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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-12

One. Of several Richard Whitney
& Co.. officials to testify before
Assistant. Attorney General AM
brose Mccall in New York on the
collapse Of the firm, Robert
Rosenthal, cashier, presented the
firms records. Rosenthal de-
clared Whitney, without authori-
zation so far. as he knew, had in
structed the cashier to turn over
to him large blocks of securities
be. longing to others.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-12
Mrs. Maynae Ryan
says she's ssWife ex-Oflicic

Desertion charges Of Mrs. May1ne
Ryan against her millionaire hus-
band, Thomas Fortune Ryan, II,
soon may be brought to court fol-.
lowing his arrest in Miami on
charges Of non-support and WIFE
desertion. Mrs. Ryan, a Wyom-.
ing girl, married the tobacco heir
after a. dude ranch romance in
Wyoming six years ago. She
says she is tired Of being s..wife
ex-officio" after more than two
years separation from Ryan.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-12

Separated Schuman (righ
his Grsh the North Philadelphia railroad station Grsha
broke His
United Grha
while conducting
orchestra Ppng The ad had been published by his father
the reunion Grshas wife daughter still China will
1ejoin him. Central Press)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-12

Theodore Danielson, Jr., with dep
uty >. guilty of matr;cide?
Theodore Danielson, Jr., 16-year-
old Chicago youth who allegedly
stabbed his mother to death with
q Z. bread knife when she reprl-
manded him for skipping school,
leaves Cook county Jail under
guard of a deputy to re-enact the
Staying in the kitchen Of the
Danieison home.
Central Press
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-12
Central Press)

go W4lIace master m1nd"Y
i. - -. ~. 4
Washington Observers say friends
Of Secretary Of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace are laying the folndat
ton for a Wallace for President;
boom. The same observers say
that the man organizing the Wai-
lace movement is Paul Appleby;
assistant to wallace. !,
n -GeHW0t ~
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-12
Graph showing night and day deaths

Night fatalities according Dudley Dggs
80 cent from 1880 to 1887 whereas deaths during
daylight dropped better Lighting
said that through
illumination 81 arterial miles
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-12

Talents of Wally Bishop, creator
of the popular Central Press
comic strip, "Muggs McGlnnis
stretch into other fields, partlcu-
larly yacht racing. So Blshop -
the winner Of the ninth annual
st. Petersburg, Fla, to HaVan"'
Cuba, yacht race.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03

service thousand been taken out
by the day while being
connecting switches located They
they gloves job simple
matter of throwing switch letting the through
At least that's what they thought But when they
dangg IL the Ms f d @ & ensOn
brackets The laid aside their switch sticks
those they dead
no need for gloves or any such precautions
doing so he passed within few inches Of the open SWITCH
Dick thought he little TOO
hung his set wires the brackets and passing the
switch took care to be farther from than
Dicks hand at least eight when
suddenly, things began to happen.
Eleven Thousand Volts Hit Them
backfeed what did it power suddenly
shed back from another station 1t hit that SWITCH couldn't
there was that ground wire Dicks inches from hs Switch
with all the a hunderbolt 5
Dick felt himself being picked through
the other Each them landed
the switch Dicks had been search
remembers is staggering to his feet his
His face scorched from the terrific heat
He put his hand his headand bald! bit
current, says given me heat shave cleaner
than any barber could have done it, and all fraction
Dick walked back the switch deadly
broken loose His partner and joined him.
nothing but mass of molten metal Lps of hot
floor The big insuaors There wasn't
sign OF them They had been blown to dust.
Lucky to Escape With Their Lives.
Says Dick
with lives don't believe
wire at place that well insulated
place. had there been slight leak unquesnab
have in cloud of smoke"
So, Dick choice
every may of YOU when crowd of
lions through looking but hered be
Service
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
Ketchel Becomes King

