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Laurel outlook., 1946-05-15
Special Election On
Swimming Pool Bond
Issue Is Next Monday
Proposed Issue Is For $4,000 With Which To
Construct, Equip RecreatiOnal Facility
Workers Urge Big Turnout Of Voters

Qualified ~taxpaying voters of
Laurel will go to the polls next
Monday, May 20, to vote in a spe-
cial election on a $4,000 bond is
sue with which to construct and
equip a municipality owned and
operated swimming pool. Workers
who have carried the proposal to
this point strongly urge that all
qualified persons turn out and vote.
The law provides that such an cleo
ton is not valid should ballots be
cast by less than 40 per cen of
those entitled to do so.
Qualifications consists of the
voter being registered or having
voted at the last general election,
and his name must appear on the
tax roll. A taxpayer is one who
pays taxes on real estate or per-
sonal property. Taxes on an auto
mobile alone do not qualify.
In urging a big turnout by quail
fled voters, Chairman Clyde Crom-
we'll of the swimming pool general
committee said Tuesday that a
meeting of the committee will be
held later this week to organize
means for getting out the vote. All
persons interested in the project are
asked to contact friends and neigh
bors and urge them to vote.
Efforts to build a swimming pool
by popular subscription were made
several years ago, but were sub
sequently shelved because of I'M
favorable conditions then existing.
The proposal was given new life
late last year when American Leg
ion and Veterans of Foreign Wars
posts in Laurel revived it and Sc
cured the assistance of the city
council and a group of civic organ
iZations. A general committee was
formed, which in turn appointed
subcommittee. Petitions were cir
culated, asking the city council to
call a special election, which the
council did at a meeting April Is.
The date was set for May 20.
Previously the committee had
plans and specifications for
he pool, considered adequate for
present and future needs for sever
Il years. The plans represent the
,est available information gathered
Laurel outlook., 1946-05-15
Granddaughter OF
E. T.Hays To Marry
Great Gildersleeve'

Miss Gloria Holiday, grand
daughter of E. T. Hays of Laurel,
a retired employee of the Farmers
Union refinery, is to marry Hal
Peary, the "Great Gildersleeve' of
radio and motion pictures. Publish
ed announcement was made May Z
in the Los Angeles Herald and
Express which carried a two-column
story and pictures of the principals.
"Gildersleeve" (Peary) authorized
the statement, "You can say we're
engaged and hat we will be mar
ried after my wife secures her
divorce.
The feature writer, Harrison Car
rol, said in the Heard and Express:
at isn't going to be Leila Ran
son. the sugary-voiced southern
belle, or "Miss Goodwin" the cul-
turally-minded school teacher, for
the Great Gildersleeve.'
cts going to be a pretty young
radio actress, pianist and reception
list at the Columbia broadcasting
studios, Gloria Holiday, who will
become his bride as soon as his
wife divorces him in Las Vegas.
According to Peary, he and his
wife officially separated last jan
uary after being estranged for a
year. She now is in Nevada estab-
fishing residence, he added.
Miss Holiday, the granddaughter
Of Hays, has lived in California the
past several years.
Laurel outlook., 1946-05-15

from a number of authoritative
sources.
Polling places for the election
next Monday are:
First ward, Mrs. Carrie f. Erb's
residence, 40 Fourth avenu
Second ward, city hall.
Third ward, high school gymnas-
ium building.
Fourth ward, Humans Food
Mart, sol East Main street.
The polls will open at IL o'clock
noon and will close at 8 p. m.
Evening star., 1946-06-09
Picture Personalities Return to the Land
And Their Efforts Farming Have Proved Successful Being
Ever. Ridden by Financial Troubles
By Harold Heffernon

way things have swung, he seems
like a good fellow to contact for
business tips.
Palominos are Dick Haynes dish.
He raises those magnificent spec
linens with blond names and tails
on q flve-acre place he bought at
Longridge. He soon will move the
establishment to l0,000-acre farm
close to the Ventura County line
They are prize ring horses and all
are blue ribbon winners. Riding has
long been Dicks hobby, but only in
the last year has he gone in for
palominos as a business venture
When Walter Brennan told his
farm manager: I'm going to get
helicopter and have a walkie- -talkie
system installed because 10000 acres
is heck of a lot of land to cover"
that good man said:
Now, Mr. Brennan, wouldn't
want for to have the public think
you've gone nuts"
But Walter was serious He's got
over 500 head of cattle in wild
Oregon back country He wouldn't
think of leaving the house without
having gun on his hip. Sometimes
he's on horseback from dawn to
dusk, so he figured it would pay to
clear off some landing spots and
put little helicopter down neatly
instead of making those long, weary
ing inspection rounds.
Evening star., 1946-06-09

