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Newspaper Page Text"BIGGEST BABY” "ROW” SWINGS INTO NEW YORK PROUD BROOKLYN WOMAN CLAIMS NEIGHBOR’S CHILD HAS RECORD NEW YORK, July 22 (TP)—The 'biggest baby” argument swung Into Sew York today. For the past week the dispute has »een raging between doctors in Grace ’ille, Minn., Clear Lake, la., Sale City, 3a., and Andover, New Brunswick. Each of the city's made a claim to »eing the home of the biggest baby iver bom. All boasted oables weigh ing from 15 pounds to 18 pounds. The two biggest cities in the United States had little to say. Chicago made a “reverse English” claim for honors by pointing out that the small est baby In the world—l 2 ounce Jacqueline Robinson—had been born In Chicago and now .t the age of ilx months has grown to a strapping tight pound girl. Today New York got Into the dis pute for the first time. A pound Brook lyn woman phoned Transradio to re port that one of her neighbors— Winfred Olthas—had been a record baby when he was born. Olthas is now 17 years old and a husky six-foot soccer player. When he was born on April 19, 1919 he was well over the 17-pound mark. “I’m not sure that he beat the 17 and three-quarters pound of the baby up in Andover, New Brunswick,” re ported Transradio’s informant, “but I do know that he holds the record for New York—and if the big babies in those other towns grow up as big and healthy as Winfred they’ll have something tn boast about.” —and now that New York is in the argument Transradio invitee other cities to file their claims. VIOLET RAYS SEEN ENEMY OF “FLU” WOMAN DOCTOR SAYS SCI ENCE WILL OVERCOME DISEASE NEW YORK, July 22 (TP)—A woman doctor told two Harvard scientists today that the use of ultra violet rays to kill “flu” germs in the air is a process about eight years old. At the same time Dr. Eleanore Conover of the United Hospital Fund Information Bureau predicted that the Harvard experiments will help to dis pel d'sbelief in some quarters that in fluenza germs can be carried by the air. Instructor W. F. Wells and H- W. Brown of Harvard’s public health school made news Monday when they revealed they had killed “flu” germs in the air by using ultra-violet rajrs. Dr. Conover replied that the Beth Israel hospital in New York installed ultra-violet ray equipment in the sur gery room in 1928. Superintendent Louis Frank of Beth Israel hospital said the system is not expensive—but that there were skeptics who didn’t believe "flu” germs could be carried in the air. The Harvard scientists proved that “flu” germs remain alive in the room 30 minutes after a sneeze. u. s/planTfor NAVAL SQUADRON MAY REESTABLISH DE PARTMENT DISBAND * ED IN 1929 WASHINGTON, July 22 (TP).— Political unrest in Europe may force the state department to re-establish the United States navy’s European squadron. State Secretary Hull electrified newsmen today with the information that his department is already con sidering this action. Uncle Sam’s European naval squadron was dis banded in 1929. Mr. Hull said he decided to send the American warships “Oklahoma" and “Quincy" to Spanish waters yes terday after a conference with Act ing Navy Secretary Standley. Secre tary HUH said President Roosevelt was not consulted on the emergency measure but that he was advised im mediately after the orders were is sued. Naval experts think Uncle Sam would have to take a portion of the . Pacific fleet to make up the propos ed European squadron. They don’t think, however, that the entire fleet could be made up from ships in the Pacific—because that would weaken the Pacific fleet too much. U. S. MAGAZINE BARRED BY JAPAN NEW YORK, July 22 (TP).