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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1938
Page
17
Amusements in Huron announce the Bijou Theatre will open for the State Fair to show Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in full technicolor all week with continuous two thirty performances each afternoon. The famed animated feature offers fairgoers a rare chance to see the classic.
Huron's picture theatres run full time for State Fair Week with 2:30 to 11:00 showings. On Sunday opening, midweek midnight previews at the Harlem offer Alexander's Rag Time Band, and Friday presents a sneak preview at the same theatre. Cowboy From Brooklyn stars Dick Powell in a cheeky western romancer with Priscilla Lane and Ann Sheridan. State Theatre opens Fair Week with this feature. Aaron The Texans echoes postwar South medicine debates.
In a clash of tastes Joan Bennett backs the former choice while Randolph Scott leans to the latter, and he wins. The Bar 20 Justice tale features Hopa Jong Cassidy defending a ranch owner from rustling gold poachers as William Boyd stars Tomorrow and Monday. Also aired are The Texans and Cowboy From Brooklyn with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Bi Joy notes.
Dr Beth L Wellman of Iowa State warns before the American Psychological Association that early environment can alter a child’s intelligence up to 40 points. She cited orphanage conditions with little play and untrained staff as causing declines, while pre school attendance improved IQs, challenging the belief in fixed heredity.
Huron police sought a man who molested a Wessington woman in the west side residence district and fled after returning her purse two blocks away. A 40 year old transient naming himself Bill Smith of Helena Montana was booked on a vagrancy charge after the victim could not identify him. Mrs R T Westre reported being accosted by a man who stepped from behind a gospel tent on West Fourth Street between Illinois and Ohio Avenues. She was returning to a friend's home on the west side after visiting her hospitalized husband. The man handed her purse to her then ran north on Colorado Avenue. Neither the Yourkins nor Mrs West could identify Smith when confronted at police headquarters. He was arrested on a downtown street about 930 pm, moments after the incident.
State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension reports Fred Ulmer, a transient laborer with a criminal record, confessed to second degree manslaughter in the death of 60 year old Thomas Wills after a Tuesday night fist fight in Lewisville. The two men met Saturday and argued over money before a scuffle broke a jaw and skull, leading to Wills's death. Ulmer will be arraigned in St James Tuesday.
Edward A. O Neal president of the American Farm Bureau Federation says the current agricultural adjustment act has produced satisfactory results in its first test this year and must continue to prevent chaos in commodity markets. He notes lower prices reflect 1937 surpluses and 1938 stop production, asserts farmers are better off than in 1932, and predicts greater corn grower cooperation next year.
Sioux Falls dispatch reports D Coon Republican state chairman told A W Powell that Republicans will join a joint audit of state tax records only after former governor Tom Berry returns the three truckloads of relief records removed from Pierre in January 1937. Coon stressed all records must be present to complete the audit. A state senate inquiry previously questioned witnesses about the relocation.
Washington reports pasture conditions on September 1 at 76 percent of normal, the best in a decade. Good to excellent pastures are common east of the Mississippi while the Great Plains ride ranges stay in good shape except on the Pacific Coast due to dryness. August saw extensive pasture dealings in Minnesota, the Dakotas, eastern Colorado, Nebraska and western Iowa amid warm temperatures and light rainfall with grasshopper damage noted.
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