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MONDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1937 IOWA CITY, IOWA, PRESS-CITIZEN" PAGE THREE Village Incomes Low, But So Are Rents Froma Christmas Gift Pair of Canaries- Mra. Garrett P. Byrne Has Raised a Chorus of 90 Assorted Chirps and Cheeps Foreign Star Highlights of Radio TWO HURT IN AUTO CRASH Voire of Iowa: WMT 1:30 Locky girl: Houseboat Hannah: WHO Market WLS 1:45 Ted Malone's bookends: WOO Studio stooges: WMACJ 1:00 Thrster matinee: WOC Manv happy returns: WMT 2:15 Ma Perkins: HO Markets: WCCO June Baker: WGN German band: WMT I ie and Sad WHO Columbia concert hall: WOC 3 Saing and ting WOC Miami Couple Injured As Car Leaves Road On No. 6 TOMORROW NIGHT An tnos -n' Andy: who, mw Mr.

and Mrs. Roy Browning of Miami, were injured shortly after 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon when the automobile in which they were riding left the highway and landed in a ditch on highway No. 6, about two and one-half miles west of Coral ville. Both were removed to University hospital for treatment and were discharged from the Institution U.S. SURVEYS SMALL TOWNS IN MIDWEST Average Income Found In Iowa, Illinois Small Towns Is $1,022 WASHINGTON UP) Government experts reported today the average family in representative Iowa and Illinois villages has a comparatively low annual Income, but benefits from low rents.

A family living survey conducted by the works progress administration In conjunction with other federal departments placed the annual income of an average family of 3.8 persons in 11 Iowa and seven Illinois villages at $1,022. Their average rent was reported at $10 a month compared with S13 in representative Kansas and North Dakota villages; $15 in California villages; $17 in Vermont and Massachusetts, and $18 in Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota vil Easv Aces: WMT The headliners: WBBM Concert orchestra: WBBM Sporta summary WOC 6:15 ocal varieties: WHO. WLW I.um and Abner: WI.W Famous' Actors: KMOX Twilight musicale: WOC 6:45 Command performance: WMAQ Four Callfornlans: WGN 7:00 Runs Morgan's orrhestra: W1IO, WMAQ Concert orchestra: WGN 7:15 Victor Arden's orchestra: WON 7:3 At Jnlson show: WCCO, WBBM It can he done: WMT. WLS Wayne King's orchestra: WHO, WMAQ Symphony in rhythm WGN "Voice In friendship: WOC 8:00 Ben Brrnlr's orchestral WMT Watch the fun go by: WOC KMOX Vox- Pop: WHO. WMAQ Fred Warlng's orchestra: WGN Hollywood msrdl gras: WMAQ, WHO Oakie's college: WOC.

WGN Grand central station: WMT Comedy stars Broadway: WGN 8:00 Swing school with Goodman: WOC. KMOX Amos Andy: WMAQ, WXW ii TONIGHT 1 :06 Amoi WHO Time to hlne: WMT Four Callforntans: WON The heedliner: WBBM Sporta summary: WOC 15 I nrle Kira't radio aUtion: WHO Concert trio: WGN 6:90 Jay Freeman' orrhextra: WOC :l.V-Bokf Cartrr: V) BUM Top hatters: WMAQ Vic Arden's orchestra: WHO 7:0 Burnt and Allen: WHO Horace Heidt's orchestra: WCCO. WBBM Charlie Gaylord's orrhostra: WUN 7:15 Swim it the word: Will' 7:30 Josephine Antoine, toprano: WHO Pick and Pat: WBBM Lone Rmiger: WGN :0 Fibber Mit.re and Molly: WHO Radio theater: WCCO Joe Sanders' orchestta: WGN :0 Hour of rhar.m: WHO Pat Barnes opera house: WGN Contented program: WHO Wayne King's orchestra: WCCO All-America: WOC 8:45 Henry Weber'a pageant: WON Jack Smith's orchestra: WHO 10:00 Amoa 'n' Andy: V.HAI TOMORROW MORNINO 7:00 Mmlral eloek: WBBM Home folks hour: KMOX Air almanac: WCCO (rood morning: WGN" Variety proKram: WHO 7:15 Neva: WCCO Peter Grant: WI.S Tlrk lock revue: KMOX Musical chimes: WCCO The Golden hour: WGN Chippewa twirling tunes: WHO V'ie on the newt: KMOX Musical chimes: WCCO Time, service: WHO 8:15 Frolics: WHO Hope Alden's romance: WLW 8:50 Morning melodies: WHO Morning roundup: WI.S 8:45 Aant Jemima: WMAO, Bachelor's children KMOX Vic Meyer's hand: WJJD Pretty Kitty Kelly; WOC Story of Mary Marlln: WLS Featured foods hour: WG.N i15 Ma Perkins: WI.S :0 Pepper Young's family: WMT 8:45 Today'a children: WHO Party line: WOC 10:15 Backstage wife: WHO TOMORROW AFTERNOON 11:00 Betty and Boh: WCCO 12:15 Marjorle Mills: WON German hand: WMT Sunday night. According to officials who were called to the scene of the accident, Mrs. Browning was driving west on the highway and turned her car into the ditch rather than colliding with an oncoming machine as she attempted to pass a westbound truck.

