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WILKES-BARRE RECORD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, '1940 7MIdeWins 17. S. WARSHIP ORDERED TO SEA mi 1 1 i mjiuu ujwmwuff-w "ejwr Wyoming WILLKIES IN KEWYOZZ TOP, CAMPAIGN END Pittston livp. First District Date Changed Council to Seek Return of Sewing Project Now in West Wyoming Pay Is Ordered New Hampshire Town Gives Teachers, Other Employes Republican Nominee Edge of 24 to 7 to Receive Salaries on Thursday UlUiJJJ' pm mmn l.ii.i.mii i hi t. I.

S''': Teachers of Pittston Township School District were ordered paid tor October and for attendance at institute at the monthly meeting, of director of that district last nin4f ttVi amnnUwM alao ware i s. pi 1 Sharon, N. Nov. 5 (Tuesday) CP). Racing to be the first in the jl nation to cast it balloti in the, presidential election this tradition-v ally Republican town in the nock region of Southern New Hampshire announced at 12:12 a.

m. S. today a vote of 24 for Wendell Willkie to 7 for Presi-' dent Roosevelt. In 1936, Sharon voted 13 to 3 In favor of Alf Landon over the president, and In 1932 the count was 11 for Herbert Hoover to 1 for Mr. Exactly one minute past mid- ordered paid and salaries will be distributed at Miners Savings Bank, Pittston on All directors attended the aession.

Payments) followed report of Treasurer Rayinond Keating of a November 1 balanoe of $1057 and by Tax Collector Elisabeth K. Mul- cahey of October collection of current taxes of $21,659.69 and of re- 13 Wyoming Borough Council last night voted to extend the tax penalty periodfor. 80 days and following the request of "West Wyoming for financial assistance in operating the WPA sewing project In that borough decided to seek return of ths project to Wyoming. There are many Wyoming women employed on the West Wyoming project Councilman, John Hartman, member of the fire committee, reported purchase of 500 feet, of firs hose, with a six-year guarantee, from the American La France Company at $1 a foot Burgess John Masel previously had vetoed the awarding of two contracts for 1,500 feet of fire hose. Payment of a tyll of West Pitts-ton for rental of a steam roller at $25 a dav was held un at the In I i TlTfT' ceipt of $414.04 from county commissioners in delinquent taxes.

Anions; current bilk paid was an interest payment to Miners Savings bank on a note of $20,000 and of a tax rebate to Hillside Coal -and Iron Ckmroanv. Here are three of the eighteen TJ. S. Navy training vessels manned by Naval Reservists which have been ordered from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast. They are the gunboats Paducah, Sacramento and.

Dubuque, shown in Chicago harbor. Attorney James L. Brown, Wilkes-Barre, was at the meeting to represent Attorney Charles B. Lenahan, school district solicitor from 191? to 1935, regarding the latter's bill for services for three years of $1,500 and interest from January 1, 1938, when judgment Mr. and Mrs.

Wendell Willkla la New York city to where they went to vote today for the Republican nominee for President. IntmaUoiial Bouna Photo TanimltUd by Telephone). ROOSEVELT TOURS NEW YORK TO END CAMPAIGN was granteo. a partial payment or. $250 on the Lenahan bill was 1 Supervising Principal John Howley reported an October attendance in the high school of pupils and in the elementary grades of 708 pupils.

fi" Martin Makes Appeal v. tit For Willkie and Unity New Tork, Nov. 4 MV-Chalrman. Joseph W. Martin, Jr.

of the Republican National Committee, delivering' his last formal address of the campaign, urged the American electorate tonight to brine; about national unity by electing Wendell L. Willkie to the Presidency. "He will reunite the American people," said Martin in a "national broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System. "Class hatreds and domestic turmoil will end. One great people will Join together under his leadership.

They will unite and through mutual understanding and respect will solve our domestic problems and build a better and busier America." Hoyt Library to Have mimm Aged Man Kills Self Mercersburg, Nov. I W) Shot below the heart, Wilson L. Brosius, 76, was found dead in bed today by 19-year-old Marie O'Neill, daughter of Broslus's housekeeper, Mrs. Helen O'Neill. Corporal Albert Davis of the State Police reported Brosius shot himself with a pistol.

liJ Armisuce nay ixmoii i Ila Rhodes. Divorced lios Angeles, Nov. i UP) Actress Ila Rhodes won a divorce today from Arthur S. Lyons, theatrical agent and manager of Comedian Jack Benny. The court awarded her $500 a month for the rest of this year and tiau a weeK during, lm.

