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THE IXDIAXAPOLIS SUXDAY STAR, JAXUARY 8, 1939. lawn, a swimming pool and Doll House Built THE BRIDGE DECK. By FLORENCE OSBORN. POLITICS STARTED COMPOSER ON WAY So, for a year, Ohm spent his A T)rrniti n'5nts planning the model house. urtum iiLsu.Then he started work and spent long evenings revising his plans.

The completed house, construct-Farmer Makes Elaborate entirely of wood, measures 8 by FIFTY MILLION decks cf cards were so'd during an increase over the number sold in 1937. Uncle Sam collected $3,000,000 in Many Activities Planned By Pi Beta Phi Mothers Ti Beta Phi Mothers Club members have a busy time ahead for the next few weeks. Plans are being made for a book review to be given at the chapter house Jan. 23 and a card party will be given Feb. 16.

The club's luncheon ill be held ti uy ieec. in are nuagei ug- i taxes, at the rate of 10 cents a deck, which was $500,000 more than By IRA WOLFERT. was realized the previous year. cobytm. br tt Nor.h Aier.cm xirtBr Atft.

lac.) i These ficures, given for the ben- ures, 43 of which move when a motor operates. On the lawn, seven mu cians go through the motions of playing a phonograph, and another rocks idly in a chair. Tiny model fish are In the swim- Structure in Sleepless Nights. Recina. Saskatchewan, Jan.

New York, Jan. 7. There's a girl in town who is going to get the fit of those skeptics who doubt shock cf her young, sweet life tonight. She's going tD find out for that card playing. an3 in particu- the first time that a lot of important people think her bov friend Ls'lar contract bridge, is the most the country's newest genius and hot stuff.

popular of national pastimes, ex- Robert MacGimsey of Pineville, is his name. He is a quiet cepttng the movies, were obtained 7 1 at 1 o'clock tomorrow in the chapter house, S31 West Hampton drive, when Dr. Rebecca Parrish will talk dream minR po1, Tncre is a fidget fig- (U.P.) A "fantastic little man, thin and pink, with thin, blond hair, an earnest face that, from Guy Heivenng. cnaea simrs goes well with what used to be his profession the law-and big, commissioner of internal revenue. product of sleepless nights caused ja tish in mouth, 0ne figure Is horny, thick-knuckled hands that go well with what used to be his business cotton planter in the delta country.

I illness, was the origin of an waving a hot dog sign in front of amazing doll house built bv John! a lunch counter, while nearby a nh fi5.vP.r-nM farmer of Edee-'S tne "Usages. Tm taking her to Radio City on the Philippine Islands. Hostesses for the meeting will be Mesdames John Forrest, Earl Marburger. Carl Tindall. J.

L. Axby, O. E. Smith, A. B.

Weyl and George Pennington. Mrs. Robert Shelhorn has been A A I i i worth, Saskat hewan Music Hall," says Mr. MacGimsey. "I'm rot telling her that.

We just; have a date. I'm not telling her! Hobby Makes Big Bulne. How much money was spent for score pads, pencils, prizes, tables, chairs, books, refreshments and the proper apparel in which to appear at card parties can only be guessed. But it must have been many, many times more than that spent for playing cards, which are III for years with an ailment tVinf fwf him thft nmntltafmn nf named luncheon chairman for the remainder of the car to take the MRS. WILBl-R COX brfore herjonp ohm fppn flve ynn marrisge In mid-November was without sleep at night.

Miss Rem Annie. She a dauth-l But one night several years ago CLUB WILL ELECT. The Seventh Ward Democratic Women's Club will elect officers at Its monthly meeting Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. Eileen Barrv and Miss Mary C. Shea, 223S 'North Delaware street.

place of Mrs. E. J. Carr who, with Why I'm taking her." So, the plot reads, they'll be sitting there, very quietly no doubt, watching the show biggest of the big-time movie house shows and then suddenly the show will start her husband Col. Carr, will leave ter of Mr.

and Mn. Thomas Apple jh had a "fantastic dream" that next month for residence in the of MeforditviUe. They are at home' gave him urge to build a doll Philippine Islands. In MeCordnville. house "with live people, lights, being about "Shadrack." That's' i i i i the least expensive items ot any card game.

