Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1954 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1954

MRS. ALICE JOHNSON ENTERTAINS MONDAY The Susie department o£ the Decatur Woman’s club met Monday evening with Mrs. Alice Johnson. In the absence of the chairman. Mrs. Clyde Butler, the business tension was conducted by Mrs. SejWius Jackson, vice-chairman. The following officers were elected for the years 1954-19 M: Mrs. Clyde Butler, chairman; Mrs. Sephus Jackson, vice-chairman; Miss Alice Roth, secretary-ireasur-er. A very interesting program on musie of the American 'lndian was presented by Mrs. O. H. Haubold. Several recordings of Indiau music were played and enjoyed. Refreshments were served by the hostess, who was assisted •by Mrs. Jethro Sprunger and Mrs. Richard Linn. MR., MRS. H. M. CROWNOVER OBSERVE 57TH ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Crownover, who reside on Brookside farm, northeast of Decatur, are observing their 57th wedding anniversary today. There w-ill be no celebration, because Mrs. Crownover suffers with a serious heart condition. The couple was married February 3, 1897 by the Rev. Amos Flory in the German Baptist church, Burlington. Mrs. Crownover, who is 74 years old. was the former Neva Hanna bf Burlington, and Mr. Crownover, who is 86 years old, is a retired school teacher. He was in the profession 39 years. The coupje have two son?, Robert and Harry; four grandchildren rand one great-grandchild. Wednesday evening at seventhirty o’clock there will be a Naiarene Missionary meeting at the church. Women of the Moose will meet for a format initiation at the Moose home Thursday evening. Officers are to be present at seventhirty o'clock and members at eight o’clock. The Decatur Cub Scout committee has called a meeting of all mothers of boys of Cub Scout age (8, 9,‘ 10 years) for Friday evening at seven-thirty o’clock at the Lincoln school auditorium. This is an organization meeting and all interested mothers are urged to attend. Monday evening at eight o’clock the Ladies Firemen’s auxiliary will meet with Mrs. Pauline Fisher. The V. F. W. Fathers’ auxiliary of Post 6236 will hold a social and business meeting at the post home Thursday evening at eight o’clock. Commander Alva Railing will be in charge. The Ladies aid of the Trinity

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church postponed their meeting this week until Tuesday, February "Y7~"ThTs will be"a combined Ladies aid and missionary meeting. The annual husbands’ dinner of the Church Mothers’ Study club has been postponed from February 9 to February 23. A regular meeting will be held February 9 at eight o’clock with Mrs. Doyle Collier as hostess. Mrs. Al Scbeiner will entertain members of So-Cha-Rea Thursday evening at seven-forty-live o’clock. * College students in the various middlewest schools who have been visiting their homes in Decatur during the semester Interims started today to return to their schools. Most of the colleges and universities will start their second semester of the year this week. Virgil E. Graber of Decatur, proprietor of the Decatur Television sales and service, has returned from New York where he disembarked from the luxury liner, the A. T. E. V. “Queen of Bermuda’’ after enjoying an eight day cruise to Bermuda, Nassau and other islands of the Bahamas as a guest of the Sylvania Electric Products Corp.. Buffalo, N, Y. The cruise was awarded Graber and six other Sylvania TV dealers from 12 counties, served by the Sylvania distributor in Fort Wayne, for outstanding merchandising of television receivers. MIOJWWrJ--Admitted Master Randall Flueckinger. Berne; Miss Candace Anderson, Monroe; Mrs. Thodms Kartell, city. \ Dismissed * Mrs. Clarice Rich, Berhe; Mrs. Clair Kelsey and baby son, Monroe; Mrs. Alfred Buuck and baby son, etty; Mrs. Edward Summers and baby girl, city; Mrs. Doyle Bollinger and baby girl. Fort Wayne., 77* —“7 —"“T Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beehler, Madison, are the parents of a baby boy born in the Madison hospital Tuesday. The baby is the second in the Beehler family. Mrs. Otto Beehler of this city, mother of Carl Beehler is visiting the Carl Beehler family in Madison. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crosby, Decatur, route 3. became the parents of a baby daughter Saturday afternoon at the Lutheran hoSpital in Forb "Wayne. She weighed 3 pounds and 14 ounces, and has been named Deborah Marie. Grandparents are Mrs. Fred Crosby. Decatur, route 3, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter 'David, Fort Wayne.