President Roosevelt at Kingston, N. waving to a crowd in tour of New York State before going to Hyde Park to vote today. (International Bound Photo Tranmltted by Telephone). i In observance of Armistice Day, which this, year has a special significance for every one, the Hoyt Library announces a one-minute-quiet at 11 a. tn.

and In the afternoon' an exhibit in the Council Chamber at the Library, opening at 8. At 4 the librarian, Miss Frances Donrance, will speak on "Some Books the War Has Brought Us." The exhibit will show posters of the first World War, pictures and books about the Ehiropean countries now suffering this second World War, examples of Red Cross relief work in both world disasters. All interested are invited to attend. Tbe exhibit and talk are free all DISTRICT Ptmut The Voice of Br.oadway Gossip In Gotham Lee Bowman, the movie slicker, returned to Hollywood with Betty (DuBarry) Aliens "No" ringing-in his ears Mickey Rooneythe imp, and Linda Darnell, the ingenue, have softening of the hearties. James McKlnley Bryant and the Hotel Pierre have ouietly divorced.

Herlands' investigation into Jim my's "Cafe Society Register" proves too much for the hostelry. Earl Carroll, the girl show pro-duoer, came to Manhattan to attend the funeral of a relative who left him a quarter of a million dollars. Beryl Wallace, the beauty, accompanied him as did whispers that they'll be married Donahue, the society bandleader, is seriously ill in a New York Hos pital. Niki Emerbicos, wealthy Greek member of the El Morocco set, ex pects to depart for Greece and the war next week. His wife, Anne, wll ltry to go as far as London with him The Conover models, who used to be Dana Dale's colleagues, claim them have secret info that she and Jeffry L.ynn, toe leading man, are already Mr.

and Mrs. The Joe Browne have made plans to adopt another boy Mary Brian and Reginald Gardiner are behaving deliciously. She's even got him drinking chocolate soaiee Watch for a flurry in the ranks of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Valerie Parks, the blonde burlesque cutle, has just learned she is eligible for mem bership, and will apply any minute now. If she's turned down, she'll take it to court.

Now and then the gilded night life of this town sports a ljubitscn touch to delight the hearts of the frivolous as, for the incident which took place Monday evening, which we might call the Battle of the Gourmets. On this evening, the Escoffier dinner was held at the Waldorf, and after dining on delicacies washed 'down with rare alcoholics, the connoisseurs went off into the night for more merriment most of them going in little groups so they could linger conversationally on the delights they had just swallowed. Some went to El Morocco, some mf ted to quieter inns, and one trio composed "of Gaston Laurrys-sen, the St Regis host; Gene Caval-lero, of the Colony, and G. Selmer Fougner, the connoisseur-scribe invaded Monte Carlo. But do not think that all eating was over at this point Gene, who has what the more vulgar Broad-wayltes term a "piece" of Monte Carlo, was anxious to show his friends the excellence of the establishment's ousine, and he ordered for their edification an intricate cheese dish.

After the proper interval it arrived at their table. And as it did, the noses of Monte Carlo's most patrician patrons be gan lifting. The cheese was a smelly cheese. Debutantes put dainty handkerchiefs over their acbnozzolas. Dowagers buried their nostrils deep in chinchilla.

Strong men grew pale. Fefe Ferry, proprietor, scurried out in a huff, reappeared with a large atomizer, and sprayed a combatant perfume into the air of the satin room. The three connoisseurs, lashed by this insult to their cheese'arose as one man and left the precincts in a buff. When last seen, they were in El Morocco, considering a duet Eagles Release Trio Philadelphia, Nov. 4 A) Bert Bell, president of the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Professional Football League, announced today the outright release of Johnny Cole, halfback; Bill Hughes, guard; and Milt Trost, tackle.

