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Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
MORE ROOM IS
HOSPITAL NEED
Mentally Ill at State Hospital
Might Have to Be Housed
in the Basement
DIR. TARUMIANZ' APPEAL

4 "Close the doors of the hospital
or open the basement for beds. !"
This was the alternative presented
last week by DR.. M a. Tarumianz,
superintendent Of the State Hos
pital at F'arnhurst, to the board of
trustees at their meeting Thurs
day. DR.. Tarumianz recommenda-
tion was that he be permitted to
place beds in the basement of the
hospital for chemically i'll SO as to
make room in the regular wards
for newly admitted patients. Dur
ing the past few months" DR.. Ia
rumianz reported, "the hospital
population has been increasing. 1t
was increased last month by 10.
AS in all mental hospitals, a pa
tient does not stay for brief per-
iod, but often times it is a matter
of years, certainly many months. /"
! The basement wards, he said, would
have to be used until next March
when the additions to the New
Castle Building, once the county
almshouse, will be completed.
Those improvements, now under
way, will make room fer 65 or rs
new beds. The last vacant bed in
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
Leading Statistician States
Latest Facts On This
Serious Situation

Leading tuberculosis authorities
call tuberculosis the foe of youth,
says Miss Jessamine S. Whitney,
statistician Of the National Tuber.
culosis, "but l go even further and
call 1t the foe Of girls and young
women. Why? Because the deaths
from tuberculosis among them are
one and one-half times as many as
those among their brothers of the
same age"
The death rate from tuberculosis
has been cut to less than one-third
Of what 1t was thirty years ago
when 1t was the leading cause of
death. Yet when we analyze these
deaths we find that tuberculosis is
still the leading cause of death for
men and women between Is and IS
years Of age and we also find that
among young women between Is
and 80 one in every four deaths is
from this highly contagious disease.
Miss Whitney in answering l0hy
tuberculosis is twice as prevalent
among young women as among
young men says, mo one knows.
Today it is an outstanding mystery
in public health"
In an attempt to solve this mys-
terry the National tuberculosis AS
sociation made a careful study of
the life histories of all girls between
Is and 25 who died from tubercu-
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
Unemployment Census Tests

Postal employees started last
week to make unemployment Gems
us tests in several districts thru
out the State. The tests in Kent
county will be conducted along the
Harrington rural route number one
and the Wyoming rural route num-
ber one. A different type card
than was used in the census con-
Quoted several weeks ago, is being
used in this census and tabulations
of the test are expected to be conf
pleted early In January.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
STATE HIGHWAY
LABORATORY
Construction Work on $4,000
Project to Start at
Dover Soon
NEAR LEGISLATIVE HALL

The second new State building
to be erected at Dover during the
early part of next year was assur-
ed when the State Highway Com
mission, at a meeting there last
week authorized erection of a
building to house the laboratory of
the department. A new admins
tration building for several branch
es of the Secretary of States Of
flee was previously authorized and
plans for it are practically com
pleted. It is expected that this
project will be advertised for bids
within the next few days. The new
highway department building will
cost about fifty thousand dollars
and the commission expressed the
hope that a federal grant for a
portion of the cost of the structure
could be procured. The building
will house the laboratory depart
ment which is now scattered in
several places, including the base
ment of the Armory and a portion
of the highway sheds at the rear of
the Armory AS soon as plans and
specifications on the structure are
completed, bids will be requested
and work started shortly after the
bids are received. The new high
way building will be located or a
plot south of the Legislative Build
ing while the new Secretary of
States building will be placed on a
plot north of the Legislative Build
ing. CONSTRUCTION work on both
buildings is expected to be under
Way during the winter months.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

other children, to be sure to aff1x
their signatures and return these
Sins to the schools. Diphtheria,
under present-day methods of
health protection, has ceased to be
the serious bug-a-boo it once was
TO parents of young children, ac-
cording to statistics of the State
BOARD of Health. In 1925, the year
before physicians and the State
BOARD of Health started the inn
munization work, there were 80
deaths in the state, and under the
persistent continuance Of the work,
the number steadily declined to
three deaths in 1886, one of which
was that of 79-year-old woman,
of whom diphtheria was reported
as a contributory cause; during the
first ten months of 1887, only one
daath-that of an un-immunized
in Delaware. Dur
ing the ten years preceding 1926,
there was an average of 135 cases
reported annually in the state, but
by 1886 this number had been cut
to go. During the years the i'm
munization program has been car
ried on, all diphtheria deaths, and
almost all the reported cases, have
been among the un-immunSed por-
ton of the population. Parents are
being urged to note carefully the
schedule, to bring all pre-school
children over six months of age for
immunization and to sign the per-
mission slips for older children.
The schedule for Dover, Leipsic,
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

