Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

Jhursclay, November 14, 1940. LOCAL DECATUR HERALD ELSA MAXWELL, NOTED PARTY GIVER, IS GUEST SPEAKER Right-of-Way Question in $10,000 Suit Trial of a $10,000 damage suit Bell Is First To Take New Office Oath County Recorder H. Bell, who was re-elected to a third term Nov. 5, became the first county officer to take his new oath Maxwell and Mary V. Dague, president of the organization.

(Herald-Review photo) Relief Load 17 Higher The Decatur township direct relief load, standing at 1,739 cases Nov. 1, was increased by 17 during the month of October, according to the report of J. A. Kruzan, township accounting supervisor. The relief office, Mr.

Kruzan's report showed, opened 214 cases during the month and closed 197. A fluctuation of 17 in the relief load for a 30-day period is considered slight, he said. Of the cases opened by the relief office, 97 were given assistance because they had lost WPA employment; 45 because they had lot private employment; and 72 for "other" reasons. Of the cases- closed. 87 were assigned to WPA projects, 63 obtained private employment and 47 fell under the "other reasons" classification.

The list of clients totaled 1.722 at the start of October and at one point reached 1.936, Mr. Kruzan reported. John P. Michael, 84, Succumbs in Maroa John P. Michael, 84, died at 9:50 p.

m. Wednesday in the home of his sister, Miss Michael, Marca. He was born Aug. 3, 1856. His wife died last March.

Surviving are three daughters. Mrs. Charles Schoby, Kenney; Mrs Ovid Rau, Jacksonville; Mrs. John Bingman. Niantic.

and one son. Harvey Michael. There are two sisters, Miss Phoebe Michael and Mrs. Sarah Gidel. both Qf Maroa; also five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Friday in the Maroa Christian church with burial in Ridge csmtery. George Peake Estate Left to Two Sisters Under a will of the late George B. Peake of Decatur, his is left to two sisters.

Mary E. Peake and Virginia Downing of Decatur, except for bequests of five shares of building and loan stock each to Jessie Storie Morgan, Long-mont. Colo May Peake, Sedaha Louise Storie Shaw, Hansel. Iowa, and D. Q.

Storie. Chariton, Iowa. The value of the estate has not been determined. Two Sons Receive Estate of Mrs. Cross A petition for letters for administration of the $11,550.

estate of tho late Mrs. Rosa Cross of Decatur was filed in the Macon county court Wednesday. Heirs to the estate are shown to be Orville Cross of Memphis, and Rolla C. Cross of Decatur, sons of Mrs Cross. Place Garfield Subway Cost Over $150,000 Construction cost of the proposed Garfield avenue subway would total in excess of S150.000, according preliminary estimates made, by en-sneers for the Illinois Central railroad.

Cost estimates drawn up by the railroad representatives, totaling $148,000. provide for only that portion cf subway which would icUially be on the railroad right of according to Henry Bolz. secretary of the Association of Commerce. Estimates on the cost of conducting the rest of the subway, the approaches, is to be made by the city engineering department, under the direction of Carl Fox. city engineer.

Study Paving Cost The city also is preparing estimates on the expense of paving Garfield avenue from Broadway to Jasper street which has been prnT posed as part of the improvement program. Although the estimates on the of this work have not been completed, it is thought the expense of the entire project, paving and subway, would total approximately S225.000. As soon as the preliminary expense estimates have been completed a conference will be called to discuss possible division of costs, Mr. Bolz reported. Suggested co-jponsnrs of the work are the Central and Pennsylvania rai1-roads.

the city, state. -park board, township and Oakes Froducts Co. The Oakes company, it was explained, has been anxious to se-nre the paving of Garfield avenue as the dust from the street ic damaging machinery in the factory, located at 800 East Garfield ivenne. I'nder Eight Tracks The subway, as now planned, would run under eight railroad tracks, five of the I. C.s and three of the Pennsylvania's.

The cost estimate prepared by the railroad engineers did not provide for a reduction in the number of tracks. Mr. Bolz said. Preliminary plans rail for a 40-foot roadway and for two sidewalks in the underpass. Development of Garfield -avenue ss an arterial street is outlined in thr rity p'pn.

