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    1. Double Wedding Revealed March 30, 1934 McDonald PA Record-Outlook
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. Double Wedding of Last September Comes to Light Leo MALARKEY, the McDonald high school football star, regarded as on of the University of Pittsburgh's potential gridiron greats, is married. His secret wedding last fall to Marian Alice MCBETH, a high school sweetheart, was revealed this week in the investigation of another McDonald high school romance. The Rev. A. D. EBERHART, a Methodist Episcopal minister at Newell, W. Va., performed a double ceremony in the parsonage there September 1. The brides were Marian Alice and her sister Hazel Elizabeth. Both marriages were carefully guarded secrets until James A. RUMBAUGH, Jr., Hazel's husband, disappeared from Columbia University, where he had gone last fall on a Pittsburgh scholarship. Young RUMBAUGH, a fine scholar during the first semester, Columbia University authorities said, did not return to his classes after the January examinations. His parents said that he had seemed "like a different boy" when he was home for the Christmas holidays. His wife, who now works in a Pittsburgh bank, said she had not heard from him since February 8. She scouted a report that one of his friends had received a letter from him, postmarked in Venezuela. When RUMBAUGH"s disappearance revealed his marriage the investigation led to Newell. There it was discovered that his marriage had been a double ceremony, with the MCBETH sisters as the brides and MALARKEY as the other bridegroom. MALARKEY was a star athlete at McDonald high and captained the 1931 football team, playing at quarterback in his senior year. His outstanding plays made him eagerly sough by colleges and universities. He choose Pitt, however, and enrolled in the Dental school He played brilliantly on the Pitt Freshman team in 1932 and last year came to be regarded as a probably worthy successor to Gibby WELSH, Tommy DAVIES, Jimmy DEHART, Warren HELLER, an other Pitt ball carriers, who have won national acclaim. As the dental course requires five year for completion, MALARKEY would be eligible, if he continues in school, for three years of varsity football.

    10/06/2003 11:24:03