Perhaps the most interesting era
of the middleweights was when a
young coal miner named Stanley
Ketchel came out of Butte, Mont,
back in 1907 and announced that he
intended to fight his way through a
group of tough battlers to the top.
Nobody paid much attention to him
until one night in San Francisco he
knocked out Joe Thomas.
Ketchel was matched with the
Sullivan twins, Mike and Jack, and
he flattened them both. He imme-
diately became sensation. Then a
young bOilermaker named Billy
Papke came out of Kewanee, Ill.
People called him the tThunder-
bolt" Ketchel fought him in Mil
waukee and won after ten rounds.
Ketchel went back to San Fran
cisco, where he stopped Hugo Kelly,
who had claimed the title. He beat
Thomas again and then once more
took Papke on. This time it was
different. Ketchel had not bothered
to train and he was badly beaten.
Less than two months later
Ketchel did something few fighters
had ever done before. He came
back and defeated the man who
had taken his title from him. Ketch-
ell went on as king of the middle
weights and even fought Jack John
son for the heavyweight belt. Out
weighed, he lost after furious bat
tie. Late in 1910 Ketchel was shot
and killed on a Missouri ranch.
Papke again claimed the title.
He knocked out Willie Lewis to prove
his right to the throne. "Cyclone"
Johnny Thompson Of Sycamore, ILL.,,
beat Papke in Australia. Then in
1912 came a parade of good fighters
to keep the middleweight tradition
popular. They were Jimmy CIab-
by, Frank Klaus, Eddie McGoorty,
Jack Dillon, and George Chip.
Following the reign of these titans
came Mike Gibbons, known as the
uncrowned king and some fair mid
dleweights. Then the division
slipped BECAUSE of lack of high class
competitors, although Mickey Walk
er and Harry Greb were exceptions.
Now it appears there is splen-
did chance that there will be an
other era like that in the days of
Ketchel and Papke.
Steele and ApOstoli probably come
nearer being the Ketchel and Papke
type of fighters than the ring has
seen since their day.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
MacPhail's New Job

r AIRY MAC PHAIL, who at
- tempted to kidnap Kaiser Will
helm after the armistice and wound
up with the imperial ash tray, ac-
copied an even more hazardous as
signment recently when he became
executive vice president of the Brook
lyn Dodgers.
MacPhail's appointment repre-
sents the most drastic step yet TAX
en- by the bankers to untangle the
snarl which has gripped the Dodg-
ers for Ii years. Ever since the
deaths of Charles III. Ebbets and
Edward J. McKeever within ten
days Of each other in the spring of
1925, the affairs of the Brooklyn
club, on and off the field, have been
a succession of errors.
McPhail is the third business
manager the Dodgers have had in
the last four years, but the first
with any authority.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
"Fid. Def" ON British Coins

The title 'Fidei Defensor" ODE
fender of the FAITH was conferred
on the English King Henry VIII by
Pope Leo x, in 1921. 1t was his rec
ignition of Henry's reply to Martin
Luther. When Henry quarreled with
Rome, in 1888, the Pope then in
power, Paul III, deprived him of
this title. But in 1914 it was con-
firmed by the English parliament.
and has. ever since been borne by
all British sovereigns. Now it refers
to the Protestant faith, and not, as at
first, to the Catholic religion.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
Snake Rattles Don't Count

A persistent and popular notion
is that the age of a rattlesnake may
be told by counting the rings or but
tons OF the rattle, each one of which
is supposed to represent a year in
his life. This is entirely erroneous,
says writer in the Detroit News,
because they actually take on an
average of three each year. Vibra-
ton at the tip is so pronounced that
very frequently segment is brok-
en- off and lost Some small speci-
mems carry more buttons than some
twice their size.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
Several Colleges Join
War to Check Syphilis

