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Page Two THE GAZETTE, XENIA. OHIO MONDAY, MAY 11, 1938 SILYEHCREEK HIGH WILL GRADUATE 19; JXERCISES MAY 22 Gprrell Will Speak; On Next Sunday seniors will be awarded diplomas at Silvercreek High School's commencement program Friday night, May 22, in the Jamestown Opera House. R. Gorrell, president of the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association, will be the speaker. Rev.

C. A. Bowers will deliver the sermon at baccalaureate services for the graduates next Sunday night in the Jamestown M. E. Church.

Members of the 1936 graduating class are: Alice Bel) Clark, Martha, belle Bartley, Henryette Cushwa, Maebelle Franch, Emily Jenks, Leach, Lillian Mary Murdock, Nolene Nace, Helen Reeves, Marjorie Sodders, Loraine Stephens Russell Haines, Delbert Tobin, Dallas Garringer. Jack Mc- Oolaugh, Robert Sheridan. Alice Hargrave and Esther Ellis. MERCURY HITS 91ONJUNDAY Old Sol really turned on the heat Sunday and weatherman Ernest L. Harner said it was the hottest day of this year.

As a burning spring sun beamed down on Xenia, the mercury mounted to a peak of 91 degrees, giving a hint of what may be in store this summer when the sun rounds into mid-season form. Showers predicted for Sunday afternoon arrived belatedly in the evening after a light sprinkle around 6 p. cooling off the atmosphere slightly. Brother May Be G.O.P. Nominee OUT OUR WAY By Williams THEKE AGAIN IP A GUV Alivfr 5WEATIN 1 HE AIN'T DOIN 1 NOTW1N7 IT WA5 TW SAME WHEN I TOOK VIOLIN LESSONS IF WASN'T PLAVIN 1 LIKE A JI6 FIPDLER, WHY I WA5N' PRACT1CIN' NOW THAT I'M TAKIM' TAP I GOTTA BE BUMPIN' TM 1 I AIMT IT'S FUNNY WMY YOU ALWAYS TAKE LESSOM5 IN 5OMETMING I DOM'T UWDERSTANDf BYTWE TIME I CATCM ON TO YOU'LL, WAWT TO TAKE I WHV MOTMERS.

PET GRAY SLOW COUNT IS SEEN BECAUSE OF LONG TICKET (Continued from Page One) in the primary but Young has campaigned tirelessly in recent weeks, with his main point an advocacy of repeal of the sales tax on necessities. Attorney General John W. Brick. er is unopposed for the Republi- can nomination for governor. He i has been saving his campaign am' munition for the race next fall.

Other closely-contested state races are those for the Republican nomination for secretary of state, for Democratic choices for auditor and lieutenant governor, and for nomination for the two congressmen-at-large places. Earl Griffith of Mt Gilead and Dale Stump of Colum.bus have eu- gaged in a stiff battle for the Republican choice for secretary of state. E. J. Hummel of Cincinnati also is a candidate.

Six Democrats seek to oppose State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy, who is assured the Republican nomination. The Democratic candidates are Joseph A. Lutz, Dayton; Joseph T. Ferguson, Barberton; George E.

Eppley, Cleveland; Jacob C. Mong, Akron; Elmer J. Carey, Kenton, and John H. Turner, Shaker Heights. Two men who have been in the news frequently during the last year, Senator Paul P.

Yoder of Eaton and J. Freer Bittinger oi' Ashland, gpeaker of the Ohio house, are after the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. State Treasurer Harry S. Day of Fremont seeks renomination on the Republican ticket. His opponent is Lewis A.

Hanford of Cleveland. There are eleven Republicans and ten Democrats in the field for the full term congress-at-large nomination. The selection of Ohio delegates to the Republican national convention at Cleveland in. Juno has pro- vided an interesting because of the battle between Senator William E. Borah of Idaho and the Ohio Republican backing the favorite son candidacy of Robert A.

Taft of Cincinnati, son of the late President William How. ard Taft. In reality, the Taft delegates will be uninstru'cted because they are bound to vote for the favorite son only on the first ballot at the convention. On the Democratic ticket, selection of the Roosevelt slate" of del- I egates is a mere formality, President Roosevelt, howeyer, is entered in a presidential preference contest with Col. Henry Breokin- ridge" of New York, former assistant secretary of war and advisor to Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh. Col. Breckinridge ente'red the race to provide a test of anti-New Deal strength. Each party will have fifty-two delegate votes at the national conventions.

The Republicans will have eight delegates-at-large and 'forty-four district delegates. The Democrats will have twelve delegates-at-large (four with one vote each and eight with a half vote each) and forty-four district delegates. Twenty Years '16 Ago '36 The hazardous feat of climbing to the top of the 185 foot smoke stack on the 0. S. and S.

0. Home power house to straighten the lightning rod was accomplished by Harvey Hupman, local contractor. Harvey Elam is the first aspirant for public office to officially announce his candidacy. He seeks the Republican nomination for clerk of courts. Xenia people will have a chance Monday night to see the newly adopted Maxim machine gun.

The gun will be mounted in the foyer of the Orphium Theater, where war pictures are to be shown. MOVIE PREACHES FOR CONSERVATION Continued from Page One MONEY IS STOLEN A robbery Sunday night at the Ed Lambert filling station, Dayton was reported to police. The report indicated that a small sum of money was stolen from a cash drawer, but that nothing else was missing. Entrance to the station -was made through a window. the first settlers roll up in ttreir covered wagons.

presses turn out advertising dodgers telling about the fortunes to be made in western land. The music becomes louder. faster. fences go up. gang plows turn under the sod.

wheat begins to grow. and the first small puffs of dust powder the i countryside. A newspaper headline says 1914 the World War more headlines. wheat prices soar the big guns in Flanders boom giant tanks careen over trenches. The music changes to "Over.

a row of motorized gun carriages app-ear on the horizon. as they roll closer it becomes apparent they are gasoline tractors, digging deep into the western soil with disc plows. By now the music is so loud as to be deafening. quickly the camera flashes to the jazz band. to the stock ticker with tape bil- lowing from it.

the'ticker machine falls to the floor finally in a shower of glass. the screen goes black and the music stops. There is an audible sigh from the audience as it sinks back into its chairs. but before it can catch its second breath the screen lights up again with the skull of a steer in the dust. a house inundated in hillocks of mud.

seeping through a tightly shut win- down. Forty million acres of plains utterly ruined by the plow, the commentator says; 200,000,000 acres badly damaged. "What is America going to do about it?" he asks. The ball room lights flash on and the audience clusters around Tugwell -with congratulations. He says there's nothing more to tell.

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