The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 January 1937 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7.1»»

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LAKE COTTAGE BURGLARIES ON INCREASE HERE Three More Houses Are Looted Following Four Previous Raids Three more cottages in the lake region were looted this week, following closely the burglaries in Pickwick Park, Lake Wawasee, last week. One of these is on the north side of 3 Lake Wawasee and two others at Tippecanoe Lake. State detectives and officers have reported no arrests or traces of the loot taken from the cdttages. Advance Several Theories Police believe the burglars who entered the four Lake Wawasee summer homes and removed quantities of silverware, bed clothing and linwere not local individuals, but a gang thought to be working in this area. Some believe the thefts might have been committed by a wandering band of* thieves, but others discount this theory and express the opinion the houses were entered by someone familiar with them, and looking for a particular type of loot. The pieces taken might indicate that the burglars intended to peddle the stolen goods, is also advanced as a theory. Ihis seems likely, as the burglars took ’onlysuch articles as appeared to be new or little used, and left behind articles that bore laundry marks or other means of quick indentification. Late Tuesday night, State Police were known to be searching for an Ohio automobile carrying three men. The men were wanted for robbery officers stated. TEAMWORK HELPS TAILOR TO CLOTHE AN 8-FOOT YOUTH CHICAGO, Jan. 7 ■ . - they don’t use surveyor’s instruBut if you ever wondered just how 18-year-old Robert Wadlow (height: a mere 8 feet, 5 inches) gets measured for his clothes, listen to Sol Winkelman, Chicago tailer, who does it: “Well, I Pitch and he catches The tape measure I mean. He slips it around his neck and loweres it down to me. Some fun, eh keed? Here are some of the dimensions Winkelman has arrived at in tailoring the Alton, 111., youth who easily outdistances all rivals for the title “The World’s Tallest Human JtJeing”— Cloth required for one suit: 10% yards. (The average is 3%). , Outseam of trousers: 65 inches long (Twice the normal length). Sleeve circumference: 28 inches. (Most people get by with less than 14) • Note to shoemakers: Wadlow’s boots are size 36. Tip to Coney Island weight guessers: stick close to 435 pounds and you won’t be far wrong on Robert. " ~ ■ - -A Sanctions Bred r * Invention In Italy TURIN, Italy, Jan/ 7 (INS)—A cash register which > gives correct change, a watch x which shuts off gas on the kitchen range, a gear shift for bicycles, an anti-skid horse shoe, a cellophane sound track, are among the inventions exhibited at the Industrial Show here. All the devices were made during the period of sanctions against Italy.

j ACE WILLIAMS VISITS HOLLYWOOD

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Life hasn’t been too kind to this little fellow and he’s expressing- his resentment against fate in highly emotional fashion. This moving camera record presents a graphic portrayal of a

Much Ado Over Dances Ainuses_Pastor Critisized For Permitting Dances

COLUMBUS, Ind. Jrfn. 7 (INS)— A Presbyterian minister who is* in ! trouble with several of his fellow pastors for permitting dancing at a young people’s church club party fount) out today that many of the mothers of the club members are on hfc side. The minister—-the Rev. Alexander E. Sharp—resigned yesterday as president of the local ministerial association after several pastors told him ,he had “embarrassed” them by permitting dancing at a party given ! by the Tuxis Club, combosed of boys and girls of high school age. Mothers In Protest Today many of the mothers were drafting letters of protest against the criticism of the Rev. Mr. Sharp. “We’d rather have our children at properly chaperoned parties than out in automobiles,” said one of the mothers. Mpnte Carpenter,- president of the clul), also went to the support of j the minister. “It was the finest dance I ever ! attended,” he said. “There was no ' rowdiness and it was a swell party— : just like a picnic.” i The party was held in the Columbus | Chamber of Commerce and the Rev. Mr. Sharp, his wife, and two

ing at the “Pot Luck Dinner”. Williams is shown here with Olivia De Havilland and Beverly Roberts at Warner Brothers’ Hollywood studio, which he visited this spring. ,

human tragedy—Baby Richard, who faces the world an orphan, abandoned by his parents and one of the nameless waifs who are sheltered at St. Vincent’s orphanage in Chicago.

