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ippgy i®r. -j r J7^ ^4 jfc >? -'"TT ^7^lg£*>[ •. \* It v? -? ^ ^ *s£ ^ *'w"? ' * *^® . *>"' '>* -J"-" -- •<! ', ' -"'" I A -'" *«» • *' < \ ^ , , a? ,; v , » , 4 '- • • %• - • 1 • " >rv ":Vr.?> r* Ttge Four , kyaitV^' {*&*:?-si?'1"? THE M'HENRY PUURDEALER fublished every Thursday at Meftfpry, 111., by Charles F. Renich. A. H. MOSHER Editor and Mau|« Centered as second-class*- matter at tbe postoffice at McHenry, HL, under the hot of May 8, 1879. , Qfti Year .$2.$o RATIONAL €DITORIAt-- ; •• FOE SALE WANTED * V*"', •' ^.•'_as ;sKS, - %-*k \>* -i :•/' wm^m^ • * ' •' Girls for' store work. Bolter's Drug Store. 86-tf WANTED--Draft exempt man for war work. Apply Miller Products. Phone 195. 39-tf WANTED SITUATION WANTED1--Experienced couple in managing hotel dining room or restaurant work. Inquire at 8018 N. Cicero Ave., Chicago. *48 WANTED TO RENT -- Unfurnished house in or close to McHenry. Five or six rooms. Tel. McHenry 188-W. *48 LOST FOR SALE -- Harley-Davidson motorcycle in excellent condition. Mar- Ivin Staines, R-l, West McHenryr HI. Tel. McHenry 638-R-l, 48 LOST -- tittle boy's p«t dog. Light brown police puppy. Answers to name of Cop. Reward. Call McHenry 654-M-2. *48 MISCELLANEOUS TREE SPRAYING AMD -WHITEWASHING -- Frank Henkel, Volo. FOR SALE--Six dining room chairs, ,; Tel. McHenry 681-M-l. 46-tf including one matching arm chair. | SEPTIC TANKS, CESS POOLS AND Upholstered. Good McHenry 627-R-2. condition. Tel. OSTERNS CLEANED. Gall Crysal 48 Lake 909-R. Wells & Nelson. 45-4 FOR SALE -- Briggs & Stratton WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRmotorscooter, with side car; new -- All work fully guaranteed, tires. George Worts, Sinclair Ser- "Torchy" Krause, 310 Elm St., Mcvice. Station, corner Routes 31 and Henry. Tel. 379. 42-tf 120, McHenry. Phone McHenry 356. 48-tf HAVE YOU HEARD about the new : ; -- ! reduced Auto Liability and Property FOR SALE -- 6-tray Electric Brood- Damage rates? They,will surprise er: will take care of 300 chickens, you. Ask us for $35 Tel. Pistakee 633-J-2. insurance rates. •48 The Kent Co., McHenry. Phone 8. _ i 27-tf FOR SALE,.-- Nash-Lafavette car, 1938 model. Good condition. Mike Freund. Richmond Rd., McHenry. Tel. McHenry 218-M." •pent the winter months with Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Wettingill at • Richmond, returned recently to their home at Minocqua, Wis., only to find nine inches of snow at their door step. The Monears formerly made their home in McHenry. The Art Edstrom family was called to Chicago on Sunday by the death of her nephew, who was accidentally shot. • Mr. and Mrs. Fred Simon and daughter, Kathleen, Mrs. Elizabeth Heckler and Tonia Kempfer of Chicago were visitors the last of. the week in the Frank Kempfer, Sr., home. Ed. Pinno* of Crystal Lake, who has been employed by Peter M. Justen in the furniture and undertaking business in West McHenry for sevreal years, has quit his present posi tion and is opening an undertaking establishment in Marengo. Lieut, and- Mrs. Clarence Anderson and daughter, Linda, of Lincoln, Nebraska, are visiting relatives in McHenry this week. Mr. and Mrs; George Haldeman and family of Woodstock, Mrs. Mary Poqliot and Mrs. John Phannenstilt visited the latter's husband in Victory Memorial hospital, Waukegan, on Sunday. „ The William Miller family of Fox River Grove visited relatives here Sunday. ' Sgt. and Mrs. Curtis Newman of Greensboro', North Carolina, have been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs-. Gerald Newman. FOR SALE -- 'for service. Albert Conk, Ringwood, 111. Tel. Richmond 884. 