Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1953 — Page 10

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Fastest Traveling Tornado Hit In '25 * Fastest Tornado In History Hit Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, UP — The fastest-traveling tornado on record In the. U. S. spun across a portion of Indiana at «8 MPH in 1»25, a weather bureau technical paper says. Twisters usually move about 40 miles per hour. The record one killed 689 pen pons over a 219-mile path in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on| March 18, 1925. There’s no record of any other that fast or so deadly. Between Griffin and Princeton, in Indiana around 74 persons were killed. \ Indiana’s tornado history based on records dating to 1875, when the weather bureau was founded was published last September as part of an official technical paper on "Tornado Occurrences in the United States." The first fatal tornado in Indiana listed in the paper occurred at Oakville, south of Muncie, on April Fool’s day in 1884. Four persons were killed, 50 injured knd $75,000 property damage inflicted. Twenty-one persons were killed at Terre Haute March 23, 1913, the year of the great flood. L Three years later, the weather; bureau started keeping more detailed records. They show, for the period from 1916 through 195 ff, that Hoosiers were visited by 127 tornadoes which killed 253 persons and caused $22,908,550 prop" erty damage. > Worst of the Indiana twisters dyring the last 35 years were the 1925 disaster at Princeton. Griffin and Owensville; one at New Albany in 1917 killing 45; the Coatsville disaster of 1948, and the Shel- V

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n■w r w Mm 'si w , k T I I[J k. MH J I -'-t 4 ' 01' '■ - : ’' ' " ■ YOLANDE BETBEZE, “Miss- America** of 1951, looks none the worse in New York following her cops-and-robbers experience with Pathe new* editor John D. Levine (jest). She was a passenger in Levine’* car when it was commandeered by a policeman to give chase to two 1.. bandits who attempted to rob a haberdasher. One bandit was nabbed on the Queensboro bridge with Yolande and Levine Leaping out to aid Patrolman Davidowsky. fJntematwnai '. j .1. —w x,- ; —

burn-Terrc Haute tornadoes of .1949. Tornadoes are Erratic Creatures of nature. Most of them are only a few hundred feet wide, most sweep only a few miles. The average is 1,200 feet wide, 16 miles long. ‘ Trade In a Good Town - Decatur

Wrong Line PASCO, Wash.. UP — A man waited patiently in } line for an hour where revenue agents were assisting income tax payers. When he reached the head of the line, an agent asked him if he needed help in making out bis retarp. “No” the man replied, “I just want to pay iny union dues.’’ Fraternity Gets Blood BUFFAIX), N. Y\ UP —Donations for the Red Cross blood bank have replaced initiation stunts at a University of Buffalo fraternity. Instead oft performing the traditional pranks, the new members of Alpha Sigma Phi now solicit blood donations at the school and in house-to-house canvass. The boys start the drive with their own pledges. ■

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Jean Hersholt Would Like Movie Return < Would Like To Play . ' Occasional Villain iHbLLYWOOD, UP —Jean Hersholt, said today he wants to go Mck to playing occasional villains in the movies—but the public acckpts him only as radio’s famed "Or. Christian,” Hersholt first gained fame as the bad man of the cinema,.' but this week, in a Jekyll-Hyde switch, hd celebrates 1$ years as a kindly - medic of the airwaves. By now, he I saM, his transformation is so complete that even real-life doctors treat him as a colleague. |‘l used to portray mean villians,” chuckled the actor. “But I ndver could do that again. The pubjib nearer would accept me." |rthe crowning glory to Hershplt’s “medical” career comes next month when the American medical association officially recognises the show at its New York convention. He already has honorary memberships in the Washington medical association, the cancef society and many othdr gripups. ‘‘When I went through the Beverly Hills clinic for a check-up recently. the doctors talked to me as if;l were a doctor, too.” he said. often write me for medical advice. It’s very embarassing: I aiever give advice to anybody, thpiigh.” The one-time villain of the celluloid turned doctor when he played thb medical man in a movie about thn Dionne quintuplets. gos so much fan mail I thought people would like more alipjit such a character,” he said. “The radio show was my own id*4- Because I had an accent, we pi|tj the doctor in Minnesota. We wrote to the Swedish consul for a lij<t ot Scandinavian names, and chpfee Paul Christian.” Sn 16 years Hersholt never has missed a performance, a'n unsurpassed record in radio. Once he w|4 so sick the show had to be broadcast from his house. |‘|)r. Christian,” which also may move to television, is the only progi®m written entirely by the audieWe. fcvery script is selected during an annual contest. |f you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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