The truck was driven by Charles Messina of Marshalltown. The Browning machine did not turn over and was not damaged heavily. lages. Mb. Garrett P.

Byrne Is shown above as she holds one of her pet canaries while others of her 90 assorted birds look on from their cages. (Press-Otiien Engraving). Interview 2,404 Iowa villages studied included The United States ranks first In college -student enrollment, with England second. It Is estimated, that one in every 100 persons In the United States attends or has attended college. lessly, "but to put the battling was last year, when one of them Earlham, Eddyville, New Sharon, BY 8.

H. FRIEDMAN When Patrolman Garrett P. BENDER WARNS ON SPOTLIGHTS males in separate cages." found a crack in the screen of its Bussey, Dallas, Melcher, Pleasant- ville, State Center, Brooklyn, Mont Byrne gave Mrs. Byrne a pair of canaries for Christmas four years cage and escaped from the porch." The Byrne family Is easily recognized as one of nature-lovers. ezuma and Victor.

Those in Illinois The songsters begin to lay eggs during the last part of February and continue until the moulting season, in July. Each pair builds ago, he started something. From a sanctuary on the back The Byrnes' 10-year-old son raises were Farmer City, Atlanta, Mt. Pleasant, Bement, Cerro Gordo, Monticello and Tuscola. 0.rMw AMERICAN JrSfc RADIATOR porch of the Byrne home this sum' If Found on Machines Owner Will Be Brought Into Court rabbits.

No, you guessed wrong. Mr. Byrne say's he's NOT sorry he In these villages, investigators mer, a chorus of 90 assorted chirps and cheeps, not to mention twitterings and whistlings, greeted the Byrne family each morning at sun heating tfmM hot water too" gave Mrs. Byrne the iriginal pair reported, they interviewed 2,404 families. of songsters.

Period for warning drivers of up. Thirty-one per cent of the persons interviewed had been on relief at Strong and cheerful in captivity, the warblers, multiplying from the some time during the 1935-36 period studied. Of the non-relief families. first pair since 1933, are. living- pleasure cars against having spotlights on their machines has ended, Police Chief W.

H. Bender declared today. Hereafter, the chief said, every pleasure car found to bear a spotlight will be tagged with a sum John Shradel Estate Farm Brings $68 an Acre at Public Sale proof of the care and attention Mrs. two or three nests each year, constructed of small bits or burlap placed by Mra Byrne within easy reach of the couple In their individual cage. "Warbler" Type From four to eight eggs each about the size of the tip of a man's thumb are laid in each nest and hatch in 13 days.

Each newly-born canary is marked by a band painlessly attached to its leg to indicate its breeding origin. "I raised 10 birds from my original pair the first year I had them, 40 the next year and 90 this summer," Mrs. Byme recounted. The birds are nearly all of the "warbler" breed, technically sup 1 I 72 per cent reported an income of less than $1,500 a year. Byrne has lavished on them since mons, ordering the owner to appear More Than One Earner The average income of non-relief families was said to be $1,307.

The 11:80 Arnold Grimm's daoghter Markets: WGN, WL.S Frank Voelker. organist: WMT It :45 Hal Gordon, tenor: WLW Hollywood in person: KMOX Betty and Boh WLW Guy Lombardo's orchestra: WOC 1:00 Milton Charles: WOC Concert orchestra: WGN 1:15 Hope Alden: CCO Wife vs. secretary WON Howard Peterson: WLS RIVERSIDE At the public GIFT PREMIER "lOr" Electric Vacuum-Cleaner (J14.96 value) If you act now to modernize any existing- home with American Radiator System. For detail aee your Heating Contractor or write a.MtmCArnAPIATOIt rOMPANTf 41 Watt 40th Straat. Naw York.

N. V. In ponce court. Use of spotlights on any machines, other than trucks, sale of the John Shradel, ea business and professional group of ambulances, buses, taxtcabs or other emergency cars. Is prohibted tate held by Victor Burich as administrator, one 40-acre tract was families received a $1,796 average, the clerical group $1,384 and the by a new state law which went Into wage earner group, which was most numerous, $957.

effect July 4. The law not only forbids opera' bid off at per acre by Charles and Patrick Dean. This tract had no buildings. On the other 40-acre posed to excel Jn lourness of song Nineteen per cent of the families America's first introduction to Austrian Hedy Kiesler through the film, "Ecstasy," was marred by censors. Now Miss Kiesler Is here in person (above as New York saw her) and nary a censor In sight.