—Uncle Sam’s state department asked the Japanese foreign office today ftr an explanation of why the last edition of t he American magazine "Current History,” was barred from Japan. Editor M. E. Tracy of “Current History" was advised that State Sec retary Hull has asked a reply from the Japanese state department. Tracy drew a blank when he tried to find out for himself why the last edition of his magazine was not permitted on Nipponese news stands. Tracy asked the Japanese embassy in Wash ington. The embassy said it hadn't the faintest idea why the home office forbade "Current History.” Tracy said the edition in question tarried two articles on Japan. One , Bas written by New York upiverslty’s i Brofessor of government, Charles Rogers. It was called “the Japanese The other was written by wpßilchi Takahashi, son of the Japa #>?,*se fina' --j? minister slain In the mill r ar v . 7*. 11 rs 1 - . ' 1 blunder MOUNTAIN FOLK SEEK HONORS IN DANCE FESTIVAL Pll Candler dance team in action at Asheville folk festival I*!' ** - W Jesse Rogers, 96 -W t> ean of tiddlers Whirling through intricate folk dances as moun tain musicians play ancient tunes, dancing teams from remote sections of North Carolina and ad joining states, participate in the ninth annual Southern Appalachians Song and Dance festival at Asheville. N C., July 23-25. A dozen dance teams, each comprised of 16. men and women, scores of musicians and more than 100 ballad sing- TOPEKA PRIMES FOR BIG EVENT ALL REPUBLICAN ROADS LEAD TO KANSAS CAPITOL FOR LANDON NOTIFICATION CEREMONIES. TOPEKA, Kans., July 22 (TP)— All Republican roads are leading to Topeka today. . , Thousands of Governor Alf Lan don’s admirers are streaming into the state capital on special trains, buses,, airplanes and automobiles. Topeka is decked out in carnival dress for to morrow’s celebration at which Lan don will formally accept his nomina tion as the G. O. P. Presidential can didate. Sponsors of the celebration pre dict it will be the greatest in the history of Kansas. Streets are a maze GUIDES SEEKING TO AID CLIMBERS BERNE, Switzerland, July 22 (TP) Four mountain guides are toiling up a 13,000 foot peak in the Oberland mountains today in an effort to res cue two German and two Austrian climbers. The climbers were caught in an avalanche and swept over a precipice. Below, in the valley the victims can be plainly seen through field glasses. They are dangling motionless on their lifeline. One of the men ap peared to show faint signs of life as he hung over the cliff on the stout rope. The experienced Swiss guides are throwing caution to the wind in their race to reach the Imperilled men. Lit tle hope that all four ill-fated climb ers are still alive was held by the Swiss villagers. Scores Slain as New Terror Grips Spain * 4a ,A<Mr\4||WliMK|iH||pwWwwfe-’ «*sjwjfry * WA& JI I* ttW W&W y*WKßgfj|« AV< «£ wBHHrtaL jW - Immmr /i. jb«tS Z: &3 : W gSR' £&» ' ttb <UAI ■* flKf WriilL "• M 3jfe /?§#•'« HIT JI Sf^9L ; 0m ' *1 -jpiHi. w i, as / ' : ''< ' '< \ J ' ( F ’ > ' .<?’*', nt^p l j|l z * ' z IL •;- ’ ' ' ‘ ■ ™ A new reisrn of terror rules in Spein, with scorn killed nnd hundreds wounded in heavy fighting between fascist rebels and loyal Republic '.us. This picture, tauan ou the occasion of race it rlc: iij in Madrid, indi cates the seriousness of the new situation, in which the life of the Republic is threatened. - ers compete for prizes during the festival, which annually attracts thousands of visitors to Ashe ville's McCormick field. The Candler dance team, winner of the championship tn 1935, is pictured above. Inset shows Jesse Rogers, 96-year-old dean of Southern Appalachian fiddlers. Most of the dance formations used by teams and the music had fheir origin in England centuries ago. —Central frees of color supplied by miles of bunting. Plans already are completed for a mammoth parade. A mighty battery of microphones will pick up Landon’s address ana bring it to listeners in every corner of the nation. The G. O. P. national headquarters arranged for the ad dress to be broadcast by four nation al networks. Landon refuses to discuss politics before he makes his first major ad dress to the nation. Although belea gured by newsmen, the governor mere ly smiles and says, “No comment.” BILBO ATTACKS PAT HARRISON Mississippi senator de sires SEE SENATE COL LEAGUE DEFEATED JACKSON, Miss., July 22 (TP)— Senator Theodore, "The Man” Bilbo isn’t running for office this year but he’s conducting one of the bitterest campaigns of his career. Bilbo is campaigning against his colleague in the Senate, Pat Harrison. Harrison is opposed for the Democrat ic Senatorial nomination by former Gov. Sennett Conner. Harrison and Bilbo quarrelled over the appointment of Judge Edwin Holmes to the sth District Federal Court in Mississippi. Bilbo was vio lently opposed to 'the appointment because, Harrison says Holmes once put Bilbo behind the bars for refus ing to testify in court. SAVANNAH. D‘A> WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1936 AMERICAN ART HAS DEFENDER NEW YORK, July 22 (TP).