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MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
TO ATTEND AHEPA FEAST
Gypsy Band to Play Monday
Night as One Feature of Ma
tional Banquet.

Cabinet members, diplomats and
members of both Houses Of Congress
will be guests Of honor at the Ahepa
national banquet at the Mayhower
Hotel at Z pm. tomorrow. Secretary
Of War Dern will make the principal
address.
The Ahepa banquet is held every
four years. The entertainment pro-
gram this year will include numbers
by gypsy band from the st. Moritz
Hotel, New York: selections by Nicho-
las Mavrikes, violinist, and by Jean
Farduli Of the Chicago Opera Co.
Twenty-four Senators and 10 Rep
resentatives have accepted invitations
to the banquet. Besides Secretary
Dern, speakers will include Demetrios
Sicilianos, Minister from Greece;
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, and
v. I. Chebithes, supreme president of
the Ahepa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23
SPINAL MENINGITIS
HIGHEST SINCE 1890
Increases in Scarlet Fever and
Influenza Also Reported by
Health Service.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Highest spinal meningitis figures
since 1880 are reported by the Public
Health Service.
Scarlet fever and influenza cases
also were high.
Public health statisticians said they
had made no attempt to correlate the
unusually high meningitis rate with
the unusually severe Winter and
doubted whether weather was factor.
New meningitis cases in the United
States for the week ending February
Is totaled 234. For the correspond
ing week last year 1t was 1874. In
1934-57; l933-75: 1928; 1881
145; 1930-281, and 1929-253.
The number of new scarlet fever
cases for the week ending February
Is was 1888; for the corresponding
week last year, 1918; 1s34-6,133:
1933-5.460: 1s32-5,640, and 1881
5,799.
Influenza incidence for the week
ending February IS totaled 1882 as
compared with S,082 the corresponding
week last year; 3,613 in 1894; 5,226
in 1888; $685. in 1882 and 1l,135 in
1881.
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got the Pulitzer prize for good report
ing in 1922, has just been discharged
as assistant director of the bunch in
New York and an ayowed commu-
mist given his place. Up in New York
it is said the writers" hang around
the speakeasies all day and just be-
fore closing time bring in little copy.
Well, isn't that just like the fellows?
Frankly. this reporter went up to
the w. P. A. Writers Project to have
a little fun with the boondogglers
But once over there he found too many
friends. Instead Of writing something
critical he said: Make room for me;
I'll be up here SOON" That's the in
sidiousress Of this New Deal.
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times year we read an account OF
such hand in the newspaper.
Roughly, the possibilities are that
player will hold Beard suit once
every $50 billion deals. Let us as
sumo there are 10 million bridge play
ers in the country, each one of whom
plays 5000 hands year. Actually
there are very few who play that num-
Der, as 1t represents more than 20
hands each day. However, 10 million
players, each playing 5000 hands,
represents 80 billion hands a year.
Once in every 100 billion hands we
have Beard suit. Hence, instead
Of 20 or 80 13-card suits q year, we
should expect one every two years.
THERE are two reasons why they
occur so much more often than
you may expect them, in accordance
with the theory of probabilities. First,
the hand may be stacked in order to
give the player thrill. Naturally,
in this event, the player who holds
the Is cards believes he got them
honestly and the story gets right to
the newspapers. BY the time he learns
the truth, the story has already gone
all over the country. And after all
that is one way of getting into the
papers, since not holding a 13-card
suit is not news. Even though he
does go to the papers with a COR
rection of the story land he prob
ably does not) the correction will
not get into print.
The second way in which the 13-
card suit Is produced is when new
deck is used. New decks are usually
arranged with each suit separate.
Now, If the cards are cut exactly in
the middle and given a perfect shut
fie. so that the cards from each half
alternate, you will have the follow
ing arrangement: Spade, heart, spade,
heart. etc, for the first 26 cards, and
diamond, club. diamond, club, ETC., for
the next Is cards. Cut them again
In the middle. give another perfect
shuttle and the order will be spade,
diamond, heart, club. spade, diamond,
heart club etc. through the whole deck.
Now cut and deal them and you have
four 13-card suits.
SPEAKING Of new decks, let US con-
slider the following hand. It is
produced when a new deck Is cut and
dealt with no shuttle whatsoever. and
appeared In q recent duplicate game
In New York City. At most tables It
was passed out. but at one North and
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APOLOGY Staying
CLUE DISCOVERED
Knife Found Near Scene of
Fatal Fight Over
Young Divorce.
BY the Associated Press,

