The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1937 Page: 3 of 8
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THfc WORTHAM JOURNAL
Charming Way to
Use Cross Siitch
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Ballyhoo Sending
Bomber Same Way
Maxie Baer Went
TOE LOUIS’ purses have totaled
•J more than $700,000 since he be-
came a professional prize fighter
thirty months ago. He was accom-
panied to his corner on the night
he fought Bob Pastor by eleven
managers, trainers, promoters, sec-
onds and less easily identified par-
ties. Since all of them probably
like to eat and wear diamonds, a
considerable portion of his rewards
must have been shared with them,
fer pattern of a large motif 13 by | Yet, because they in turn have cut
16 inches, and two smaller ones
44a by 6 inches; materia! require-
ments; color chart and key; illus-
trations of all stitches used.
To obtain this pattern send 15
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept , 259 W.
Fourteenth St.. New York, N. Y.
Write plainly your name, ad-
dress and pattern number.
Pattern 5740
Even amateurs will have no dif-
ficulty in turning out this finished
looking chair or buffet set—with
this easy-to-do pattern. And what
compliments they’ll get on this I
cross-stitched peacock done in all
the glory bf its<snatural coloring ;
or in two shades of a color for !
a more subdued effect. The j
crosses are 10 to-the-inch—the col- j
ors are clearly given in a color j
chart. With two patterns a hand- j
some scarf could be made. In ;
pattern 5740 you will finJ a trans-
U. S. Railroad Mileage
The railroad mileage of the
United States as compared with
that of other countries is by far
the greatest, with 249,433 miles.
The Soviet Union is second, w.th
48,467; India is third, with 41.724;
Canada is fourth, w.th 41.409, arid
France is fifth, with 39,467.
IF COLD
is in
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a
Max Baer.
do this now
Try the famous **2-drop
treatment” of Pcnetro Nose
Drop*. Just 2 drops in rich
nostril and you feci relief.
Quickly, the ephedrine that
Pcnetro Nose Drops cor.ta.n,
tocher with other perfectly
balanced medication, spreads
throughout the na«al passages
to soothe the inflamed area
and to reduce the redness ar.d
swelling of the mucous mem'
branes. Use Pcnetro Drops for
both children and grown-ups.
Ask your druggist for Pcnetro
Nose Drops, 2fc, J0c and
$1 bottles. Try a bottle today.
PENETRO NOSE DROPS «:• a
product of Plough. Inc . maker*
of Penetro and St. Jo*e,-h Aapinn.
When It Goes
That which comes with sin, goes
with sorrow.
Miss
REE LEEF
says:
CAPUDINE
relieves
HEADACHE
quicker because
it’s liquid...
ahcaJy duiotrtd.
in on allied ventures, he must be
worth at least $200,900 today.
Even in this land of surprises
there scarcely 13 any precedent for
the amazing triumph of this giant.
There may. though, be a very good
and modern precedent for what has
been happening to the youngster
recently. I refer to the sad case of
Max Baer.
Both Max and Joe arrived quick-
ly. They were fortunate in their
early connections and did not have
to come up the hard way as did
Jack Dempsey.
Each of them was well possessed
of the purely physical virtues which
make for a great
fighter. Probably
Baer was the better
built and the bet-
ter able to sustain a
punch, but each of
them owned amaz-
ing hitting ability.
This latter quality,
as displayed in the
matches that were
made for them, cov-
ered up inherent de-
fects. Indeed 1t
, caused the un-
discerning to proclaim them as own-
ing—through some God-given right
—talent that can only come by long
| and faithful practice.
Baer, who should have been a
champion for ten years, went first
and quickest. He read the papers
I and otherwise amused himself.
I Thought that a hungry father must
tremble at headlines which
screamed that the odds should be
1.000 to 1 and that stretcher-bearers
should sit close to the ringside. Jim
Braddock, not a great fighter then
or now but an earnest man who
had worked hard for his chance,
utterly discredited Baer.
Much the same thing now is hap-
pening to I.ouis. He was not a good
boxer when he first appeared
against Camera less than two years
ago. But he could punch hard and
fast and possessed superb poise
when things were going well.
Newspapers and radios built up
a myth about him that could have
endured almost as long as the twin
gags about George Washington's
cherry tree and Calvin Colhdge’s
J silent wisdom. Undoubtedly various
i of the lambs that were being led
j into the ring were rendered even
| more timid by the press advices
! that they were about to be slaugh-
j tered unmercifully.