48 FOR SALE -- Walnut dining room set, buffet, table, 6 chairs, $85; bed, Mending Frayed Edges Of Rug Exacting Task . To mend frayed edges or whipped out ends of rugs, first trim off the worn parts with the shears, a knife or a razor blade. Begin cutting where the damage is deepest, and work on the wrong side. Follow one Annexed •tit -tf WIST A B*OVN V McCtim Syndicate--WNU Features. ' feove Affair for'4" <*< Man and Woman DEAD ANIMALS WILL WIN THE WAR -- Five dollars is the least we *48"i pay for dead horses and cows in good condit'on. Wheeling Rendering Co. Phone Wheeling No. 3. Reverse the j of the crosswise or lengthwise yarns charges. No help needed to load, ^-tf j or ridges, and save all good scraps FOR ANY TYPE OK HOME INSUL- haJ1 of A™Ni„A®BESTOl ?TN? °5 i binding to fum Ser at eachend! - _ NEW R(X)F, see Bob Frisby, Peo-|lay ^ right gide Qf thg binding 01J coil spring, inner spring mattress,: pie s Insulation Co., 104 b. Kiverside j the rjght side of the carpet with $35; all good condition. To see call Drive, McHenry, 111., Phone McHenry {wo e{jges together. Fasten the Wonder Lake 246 for appointment. "; 211-J. W oodstok, ,210 E. Jackson thread at the rug selvage with a *48 • « - , St. Phone Woodstqp||817. 20-tf few short stitches, and then baste : i--" r*D»APi? nn 11 vrTiMr t ' with slanting stitches about one-half FOR SALE -- Baby grand reproduc-; GARBAGE COLLECTING Let "s j inch apart When the binding is .ing piano; laundry stove water heat- dispose of your garbage each week, j sewed Qn< fasten the thread secure- ; tieie-<. mornings. er; «s heater and other household !or oftener if desired. Reasonable ly^ with three short SstUiKtc,1h1eMs backarti »e.s Tel. McHenry 641-J-2. Call rates. Regular jr«ar round route, for-j wa^(ji so that the binding won't rip. •48 merly George M«grers. Ben J. Smith. | tVl i fc (if n M {a n/J #A1/1 f A FOR SALE -- ^Laundry st^ve, five .restaurant stools,' antique parlor £afcif; bicycle, good »s new, Phone il^enry 136-Wl. ' ' Phon6 365. ersoiwh ., When this step is fini^jjed, fold to I the wrong side on the diagonal the m one and one-h^lf inches of binding j left at the end so that the cornet ; yon't show when the binding Is /turned Qver the edge o( parpet. Then fold the binding over the raw ! of the carpet tC ^ V v *s --rttti visit-i Draw the binding down smoQtWy Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bai^Otti j fasten to the back, catching 80ly a few yarns^of the carpet and 9bout on£-eighth inch of the binding. Make these stitcl^gs about one inch apfijt: Qn the Tight sid^ only a nl^t^r edge of binding will snow, and on the Wrong side an inch or more will protect the carpet's edge; tfdtt §Afcg = i^, 4e;*ii5, \»«m\ at McCullom%Lake. Setty ^ehn' 1 ^feicago Ave., Chicago. Phone Honro « 7822. y * *47-3 FOR SALE---Year-round comfopt and •eonomy with fire-proof Johns-Manville Rock Wool Home Insulation "Blownin" walls and ceilings, Cail LEO J. STILLING, McHenry 18. • 36tf. BABY CHICKS - Try Ja°*dal f e'9! relatives in McH.nry. EARLYBIRDS . t Mrs. Charles Brda and daughter, earlier fea^the ng, _ i Bonnie, have been visiting their htti< site, earlier eggs and earlier profits, ' ... . v_ ROP SIRED, trapnested White Leg-! ^d anf. father at Fort Kno*' Ky" horns, White Rocks, New Hamp-!tn" wee*- V1 „ « .. " ^. . | ' Fruit and berri^ths; Stretch shires and hvbrid "EARLYCROSS" j Mrs* Georf^ Llndl&V 8 Chl" | over a bowl, th^ ^ftur boiling wafor fryers. Limited supply from our i ca&° Uil** on# day last week. . I ter from a hei|M{ dry in the sun to own flock only. Telephone Fox Latt! w- Perkinson and ; bleack If th4 ^ain has "set," and. ooio nr write FOXDALE PftTTT TRY dwif nte¥, Marilyn, of Chicago visited i the cloth U white cotton or linen, FARM & HATOBEftY INGLE-the Ted W-inkel home on Sunday. | follow U* tfoiling water with a cblor ed Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gerasch on« day last week. Mrs. Elmer Glosson and son of Chicago spent the weekend visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krohn. <- Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Moderhack