The fact that there was an increase in the number of decks sold, despite the serious inroads made by the new chemical cards which last indefinitely, proves that card playing is increasing steadily and that 1939 should see even more decks sold and card games played. 1 Its feature production number for the week. People humming, people dancing, band playing and this girl sitting there shocked into the shock of her life. Because "Shad-rack" is a song Mr. MacGimsey wrote and has sung for her often.

Kind of All Right. "Maybe," he says, "that will learn her I'm kind of all right." y4 FLORENCE OSBORX. Keeping Pace With the Sales. As people are playing more and Block's auditorium; 1 p. con- tract.

Mrs. Grace Buschmann. out And maybe she'll pass right his arm hold her and he'll have to put around her to kind of far tin? "I'm not hoDing that more cards, so is their skill increasing. This is particularly true of contract bridge, and no phase of the game is more exemplary than the defense. A few years ago defenders considered themselves expert if they executed the standard defensive plays inherited from whist.

Today a host of new play- 10ay 1 I' Twelve women held top scores in the Friday morning play at the William H. Block Company, Mrs. Ellis has announced. They were Mrs. Howard Gav, Mrs.

Winston Ashlev, Mrs. W. E. Smith, Mrs. W.

A. Myers, Mrs. W. F. Krieg.

Mrs. yr 1 Hfm Willtnn lomac I a ahead," savs Mr. MacGimsey. "Shadrack," "Daniel in the Lions' Den," "Jonah and the Whale," "Land uv Degradashun," "Sweet Little Jesus Boy," "Religion Ain't Nothin' to Play With" they're all, words and music, by Robert MacGimsey, and the boys MRS. EARL F.

SIMMON'S before Ti. 1 i o. i her marriage Jan. 1 was een vpiopwi to '7, BlretB; fSr 6 relP 58 rr t0 FC Lewis ad Mrs! Hays 2Xr2KhX of the progress' Top scores at the regular Friday i-j: made th most fasc natinn ohase afternoon play at Mrs. Busch- around town, the concert boys like T.wrpnpp Tibbett and John Urauuair "i t.

r. hnA hv Mrs She and Mr. Simmons also are 01 lnt; Kamc ls miowii 111 looay graduates of the I niversity of ihand. wherein a defender defeats a Ruby Frey and Mi s. Lawrence Ki hi Islam hv refusing to take a certain Hpss' Mls- Jamps u- lnlor nnd ii i -m.

111 trick until he has received a dis-i Mrs- F- Hughes were second state I 1. sienal from his oartner. Hadi Because of the coming 1 I millin iiri iru, 1. i Ik. Chase-Town House Photo.) Charles Thomas, and the hot potato boys like Louis Armstrong and Glen Gray, are kicking them around all over the country, starting this lawyer turned cotton -planter on a new, vastly more profitable career.

"Shadrack" is expected to rate No. 1 among tunes most frequently played on the radio at the end of Ascap's riirrent nuarter. he won the trick, the first time it: i'Km' -nua, was offered, he would have been n'Kht VW ot L'nwln Bridge rnmnplleH In lpnd hlinH Hp mnst C'ub Will not be held this Week. rertainlv would have lpd urnnr iLast HlRy night 13 tables played. Ilish North and South were Mrs.

tt ri and the contract would have been made. Coffln and Mrs. Ittenbarh. East and West winners were H. Kramer and Jack O'Keefe.

Was South Surprised! The hand was contributed by Mr. MacGimsey, 35 years old now, came up by a devious route. He grew up in the bayou country nn thA hanks of the Red river in J. who was the unfortunate de clarer. It occurred during a rub Rapides parish, and some of the music he heard came from his ber bridge game.

Here is how he describes it: I mother who was director of the "In a recent rubber bridge game, church choir, but most of it came from the Negroes around the place the mammy and his dark nurse, the yard boy and the field hands. The music stuck with him. Gave Him a Lot He Hope. "It gave me a lot I hope," he savs. He's getting famous now, and pretty soon he'll be getting rich, and he blames It on "a little el' bitsy Nigra" who came to the Plantation one day and was set sitting South, with no one vulnerable, I picked up these cards: K873 AJ10 "The bidding went as follows: South West North East I 1 A 3 Pass 5 Cp Pass 6 Cj Pass Pass Pas "West led the quern of spades and my partner put down this hand: lllllt A 1 to work making over mattresses II and staved on until he died, on A A5 CJ A9875 OQ987 10 4 darkies musing motionless on mule Rugs and Carpeting at Deep Reductions Special values all through the store ffsi.i.:2 llT 1 A tUC ID ITARtlT VIITIAM! I ww a limine iu gri nu ui in; 1.