—A magazine publisher named Barrett Andrews is trying to open the eyes of Americans who say that art has ‘ not been born in ths country. Andrews, with a group of others who feel the way he does has organ ized the International Society of Art and Decoration. It has been incor porated in New York. Its aim is to , stimulate interest in American art and artists. It will sponsor exhibits and concerts, award medals grant scholarships—in short, let the world > in on the fact that the United States is on the map of music, literature, painting, sculpture and decorative arts. Publisher Andrews of "Arts and Decoration” boasts a fast rising ' I membership list in the society. Simi -1 lar organizations in England, Italy, I Mexico and South America have J asked to be permitted to co-operate in the work. TWO YEARS JAILER FRENCH WOMAN SPY ' PARIS, July 22 (TP)—A woman typist in the French Foreign Office was condemned today to two years imprisonmenton charges of spying state secrets for Germany. The typist, Isabelle Queyrel, had , been a faithful clerical worker in , the Quai D’Orsay for 30 years. Her husband. Charles Queyrel, was also sentenced to two years imprisonment 1 for complicity in the spy ring. ] The alleged leader of the ring, Dr. , Barre, was sentenced to spend four ‘ years in jail. The government accus ed him of luring Mrs. Queyrel to be- ! tray France and turn over secrets to German agents. , OHIOANS TO RECEIVE TELEPHONE REFUNDS TOTALING $12,000,000 COLUMBUS. Ohio, July 22 (TP)— Three million Ohioans will get nearly $12,000,000 in refunds from the Ohio Bell Telephone Company. After nearly 19 months deliberation, the State Supreme Court today upheld a State Public Utilities Commission order for the refund. The case, had been fought through the courts for fourteen years. Telephone company officials hinted strongly that it may take the case to the United States Supreme Court. The same order which demanded the refund also set up a new rate schedule for the Ohio Phone company. BONIN CLAIMS FLOWERS \ IS WORTHWHILE HOBBY NEW PORT, R. 1., July 22 (TP).— R. J. Bonin says that he’s not par ticularly interested in any interna tional controversy over bigger and better babies but when it comes to freaks of nature in flowers he has something worth talking about. For ten years Bonin has raised flowers es a hobby and has special ized in dahlias. The bulbs he plant ed this year were no different from hundreds of others he has planted in the past. One, however, has pro duced a Siamese-twin dahlia. Usually only one flower is grown on a single stalk. Bonin’s twins are red single blooms browing back to back at the head of a three-foot stem that bears but a single leaf. MOTHERLESS TOTsT TAKEN FROM FATHER MINEOLA L. 1., July 22 (TP). — Three motherless children were re moved from their father’s home to day and placed In custody of their grandfather. The father, Major George Fahyn, Jr., of Garden City was accused of neglecting the chil dren. The charges were brought by an aunt of the children. Today, the Mineola children’s court settled the family quarrel by placing the children in the care of George Fahyn, Sr. The father will be per mitted to see his children whenever he desires. PREDICTS MERGER OF RELIGIONS PROFESSOR BELIEVES CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS MAY FORM AN ALLIANCE. NEW YORK, July 22 (TP).