and children, Darlene and Kenneth, of Chicago spent thl weekend visiting Here Are Ways to "CT KeiiSS^ BAiht llere ard soi^% ol Ihfe stains, and what fSh be dei^wfcXit themi ' YNiihSi SIDE, ILL, 89-t£ ] Mrs. William Smith and daughter, ! A«n, Visited in the Clarence Miurtln 1 .' FOR SALE-Seed potatoes; also home last Sunday. eating potatoes and certified seed.; The Elmer Winkelmann fatntt^ "of Dave | Oak Park visited at their hoaftt IW% *47-4 last weekend. _ ---MI. I«UU .LTTTT I Fred Seller returned SatttT^ay WANTED TO BUY j from St. Therese hospital, where he -- h a d b e e n c o n f i n e d f o r s i x w e e k * a f - TO BUY Antiques, . Ilir Knairinv hu hin in m. fall on Late and early potatoes. Segel. Tel. McHenry 92-J. "WANTED w DTI - An«qu«, JTER BREAKING HIG WP IN Bric-Brac, China, etc. L. Nelson.! . - General Delivery, McHenry, 111. Tel.! McHenry 186. *48 j Miss Elaine Landgren, eadet nurse at St. Elizabeth's hospital, Chicago, WANTED TO BUY--Child's bicycle, j sP«nt the weekend with her parents, Phone McHenry 261. U8 the Edgar Landgrens. : Mr. and Mrs. C, J. Reihantfperger WANTED TO BUY --Farm, be-, are visiting their son,«Herb, in Washtween McHenry and South Shore of ington this week. The latter has Lake Geneva. 120 to 240 acres. Cash been serfously ill since last Thursor will consider trade of Chicago1 day, when he underwent surgery at improved. Principals only. I. E., Madigan hospital. - Strom, 22| West Illinois St., Chicago j Mrs." Alice Krohn of Chicago spent t (10). *46-4 ; the weekend wvih her parent*, the --ytANTED TO BUY _ CJ.M-. irU• ~ Slwle, HU1 .nd McHenry 656-M-l. family of Chicago vi^|ted local folks VAV RTNT Sunday. * ' : • Mrs. Paul Schwerman, Mrs. Fred *r6k RENT -- Large store at 416 c- Fe,tz- Mrs. Lucille Wagner and =^Main St., West McHenry. Furnace Mrs-. George Lindsay attended the ine bteitfh and rinse promptly-and thofOHijhly Ooftee, chocolate and cocoa Mains: First, soak in cold water for Several hours, then pour boiling wa* ter through from a height, and wash as usual. If the stains have become "set," apply a paste of borax and' cold water. Rub in wall, rinse, and wash in warm suds. Wine stains : Sprinkle at once «vith salt. Afterwards, pour boiling water through the stained portion tnd wash as usual. Mustard stains: Rub lightly with thick soapsuds before the cloth is washed. ""Candle wax: Scrap* off the surface wax with a blunt knife. Place a piece of white blotting paper or brown wrapping paper over the spots and press with a hot iron, mat* ing the paper frequently. . Root Vegetables Root vegetables may be stored in, boxes or baskets in layers of moistened clean sand and then placed in the cellar. First a layer of sand, then a layer of vegetables, another of sand, and so on, should be the heat. Inquire of Gerald Carey,, West capping of nurses aides-at the Wood-, McHenry State Bank, HELP WANTED 47-2 stock hospital last Sunday. ; Mr. and Mrs. George Hoelscher of j Wheaton, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lar* -- kin of Elgin and Mrs. J. WANTED -- Woman to care for lady J. Sutton of* ~^>ent the patient full time, 7-day week, for weekend at Emerald Park, two weeks. Henry Felmeteh. Tel. David Campbell and Miss Betty are placed in each layer, a variety in diet may be provided without turbing more than one layer. McHenry 634-W-2. HELP WANTED --f. Jungle Kits ___ In the early stages of the war ^ some American flying men were •46 Edstrom of 5i«p weekend : Men with Mme ^ ™ ^ ^ Me^ Ln I ^ painting experience. Harold H. Bell, last Thursday for Pensacola, Fla^ 105 N. Green St., McHenry. Phone where they will visit their son, Don ,243-J. 45-4 aid, and family. i Mr, Liquid Solder Liquid solder is useful in mendteg small holes in window or door screens. % and Mrs. Clarence Whiting was solved by the development iff fe new type of shot cartridge to