children of the state school in Fort Wayne, and it was • Announced that the ne>xt business meeting will be held December 2,. MftS. KENNETH RVMYON ' ENTERTAINS TUESDAY Mrs. Kenneth Runyon served as the hostess Tuesday afternoon; tor the Root township demonstration . blob. President Doris Harklesa Annducted the business session, and roll call was answered with “Some Shut-in to Remember at Christmas Time.” Miss Anna K. William a was in charge of the . lesson; on handicraft. A delicious, luncheon was then Served by Mrs. Berneice Malley and Mrs. Ida Houk. There yjrftp thirty members and four children present. ! In December an all day Christmas party will be held. At this time a gift’ exchange, revealing the secret pals, will be conducted. GROUP hears DISCUSSION ABOUT FREEDOM At a meeting of the Presbyterian Men’s club and Women'sassociation last evening, a large crowd filled the lecture room of the church and heard an interesting discussion -about "our ireedoms.’’ W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, presented the educational side and Lewis Smith, prosecutor of the 36th judicial circuit, gave the jegal aspect-'Later the opportunity for questions was given; At the conclusion the Women’s association served a luncheon. Mrs. Lowell Harper, the association's -president, presided and Miss Frances Dugan was chairman of thje entertainment u WteS HOUSEWARMING HELD BY HOSPITAL WORKERS A housewarming was held at the home of Mrs. Rod Moehring. Fort Wayne, Wednesday by the volunteer hospital workers of the fourth district American Legion auxiliary. A carry-in lunch was enjoyed at noon, and -in the aftefpdon gift boxes were covered with Christmas paper for the Christmas gift shop at the veterans hospital. The hostess had requested, that .the gifts be given to the Fort Wayhe Veterans hospital supply shelf instead of the new home. c ; Distinguished guests were* Mrs. Mathew Hutchison of South Bend, northern vice-president; Mrs. Roy Amos of Goshen, the state commander’s finance chairman, Mrs. Harold: •' Kryd’ar, -district' • Fort Wayne Veterans hospital repre-sentative,-and several ether-guests from the units of the fourth disA tricl. Those attending from Decatur Unit 43 were Mrs. Herman Dierkes, Mrs. Frances Monahan, Mrs. Arthur Myers, and Mrs. Elmer Darwachter.

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——— f L — The D. Y. B.\ class of the Trinity church will hold, a meeting toe night at the church at sevep-thirty » o’clock. $ — t Order of Rainbow t for Girls will - conduct a meeting at the Masonic hall Thursday evening at seven » o’clock. 5. ■— i r The Gecode club will sponsor a r bake sale Saturday at the city hall j at nine o’clock. J ?V i Saturday the Pleasant Valley W. t S. C. S. will sponsor a bake sale - at the Western Auto store. \ I The Pleasant Mills Methodist I W. S. C. S. will hold a Thanksgtv- - ing supper Tuesday from fouri thirty o’clock to seven o'clock in - the church basement. I —: The St. Vincent de Paul society will hold a meeting at the C. L. of > C. hall Wednesday afternoon at r two o’clock. 1 ; , The Ladies Shakespeare club i- met Wednesday afternoon at the 1 home of Miss Elisabeth Peterson. 8 Miss Bertha Heller,\ program lead- • er, reviewed the historical novel, » "The Wild Ohio" by Bart Spicer. 1 It was announced that the next meeting will be held December 2 1 gt the home of Mrs. E, B. Adams, r 5 » The Pleasant Mills P. T. A. will 1 meet Monday evening at seventhirty o’clock at the school. Bob • Sprunger, a recent visitor to Eur- • ope, will show slides he took in » France and Tunisia. The following members of the Mt. Pleasant Methodist church attended the world friendship ban- • quet at the Fort Wayhe Simpson • Methodist church Sunday: The » Rev. and Mrs. Harley Shady, Viof let Sheets, Kathryn Singleton, ■ Grace Fuhrman, Janet Shady, Vio- • let Walchle, Leo Sheets, Charles ■ Fuhrman, and the youth leaders, ! Mr. and Mrs. Everett Singleton. I A daughter, Madeline, was born to Prof, and Mrs. Fredrick Shroy er of Los Angeles. Calif., accord- «»< "to word received by relatives , in Decatur. The baby was born Tuesday and weighed 7 pounds and 2 ounces. At the Adams county memorial hospital: Mr. and Mrs. Leo Feasel. city, became the parents of a baby boy at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. She weighed 7 pounds, ounces. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results.