didn't have the club ace, or Miss Mildred Rhodes. She Is a 1 nf Mr Mr. Clin, provided he didn lead clubs if the back, patting their feet on levees, going wild and hot and hallelejah-happy in what they called church houses. He writes Negro music nd he thinks the highest compliment he ever got was the time Lawrence Tibbett said, "When Bob MacGimsey sings, his face turns black." He was lawyer for a while and cotton planter and then, for four vpars. private secretary to United ji 1 2.

1 i ton Rhodes of Clay City. Mr. Wil- with MISS IRENE II A ARMES of Boston, field secretary for the National Federa 1 1 I. Ann. Wll- i luun.

IIIC Oliouo 7. Hams of Linton. The bride is BM $39.50 ixminsters-9xl2 and 8.3x10.6 tion of Business and Professional 01 trumps. asi ana wesi louoweu graduate of Purdue University and a member of Kappa Kappa (iamma suit, leaving one heart outstanding. "If I removed the last trump be Women's Clubs, will speak next Sunday at the meeting of the council of the state club to be held Sorority.

The bridegroom attended Wabash and Indiana State Teach fore I took the diamond finesse, I States Senator Joseph E. RansdellJ hi .95 feared that if East were blank in ers' colleges. They will live in (Jroup of just 18 rups that have been roRulaiiy marked much hiffher, specially priced now at this drastic reduction. All are seamless, all perfect, all first quality. Popular Persian, Chinese, modern and some Colonial patterns.

All are HARE values. 'Offered while group lasts your choice for only hearts and had the club ace, he In the Hotel Severln. Miss Amies was reponihlo for the "Congress ot Allied Women," first international meeting of busi would signal West for a club lead. "So next I finessed the diamond ness and professional women and of Louisiana. A bizarre footnote to the sociology of our times is the fact that the new style of political campaigning developed in the South the kind that gives a show free with every speech turned Mr.

MacGimsey to music. "Trilling always came natural to me," he says. "Kind of a nervous response. When Use Cod Liver Oil industrial workers ever held. Dr.

Agnes E. Wells of Blnnmington, 10 and was delighted to see that it held. The contract was safe! I drew the last trump and East discarded the nine of clubs. Back to dummy I went with a spade ruff, And Sec in Dark president of the Indiana Federation, will preside. first playing the spade king and finessed the jack of diamonds.

West grew a satanic smile, laid I was learning the piano, I never had to practice trills. I could make them right away. Then I found that I could whistle like nobody eieo in three-cart harmony." The Vitamin A Holds Secret, All state chairmen will meet with the board for breakfast at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning preceding the council meeting. The executive board will meet at 6:30 o'clock Saturday night for dinner $49.50 9x15 Axminsters for Large Rooms Seamless, all-wool rugs of good tj wearing quality. Persian designs in red3, tan and rose.

Now. $54.50 Axminster and Broadloom Rugs down the king of diamonds and led a club to East's ace. Down one! Experiment Wiltom and Persian Copies Reproductions woven through to Qff Cf back and fringed. Worsted tplvl.OU Wiltons in all-over patterns $125 Fine Oriental Reproductions 4 Only Discontinued patterns by the Qff Crt makers of America's finest re- productions. Approx.

9x12 feet. JJ He Waited for a Cue. at the Severln. West explained that he refused senator discovered that, too, and put his secretary to work whistling up votes for him. Gene Austin heard him and made him come tip in New York and make some rec the first diamond trick, hoping to get a possible encouraging lead sig .75 Group of 12 rugs, all 9x12 feet.

Fine, close veavo. Wanted Persian and modern designs. $36 Tucson, Jan. 7. (U.P.) nal from East on a discard, ir none Woman Crusades I To Save Children came, he would have to lead an ords.