LOUISVILLE, KY, February GA
knife found in a gutter near the scene
Of fight two men staged over q
pretty divorce was the principal
clue held by police last night In the
staying Of Fred H. Daughtery, an at
torney. who died early yesterday of
stab wounds.
The fight was attributed by police
to Daughtery's demand that Clarence
A. Moore, 80, an insurance collector,
apologize for an alleged insult to 90
year-old Ethel Barnett.
Moore was held in bail of $500
on a charge Of numbering the lawyer,
who refused, while dying, to name
his assailant.
Mrs. Barnett said she had known
Moore for years but never had
date with him and never will"
Girl Describes Dispute.
She was sitting on a divan with
Moore, she added, waiting to intro
duce him to a fellow worker, Miss
Mae Cook, when "he got fresh and
grabbed me-"
Il pulled away and slapped him
hard" Mrs. Barnett said.
The slap broke Moores glasses, cut
his eye and her hand. she said. She
then went home. A few minutes later
Daughtery arrived to take her out.
He asked about her hand. Lets
skip it," she said she told him, but
they met Moore on the street and
the men argued.
Mrs. Barnett said they traded sew
eral blows and Moore hit Daughtery
several times in the back, after which
the lawyer walked toward q street
car, calling that he would see me
later that night"
"Just Fell" Tells Officers.
A few minutes later Daughtery COL
lapsed in a street car seat.
II just fell down." he told officers
who took him to a hospital. where he
died of knife wounds in the back and
breast an hour later.
Moore's preliminary hearing was
set for March 4. Daughtery left q
wife and son.
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not receive his
full s h are of
freak distribu-
lions. He ad-
raitted he got as
many cards as
any one else,
but claimed that
they always ar
rive d W 18th
hands In which
his longest suit
W a s of ur
cards, while the
~ = an v.1a x,nrc
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Too Much Excitement.

LOO MUCH EXCltement,
TINE leading four citizens of
Blanktown were John Smith,
president of the bank; Frank
Jones, lawyer and perennial
mayor; DR.. Gray and Bill Black,
owner Of the factory. The four were
cronies, and for years had played
bridge together every Monday and
Thursday nights.
Smith had one chronic complaint.
It lay in the fact that he felt he did
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23

We don't approve OF South's OPEN
ing one club nor his final bid Of three
no trump.
West opened the five Of spades, South
played the four from dummy and
East won with the jack. East now
returned the i've of hearts, South
played low and Vests jack won.
West now continued with three spades
and then put his partner in for three
hearts. Now all that South could
make were his ace-king of clubs and
ace-Hng Of diamonds, and he was
down five.
There are two curious features in
connection with this hand. First,
that although each player held an ex-
actly average hand down to the last
pip, the fact that the defending side
had their hands concealed gave them
such an advantage that the declarer
took only four tricks, and second, the
same result would almost surely have
been recorded (barring some double
dummy guessing) had any one Of the
four players at the table arrived at
| the same contract.
fcopyrisht. 1860
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Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

david snine Michael
ans vep1 hnors the
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Anne goes to trial, tomorrow,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23

ALAua In UlUlculLys
And Manuel AZana Is now at the
helfn-and in q stew. Azana, a bril-
liant man of letters, whose honesty
nobody questions, is not the red bogy
pictured by some extreme Rightists.
He Is really bourgeois Republican,
Of slightly radical tinge, who allied
himself with the Socialists to fight
Lerroux and fell into the hands Of
the Left. He is now a prisoner Of
the Socialists and to some extent of
the Center. while his strange bed
fellow, Largo Caballero, shouts
Soviet" and calls him "Kerensky."
What the future has in store for
distracted Spain is hard to foresee.
The Socialists themselves are divided.
The moderate "Evolutionists," led by
Julian Besteiro and Prof. Fernando
de Los Rios-weli known at New
York's Columbia University-are at
odds with the e-eaters under Largo
Caballero.
How sincere will be the support of
the Socialists for Azana may be
judged by significant incident: When
Azana spoke at Socialist mass meet
ing shortly before the election, he had
to wait 20 minutes for their insults,
catcalls and shouts Of murderer Gin
reference to the bloody repression Of
an uprising at Casas Viejas) to sub
side sufficiently to let his voice be
heard.
The Monarchists, split into Alton
sists and Carlists (traditionalists),
keep about the same number of seats
they had before.
The two extremes of Spanish poll
tics maintain, fundamentally, their
positions. But what lies between them
Is shambles, and from it rises now
q thin column of smoke that may or
may not conceal roaring fame.
(Copyrieht, 1885, by the North American
Newspaper Ania3ee. 1ne9
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CHAPTER XXXVI.
NEAR DEATH.