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Mr. ahi Mrs. CLC. Langston and Phil Trimble from Detroit ihotored to /hujiana University Saturday to;lee Alice Langston, who* was in th# musical play, "Brigadoon." .Miss Langston Is now at home doing student teaching at Berne. \ A delegation from Decatur went to Indianapolis this morning to attend the annual meeting of the state school board association. All school boards of the state are members of the organization. W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, and thfe board members, Everett Hutker, ''■George Helm and Harry Irwin formed the party. Jack Mahan of Decatur, route 1, was fined $lO and costs by Mayor Sowers at Convoy, 0., for speed ing. Herman Krueckeberg, cashier of the First State Bank city, has returned from Chicago In here he attended a group eneeShg of the American association. The meeting pertained to Agricultural loans. Applications For Berne Postmaster Applications for taking the ex amination for the permanment appointment of postmaster at Berne will be received up to Dec. 15,. the civil service comission has announced. Mrs. Walter Hilty is now serving as acting postmaster, succeeding the late Mrs. Arthur Zehr. The civil service announces that the salary of the Berne postmaster is $5370 annually. The date ffer the formal examination has not been set. •>!' ; Suffers Cuts When Auto Smashes Stump Jerry Rhodes. 16, of 104- Jfeffo ■- son strbet, rammed his car into a stomp at Hanna-Nuitman ’park at about 6:30 o’clock Wednesday night, and a passenger, David Erabler, Jr.,\l6, of 308 Marshall street was thrown through the windshield and required, 16 stitches at the Adams county memorial hospital' according to police. Another rider, Jerry Miller, 12, of ISSV-a South Second, also went through the glass and received a bloody nose and bruises abont the face, said reports. Mrs. Emblcr said David was well enough tbtas morning to attend school. to the Rhodes car was estimated 1 by police at SIOO. Police said a pbrty listed as witness was also apparently a passenger, Doyle Egly, of 115 Schieman street.

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Brownell testifying before Senate internal security committee. Before him is correspondence from FBI naming suspected spies.

BELOW and at right are shown nine persons named as Communist apparatus figures in letters from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to then Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughan as Truman’s aide. The letters were sent in the mld-1940s at time Harry Dexter White waa being investigated, and White was among those named. The letters were read to the Senate internal security committee in Washington by U. S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr. { Goto* (right), a known Soviet spy, is identified as > receiver of Information. Glasser, Coe, Silvermaster, Perlo were government employes. Ullman, Fitzgerald, Kaplan, Magdoff were named as active Reds. (International)

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Kirsch Will Attend Postal Ceremonies Summerfield To Be Principal Speaker Leo Kirsch, Decatur postmaster, will be among the 4,287 postmasters, of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio to attend special ceremonies inauguf rating the post office •wide-spread decentralization program in Taft Auditorium, Cincinnati, at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, Kirsch announced today. , The invitation came .'direct from \the of-« fice of postmaster general Arthur E. Summerfield. Mrs. Walter Hilty, Berne post!' master, said she has received an invitation but hasn't decided whether she will attend. / Summerfield will deliver the principal address and will swear in the nine district managers who will implement the program in the tre state area. Other speakers will in* elude Charles R. Hook, Jr., postmaster general; Norman Rx Abrams, assistant postmaster general for operations; and Ray MeNamara. president of the national association of postmasters. The glee club and the Naval R. O. T. C. drum and bugle corps of Miami ’ University at Oxford,; Ohio will also participate in the ceremonies. In connection with the decentralization day ceremonies; an exhibition of all the newest mechan-' ical devices; which will'be used to; facilitate service in the first regton.' to be set up under the national de-* centralization program, will be op- : e-n to the public in the north andsouth exhibition rooms Os the Netherlands - Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati from 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Novembe|, 24. The exhibit, which will be operi tp the public, will include such items as new trucks, portable con; veyors, automatic stamp-vbhding machines and. • engineered, adjustable stools for clerks. , ' fjTruck Loaded With Steel Overturns The Indiana-Ohio state line on U. S. 224 was the scene of another accident Wednesday morning at 3 o’clock when an eastbound truck loaded with, several tons of shee| rt«bl overturned and jumped iti the highway. Sheriff Bob Shraluka, who investigated, said the driver, Wtlj Ham Such. 29. of Cleveland, wa4 £ hble to 'bring his tractor back onar the road When the truck slippedW off, but the trailer kept on going and capsized. Such, driver for the Kaplan Trucking Co., Cleveland, was uninjured. Damage to the rig was not estimated.

