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FEATURES NEWS-VIEWS mm 103rd Year. No. "284 Monday, February 12, 1934 Three Cents SURPRISE FOR OLYMPUS. The old Greek god, and their devotees were revived for a night and a good part of Sunday morning at the Scarab Club's annual ball. The artists and their guests gave their version of Night on Mount Olympus and a few samples from among the 400 were Miss Florence Harms, lower left; above her, F.

A. Wolfe and Mrs. J. IL Warncke; Gordon Smith and Betty Yeisley, and, at the extreme right, William S. Knudsen, vice president of General Motors, and Mrs.

Knudsen. A roun Xt efVTowm 1: ir sr DANA F. DREW, Director of the Bureau of Investigation for Wayne County, was called a sea-going cowboy back in his home town of What's Doing Today in Detroit Barre, Vt. During the war he was a chief petty oflicer In the Navy. When he was discharged, he went to Wyoming where he lived on a ranch.

As a result he can do the most marvelous A tricks with rope3 from tying un-tieable sailor's knots to roping cattle. As the head of his department he has 22 work ers under him. i who invest ipate the financial con- dition of legal I residents of -w XTrr-1 Wayne County who ask for 8 italizatinn In County institutions. He never see Hi. 1( fv Exchange Club, Variety Club, Typothetae Franklin.

National Defense, Detroit Bedding Manufacturers, luncheons, American Beauty Trade Association meetings, 2 and Optometrists meeting, 8, Book-Cadillac Hotel. Methodist Ministers Union meeting, Central Presbyterian lunch, noon; Y. M. C. A.

Board of Directors. Boys' Work Council Committee, meetings, 12:15. Downtown Y. M. C.

A. Book talks, Monnier Library, Monnier. 0. Gratiot, Red-ford and Utley Libraries 7:30. Singers Club meeting.

"32" Club meeting. Northeastern Y. M. C. A.

Bus Men's Association luncheon, 12:15: Detroit New Century Club luncheon. I Club dinner, 7, Detioit-Leland Hotel. Fraternal Order of Orioles meeting, 8, Carpathia Hall. Kdwin Denby Post, AmerU can Legion. 8, Veterans Bldg.

Central Kiwanis Club luncheon, 12:15, L'Aiglon, Fisher Bldg. Veterans of Foreign Wars, meetings, Alger Post, 15206 Mack Fort Gratiot Post, 112H5 Gratiot U. S. Border Service Post. 32nd Division Post, Veterans Bldg.

United Hebrew Schools meeting, Accident and Health Managers' Club luncheon, Associate Jewish Welfare Group meetings, 1 and 8, Tuller Hotel. St. Barnabas' Guild for Nurses meeting, 8. St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral.

Shrine Circus, 2:15 and 8:15. Coliseum. State Fair Grounds. Northwestern High School dinner. 6:30, Women's City Club.

Business Pioneers Old Timers Reunion, evening, Dearborn Inn. LINCOLN'S birthday Monday win mean no vacation from classes In I 1 5 I an orange without thinking of the fruit farm he managed near Miami, Fla. He used to eat 100 oranges a day, he says. Cheese reminds him of Korhe-fort, France. He was stationed at Rochefort.

in the center of the cheese district, while in the Navy. He Is sorry he hasn't more time to devote to sports. He is a fair boxer; plays golf and handball; has medals for his work on the track while at school; likes tennis; can swim like a fish; rides a horse as well as any cowboy and Is an excellent pistol shot. He has lived in Detroit for 10 years; is single; seldom loses his temper; is not superstitious; doesn't care what he wears as long as it is comfortable; eats sea food once a week and hamburgers with plenty of onions whenever he can get them. THKKK SHOl I.n be no lamenting that the "good, old pioneer stock" Is dying out.

Not by a long shake! The generation underfoot is just about as tough as they come. Take Saturday afternoon, when most Detroiters were giving a sigh of relief as the thermometer started to climb after that terrific sub 1 I hi f-4 zero weather. Kveryhody felt good about it and said so. They chortled 1 over the wnrmth, or so it seemed, that was in the air. That is.

everybody did except one lad. nbout 7. on the crowded 1' FROM SURF TO SNOW. As a California novelty thes-four young women went surf bathing at Venice. Then they hurried into furs and two hours later were skiing among the snowdrifts of Big Pines Park.

r7'. elevator. "I hope It stays cold." he grumbled. "Much better skating." BYRON ,1. RIVKTT, principal at Northwestern High School, and 40 members of the civics class heard a lecture on criminal law procedure Saturday by Judge John V.

Hren-nan, in the Recorder's Court. Prior to the talk, the students sat in on several cases handled by the jurist. TWO TrXHMCAi. sessions will I follow the dinner of the Detroit Chapter, American Society for Met- I als, Monday evening in the Fort Shelhv Hotel I The members Interested in ferrous metals will be addressed by H. B.

Knowlton, metallurgist-author. He will speak on "Failures." The non-ferrous section will be addressed by Dr. Warhsmuth, grad- uaie or riemeiDerg university and an authority on copper refining. which he will discuss. The meetings will stnrt at :15, 1 following dinner, which will at 6:30.

