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Evening star., 1939-08-12
The Eberly Plan Is
DepartmentiZed Service
Repairing

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Departmentized Service
That means that no matter what
repair work, renovizing or undermining
you want done in your home we have an
organized department to do just that
manned by craftsmen trained to
The Eberly Plan way; imbued with
Eberly Plan interest.
Your inquiry of us will bring an
Eberly Supervisor. He will consult with
you-submit definite plan of procedure
with detailed specifications. You okay
them-and the work is under way.
Whether it is from one department or
forty, the men who come are Eberly men
skilled in their special crafts
courteous, considerate. All done with
ONE modest profit instead of many.
And instead of divided responsibility,
there is only ONE-OURS.
The Eberly Financing Plan is a
convenience rendered within our own
office arranged as you want it as to
time and payments, and with no
financing fees.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
The Capital Parade
Pennsylvania Junfu Perfects Convention Strategy;
They Plan 'Fovorte Son. Bargaining Delegation
BY JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT K1NTNER.

HARRISBURG Pa, Aug 11-He Pennsylvania ghosts
1920 walk again. That another the Republicans
candidate clean after
that the Pennsylvania delegation decided
Republican convention
The deadlock between Wood meeting
Evening star., 1939-08-12

THE opinions OF the rtters page are their on not
necessarily The stars Such opinions presented
stars eDort to gtue all sides questions to Its
readers although such opinions may contradictory arono
themselves and directly opposed to Tho Stars
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Hatch Law
By Ruling
Scope Is Narrowed
By Attorney Generals
Interpretation
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Political Washington, Republican
and Democratic, rubbed its eyes with
amazement and surprise today as it
read the first rulings by Attorney
Evening star., 1939-08-12
HeudlineFoIk
And What
TheyDo
Stettinius q Rich
Mans Son Who
Made Good
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

With Edward r. Stettinius, jr., as
chairman, the newly announced War
Resources Board can be expected
to function swiftly and smoothly.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
BY PRESTON GROVER.

Reports coming both from Toxic
and London that England had
asked the United States to assist
IN stabilizlng Chinese currency
Evening star., 1939-08-12
-Four Chinese to Make History

Tie IUUI OIIIIItot WIIU lIdNt SUU
in Tientsin will be handed over to tn,
This means little to the Chinese,
Life is very cheap in China. Until
some years ago, criminals sentenced
to be beheaded by the Chinese courts
were allowed to purchase themselves
a substitute. And many coolies Of
fered themselves for as little as
5000. to be paid to their families.
But the surrender of the four
criminals by the British authorities,
without investigation. without the
British authorities being satisfied
for forms sake. at least, that they
were guilty, means the death of B
this reason that the four Chinese y
Evening star., 1939-08-12

counted as surely Republican in
1910, but in addition to giving the
labor and relief votes good hidings,
the junta has enraged the teachers,
endangered the Republicans of
Philadelphia by blocking a much
needed city charter, and placed its
large foot in its capacious mouth in
several other ways.
But footnotes or no footnotes,
the fact remains that the junta
Evening star., 1939-08-12
This Changing World
Peace or War May Depend on Conference
Of Ribbentrop and Count Ciono
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN,

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
The eyes OF the world turned
10th castle
Count question of
reans
Evening star., 1939-08-12

syane degatonth bgges-When
ga next spring Equally certain the unta will demand candidate
matters to their
reasonable compromise They
roade for their
Republican moderates
center battalion of the Republican old
before they
by the NorthA Nevspape e1nc)
Evening star., 1939-08-12

guilty the death of British influence
this that the
Tientsin will have the doubtful distinction history
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Junto's Scheme


1T i'll that
tradition said be
Republican
pull 1t OIL with great luck their side
Ihe form tight manageable jnta with Arthur
man ms Joseph Pew M of the Sun Oil Co. and the old
arH LOBBYIST Grundy
Texan adviser the mysterious
sraegst
patronage Although
allies like Moses L. Annenberg
with the James policies there should
the Pennsylvania convention delegation.
AS repeatedly formulated
favote and hold the delegates for him until
OF either
the convention with bandwagon
The scheme anticipates the Republican deadlock which
no deadlock develops the will still be free
candidate they
Evening star., 1939-08-12
AUGUST u, 1899.

