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War of Worlds Drama Throws Thousands Over Country Into Hysteria. . -Teachers Suggesi Holiday Period for Student NimrodsSOMERSET, Oct, 31.—Somerset county school teachers, attending the annual teachers' institute here Saturday, adopted a resolution calling on county school officials to schedule the 1939 institute for the ftrst week ofhunting season.This, they believe, will make the hunting season move bearable for the students and reduce the number of absentees during that period.Cottom Brothers Colt Gold Medal Winner at DawsonEnoch Farceur, a pure bred Belgian stallion owned by Ear2 and Irwin Cottom of Dawson, qualifled for the goJd medal in the Gold Medal : Colt Club’ roundup held Saturday afternoon at the George C. Cochran i farm in Lower Tyrone township. The ! colt also placed, firstlin the Belgian cott show of which H; M.'Gans was judge.Etta, a pure bred Percheron colt, owned by George G. Gault of near Dawson, was first in the Perchercm yearling colt show, and Anne, a gray perch cron colt, placed first among the nine suckling colts that were weighed in for next year’s club.In the colt club roundup, the coltsthat were weighed in last year were placed as follows:Belgian—Enoch Farceur, first, 1,-3t0 pounds, gain of GOO; Shirley, pure bred Belgian mare, owned by Earl and Irwin Cottom, 1,300 pounds, gain of 540; Belgian marc, owned by George G. Cochran, 1,200 pound?, gain of 500; Beauty Farceur, pure bred Belgian mare, owned by Cot-toms, 1,350 pounds, gain of 530.Ferchcron — Etta, first, 1,250 pounds, gain of 530; eolt, owned by C. H. Goodwin, 1,200 pounds, gain cf 510; Irish, owned by George G. Gault, 1,250 pounds, gain of 550.The suckling eotts were weighed in us follows:First, Anne, owned by George G„ Cochran; second, Lucky Jake, pure bi-ed Percheron colt, owned by G. G.Gniill: fhfrH cnli hv T RHordes Flee Homes,Seeking Safety From Mars Invaders,COMMISSION ‘ .INVESTiGATESBy United Press.NEW YORK, Oct. .31.—Columbia Broadcasting System officials here said .today that, requests or no requests, the “War of the Worlds’' program would not be repeated.NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—The Federal Communication* Commission today investigated a radio dramatization ot H. G. Wells’ novel, “The War of the Worlds, widen threw thousands of listeners all over the country into panic lost night and created scenes of mass hysteria among persons who believed the United States was being invaded.Although the program was preceded by an announcement of its nature and was interrupted by the additional statements that It was a dramatization of the Wells novel, * thousands of listeners thought they were hearing an actual news report.The hystena following the half-hour radio dramatic program swamped police and newspapers of New York City and ot New Jersey towns and cities where the Martian adventures were said to have landed, killing Ihouands of persons after they left their space rocket.But it xva«3 not limited to the East* At Indianapolis, an unidentified woman ran down the main aisle of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, crying: “The world is coming to an end. The congregation was hastily dismissed.At Toledo, Ohio, thre^ persons fainted at telephones while trying to call police, In Chicago, persons ran out of restaurants without finishing their meals. ’In Salt Lake City, residents packed their belonging? and were only dissuaded from fleeing their home«TbV proof that it was all just entertainment.But in the East, in the country being subjectjd to the invasion, hysteria ran riot. Several persons came forward to swear they saw the rocket land and strange creaturesContinued on Pace Six.
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Connellsville Daily Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Oct 31, 1938
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