ment il correctly handled. Ida
Lupino and Nicholas Arden, her
partner, raised Poland China and
Berkshire hogs for breeding purposes.
Preston Foster gives his Chats
worth ranch a lot of time and at
tention because it brings in a smart
income. When he was in Kanab
working with a location unit. he
bought prize stock and brought
them back to Hollywood in car
with specially bu1lt pen.
McCrea Is the Dean"
Joel McCrea generally is looked
upon as dean of Hollywood actor
farmers. His Ventura acreage with
its record of 100000 head of steer
beef year turns over neat income
for the McCreas. During the war
Joel was catalogued officially by the
Government as "food-raiser.'
He was one of the first actors to
discover ranching Is delicate busi-
ness in which each element must
balance perfectly. Joel figured the
average farmer, who Is burdened by
debt and has no other source OF in
come, is bound to lose out when
rough weather or blight hits his
crops or disease breaks out among
his herds.
Since there's nothing so tickle as
weather-unless it's a woman" says
Joel. the farmer does best when he
has a good income from some other
source to supplement natural losses.
That's why I'm going to stay in
pictures
This comprises only partial re-
view of Hollywoods actor farmer
activities - and we haven't even
touched on Ginger Rogers, Mary
Astor, Paulette Goddard and others
of their sex who've been adding to
incomes via the soil. Those busi-
ness managers must have something
on the ball.
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Evening star., 1946-06-09

NEW YORK.
The last production to open on
Broadway before the official June l
closing OF the 1856 season was
Orson Welles' musical extravaganza
Around the World" 1t managed to
end the season on generally dreary
note.
The intermission funny boys had
good deal OF fun describing
Around the World" 1t was referred
to variously as "Orson and johnson"
and "Wellesapcppin:" The references
were deserved, for the mood and
style of the musical comedy was
about equally distributed between
the daffy doings of Olsen and John
son, including heavy artillery and
hapless, hopefully ridiculous Incl
dents; and ancient beer-and-pret-
zels and hiss-the villain melodrama.
One critic noted, in negative COM
plant, that Welles had supplied
everything for his show but the
kitchen sink. That shortcoming was
remedied the second night, when
Orson walked on stage and pre-
sented for the audiences pleasure a
fine, functional example of porce-
lain and stainless steel plumbing.
Welles, being an accredited genius
whose talents ride off, like Stephen
Leacock's horse, in all directions,
produced the musical, wrote the
book, directed, acted, presented a
program of magic at the end of the
first act and made curtain speech
which was somewhat more interest
ing than the earlier proceedings he
had arranged.
The story of Around the World"
moving in what was hoped to be a
sparkling frantic pace through "a
scenes, is based on Jules Verne's
Evening star., 1946-06-09

Pennsylvania is where Bill Eythe
and Walter Slezak bought their
farms. Eythes $50 acres are in
Butler County, not far from his
home town, Mars. He has $50 pigs
and raises corn and soy beans. His
place is operated by resident farm
ers on a share basis and was the
first investment Bill made after
signing a long-term contract with
Goth Century Fox. Walter Slezak
recently added 1000 acres to the
original 86 he had in Bucks County.
He has hogs, steer beef, ducks.
horses and grain-the works.
The Henry Fondas bought Tiger
tail Farm good many years ago.
Mrs. Fonda kept it going while
Henry was away in the Navy. It's
smaller place than most of the
others we've mentioned, but it has
citrus orchards, rabbits. chickens
and truck gardens and the Fondas
never had to worry about provisions
during the war. What they do not
use is marketed or bartered with
neighbors for things not raised at
Tigertail.
Don Ameche's farm, out Ventura
way, has chickens, cows, alfalfa
lands and dairy It's true model
farm. Harold Lloyd and Victor
McLaglen go in for turkeys which,
it seems, is very profitable invest
Evening star., 1946-06-09
Busy, This Film Star
In Nine Years Jack Carson Has Made So
Many Pictures He Can't Name Them All /
By SheiIoh Grohom

year, before I went to the Pacific,
I signed away my studio pay for
three months. That was all right.
But when I came back Mr.. Warner
gave me a fist full OF checks-my
salary and more, for the three
months I'd been away"
There is Mrs. Jack Carson
the former Kay st. Germaine,
singer. But they are now separated
and getting divorce. They have
two children, Kit and Jack, jr.,
ages l and 4 years. Jack recently.
bought an expensive trailer which
he turned over to his kids for a play.
room. 1t was stolen! That was too
bad, but the vehicle was insured.
and the children are getting an
other. Jacks a good father, a good
golfer good actor and a good guy,
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Evening star., 1946-06-09
HOLLYWOOD.

