Oliver Hardy, Noted
Film Comedian, Dies
As Result of Stroke
Hollywood
W Oliver
Hardy, the rotund partner of
the famed Laurel and Hardy
movie comedy team, died of the
results of a paralytic stroke at
6:25 a.m. (PST) today. He was
6V o
The plump comedian, who
won worldwide acclaim with
Stan Laurel ov- a span of more
than two decades, succumbed at
the North Hollywood, Calif.,
home of his mother-in-law after
a long illness. His wife for 17
years, Lucille, was by his side.
They had no children.
Hardy, who weighed over 200
pounds, had been in "very poor"
condition since suffering a stroke
a year ago. He was paralyzed
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Chicago TO The old type
Pullman sleeping car, with sec
tional spaceT" is disappearing
rapidly from the American
scene.
The few new Pullman cars
splcuous by the absence of low -
er and upper berths, with the
green curtains enclosing thebed
at night and wash room at each
end of the car. The late model
sleepers are all-room cars.
For many years, two types of
Pullman cars were dominant.
They werft known as the 12-1
and the 10-1-2. The former was
made up of 12 sections and a
drawing room and the latter
consisted of 10 sections, two
compartments and one drawing
room.
The extra-fare trains of other
days included one or two super
cars as regular'equipment. These
cars contained seven drawing
rooms and two compartments
the forerunner of present-day
all - room equipment. Another
type used on many trains, par
ticularly for such overnight runs
as Chicago-Minneapolis or Bos
ton - New York, was an old Pull
man standby the 16-section
' car. This had no rooms, merely
16 uppers and 16 lowers.
Space Cut Down ,
As the nation became more
travel - minded, and rates were
low, new sleeping cars put out
by the Pullman and Budd Com
panies cut down the sectional
space, and added rooms. The
new cars were called 8-5's. This
meant only eight sections, and
five double bedrooms.
'The privacy of the room cars
caught the fancy of the public.
As these new cars came out of
the shops, they were assigned
to the "name" trains. The room
space was quickly sold out, and
the sections were used by pas
sengers only as a last resort. So
the transition was in the mak
ing. .
The present lineup of Pull
man sleeping cars, with the
most popular style, are the 10
and 6 10 roomettes and six
double bedrooms, 14 and 4
14 roomettes and four double
bedrooms, 11 double bedrooms
and either 21 or 22 roomettes.
The sections are gone.
Anyone ji'ith memories of the
old type sleeper, desiring one
last ride in an American tradi
tional mode of transportation
should scout around to see
' where a sectional car is still
In operation for before long,
they will be but memories of a
bye-gone age.
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and could not talk. He could
barely eat and make motions
with one hand.
Death was attributed to the
effects of the stroke he suffered
Sept. 12. 1956. It left Hardy al
most completely paralyzed. He
had been trying to tell his wife
something ever since the stroke
but was never able to write
the message.
Laurel Nearly Recovered
Hardy first was hospitalized
in nearby Burbank after the
stroke. Then he went to his own
home in North Hollywood and,
bout six months ago, to the
home of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Monnie L. Jones.
Hardy's partner, Laurel, 67,
suffered a stroke in June, 1955,
and was reported nearly recov
ered from it. The pair was about
to start a TV series at the time
of the thin comedian's illness.
The hefty comedian had been
living in retirement, but his
popularfty was revived recently
with the reshowing of many of
the old Laurel and Hardy com
edy classics on television.
He appeared in some 200 films
with Laurel during the past 30
years. One of his best known
, comedy characteristics was the
bashful fingering of his tie. He
drew belly laughs with such
slapstick antics as falling out of
windows, bumping into doors
nd hittin with a
hammer.
Wide Ovation
No other comedy team was
believed to have won such wide
ovation as "Stan and Ollie."
Their act was essentially panto
mime, which was largely re
sponsible for their success be
fore European audiences. They
developed a distinctive style and
in Mack Sennett comedies, were
the first comedians to slow the
tempo of a picture.
The pair seldom followed
their scripts closely, improvis
ing most oftheir antics as they
went- along.