At Dresent the street's eastern terminus is at Wnorlfnrd street but in event the and paving nroject the avenue oroh-bly would be oxtrnried to North Twenty-sec-orrf street. This, it was pointed out. would five the rity a main east-west thoroughfare serving th" industrial nrtheast section of the city. McGounhev Appointed To V. N.

A. Board Executive committee members cf the Macon County Tuberculosis and Visiting Nurse association met yesterday noon in the Decatur Club i'h Dr. John M. Hayes presiding. The executive committee elected Rep.

Dean S. of Mt. Zion to fill a vacancy on the Ixvrd resulting from the resignation of Mrs. Paul Shults of Mt. Z'l-in.

who resigned. Rev. Mr. Shults has accepted a pastorate in Marshall. Ind.

Mrs. Shults was fleeted at this year's annual V. A. meeting to serve a three-year term on the board of directors. Also discussed at the meeting ere the plans for annual tubercu-lo'is Christmas seal sale which will be held from Nov.

23 to Dec." 25. According to the October mi rein report, presented by Mrs. Mar-Sret Breeze, supervising nurse. 573 visits were made by the nurses during the month, of which 68 were health supervision: 70. maternity: 3S7.

general illness, and 57. miscellaneous. During October. 1939. "nly 440 visits were made, Mrs.

Breeze pointed out. Receive $65,000 Loan For Housing Project Brice Martin, executive director the Decatur Housing authority, "nniinced Wednesday that the authority has received its first adduce loan of SS5.000 from the States Housing authority. The money will be used for administrative expenses through Jan. 31. said.

A requisition for S150.000 to pay ite purchases has been mad? ,0 the USHA. and the funds are expected to arrive here about Dec. Administrative expenses of the Decatur authority include salaries employes, office rent, office attorney fees, and the costs preliminary negotiations for l'ases. An accountant from th recentlv audited the local uthority's claims. Jury Finds Mrs.

Payne Died of Heart Failure A coroner's jury last night attributed heart failure as the cause death of Mrs. Fadclla Payne. 'ho died suddenly in her home at South Franklin street Tuesday "'Sht. Dr. I.

V. Grissom, county coroner, was in charge. funeral services for Mrs. Payne ill "be held at the Dawson "ikoff funeral home at 2 p. m.

Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. Ernest at Normal Robert Ernest, countv superintendent of schools, yesterday" at-'ended a district rural youth edu jtional conference at Illinois 5late Normal university. Normal. Defense Work Seen as Spur To Yule Buying This country's current national defense program this year will result in the "biggest Christmas on record," Godfrey M. Lcbhar, New York, editor of Chain Store Age.

said in a speech here last night. Talking before more than 350 Decatur chain store managers and employes at the Hotel Orlando, Mr. Godfrey said his prediction for i. busy Christmas buying season was based "not only upon the currenl upward trend in retail sales but more particularly on the progressive effect of the national defense program." Sponsored by Chain Stores Last night's meeting, preceded by a dinner, was sponsored by the-DLcalur unit cf the Illinois Cham Store association and was presided over by' Oscar Broycr, manager ol Scars Roebuck Co. store.

Mr. Broyer, who last spring was named to the Chain Store Age's "Roll of Honor of Communinty Builders," was presented a certificate relating to his civic activities by Mr. Lcbhar. The chain store manager has served as president of the Community Chest and the Kiwanis club and has been active in affairs of the Decatur Council of Social Agencies. Boosts Buying rower Mr.

Lebhar, in his talk, pointed out that "while the employment of people in defense work offers no permanent solution of the unemployment problem, it does mean a substantial increase in consumer buying power while it lasts." Information from the department of l-'bor shows that in the last two months alone, more than a million additional workers have found jobs, he said. Mr. Lebhar. who founded Chai.i Store Age in 1925,. also stressed thj importance of chain stores taking part in civic activities "It is not enough for chain stores just to do their pait in community activities they should furnish their share of leadership as well," he declared.

