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Show THE JOURNAL THE READER'S COURTROOM Pago ItmLMGS Made Under Stress Still Binding j-oi- Dy ....irijm An advertising executive quar- May You Stop a Promise Made relled with his wife almost daily. At The Stress? Emotional last, after an especially bitter ex- From Neighbor's Great H You Bound by Cudden fire trapped a woman U attic of her home, and fire were unable to reach her. In Idst of the blaze, the woman returned from hi office. $5,-- L Jcally. he cried: I'll pay anybody who brings out my md Ldead or alive! K Vd C ' Jervis WILL BERNARD, LLB. By L 7 A bystander into the flaming house, his way upstair, and car-th- e woman put Unfortunately, change, they decided to call it quits. Acting on a friends advice, they soon obtained a mail order divorce from a court in a foreign country without ever leaving town! However, when the decree was tested later in a United States court, the couple found out that they were still considered husband and wife. The Judge said that the foreign court had no jurisdiction over the Oop Dog PRIVATE Howling? doctor fitted up a room at the back of his home, and began using it as an office. All went well until a new family moved in next door with a dog. Every morning the neighbors would go out for about two hours, leaving the dog locked in a bedroom. During that time, the animal would give vent to such A DETECTIVE parties. Could You Prevent The City From Changing The Name Of Your Street? For many years, a wealthy dowager lived in a large house on an had already died from suffoca-Late- r the rescuer demanded $5000 he had been promised, husband pleaded that he should be bound by a promise under circumstances, but the court ;d that he must indeed pay the amount. The judge pointed out the bystander had risked his life to fulfill the husbands and therefore was entitled to exclusive residential street. One day the city notified her that, because of a rearrangement of traffic routes, the name and house numbers of that particular block would have to be changed. The dowager was outraged, and decided to fight the change. She battled all the way to the state supreme court, insisting that the city had no right to change her address without her permission. However, the court didn't see it that way and upheld the citys action. The judge said that, no matter how long a person has an address, it still never becomes his private property. "I wish you'd locale the man my wile a howling and yelping that the doctor could hardly examine his patients. At last he went to court for an injunction. The neighbors argued that there is nothing unlawful about the barking of a dog. but the court granted the doctors request. The judge said a dogs noisemaking is ordinarily permissible, but at least must be kept within reasonable bounds I WEEK'S LAST SSWDRD PUZZLE ANSWER It Raining? ACROSS si Drop Coin Exhibition 6. River 1. 0. Machine lands Out Umbrellas lew Vending r it sudden showers. Just pur-jsan umbrella from a vending e at a department store, at, airport-ev- en baseball ata Je! Such a possibility may be-a reality soon, all because of dea that came to Jane Burgess, ndianapolis, Ind., housewife and er of three children, reports ional Patent Council. rs. Burgesss idea came to her of necessity. Caught in the rain bout an umbrella and without oey enough with her to purchase a the cheapest umbrella she Id find, Mrs. Burgess began g someone should invent a umbrella that would well under a dollar. The idea Qted her until at Christmastime year she came across a little pag Christmas belL There was answer, and her idea material- phine aw-aw- ay and her husband. Bob, a they took rail-conduct- or, developed the idea, their umbrella to a Curtiss McCoy, a toy and iget manufacturer. He liked what aw, and by early summer their uct was ready for marketing, product consisted of a neat et I black, accordion-pleateerproof paper, 16 inches long, rod 19 inches long. La, 00d L.. be, paper nt a circle, snap r nsert the rod in a metal rf er, and the result is a service-- e d, PapersoL l1dtheth.eir1Idea . 52. DOWN (Belg.) insects 2. Breeze 3. Frosted 4. Fortifi- Parasitic for wage 12. Skins 14. Part of to be 15. Skip, as a stone, discord Serve 21. stantial i dva ready accepted by one pos store- - the inventive Mad to face stUl an-- cetacean cation ni ma-111,1- pleaUn culd at on a 31. Having two forms An intimate on water marsh 17. Prepare for 11. Draw publication 13. Stupefy 18. Custom 20. Doze 22. Greek letter 33. 