elders of their church were chaperons. ’ Finds It Amusing. There also was at least one dissenting voice among the ministers ?to the criticism of the Rev. Mr. J Sharp. b , The Rev. R. F. Keicher, rector of the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, ! said: “We take ! dancing as a matter of course at our church.” The Rev. Mr. Sharp called it j “amusing that some of our religious leaders have nothing more to do than to attempt to ‘church’ the Presbyterian church for a holiday party 1 given by one of its groups and held entirely off the church premises.” Cold Comfort COPENHAGEN, Jan 7 (INS)—In future students at Copenhagen University will chain up their overcoats when they leave them in the cloak- ’ rqoms while attending lectures. This decision has been taken by the Students’ Council, following a long seri ies of thefts of coats. Many of the student? have not been able to afford to buy new coats to replace those stolen, and so have suffered ! a great deal from the cold.

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“Stone Girl” Happy jgMK Mrs. lola Swinnerton, 33, of Chicago, is shown celebrating the New Year out of the hospital for the first time in ten years. Mrs. Swinnerton has been gradually turning to stone since receiving anti-typhoid injections in Florida. Despite her affliction, she greets 1937 with a great big smile. Kisses ano Dances Banned in Movies TOKYO, Jan. 7 (INS)—Scenes depicting kissing, embracing, dancing and drinking are in the -future to be ruthlessly cut out of films shown in Japan. This rule has been adopted! by the Police Bureau of the Japanese Home Office. All films that reflect on the Imperial Court, national policy or which cast an unfavorable light on the Army or the police force are to be entirely banned. Even if the offending scenes are removed, the ban will not be lifted, it is announced. The reason for banning scenes showing kisses is that the police have decided to let the younger generation in Japan know as little as possible about kissing, which is regarded as a most pernicious and reprehensible foreign custom. The cinema interests are panic stricken at the new decision. They rear a severe loss of business.

Popular Southland Dance Band Scores At Indiana Ballroom

Ayars “Slim” Lamarr Features Southern Melodies in Music A A famed maestro of the South, Ayars LaMarr and his band of Southern Gentlemen, is invading the north to the tune of familiar Southland airs. LaMarr, or “Slim”, as he is known to his intimates, organized his first dance band in New Orleans at the age of twelve. Working his way through the Louisiana State University, where he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, he directed this institution’s widely known orchestra, “The Purple and Gold Collegians.” Protege of Huge P. Long It was during this time that the late Huey P. Long took an intereest in the cultured, smiling chap who could inject the softness of the South into any of the shrill “hi-de-ho” songs and make his audience like it. Senator Long encouraged the youth in his career and urged him to retain that Southland charm in his music which is today the outstanding feature of his dancee arrangements. He encouraged him to compose songs and one of Slim’s numbers was used at the inaugural ball of the late Governor O. K. Allen of Louisiana. The association between the Senator and Ayars LaMarr remains as Slim’s most treasured friendship. “Greyhound of the Ivories” After his graduation from University, Slim joined Herbie Kay’s nationally known orchestra as featured pianist, at which time he was known as the “Greyhound of the Ivories. ” After several years with that orchestra, he formed one of his own in New Orleans and had the privilege of introducing his orchestra as one of the first to be broadcast from that city. At the time, among the personnel x of his band were such outstanding figures of today as the Boswell Sisters, “Candy” Candido, and Louis Prima. Popular In East His reputation as a southern song stylist increased with each engagement and it wasn’t long before Ayars LaMarr and his Southern Gentlemen were playing to the most fas-