lit the regulation .15 caliber pistol with which they are equipped. Each "Jungle kit" now cvftains two water- •^1 and Lanette Whiting of Elgin spent j proofed boxes, each containing 20 6U the weekend visiting in the William j the newly developed Act cartridges. Whiting home. ^ which wffl aid any marooned or Mr. and Mrs. Earl Monear, who 1 adrift flier to bag small animals or • ! birds lor food. With the aid df this ! cartridge, swny have been able to live eff Hie land until again -Jkf« with Allied forces. GOOD CLOTHES DESERVE GOOD CARE 10? Elm Street Shone McHenry 104*M Irssp Year Leap year generally, 'btit H6t at ways, occurs at four-year intervals. The true astronooiical year, however, is 38R days, five hours, 48 minutes and 48 secouds, while the calendar year is an even 365 days. This means that for each calendar year that is dbserved there is a surplus of nearly six hours in the astronomic oal year. This is absorbed by adding one day to the calendar at fouryear intervals. But this, then, gives the average calendar year a length 11 minutes and 14 seconds in excess of ^he true astonomical year. To make the necessary adjustment in the calendar a year which has two ciphers, (1600, 2000, etc.) is a leap year only when exactl^livisit^B by A NN DREW stood in her tiny studio looking critically at a set of dress designs thumbtacked against the^ wall^-every detail satisfactory, including the Ann-mark oh the pert little face that always topped her work. The hum from the busy street far below her windows seemed to change into a man's well-remembered comment: "Ann, a face isn't necessary." "Humph! Not unless I like a face --and I do," she had insisted. "Yes, particularly that one; it's your own," the man answered. "You're conceited, Ann. Imagine! Conceited about a funny little face with a funny little scar that makes the mouth look a bit one-sided!" But his voice had been soft and right. Then, for the first time, Bert Harris had kissed her. "She took the sketches down and stacked them on her desk. Running an envelope into her typewritershe addressed it to the Harris Dress Manufacturing company and slid the drawings inside mailed. / A door slammed across the hall; Ann winced; the slamming of a door had been Bert's good-bye two months before. The Harris merrygo- round is" right back where it started, she mused--business, marriage, strictly business--plus a fiveyear- old son. Perhaps there had been too much Ann-this-and*tha<? But the registered lipmark with the Ann Drew signature meant faith in her career and Bert's understanding had not been broad enough to accept her refusal to add the name of Harris. She decided to go home. Queer! She could finish a seriep for any t other concern and work on. But every Harris envelope sealed, whatever the hour, terminated her'working day. / ' It alwayj had. Eight years before the Harris contract had been the first and only one in her file; a year later because Bert Harris had been her husband and she had crowded his work in at home between busy days at the studio; this season because she became emotionally fatigued each time she outlined the unnecessary little face-- every pen stroke tended toward the hope thgt she jrught live again in Bert's thou^ts. Sltppinf info her coat, Ann dialed feer apartment. Andrew answered and finally she stopped his chatter long enough to tell him that she Wter : Going down.In CKS elevator she smiled. She knew that Andrew Was ru§hing for his toy telephone. He would throw one gnd through the kitchen floor. Then he would scamper as far as the long cord wp\Ud permit to ring the bell afid tell old Hannah that Mumrift? Ann wanted h e r d i n n e r ^ ^ TjPgSffi-'T'g to wfcllt home through UWpark, she found herself stopping to rest on a familiar bench. Sbe tpened l\er bag for a cigarette. Holding it between her lips, she started to fumble through her