Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1939 — Page 10

16 COMPETE IN| _ HOOSIER HUSKER ‘CONTEST TODAY

25,000 Swarm Over Farm at| ~ Liberty to See County Champs in Action.

LIBERTY, Ind., Oct. 27 (U. P.).— ~ Sixteen hardened, bronzed Indiana | farmers competed today for the Indiana cornhusking championship. A crowd of approximately 25,000 swarmed over the Spence Stevens farm near here to watch thé contestants—county champions all— spend 80 minutes in striding down long rows of corn, ripping off éars, stripping them of husks and tassel silk and tossing them into wagons. The contest started with the explosion of a bomb at noon, Favorites were Vilas Jacks of Jasper” County, defending champion, and Lawrence Pitzer, four-time state champion and ‘holder of the state record of 34.56 bushels set in 1935. He husked 38.07 bushels in

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-to Pitzer had better than 34.56 in * winning their county titles. . They were Raymond Sigman, White County, 37.05; J. Robert

itchell, Wayne County, 36.75; and ' . ine Smithy Jasper a 35.56. Miss Margaret Lancaster, DePauw University junior, has been

Cornhusking has been described | chosen queen of Old Gold Day, DePauw's Home-coming celebration, as one of the severest of sports. For| Nov. 4% Coronation ceremonies will be held between halves of the 80 minutes the contestants keep at| DePauw-Franklin football game. Among her eight attendants will their tasks without a pause.. They| be Miss Mary Helen Meinerding, Poseyville, Ind, and Miss Rachel

average almost one -ear a second| Waltz, Arcadia, Ind.

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Fashions you’d expect to oy far more . for—they’ re so new, so wearable, so expensive looking! Rippling skirts! Jewelry ornaments! Back detail} Styles for business, bridge, town, aft. ernoon! Sizes 12 to 20 and 38 to 44.

against the - “bangboard,” a - high board which rests upright on the side of the.accompanying wagons. In addition to speed, neatness is necessary.. The husks and the tas-

sel silk must be removed or the shucker is penalized. Nor may he miss any corn cn the stalks without penalty.

Limit Put on Husks

. The husker is penalized three pounds in the final computations for every pound of marketable corn missed and he must shock all corn above three inches long to avoid this penalty, He is allowed only five ounces of husks in his load to every hundredweight of - corn. Others competing today, with qualifying records were: Ed Hensen, Lake County, 33.16; Harold Bruns, Franklin County, - 329; Floyd Gesse, Porter County, 32.85; Roscoe Sheets, Carroll County, 32.67; Cecil Brown, Warren County, 32.54; Forrest Noggle, Vermillion County, 32.47; Melvin Cornelius, Daviess County, 32.37; Albert Lafuze, Randolph County, 31.95; Phillip Guttrich, Wabash County,

Top Washington Honor Roll — Frances Silverman and Raymond McClure, with 16% and. 14 points respectively, topped the honor roll at George Washington High School for the close of the first. grading period. The list includes 275 names, 92 of whom won high honors.

Scientechs Meet Monday — The Scientech Club will meet Monday noon at the Board of Trade Building. Dan E. Pierce, a member, will talk on “Consumer Co-operatives in Indianapolis and Vicinity.”

Speaks In South—Clarence E. Manion, Indiana Director of the Office of Government Reports, is to speak at the 24th annual convention of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia at Atlanta, Ga.

Leads Honor Roll—Grace Thomson léd an honor roll of 116 students at Thomas Carr Howe High School

Gingery Cast in Play — Robert Gingery, will appear in a play, “The Romantic Young Lady,” which will be a feature of Earlham home-com-ing activities this week-end. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. WwW. F. Gingery.

Oyster Supper Set—Auxiliary 10 of Friends of the Union Veterans of the Civil War will have an oyster supper and Halloween party at 5:30 p. m. tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Clinton Durbin, 302 N. Temple Ave. Mrs. W. C. Engle is president.

Hold Porcupine Show—Townsend Club 53 is to sponsor a porcupine show at their club rooms at 7:30 p. m. today, according to Mrs. Ansel Ferguson, president. Porcupines will be exhibited and their habits described.

Wilfred Jessup, director of the Indiana Unemployment Compensation Division, will speak before

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McGuffey Party Set—The MecGuffey Club of Indianapolis will hold a masked Halloween party for members and guests at 8 p. m. Monday at the Y. W. C. A, Mrs. Maud Hardy, chairman, announced.

Funeral Home Modernized—The Walter + T. Blasengym Funeral Home, 2226 Shelby St. has been. modernized and will be open for public inspection Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The chapel has been redecorated and a Hammond electric organ has been installed.

Townsend Club Party Tonight—A Halloween masquerade party is to be held tonight by Townsend Club 54 at Denny and E. Washington Sts.

CHICAGO TECHNICAL SCHOOLS TO COMBINE

CHICAGO, Oct. 27 (U. P.).—Officials of the Armour Institute of Technology and the Lewis Institute announced today that the schools will be consolidated effective in September, 1940. The new school will be named the Illinois Institute of Technology.

James D. Cunningham, chairman of Armour Institute, and Alexander D. Bailey, chairman of Lewis Institute, said the consolidation would give Chicago a “great new technological center second to none in the country” and that new emphasis would be placed upon industrial management,

NAZIS EXECUTE BOYS AFTER $60 ROBBERY

BERLIN, Oct. 27 (U. P.).—Germany executed a 17-year-old boy today, along with youths of 18 and 21, for a $60 robbery. Franz Hinze, 17; Wilhelm Letzing, 18, and Ludwig Pawlicek, 21, were guillotined for rohbing a woman or

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