The 1887 Christ
mas Seals on sale
in Decenl Der to
support the educG-
tionGl campaign of
national, state and
local tuberculosis
associations.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
FOREIGN TRAVEL IN CHEVY
Four Young Men just Returning
Tell of Cars Performance

Four Young Men just Returning
Tell of Cars Performance
Four young Americans have just
written a new chapter in the his
tory of cross-country travel that
stands as a record in endurance.
Their modest courage and stamina
cover a record that has been writ
ten into the maze Of almost impOs-
sible roads that lead from Calcut-
ia, India, to Southampton, Eng
land They started on their tour
together at Calcutta on July 16,
1887, after completing years
study at Ligman University, Can
ton, China, as exchange students
from American universities. They
had decided on their tour across
the mountains of Asia, across the
soaring sands of the Syrian Desert,
the Sinai Desert, and other waste
lands, as a more interesting means
of getting back to America than
the customary travel lanes afford
ed. A fifth member Of the party
was a 1888 Chevrolet coupe which
had already seen more than $4,000
miles of service in the United Stat
es when the trip started. The
American college undergraduates
were John Fuller, of San Mateo,
Salif., a Stanford University Junior;
Emmett Durrum, of Harvard Uni
versity; and Richard Lace and
Clayton Zahn, Of Penn State. Full
er, who is known as a navigator of
some accomplishment in the wat
ers off San Mateo, charted the
course the party would take, ship
ped his car from Hongkong to Cal
cutta, took ship himselg, and the
party was ready to start. The
first leg of the journey led $40
miles over winding, primitive roads
to Allahabad, India, after several
days of night and day driving. De-
spite the rough going. the four
young men took turns driving and
sleeping.
You get used to sleeping along
the road even if you are being
bounced around at the same time,
Fuller declared. "Our chief trouble
was keeping the driver from going
to sleep. We just missed going
over the edge of a steep cliff on one
occasion. The driver barely walk
ened in time" Throughout the
trip of more than 10000 miles,
Fuller reported, the car consumed
only 14.2 quarts of oil, and $50 gal
Ions of gasoline average mile
age of 16 miles to the gallon over
the toughest country in the world.
The gasoline available throughout
most of the trip was of the poorest
quality, Fuller said, and contained
a high percentage of carbon.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
POLITICAL ACTIVITY BANNED
For Employees of Delaware Unem-
ployment Compensation Board

There will be no political activity
on the part of employees of the
Delaware Unemployment Compen-
sation Commission, DR.. Charles M.
Wharton, executive director, stated
today, IN releasing to the press the
text of a personnel regulation on
this subject.
The regulation reads as follows:
whereas Section IL I'D of the
Delaware Unemployment Compen-
sation Law prescribes:
No person who is an officer or
committee member of any political
party or who is a candidate for
any public Office shall be appointed
or employed under this Act.
In amplifcation of these instruc-
tions. it is hereby prescribed that
no employee in the service of the
Commission shall participate in
any form of political activity, ex-
cept that he shall have the right to
express freely his views as a cit
izen and to cast his vote.
An employee may be a member
of a political club or organization.
He may not. however, serve as an
officer or committee member of
such organization.
An employee may attend a po-
litical gathering. He may not
speak at such gathering or sit on
the platform.
No employee shall wear any type
of political button or token indicat-
ing preference for any political
candidate or party.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
T.B. Threatens Young Women

iosis in a single year in Detroit and
in New York City. Industrialization
did not affect their health because
35 per cent had never been en-
ployed outside their homes and 20
per cent had been employed less
than year. Dieting, clothing habits,
their educational levels were all
discarded as clues to the mystery.
A recent study of one of the New
York City tuberculosis clinics did
show, however. that the young wo-
men who lived in homes where
there was a person sick with tuber-
culosis were very remiss in getting
proper examination Of themselves.
Every case of tuberculosis
comes from another" Miss Whitney
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
HT.!1I'S1. n KENT
/. Schedule win rII.,,r Include
h, Cooperation Urged
.,cpuBER 21ST