William S. Pinney, 78, Retired Farmer, Dies William S. Pinney, 78. of West Main street, died at 5 138 m. Wednesday in St Mary's hospital following a long illness.

He had been a resident of Macon county for 60 years and retired from farming in 1917. Born in Worthington. Ohio, May 3, 1862, he married Bessie Phillips in 1884. She died in 1916. Surviving are the following children.

George of Kirksville, Richard of Maroa. Freeman of Texanna. Edwin of San An tonio, Texas. Howard of Phoenix, Ariz, and Mrs. Charles J.

Adams. Camp Point, 111. Four other children are dead. There are 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.

m. Friday in the Monson funeral home where friends may call after 4 p. m. today- Burial will be in Boiling Springs cemetery Y. M.

C. A. Drive Leaders To Discuss Plans Today Majors and captains' who will work under Dr. Ciney Rich, chairman of the Y. M.

C. A. member ship drive, will talk over plans during a luncheon at noon today in the Decatur Club. The membership campaign gels underway Nov. 25 and will con tinue through Dec.

2. A. R. Kay. young men's secretary, said.

The four "majors" who will lead the campaign divisions are Harry Gidel, Dick Corlett. Fred Knoor and Ir Busher. Under each of them will be five captains. Family Welfare Staff At Chicago Convention Miss Verna M. Johnson, general secretary of the Family Welfare association, and her staff are at tending the 45th annual session of the Illinois Conference of Social Welfare in Chicago this week.

The sessions will end in th Knickerbocker hotel. Besides -Miss Johnson, F. W. A. staff members attending are Mrs.

Helen Rolofson. Miss Elizabeth Glasow and Miss Barbara Bailey. Bodine Under Bond Forest Bodine, cab driver charged with assault with a deadly weapon by Cullen Smith, Negro chauffeur, has been released on $1,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing before Justice E. E. Gray next Tuesday.

In error Justice Gray said Tuesday that Bodine had waived preliminary hearing and had been bound over to await grand jury action. Burglary Attempt The Decatur Paint 160 East North street, reported an attempted burglary at its store sometime Tuesday night. Entrance was gain ed thrtfugh a fire escape. The cash register had been tampered witn but nothing was found missing. Pritchett Treasurer Carl Pritchett, Niantic.

has been named treasurer of the Macon County Health council to succeed Rev. Paul Shults of Mount Zion, who has resigned. brought by Marion Miller of near Maroa, against Lloyd McLaughlin of Bethany opened in the circuit court Wednesday with attorneys indicating the jury will have to decide which machine had the right- of-way at the lime of a fatal auto accident one mile west of Argen- ta July 26, 1939. Miller is seeking damages for the death of his son, Harold D. Miller, 18, who was killed when his grain truck colliaed with an automobile driven by Mr.

McLaughlin at the intersection of two gravel roads west of Argcnta Carl Gregory, a passenger in McLaughlin's car at the time of the accident, also was fatally injured but his death is not an issue in the suit on Administrator Sues Suing as the administrator of his late son's estate, Mr. Miller alleges negligence on the part of the defendant. In opening statements to the jury Wednesday afternoon, Emanual Rosenberg, counsel for the plaintiff, contended young Miller had the rignt-of-way at the time of the crash, and J. T. Whitley, attorney for the defendant, told the jury the defendant's automobile already was in the intersection before the truck entered, leaving a question as to the righ-of-way.

Frank Brett, who said he was associated with the AAA program at the time of the accident in 1933. was called as the first plaintiff witness. He said that he and the defendant had been checking corn fields and that he had outlined a route to be followed by the defendant McLaughlin. This route, he testified, took him over the scene of accident in the afternoon ot July 26. W.

A. McGuirc, owner of the truck driven by Harold Miller and employer of Un youth at the time of the accjdent, testified that the truck would not go faster than 30 miles an hour over gravel roads when loaded. At the ime of the fatal accident, young Miller was hauling a load of corn to an cle- ator at. Argcnta. Says View Was Blocked Howard Connor, who resides at the road intersection where the accident occurred, described the junction and told about positions of the two machines after the crash.