Stimulated. by the national cam
paign to control ,yenereaI, disease, "a
few colleges and universities are
making syphilis tests a part of the
routine examinations required of in
coming students. Judging from a
survey made by the Chicago Trib-
une, sociological diagnosis for syph-
Ills is not common regulation
among student health services, how
ever. 80
Instruction on the sexual and So
cial hazards of the disease is far
more common. Many universities,
in fact, require their freshman men
and women to take courses in health
or hygiene revealing the character
of the disease. Others confine this
instruction to medical and socio-
logical courses beyond the reach of
most students.
University presidents, deans, and
health directors questioned were
unanimous in declaring that syph-
Ills does not constitute a major
health problem on American cam
puses.
Most of them agreed that students
found to have syphilis and gonor-
rhea should be kept in school where
they could have adequate treat
ment. Prep school leaders, dealing
with younger boys, were just as GER
tain that all syphilitics should be
barred.
The University of Chicago, Uni
i versity of Iowa, and Dartmouth col
lege are schools which have elected
to give Wasserman or Kahn tests
to all newcomers. New York univer-
sity offers free tests to all students,
but. does not require them.
Testing began on the Midway with
the winter quarter this month, talk
ing advantage of the Chicago board
of health's program of free and
secret examinations, since the uni
versity health service lacked funds
for this purpose.
Dartmouth college began routine
Wassermans last fall and found one
case of congenital syphilis among
$50 incoming students.
The University Of Iowa started
sociological testing of freshmen in
1924 and continued until 1890, re-
ported DR.. M. E. Barnes, head of
the department of hygiene. It
ceased, he said, because of many
objections. The university then con-
fined its testing to food handlers,
employees, and others.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
Indians Used China Brier

The China brier, which grows in
Florida, was used by the Seminole
Indians to prepare dish called
coontie, or contee, which was made
from the starchy roots of the China
brier. The roots were chopped up
and pounded in a mortar. Then
this meal was mixed with water
and strained through a basket. The
sediment, when dry, was red meal.
this meal was mixed with honey and
warm water. 1t jelled as it cooled
and was eaten with corn bread or
cakes.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
@PEAKIN q
|CPoTRTs |
By GEORGE A. BARCLAY II
Boom Days Are
Predicted for
Middleweights

Golden days loom ahead for
the middleweights, if prophets
reading the future by means of
the past are correct in their
representations. Golden days
for 160-pound fighters who prove
their competence with fists
and footwork in the prize ring.
The old boom times of the middle
weight division promise to become
the new boom times, because for
the first time in a generation there
is great abundance of classy tai
ent in this field. 'r''.
The bitter fistic, feud between
Champion Freddy Steele Of Ia
coma, WASH, and Fred Ap0stoli Of
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
Cue King Repeats

TOR the fifth time in fifteen years,
:, Jake Schaefer Of Chicago has
won the 1872 balkline billiard cham
pionship. This time he took the
crown: from Welker Cochran.
Playing championship billiards is
a habit in the Schaefer family.
Jake's father, Jacob, ST., was
champion before the present title
holder was born. The elder Schae-
fer held championships. at one time
or another in the 14-inch. balkline,
1871 balkline and 1872 divisions.
Young Jake became a two-divi-
sion champion last year when he
won the 1872 balkline championship
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03

crochet and popcorns-the latter
in white or a contrasting color
are the making of it. Use 4-fold
Germantown-it works up just
right and makes a set as warm
as toast.
In pattern 1858 you will find in
structions for making the set
shown; illustrations Of it and of all
stitches used; material require
ments; color suggestions.
TO obtain this pattern, send Is
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferreO. to The Sewing Circle.
Household Arts Dept, 259 w.
Fourteenth ST., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, adj
dress and pattern number plainly.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03


San Francisco growing out of their
recent non-title battle in New York
when the challenger knocked the
champion cold is a case in point.
1t recalls the lusty era when STAN
ley Ketchel, Billy Papke, Joe Thorn
as, Cyclone" Johnny Thompson,
Hugo Kelly, Kid Mccoy and lot
more of like importance filed ring
history with epic battles and their
pockets with ready coin.
Steele and Apostoli will fight for
the championship in Seattle in the
spring. They will probably fight
several times more before the books
are finally closed. They will have
other opponents, too, such as Young
Corbett III, Glen Lee, Lou Brouil-
lard, Solly Krieger, Jack McAvoy,
Marcel Thil of France and a couple
of job lot invaders from England.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
Honors for ''Old Pete''