coat pockets for a match but pulled out a large square of colorful rayon instead. Her face brightened as she draped it at arm's length from one hand to set up the grouped tulips plaqued against their background by pairs of Ann-marked lips. She tilted her head and murmured, "My first brass ring in textile!" A light snow began feathering the early dusk. Deftly, Ann knotted the square about her head. She stood, lifted her face and snugged her collar about her throat, unmindful of the admiring glance of a man w"ho had settled hhnielf on the other end of the bench a tew mwmetits earlier, she tell through her pockets again: "Darn!" She turned quickly wftfctt the man struck a match. He walked over and held it out suggestively. "Yoti Sidn't find one?" "Bert! I--l didn't reattze that anyone was about* "I know," Bert parried. "When I came along you seemed riither absorbed-- shall we say--in yourself?"" v "Why not add 'as usual'?" Ann "asked. . "Aim, listen ..." , ! Ann's eyes g»*ed qtteertyr An ever-alett inner imp implied her to answer, "Not in»thi& BliOto. I think, instead, I'll follow the me-first-program you credit "ttte ivith^and take myself home.* Opposite the t*rk &ie glanced back but sa* only & screen of sjiowflakes. She shruggeti, signaled a taxi and was home In f®w minutes. A .half-hour t Itfter, the buzzer sounded and- ihe heard Hariiiah ask spmeohe to wait. When she started toward the living room, the glow •from & ramp shone on Andrew's toy telephone as it rang at her feet. "She picked it up and listened: "Mummy Ann? H-ann-ah says ii t-h-a-t *m-a-n wants to stay for dinner, Whyv doesn't he s-a-y so?" "Just then a man's hand touched ^her arm and Ann felt his face close to hers. "Oh! I didn't know whe . . . " she said. Then she smiled i*nd spoke into the telephone: "An- 'drew, you--you ask him." Andrew raced through the hall, calling, "Daddy! Daddy, will you »-t-a-y?" Bert Harris pressed his facc closer to Ann's. "You know, I followed you into the park to tell yoy that I'm thoroughly annexed--anc you made me COITUS home aloneall the way." * Amaiinfe Tragedy Revealed In Letter Produced in ti . English Court. ZMif liflfCESTER, ENG.--"If I' irt^e broken your dreams, mine are broken, too," was a dramatic phrase in the letter written by a woman to a man alleged to have stabbed her to death.. The letter was read in court at Liecester when William A. Cowle, 31, was charged with the -murder of Miss Nora Payne^ 32. . The propecutijTC attorney said Cowle was alleged to have stabbed the woman in a street, and said he then gave himself up to police. He said that a letter, alleged to have been received by Miss Payne from Cowle, read: , "I do love you, darling. Dearest Nora, just a few lines to let you know I have arrived back safely. Darling, I did enjoy being with you agafti, even if you, were in a bad frame of mind. . . . I hope you will try to fix it so that I may see you for a couple of days. All my love to you... Cheerio. I remain, your loving sweetheart." A letter from the woman to the man, he said, might provide the motive for the crime. It read: . She Couldn't Stand It. -- "Dear Bill--I am glad to say I am sleeping better now. I had some sleeping tablets. But I can't stand against all the problems that seem suddenly to. have come into being. I shall have a breakdown. The only way is to lace them, and that means being cruel to you. "I only like you-as a friend, but you will not take my word as final, and you think that you can make me love you and perSuade me to do "a thing which my conscience says is wrong. "I appreciate your kindness to me durirg the last three years, but I really feel that the strain is too much. I know it is a mean way to tell you on papep, but I have tried so many times to. tell you in person, but yoa won't accept that. My nature is not to hurt people. "I have the right to mix and