"We felt the boys weren't playing as well as they could," Bell said. ahoy mm! ADDED "London Can Take It" THREE STOOGES "From Nurse to Vcrsa" it MIMlS nsV. Til imr1-. 1 KM THE 21st SENATORIAL in the 175-year-old Colonial red brick school house on the pine-covered slopes of Temple Mountain lust four miles from Peterboro, Inspiration of Thornton Wilder play, "Our Town." 4 By candle light and kerosene lamp, the 28 voters three others voted by absentee ballot marked their crosses. A State trooper had been recruited for duty at the door since the town has neither a police- man nor a constable.

In orderly fashion the 12 women and 16 men some in their "Sunday best" others wearing aprons and overalls formed two lines. Charles N. Wilson, the town's oldest resi- dent, stood at the head of one Hne. To get there he had walked two and one-half miles, after hurrying with chores on his farm. "I'm not the least bit tired," he drawled, "cause I got up a little late in the morning.

6:30 instead of as I usually do." As town moderator George C. Keeler raised an arm, the voters 'Burned mvo booths six more than usual. Just 11 minutes later, Keeler announced the vote. Before the polls opened, a typical oia XNew siiKtuu Bun.c --pie, coffee, rolls, doughnuts and served bv the Monad- -neck Region Association, which organized the "midnight voting party." The only decoration in the old school bouse, which was closed more than 20 years ago but still has its initial-carved students desks, was a picture of Abraham Lincoln, placed just above the polling booths. As midnight Beared and the crowd grew more and more tense, nounced the passage of the minutes.

When the hands reached 12 be said "Now we proceed to vote," and Wilson was the first to cast bis ballot The second to vote was Herbert Young, Just turned 21, and the town's youngest voter. The first two ballots counted were Republican and the third, Democratic. The next Democratic vote was the eighth one counted. Keeler read off the votes as they rrw counted, and the results were narked on the school's blackboard schoolroom desks. Around Town With The Moviegoer In the latest Hal Roach Laurel and Hardy comedy, "Saps at Sea," currently at the Orpheum, there is a scene which Stan Laurel, playing the trombone in a small boat-cabin, sticks the slide out of a porthole.

It gets stuck, and when be finally pulls it in, he finds a aea guU hanging to it. It seemed like a perfectly simple gag to operate, but when director Gordon Douglas tried to find a sea gull, he was Informed by the Fish and Gams Conservation warden that the birds were wards of the state, and a permit was necessary to capture one of them. Suppliers of wild birds were therefore engaged for the scene. Although its romantic scenes are ait In ICurnne of nur tiims. not one battle cene is snown in "Arise, My Love," now at the Comerford.

Claudette Colbert is starred as a newspaper reporter, and Ray Milland. is cast as a daredevil aviator. They meet In Spain, where she is able to save him from a firing squad. Paris, England, and a ship on the high seas are the other i locales of their romantic story. Robert Preston, handsome young actor who is co-starred with Dorothy Lamour and Preston i Toster in "Moon Over Burma," picture showing at the Capitol, can't seem to shake the "bad boy" roles in which he has been cast so often.

He played a gambler's henchman In "Union Pacific," a fellow who bad been thrown out of the Navy in 'Typhoon," and in this picture he is a reckless fellow in the teak logging business. He dnpan't rut the pirl Mini T.mnnr this1 time. Wlliam Farnum, who has re-estabished himself in films after an absence forced by illness, has won another important role in "Cheers for Miss Bishop." Farnum recently completed an Important Character role in "Kit In "Cheers for Miss Bishop" he loins a cast headed by Martha Scott and William Gargan and including Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy Peterson, Sterling Hollo-way, Marsha Hunt, Donald Douglas and Mary Anderson. Indians Tumble A. C.

Exeter Indians downed the Wilkes-Barre A. 25 to 12, Sunday aftM-tMMin With Mia hrt-n nt blocked kicks. Mickey Pacek made uuio wiiiins-xHirre toucnaowns, tne second concluding a 70 yard run in the third period to deadlock the MM 1111 Mlinil lllHalrla ami Morovy wers defensive standouts at At. jw iar mom. onoiioo ADMISSION Oats counts tAifnaairt vehuti ui mt nte" AM Mis Orchwtoa Htwt ft I ihiimM 1 nmk MUiy Ma4wftMk sat tSter tew, 1 sistence of Councilman John Dooley who said $1Z08, expenses for gasoline and oil, should be deducted.