THE EVENINGS High LIGHTS
pm-WMAL Another program favor
1880 Hawaii Calls direct
Native Hawaiian music and instrumental soosts
heard
500 Answers to charges made against
of during recent Ladies Night"
from party of male visitors to the New York Worlds
Fair on the Vox Pop
$3.50 pmWRC Arch Oboler presents another his
original plays
-SHoRT-WAVE PROGRAM
900 Opm-BUDAPEST, Hungarian Phantasy HAT4 912
1928
6:55 pm-PRAGUE, Musical program. meg,
1880 pm-ROME, Chamber music 2RO 1181 meg, 254
983 305 m.
900 pm.-COSTA RIGA Voice Rca' TI4NRH $3.50
300
1920 pmPARIS Talk English by p j. Archinard
meg, 252 TPA4 IN meg, 256 M
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Center Battalion

The report of the scheme requires
Others declare that both Estes and James himself
although the
politician whose higher aspirations serious Then Estes
understood to
to pushing
that his ideal
would of
look Ike a raging radical by comparison.
Finally there good people
the crndy-Ess jna has diminished the
rex Republican candidate
doubtful States After the last election
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Repeating!

II looks like Stack Deanna Dubn affair vii con
a while.
Word Universal that another picture will 90 before
the cameras Monday 1t will be titled. It's Date
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Wan Back When!
About Time!
MAKING a Comeback!

Harry Langdon the MISUNDERSTANDING little man of the slap
stick era again first time in II and
doing did the big laugh OF
the movies
old but doesn't to have changed
the good old days.
o indeed good can take
with their simple fooshness
that goggy feeling gets of daily headlines
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Eight Bands On
Single Program

sprlnEing 10 popularity through
the appearance % such groups ~
the Raymond Scott quintet, the
Bob Crosby "Rob Cats. ard the
Benny Goodman trio. the small,
versatile musical combination has
emerged 10 a plane o. 10 own IN
the world OF modern musie.
Composed u musicians with
wide range ~ possibilities. the
small "comhos really hits it stride
with improvised music fer dancing
feet.
Four such groups which enter
tain in Tacoma taverns have been
selected 10 appear on the program
Of the annual Musicians hall CONF
ing Sunday night, Dee. 10. 10 the
Century. In addition, four major
bands OF Joe Thomas. Brad nsn-
non, Dale Fitzsimmons and Walt
Rose, viii hold down the heavy
playing spots. Five hours Of steady
dancing are promised.
The small musical groups signed
10 appear on the program are the
Lueernc quartette. the 1905 Tavern
boys. the 1918 trio. and pappys
Cabin duo.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Finds Fans Far,
Far From Home

Eddie Collins, the rubber-faeed
comedian, says: mo matter how
far you go. you can't get away
from show businessl"
The remark was prompted by
Eddie's experience with the loca-
ton unit which travelled all the
way to the top Of II, 900 foot Cedar
mountain in Utah to film scenes
for Daryl f. Zanuck's Technicolor
production of Drums Along the
Mohawk" starring claudette Col
bert and Henry Fonda, which 10th
Century-Fox presents currently at
the Roxy theater.
Collins had scarcely reached the
location camp when a 60-year-old
native woman greeted him like a
long-lost friend. IL transpired
that she was once a chorus girl
with Kolb & Dill and never failed
to see Eddie's midnight shows
after she finished work. Another
surprise came when she presented
Eddie to her daughter-who had
once been a chorus girl in one OF
Eddie's shows! But Eddie was In
for still another surprise. When
he accepted his fans invitation to
have dinner at their nearby ranch.
he was warmly greeted by the two
small grandchildren who had re-
Gently seen him on the screen!
THE Day the Bookies Wept,"
co-starring Betty Cradle and Joe
Penner, shares the screen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Mum. Academy Award
Winner, Likes Q Joke

Paul Mum. Academy Award
winner and regarded a. the premier
character actor on the screen. il q
serIous man bat likes a joke a.
well AZ anyone.
Recently. while rshsAralng .
scene for The Lifs Of Emile z0la. "
Warner Bros. production which u
now A. the Temple thsatsr. he
was arguing with Nine. lola 90
whether he should partlelpats IN
the Dreyfus case
But what VIII my friends say ?"
was Munis spesch. They 9iil joln
my enemies in calling ms a c0s-
ard Iis booked beyond the camera
and spied two newspaper oDl-
unnists watching him. and alded
10 his speech I'm he written up
BY the colamnisis hope"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Sally Rand Born
On MissouriFar

From farms 10 fans sounds like
a far cry but Sally Rand manages
to bridge the gap with ease.
Although famous for her fan and
bubble dance which she Is present
ing at the Music Box theater in
conjunction with her own star
studded revue. she is no stranger
10 the pillow and tractor. An Ozark
farm girl who abandoned the farm
for fame. she Is the owner Of a
farm in Glendora, Calf. on which
she grows the country's choice
oranges. She also owns the farm
on which she was born in Hickory
county, Missouri.
Nor do her farming interests
end with her financial investment
She Is in constant touch with both
these agricultural ventures and
actively manages both via phone
and telegram and correspondence.
Her days are spent in studying
crop reports. weather reports.
prices and farm relief measures
Of course all between her stage
work. Eventually Sally hopes 10
settle on her farm lands and lead
the life Of a lady farmer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Three Bands to
Play tuesday