meet with other men before I decide #hom I shall marry. I want it to be for life, (ind {joj ah unhappy union ' CKat will end in divorce, f know £our impulse will be to come at the weekend, but don't come, as I shall be out. I have told my mother I won't see - an invitation to go to London fo: Whit sun, and I am taking it. It will be a break, and maybe it will ease my mind For my week's holiday I am goihg inu> the country for a rest. Both Dreams Broken. "This may be a shock to you, but you must know we cannot go on as we have been doing. Be a man and takg it the right way, and don't think lbadly of me. If I have broken your tMkkfS MLLYWI0I Arthur laWaij (a little guy with big ideas, who once managed Marie Dressier and Jean Harlow) punctures one of our pet notions. He says the outworn idea that movies suffer from a dearth of story material suited to the screen is ridiculous and preposterous. That'e going to bring a hail of sharp cracks about Arthur's eara* because he's stepping on tender toes. "I know I'm sticking my neck out," he insists, "but there it is. I've proved my contention by too many personal experiences not to know what I'm talldng about." The pulling and hauling that goes on behind scenes when there's a hot property going around is something that the outsider wouldn't believe. Let's let Arthur take us behind the scenes for a bit of case history.. He is, incidentally, chief production associate for Ben Bogeaus, and had. a finger in three Bogeaus ventures-- "Dark Waters," "Captain "Kidd," and "There Goes Lona Henry.'.' Few, even insiders, know that it was Landau who channeled "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," one of the great stories of this war, to Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. 7 * ***" # Ha$ the Know-How He was put in contact with Captain (now Major) Ted Lawson by a well-known Hollywood insider who, being a former flier himself, has lots of buddies among airmen. Landau perceived immediately that Lawson had something in the story of the Shjingri-Ia fliers and their bombing of Tokyo. -4 ^ ^ >*• ^ V". *<r.* Thmfer, J^»a;t>, ruiul TBLanram 'M sxkviox is Of* or oaiAT mra^raiTO With modern improvements being mpde every day, the American public has come to take most of these for granted, not quite realizing hoyr far we have come in the way of inventions and improvements in the 'past quarter of a century. * One such a modern aid is telephone service, especially rural service, which is more highly developed in this country than anywhere else in the worjd. There are 500,000 more farm telephones today than in 1935. More than 350,000 haye..be$Q installed since 1940. In the depression of "the early 1930's, for telephones, like city telephones, declined substantially in num- ;.r >- ; ber. Since then the trend has been / f vj; upward. Rural Bell telephones have tV/y-'V'.; increased 60 per cent since 1935, or *" about the same percentage as city " telf phones. _ , . . , Until the* 'War ia won, war telephone needs must come the telephone companies ^ . ... range, post-war plans to further extend service to farm families. They ¥ have only recently worked out important new devices and methods and - are exploring others. Expenence and 1' knowledge are at hand; the necessary ^ equipment and manpower will be put' , to work on the job just as soon as ; the war permits. The present program for steady progress "in bringing better service . to rural areas, includes the dial system, improved pole-line construction, a new system of perfecting the method of sending telephone conver- 1 nations Over rural electric power lines, and the radiotelephone. see you if you come^ You must What I ?ly is rigKlTl nave rfceiyed r dreams, mine are broken, tgjj "1 will contlrttie to write to you if you wish it. t shall be interested to hear of your work, and that you still like me. Take