Hardy was born in Harlem
Ga., Jan. 18, 1892. He attended
the University of Georgia where
he played guard on the football
team. But at the, end of his
sophomore year he left school
to join a minstrel show
He worked in stock for three
years and then got his first
break in movies when his troupe
was in Jacksonville, Fla., where
the old Lubin Film company had
its studio.
Came To Hollywood
The company wanted a fat
comedian so it signed up Hardy.
That same year, in 1915, the
company came to Hollywood and
brought Hardy along as a fea
tured comedian. He went to
work for the old Vitagraph Film
company. Fox Studio and then
Hal Roach, where, a little more
than a year after his arrival
here, he first teamed up with
Laurel.
Among their better known
feature-films were "Devil's Bro
ther," "Babes in Toyland," "Bon
nie Scotland," "The Bohemian
Girl," "Our Relations," "Way
Out West," "Swiss Miss" and
"Blockheads."
Many Homes Said To
Lack Proper. Lighting
Chicago (IP) The American
Home Lighting Institute said
that four out of five Americans
are living "in a dreary gloom
only a few candles removed
from the light provided by the
caveman's fire."
The institute said recent sur
veys it conducted showed 80 per
cent of the nation's homes have
only 10.9 light fixtures while
minimum good home lighting
standards call for at least 25.
The institute said every living
room should have at least one
ceiling fixture, and that a fix
ture should be provided for the
dining room above the table.
There should also be a ceiling
fixture in each bedroom and pre
ferably in the kitchen, the re
port said.
Hallways and even closets
should be well lighted for safety
and convenience, as well as the
garage attic and basement.
"It is needless for Americans
to go on living in the dark .when
manufacturers are now provid
ing fixtures for every type of
lighting need," a spSkesman
said.
In Mexico, Brazil and other
tropical areas, the fireflies grow
to a length of one to two inches.
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where he launched his anti
Business Situation,
Market Views Show
Tinge of Pessimism
By ELMER C. WALZER
United Press Financial Editor
New York HPI Wall street's
views on the business situation
and on the stock market reflect
only a tinge
of pessimism
at this time.
The street
apparently is
convinced that
the gross na
tional product
this year will
s h o w a gain
and set a rec
ord high; that
Elmer Waizer
saving will continue to increase
but at the same time consumer
spending will hold at a high
rate, and that there is nothing
really serious in the news to
affect the market.
At the same time, the experts
point out that there is nothing
dynamic to send the market
higher, except for the normal
rallies in the course of a consoli
dation movement.
Record Try Anticipated
Not all of the commentators
have given up anticipating an
other try at a new reocrd in the
industrial average.
Where none agrees is on the
duration of the consolidation
period.
Edmund W. Tabell, analyst for
Walston & Co., points out that
the consolidation period of
1946-1949 held for around 40
months while the 1951-53 period
ran for 28 months.
British Doors
For London Bar Meeting
London HP) Some of the
most closely guarded doors in
Britain will swing open in July
to a lucky band of 5,000 Ameri
can tourists. They will include
the portals to Scotland Yard,
Wormwood Scrubbs Prison
and Buckingham Palace
The greeters will include
Prime Minister Harold Macmil-
lan and Queen Elizabeth her
self Britain has never put on
such a show for visiting Ameri-
'ans.
The occasion is the annual
convention of the American Bar
Association, meeting in London
July 24-31.
The lawyers of Britain have
gone all-out to put on a magni
ficent show for the 2,700 Ameri
can lawyers and 2,300 of their
wives expected to attend the
convention.
Every hotel room in London
has been commandeered, and
still 2,500 American lawyers are
being turned away. Law and
government will come almost to
a standstill as high officials
turn to entertaining the visitors.
To Runnymed
Macmillan will address them
July 26. Queen Elizabeth will
entertain them at a Bucking
ham Palace garden party on
July 29.
U S. Ambassador John Hay
Whitney will have the visitors
in for drinks at his house
one of about 100 various parties
and receptions scheduled for
the week.
There will be a special legal
performance of ballet, a legal
t-innis match at Wimbledon,
leKal golf and even a legal visit
to headquarters of Britain's
scotch whisky industry (5:30
p.m., July 24, 50 guests only).
