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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17

driving, ease your way. A hand
some flexible steering wheel, auto
matte windshield washers, soft
Foamtex cushions, and many
other items that are extra"
elsewhere are standard equip
ment here.
ID =,
Dut even while you enjoy all
that, you've a still deeper salts
faction enriching your pleasure.
For here you have not only fine
car, but a sound and frugal in
veStment as well.
You have paid less per pound than
any comparable car costs-and
automotive men will tell you
price per pound is the soundest
measure there is of solid, thor
oughgoing merit. ,
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17
THE UNION COUNTY JOURNAL. MARYsvnLE, ONO

at z pounds and Ia ounces. Her
parents are Mr.. and Mrs. John
Weaver, of Tipp City, and she has
one brother, Ray.
DR.. and Mrs. T. r. Coughenour,
of Kirkersville, announce the
birth of their third daughter, in
Grant Hospital, Columbus, Aug.
Is. Mrs. Coughenour is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Randall, of this city.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert c. Wright
announce their marriage, which
occurred at 8 p. m. Saturday
Aug. IL, in Maple Heights Pres
byterian Church. Rev Herbert
Brink, the pastor, officiated. Mrs
Wright, the former Mrs. Esther
Gerlach, was attended by her
daughter, Marcia. Also present
for the ceremony were several OF
the brides friends, who held a re-
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17

IT'S a big moment when any
new car rolls up to your door
and you start out fresh and
spanking bright.
Think, then, what it's going to
mean when that new car is a
RoADMASTER like this one pic
tured here.
1ou'll swing wide the door and
slide into q car that's truly fine
and looks it.
You'll put foot to treadle and
touch off the might of a great,
152-horsepower Fireball straight
eight that's ready to master any
road-or anything it meets there.
You'll have the silken magic of
Dynafow Drive to simplify your
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17
BIRTHS

Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Brake, of
Milford Center, announce the ar
rival of seven pound daughter,
Karen Ann, at Mt. Carmel Hos
pital, Aug. IA. They now have
two children, son and daugh-
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17
Saturday, Aug. 19

Commencing at ! o'clock:
Daybed and pad; single bed,
with mattress; sideboard; three
chests of drawers; G.E. electric
washer; coal oil stove; number of
stools; sewing cabinet; large mir
ror; two bridge lamps; electric
sweeper; nu m Der of pictures;
number of extra nice curtains and
drapes; 9x12 rug; one large car
pet; number of throw rugs; one
pair of goose feather pillows; bed
pan; rocking chairs; seven flat
irons; dining room suite; quilting
frame; tub rack; garbage can;
three ice boxes; two bird cages;
camp stove; lot of odds and ends
of paint; electric breakfast max
er; check protector; dishes and
pots and pans; lot of extra nice
antique dishes; drop leaf antique
stand, with drawers; Coolerator
ice box; Montgomery Ward oil
range, with side oven; piano; Co.
lumbia grafonola; brass bed, with
springs; baby bed, with sides and
mattress; number of articles not
mentioned.
Anyone having anything to sell
around Milford Center may bring
it to this sale.
Terms; Cash
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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17
PUBLIC SALE
OF
Household Goods

As have sold my property !
will sell at public auction at my
late residence. located on Short
and Brown streets, close to the
canning factory. in Milford Cen
kax ~
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17

ter. Mrs. Brake is the former
jeanette Taylor, of Redwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Weaver,
of Marysville Rt. 8, are announc-
ing the arrival of their first
granddaughter, Miss Susan Elaine
Weaver, who weighed in July 27,
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17

ception for the couple at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell
Phillips in Maple Heights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright have re-
turned from their wedding trip,
and are at home to their friends
at SGT Mulberry st.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17
Thackery Family

Annual Thackery reunion was
held Sunday, Aug. 13, at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Brelsford,
of Broadway. Following a basket
lunch at noon, the day was spent
socially, and enjoyed by: Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Thackery, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jay Thackery, of Bellefon-
taine; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thack-
cry, Mr.. and Mrs. Dolph Thackery
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Alva
Alexander and son, of Marion;
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl English and
guests, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ora
ham, of Columbus; Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Rogers, of West Mansfield;
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Herd and
son, of Magnetic Springs; Mr.. and
Mrs. Willard Wilson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Wrinkle and son, Mr..
and Mrs. Corwin Brelsford, of
Broadway, and the hosts.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17