He testified that corri fields and trees blocked a view of the corner for all but the east approach. Circuit Judge C. Y- Miller ordered principals in the case to be prepared to continue the trial this morning. Office Finds Jobs for 382 Placements for 382 persons were secured duting October through the Decatur office of the Illinois State Employment service, an in crease of 66 over the total for the same month last year. According to the report of B.

A. Bollmann, office manager, 169 of last month's placements were of a permanent nature and 213 were temporary. Those for whom jobs were found includede 134 men and 239 women. New applications for jobs received by the office last month totaled 466, including 230 men and 236 women. The applications for the same period last year totaled 352.

A total of 216 new claims for un employment compensation were filed in the office last month, bring ing the number of active compen sation cases to 5,616. During October a year ago a total of 247 new claims were filed and the active listed included 2,705 cases. turned several times. Mrs. Healy was hurled from the car and was pinned beneath the wreckage of the small truck, which was driven by Kenneth Cresap.

Mr. Healy, in spite of his injuries, pried the truck upward and succeeded in freeing his wife. Although Mrs. Healy was killed instantly, she and her husband were taken to the Mark Greer hospilal in Vandalia Chastains In Hospital Mrs. Minnie Cresap.

wife of the driver of the truck, was injured in the accident and taken to the Vandalia hospital. Mr. and Mrs Chastain remained last night in the Shelby Memorial hospital in fo." treatment. Their injuries were se rious but not considered critical All police officers will meet at headquarters at noon today to attend the funeral services. Burid1 will be in Union cemetery in An inquest scheduled Wednesday morning was postponed until others injured in the accident could testify.

Mrs. Healy, who was 31 years old, was born and reared in Altamont. Besides her husband, sne leaves her parents. Mr. and Mrs.

J. R. Calhoun, now of St. James; and three brothers. Orville of Decatur and Ruben and Clark, Doth of St.

James. of office and file bond Wednes day. Mr. Bell filed his bond for $20, OIK) in the county court where it was approved by Judge Martin E. Morthland.

County Clerk Laurence Tangney administered the oath of office. County officers elected in the Nov. 5 election will officially take office Dec. 2. Coroner-elect Harold Brintlinger will be the only new officer assuming position State's Attorney Ivan J.

Hutchens, Mr. Bell, Auditor Ellis B. Wheeler, and Circuit Clerk Harry R. Butt were re-elected. County's First Draft Quota 8 The army will require Maco.i county to send only eight men into training on the first draft call Nov 23.

The total quota for Illinois 828. From the 62 men who already have volunteered for immediate induction will Macon county's first contingent be chosen. Decatur' No. 1 beard, which has 20 volun tear, applications, and the No. 2 boaid, which has 29 volunteers, each must furnish three men on Nov.

23. The rural board's quota is two men, and these will be selected from among 14 volunteers The Nov. 23 induction date applies to all counties in the Peoria district. The East St. Louis district has issued its call for Nov.

26 and 28. Following are the number of selectees to be furnished by neigh boring counties: Peoria district Champaign three; Dewitt. two. Douglas, one: Logan, two; Piatt, one. East St.

Louis, district Christian, three; Coles, three; Effing ham, two: Fayette, three; Mont gomery, three; Moultrie, one; Shelby, two: Clark, one; Clay, one: Crawford, two; Cumberland, one: Jasper, one; Marion, six, and Rich land, two. Gillis D. McAlister, 22, of 1247 East Eldorado street, applied to the No. 2 board yesterday for immediate induction. Downey Free in $5,000 Personal Injury Suit Mrs.

Goldie Howell of Decatur failed Wednesday in her effort to win $5,000 in damages from F. E. Downey and John v' rammer for in juries which she alleged she receiv ed when two cars driven by the defendants collided Sept 10, 1939. at North Main street and Garfield avenue. At the close of the plaintiff's testimony, Circuit Judge C.

Y. Miller directed a verdict of acquittal as to Mr. Downey, who appeared to defend the suit, and dismissed the action as to Mr. Grammei. who did not appear at the trial.