But work and not play is the
purpose for this pilgrimage to
Britain work and history.
The main occasion is the dedi
cation of an American Bar Asso
ciation memorial at Runnymede
vnere seven centuries ago King
John signed the Magna Carta
and thus conceded that the law
is greater than the crown.
Six special trains and 100
bases will transport the Ameri
cans to that hallowed meadow
by the Thames (25 miles south
west o London) where the basis
or the English constitution was
enacted.
A tall granite pillar is rising
trere on a base of Portland
John Kasper (right) is given the heave-ho by park- cnief
Tenn., after being informed he couldn't hold a rally in
permit. Kasper then moved to a field outside the city
- integration harangue.
If, says Tabell, we use April,
1956, as the start of the present
consolidating area, a 40-month
projection would carry to Aug
ust, 1959, and a 28-month pro
jection would carry to August,
1958.
The current consolidation
period could be shorter or longer
than the preceding ones, he ad
mits. Tabell believes the market
will hold in the 525-550 area in
the Dow-Jones industrial aver
age. This, he adds, does not pre
clude the possibility that the
averages might reach modest
new highs while still remaining
in the broad confines of the trad
ing area.
Cautious Spending Mood
Standard & Poor's says the
trend toward higher savings
suggests a cautious spending
mood with reserve buying power
that is at once a cushion against
decline and a potential stimulat
ing force.
Standard notes that ability of
business to correct itself as it
goes along should continue to
mean the lessening of the threat
of a major business decline.
Incidentally, inflation as a
market factor isn't being talked
about as it was just a few weeks
ago.
Inflation psychology has its
drawbacks, according to invest
ors advisory institute, and this,
it adds, to a large extent ex-'
plains current caution over sec
ond quarter profits.
Swing Open
$28,000 and may turn out to
be the most significant of Ameri
can memorials to the beginnings
of western democracy.
There will be legal work as
well sessions of the history and
practice of British law, advanced
legal studies, criminal law (high
lighted by the Scotland Yard
and Wormwood Scrubbs visits)
and many opportunities to trade
notes with Britain's greatest
legal minds. "
This is the largest convention
London has ever taken on so
big, in fact, that at only one
event will every visitor be able
to get in. That will be the
Queen's garden party on the vast
walled-in lawn of Buckingham
Palace.
Otherwise it's a three-or-more-ring
circus. Take the 10 a.m.
17 a.m. period, on July 25. The
program includes separate meet
ings on "Publicity Attendant
Upon Trials," "Probate Law,"
'Public Utility Law," "Patent,
Trademark and Copyright Law,''
"Anti-Trust Law" and "Fash
ion Parade by the British Fur
Trade Alliance and National
Jewellers Association" and a
visit to the Marylebone Cricket
Club, the home of Britain's
national sport.
PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
Dr. Maurico L. Yadarola,
1 an opposition leader during
the Peron regime in Argen
tina, smiles as he arrives at
the White House to present
his credentials to President
Eisenhower as Argentine '
ambassador to the U S.
Return Receipt for
Letter Comes Late
Alces'ter, S.D. (TP) Mrs. Hans
N. Sogn sent a registered letter
to her son Harold in France in
May, 1919. She requested a re
turn receipt.
That receipt has just arrived
here.
The letter arrived in France
the same month it was written
and was duly delivered to young
Sogn, serving with the 36th di
vision of the Texas National
Guard.
R. H. Ludwig, postal clerk for
the outfit, retained the receipt
which Sogn signed, always ' in
tending to relay it back to Mrs
Sogn. But the constant moving
and shifting of the forces never
permitted him to mail it. '
Receny, Ludwig, now a resi
dent of San Antonio, Tex., found
the receipt among his war souve
nirs and mailed it to Alcester.
But both Mrs. Sogn and her
son are dead.
FLOOD HITS INDIA
Calcutta, India (IP) Over
flowing rivers have inundated
villages and flooded thousands of
homes in east and north central
India, officials reported today.
Hardest hit were natives living
in bamboo huts.