Peak Os Population For United States To Be Reached In *SO

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.„ Jan. 7— (INS) —Population in the United States will reach its peak about 1950 according to Dr. Oliver E. Baker, senior economist of the U. ’S. department of Agriculture. In an address at Pennsylvania State College here Dr. Baker said his forecast was based on the nation’s declining birth rate which cotqalgd with restricted immigration, shoulcTbring the population to a peak of approximately 135,000,000 or 140,000,000 by 1950. Births decrease with urbanization the economist declared, setting forth as his contention that ‘on thg family is the economic vvnile in the city the individual is the economic unit. “On the farm”, said Dr. Baker, “there is a common interest for members of the family.” He inferred that city life left the family no “common denominator. ” Only two-thirds of the children nec essary to maintain the population of large cities are born in those cities, Dr. Baker averred, stating migration from rural areas must supply the other third. As a result, he said, cities must be vitally interested in educating and training those “future residents” to come to the city. The danger of a decling population, Dr. Baker concluded,lies in the fact that a diminishing population is an aging one. Insofar as the farmer is concerned, he said, this meant a decline in farm products, since children drink more milk and eat more eereals, while adults eat more meats.

Mother’s Death Tragic End of. Son’s Party ■1 WiHi MggMMK. ■ > ... HH F ■ ■ - ▼ / ■' Ikj. * ~sj Jan '///Al 188 kWmtw v . JMM R I B Mm Wracked by sobs, John Leonard (right) is consoled by his brother-in-law, Michael ****’**. i Year’s eve tragedy which cost him Sis mother. A fire, starting m a Christmas tree at the Leonard home, burned the house and his mother. . 1

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Ayars LaMarr, and Johnny Nye, Dorothy Claire two featured members of his orchestra.

tidious and critical night club and hotel ballroom audiences in the East. Scoring more successes than probably any other orchestra that everleft the South, Ayars LaMarr and his Southern Gentlemen became knbwn in the Eastern press as the “Pride of the South.” Now at Indiana Ballroom Direct from a triumphant engagement in New York, LaMarr is now plying a limited engagement at the Indina Roof Ballroom of Indiana-

Fails As Man • PRAGUE, Jan/ 7, (INS)—The former woman running world champion, Zdenka Koubkova, whose transformation into a man caused a sensation, now returned from America to Prague after her or his appearances in a Paris music hall has proved failure.

German Paddling From Hamburg to Australia

SINGAPHORE, Jan. 6 (INS) — ’Oscar Speck, the famous 28-year-old German canoeist, has left Singapore, for Batavia on the final stages of his solo across-the-world-by-can-oe journey from Germany to Australia. He has already paddled all the way from Hamburg to Singapore—braving fqirce monsoon storms, inhospitable coasts, and dreaded man-eat-ing sharks in a frail craft so light that it can be carried by one man. ■Speck’s feat is all the more remarkable in that he is confessedly a poorZwjmmer. “If my canoe capsized,” he said at one of his stopping places, “I should be up against it for I doubt if I can swim more than 100 or so.” And yet Speck has already been wrecked four times —and survived.

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polis, where his sweeft Southern airs are winning new acclaim for him and for his orchestra. 1 ; For the Indianapolis engagement, the LaMarr orchestra, which is under the management of the Music Corporation of America, is featuring the same entertainers who shared his success in New York, * namely, Betty Barry, charming girl vocalist, Johnny Nye, Bob Martin, Charlie Gramp„ Ozzie Godson and several * others. o

Camp Oyster Opener SOUTH BEND, Wash., Jan 6,— (INS) —The champion oyster-opener in this section is Bill Powell-r-not the movie actor —whose record includes the opening of fifteen oysters in a minute and a half. Powell used a combination knife and pick in his operations, jabbing the oyster in the front elevation with the pick and then quickly prying open the shell. A swift slash of the knife severed the muscle from the bottom of the shell, leaving the oyster roady for cleaning. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Nicolai of Norwell, Michigan, spent last Wednesday and Thursrday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hinderer and Mrs. Susan Nicolai.

Off Madras during heavy weather, his canoe was swamped and Speck himself was only rescued in the nick of time by fishermen in their quaint but seaworthy “catamarans.” At Cocanada, half way up the east coast of India, between Madras and Calcutta, Speck abandoned his old canoe, which was badly battered. After waiting for some time, .he started off again in an 18-foot long, two-seater model, which had been sent out from HamburgFrom Calcutta, Speck went on to Rangoon, and so to Singapore. Now , he has left again on his arduous journey—the most difficult part of which lies in front of him. Before he reaches Australia, he must cross one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the world—the dreaded shark-infested Timor Sea.