Mrs. Howel testified that she was walking on Garfield avenue near the scene of the collision. Downey's car, she said, ran over the curbing, struck her and knocked her down, causing permanent injury to her left leg. $181,000 WPA Piatt Road Project Approved Presidential approval of a WPA road project in Piatt county was received here yesterday in the district WPA office. The government's share of the project, to be county-wide, wili amount to $130,533, while the sponsor's contribution will be $51,190.

Approval of a $67,627 project for the construction of a water supply line and distribution system at Towanda, McLean county also has been received here. The government's contribution toward the project cost is S45.127 and that of the sponsor. Robert Moore Heads American Business Club W. Robert Moore, special agent for the Provident Mutual Life Insurance yesterday was elected president of the recently formed Decatur unit of the Ameri can Business club. Other officers named by the organization, a service club for young men, included Robert Dennis, vice president; Earl Green treasurer and James W.

Moore, secretary. Directors named were Ford Dickerson and Tom Finin. Plans for the club's charter dinner, to be held Nov. 30, are now being laid. School Board Approves $10,000 Transfer Monthly bills were approved yes terday by the Decatur board of education in a short meeting in the office of Superintendent Wil liam Harris.

No other business was conduc ted, except for the transfer of $10,000 from the building fund to the special building fund set up fo; the high school gymnasium-audi torium. The money will be used to pay for equipment in the new building, Mr. Harris said. Church Homecoming Long Creek Methodist chOrch will have its annual homecoming Sunday with serving starting at 12:30 p. m.

Portly Elsa Maxwell, (second from right) relishes a din Mother Faces Mental Test Dr. Benjamin Boshes. Chicago psychiatrist of the state department of criminology, will arrive in Decatur this morning for an examination of Mrs. Esther Bethard. Mount Zion mother who is held in the Macon county jail on a charge of murdering her eight-months-old baby Tuesday.

State's Attorney Ivan Hutch-ens requested the state to send an alienist here to investigate the mental condition of Mrs. Bethard after she admitted drowning her baby by holding its head for five minutes in a bucket of water at her home on rural route 7-Sudden Decision Mrs. Bethard has admitted that she was sewing and watching a meal cook on her stove when she suddenly decided to get a bucket of water from an outside well. "Big Boy." as she affectionately called her baby, was in his crib nearby, not crying nor causing any kind of trouble, according to a statement made by Mrs. Bethard to Mr.

Hutchens and Sheriff A. C. Ammann. According to the statement she calmly walked to the crib, picked up the baby, and placed it nead downward in the bucket of water. Asked if the baby struggled she admitted that it did "a little." Goes on Sewing After five minutes she removed the baby's head from the bucket, and placed the child in its crib again.

Then she said she proceed ed to sew a pair of shorts which she was making for her husband. Mrs. Ethel Hart, a neighbor. said Mrs. Bethard brought the dead baby to her home about 10:30 a.

Dr. I- V. Grissom, county coroner, was called, in addition to her husband. Mrs. Bethard remained calm in the county jail Wednesday as she waited arraignment on a charge of murder.

She said she was sorry that she had killed her baby. Sne was permitted to attend private funeral services for the baby at the Moran Sons funeral home at 2 p. m. Wednesday. Dr.

I. V. Grissom, county coroner, will conduct an inquest as soon as the mother's mental con dition is determined by Dr. Boshes. John Kaydd Held In Theft of Diamond John T.

Kayda, 20, of 1024 North Morgan street, was placed under arrest Wednesday, charged with burglary and grand larceny by E.J V. Dabney, who complained trial his home had been burglarized. A diamond ring and between $3 and $4 in cash were taken from the Dabney home. Officers said Kayda admitted the burglary but he onlv admitted taking the rin' which he sold at a Decatur pawnshop. Mrs.

Dabney reported the affair to police, saying she suspected a "Jack Shannon." who had done some painting for her. Kayda admitted that "Shannon" was his officers said. He was placed in jail pending arraignment before Police Magistrate E. A. Schroe-der.

Decatur Accountants Plan Meeting Tonight "Accounting Aspects of Property Valuation and Depreciation" will be the subject discussed before the November meeting of the uecai-n chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants. The meeting, to be held tonight in the Decatur Club, will be addressed by John A. Cooke, a partner in the Chicago firm c-f Peat. Warwick. Mitchell and a past president of the Chicago chapter of the N.