"Ecstasy" also disrupted her marriage to Fritz Mandel, munitions maker. and variety of song pattern. tlon of a spotlight on any machine other than an emergency car, but had more than one earner, the prin cipal earner averaging $866 an nually. tract no satisfactory bid was obtained. The town property, occupied by Mrs.

Mamie Scott and sons Hard-boiled eggs, bread and milk form the diet of the young birds, Mra Byme detailed. "I put Have You Thought About This WINTER makes It unlawful for the device to be mounted on the car, regardless of whether it is connected, the brought a bid of 1150. The di the food within reach of the par Renters slightly outnumbered home owners, 1,162 families report chief said. trict court at Washington must ap ent birds and they feed the young ing as renters and 1,078 as owners, ones. When the birds are older, prove of the sale before possession Only a dozen families reported pay they are put on a diet of commer can be given.

ing as high as $30 a month rent. Friends and neighbors of Cloyd obtaining the iriginal stock. 50 Remain Today, more than 50 birds flutter and chirp in the Byrne kitchen, inter haven for the srongsters. The remainder of this summer's "bumper crop" has been sold partly because of lack of space in the Byrne home 620 Bowery street. "I don't know just how many birds I have now," Mrs.

Byrne admitted. "I haven't counted the exact number for some time." Teaching canaries to sing is easily done, the policeman's wife asserted. "Playing a record over and over or whistling a tune to them again and again will lead them to Imitate the sounds," she declared. Quiet at Night From about 6 p. m.

until daybreak, the birds are quiet, she explained, but the rest of the time the house ise filled with warmbling. "They don't bother me," she avows and Patrolman Byrne maintains he's 'fused to them by now." During the mating season, traditionally opening on St. Valentine's day, the birds are especially active. Males sometimes battle ferociously for the attention of a coquettish female canary heart-breaker, Mrs. Byrne asserted.

"There's nothing to do in that case," she admitted, a bit hope TWO WEEK-END FIRES REPORTED Sixty-nine families paid less than cial mixed canary seed, apples and lettuce, fed twice or three times a day. Still later, the same diet Is $5 a month. Cress, who lost his house on his farm by fire a few weeks ago have been assisting him In getting ready Consider Paroling Man Sentenced on Charge of Forgery Peter L. Murphy, sentenced to Of family incomes, 84 per cent of for the erection of a new house. Excavating for the cellar and the every dollar came from earnings, eight cents from other sources and eight cents was computed the cash You probably havtv-but have you in the terms of your fall and winter wardrobe? Get out last year's clothes right now and have them cleaned.

'18) fed only once a day that's the regular ration." Overfeeding Fatal She explained that too many canary owners are frequently slowly killing their birds by overfeeding them. "Never feed canaries extras, such as bits of bread, the state penitentiary at Ft. Mad Damage Is Caused to Automobile, Electric Motor equivalent of home ownership, rent received and the value of producing ison December 11. 1933, after being convicted of forgery, may be par food. oled, according to Information re Two alarms were answered by crackers and things like that from ceived today by Police Chief W.

H. Bender from Mr. Sam D. Wood, the table," she warns other can Iowa City firemen during the week-end. secretary of the state board of ary owners.

"I've lost only one canary from At 4:30 o'clock Sunday morning The communication stated that Three Motorists Are Assessed by Judge In Police Court Sunday Three motoristse paid fines in firemen were called to 1022 North the 140-odd birds I've raised during the last four years," she asserted. the board had made an order con 'I still have the original pair, in pouring of cement for the foundation walls were completed last week. Harvey Holtz, who has been making his home in Riverside, has gone to Oklahoma for a visit with friends. Birthday Party The birthday anniversary of George Hora was the occasion for a surprise party at the Hora home southwest of Riverside. At the noon hour a cafeteria dinner was served from the baskets brought by the guests and the afternoon passed in a social manner.

Besides the honoree and his wife, those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hora and family, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hora, Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Schnoebelen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kueneman and fam templating the parole of Murphy this month. ,1 fact.

The only time I lost a bird Governor street to extinguish a blaze in an automobile owned by LlOyd Karns. Firemen said cushions in the machine were damaged by the fire. police court Sunday for violation of city traffic ordinances. We maintain a complete shop for repairing and refining that will meet your most exacting demand. DIAL 3 138 Paris Cleaners "Traditionally Iowa City's Better Cleaners" Those fined, as listed by police Flames caused slight damage to records, are Margaret S.

Wray, $1 and costs for failing to observe a school Stop sign; Richard Gorman, GLASS DIAL 4410 Modern Paint Store a motor at the C. O. Ingersoll resi $2 and costs for speeding, and dence, 1152 East Court street, at 4:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon, firemen said. tl a 1.1 It r.f I i 4 Robert K. Shannon, $3 and costs for speeding.

ily, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shradel and family and the Misses Lucille and Veva Knebel.

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