You've bought quaIity-top quail
ity-all the fine things a fine car
should provide. But you haven't
spent a penny more than fine
car need cost.
And that can mean lot. For Inc
stance
Drop in on your Buick dealer:
Try out ROADMASTER. Match
it, feature by feature and point
by point, with any other fine car
on the road.
Then get the price.
You may we'll find that you can
get not only new ROADMASTER
for the sum you had in mind-bnt
maybe a neac fur coat for your tCIe
as SCeW
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17
FELLOWSHIP CLASS PICNIC

Members of the Fellowship
Class of the Methodist Sunday
School, and their families are in
vited to the annual picnic, which
will be held at the home of the
teacher, Mr.. F. R. Greeneisen,
Sunday afternoon. Those desir-
ing transportation are to meet at
the church at p. m. Members
bring covered dish and table SER
vice.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-08-17
FornilY School
REUNIONS
In Union County
Wynn Family

The annual Wynn reunion was
held at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. c. Wynn, in West Mansfield
Aug. 13. The following relatives
and friends were present: Mr..
and Mrs. Cleo Wynn, Mrs. Fern
Newby, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Kale and son, Robert, of Indiana;
Mr.. and Mrs. Pearl Tanner, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Tanner, of Mar
ion; Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Huntley
and baby, Mr.. and Mrs. Cleming
Moore and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Moore, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Moore,
Mr., and Mrs. Elmer Sivey and
daughter, Martha; Mr.. and Mrs.
Curtis Fields, Mrs. Hazel Lane,
Charles Emma and ary Daum,
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sivey
and sons, all of near Redwood;
Miss Dora Daum, Mr.. Leo Wynn
and family, and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Wade and family, all of
Columbus; and Mr.. and Mrs. Don
aid Wynn, of Bucyrus.
The next reunion will be held
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Curtis Fields, of near Redwood.
Evening star., 1950-01-29

himself at the age of 13, when
after his mothers death he left
an embarrassingly expansive, un-
conventional father to go East
with his mothers bloodleSS, cor
rect relatives to absorb the phi
losophy that "the only good life
is to be successful man with a
steady job and a handsome
salary" He would seem to have
denied those elements of creative
ness inherited from his father,
which never found expression in
his job as Eastern story editor for
Suprema films.
Miss Ross account is rich in
lore. She writes compellingly of
the majestic reaches of the Pacific
Northwest, of spider webs and
Indian tales, of the early days of
IWW and of abstract art. But
its infinite variety cannot conceal
the slow. almost halting pace of
the story, which is retarded with
numerous flashbacks and the
rather awkward device of the
fathers autobiography. But if it is
not complete success as novel,
lacking as it does the sure sweep
to an invitable climax, Il, My
Ancestor" is still uncommonly
llterate, aware and stimulating.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Is This Main Line

DEVICE AND DESIRE

BY Mary Tanning Wickham.
(Lippincott;; $2.75.J .-.
Miss Wickham has written an
entertaining novel around Phila-
delphia Main Line family with
more than its share of frustrated
and zany members.
The eccentric matriarch of the
Purdons has drawn up one of those
peculiar wills which have been a
boon to so many novelists. She
cuts off her children and grand
children with what amounts to a
pittance, considering her immense
fortune, and provides that none
will get even that if he or she
follows her horse-drawn hearse
(and it must be horse-drawn) to
the cemetery. But later, after
the old lady is buried, a. codicil
shows up.
A granddaughter. Ellen, not
quite II, turns out to be a more
important character than her
grasping father Ernest, or her
romantic older sister Ernesta
Ellen blossoms with amazing
precosity. Miss Wickham writes
sharply, and there are many
amusing scenes. 1t does appear
that she couldn't decide whether
she was writing a social comedy
or satire approaching, burlesQue.
But you can't make a French abbe
named Bordelaise de la Bordelaise
anything more than a fugitive
from musical-comedy cast. Nor
does the author attempt to.
Evening star., 1950-01-29