—The prediction that Catholics and Protes tants may form a philosophic alliance within the next 50 years is credited to the Rev. Walter-M. Hort*n today. Rev. Horton, the professor of sys tematic theology in the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, made his prediction in a lecture before a Columbia universty summer session class. The Oberlin professor pointed out that it has been within onlv a few UAZQ.U AV XACIO kJVCIX W VUAy ft ICW UV IWS lUOrLUXIVy. l! NOT—In the News • • • * « • COPYRIGHT. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION By WORTH CHENEY Many strange and Interesting ex periences are had by the travelers of the cross-country busses. Bus travel is something like traveling on a ship: formal attitudes of people toward each other disappear, and there is a warm friendliness and comradeship developed in its place. Not long ago, a reader of this col umn was traveling through the south ern portion of Arizona by bus. The dessert wind, sun and dust combined to put the passengers in a sleepy and somewhat restless mood. The vehicle had been stopped at the Arizona state line and after being checked by the state authorities headed eastward again. The coach hadn’t proceeded far when the passengers suddenly were startled out of their lethargy as the big bus was brought to a sudden stop. Everyone craned his neck to see what had caused the driver to stop so quickly. A few passengers and the driver alighted and were outside for a few minutes. Upon re-entering they said a young lad of about 18 years of ag4 had fallen flat on his face on the road, directly in front of the bus. He seemed to have fainted. The bus driver said ne was not per mitted to pick anyone up, without a fare, but he would signal the bus coming in the opposite direction to send the authorities of Yuma to come out and get the youth. He was bare footed and wore only ragged blue shirt and tom white duck trousers. Some of the passengers wanted to give him his fare, but he replied that he was a Boy Scout and wouldnt take any money. The passengers insisted, but he became threatening and they left him alone. The bus started up again, and just as suddenly as before came to a stop. The lad had fallen down again. The former scene was re-enacted and fi nally the driver climbed into his seat to start up again. This time he swerved the bus way around the boy and he didn’t fall down. Being interested in what had tone on, our correspondent looked out of the rear window, since he happened to be sitting in what a drunken Texas cowpuncher called the "jump seat,’’ and watched the boy. After the bus passed him, he seemed to be walking more slowly than before and with aver- d*elded limp. Watching him v/iih field glasses, our corre ■nendent saw him turn around and -raze down the long, stra’ght, hot tretch of concrete, lying like a white ibbon in the gleaming sun of the c’ sert. Then our informer perceived a black speck in the distance, which turned out to be an oncom ng auto- | mobile. When the automobile was about l Attacks Townsend m JI IMF / MF MBS ' -rf'-s \ - L’ '. %wJjM 9' 1 , ■> •< > , > Am -4'' - '' Robert E. Clements Robert E. Clements, co-found er of the Townsend Old Age Revolving Pension organization who recently resigned, put in an appearance in Cleveland as the Townsendites met in convention and the camerman snapped him reading a newspaper in his ho tel room. Clements was bitter in his attitude toward Dr. Fran cis E. Townsend, the pension chief, and charged him with longing for “dictatorial, Hitler ish power which he wants to ex ercise not only over the organi zation but also over the nation al government.” years that the words of Saint Thom as Aquinas, urging the unification of all Christian sects, has been accept ed by Catholic and Protestant theo logians. “Today,” said Rev. Horton, “Prot estants and Catholics alike are read ing his works and accepting his theses When a new movement of thought gets under way, it often spreads very quickly. Fifty years would not be too short a time for it to reach its maturity.” 