care of yourself. I still like you. Don't keep this trouble to yourself, confide in some one. Don't brood4, sooner try to hate me. Before I fclose, I thank you for all you have done for me. It is not my fault that fate plans life differently. "Don't come to Liecgster. f shall be cross; more than that, I shall not see you. I don't know how to end. I have never written a letter like this befere. I hope I never will, again. It is against my nature. I will wish you good health, and place you in the safe keeping of «ttr Heavenly Father." What's in Name? Enough Is Enongh for This Judge SAN FRANCISCO. -- Mr. Tharnmidsbe Lurgy Praghustspondgifpem is going to have to struggle along as just that because Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Foley has denied his plea to have his name Changed. Mr. P,i a believer in good omen words, was originally just plain Edward L. Hayes, but wanted to become Mr. Miswaldpornghuestficset Balstemdrigneshoiwintpluasjof W r ad vaistplondqueskycruf e m g 1 i s h. Each letter of the alphabet has a meaning to Tharnmidsbe, formerly employed by the Moore Drydock company, Oakland. The name Edward i. Hayes, he explained, had no future, so he became T. L. Praghu (etc.) but he told the court that name didn't bring quite the good fortune he anticipated. That's why Mr. Praghustspondgifcem wanted to become Mr. Wradvaistplondqueskycrufemglish. More future. Invented Talkie . Thomas A. Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, which reproduced the human voice and other sounds, in 1877. Elizabethan Sugar Queen Elizabeth of England first introduced sugar into her domestic household as an afiick O* uiet in the middle of the 16th century. Prior to that time the limited amount produced was mainly used for m«dimm His Kisses Sizzle so She Asks Firemen's Aid CHICAGO. -- Herbert Clark was sitting in a tavern with Miss Margaret Mayhood, 41, recently, when he turned and gave her a sizzling kiss. She heaved a big sigh and then dashed for a fire alarm box and pulled the lever. Herbert fled, but Margaret was standing in the middle of the street when 15 pieces of flre equipment screeched to a halt. "I know I was wrong," she said, "but I got so axc i t e d . . . . " Police boeked her on a disorderly conduct charge. "" " Clean Crust If you will rub, or pinch free from soot, the crust of your kerosene stove wicks, they will give much better service. This should be done every week. Figured Mahogany Stripe of ribbon figured mahogany is produced by quarter cutting the log and the stripe is due to the interwoven grain, typical' of mahogany and some other tropical Paramount had first crack at it. Y. Frank Freeman was busy ancK told Arthur to send the idea through Bill Dozier, story editor. Arthur said "Nothing doing!" and went to see Eddie Mannix at Metro. That's how Paramount lost out. Lawson offered Landau a contract. "You're an army officer," said Arthur. "If your word i s n ' t any good, your signature isn't, either." Lawson said, "How much can you get me?." Landau said he didn't know--maybe $5, maybe $10,000, maybe jiothing. ^ . - High Finance" Metro held the script overnight, sent for Landau, and offered him $100,000 for it. Arthur said the author was holding out for $150,000. They compromised for $125,000. Landau chinning with Ed-lis Cantor in Eddie's library one $ye> njng gqfl Jiappefi63 to rtnumb through a volume of stories by Oscar Wilde, Que he liked. He bought a copy of the volume and had a transcript made of the story. Harry Rapf met him at Metro and said h& was looking for a yarn. Landau strung him along with an enthusiastic buildup and meanwhile ascertained that the American rights were in the public domain. Rapi snapped up the property. Hunchet Pay OH The story was "The Cankrvflle Ghost," which was made into a picture for Charles Laughton. Metro gladly settled with the British