After that, he got the fever. The law and politics and cotton planting didn't look so good to him. A new use has been found here for cod liver oil drink it and you other spade, which wouid nave al lowed the contract to be fulfilled. can see at night like a cat. 'The complete deal: $69.50 and $75 Seamless Rugs 11.3x12 At least that ls the result of ex He wantea music io oe ms livelihood as well as his life.

Inspiration on Subway. Group cf American Orientals $3.95 Axminster Throw Rugs 27x54 Inch Selection of popular Persian, A modern and Colonial designs in pJ.ijD wide choice of colors. Choice periments of Dr. Margaret Cam-mak Smith, nutrition chemist of .50 A5 A9875 A 10 $49 and heavy Frieze Broadloom rugs in choice of latest colors. He sent a batch of clarsical gongs up to a music publisher and Takes Own Time, Keeps Sled Users Out of Streets.

i the University of Arizona, In at 1 tempting to cure "night blindness," they all came back. He came to New York and tried to land a ra peculiar condition that develops in the eye from a lack of regener dio 1ob without much luck. nen $74.50 and $79.50 Wiltons 9x1 2-Ft. Size OHORTK Ad OVTH (tl SPECIALl 22x42-Inch Chenille Rugs AQJ10 92 OK6S KJI one evening, riding out to a party ation of "pigment purple, a vita min.A substance. a in Antnria.

Lone Island, in Syracuse, N. Jan. A one-woman crusade to reduce; The blindness can be corrected rrnwded subway. "Land uv Deg Persian reproductions and accurate copies of old hooked designs. Wide choice of 349.50 Reversible and washable, In wide choice of colors red, blue, green, yellow, black or orchid.

98c the toll of young lives taken by I in children by use of cod liver oil radashun" popped up abruptly Dr. Smith said. nr1 went whining and wailing Conducting a test of 127 under thrnusrh his head. "I like noise 4fcK873 VKQJ10I 0 AJ10 LOCAL BRIDGE ACTIVITY, automobiles every winter as chll- dren play in streets with their sleds may become effective over the nation in cities where snow falls. nourished children here for 10 he said.

"I can't work when music weeks and many others during the Is going because I have to pay attention, but people talking, train last year, Dr. Smith said she had State and citv activities in the This is the opinion of Accident I successfully corrected night blind wheels, whistles, automobiles, ma $4-95 and $7-5o Qroadlooin Wilton Super Quality Frieze Washed Carpet bridge world during the week will Prevention Bureau experts here, 1 it li MI chinery, noise like that helps me to work." It was a 25-minute ride be centered on the annual Indiana ness by daily doses of the oil. The test also had Its reverberations in the laboratories which fur to the party. The song was fin state contract bridge championships which will get under way at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in who first became acquainted with the move when they saw In local papers this ad: "I will give free every day two hours of mv time and go to the. nished the cod liver oil, Dr.

Smith Uhed bv the time he arrived, and reported. The children liked the lie sane it for the people there natural kind better than the highly, the Hotel Lincoln. The tourna- Heavy quality Wilton 9 and 12-ft. widths in popular two-tone leaf patterns brown frieze in 9-ft. only, and fine, firm washed broadloom in 9-ft.

vidth. Choice, now amone them John Charles Thorn Sg.95 sq. yd. refined, odorless type which has'ment is being staged by the In-park with children, under 12, who ai's accompanist. The accompanist been developed at the laboratory.

went rattling to Mr. Thomas with flianapons rsnage Association aim want to siea rme, if iney wm noi is under charge of a committee; play In the streets with sleds. Mrs. the news, and after that it was composed of Edson T. wood Sankey, phone annle pie for Mr.

Robert MacGim Franklin mman, Mrs. chairman; 9xl2-ft. Rugs $49.50 9xlS-ft. Rugs $52.50 9xl8-ft. Rug $74.10 lev.

12xl2-ft. Rugs $64.20 12xl5-ft. Rugs $83.00 12xl8-ft. Rugs $97.80 Mother of Two Children. Investigating, bureau officials Publishers, band leaders, singers found the advertiser to be they were all camped on his door step when he woke up the morn Purpose of Experiment.

Dr. Smith started out to prove whether a lack of vitamin A in Mexican families of the- low wage bracket was reflected in the children's vision, growth, susceptibility to disease, especially of the respiratory tract, and breaks in health, such as tuberculosis. The answer to all these questions was "yes," Dr. Smith said. Despite its importance, the ex- Ing after Mr.