Hamrickss Music Box thestsr
VII I'D tomorrow evening N M
PRODUCING the men who make Ia
coma's music whsa three Of the
Norshwest's most prominent dance
hands VIII be presented In a half
hour musical Isnoeree b the Ma
siclans' association.
Three such groups have never
before appeared on the stage 81
a Tacoma theatsr on the same
show. ard Joe Thomas. Waiter
Rose and Brad Bannoa. the three
maestros who will pilot their ~
spective bands through the lifting
strains uf the most popular selec-
ton OF today. have prepared .
really inviting treat.
The 1amoorce wil - staged
from BIS 10 a.ta and win BE-
broadcast over radio station kMo.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Master and His Valet
Really Mutual Heroes

The old adage goes that no man
is a hero TO his valet, but Richard
Greene has reversed that idea IN
two ways. In the first place. his
valet practically worships him. and
the valet Is a hero 20 GreeDel
The handsome young actor con-
siders the man his good luck
charm. Greene hired the fellow
upon coming 10 Hollywood for MS
first picture and likes 10 think that
his valet got him off 70 the good
start the picture gave MIN
It's not a real superstition. .
Greene explained TO Basil kath-
bone and Wendy Barrie. who are
co-festured with him In Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle's The Hound Of the
Baskervilles
It's only that he's worked with
me on each Of my pictures and "a
a mighty helpful person 70 have
around" Greene said OF course,
he might bring me luck, too"
Basil Rathbone plays Sherlock
Holmes IN the 20th century-Fox
picture opening Tuesday al the
Shell theater.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05

Jane Wyman has had several
stories published under = pseudo.
nym.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
The End of the Line!

SAN FRANCISCO-The Fair in 40' committee has given up
efforts the Golden Gate inter-
exposition spring for four-month run
Exposition Corp through president L
attorney Rand Larson to go before
Bankpcy Referee Wyman liquidation
program. a.
On Wednesday hand down his decision and by Thurs
workmen would begin deohon OF the
$4,000 600 of structures Treasure island
Dan London, who headed the 1910 Exposition me- "nch
sought to keep the fair intact until It's
opening spring his committee would take no further action
untit returned.
Repeating!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Like That!

Like That!
Don't look for "Gone With the Wind your local neigh
borhood theaer quite spell yet the producers hav
other plans.
1t is reported that for at least year, contracts will cal
for shOwings reserved seats and top prices
in other words ii be roadshowed for the top hats
that New Yorker will probably lay five spot oil
the line TO see Scarlet OHara the heat Rhett Butler
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
THAT'S TELLING HIM

HOLLYWOOD - when Dickie
Jones completed his screen test
for the role OF Colby in Warner
Bros Virginia City Director
Michael Curtiz asked him:
What are you going TO do now,
Dickie ?"
I'm going 10 stay home until
you phone to say ! got the Job"
And that's Just what he did.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
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NNSDy Go for Walk!
MAJ Writing a column without
MEAN0D1 definite subject in mind is a bit like
~ going for a walk just for the
A else . yet il is surprising what
runs into when out for stroll.
Go for a Walk.

whether actual or mental
Instead of concentrating things theatrical find my
self bordering the 100000 who attended the Army
Navy game Saturday to two teams play neither OF which
taking home very good report cards from this seasons
pigskin school.
And that University game
which the Mighty Troy they
about For SO minutes football
the Rose Bowl looked about promising the
1910 Olympic games in Finland
And speaking of gold and were, not?
my mind returns to where is spared
except the 10 cent increase to the stage hands
girl who can't write her but has pretty legs
can get 10 grand week. while carpenter with sharp
and good gets the busy signal time he tries TO
call the cashiers office
necessary to prove
people Hollywood would be good place
studios had actresses
them single production In fact
unconditional releases after having
periods without having
any compensation they have received
Money is tossed around like rice at wedding but it
doesn't get the bride and bridegroom anything after the
honeymoon is over.
Hannbals crossing of the Alps a.sealevel job
pared to the high finance of the Hollywood brass hats who
take drag the oxygen tank between appropriations to
keep from getting dizzy.
thousands the lunch table but little of it ever
finds its into the full dinner pail They give the Academy AWARD
100000 performance but pass out
o the guys with splnters in their hands
Only the Democrats threaten HOlywoods reputation for
spending money the slight difference being that Hollywood
spends its own, while the Democrats aren't so fussy
Hal Roach must have spent Smithsonian
making picture titled 100000 Years B. c.
That's going back long for but may at least
discovering haven't heard for time
About Time!
Hollywood has done enough biographies to fill yefoot
book shelf only has decided to do something about
the who actually made motion pictures possible
Thomas Edison.
Two different films will tell the story titled Young
Tom Edison starring Mickey Rooney other Edison
the Man," with Spencer Tracy at the controls.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Gentry, Blind,
Takes Hurdles