LEGAL NOTICES
No. 9604
NOTICE OF HEARING ON
FINAL ACCOUNT
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON. FOR JACK
SON COUNTY
IN PROBATE
In the Matter of the Estate of
MARIE ROSE CHRYSLER,
Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
th unriersiened. Marion C JYlcuaDe.
Administratrix de bonis non of the
Estate of Mane Rose Chrysler, de
ceased, has filed her First and Final
Report and Account in and with the
Circuit Court of the State of Oregon,
for Jackson County, and that Thurs
day the 22nd day of August, 1957.
at the hour of 10:00 A.M. of said day.
in the Courtroom of said said Court
in the Jackson County Courthouse in
the City of Medford, Oregon, has
been appointed and set as the time
and place of hearing of objections
to aid First and Final Report and
Account and the settlement thereof
and of said estate.
DATED and first published this
17th day of July. 1957.
MARION C. McCABE
ADMINISTRATRIX
DE BONIS NON
NO.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR THE
COUNTY OF JACKSON
Probate Department
In the Matter of the Estate
of
MARY LAURETTA HANBY. Deceased
Notice is hereby given that I, the
undersigned, by an order of the above
court duly made and entered on July
22, 1957. was appointed Administratrix
of the above named estate, and that
I have duly qualified as such Admini
stratrix. AU persons having claims
against said estate are hereby notified
to present the same, with proper
vouchers, to me at the office of my
attorneys. Van Dyke. Dellenback &
McGoodwin. 110 East Sixth Street.
Medford, Oregon, within six months
from the date of first publication of
this notice.
Dated and first published July 24.
1957.
Elizabeth Burr, Administratrix
Van Dyke. Dellenback & McGoodwin
Attorneys for Administratrix
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK
SON COUNTY
PROBATE NO. 10114
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
LESLIE BENNETT SCHEFFEL,
Deceased
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Leslie
Bennett Scheffel. deceased, by an
Order of the above entitled Court
dated July 26. 1957. All persons hav
ing claims against said estate are
hereby notified to present the same
at the offices of my attorneys. Far
rell & Blackhurst. 230 Frankiin Build
ing. Medford. Oregon, properly veri
fied as provided by law and within
6 months from the date hereof.
Dated and first published July 31.
1957.
FREDERICK W. SCHEFFEL.
Administrator
Farrell & Blackhurst
Attorneys for Administrator
Rip Van Winkle
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Nairobi (IB The famous
treetops Hotel in Kenya, where
Princess Elizabeth was told of
the death of her father in Feb
ruary, 19S2, is open to visitors
again.
The original hotel was des
troyed by Mau Mau terrorists
who burned it in May, 1954. Now
it has been rebuilt at a cost of
nearly 10,000 pounds and visi
tors once more will be able to
watch some of the most excit
ing wild life scenes in Africa
right on their doorstep.
From the balcony and obser
vation roof of the new building,
they will see elephant, rhino,
wart hog, buck and every other
type of game in the Aberdare
Forest coming down to the salt
lick in the clearing below.
The new Treetops has artifi
cial foundations, because th'e
huge fig tree on which the old
one was built was too badly
damaged to be used again. It
has hot and cold water and elec
tric power from a generating
plant hidden in the roots of a
tree in the forest.
14 Guests
The glade in front of the hotel
will be illuminated by a system
of artificial moonlight, the
lamps being placed in surround
ing trees.
The new building, which is
50 feet long and 25 feet wide,
is supported by the branches of
trees nearby. All the rooms have
been sound - proofed to reduce
the chances of game being
frightened away.
Thick window glass and
tough felt, a precaution against
leopards and baboons, have been
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Washington (IP! Secretary cf
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ques on international meetings
aren't too informative. Newsmen
had known this for years. They
were surprised, however, to hear
Dulles, an old hand at communi
que writing, admit it.
Sugar fixed in green plant
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represent energy equal to 300
billion tons of coal.
The old one could accommodate
eight people.
In the visitors' book of the
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the late Jim Corbett, the famous
white hunter:
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history of the world, a young
girl climbed into a tree one day,
a princess, and after having
what she described as her most
thrilling experience, she climbed
down from the tree the next
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