-HEY were talking about her.
/ Accusing her. Anne jumped to
the floor. That's q lteg" she
ii cnraan .od
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Il,OO0 Words IN Two Days.

And there Is q fellow named Beck
he was given the assignment Of writing
II 900 words about the Congressional
Library fHr the great American Guide
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-12-10
White Pigeon

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Drake and
son Dalton of Xenia, visited his
mother, Mrs. Alice Drake, Saturday
night Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell Hill, Sunday, Dec. 6, a daugh-
ter, named Dorothy Marie.--Mr. and
Mrs. Eli McInturf, Mrs. Carlos Col
ston, VIM. McInturf, and S. A. Nc
Inturf and family We're Sunday Wis
itors at John McInturfs Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Best called on friends
at GAINESVILLE, Sunday afternoon
G. B. McInturf and family attended
church at McConnelsville, and took
dinner with their daughter, Mrs. 4.
w. Davis.--Mr. and Mrs. ]. r. Best
have returned home, after several
days visit with Mrs. Best's brother.
Lawrence Daniels and wife, of Chi
cago. John Fouts spent the week
end in McConnelsville.-- Miss Clara
McInturf returned to Columbus, Sun
day Mr. and Mrs. Marilyn McIn-
turf of Sugar Grove, Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd McInturf of New Philadelphia
and Mr.. and Mrs Ernest McInturf
of Malta were Saturday and Sunday
visitors at the Everett McInturf
home.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-12-10
WALTER Il. DENNY DIES AT
RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS

Mrs. Ida Updike of Malta receiv-
ed word of the death of her nephew
Walter L. Denny, which occurred
Saturday evening, at his home in
Riverside, ILL.,, suburb of Chicago.
suddenly, presumably from a heart
attack, and proved to be quite a
shock to Mrs. Updike, as it did to
Mr.. Denny's sister Mrs. Iva Arnold
who resides in GAINESVILLE. Mr.. Dem
ny and his family had visited in
Malta in the fall, with Mrs. Updike
and Miss Stella Updike.
The deceased was son of the
late Charles Denny, and was born
in GAINESVILLE, spending his life there
until he went to Chicago 25 years
or so ago. At the time of his death
he was holding fine executive po-
sition with the Western Electric
company. In his earlier life he had
been employed in different capacities
in GAINESVILLE, and for some time be-
fore leaving that city he was a dec
orator with the j. B. Owens Pottery
company there.
He is survived by his wife,
daughter Jane of the home, and a
son Edison Denny of Oak Park, ILL.,;
also besides the sister mentioned
above, another sister, Mrs Lola
Roberts of Cincinnati, and his moth
er, Mrs Ada Denny who resides
with Mrs Roberts in Cincinnati.
Funeral services were held Tues
day. with burial at Riverside, Illi-
nOiS
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-12-10
PennsviIle