A. C. A. Jack Morris, of Dr. W.

B. Caldwell Monticello. will be chairman' of the meetinc. There will be a dinner at 6:30 followed by Mr. Cooke's talk at 7:30 p.

m. Young Democrats To Elect Nov. 26 Carl Hartinan. Ellis B. Wheeler, and Arthur Gallagher have been appointed as members of a nominating committee for the Macon Countv Young Democrat cluo.

Chairman Paul Ferguson announced Wednesday. The will make its report Nov. 26 and new officers will be elected at that time. ner at the Masonic temple where she addressed the Busi- Elsa Maxwell Time Laughing By MARION BURSON Of the Hertld Staff "If I had not learned to laugh at myself I would have been dead in -my grave long ago a brokenhearted woman." It was Elsa Maxwell speaking Elsa Maxwell, the two-ton party giver from Manhattan and Hollywood. "It seems that whenever I pick up a newspaper, in every play, when I tune in the radio, somebody' is talking about how much I weigh," Miss Maxwell told 650 persons at a dinner given in the Masonic temple last night by the Business and Professional Women.

"The other night I was listening to one of these quiz programs--I started them, you know. The question was: What motion picture would you be reminded of if you saw Gary Cooper. Elsa Maxwell and Robert Montgomery coming down the street together? No Chivalry Shown would think chivalry would have prevented the men on the program from giving the correct answer. But, no, they jumped to their feet at once and cried, "High Wide and Handsome." Miss Maxwell added, "So I'm just telling you what you have to put up with when you weigh over 116." This business of laughing at herself she had to learn early. She's always been able to laugh at the circumstances of her birth.

Born In Opera Box "I was born in an opera box while Mignon was being performed," she said and vowed it was an actual fact. "It spoiled th; evening for the prima donna. I made my appearance rather pre-cipitatedly at the beginning of the second act." This delighted her audience, which became hysterical when she added the gag line, "I came with my. mother but went home with the doctor." Miss Maxwell is 57 years old, and has tried to follow three rules laid down by her father: Don't be afraid of anything: don't collect inanimate objects; take light things seriously and serious things light. She loves jokes about herself.

"I've becyj. having a delightful talk this evening with a charming member of your club Dr. Viola Bell. Several times I've caught her looking very intently at me. Finally.

I asked iier. 'What do you She replied "I'm a professor of dietetics'" Her philosophy of life seems to Men Who Play With Toy Trains Will Meet Tonight Men whose hobby it is to play with toy railroad trains' have organized themselves into the Decatur Model Railroad club. Most of "them have tracks set up in the basements of their homes, but now they're going to operate on a bigger scale by hiring a hall and setting up their equipment under the supervision of a professional rail-, roader, Russell Cooney, whom they have named traffic manager. Ralph Traxler of LaPlace is purchasing agent and will buy all the iolliu stock." officers are Bert Backstein, president: William Heinrich, vice president, and Dr. E.

M. Walker, secretary-treasurer. The club will meet tonight in Dr. Walker's home, 1582 West Forest avenue. Pay Traffic Fines Charles C.

Strohl. Farmer City, was arrested by police Wednesday charged with speeding. He pleaded guilty and was fined $8.40 by Police Magistrate E. A. Schroeder.

The latter also fined Martha Smilh. of 970 North Oakland avenue. $8.40 for the same offense. Maude Gillespie. 936 East Johns avenue pleaded guilty to speeding before Justice Rudolph Lorenz and was fined S8.40.

William M. Wallace. 1067 West Decatur street, paid a fine of $8.40 to Police Magistrate Schrocdcr on a speeding charge. Garage Permit Howard A. Baldis.

1632 East Whitmer street, yesterday was issued a permit to construct a $100 garage at his residence. and Professional Women club. Left to right are Helen Brundage, Dr. Viola Bell, Miss Has Good at Herself work. "I spend fiv months a year in Hollywood, making perfectly horrible pictures," she said.