When the moguls of baseball de-
creed recently that the newest niche
in the hall of fame at Cooperstown,
N. Y, should be filled by Grover
Cleveland Alexander they made
move that is certain to be popular
with fans everywhere. There had
been grumblings because he was not
named earlier and belief by some
that he might never attain the hon
or.
"Old Pete" the great pitcher who
stood National league batters on
their heads for 20 years, joins Sc
lect company including Ty Cobb,
Babe Ruth, Hans Wagner, Christy
Mathewson, Walter Johnson, NapO-
leon Lajoi, Iris Speaker and Cy
Young, all named in past ballots
as the games outstanding players
since 1900.
Alex never pitched no-hitter,
but that was about the only thing he
missed. He turned in four one-hit
games in 1915, a record which will
probably never be equalled. He
won % games in 1911, his first big
league season and for three straight
years beginning in 1915 he won 30 or
more victories.
When all these tremendous pitch
ing feats are forgotten, Alex will
be remembered for a single strike
out he chalked up in the 1925 world
series between the st. Louis Cardi-
nails and the New York Yankees.
1t was the seventh inning Of the
final game. The Cards were leading
3 to 2. The Yanks had the bases
loaded, two down and Tony Lazzeri
at bat. Alex, who had won nine
inning game the day before, was
called by Hornsby to relieve Jess
Haines.
cold Pete" walked slowly to the
pitching mound and set Lazzeri
down on. three pitches. Then he
plodded YEARLY through the last
two innings to win the game and the
first worlds championship for st.
Louis, ..,..>:'
Here and There
!. Of the twenty teams that have
appeared in the Rose Bowl during
the twenty-year history of the game,
only four are indicated in the clas-
sic They are Southern Cali
fornia, which has won its four
games; Notre Dame, Columbia, and
Harvard, each Of whom have been
in the Rose Bowl once Joe
Judge, former Washington first
baseman, stands to make a stable
piece Of change if Harry Basin, a
third baseman he developed at
Georgetown, signs with the New
York Yankees Moe Berg, the
Boston Red S0x catcher who speaks
seven languages, always begins his
breakfast with pie and finishes with
grapefruit British soldiers with
drawn bayonets patrol the public
golf course at-Bannu on the north
west frontier Of India to protect
players from raids by fierce Wazi-
ristan tribesmen.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
Floyd &66o%'s>
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
"When the Volts Broke LOOSE
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter

II ELLO EVERYBODY:
all know what happens when the lions get loose
Here's something that be just deadly full grown,
an-eatng lion. It's doggone sight than lions,
too You've got e your house. and they travel along
every street the city live in It's volts talking about
those little electrical edgehamers that pack such terrific
wallop.
The Of those volts get together place. the Of
walop they of thenhe
lighting circuit at homew knock flat on his back he gets
this foong
with thousand of hngsand that's three four
times they through the electric chair Sing Sing
Richard Flushing of Distinguished
Adventur the honor with the story how feels
the volts the thousand
strong Dick electrician and he he's had plenty
another,
lightning biggest thrill OF
The date February At that working for
the railroad lot of those cleo
fed that New York Island Dicks
large quantities
Thought 1t Was a Simple Job.
Dick work at four o'clock that February day. He and his
worked the midnight shift They had
when they
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
Lucky to Escape With Their Lives.
Strength of a Lion

Naturalists have seen lion leap
over a nine-foot wall with a calf in
it's mouth, honeybees extinguish the
flame of candle with the breeze
created by their wings, and secre-
tary bird, four feet high, kill ven
omous snake with one blow of it's
foot.-Collier' Weekly.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
Even Beginner
Can Make These

Here's a chance to please every
body = the delighted youngster
who gets his set and yourself who
makes it! You'll want to crochet
a set for all eligible young misses,
the pieces work up so well. Double
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
The Dominican Renublic

The Dominican republic has both
historic and scenic attractions. Gu
dad Trujillo, formerly Santo Domin-
go, is the oldest European settle
ment in this hemisphere, having
been founded by Bartolome,
brother of Christopher Columbus, in
1896.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03
CALL RECRUITS
IN SYPHILIS WAR

Call for recruits" in the "War
Against Syphilis" by Gen. John j.
Pershing and DR.. Ray Lyman Will
bur will be heard throughout the
country. General Pershing is chair
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03