Thomas's concert E. J. Ittenbach and Mrs. A. R.

Coffln. According to Mr. Wood, a record number of entries are anticipated and many of the Middle West's finest players are expected to compete in the two-day play. The pair play will be Saturday $3.95 Velvet and Figured Axminster Broadloom He had several classical songs Leslie E. Sankey, a former nurse and mother of an 8-year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter.

"I saw a young boy coast down a hill into the path of an auto- "Trouble." 'Thunderin' Down to de Rivah" published nd restricted them for concert Velvet in plain colors rust and green in 12-ft. widths. Axminster is 9 feet wide in two modern patterns. Choice of the lot now at nJ mobile." she explained. "It was $9.95 q.

yd. rf use. They bring mm in aooui afternoon and night while competition will begin at awful, and I decided to see what 1- He couin maxe could do to prevent sucn arci-; couia 00 10 Tho 1 Uliuin. liTzny. ui, more money out of them iC'nSS 00" tv, Dr.

Smith, with a biopno- m.rnomonf is tnnr nnprt hv thpiUPMis. no i a uuu. 9xl2-ft. Rugs $38.40 9xl5-ft. Rugs $47.25 12xl2-ft.

Rugs $49.50 12xl5-ft. Rugs $82.00 mrs. ooiiKy is biiiiiii. v.nJ. ind let the bovs get hot! tometer at hand, placed each child; American Contract Bridge League in rlarlf rnnm until nil th "visuA 11 t3.i,.

in Vo, vrb- She agrees to give IWO nOUr OI I NfkO Vim with them, nut ne ouiani ne V' her time each day to take children fht. "Oh. no." he says. AwLr in w. cf niv.

to a park for sledding. In return The rhythmthe eye Then a bright light are serious songs. $1.19 $1.49 and $1.69 27-In. Axminster Carpet Two tone green and taupe with red border Nine master points will bei1" reading awarded the first and second place as uaaiiru ill uic uttiu a rjca iui three minutes. Then the child was placed in a dark room for the regeneration of the "visual purple" and its rate of regeneration tested.

Dr. Smith found that when she took over the 127 children, 30 per players, according to Mr. Wood. Six master points will be awarded for high and three master points for second. Convenient Terms to Suit Your Income music is for swing.

Hear his "Old Black Slave," to be sung over the radio for the first time on Lincoln's birthday. Your reporter, who likes noise with his music, heard it, with a radio and a vacuum cleaner pounding In his "tar, and hung his head and couldn't talk for a long time after listening to it Members of the executive com- "The undersigned promises not to play in streets with sleds." Safety experts were enthusiastic, and asked what they could do to help. Mrs. Sankey thought that perhaps the pledge would be more effective if a penalty was imposed for violation. As a result, every club member must agree to forfeit his sled to cent had a normal eye, 13 permittee of the Indianapolis Bridge cent were borderline cases and 57jAss0Cjati0n are Mrs.

Grace C. per cent were subnormal. Weight i Buschmann, Mrs. Coffln, Joseph E. apparently had nothing to do with'cain, Mrs.

Dorothy Ellis, Mrs. only 11 per cent were under, Ttfenbach. Keith L. Johns, CROW GOES TO SCHOOL, weight it, as Stanley McComas Jr. and STATE-WIDE DELIVERY at No Additional Chargi jjr police of he or she should "forget" 'land use It In a street.

So far, no 'sleds have been impounded. After the 10 weeks of the cod, wood 31-35 S. MERIDIAN BRIDGE CALENDAR. Tuesday, 9:30 a. contract, ML Vernon, Jan.

i. (U.p. Mary had her little lamb, tbut Leona. Thomas, an Avon girl, has a pet crow that follows her to school every day. The crow usually perchea on window sills or a flre escap of the school and waits until Leoflft gets ready to go home.

liver oil, another test was made. Two-thirds of them reached normal night vision and the other third had improved. In a group not receiving the cod liver oil, Dr. Smith said no improvement waj noted. "I use the honor system with my own children." Mrs.

Sankey said, "and it works. Perhaps it's because the children all have nice sleds and they don't. want to lose i William H. Block Company auditorium; 1 p. duplicators, Mrs.

Betty Brink. Friday, sV contract,.