100 yards away from the boy, he promptly fell flat on his face on the , hot roadway again. This time he was picked up ana taken into the car. Evidently his system had finally worked. When Logic Isn’t Logic By WORTH CHENEY (Central Press Association) We suppose you might say about this little anecdote that its logic is not quite logical. Mary, 14, one of six daughters of a farmer in central Ohio, was quite perturbed recently when she paid a visit to a neighbor’s home. She seemed to be deeply worried about something, and when the neighbor questioned her she disclosed her fears. “I’m afraid,” said Mary, tearfully, "that Pa has et some pins.” J “Eaten some pins?” cried the neigh bor in surprise. “Why. . . . how could he have done that?” “Well,” Mary explained, between sobs, “last night I put some pins in a saucer in the cupboard. And this morning, when I got up. I found the saucer at Pa’s place at the table and the pins were gone. He must have drunk his coffee from it and never noticed the pins!” And Mary, plainly and genuinely in earnest, was afraid that she might have brought about her father’s death. But Pa is still living, in spite of, or minus, the pins. » * • * The lingo of the western cowboy probably is as intriguing and color ful as that of any group in North America. The average cow-puncher possesses little more knowledge than that of the cattle he herds and tends, and his vernacular in discussing any matter is the same he uses in talking of his steers. We have a friend who Is a cattle buyer. Following his recent marriage he returned to the Texas cattle coun try where he exhibited a picture of his bride to some of hl scowboy ac quaintances. One of the older punchers studied the photograph a long while before commenting in that typical Texas drawl: "Wall, it looks to me like you out traded that gal.” EDITOR'S NOTE: This syndicated column welcomes contributions from readers on subjects of human interest associated with personal experiences. Address contributions to Worth Cheney, In care of th!s paper. STORM WARNING OUT NEW ORLEANS, July 22 (Tm>— The Weather Bureau warned today that a tropical disturbance of moder ate intensity has developed north of , Mena Pas-age between Puerto Rico ; and rfaiti. The disturbance is of small r-'d ’s moving no’th- 1 westward or west northwestward. Lii SANFORD REPORTS SCHOOLS PROGRESS NEW BUILDINGS AT 12 STATE INSTITUTIONS ARE UNDER WAY ATLANTA July -22 (Special to The Daily Times) —The Unlveslty System of Georgia Is making excel lent progress with the construction of new buildings at 12 state schools under an $837,000 program, Dr. S. V. Sanford chancellor, reported today. Dr. Sanford said it was expected most of the buildings would be com pleted by fall.' | Dormitories at Cochran, Carrollton and Dahlonega are certain to be ready; foundations are finished and walls being built for dormitories at Staesboro, Milledgevile, Valdosta and Forsyth. Work will start this week on new buildings at Tifton and Douglas. A new agricultural extension build ing and two dormitories at the State University at Athens are also included in the program. - ; ■ ■■ Chatharr ■ • : •. J , . . . < t ii> ■ J Moto Company ■' ■ 1 Offers > J Unheard of Values 4 - i n I Used Cars ■ . if r I LATEST MODELS I - LARGE SELECTION fc TERMS TO FIT YOUR POCKETBOOK DIAL 4 I -• For Derr ■ .• ' ■ . . ’ . . ■ ■ $ 415 W< Cor. Libert' — “ PAGE THREE COLUMBIA GIVER i PLIMPTON'S BOOKS I NEW YORK, July JS <TP>—Tt< great educational library of the lat George Plimpton has been turned over to Columbia University today George Plimpton was president oi the textbook publishers, Ginn & Com pany, and his personal collection of educational books is probably one of the largest in the world. Plimpton was a trustee of Barnard College and had been president of the Friend* of the Library of Columbia University since 1928. He died in New England July 1. The Plimpton collection is particul arly good in the field of mathematics and in books and manuscripts dealing with the development of the English language. As soon as the collectlc" is installed and catalogued in Cob/ bia’s Low Memorial Library it / be thrown open to scholars and dents of research.

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Savannah daily times. (Savannah, Ga.) 1936-????, July 22, 1936, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3