the trilogy, is more than some
thing out of opera bouffe. There
is in his story, as in all fine tales
of ironical humor, an underlying
philosophy, a feeling of life,
commentary on the times, in this
instance around 1899.
I'm never really comfortable
without a picture" Gulley once
remarks; land when I've got one
on hand, life isn't worth living"
Life Is Fun.
The aging painter, down on his
luck, his earlier successes out of
his reach, is as engaging rascal
as you'd want to meet. With no.
where to sleep and food uncertain
most of the time, in and out of Jail,
he still finds life captivating. His
pals include cobbler whose
passion is spinoza and barmaid
who throws him out of her pub
and buys him socks, both regularly.
The redoubtable Sara Monday, to
whom Gulley once was married,
in a way, turns up often. The
years have made her still bulkier
and grayed her hair, but then mo
woman really gets old inside until
she's dead or takes to bridge"
Gulley. with his grandiose plans
and blithe intentions, gets into
as many scrapes as Samuel Lovers
Handy Andy" The most charm
ing undoubtedly is his series of
encounters with Sir William and
Lady Beeder: Artists owe a debt
to millionaries that can never be
repaid, except in cash." The
Beeders asked Gulley to tea;
they were gracious, despite the
state Of his wardrobe. People
like that can afford it. Nothing
to them to send their cushions
to the cleaners"
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Mary LAWN Finds
An Angel in Ireland
MARY O'GRADY

MARY O'GRADY
BY Mary LAWN. (Atlantic-Little
Bro1on; $3.)
Mary LAWN, the gifted Amer
ican-born Irish writer, has had a
change of heart toward the
women of Ireland. Hitherto she
has painted them with ironic con-
tempt as nagging wives and pos
sessive mothers; now she presents
one who is the very personiflcation
of the maternal spirit, a great
hearted countrywoman whose
whole fulfillment has been in
bearing her children and in loving
them selflessly. The blacklist trag-
edies shadow Mary O'Grady's life.
Her little brood is scattered under
the most heartbreaking condi-
tions. Yet Mary accepts it all
with simple fortitude. piety and
many cups of tea.
Readers will look in vain here
for the tartness and telling shafts
which marked Miss LAWNS ear
lier work. She is all charity, all
sympathy for poor Mary O'Grady,
whose story she tells almost en-
tirely in dialogue, which relates
minutely, often monotonously, the
crises of domestic life. One can
commend, of course, the softening
of Miss LAWNS point of view.
while still bemoaning the lack of
bite and clarity which made her
short stories so memorable.
M, MEG,
Evening star., 1950-01-29

helped make it what 1t became.
The thousands who have gone
to Natcfez Tor the spring pill
grimage, or who hope to 20 in
future, will have a particular in
terest i'll the side incidents, the
titillating episodes which they
will recognize. But the book
needs no such peg" In its own
right it is a finely knit, warmly
felt novel, mature and written
with sympathy and under stand
ing.
Here is the story of two women,
a belle" and her less glamorous
cousin, and the several men who
figured in their lives. Against
a background of dusty gentility
of modern Mississippi's political
shenanigans, heavy drinking
parties and other social doings,
Mrs. Graham's tells a quick-paced
story. The book opens at the
close of World War I and closes
before the start of World War II.
1t builds to climax in which
newspaper readers will recognize
some, at least, of the elements
Of a bizarre murder among the
quality folk" of Natchez, a kill
ing that filled thousands of news
paper columns a number of years
back. And the book, though not
a murder mystery, has a good,
element of suspense and an ending
that will appeal to some of those
who like works of this genre.
There is, in fact, rather more
to this book than may meet the
casual eye. Mrs. Graham has
a good gift of characterization,
an often impressive insight and
a skill in evocative description.
This is a book written in the first
person and, like most such novels,
presents a number of problems to
the writer and reader alike. Now
and then it jumps abruptly and
occasionally it's elements do not
fuse with complete smoothness.
Yet the author has succeeded ad-
mirably in recreating a time, a
place and a people.
And here and there the stranger
to Natchez will encounter an epi-
sode or an individual that may
seem too good to be true. Yet
those who have visited the COM
munity will testify that the
author in the main has used
understatement rather exaggera-
tipn.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Gutenberg
One Of Those Things, by Peter
Cheyney. (Dodd, Mead & Co.;

One of Those Things, by Peter
Cheyney. (Dodd, Mead & Co.;
$2.50.)
Red Badge
The woman scorned makes life
complicated no end for Terence
O'Day, a private inquiry agent
whose partner happens to be the
woman'S husband. In fact, the
lady goes so far as to confide
in her husband that she and
ODay participated in a weekend
rendezvous which, of course,
never happened. Question: Would
a woman scorned stop at murder
to get the scorner inside a hang
mans moose?
So Young a Body, by Frank
Bunce. (Simon & Schuster,
Inc; S2.50.) ...s
Inner Sanctunt
Mr.. Humble, whose name was
wholly apt. wanted a vacation to
remember so he passed himself
off as a detective just to be CLAM
orous. He might have gotten
away with his harmless fib. too,
if murder hadn't travelled the
freighter with him. This one
continues the current fashion of
the unlikely sleuth, but with the
added attraction of a buxom
blond with a phenomenal men,
ory and a robust interest In crime.
+ \ Il \
Stalking Horse, by Val Gielgud.
(William Morrow & Co.; S2.75.)
Four men and a woman formed
the fatal combination that sent
Antony Havilland to the conti-
nent. They said they wanted to
know if Hitler really did commit
suicide, but could the assignment
Evening star., 1950-01-29