34. Quick 37. Left-han- d 16. One who side of a paints ledger be manufac- - Pen-nam- of Charles Lamb 41. Rodents 43. Withered (poet.) 46. Soak flax 48. Flowed 23. Stringed BERRY KROEGER musical instrument 25. A native of Ionia 28. A native In 1940. Berry picked up of Iran 80. Away a the script and carried on. He had broken Into radio in 1930, when versatility was (Chin.), 36. Spread in one local half-hou- r When Charles Laughton was be- ing interviewed at luncheon in New Yorks Algonquin the other day, complete silence reigned at neighboring tables; his voice was so beautiful that everybody within range wanted to listen to it. grass to dry 38. Constellation 39. Southwest wind 42. Property (Law) 44. must; show he had carried 11 parts, for which he received $2,501 32. Hit (slang 35. Measure which quickly to second-rufrom first leaped movie houses, is getting bad publicity. People report that it just seemed so dull and tiresome that they walked out before the picture was half over, Stromboli, Part of n to be 45. Per. to the sun word-of-mou- 47. Kind of cap 49. Ceremony 50. Another name for Persia Walt Disney discovered while doing research for his Cinderella that the famous glass slipper wasn't glass at all, bat fur. Charles Perrault, when he wrote the famous story more than 300 years ago, said the slipper was pantonffle en valr (fur slipper). The translator mistook the last two words for en verre, or glass. So there goes another legend! th , Treasurer of U.S. - t sas and right here in the nations capital where she is the new custodian of Uncle Sams money bags. Is Quite a Woman to be treas- Now the first woman urer of the United States, Georgia Neese Clark likes women. She likes to work with them, too and go, by perfect right, the soap box was Fred Astaire and Hattie McDaniel, star of CBS Beulah, has a set of china giv- en her by the late Margaret Mitch- Gone with the ell, author of Wind. Miss McDaniel prizes It as highly as the Oscar she won for her performance in the picture. e No. 44 11 a machine , 40. with M Joan Evans was booed the other day at a sneak preview of Samuel Goldwyns Qur Very Own, and felt so upset that she slipped out of a side door after the showing. But the booing was really a tribute; she plays a female heel. of sorrow the lee 7. Matured 8. Salt M-G-- Vera Ellen, and now has been signed by that studio to a term contract. Next shell do "The Tender Hours. Debby is top Girl Scout of her district, has 42 merit badges, Including one for cooking and one for baking. Hollywood trip as a young Charles Laughton, is currently on as Sam Williams Young Dr. Malone". He got his 29. Insect 30. Expression 5. Chart 0. Toward - ktn BERRY KROEGER, typed food 24. Before 26. Seize 27. Amazon Whats WASHINGTON, D. C. j, wrong with girls? Whats holding a womwa no ma them back? Plenty. says n know.' would fold Pa an who ought to irtJ Uab e accordion pleats. So Bob Men call her one of the most sucand with his type- - cessful and most attractive to hit C1tcr , nied faJPer 80 11161 u could the Washington official scene in ir.ed ovePr etn !d' Later 3ob was many a year. Shes worked with Kangirls back home in her native , comPany with tnr n and usually r, Versatile Berry Kroeger Filled 77 Radio Parts for Only $2.50 sonation of Ronald Colman, back (Gr.) Hawaiian : ready to be mar- - has been light-complecte- d STAR DUST first radio contract when the narrator of Louella Parsons show collapsed in the middle of his imper- 19. Goddess of 51. Spar 1. Unsub- 10. Seaweed 11. Employed e e chain-smoke- heard No need to worry talL By INEZ GERIIARD eward. 1RY. IND. seen with. I'm told he's has a moustache, is a " wears a pin stripe all hers from there on in. She confesses she likes men, too, and likes to work with them. And do men like herl Bernard Baruch, Debbie Reynolds made her the elder statesman of Wall street screen debut In Warners The and the atom bomb, had met her at of Rosie next first thing day Daughter OGrady rea party and the did Three Little Words dispatched an admiring note to her. cently, f I I i J V ; Wendell Corey, starred with Margaret Sullavan in Columbias No Sad Songs for Me, Is one former stage actor who won top rank In Hollywood before ever appearing in a Broadway hit. After 12 flops in a row he was rehearsing for Dream Girl when a Hollywood scout saw him and got him to sign a contract and leave at once. Dream Girl was a smash hit! Paramounts new screen menace, has bought a home Lyle Bettger, and settled down for a long stay in filmdom. He scored a hit In No Man of Her Own with Barbara Stanwyck and John Lund, is currently working in Union Station. Barbaras policy of not making f j 'j j screen tests with other actors was abandoned when she did it for the first time with Bettger; the test brought him a contract. ENDS . . . My Friend Irma is going to travel; after My Friend Irma Goes : West, Hal Wallis planj Mj Friend Irma Goes Abroad, taking the original casts principals to London, Paris and Rome . . Terry son of Doris Jordan, Day (Young Man with a Horn,) is taking singing lessons, voluntari ly ... . Luis Van Rooten of Crimi Photographer is the voices of th excitable, comical king and of tbs grand duke in Cinderella. ODDS AND j : j . j Released by WNV Features r |