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Society Rems for today's publication must be phoned In by 11 a,\m. (Saturday ®:3O a. m.) Sharon Kimble Phono 8-2121 THURSDAY Order of Rainbow for Girls, Masonic hall, 7 p.m. Guardian Angel Study club, Mrs. Vernon Krugh, 8 p.m. -V Unit 2 of Bethany E. U. B. church, Mrs. George Hamma, 7:30 p.m. Monroe W. C. T. U. institute, Mrs. Frona Floyd, 9:30 a.m. Methodist church bazaar and New England dinner? all day. 'Pleasant Village club, Kimsey school, 1 p.m. Little Flower Study group prayer hour, Mrs. Hugh Daniels, 8:30 p.m. Zion Lutheran church Needle club, Mrs. Wilbert Steele, 7 p.m. Bobo U. B. Willing Workers class, Mrs. Groce Tope, 7:30 p.m. St. Ambrose Study club, Mrs. John Hejmah, 7:30 p.tn. Ruralistic Study club, Mrs. Elmo Lengerich, 8 p.m. •Aeolian choir, Decatur high school, 7 p.m. Modse Women? Moose home; officers, 7:30 p.m., members 8 p.m. St.'Luke's Women s Guild, church all day. Ladies aid of Union Chapel church, all day. Decatur P. T. A., Lincoln school, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY Adams County Federated clubs, American) Legion home, 2 p»m. \ Philathea class of Baptist church, social room, 7:30 p.m. D. A. V. auxiliary, hall, 8 p.m. Decatur Girl Scout council, Mrs. J E. Thacker, 7:30 p.m. Great Books Discussion group, public library, 8 p.m. - W. S. W. S. of Bethany E, U. B. church, rummage and bake sale, Decatur hatchery, morning. SATURDAY Gecode bake sale, city hall, 9 a.m. ' Pleasant Valley W. S. C. S. bake sale. Western Auto store. ; SUNDAY National council of Catholic Women, K. of C. hall, after 2:30 p.m. services. , MONDAY Pleasant Mills P. T. A., school, 7:30 p.m. ; Monmouth P. T. A. Mothers' kStudy club, school, 7:80 p.m. huEureka uuaple oL Pythian Sis ’ ters carry-in supper, K. of P. home, G p.m. TUESDAY Pleasant Mills Methodist W. S. C. S., supper, church, 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Delta Lambda chapter and Xi Alpha Xi chapter of'Beta Sigma Phi sorority, Mrs. Clarence Ziper, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY | St. Vincent de Paul society, C. L of C. hall, 2 p. m. , Decatur Persons Attend Hearing Although most of thtf spectators at the supreme' court hearihg Wednesday—involving the Je- ‘ hovah’s Witnesses and the city zoning appeals board—were Witnesses from Indianapolis, a few attended from Decjtur including some unidentified local members of the sect. Officials present were: Mayor John Doan and city councilman Al Beavers. Also present was Judge Myles F. Parrish of the Adams circuit court, a surprise appearance believed to be unusual in legal circles. HOSPITAL MOTES Dismissed Mrs. Grace Hanper, county home; Mrs. R. E. Gillette, Ridgeville; Judith Ann Smith, Bryant; Nancy Kay Hayden, Bryant; Mrs. Lester Lillich and baby girl, city; Mrs. Roy Kai ver, city. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur | i '“1 .. ~ ' »