All the while Joe read the sports
pages and the comic sheets and
otherwise amused himself. When
preparing for a fight he slept, ate
and popped over as woeful a set
of sparring partners as ever ap-
peared for the ancient and elegant
purpose of getting popped over. In
the ring against Sharkeys, Retzlaffs
and Brescias he learned even less. , „ , ____ .____. . , ,, . .
„ , -, ....... Louis can knock out and the job
Perhaps confidence was built high 1__. ,__ ... ,,,J
.......li.n. I could be done quickly It’s a
tough thing for a guy who bet on
Jim against Baer to say but it’s
NOT IN THE BOX SCORE:
A NOTHER attempt will be made
J * to straighten the tangled affairs
of the Brooklyn baseball club before
the Dodgers start spring training;
It is possible that this meeting may
either result in that long hoped-for
sale or In a shift in stock control
. . . Chick Meehan, the coach who
put N. V. U. and Manhattan In the
front football ranks, is winter vaca-
tioning in Miami . . . Pennsylva-
nia’s racing commissioners will re-
ceive annual salaries of $10,00t
each, tops for such jobs, if the sport
becomes legal in that state. . . .
Gossips insist that if any local col-
lege court stars failed in their mid-
year exams it was because the boys
were playing semi-pro basketball in
Yonkers and outlying Westchester
spots when they should have been
studying.
When former Boxing Commis-
sioner Jim Farley quits being Post-
master General the best bet is that
he will hook up with a famous in-
surance company. That Garden tip
probably got out because Jim is
planning a few Florida days as the
guest of Stanton Griffis, Wall Street
and movie notable, who also heads
the Garden board of directors . . .
Casey Stengel now is in Texas look-
ing over some oil property which
may soon make him as rich in
money as he already is in friends
. . . Garry Schmeelk, former bas-
ketball star and layer of odds on
met courses, is in a new business.
He runs a riot of a place in Miami
Beach called the Circus . . . Either
Prosecutor Dewey or the G-Men
might perform a much needed serv-
ice for a long suffering public by
investigating the New York prize
fight situation.
Seveial of the best fights of recent
weeks have been pick-up affairs at
the very social Hialeah racetrack.
A prominent trainer was the main
performer in one of them and a cel-
ebrated jockey starred in aro'her
Kddie Burke, who manages
Havre lie Grace and the new du-
I’ont track at Wilmington, once was
president of the Metropolitan asso-
ciation. Back in 1905 the Mets were
celebrated as the nation's strongest
organization of bookmakers . .
The Whitneys are as clever as ever
at picking names for their horses.
Take Septime, now in Florida with
the Greentree division. Septime’s
mammy is Parry and Septime also
is the seventh, or parry, position ir
fencing.
Italians Now Boss
Lightweight Class
The lightweight class which in the
past has been dominated by Irish,
Jews, negroes and
other racial strains
now is strongest in
Italians. For in-
stance there “are
Champion Lou Am-
bers (Luigi D’Am-
brosio), Tony Can-
zoneri, Enrico Ven-
turi, Aldo Spoldi and
Phil Baker (Philip
Matra) . . . Some of
the sharpest of bet-
tors will look for
a price on Brooklyn
when the future
books come out for
the Kentucky Derby.
Bradley colt was a late-season de-
velopment as a youngster .
Cleveland and Chicago have been
so impressed by the prospective suc-
cess of the American Bouaiing Con-
gress which will be held in New
York in the spring that they are bid-
ding hot for the 1938 tournament.
Arthur Lumley. dean of New York
boxing writers, is very ill in his
Brooklyn home. He is more than
eighty years old . Dave Driscoll,
former and very able business man-
ager of the Dodgers, is hoping to
connect again with some Interna-
tional league club . . Harry Vod-
er, who came all the way from Flor-
ida for the Pastor-Louis fight, has-
joined the list of those who believe
the New York boy some day will
be heavyweight champion A
Braddock - Louis fight in Chicago
probably would not draw any more
than $300,000 in spite of interested
ballyhoo to the contrary . In-
cidentally Braddock is one fighter
Tony
Canzoneri
This Colonel
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TAKE MILNESIAS
Milneru, the original milk of magnesia
in wafer form, neutralizes stomach acid.
Each wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk
in him, but confidence means little
without such a backing as Joe never
strove to attain.
Even the shellacking received
from Schmeling, a second-rater as
great heavyweights
go, taught no lesson.
Nor could repeated
warnings convince
Joe’s camp follow-
ers of the altered
temper of disillu-
sioned cash custom-
ers. Business went
on as usual, al-
though the crowd re-
action was far from
being as good as of
yore. Meanwhile,
the inevitable kept
on getting closer.