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I • r I 4 Society Item* for today's publication must be phoned In by II a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a. m.) Sharon Kimble Phone 8-2121 WEDNESDAY Psi lota sorority, Mrs. Louis Jacobs, 8 p.m. Our Lady of Good Counsel Study club, Mrs. Paul Wiseman, 8 p.m. St. George Study club, Mrs. Joseph Beauchot, -8 p.m. Academy of Friendship, Moose home, 7:30 p.m. Sancta Maria Study club, Mrs. Rdbert O’Shaughnessey, 8 p.m. Girl Scout troops, 3 and 4, Ideal dairy, after school. Ladies Shakespeare club, Mrs. William P. Schrock, 2:30 p.m. Girl Scout Leaders Club, Legion home. 1:15 p.m. Nazarene Missionary meeting, church, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Wesley class, First Methodist church, 7:30 p.m., church basement. Ever 'Ready class, Methodist church, Mrs. Dovie Bedwell, 7:30 p.m. Pleasant Dale Ladies aid, parish hall, ail day. W. M. A. of .Nuttman avenue U. B. church. Mrs. Dora Bess, 1 p.m. Zion Lutheran Needle club, social room. 7 p.m. St. Anne Study club, Mrs. Ed Keller, 7:30 p.m. Bethany W.S.W.S. Unit 1 Mrs. Everett Hutker, 2:0<l o’clock. Unit 4 of. the Bethany E.U-B. church WJS.W.S., Mrs. Paul Gause, 7:30 pm Aeolian choir, Decatur high school, 7 p.m. Order of Rainbow' for Girls public installation, Masonic hall, 6:45 p.m. Work and Win class, of Trinity church, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hower, 7:30 p.m. Bobo Mt. Zion W M. A., Mrs. Catherine Daniels, 7:30 p.m. Monroe Methodist W. S. C. S., church annex. 7:30 p.m. St. Joseph Study club, Miss Helena Wehmeyer, 8:15 p.m. Ladies aid of Union Chapel church, church, all day. Dorcas class of Decatur Methodist church, Mrs. A. D. Suttles, Sr., 2 p.m. So-Cha-Rea, Mrs. Al Scheiner, 7:45 p.m. Women of Moose, Moose home, officers 7:30 p.m. T members 8 p.m. FRIDAY Mothers of Cub Scouts (ages 8. 9. and 10 years), Lincoln school auditorium, 7:30 p.m. V. F.' W. Fathers- auxiliary of Post 6236, post home, 8 p.m.

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Ava Maria Study «üb, Mrs. Helen Wemhoff, 8 p.m. St. Jude Discussion dub, Mrs. Joe Kitspn, 8-p.m. 1 MONDAY Ladies Firemen auxiliary, Mrs.Pauline Fisher, 8 p.m, — . Brilliant Youth Is Ordered To Hospital Confesses Setting $250,000 Blaze BELOIT, Mis. (UP)—The brilliant son of a well-known scholar and former member of the Chicago crime commission was ordered committed to a mental • hospital for observation today after he confessed setting a $250,000 fire here. Meanwhile. Willmette, 111., authorities said they might ask to question the 18-year-old, Beloit College student, Stephen Dykstra Posey, about a disastrous $85,000 church ffi-e in the Chicago sxrburb last' November 28. Posey Tuesday admitted setting the blaze that destroyed the interior of Beloit College’s 100-year-old chapel Dec. 12 with “an infernal machine” but said. “-I certainly hadn’t meant to start anything gargantuous.” . Posey is the son of noted political scieptiM RolHn Bennett Pqsey. chairman of the political science department at Northwestern University at Evanston, 111., and a former dean of the L’niversity ColIrge at the University of Chicago. The youth’s grandfather was the late Clarence Dykstra, former head of the University of Wisconsin and city manager of Cincinnati, Ohio. Posey was ordered taken to the state hospital at Mendota, Wis.. today for not more than GO days of .psychiatric examination. He was arraigned on arson charges here Tuesday but entered no plea. The young student, whose intelligence quotient was reported to be near the genius level, was first arrested Monday night for questioning about the theft Os a billfold and check. Police said the check had been cashed and the signature traced to Posey. GIRL SCOUT Brownie troop 19 met Monday after school. Roll was called and dues collected. We talked about the kits for Korea that we are plannihg to send. We, then played games and closed Brownie promise. Dianne Gase brought the treat. Scribe, Barbara Singer,