Not a top star among the make
believers is without a business man
ager today. The BIN. sits in his
plush office, reaps neat 10 per cent
OF his clients salary and gives out
with one line of advice. 1t seldom
varies. Get yourself nice chunk
Of land some place and raise things
to eat" the investment seers have
been urging the stars. And the
stars have been doing just that.
They all look back fearfully on
the era when their silent-day BROTH
ers and sisters invested in wild par
ties and fancy carS-and today they
can see many of those once big
timers eagerly swapping up scarce
extra jobs or sitting, broken in purse
and health, on the verandas of the
Motion Picture Relief Funds Home
out in the valley.
In the back of every stars mind
is that unholy fear of going dead
at the box Office, so when the busi-
ness manager says, Buy land" the
actor hops to it. And as a result
Hollywood stages hum with crop and
live stock discussions.
Film personalities have made
farming a success, it must be ad-
mitted, only because they've had
enough money to swing a business
that calls for fat financing. The
actor or-farmer isn't handicapped by
mortgages or the constantly pyra-
miding rates of interest on success
sive borrowings. He owns his own
property without membranes be-
fore he starts to operate. Thus he
can run his ranch at a full profit
right from the outset.
Based on Experience.
This year has seen a record num-
Der Of actors swinging into the SIM
ple-llfe movement because the end
Of war has put transportation and
help back into normal channels.
Betty Cradle and Harry James
were among the first to buy ranch
property with business eye. Their
So acres at Calabasas can be reached
by car in about half an hour. The
couple is out there every Sunday
at sunup getting the ranch house
ready for occupancy. They're doing
well, too, with their string Of Is
race horses.
George Montgomery's plan for his
dirt farm of 10000 acres is laid on
the foundation of personal expert
ence. He's a farm born boy. He
left the Montana ranch where his
father and mother still live because
it wasn't adequate to support them
and IL children as well.
But I never got ranching out Of
my mind during my first couple of
years in pictures" he told us. And
when went home on a vacation I
spotted site near Lincoln, Mont
which my instinct told me was ideal.
I sink every penny make into it
have been for some time now"
Georges two brothers run the ranch
for him and have it practically on a
paying basis.
We're feeding $50 head of cattle
and so horses right now" he said.
I'm putting my money into 300
head of additional stock, which is
all I need to get out of the red.
After that I won't have to worry if
1 never make another picture"
Raises Show Palominos.
Fred MacMurray goes in for
prunes and nuts at his ranch in
Santa Rosa. It's no hobby, either.
Fred prides himself on being very
much a Scotsman where business
investments are concerned. He
divides his ranchinc intern~"~ vt
sound apartment buys. With the
Evening star., 1946-06-09
OrsOn Nails On the Lid
By Jock o'Brion

novel, Around the World in 80
Days" Orson prepared a large
complex and colorful production,
with characters moving constantly
through swiftly changing settings
from one country to another. What
Welles wanted was smooth, swiftly
flowing series of scenes. The ambi-
ton did not meet the result, and 1t
turned up as little more than a
bulky, only infrequently amusing
tune show.
AS an old Cole Porter fan it
grieves me considerably to report
that the scale for Around the
World" is the worst I have heard
from the usually talented tunesmith
His tunes. both music and lyrics, are
numbering shadows of earlier Porter
delights and the musical arrange
ments are ordinary or less. There
is little If anything to praise in
this production. except Welles' am
bition and energy, the beauty and
voice of a young lady named Mary
Healy, herein wasted quite complete
ly, and some amusing moments sup
piled by Arthur Margetson as a low
comedy Britisher.
Evening star., 1946-06-09
Today's Schedules
NATIONAL-'Lafiing Room