IIII.KIC; the Dea-, born, Police Department rat. is just as up-to-date as her mother, Rosie, the nationally publicized 1 Detroit schools, where the day will be marked with patriotic programs. With the exception of the Board of Kducation, however, all City offices will he closed for Monday, by order of Mavor Frank Couzens. In Recorder's Court, Traffio Court and the County courts all cases scheduled for Monday havs been postponed until Tuesday, County offices also will be closed. Federal offices and courts, on ths other hand, will be doing business ax usual.

The Detroit office of the Stat Liquor Control Commission will closed, hut the Commission's stores will operate under the regular schedule of hours. An exception to the closing of State office- for the day will bs the Secretary of State's office, which will remain open until noon to enable the working public to make use of an extra opportunity to purchase 1034 automobile licenss plates. PAINTERS and decorators engaged under the CVV'A program need hut a few more days to complete their tasK of rejuvenating tht whole interior of the City Hall. Walls and ceilings from the main floor to the Engineering Department's omrters the fourth floor are bright with new paint. Portrait of score of former Mayors which have long hung, fading and dinijy.

in the executive offices have been repaired and varnished by experts at the Detroit Institute of Art. Even the Mayor's high-ceilinged office has a new folding partition so that when conferences are in session on one sldn of the room the Mayor may work undisturbed on the other side. Only one more Important addition is to be made. Reginald O. Bennett, the artist to whom the press room mural was assigned, Is hard at work in his studio depicting the relationship, on canvas, of the press, the public and the Government.

The painitng on canvas has been substituted for the original plan for a mural because of the difficulties of working on tha Press room walls for a protracted period. The canvas will he glued to the wall and later varnished. Mr. Bennett expects to have It In place by the end of the CWA allotment period. Feb.

15. THE ANNI'AI. Charity Dance of the Hungarian Church and Society Federation will be held Sunday evening in the Magvar Athletic Club, We.vt- End and W. Jefferson Aves. The dunce will be preceded by a lluncarian play to start at 3 p.

m. Dunm; the past year the Hungarian Church and Society Federation assisted 1 indigent Hungarian families and placed 907 women In positions through its frea employment bureau, according Suzanne M. Popp, corresponding secretary. Ut: fc I Vi I I 1 $yivvrt XjK -v whMw fe si technocratic rat. Rosie gained prominence a year ago when, shut In the Dearborn Record Bureau by Lieut.

Fred Drexel, she ate the cheese from a mouse trap, sprung the trap, and proceeded to catch the mice herself. Headquarters men hazarded the opinion that she feared technological unemployment for cats. Al Cothrell, secretary to Chief of Police Carl A. Brooks, tried to decorate Hildegarde with a collar of colored tape the other day. She clawed It off.

The performance was repeated. Cothrell gave up. "It's no use," he said resignedly. "You can't keep current trends from the Rosie family. She's a nudist." FINES COLLECTED In traffic courts during January, totaling $10.61850, nearly doubled the total of paid by traffic violators during December, accordin? to the monthlv report of Fred W.

Lyons, chief deputy clerk of the traffic and ordinance division. The report shows that in.Wifl rases were heard by traffic judt-es and referees. Of that number offenders were fined: 05 sent to jail, 27 were put on probation and RsR were ordered to attend drivers' school sessions. Thirty-seven persons charged with driving while drunk were given jail terms and 2 were fined, while 17 charged with reckless driving were sent to jail and 32 paid fines. 24 Hours on Detroit Streets Robberies iff I I 1 "''1 DOUGLAS HARRIS.

3135 Third $56 in merchandise and $25 in cash in apartment at 5404 Fourteenth Ave. WYMAN TALE.N. 917 Charlotte St, watch, $36. and $11 check in front of home. Auto Thefts ROLAND SAUER, of 441 Kitchener Plymouth coupe, license number 62-481, taken from Woodward and Charlotte Aves.

ROY L. RUDY, of 1413 Colton Chevrolet coach, license number 18-577. taken from Colton Ave. and Eight Mils Road. CLARA G.

SMITH, of 12330 Stoepel Ford sedan, license number 36-ltf5. taken from home. Traffic Accidents EDWIN ERICKSON. 30, of 4584 Seebaldt injured at Puritan Ave. and Mevers Road EVELYN GLASS.

8, of 1152 N. Solvav injured in front of 1157 N. Solvav Ave. GEORGE KOHALSCH, 71, of 15726 Alden injured at Normandv and Fenkell Aves HOWARD Ql'INN. 32.

of 1452 Vinwood Ave. injured at Woodward and Clair -mount Aves JULIUS BONK. 46. of 1093 Seyburn injured at E. Jrand Blvd.

and Vernnr rmrrT'ixt Missing Persons WILLIAM DOOLEY, 16. of AfTon Road, since 20, leoorted bv father JOHN. WALTER LYTWYN. 14. of 13577 Sunset Ave missing since Feb.

5, reported bv mother, MRS. KATIE TRUSKOWSKI. Wide Worl.1 Phofi ANOTHER CAP FOR HIS SUIT. But the cap comes off the bottle and it is sewed to his suit. Those who have their own ideas of style are the British costers.

This one has 1,789 beer caps on his suit. n'e i'hoo acting superintendent of Detroit Police; John P. Smith, Detroit police commissioner; William P. Rutledge, Wyandotte chief of police, and Dan Patcji, chief in Highland Park. Intercommunication systems will be devised.

THEY'RE ALL WORKING TOGETHER. Means of co-ordinating the police work of the 60 departments in the Metropolitan area of Detroit are being devised. -The committee studying th best means are James McCarty,.

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