one in current fiction. His type
was last seen in Elizabeth Jane
ways "The Question of Gregory"
another study of a contemporary
lost soul. Philip, at 80. prosper
GUS and apparently happily mar
ried, goes to pieces after an acci-
dent. A compassionate psychia-
trist starts to put him together
again, but dies at the most critical
point in the process. Then driven
to re-examine his whole life, in
an effort to find what path has
led to this emotional dead-end,
Philip sets out for the Pacific
Northwest, where his father, an
Irish Thoreau whom he has not
seen for 26 years. has taken refuge
from the world on an idyllic
island.
In this spiritual odyssey, Philip
requires remarkable patience from
the people around him-as indeed
he does from his readers. Even
on Peachpit Island, where he is
confronted with natural beauties
and human values never disclosed
in the stone fastnesS of New York,
he continues to Whimper. His
father, onetime radical, a poet,
a dreamer, scholar and philoso-
pher offers impersonal comrade-
ship and the knowledge gained
from lifetime of suffering and
wonder. His fathers neighbors,
beautiful anthropologist and an
abstract artist. open up to him
whole new worlds of endeavor.
But Philip is like petulant
shopper in well-stocked store.
peevishly lingering everything but
pleased with nothing because he is
not pleased with himself. And
when all is done-when he has at
last had time ito stand and stare"
when he has surreptitiously read
his fathers diary in search of
possible hereditary flaw, when he
had an affair with the beautiful
anthropologist, when he has seen
purpose in the lives all around him
he has moved hardly perceptibly
nearer to an understanding of
why his own life lacks meaning
and love. He is still, moreover,
feeling sorry for himself.
So II. My Ancestor" gives no
definite answer, perhaps because
Miss Ross feels that there is none
for such as Philip. The psy-
chiatrically wise will no doubt
point straight to the roots of Phil
ip's unease. The amateur may
take as a clue that Philip divided
Evening star., 1950-01-29
New Books

p, FICTION.
HEAVEN is so HIGH. BY Rosalie Lieb-
erman. Bobbs- Merrill Good fun In a
convent. S2.75. February 8.
NON-FICTION.
THE SIBERIAN INTERVENTION. By
John. Albert White. Princeton Uni
versity Press. Beginning Of the Soviet
regime. Sc. January 80.
CALIFORNIA SALT WATER FISHING.
BY j. Charles Davis. Barnes. So.
January 80.
AVAILABILITY FOR WORK. By Ralph
Altman; Harvard University Press, A
study in unemployment compensation.
$3.50. February /.
BODY AND MATURE BEHAVIOUR. BY
M. Feldenkrais. International Uni
yersities Press. Body and mind. S3.75.
February 2.
DOORWAY TO A HAPPY HOME. BY Mrs.
Clarence H. Hamilton. Bobbs-Merrill.
Guidance for happy family life. $3.50.
February 3.
AN ESSAY FOR OUR TIMES. By H.
Stuart Hughes. Knopf Analyzing the
q. S. S. r. S2.75. February 6.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Tough oIking Tale
Without q Punch
THE CAPTAINS LADY

THE CAPTAINS LADY
BY Basil Heater. (Farrar,
Straus;. $2.50.)
This is a tough, fast-moving
story. literally salted with sex,
about discontented war veteran
who, keeping faith with a dream
shared with a dead buddy, sets up
a charter-boat business in an un-
friendly Florida town. In bucking
a murderouS boat monopoly, he
makes friends with a crippled boy,
a couple of old soaks and a red
headed girl who is more than
friendly. Through all his struggles,
he recalls incidents from his boy
hood, from his young manhood
about town as an adman and his
war experiences, none of which
seem to be particularly illuminat-
ing. The work of Basil Heater,
whose first novel, 1.-THE Dim View"
a story of PIT boats in the Pacific
was very well received, this one
f1exes its muscles a lot and talks
plenty tough, but in the end de-
livers no punches. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Book Drops Bombs
On the Air Forces
DISASTER THROUGH j.
AIR POWER
BY Marshall Andrews. (Rinehdrt
& Co., Inc; ST.
Reviewed by
JOHN A, GILES,