The speed with which Bayer tab
lets act in relieving the distressing
symptoms of colds and accompany
ing sore throat is utterly amazing
;. and the treatment is simple
and pleasant. This is all you do.
Crush and dissolve three genuine
Bayer Aspirin tablets in one-third
glass of water. Then gargle with
this mixture twice, holding your
head we'll back.
This medicinal gargle will act
almost like a local anesthetic on
the sore, irritated membrane of
your throat. Pain eases promptly;
rawness is relieved.
You will say it is remarkable.
And the few cents it costs effects
abig saving over expensive Throat
gargles" and strong medicines.
And when you buy, see that you
get genuine BAYER ASPIRIN.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-02-03

broader interest in the fight on
syphilis and the conditions which
favor. its spread with a war fund
of 100000 contributed by .volun-
teers,". says Doctor Wilbur, who is
also president of the association.
The Washington times., 1938-03-29
Mrs. Van Bibber
Death Takes Heroine
OF Old Romance

Mrs. Gladys Denzell Van Bibber,
descendant of the aristocratic Den.
cells of England, whose marriage
to a commoner half a century ago
caused her to be diSowned by her
family, died yesterday at her resi-,
dence, 1920 Willow ST., Takoma
Park, Md.
Native of England, Mrs. Van
Bibber was brought here on a
visit by her parents. When only
is years old she met and married
William Van Bibber, a Hollander,
in Atlanta, Ga. Because of this
marriage Mrs. Van Bibber's rela
tives in England chose to regard
her as dead.
The couple came to Washington
to live 40 years ago. They had
lived in Atlanta. Mr.. Van Rubber
died here in 1884. He had been in
the Government service.
Mrs. Van Bibber was a member
Of Calvary Baptist Church, but
for several years had lived a life
of complete retirement.
Funeral services will be held al
II o'clock tomorrow afternoon al
Gawler's funeral home, 1855 Penn
sylvania Ave-, with the Rev. vii
liam E. La Rue officiating. Buria
will be by the side of her husband
in Glenwood Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1938-03-29
Geo. Compton
Noted ". Y. LauUyev
Funeral Is Held

NEW YORK, March 29.-More
than 400 persons, including Mavor
LaGuardia and a score Of other
prominent political figures of New
York, attended the funeral serv.
ices yesterday of George Brokaw
Compton, attorney, one of the
founders of the American Legion
and a prepayment of the new city
charter.
Services were held in the Fourth
Presbyterian Church, West Emo
Avenue nc Ninety.first Street,
where Mr.. Compton had served
as a trustee.
The Is honorary pallbearers in.
Guided the mayor, former Judge
Samuel Seabury, Controller Joseph
B. McGoldrick, former Corpora,
ton Counsel Paul Windels, Fed
eral Judges Alfred c. Coke and
William Bondy, Assemblyman vii
liam j. Sheldrick. and Thomas D
Thatcher, chairman of the New
York City Charter Commission.
Following services, the body was
taken to Ferncliff Mausoleum
HartSdale, for cremation. Buria,
will take place at Chatham, N. Y.
where Mr.. Compton lived for many
years,
The Washington times., 1938-03-29
Abrom Lisner
Retired NJ erchGnt
Laid to Rest Here

Prominent civic and business
leaders of the city were among
those who paid tribute to Abram
Lisner, retired Washington mer-
chant and philantropist, this
morning at services held at the
Lisner home, 1923 Massachusetts,
Ave. N. w.
DR.. Abram Simon, rabbi Of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation,
and DR.. John A. Mccartney, rec
tor of the Church of the Covenant,
officiated at the rites. Burial was
in the family mausoleum in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers included
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, DR.. Rob-
ert Oden, Saul GAM, Clarence
LiSner. Leon Tobriner, Sidney Lis
ner, George w. White, H. A. Will
lard, I'd, c. F. r. Ogilby, Charles
Jacobsen, o. H. P. johnson, Will
liam Kurtz Wimsatt, Theodore
Noyes, Edward H. Droop, Harvey
Davis, c. Carroll Glover, Robert
V. Fleming and Arthur Peter.
Mr.. Lisner, who was in his
e1ghty-eighth year when he died
Saturday, was for many years a
generous contributor to Washing.
ton charities. He founded the
Pala1S Royal Department Store,
now owned and operated by the
hreSge Company of New York.