NATIONAL"Laffing Room
Only" 2:l5 and 8:15 pm.
CAPITOL-"The Postman Al
ways Rings Twice" 1:35, 4:25,
ITO and 9::55 pm. Stage
shows, 1885, 3:45, $50 and
s:15 pm.
COLUMBIA-'Kitty," 1:20, $40,
5:25, 7:25 and $50 pm.
EARLE-"One More Tomor-
row." lis. 800, 5:25, 7:30 and
$40 pm.
HIPPODROME - Symphonic
d'Amour," 2:10, 4:o5, 6, 8 and
$50 pm.
KEITHS From This Day
Forward, "1:25, $3.50, 5:35, 7:35
and $40 pm.
LITTLE-"The Open City" 1:20,
800, 5:25, 7::3O and 935 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
1:20, 1925, $50, 7:35 and
9;45 pm.
PALACE-"Do You Love Me?"
1:20, 1925, $50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
PIX The Phantom Thief"
1925, $50, $40 and 1920 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
Evening star., 1946-06-09
End of a Dream, Maybe
Past Season Hard on Musicals Yearnins to
Hit 'Oklahoma's Fabulous Triumph
By Jay Cormody

IN the summing up of the heaer which
first week in June there quality The dream
tnat was ending good
OF the theae always durable
may even be too conducting postmorem it,
The dream in question producers to have
mad to degree fantastic
Not necessarily precise copv understand
although they cpe that but something that
would catch the fancy of the Nation tabuo bring
Total Loss Is Not Calculated
lheater financing being largely matter hearsay
trustworthy than hea1y in other fields
Will know the sought
demonstrate that the 1hater Guild
homa! formula Certainly, however figure
himself would find respectable and before
hardest gamblers blanch
of
was not the slew OF Okahoma equivalents
the widespread feeling trying
sitting there among the ruins of their investments they could
conclude that the opea sort of thing
Not even glass of lukewarm water
In the just ended-he new season
always starts officially the audiences
They "Marnka Spring in Brazil All were
scored formally and finally making
OF amntabe weeks and derdng which extended all the
Boston to the Illinois metropolis.
Washington only these three
all equally glum in their brief history.
Try as Inevitable
1t was inevitable that producers should make
something similar in formal to "okahoma triumph
was eecfyng but it something
ycal although frequently
self The guilds production after ALL piece
folklore or history in music in the minds
simply, it
kind OF out of-he-way place There
about the in lots of other
Why not, indeed?
The virtually hysterical duplication
production reached its zenith in the
1886 season. not without its
between "Oklahoma's!" debut and that
From the spring OF l943 thought
next Oklahoma" 1t automatically
other musical offerings judged.
That not at least the earlier
ard evident in the reception
dutifuly comparison
altogether entirely overdrawn Boomer G also
about lively chapter history
counted with rrevent
similar to Its The most striking the resemblance
In many minds however that in the Celeste
Joan MacCracken, both straight brilliant
"Okahoma!"
Todd Also Proved
After Bloomer Girl another profitable If
rough imitation That up Central
show that New York
The between this offering
OF the Guild far less happy but up Central Park
handsomely in spite of it,
Then the guild itself duplicated producing
sell adaptation Lom
coast of Maine Americanze
With these three evidence
locales started into hopeful
Austria
the one which carried its name in the title.
But probably it did not work. and with all that
learning that sad truth in the ended the will
far caution dramatic
Arlington Robinson said 1t best
out OF them"
Evening star., 1946-06-09
From the Guild

Geraldine Brooks, Theater Guild
ingenue who won critical acclaim
for her role in the Broadway play,
"T'he Winters Tale" has begun an
important role in Warner Bros
drama, Cry Wolf"
Enrol Flynn and Barbara STAN
wyck will star in the new mystery
film. in which Miss Brooks portrays
Flynn's niece.
Cry Wolf" based upon the sus-
pense novel by Marjorie Carlton,
is being produced for the Warner
studio by Henry Blanke.
Evening star., 1946-06-09
Coming gAttractions

NATIONAL-"The Voice Of the
Turtle" with Harvey Ste
phens, starting June II.
CAPITOL-"A Night in Casa
blanca" with the Marx
Brothers. starting Thursday.
EARLE-"Gilda," with Rita
Hayworth and Glenn Ford,
starting tomorrow.
KEITH'S-"A Night in Para
disc" with Merle Oberon and
Turhan Bey, starting We'd
neSday.
LITTLE-'Laura," with Dana
Andrews and Gene Tierney.
METROPOLITAN - "City for
Conquest" with James Gag
ney.
PALACE-"The Blue Dahlia,"
with Alan Ladd, starting
Thursday.
PIX-"Tell 1t to a Star" start
ing Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-10-17
Group Plans Leaflets
To Spur D. {. Voting

