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Cupid Not Doing Too Well as
Hollywood Marriages Topple
By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON
Hollywood, Jan. 13 (U.R) Cupid got off to a slow start in 1950.
Six Hollywood marriages toppled since the turn of the half
century. A reconciliation was reported cracking up. And another
couple reached the slamming-doors stage.
At the moment in the Frank Sinatra love-nest, things aren't so
lovelv. "
Nancy Sinatra admits Frankie
. boy walked out on her, but she
says it doesn't mean much.
"He does it all the time," she
sighed. "He's done it before
and he'll probably do it again.
But he always comes back."
Frankle himself shrugged off
the battle as nothing to get ex
cited about.
"So a guy has a fight with his
old lady," he said. "What's
wrong with that?"
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, Gail Russell and Guy Madison
:. gang for nearly four years ended
j. yesterday when Gail packed her
bags for an Arizona vacation
alone.
Their marriage last summer
capped one of Hollywood's long
est courtships, but little more
than five months of life together
aplit them up.
There was no immediate talk
about a divorce. In fact, neither
of the screen lovers would com
ment at all. But Miss Russell
admitted their romance was on
the rocks.
Another notable who wouldn't
talk was Bette Davis. Gossip
columnists said she and artist
William Grant Sherry aren't
seeing eye to eye again, although
Bette took him back last fall
after filing for a divorce.
Asked if it could be printed
that she has dropped the suit
permanently, Bette snapped:
"It certainly cannot.
"I have no comment to make.
You must understand I can say
nothing. When I do have some
thing to say, I'll say it."
Quizzed George Thomas,
SB, janitor at the CIO United
Auto Workers building in
Detroit, Mich., sits disconso
late in police headquarters as
he is questioned about the
Dec. 20, 1949, attempted
bombing of the union s build
ing Thomas, who discovered
the bomb, confessed that his
reported kidnaping was a
hoax and said he invented the
tory to cover up a suicide
attempt because suspicion was
cast on him. He will be given
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Radio Singer Kay St. Ger
maine decided definitely that
she'll put a stop to her three
year separation from Comedian
Jack Carson with a divorce.
When she first tried to break
the tie in 1946, the judge told
her she didn't have enough evi
dence on Carson. Now she said
she'd try again.
Dorothy Kirsten s marriage to
Radio Executive Edward McKay
Oates hit the rocks with a bang
a few days ago. The beautiful
opera star admitted she was in
love with a married man and
would be heading for Nevada
soon to untangle her part of the
romance.
But this isn't an ordinary Hol
lywood "triangle." Dottie's di
lemma is a "quadrangle." She
not only has a husband to shed
before she and her Texas doc
tor can get set for wedding
bells he has a wife, too.
'And he hasn't talked her
into a divorce yet," said the
glamour gal of the Met. "That's
why I'm so miserable our sec
ret leaked out. Now he might
not be able to. And a lot of
people are going to be hurt."
Ida Lupino and Collier Youne
also called it quits a few days
ago. They'd been squabbling
lor months, but neither would
admit it was anything more than
typical movieland battles.
"But I've finally decided up
on a divorce," Ida said. "We
can t get along any more. But
we'll keep on making movies
together."
Another big-name movie
queen prepared to give her hus
band a legal heave-ho as 1950
edged into its second week
Myrna Loy, the screen s "perfect
wile," announced that she and
her third husband, Gene Mar-
Key, would be going separate
ways irom now on.
"There are no personal dif-
lerences," she said in typical
noiiywooa fashion. "He's
swell guy. It just hasn't worked
out."
Friends said their troubles
started when Miss Loy made i
movie for Markev in F.niar,H
And that, apparently, was what
nappenea to Actress Gloria Gra
hame and Director Nicholas
Hay.
wot that they didn't antici
pate somethine like this Bo.
fore Ray would agree to direct
his missus in a movie he made
her sign a legal contract giving
him the final say-so from 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Miss Grahame was
not to use her "womanly wiles
to coax, tease, cajole, or en
tice" him into anything against
HIS Will.
it worKed out okay at the
studio. But the minute the pic
ture was in the cans Miss Gra-
name dashed to her lawyer and
mea lor divorce.
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The Salem Board of Realtors
will hold its 29th annual ban
quet and installation at the
Chamber of Commerce Satur
day night at 6:30 when Robert
F. Maguire, Portland attorney,
will be the guest speaker.
It is probable Maguire will
discuss his experiences while
in Germany during the Nuern
berg trials.
Guests of the realtors will in
elude Claude M. Murphy, state
real estate commissioner; Ray
Schumacher, president of the
Oregon Association of Real Es
tate Boards; Taylor W. Treece,
secretary of the Oregon associa
tion; presidents of a number of
Willamette valley boards, attor
neys and title Insurance men.
Burt Picha, who has served
the Salem board as president
during the past year, will turn
the gavel over to Dick Schmidt,
who will act as toastmaster.
Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom will
give an official welcome to the
guests and entertainment fea
tures will be provided by the
Elks quartet and Jack Spong
magician.