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hill.
Dec. 6, nine pound daughter, nam
ed Dorothy Marie. Born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Thos. Newsom (Jennie Smith,
Dec. 8, 10 pound son, named Gene
Alan.--Born last Friday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Newton of Duncan Falls,
a son. Mrs. Thelma Obee is caring
for her sister and new baby Mr..
and Mrs. Stanley Sheridan and
daughter Marjorie of Malta were Wis
itors at the home of his sister, Mrs.
c. V. Davis, Sunday Mrs. Ebert
Wilson and son of Coshocton spent
Sunday with her mother, Mrs Edith
Harkins. Mrs. Grace McInturf of
New Philadelphia was a visitor Sat-
urday of her sister, Mrs. John Lantz
and family. Mr.. and Mrs. B. 0.
Roberts and children spent Sunday
at the home of his parents, near Nc
Connelsville Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j.
Muse of Stockport and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Giles and daughter Janet Lee
were Saturday night and Sunday Wis
itors of the formers daughter and
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Emmor Men,
denhall, of Dover. Mr.. and Mrs.
Vana Dougan had as their Sunday
visitors, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Dougan,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clancy Newburn and
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Williams,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Hiatt, Harold
Hilaman and two children, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dana Williams, Mrs. Amanda
Smith and Mr.. and Mrs. James Dou-
gan Mrs. Will Hilaman and Har-
old Hilaman and two children were
Sunday evening visitors of her sis
ters, Mrs. Blanche Ridgley and Mrs.
Ida King of Buckeye Lake.
Penn School Notes
Due to an error in the first grad
ing periods honor roll, 1t will be re-
peated with this periods honor roll.
First grading period: Lois Abel. 10
points; Evelyn Thompson, Ia: Mae
Newton and Harry Reed, 8; Wilber
Wilson, IL; Riley Dougan, jr., 16;
Charles Strahl and Bill Bachelor,
10; Betty Starting, 13; George Al
bert Abel and Mary Black, 9; Clar-
ice Thompson, 15. Second period
grading: Evelyn Thompson, IA; w.
M. Pierpoint, IL: Mae Newton, 10:
George Dougan, 13; Harry Reed. 10:
Wilber Wilson, 16; Riley Dougan,
jr., 13; Charles Strahl and Bill
Bachelor, IL: Betty Starting, 15;
Bessie Roberts and Luella Roberts,
8; Clarice Thompson, 15; Albert Nc
Tnturf, 8.
The county Prince of Peace con-
test will be held at the Malta M. e.
church, Sunday, Dec. Is, at 1880 p.
m.
The Penn basketball team will
play Marietta Reserves, Friday, Dec.
IL, at Pennsville. They will play
New Marshfield Saturday, Dec. IL,
at New Marshfeld.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-12-10
MOrganville

Mrs. j. E. Day who is suffering
from a heavy cold and congested
lungs, is improving. Mrs. Nellie
Campbell of Chicago is making a
prolonged visit with her brother.
H. v. Torbert, and daughter.--M Miss
Dorothy Spears is assisting at the
home of Mrs o. E. McIntire of Nal
ta.--A pot luck oyster dinner was
served at the Delmar Fitch home,
Sunday, in honor of Mr. Fitch's
birthday. Those present were: Mr..
and Mrs. McClelland Fitch, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kenneth Balding and son
David, Mr.. and Mrs. James Fitch
and daughters Dorothy Mae and Bet
ty Ann, Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Fitch and
daughter Mary Lou, and host and
hostess, Mr.. and Mrs. Delmar Fitch,
and daughter Sally.--A. J. Wamer
and George Sands went to Joy Mon
day to attend the funeral of Mr..
Wamer's sister, Mrs. Mary Gardner.
Gerald Buckley Of Portersville
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Buckley. Saturday. --Beryl Buckley
who received severe scalp wound
while working. on the road recently,
is getting along nicely. Clifford
Young OF Athens and Eugene Trimp-
er OF Portersville spent the week
end with friends at this places
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-12-10
PEACE ENROLMENT

Another world war seems inevita-
BILE before long. Unless we have an
active popular demand for peace the
United States will be surely drawn
into it.
The emergency peace campaign
has undertaken a national peace en-
rollment as part of it's program
to keep the United States from 60
ing to war. The enrolment is to
discover in all the groups through
ont the country all the people who
are willing to take one of two posi-
tions against war, described on the
enrolment card.
Those who are willing to sacrifice
to keep our country out of war can
obtain enrolment cards and circu-
lars explaining the emergency peace
campaign, by writing The Emergency
Peace Campaign, 20 South Twelfth
Street, Philadelphia, Pa, or from
Paul Wells. Pennsville, o. Let's
keep the flag at home.-Paul Wells.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-12-10
MRS. DEAN JOHNSON
CLAIMED by DEATH

| The many friends here of Mrs.
| Florence l. Johnson, 35, wife of
| Dean Johnson, of Philo. learned
! with sadness of her death which oc-
Cured early Monday morning in
Bethesda hospital, where she under
| went an operation. She was a for
mer resident of this place, but for
the past 13 years had resided at
Philo. She was a member of the
Philo NJ E. church and was secre-
tary of the Twin City Community
club Of Philo and Duncan Falls
She was a daughter of Roy Ander-
son and the late Mary Leggett An
dersOn, of this place. Besides her
father and husband, she is survived
by one daughter, Marjorie Johnson.
of the home, and three step-children,
Mrs. Bonnie Clapper of GAINESVILLE,
and Charles and Mildred Johnson of
the home. One sister, Nellie, is de-
ceased
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday afternoon at O'Clock at the
family home in Philo, with Rev. C.
A. Hickey officiating. Interment
was made in McConnelsville ceme-
terry
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-12-10
Court House News
COMMON PLEAS COURT