ehen Elmer Gantry, the ma
tionaliy-known blind show horse
featured in the Warner Bros. pic
ture, Pride Of the Bluegrass. at
the Music Box theater. went blind,
Miss Eleanor Getzendaneg Of Des
PLANES, ILL.,. his owner. determined
he would not be deprived OF the
one thing he seemed 10 love To do.
Take hurdles and bitches In stride
in a mad gallop over the country
side.
Patience
Patiently she started out 10 ac-
custom the horse to a new system
Of direction. that OF refining" by
voice. She first rode him at q
slow walk. teaching him to lift his
forefeet slightly for rises In the
ground when she said careful. up"
and 10 watch for low spot when
she said careful. down" Then
she taught him TO come TO her.
guided only by the direction Of her
voice or a clap Of her hands. As
the horse approached her. often
from the far side OF a pasture. she
used her up" and Down" pre-
cautions so that he would never
stumble.
Wins Confidence
She next took the horse through
a course OF captering. then run
ming, until he got complete con-
fidence in her and In himself. Next
came the trials at jumping. First
she used a very low hurdle. not
more than a foot high. She would
bring the horse up to this 20 that
his forefeet would barely hit the
barrier. Then. In the maneuver he
knew so well from days when he
could see. she would bring him
sharply around, 20 back for a
distance, then ride him up for the
jump. When at precisely the
proper distance for the horse "a
begin TO gather himself for the
spring she calls. Ready" then.
quickly and on the right stride.
up high" Tor up low depend
ing on the distance TO be cleared.
Before he lost his sight Elmer
could jump about five feet. now
he clears the bar at three feet
eight inches.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-05
Whit Life end GoIder Dey
Come Tuesdsy 70 The Beverly
JseL;e Cooper end Dstsy Fislj cs-<ssrpt = ~.
Nsmsd predsssier. Wits D1sbsrs Sssevyek
Appssn n Brosdwsy sssos IN

What IIlaI "A
Thus BETTY Field Broadway starr star chornr<ect -
reactions % Hollywood following her first dnyt VIII y ~
Paramount version of ne tvo<en1o4 Efoo1w1y ~
Cooper The film opens Tuesday af the Beverly t1<u1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
CHAPTER XIII

A man can grow Q very goot beard in three to five months. MT John Sawyer, formerly known a, Carl Quait, No. 322s3, spent almost four months growing his after he got . job with the Imperial Feldspai Corporation near Kingman, Ariz The Imperial was handling 800 ton, of feldspar and silica per month and John, or Carl, worked with % other men in an isolated canyon with scarcely no chance to come t6 town.
 sawyers top hair grew too; 1, had been cut very short in January but by summer 1t was scraggly again. Both his long hair and his beard combined to make him a very different man from what he had appeared at, say, Christmai time.
 On a day early in the summer the town boss rode out with a few comforts" for the men up in the canyon. Included was @ batch of newspapers. Sawyer was keen to read them. When bedtime came he was suddenly excited. In one ofthe Sunday papers more than a week old was a fulf-page feature article, with five good photographs and Q most interesting text. Oddly Mir. Sawyer went right then and there to his boss and told him he'd have to quit.
 "Um. Hit you all at once, didn't 1t, Sawyer7" the boss asked, curi- ougly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
. STORIES
 IN STAMPS
They Sought Homes, And Built an Empire

A BUGLE sounds in the gray- ness of early dawn, shouting horsemen ride up and down the long line of wagons, horses strain forward in their traces and an- other wagon train moves slowly across the Kansas plains toward the West.
 This was the picture of emigra. ton in the middle of the 18th century as growing nation pushed back the frontier, turned non-productive wilderness into fertile acres.
 They came from crowded cities, from exhausted farms, even from the Old World, these men and women of courage and determi- nation, for whom the new West held promise of independence, a home and a chance to earn a liv- ing.
 They followed the trails of e,>- plorers and trappers, fighting their way across the plains, over moun- tains, through storms and desert heat. Nothing could stop them. There was no turning back.
 Hostile Indians menaced every mile of their slow progress. Hum dreds perished, and their un- marked graves line the routes of the Oregon and Santa Fc trails.
 But life in a wagon train was far from unhappy. Each night az camp was made, they gathered around the main campfire to gos- sip and to sing. In the long months required to make the journey to the Pacific, lasting frlendships--and enmitics---Were made Youth found romance, babies were born, the aged died. The trail tested the worth of men and women alike.
 Hardships of emigration are de- picted on the l0-cent slate U. s. stamp, above, enlarged, one of the Trans s-Mississippi "Omaha" expo- sition series of 1898.