"They pay me $35,000 for each picture. I pay the government half and I spend the rest having a good time. "I've been everywhere and seen everything. I've been with everybody from cutthroats to kings. I've dene everything no, not quite marriage is still the great unexplored." Among the vital statistics on Elsa Maxwell is that she has given parties that she remember.

From one of them, she recounted. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy vaunted to almost immediate fame. Bergen Sought Aid Bergen had spent 17 years playing in small theaters, making onlv $35 a week, often less. Driving Miss Maxwell's secretary out of her wits by his incessant calls begging for an appointment he wrs finally ushered into Miss Maxwell's presence, "a thin, emaciated looking man, his sleeves out at his elbows but, otherwise, meticulously dressed." Miss Maxwell asked, "Do you sing?" "'No, I'm a ventriloquist'." "My jaw fell then, because I thought ventriloquists were a thin? of grandfather's day." When Bergen told her he wanted her to meet Charlie McCarthy. Miss Maxwell expected another ventriloquist though from the wild look in his C3'e she also feared a bomb.

"Charlie was a success from the start and I got down on my knees to Rudy Vallee to give him a spot on his program." No Drunks at Parties Night clubs Miss Maxwell deplores as "the last refuge of people with nowhere to go, nobody to invite and nobody to invite them." At her parties, which often begin at 10 p. m. and end with ham and eggs at 7 a. she has never seen a drunk. "Only bores drink to excess, and the people who come to my parties are not bores." If, by chance, a bore does slip in on' one of Miss Maxwell's fests.

his stay is brief. She quietly taps him on the shoulder, motions him toward the door, helps him on with his overcoat, and says, "You're not enjoying yourself here and, though you don't know it. you're ruining my party. Here's a mysteFy thriller. Take it and go home for a nice quiet evening." Before he knows it.

the bore is in the elevator headed for the street level. Henderson Kappa Speaker Dr. William S. Henderson, president of the Visking Co. of Chicago and a former Millikin student and faculty member, will speak at this morning's Kappa day exercises at the university.

His topic will be "The Survival of Individuality." Highlight of the ccremonv, scheduled for 10 a. will be awarding of silver Kappa keys to senior students who maintained a scholastic average of 3.5 or better during their first three years in the university. If the students maintain the average this year they will be presented gold keys upon graduation- Youth Posts Bonds On Morals Charges Charles A. Fitch, 20, of 2337 East Wood street, was free cn bond totaling $1,000 last night, pendina trial on charges of disorderly conduct and taking indecent liberties with a minor. The charges grew out of separate offenses, police said.

He was arrested after taking a child home from school. Police Magistrate E. A. Schrocder issued warrants in the case, which was investigated by the state attorney'? office. Seymour to Speak Professor Glenn H.

Seymour of the Eastern State Teachers' college at Charleston, will speak at a meeting of the Decatur Public School Teachers' federation at 3 p. m. today in the Decatur High school auditorium. The subject of the address will be "What Schools Can Do to Maintain Our Democratic Way of Life." Two Police Shifts to Attend Services for Mrs. Healy All police officers on the second and shifts will go to Alta-mont in full uniform today to attend funeral services of Mrs.

Vincent Healy, of 1463 East Olive street, who was killed in a traf-fice crash on route 128, near Alta-mont Tuesday night. Mrs. Healy was the wife of Vincent E. "Tiny" Healy. popular police oificcr working on the third shirt of the Decatur department Police Chief H.

J. Scheppcr will accompany his officers to Alta-mont. where funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. in tne Methodist church there.

First Shift on Duty-Chief Scheppcr said last night that men working on the first shift would remain on duty until the second shift men returned. from Altamont. Sgt. Ralph Doyle and Officer Forrest Pollard went to Vandalia Wednesday morning to see Mr. Healy, who is in the.

Mark Greer hospital there with a broken co1-lar bone, a wrenched ankle, possible foot bone and rib fractures. Officers said he would be unable to attend services for his wife. According to Mr. Healy the car being driven by Glenn S. Chastain struck a pickup truck as it at tempted to make a left turn into a lane.

The Chastain car over.