In the case of Frank Wilson VS.
Jesse and Zellia Bole, action or
promissory note, judgment is giver
plaintiff by default, for $126.53
| Foreclosure of mortgage is decreed
or to sell unless judgment is paid in
| five days.
The case of State of Ohio vs. H
H. Harker, defrauding Malta hotel
proprietor, filed Oct. II, 1929, and
which had been continued off dock
ct, on motion Of prosecuting attor.
ney, is restored to docket.
PROBATE COURT
| Emma Beard as administrator of
the estate of Chas. A. Beard, de-
ceased, who files first and final ac-
count, which is approved, is dis
charged
| The estate of Emma Harmon, de-
ceased, is not subject to inheritance
/ tax Gross value of estate is ST..
1876 debts and costs of admins
tration are $1,148.76. Net actual
market value is nothing.
B. F. McGrath, as surviving ex-
ccutor of the estate of Hiram Nc
! Grath, deceased, files second partial
account
Grace Gillespie, guardian of Will
bert III. Gillespie, minor, files
fourth partial account, which is ap-
proved. Balance in hands of guar
dian due ward, $3,501.42.
Estate of Francis M. White, de-
ceased, is settled Bessie White, as
administrator, with will annexed, is
allowed compensation in the sum of
$109. A balance of $679.23 is or
dered distributed according to law.
The will of Margaret j. Creighton,
late Of Windsor township, is present
ed for probate.
Della Mae Wainwright is appoint
cd executor of the estate of j. En-
field Brokaw, late of Windsor TOWN.
ship, without bond, as per request
Of testator
Selby Burfeld is appointed admin
istrator of the estate OF Denega
Lochary, late of Windsor township.
Bond, $1,000, with X. w Barnes
and L. H. Calendine as sureties.
Marriage Licenses
Frank j Adrean, deputy sheriff
son of l.. B. and Mildred Duvall
Adrean, and i. Elinor Rothrock,
secretary, daughter of Howard and
Nellie Mcbride Rothrock, Rev Chas
w. Stoneburner officiating
RECORDER'S OFFICE
George B. and Sarah a. Kenney,
55.63 acres, Malta, to Gladys Brown
Cramblitt, 81.
J. d. and Nellie Lighthizer to
trustees, Meigsyille township, 120
acres, 81.
Fiftynine road easements of the
Malta, Eagleport, Deayertown, Rose
Farm road, recently taken over by
the state, have been filed
Carmen and Prince McKibben to
Geo. B. Kenney, McConnelsville lot,
81.
The See Kay Coal Company, to
New York Coal Company, 32SS
acres, York, ST.
Edward w. and Anna r. Abbott
to Chas. l.. and Edith Koveleski, one
acre, Bloom, 81.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-12-10
Bald Knob

Mr.. and Mrs Ed Friermuth of
GAINESVILLE We're Saturday guests of
John Sherlock and family. Dale
Haines and wife and Mrs. Mary
Campbell spent Thursday at the
Frank Watson home, near Hackney
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Glines of
McConnelsville We're Sunday guests
of Carlos Glines and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Grubb and little son, and
Mrs. Maud Moore and son William
spent Sunday with Roy Reed and
family, near GAINESVILLE. John Sher-
lock who has been ailing the past
few months with sciatic rheumatism,
is better, but does not improve as
fast as his many friends wish H.
O. McFerren and wife were McCon-
neisville visitors, Saturday. Wilbur
McFerren and Wife spent Monday
with Sam McFerren and family
Mrs. Ella Simeral is quite i'll, suffer
ing with neuralgia Mr.. Young OF
Canton who purchased the Amelia
Leland farm, better known as the C.
e. Drake farm, was here Saturday
doing some work preparatory to
moving in the near future Some of
our local hunters caught quite
number of foxes during the season,
last week. The report is that four
were caught in one day.--Don't for
get the farmers institute at Hack
ney school house Friday and Satur-
day, Dec. HIP. A fine program is
being prepared by the different
schools of the township. Everybody
welcome.--John Conn, son Of Boyd
Conn has recovered from q siepa oP
The daughter Blanche
who has had it, also is improving
The family is still under quarantine.