Engineer Harry McKeeban estimated the-value of the sewer work completed by Joseph Futch, contractor, at and council voted to defer a partial payment in this amount until the work has been inspected. Arrangements were made to have ths draft board meet ia the council chambers oa Wednesday mornings because there is a clinio in the burgess' office those mornings. Police Chief Parkinson recommended the painting of white traffic lines -and pedestrian cross-overs and matter was ordered referred to the State Highway De- nartmcnt. Suggestion of Wyoming Monu ment rost sue, v. f.

that the flag, be flown daily on the Town Hall was accepted. Invitations was received from Pittston Surface Protective Association to attend a meeting in Casino Hall, Pittston, November 14. Tax Collector Thomas Hislop re ported October collections of Treasurer's report showed these balances: water and light fund, sinking fund, general, $13,576.13. Boy Buglers to Awaken Voters in East Orange East Orange, N. Nov.

4 With the opening of the polling places at 7 m. tomorrow boy buglers will eo about the city blow ing reveille reminding all to vote for Wendell L. Willkie preferably. The Willkie-for-Preeident Club organized 12 youngsters to appear in different sections of this city and ths Associated Willkie Clubs of New Jersey passed the suggestion down the line to its 385 member- clubs, several of whom have organized bugle corps to get out the vote. The buglers not only plan to wake everybody up at 7 a.

but they intend also not to let them go back to sleep on this election day. There will be first call and assembly calls at Intervals throughout the day. F. M. Without Star Back for New York U.

Lancaster, Nov. 4. W) As coach Alan Holman today started to point his Franklin and Marshall College Diplomats for their games with New York University this Saturday at New York, he did so without the services of his fullback and star kicker, Bill Farkas, who was sent to the hospital last Saturday night following the, Albright game, with a severe cold. r. It is questionable whether Farkas will be in condition for F.

and big game with the Violets. Farkas' loss in the forthcoming tilt would be a terrific blow to the Diplomats for to being a star punter and runner, big Bill Is a great placement kicker, his two 25-yard placement kicks in both the Dartmouth and Gettysburg games started F. and M. on to victory. Trouble in the Tropica! "Swtaf With Bine" Fins "tMion Can Take II" Daa't MtH Tali Senutional Subjrat Teday Praiidentlal Beturni Olfea Capitol Audiences at Begslsr Iaterrali fMl TlmM Tonldht CAONKT.

Ann SHERIDAN In City For Conquest" Toalrtit Only 7 and 9 "GOLDEN GLOVES" Starring I aieharl Dowuis-Jean Carney Today Oaly 5-7-S P. M. "21 Days Together" with VIVIEN I.KIOH XAVRENCE OI.IVIRH Adotti tOc Till V. M. TODAY "SPIES IN THE AIR" Wl Barry K.

Rarm.joaa reuiurelle. "fSKPEI1 OV TEXAS" di noy Hllllanx mm Behind the Scenes in- Hollywood By HARBISON CARROLL Hollywood Smart of Paulette Goddard to arrive in Chicago two days in advance of Cecil D. De Mille, Madeleine Carroll, Gary Cooper and the other celebs due for the "Northwest Mounted Police" premiere. Paulette got the Jump on the rest in publicity. Critics here weren't' over-enthusiastic in their praise of the New De Mille epic, but the picture, for all its halve moments, is the sort of time-tested melodrama that goes over big at the box office.

And its technicolor photography really is gorgeous. I I II i Understand the city of Tucson is taking out a. $100,000 insurance policy to cover possible mishaps during the celebration that will be climaxed with the November world premiere of "Arizona." Dick Wallace, director of "Three Girls and a Gob," is another Holly- woodlte who clings to certain superstitions, Dick never makes a picture without wearing the pair of shoes which he had on at the time of his airplane crash near Macon, Mo. While Wallace was lying in the mud, the shoes were taken off his feet by a feminine souvenir hunter, but later were recovered. The director now considers them a lucky niece.