The Louis who scrambled with
Bob Pastor was a sorely puzzled
boy. The one set of rules with which
he was familiar were being dis-
carded as on the Schmeling night.
Thirty .'months of headlining and
more than $700,000 in purses had
given him nothing with which to
meet new conditions.
He has, perhaps, picked up a few
cute little punches for which a more
discerning referee would have pen-
alized him. Otherwise he has not
advanced. Indeed has become more
sluggish, seems definitely to have
gone back.
Max
Schmeling
true . . . Also there’s plenty of
McCoy in the statement that John
Henry Lewis, the colored light-
heavyweight champion, would be no
worse than even money if Joe ever
decided to quit drawing the color
line against him.
Johnny Moir, whose brilliant work
at forward has helped Notre Dame
to defeat the No. 1 and No. 2 Big
Ten basketball teams in succes-
sion, holds every scoring record in
his school’s history except one . . .
That’s Ed Krause’s three year mark
of 547 points ... In a season and a
half Moir has scored 435 points
... If he continues to average 17
points a game as he has for the last
fiye games he will have a new rec-
ord before the end of his second sea-
son . . .Joe Cronin is getting a
share of the $250,000 purchase price
his father-in-law, Clark Griffith, got
for him from Boston at, the rate of
ten cents a hole on a Florida golf
course . . . Visiting ball teams at
Comiskey park will have a new
clubhouse at their disposal this sea-
son . . . Plans for the new quarters
are being drawn up and President
J. Louis Comiskey promises it will
be the best in the major leagues
. ~. . The Sox will continue to occupy
their present rooms, which were
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VIRGINIA VALE irk*.
TT HAS always been difficult
to get permission to visit stu-
dios in Hollywood. From now
on, popular comedians, like the
Marx Brothers, Jack Benny,
and Burns and Allen hope to
make it impossible. In fact, if
there were any way that they
could make pictures without
having a flock of carpenters,
electricians, property men, and
extras around, they would be
heartily in favor of adopting it.
Thieves on the set are the reason
for all this uproar. It would be bad
enough if the thieves merely lifted
jewelry, or furs, but these thieves
steal ideas whose worth cannot be
estimated unless you can think in
staggeringly big figures. When co-
medians and their gag men have fi-
nally worked out a funny situation
and filmed it, two months may
elapse before it is shown on the
screen. But almost at once come-
dians elsewhere introduce their
funny situation. Obviously, some-
one from the studio told them about
it—but who?
It is always gratifying to see a
real trouper win out over all odds.
That is why every-
one is rejoicing over
Alice Faye's hit in
"On the Avenue.”
When Irving Berlin
moved into the
Twentieth Century-
Fox studio with a
knockout musical
score under his arm,
the studio officials
said, “We've got
something big
here.” So, they de-
cided to build up a
marvelous cast with players bor-
rowed from other studios. They got
Dick Powell from Warner's and
Madeleine Carroll from Walter
Wanger Productions for the leading
roles. And then their own Alice
Faye in a secondary role walked off
with all honors that weren’t taken
by the crazy antics of their own
Ritz Brothers.
Worthy of Your Pride!
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1882
Alice Faye
A long time ago Paramount
bough* a story called “Easy Mon-
ey” for Carole Lombard, but she
has been so busy on other pictures
L Has Been so Dusy on otner pictures
’ 'she never got arourit?"to make "it r
j Meanwhile the studio officials have
' been impressed by the bounding
j popularity of Jean Arthur and de-
cided she would do nicely in the
I leading role. After a vacation in
{ New York, she will.
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For months Cary Grant has gone
around saying that if his Paramount
contract woult only come to an end,
he would never sign another with
anybody. He would just make pic-
tures when he felt like it. and spend
the rest of h;s time lying on the
beach at Santa Monica or taking
leisurely trips to England. But after
watching his work in the new Grace
Moore picture. Columbia officials
didn't like his idea at all. They de-
cided they must have him under
contract. No one ha? ever been
known to win an argument with
Jack Cohn, the grand mogul of Co-
lumbia Pictures, so Cary signed the
contract he offered.
Back in New York all the young
stage players and all the dramatic
school students go to see Greta
Garbo in “Camille” over and over.
Two girls who are living on a tiny
budget that permits eating only now
and then and never riding on a
street car or bus, had gone every
day for six days and seen the pic-
ture at least 14 times. They were
broke and hungry, but they felt they
just had to see it again. So. they
screwed up their courage and told
the manager of the Capitol theater
how much they were learning from
watching her. and he arranged to
let them in free.