Wife-Murderer On Most Wanted List South Carolina Man Is Placed On List WASHINGTON UP — The FBI today placed a wife-murderer with a hatred for* policemen on its list of “10 moat •wanted” fugitives. iHe is Apee Hamp Chapman, a native of Greenwood County, S. C., missing since February, 1953, when he fled from Cleveland after shooting and killing his wife and his hostess at a party and wounding two bystanders. Chapman, a medium-sized Negro, Is also wanted for an SII,OOO payroll robbery in Philadelphia in 1949 and. a $1,500 grocery store robbery in Norfolk, Va., last November. He replaces Franklin .J. Wilson on the FBl's list. Wilson,.a robber, was arrested in Chicago last month. The FBI warned police that “Chapman deapises law enjorcemeht~dfficers and woulcf not' Hesitate to shoot if in danger of apprehension." It added that he does not smoke or drink, but habitually shoots dice and plays pool. He is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. He has tnatrt on his chin and nose.- J Trade in a Good Town — Decatur. Sizes 12 to 42! . • «-o I w I a V> • !• •/ wi/ Prior •' H • -o • •i\ //, • • * l<i\ //l» */ * *1 I*m\ /If •*1 * ufA I’bi' Im */ • * *■ jnniF /• • • I -Wl I ’ ’ * I iHiii* I • • • * mill iwaitljM ft Ml Wli 9279 Inf THamCsm • NEW in every line! Noth the dashing, bloused bodice, „ the flar.ing cuffs, easy lines of the skirt. This is a dress you’ll live in—it’s casual, comfortable, looks marvelous on all sizes from 12 to 42! Choose a bright spring cotton. - . Pattern 9279: Misses’ Sizes 12. 14 r 16, I'B, 20; 30, 32. 34, 36, 38, 4$ 42. Size 16 takes 4*4 yards 35ineh; % yard contrast. This easy-to-use pattern gives perfect fit. Complete, illustrated Sew Chart shows you every step. Send Thirty-five cents In coins for this pattern—add 5 cents for each pattern for Ist-ciass mailing. Send to Marian Martini care of Decatur Daily Democrat Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly Name, Addresa with Zone. Size and Style Number.

Hubert Isch Is Named Part-Time Bookkeeper Hubwt Isch nas been named as a part-time bookkeeper at the county'highway garage, it was announced by the county commissioners. The hiring of a part-time accountant will release Frank Singleton several days each month for supervisory work. Roosevelt, Attorney Talk Over Divorce Talk Over Tactics In Suit By Wife LOS ANGELES. (UP) — James Roosevelt and his lawyer meet today to decide their tactics in face of his wife’s announcement she would produce “Indisputable evi dence” of his alleged infidelities with nine women. Mrs. Romelle Roosevelt announced through her attorney Tuesday she would produce the evidence “at the proper time and “place.’’ The lawyer, Arthur Schifferman however, declined to state of what the evidence consisted. But he said ’“lf we dfd not have indisputable evidence in support of this allegation, it would not have been filed.” Schifferman referred to a suit for separate maintenance filed Thursday by Mrs. Roosevelt in Pasadena superior court. The suit named three co-respondents, with whom Roosevelt is alleged to have been intimate. But it also contained two letters signed by Roosevelt in 1945 in which he admitted adulterous “misconduct” with nine women during 1943 and 1944. Tn a press conference' Monday? Roosevel-t denied thwtnith of the letters. . - He said he was “blackmailed" Into signing them to prevent his wife from making her accusations public and thereby causing embarrassment to his father, the late Franklin Dels ho Roosevelt, who was then president. But Schifferman replied, “Mrs. Roosevelt's complaint speaks for itself. Asked if the evidence was contained in a third, as yet undis closed letter, Schifferman declined to answer. The third letter was referred to in one of those already made public. The first court round in the marital tangle is scheduled for Friday In Pasadena where superior court will hold a hearing on Mrs. Roosevelt’s request for $3,500 a month temporary support for herself and the couple’s three children, plus attorney's fees. — Picone made it clear money would be-all that will be in ques tlon in the Friday session. He released a financial statement which showed Roosevelt to be S2B 000 in debt, instead of possessing assets in the millions. Sav It With FLOWERS From

•/’ * MR. AND MRS. KENNETH BLOCHER of Greenville announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter. Marjorie, to Philip Kinsey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Kinsey of Silver Lake. Miss Blocher is a graduate of Manchester college and is now teaching home economics at Pleasant Mills. Kinsey, a graduate of Manchester college, is attending Purdue university, where he is pursuing graduate study in chemistry. The wedding date has been set for May 30.

Spoiled Candy Is Taken By Youths, No One Made 111 Two Decatur youths. 12 years I of. age, were apprehended by eher* iff Robert Shraluka late. Tuesday after thpy had allegedly taken several pounds of sirolled candy from a Ibcal store and hqd> sold, several pounds of it to residents of Stratton Place. „ No ill effects were reported from the candy, some of which was wormy, but the sheriff had a busy hour notifying all of the purchasers: — or'The -yoaths were notified. The local store keeper had placed the candy in a large box at the rear of his establishment, preparatory to taking it to the city dump. The two local youths learned the location of the confections and took about 15 pounds of it. Later they went to the Stratton Place area and disposed of several pounds. A second check on

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