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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1938
Page
2
The Queen Mary of Cunard White Star sped past Ambrose Channel Lightship and docked at 4 am, shaving 1 hour 14 minutes off last year’s Normandie record. Unofficial speed about 31.02 knots, surpassing the Normandie’s 30.58 knots.
NEW ORLEANS Granting that school children gain more from observing government than books, J L King director of schools in Washington says sending 90 000 pupils to legislative and city council sessions exposes them to real governance. He cites outdated texts, multiple propaganda forms, and aims to train students to detect propaganda while promoting democracy through direct exposure. He travels with a seminar sponsored by several institutions as Chile urges more grain planting.
In Cleveland on Tuesday August 9, 1938, station lineups feature WCAO WHH WTAM and others with a dense slate of programs. Notable items include Morning Home Folks, Health and Home, Morning Express, and several band and variety shows led by named performers and orchestras.
A jumble of modern proverbs and anecdotes is shared, noting religion humor, city life, and vanity. It includes quips about aging, expression, and self improvement, plus brief humorous exchanges about politics, aviation, and a census gag.
Shirley Temple stars in a singing dancing romance as a lively cast performs around her in the Capitol Theatre showing Little Miss Broadway this week.
Alice Faye Louise Hayick and Don Ameche head the cast of You Can’t Have Every thing opening at the Lincoln Theatre tomorrow. Campaigners toured rural Russia on bicycles just before the election.
North Olmsted Kiwanis meets at Parish House 6 30 p m Sheffield Buckeye Sewers 4 H Club at Shirley Buckley Spring Valley 2 30 p m Lake Avenue Boys 4 H Club at E R Lavers 6 30 p m Tuesday Grafton Jubilee Club at Mrs Vincent Derch La Grange Circle 1 Ladies Aid dinner 11 30 a m Litchfield Bridge Club at Joss Helen Eberle 8 p m North Olmsted Live Wire 4 H Club Parish House 8 30 p m North Ridgeville Grange meeting Grange Hall 8 p m Fitzfield Snapers Club at Barrie Sechrest 2 p m LaGrange Townsend Chub bake sale Snyder Block all day Tuesday Wednesday Brighton picnic town hall grounds afternoon and evening Eaton Grange town hall 2 p m Grafton St Johns Ladies Aid Wednesday Evening Mrs Carl Jaritz Grafton Belden Grange Safety Program LaGrange Five Hundred Club at Mrs C H Opfer North Olmsted TN T Club
In Ridgeville the Ladies Benevolent Society will meet at the church at 1 30 pm instead of Mrs Ohles home. The session is set for tea at 2 pm. In LaGrange the Baptist Missionary Circle holds an all day meeting Wednesday at Mrs S B Gott home with Mrs B Jackson as assistant hostess. Covered dish dinner.
In southeast Missouri a statewide hunt began for two bank robbery suspects after they shot and wounded Patrol Sergeant Frank Fagen during a running gun battle near New Florence. One suspect was identified as Dan O Davis, linked to a bank heist in Minden Louisiana. Fagen identified a Davis photo found in a Terre Haute paper in the car abandoned after the incident.
Montpelier Vermont cows threaten maple sugar industry warns Bran don Wright state coordinator of the USDA soil conservation service. Farmers urged to keep cattle out of sugar maple stands as older groves decline with overgrazing observed on the 71 000 acre erosion control demonstration project in the Winooski River valley.
Lorain County Grange picnic committee set for Linwood Park Vermilion on Wednesday August 10 with a basket dinner and State Grange Master Walter F. Kirk to speak. Merchants of Elyria and Wellington donated prizes, including merchandise and cash, with contests, races, and novelty awards such as a gate prize electric fan and a wrist watch for Juvenile Grange.
Miss Alda Putre wed Maurice Hall in a 9:30 am ceremony at Holy Trinity Avon Lake. Attendants wore peach and garden floral tones with the reception at Parish Hall. The couple leaves for a Michigan honeymoon and plans home at 1334 Warren Road Lakewood after August 14.
Effie and Addie Cherry Sisters, once Broadway favorites, dismiss swing music as not music and decline its appeal. They prefer their Gypsy skit Worse Than Death and plan to continue singing and patter rich in vintage acts despite modern radio and film trends. News notes their stage history and a harsh New York premiere reception with Wered produce and thrown items.
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