heirs to the Wilde estate. Landau plucked 30 grand out of thin, air wdja-JiUnch. Hire's a free tip right out of the Lfttidau feed box: He caught a newspaper stoiry recently about W. H. DooaM, the mysterious Australian who has been Chiang Kai-shek's personal adviser for many years. Donald was held captive in Manila by the Japs, who were looking everywhere for him at the time, not knowing they had him right under their thumbs. "There's another Lawrence of Arabia story in Captain Donald for anyone who can get him to talk," says Landau. "That's where you find the germs of good stories--right on the front pages of your newspapers." Surface Barely Scratched "I'll venture," says Arthur, "that there are more good stories in the public domain than Hollywood has ever made. Not eyery Tom, Dick, or Harry can take these masterpieces and translate them to the screen successfully. Take Conrad, for example. Every effort to transfer his sea stories to the screen has flopped. So we accept the lazy man's explanation and agree that Conrad makes fine reading but can't be screened. Posh! He'll be screened one day by someone pho'U know how. "Right here in our own company we bought 'There Goes Lona Henry' from RKO, which owned it for years. No one wanted to play in it. We had a new script written, and I give you my word some 6f the mos; sought after feminine stars in town have expressed an eagerness to do »?" ^ .. Kayefe Kind ot Fantasy Sam Goldwyn has bought James Thurber's "Secret Life ot Walter Mitty" for Danny Kaye. Sure it's fantasy--just for Kaye. It all starts when a girl looks at a hat. Danny looks at the girl and sees a desert island . . . Greer Garson tells it herself. She call* herself "Metro's golden mare." • • • Col. Tim McCoy, western star-J-remenrfoer him?--is well into his second war at the present. He's now in Germany and was awarded the bronze star the othei day. . . . • Cows Productive The 25,661,00Q cows on farms each produced an average of 2,l4l quarta of milk in 1943. In addition to the 25,083,000,000 qilarts consumed as fluid milk and cream, U. S. milk was used for making 1,673,110,000 pounds of creamery butter, 772,372,- 000 pounds of cheddar cheese, 412,- 144,000 gallons of ice cream, and substantial amounts ot other dairy products. U. S. 194? farm cash milk income totaled $2,804,000,000. Small Oranges Small oranges are a Better buy for the family's breakfast, both, in price and in quality, than big oranges, reports the. United States department of agriculture. Tests have shown that the juice from the little oranges generally is higher in solids, acid and vitamin C than either medium-sized or big oranges. Order your rubber stamps at the Plaindealer. * MILLER WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS FRI. • SATh APR. 20 - 21 S IS A FAMILY" with Marjorie Reynolds, Arthur Lake, Charlie Ruggle? Plus No. 2 ' •Wak Disney's Festival of Hits' 5 Cartoons In On/ SUN. - MON*, APR. 22 - 23 Biasing Action^ Errol Flynn l^p 440iBJECTIVE BURMA" with George Tobias, Jamee Brown TUESDAY ONLY, APR. 24 Back By Request "GUNGA DIN" iHkyOfcry Grant - Joan Fontaine Also Ranger BICYCLE NITS At 8:30 p. m. WED. - THURS., APR. 25 - 26 Spencer Traey^t 'STANLEY AND LIVINGSTON" Pins Shirley Temple ia "HEIDI" Mil McHenry, Illinois 9 FRIDAY - SATURDAY John Wayne - Ward Bond Ella Raines "Tall In the Saddle" Ph -World News and Cartoon SUNDAY -. MONDAY, APRIL 22 - 23 Eddie Bracken - Ella Raines "Hail die Conquering . Hero If Yon Enjoyed "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," See "The Conquering Hirtu" ^Pk» World News and Cartoon Sunday Math^y,', Ooatifcwms 2:4$ . TUESDAY COKE DAY) Dave O'Brien - Jfttx Falkenberg' 1. "Tahiti Nights" Loretta Young - ( Fitagerald 2. 'IAD1ES COURAGEOUS" WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY Marjorie Reynolds - Ckarl*. Ruggles "3 IS A FAMILY" -r*i. • r-r