Deanna Durbin, the fourteen-year- ,
old sensation of Eddie Cantor’s
radio program and \
Universal’s “Three
Smart Girls” thinks
New Yorkers aren’t j
very good mathema- [
ttcians. She realized
her lifelong ambi- J
tion of climbing the
stairs inside the [
Statue of Liberty on
her first visit to New
York a few weeks
ago. But the sign at
the foot of the steep,
winding stairs said
there were 161 steps,
ftnd Deanna counted 165. Determin-
edly she dragged frer weary feet up
the steps again, only to find that
she was right the first time.
\ 1 OTHER, between you and me
Sis is getting to be a little
show-off. Last night when Dick
called, there she sat, big as life,
right in the middle of things chirp-
ing about the new dress you made
her; how you used a remnant left
over from one of your dresses,
and got it finished in one after-
noon—she even had Dick feel the
material.
Well, Elsie, you can’t blame the
child’s appreciating herself in a
r.ew dress. How about ourselves?
Didn’t you say your jumper was
the talk of the Tennis Club meet-
ing yesterday? And haven't I
been spending more time before
the mirror since I made my new
“Stylish Stout” model? I actually
feel like a new person in it—imag-
"lne me Lcing vaift aV m'$r age! *
Flatters Stout Figure.
Oh, Mother, you're not vain and
you’re as young as any of us. You
just were lucky to find a particu-
larly flattering style for your fig-
ure. That7 soft jabot makes you
look lovely and the whole thing is
so slenderizing. But only an ex-
pert like you could make such a
dross.
It isn’t being expert, Elsie, it
is choosing a pattern that is deftly
designed and giving full step-by-
step instructions on how to pro-
ceed.
Several Blouses.
I’m going to make another
blouse for my jumper soon, Moth-
er. I always admired that white
pique shirt of Dick's, so I think
I'll try it for my blouse, since the
pattern is a lot like a man's shirt
in design.
The Patterns.
Pattern 1229 comes in sizes 14
to 20; 32 to 42 bust. Size 16 re-
quires 3Ls yards of 39-mch ma-
terial for the jumper and la8
yards for the blouse. Pattern 1847
is available in sizes 36 to 52. Size
38 requires 4n< yards of 39-inch
material.
Pattern 1882 is designed for sizes
2 to 10 years. Size 4 years re-
quires P4 yards of 39-inch ma.
terial.
New Pattern Book.
Send for the Barbara Bell
Spring and Summer Pattern Book.
Make yourself attractive, practi-
cal and becoming clothes, select-
ing designs from the Barbara Bell
^ll-planncd, easy-to-make pat-
ens. Interesting and exclusive
fashions for little children and the
difficult junior* age; slenderizing,
well-cut patterns for the mature
figure; afternoon dresses for the
most particular young women and
matrons and other patterns for
special occasions are all to be
found in the Barbara Bell Pattern
Book. Send 15 cents (in coins)
today for your copy.
Send your order to The Sewing
42Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
Patterns 15 cents'! uTcoir, ^jJSch,
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Sersfce.
Official State Trees
Five states have state trees,
but only four of them have been
officially adopted. The state tree
of Rhode Island is the maple; of
Illinois, the native oak; of Texas,
the pecan; of Indiana, the tulip
tree, and of Pennsylvania, the
hemlock. The public school chil-
dren of Rhode Island selected the
tiee for that state; others, listed
were chosen by the state legisla-
ture.
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third or fourth night if needed.
How do Calotabs help Nature
throw off a cold? First, Calotabs
are one of the most thorough and
dependable of all intestinal elimi-
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tract of the germ-laden mucus and
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elitpination of cold poisons from
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the double purpose of a purgative
and diuretic, both of which are
needed in the treatment of colds.
Calotabs are quite economical;
only twenty-five cents for the fam-
ily package, ten cents for the trial
package. (Adv.)
Deanna
Durbin
ODDS AND ENDS . . . Clark Cable's
birthday on the “I’arnell” set U'lis a hilari-
ous occasion. Fellow-player:r gave him a
cake inscribed to the greatest actor in the
world—Robert Taylor . . . Joan Craw lord
has brushed out her curls, wean her hair
very straight and plain and uses colorless
nail polish. Judy Garland made a tre-
mendous hit singing at a flood benefit,
end will get some big film roles now.
€t Western Newspaper Union.
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