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Quadruplets Born To College Couple Father Returns To Classes In Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UP)—The scholarly father of one-day-old quadruplets went back to his College classes today despite his worries over an added biirden to his S9OO fellowship income. But a warm-hearted University of Florida student body and townspeople showered gifts of food ami money on Wafsi A. Hijab, 34. and his wife Abla. 33, foreign students who became parents of three girls and a boy Wednesday. Hijab, a native ot Nebulus. Jordan, and his wife, of Tulkarm in Palestine, are studying here betore returning to the Near East as teachers. Hijab said they had already begun to speiid savings from previous teaching jobs during their travels- , The foreign students. Whose only means of suppbrt apparently is the fellowship and dwindling savings, had expected only twins but “the babies just kept coming.”! They also have a 3-year-old daughter, Nadia. The slender, bespectacled father said he did not think the event would "interrupt my studies any” and he would “go to school as usual” today but be admitled that “it may make a difference to my wife.” 4 \ v He missed his classes’"Wednesday. The pretty, dark-haired and dark eyed wopian and the fopr babies, now in\ incubators, were in “good” condition according to Dr. Raymond S. Camp. \ Dr. Camp declined to discuss the babies’ chances of_ survival, saying that “it is impossible to make a prediction in cases like •I Hijab, whp speaks English perfectly, took over housekeeping duties at tlieir small, off-campus apartment, cooking his first meals and visits of students, neighbors, and even small children who dropped in hoping to see the “quads." The foreign student office Os the university said the Hijab’s financial condition was “poor” but news of the rare multiple birth brought quick help. Dr. Ivan Putnam, adviser to foreign students, arrived Wednesday night with a sackful of frozen food.. Merchants sent an array of gifts and the Florida Alligatorstudent newspaper—started a fund for the babies. Robert Turner Rites Are Held At Ossian Funeral services were held Tuesday for Robert B. Turner, of Ossian, who died after a long ilp ness. Burial was in Oak Lawn cemetery at Ossian. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth: and two sisters. Mrs. Emma Wilson of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mrs. Kathrine Bark of Los Angeles. Age Requirement To Drive Is 16 Mrs. Dale Death, manager of the Decatur automobile livens® branch said today that there was no truth in the story being circulated in the county that no person could drive an automobile until he was 18 years of age. Mrs. Death that the age requirement is for a permit and 16 years and one month for a regular license. Under no circumstance, 'Mrs. Death stated can a person under the of 16 years obtain a driver’s license in Indiana. The first pourse in geology in the i United States was given, at Yal® University by Professor Benjamin Silliman in 1809. Silliman is known as the father of scientific education in American colleges. Big Time Square Dance Jamboree, 3 Orchestras, 3 callers, Friday Nite, Sun Set. r I «

GIRL SCOUT Brownie troop llmet Wednesday after school, y/e had -our Brownie in vesture ceremony and heard a Thanksgiving story. Our hostess was Karen Daniels; next Week tlie hostess w(H be Janis ’ Sue ■ Rawley. Scribe, Susan Reynolds. } . 1 Monday, Brownie troop 5 held a meeting. We opened by saying the : Brownie promise and the collection of dues, we sang the Brownie smile sohg and made final plans for the Thanksgiving party. The'’ meeting was closed with the song, “Gobdnight Brownlee.’’ Scribe, Ann Rosenberger. Brownie troop 19 met Monday afternoon. The-roll was called, and dues collected. The Girl Scout calendars were distributed, and we are to bring Jhe money at our next meeting. We worked on the turkey favors, sang songs, and played a ' game. We closed by singing taps. ( Coleen Kelly furnished the treat. 1 Scribe, Alice Schroeder, i The Bethany E. U. B. Church, Rummage and Bake Sale, Decatur Hatchery, Friday Afternoon, Saturday Morning. k x

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