Joe L. Bourne will be in
stalled as president, as will be
H. D. McMillin, vice president
John E. Black, secretary; Co
burn L. Grabenhorst. treasurer,
and Theo G. Nelson, member of
the appraisal board.
Ex-Juvenile Star
Gets Probation
Chicago, Jan. 13 UR A fed
eral judge today had put John
Edward (Jackie) Moran, 26.
former juvenile movie star, on
two years' probabtion and warn
ed authorities of other cities to
keep their hands off him dur
ing that time.
Moran pleaded guilty last No
vember to a charge that he stole
an automobile in Jacksonville,
Fla., and drove it to Charleston
S. C, where he abandoned it,
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Trend Towards Twin Beds Is
Hailed Beneficial in Many Ways
Chicago, Jan. 13 (U.R) A big increase in the tale of twin beds
shows that married couples are learning to "sleep alone and like
it," a bedding expert said today.
J. P. Fanning, attending the
market, said twin bed sales have
About 68 per cent are twin beds
now, he
said, compared with
only 25
per cent before the
war.
Fanning qualifies as an au
thority on beds as manager of
the National Association of Bed
ding Manufacturers, which rep
resents 85 per cent of the indus
try. American couples just don't
stuff any more," Fanning said
He said the trend toward soli
tary sleeping is healthful, too.
"The blanket - snatcher sub
jects his mate to drafts and
chillness," Fanning said, "and
the bed-hog disturbs the other
person's rest."
He cited research on Ameri
n sleeping habits conducted
at the University of Chicago and
Colgate University, in which it
was found that the normal per
son changes his sleeping posi
tion from 20 to 45 times dur
ing the night.
To accomplish these twists and
turns, the researchers found, the
normal sleeper requires a space
39 inches wide. Standard dou
ble beds measure only 54 inches
across 27 inches for each per
son, Fanning said.
"Even if each bedmate stays
strictly on his own side, there
still isn't room enough," he
said.
There is a trend toward out-
sized beds, Fanning said, but for
the most part the emphasis is
on length.
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all but doubled since the war.
Fanning said the standard
mattress length of 62 inches
was set in the 1920's, but since
then American men have be
come taller.
He cited figures compiled by
the armed forces during both
world wars which show there
are 70 per cent more men over
six feet today than there were
in 1918.
"To meet this need," Fanning
id, "several manufacturers are
producing mattresses 78 and 81
inches long.
Fanning said the trend toward
twin beds might cut the great
American divorce rate, and quot
ed as his authority a prominent
Chicago divorce judge.
"He said that if American
couples would quit trying to
sleep in double beds they would
have more privacy and rest, and
would be better able to meet
the strains of married life," Fan
ning said.
"The result would be fewer
broken homes."
Vets Dividends Roll
Washington, Jan. 13 OT The
treasury department today start
ed rolling out checks for the 16,
000,000 veterans sharing in the
$2,800,000,000 life insurance
dividend. A daily output of 200,
000 checks is the goal. With
the checks due to pour into the
mails next Monday, Postmaster
General Donaldson warned the
veterans to "keep mail recep-
sales gabs than
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Progress of drainage projects
in Marlon county will be out
lined at a meet January 26 at
the Mayflower auditorium, 2135
Fairgrounds road. The session,
opening at 10 a.m., is sponsored
by the Willamette Basin Project
committee and the Oregon State
college extension service.
Floyd Fox, chairman of the
Marion county committee of the
Willamette Basin Project com
mittee, will preside.
Among the speakers will be
Harry Riches, county extension
ageni; Col. Donald S. Burns,
district engineer, corps of en
gineers; C. E. Stricklin, state
engineer; Arthur S. King, ex
tension soil specialist; W. M.
Tate, chairman, Marion county
PMA; Ed Gilbert, supervisor,
Santiam soil conservation dis
trict, and a discussion on "Drain
age on My Farm" by a number
of farmers of the county.
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Farmer Smith Credits Eggs,
'High Powered for New Hair
Racine, Wis., Jan. 13 (U.fD Farmer Ralph Smith stroked the fuzz
on his otherwise bald head today
the "high-powered" eggs his chickens have been laying.
He claimed the eggs helped his wife's heart trouble, too.
Smith, who runs a poultry and fruit farm four miles north of
here, said he isn't too clear how
the eggs work.
But he said he is certain that
their peculiar qualities are the
result of experiments he made
to improve the health and vigor
of his Hanson Leghorns.
Smith said he began his ex
periments four years ago. He
spent $3,000 and a lot of time,
he said, developing an elixir for
his chickens.
It didn't work. Egg produc
tion dropped sharply.
But recently, he said, his hens
began laying eggs again at a
near normal rate. And Smith,
who had been eating the eggs,
said he began getting hair on
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and said he got it from eating
his head for the first time In 20
years.
He now is the proud possessor
of a three-inch fringe around his
previously barren pate, and
little fuzz on top.
Mrs. Smith claimed the eggs
were making her feel "Just like
new born again."
A doctor examined her, but
couldn't say whether the eggs
were the cause of her improve
ment or not.
For an explanation. Smith
said, "ask the chickens."
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