! .,.,sia immunizationl
4 alR1.Ii gor the 1898 sch0Gl a0ia
P'iga t'a, III Instituted early TINS as
vas .,s tss administering Of
I to a'ta children in the :, CIsy'T5l nE r
s,r y View schools, by lo1,ntr pr, =,
In. director Kent t., couhty ~.
,tat stats Board Of Health, ah.aAie Ae-
L. s'ts' to the announced scneaule' Oaua1,
Denomination proglat,, 'i1st,,
T. l,y1 completed in Kent county y
Il, y Dscember 21st. Parents ol
\, Z, n Ure-schoOl age are pelng
I.1I,rIy 4 Il urged to bring them
lslr iO'@. az, n the schools is
the new W.T. to 9 children of the
.vS os.vt's and third grades who
1ot been previously lmmun-
,arants have sign
tnssnt slips for sucn as Ileas
| Parents are being urged,
L safety of their own ana
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
Dover Soloist to Broadcast

Edward ]. Scanlon, Jr., well
known Dover tenor soloist, pre-
sented a program over Station
WDEL, Wilmington, last Friday
night. Mrs. Emma Stewart, of Do
yer, presided at the piano.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

Cheswold, Kenton, Blanco and
Hartly vii be Thursday, December
16 and Smyrna Tuesday, December
21st.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

periodic physical examinations. If
we can catch the disease early we
can nearly always cure it. Do this"
concludes Miss Whitney, and we
tuberculosis statisticians can all go
out of business. This public health
mystery will have solved itself"
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

further says.
+" W Q kno W
that our chief
concern for
the pres ent,
therefore, is
to make mo-
t b e rs a n d
fathers real
ize the neces-
sity of having
their daugh-
ters go to the
doctor for
Evening star., 1937-03-04

~ vOI OIten, 10 Dc SuIc, uoco eiiS
nj opportunity present itself. but
" now it's reared its beautiful
Il head the chance to sing
praises of the modern night club as
an institution of the arts, learning,
science and culture :. or something
for the Club Troika has stepped
forth and discovered its contribution
to human progress is not only one OF
soothing the savage senatorial souls
with dulcet music and shashlik t.
There came The other evening to this
warm and mellow Muscovite manse,
a party, including a man and his
daughter The daughter was (and
probably still isl young lass of some
"a Summers E. or maybe "a Winters
or maybe it is not even "a. but
you get the idea Anyhow. some
years back, when she was tot of 5
or so. she was listening one day to
l1as
Evening star., 1937-03-04

phere is another Of the towns pleas
anter spots. The music and incidental
entertainment are furnished by Johnny
Shaw and his orchestra, with songs
by Russ Cullen, Helen Forrest and
Elise Grignon.
Macina' a's-There's continuous music
and entertainment every night at the
new cocktail lounge.
Hamilton HOtelEMilton Davis and
Evening star., 1937-03-04
After Dark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places
BY the Spectator.
US once
Bill Strickland sing a song !
Trade Mark REGISTERED. q. 8. Patent ONO,

Bill Strickland sing q song Much
applause. of course Evelyn did not
hear AL, heard the applause, dashed
back and sang again causing a
slight case of proStration from laugh
ter on the part of AL and news lad
present . TRY it again." said the
news lad :. "Okay," said Al. I'll 60
out and say 'Hooray for President
Roosevelt" He did and again
Evelyn heard the applause without
knowing what AL had said. again
dashed out to sing This time tell
'em you heard Robert Taylor was in
the house" the news lad told AL :.
He did and you know what happened.
49, Sign O. the times :. They found
slug in the hat check box at Heigh
Ho the other night The lads in
Sande Williams Orchestra have taken
up candid cameraing :. So look pretty
when you 60 to Ell Patio, because Jack
Tarr and Lee Harlan spend their inter-
missions swapping at celebrities
Like Gen. Douglas Macarthur. who
looked in the other night E. . just in
time to see Portia C. Portar (the c is
just for good luck) do those topping
Spanish dances Portia, you know,
is the lass who went to Mexico to
study skill from the toreadors, got in
terested in bull fighting and at the age
of II or so became toreadoress {.
or whatever it would be :. It's report
ed now there are plans afoot to pro-
mote bull fight here in the District
just to quiet all SkepticS and prove the
authenticity of Portals bull-tosslng
skill :. Wonder If Mr.. Griffith would
loan his ball park . If the local organ
grinder reads this he'll know there's a
job awaiting for him :. the Oneto-
Two Club at the Shoreham could do
with little organ grinders swing
E. For once the editorial department
is willing to admit the boys in adver-
tising may have their woes :. . Night
club advertising man for local news
paper met the brother of night club
proprietor on the street the other day
=. Said the brother, I'm going into
the window-cleaning business and If
your paper doesn't give me the con-
tract for cleaning their windows I'll
get my brother to take all his ads out
of it" If you want to hear glee
club just get the HaWaiianS at the
Hi Hat to play Hey Babe" &. . Every
body in the place will join in . :.
That's where the local chapter Of the
mo Inhibitions Club" meets and
anybody who thinks he can sing can
try Johnny Shaw's music lads
at the Madrillon may not like to work
Sunday nights, but it does give local
musicians some place to hear sweet
tunes Heigh Hos Burrus Williams
and Irv Levick and Shoreham's Barnee
were there last Sunday :. 1t hap
pened at the Belasco the other night
and it may not be funny. but it's
clean -. They were calling for jurors
from the audience at the beginning of
Might of January 16" :. Mr.. Cain"
called the court clerk Of the play.
Mr. Cain, please" What"
screamed a stage whisper from the
fourth row. I'VE pay to get in and
the guy from the warehouse is here
, already"
Evening star., 1937-03-04