In book definitely not calcu-
lated to help Defense Secretary
Johnson's efforts to unity the
armed services, Mr.. Andrews ac-
cuses the Air Force of empire
building" and declares that its
strategic bombing is q policy of
mutual devastation" which can
win no wars.
Mr.. Andrews, a former Army
intelligence officer and q military
writer for the Washington Post,
says in discussing operations of the
last war that "the air forces seemed
to have been eminently success
full in this case. but If defeat Of
the enemy Is the aim, they failed
disrnally-Germany did not capit-
ulate until after the Allied and
Russian ground forces had met
on the Elbe."
And elsewhere Mr.. Andrews de-
clares that Japan was crushed to
the point of defeat by naval at
tacks on her supply lines and fac
tories before Air Force B-29s be-
gan attacks or dropped the two
atomic bombs.
The book attacks the whole Air
Force theory of stategic bombing
and also doubts whether this
country would use the A-bomb If
Russia did not drop them first.
The Air Force and its theories
have been attacked many times
before In magazine articles and
speeches but Mr.. Andrews effort
Is one Of the first real concen-
trated efforts In book form. It will
furnish additional ammunition for
use In the continuing bitter uni
6cation row.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Carlo Levi Returns
In Different Vein
OF FEAR AND FREEDoM

OF FEAR AND FREEDOM
BY Carlo Levi. (Farrar, StrauS
& Co.; $2.75.J
Carlo Lewis Christ Stopped al
Eboli." a brilliant and humane &C.
count Of the life in a God-forsaker
Italian town where the distin-
guished physician-painter-writel
spent a year of political exile, was
one of the literary sensations OF
1947. The present book, which
was written five years earlier in
the early days of World War II
is in entirely different vein. It Is
an austere, abstract, demanding
study of mans essential dilemma
which DR.. Levi sees as his fear OF
freedom.
DR.. Lewis philosophy is curl
ously impersonal, bare of any
specific references. 1t is entirely
in religious terms. and by religion
DR.. Levi means power of linn
ltatlon." History IN DR.. Lewis
view is nothing but the eternaI
venture of the human race in it:
laborious endeavor to determine
itself. to resolve itself into state
poetry, liberty, or to abscond into
religion, rite, custom, and of the
continuous resurgence of the mass
from the drying up of the states
and all the crystallization of re-
ligions." He recreates mans pill
grimage from the Garden OF Eden
as a headlong flight, from prime
val chaos and as "a search for ex-
ternal certainty-a certainty whose
price is servitude and death" He
depicts the dangers of idolatry
that beset all mankind, but he
does not specify the rewards OF
casting off this worship.
In an ecstatic introduction, DR.
Lewis translator calls this a Latin
song of Adam" It is not quite SO
simple as that M. Meg.
Evening star., 1950-01-29

mask some other sinister aim?
The picture of devastated cities
and broken people lends grim
authenticity to this novel of ad-
venture among the ruins.
The Hunter Is the Hunted, by
A. B. Cunningham. (E. P. Dut-
ton & Co., Inc; S2.50.)
Guilt-Edged Mystery
Sheriff Jess Roden, masquerad-
ing behind whiskers and sun
glasses as a vacationing fisher
man, ventures into the lawless
backwoods to find out why Deputy
Marshal Jay Daw was murdered
and by whom. He has to use
himself as bait to trap the killer
but even that climax fails to
provoke much of a chill,
Evening star., 1950-01-29

THE LIVES AND TIMES OF AR
BY Don Marquis. Doubleday &
archy's friend mehitabel keeps
saying there's a dance in the old
dame yet. And there is still. after
Is years, a song left in these writ
ings about the cockroach and the
cat which supplied Don Marquis
with incompatible copy when he
was a columnist on the now de-
ceased New York Sun. There
never was a roach like archy-he
was cocky and wry and he could
write poetry like Kipling although
he had a bad time with capitals
and punctuation.
And Mr.. Marquis had the sense
to let this wonderful pest knock
himself out on his typewriter keys
year in and year out in free verse
that was composed during a gen.
Grafton very different from our
own but which still has plenty of
meaning, as whimsical wisdom al
ways will.
While archy is a considerable