The Citizens Forum of Columbia
Heights last night authorized the
preparation of hundreds of leaflets
to be sent out to residents of the
community, urging them to vote in
the November 5 plebiscite on Dis
trict suffrage.
"It's time we did away with having
the lives of 100000 voteless people
directed by one or two members Of
Congress from some other section OF
the country" DR.. c. j. Fernald,
president, said. He referred to the
chairman of the Senate and House
District Committees.
Spared A. Wood, vice president,
pointed out that in the 1888 plebis-
cite, 80 per cent of those voting
favored local self-government and
national representation.
M. E. Gersing was named to head
committee to prepare the leaflets.
The forum also renominated all
the present officers for new term.
They are: DR.. Fernald, president;
Mr.. Wood, vice president; j. w.
Crawford. treasurer; Mrs. Alice
Heimer, secretary, and w. j. Oats,
chaplain.
Guest speakers at last nights
meeting were James M Reilly, who
spoke on the work of the Com
munity Chest, and Percy Smith, who
outlined some of the ways Of rails
ing the needed District taxes.
The meeting was held in the
Powell Junior High School. Hiatt
place and Lamont street NV.
Evening star., 1946-10-17
Move Started to Free
Touhy From Prison
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Oct. l7.--An attempt
is being made to obtain the release
Of Roger "the Terrible" Touhy from
Stateville Penitentiary, where he is
serving a 99-year sentence for the
kidnapping of John Jake the Barber
Factor.
A petition contending Touhy was
convicted on perjured testimony has
been filed before Chief Justice
Harold G.. Ward of Criminal Court
The petition contended that al
though Factor testified that Touhy
was responsible for the kidnapping
Factor actually never was able to
identify his abductor.
The action was instituted by At
torney Charles P. Megan. The hear
ing was continued until October "a
Touhy was convicted February "a
1884. In l94z he escaped from State
vile, but was recaptured in Chicago
Evening star., 1946-10-17
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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31

The ant-lion, which is neither an
ant or lion, catches other insects
in BOBBY traps which it digs in the
ground.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31

When it comes to falling, James
Hearn of Seattle is the most far
sighted Hearn fell three floors
dow an air shaft to land in an
easy chair.
Every year someone lets a train
pass over him without serious re-
suits. In 1916 it was Jesse Splitter
Oh Denver, who did it the hard
way by first having an auto acct
dent. The crash threw him
through the roof of his car and
he landed or his back in the mid
die Of the track just as train
came along. Splitter lay quietly un-
til the engine and its string Of
freight cars passed over him and
then found he had a broken leg
from the auto accident.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31

John L. Sullivan beat Jake Kill
rain in rs rounds at Richburg,
Miss, July 8, 1889, in the last bare
knuckle prize fight.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31

One Of life's mysteries that still
has doctors guessing came when IT.
month-old Larry Lingle of Harris
burg, Pa, swallowed a nickel and
coughed up a penny.
Mrs. Edward Comfort Of Brook
Ign was driving through Virginia,
her 15-month-old baby riding be-
side her in basket strapped to the
seat of the car. The child suddenly
stopped drinking milk out of a
nursing bottle, swung the bottle
and conked Mrs. Comfort on the
head. Dazed, she let go of the
wheel and the car overturned in a
ditch. Neither mother rpr baby was
hurt.
But Charles Anderson of Los An
geles isn't so allergic to a bump
on the head. When he was struck
By a concrete block which fell from
a four story high scaflold and hit
him on the head, Anderson reeled
into the street just in time to
b, knocked down by policeman's
motorcycle.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
Golf Wins Tech Club Presidency;
Membership Will Be Limited To 200

Earl A. Golf was installed jan
uary % as president of the Tech
club for 1916. Other officers elected
were Eugene D. Ermence, vice
president; Dwight G. Miller, treas
urer; Donald E. Powell, secretary.
Following annual reports of for
mer officers ana committeeman,
Tech clubmembers and their wives
witnessed the hypnosis show by
Clyde R. Powell. Mr.. Powell, per-
sonnet director for Endicott john
son, used volunteers from the aud
fence and hypnotized group Of
those present both individually and
i. a group.
Proposals to limit membership In
the club to 200 are not under con-
sideration as the list Of new mem
bers and applicants increase. Be-
cause of the overflow crowd, We'd
nesday, the group moved into the
Presbyterian church house audito-
rum for the meeting.
President Golf named the follow
ing committees: reception, Paul
McEnany, chairman, c. H. Russell,
Don Anderson, A. D. Story; re-
freshments, A. Softer, chairman.
r. Funston, L. Lunsted, Ed Beach;
publicity, Matt Charlton, chair
man, P. N. Burkard, w. K. Lang
Con; membership, George Best,
chairman, j. Mari, j. Jaquette, w.
W Moore, j. Boutwell,; program,