Casa Grande-Feature of the week
Is the old-fashioned barn dance. every
Evening star., 1937-03-04

s** That was a fine trick played on
Evelyn Knight, the Lotus songstress
and she was all ready to ask for
q raise until she heard about 1t {.
Evelyn sang her three songs the other
evening in the show, left the floor .. I.
al Norton, the Lotus em-cee, asked
the audience how they'd like to hear
Evening star., 1937-03-04

\ II AYFLOWER LOUNGE-After-
M moons or evenings this is a
VI pleasant spot to relax and
you're ALWAYS among the
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Supper Club Notes

week New addition to the enter
tainment program is Joe Wong, Chi
nese comedian. AL Norton is the
master of ceremonies and Bill Strick-
lands orchestra makes the music.
Hi-Hat L0unge-The diversion here
comes both from the people hired to
provide 1.-THE Hawaiians and Singer
Helen Malcolm-and from the guests
who feel the urge to sing. Oscar is
still on hand. of course. to give you
the table you want.
Madrillon Pete Borras' friendly
rendezvous with the Spanish atmoS-
Evening star., 1937-03-04

Bet M. SaXonsky played
'Liebestraum' The way he does
that would make even that first vlo-
linist of the story-the one who just
didn't like music-sit up and take
notice
Evening star., 1937-03-04

~ Ekb Ao
M moons or evenings this is a
|" pleasant spot to relax and
4 4 you're always among the
right people. Sidney's music makes
you want to dance, before Z and after
10. Burrus Williams fills in the inter-
mission with bright piano solos.
4 X X y
Shoreham Hotel - The wonder
Dancers" Frances Woods and Billy
Bray, are back again in the top spot
in the floor show She's the lass, you
remember. who can't hear the music,
but feels the vibrations of it to keep
time. The music she feels is Barnee's,
Of course.
Pail Mall ROOm-Little Sammy Rob-
bins and his orchestra continue to
play dance music as she should be
played. Pleasant song interludes are
provided by Marji Naylor-and that S
the way she insists it be spelled.
FL Pati0-Portia C. Portar, the
young lady who went to Mexico City
to study a toreador dance and took
up bullf1ghting. is the new feature
of the entertainment. She can dc
Spanish dances better than a Span
ish girl" one ringsider commented at
her opening performance. Sande Will
liams and his orchestra supply music
and incidental entertainment.
Lotus-Tu6el and Jean remain to
dance in the top spot in the floor
show and the Paul Florenz Ensemble
also has been held over for another
Evening star., 1937-03-04

Wednesday night, with a hill-billy
band. Orchestra music for modern
dancing is by Bert Motley and his
crew.
II 4 y \
Old Fireside-The Melody Aces pro-
vide music for dancing every Satur-
day night, starting at 10 pm.
Evening star., 1937-03-04


the phonograph
when light
ming struck the
house, gave her a
severe shock
and her subcon-
scious mind tied
tog e t er the
shock and the
music, formed a
hate for music
that she couldn't
Evening star., 1937-03-04

his orchestra continue to provide the
dance music at the Rainbow Room,
still a favorite among the downtown
dine-and-dance spots.
X X
La Paree-Barbiere and Carleta are
the new featured dancers and the show
includes Paula Ruloff, who initiates in
toe dance a band leader. Music Is
by AL Sakol's Orchestra, with songs
contributed by Buddy Shaner.
\ \ y
Mayfair-Entertainment at cocktail.
dinner and supper hour is furnished
by Pianist Jack Campbell and Singer
Leo Lisee, who hold some sort OF q
record for popularity and length Of
engagement.
II
Casa Grande-Feature of the week
Is the old-faShioned barn dance every
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-19