The afternoon before Martha O'Driscoll was supposed to start "Lady Eve," her first Paramount picture, the starlet was hit in the eye by a badminton bird hot off the racquet of Diana Lewis. Martha spent the night with her eye covered with a beefsteak borrowed from the William Powell ice box. Ironic about Mae Busch being cast for a bit role in Bob Leonard's "Zierield GirL" Sixteen years ago Bile pmyeu jenu uuci-iui 1 1 1 lUMnlAR1, first picture at JM-CHH. its nue was "Time, the Comedian." Bergen is now going around with Trude Wyler, from the cast of "Quiet Please." They were at the Beverly Derby. In honor of her new errand son, Irene Klcn nassed around six boxes of cigars on tne "Keeping company" set at M-G-M.

Peter Loire is oir to Palm Springe to get a desert tan. Grace Hayes is back from New York. She won't talk about those engagement rumors. It's a baby boy for the Sid Lunds, She's the former M-G-M contract beauty, Clarice Sherry. Nice break for Donald Barry.

According to box office reports, he is tied lor lourtn place among the western stars. Joe Venuti Coming To Orondo Ballroom Management of Orondo Ballroom, Public Square and East Market Street, has announced that it has booked Joe Venuti and his orchestra to play at the Orondo on Saturday night of this week. Labelled the "Swing King of the Fiddle" Venuti recently played at Frank Daily's Meadowbrook Club, Steel Pier, War ner Brothers Theaters and is now appearing at the Flatbush Theater, Brooklyn, with the noted Andrewe Sisters. His vocal soloists are Kay Starr and Don Darcy, formerly with Paul Whiteman's Band. Mike Alfano Registers T.K.0.

Over Tom Adams Newark, N. Nov. 4 Iff1) Mike Alfano, 194, of Newark scored a technical knockout over Tommy Adams, 184, also Newark, in 2:09 of the seventh round of a scheduled nine-round boxing bout tonight at Laurel Garden. In what was to be anTeight-round semi-final, Ted Christie, 128, of New. York, knocked out Frankie Conn, 132, of Lyndhurst, in 2:40 of the third.

Pennsylvania has the largest number of railroad companies in the United States 73. 20c to 6 11 HAL ROACH STAN OUVtl LAUREL HAF.DT "SAPS iiNW AT CCA Ml Ubtt ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED AT REGULAR INTERVALS TONIGHT! YouH Scream at this IRE Sift" farlth Beth Hnrhes -Gregory Batoff Also News Novelty shorts lutmfej Traifbt'i rMnam VOTE ACAmST nnn LIE A man who people of his has a chairman who refuses to tell the labor record during 1916. Supulski of Manhattan To Be Honored by Fans Committee members of the "John- John Day" trip to New York Novem ber 16 report that reservations have been made by more than 100 West Side residents. Friends of John Supulski, who will be honored that day when Manhat tan University meets its arch rival, Villanova at Polo Grounds, can make reservations' until Friday at Ivan's Billiard Parlor, Main Street, Edwardeville. Supulski is' considered one of the best forward passers in the East this year and has been the bulwark of the Jaspers' defense.

He Just Misses Pueblo, Colo. W) Robert Organ doesn't live to his name not quite. He plays a bassoon in the Pueblo Civic Sympnony. NOW SHOWING! COMEDY! DBAMA! ADVENTURE 'NEWS TEVBNTS Tonlte PRESIDENTIAL Election Returns will be annouBoed at regular i-tenrato daring the bow. i Xulsbt Only tm 9 LEW AYRE8 "The Golden FleecingH Tonlftit Only-1 'ai 'The Golden Fleecing" Tsnlsht Only 7 ana j.

'Captain Caution' nta VICTOK 'MATBBsi CABKIJUM) Kitra Maaleal aaS IramSoEaa J.aa.JJ fTHIRD FJNGER, 1. LEFT HAND" TsnMtraw "Dispatch From' Leo C. undy and Jim Law turned down Tom Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, when he was a candidate for Governor during the primaries, and Joseph F. Guffey, also a strong union man, who was candidate for U. S.

Senator. ULnl Up FOR STATE SENATOR A STRONG UNION MAN THIS ADVERTISEMENT SPONSORED BY UNION FRIENDS OF iTHARLES A. WcCAKTHT Lml Timn May "FLOWING COLD" 1 I flARFiKf BRicn raatMA 1 -f3tfamia.