1842-Horace F. Carpenter, noted
Rhode Island mineralogist, born near
Providence. Died there, Feb. %, 1897
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-19

Tobacco prices shot upward on the
Henderson market yesterday to 5000
per hundred pounds, second highest
daily average of the season, when
ol4,I64 pounds of leaf were sold for
$187 ,ZNS280, it was announced Off
cially today by r. ". Mcfarland, sales
supervisor.
Only once this season has the price
been higher, that being $3O95 on
Monday, October 4, when 604,676
pounds of leaf were sold for $751;
246.2O. Only one other day of the pre-
sent season, Monday, September q,
has there been a sale larger than
that of yesterday, the record being
644,092 pounds.
The market was blocked Monday
with an estimated 100000 pounds left
over of a break for the day put at
well over SO0,006 pounds. Growing
need for an additional set of buyers
for the market was emphasized anew
by the huge volume of offerings on
Monday. The market could have been
cleared had a third sale been in pro-
gress during the day.
New offerings today, added to the
leftover of Monday, made up a sale
that lasted virtually the entire day,
and there were indications of a pos
bic second days block in succession.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-19
Progress of Agriculture and
Rural Home-Making
Portrayed in Many
Displays
THREE EXHIBITS OF
WPA ACTIVITY ALSO
All Spaces Taken; Vests
World Wonder Shows Pro-
vide Biggest Midway Of
fered in Many Seasons;
Many Rides, Some New;
Free Acts and Fireworks

Tnsnections of exhibits today at the
Golden Belt Fair by many individuals
gave the impression that the entire
set-up in the exhibit hall was easily
the hest and most attractive In any re-
cent year. The neatness OF the ar
rangements was especially notlceaple'
Every booth in the hall was TAKEN
even to those in the center OF the
building Numerous school dlSpldys
were observed, one in particular snow
ed the advantage of the SOIL conSer-
walton program in erosion prevention.
Another by the Middleburg group, por-
trayed a roadside market for the
farm. A Floydtown exhibit was devot-
ed entirely to the growing am DO
serving of tomatoes. The Henderson
high school and the Epson school had
booths.
There were three exhibits by the
WPA, one most attractive layout on
the recreation work under direction OF
Mrs. w. D. Payne Another showed
the work of the WPA sewing room.
1t would be difficult to mention all,
but highest commentator was &C
corded to every one. Judging was
held this morning with N. G. State
College Extension Service experts in
charge. Blue and red ribbons for ex-
cellence were much in evidence, and
the entire exhibit hall portrayed the
activities of the home and farm and
the relief agency.
A large Monday night crowd came
out to give the fair the first "once
over" and the verdict was the midway
attractions were displayed on the larg-
est scale in any recent year of the
fair. Many of the rides have been
here before, including the always pop
ular hobby horses and Ferris wheels
1.-TWO of them), and one or two rides
that are making their first appear
ance here. A number of rides for
children are offered.
Vests World Wonder Shows are
furnishing the attractions of the Mid
way. One of the features is the
monkey show, fun house, the old
plantation show, the sideshow with it's
many different features, and others.
There are several girl shows
Admission to the grounds was free
Monday night, but charges became
effective today. The entire fair organ
ization will be ready for full opera
ton tonight. At mid-afternoon there
was real threat of rain, and it was
feared that would cut down the at
tendance, but the weather forecast
was for intermittent or periodic show
ers.
A group of free acts was on the pro-
gram for the throngs without charge
of any kind. Aerial work and stage
attractions were offered
One of the always popular features
Of the evening will be fireworks every
night of the fair barring rain, of
cause. New and varied designs have
been provided for this year
Tomorrow will be school day at the
fair, and all school children will be adj
mitted free if they obtain tickets from
their teachers. Part or entire day
holidays will be given city and rural
children. City schools will recess at
the noon hour and dismiss children
for the remainder Of the day.