The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 12

THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Thursday Morning, December 26, 1940. MRS. FINLEY DORRIS DIES IN APARTMENT Widow of Former Highway Commissioner VictimOf Stroke Mrs. Mattie Carter Dorris, widow of Finley M. Dorris, former chairman of the Davidson County Highway Commission, died unexpectedly at 8:30 o'clock.

Christmas morning at her the Ellison Apartments. Mrs. Dorris had been in failing health since the death of her! husband nearly two years ago but had. not seemed seriously ill until Friday when she suffered a stroke of paralysis. BORN AT HERMITAGE A daughter of Charles Green and Elizabeth Stevenson Carter, Mrs.

Dorris was born at Hermitage. She moved to Nashville with her parents as a child and had spent virtually all her life in this city. She was educated at old Ward's Seminary. She was an active memof McKendree Methodist Church, of which her husband's father, Dr. William G.

Dorris, was pastor before and during the War Between the States. Mrs. Dorris also was an active board member of the local Y. W. C.

A. and took a leading part in the drive for funds with which the present building was erected. ACTIVE IN CLUBS She was a member of the Virginia Society, the Centennial Club, the Cumberland Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Ladies' Hermitage Association. Surviving are her daughter, Mrs. Paul Seiler of Detroit, a son, Carter Dorris, of Nashville; a sister, Mrs.

John Parham, of Chattanooga; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services have been tentaset for 2:30 o'clock at McKendree Methodist Church Friday afternoon, but details await the arrival of Mrs. Seller from Detroit. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

Agnes Ayres, Film Star, Dies In Hollywood HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 25-(P)- Agnes Ayres, 42, one of the brightest stars of the silent film era, died today. She had been ill several weeks. Miss Ayres skyrocketed to fame opposite Rudolph Valentino in "The Shiek." The advent of the talkies marked her decline in pictures. Recently, in attempting a comeback, she said: "It cost me a half million dollars to learn the value of nickel, but I wouldn't trade the experience for all that money back again." A daughter, Maria, 15, survives.

Maria is with her father, S. Manuel Reachi, Mexico City film producer. Miss Ayres divorced him in 1927. Miss Ayres managed to get a small film part, after a layoff of many years, opposite Gary Cooper and George Raft in 1937. Ten years before she had retired from the cinema, a wealthy young woman.

In the stock market crash of 1929 she lost all her savings. She tried to crash the talkies and failed, so she went to. New York and entered stage stock to gain experience. Then took a show of her own on a one-night stand of the country, but returned to Hollywood to enter the real estate business. A period of illness caused her give up custody of her daughter to her divorced husband.

WILHELMINA SEES HOPE FOR KINGDOM Christmas Message Carries Cheer to Scattered Subjects LONDON, Dec. (P) -Exiled Queen Wilhelmina in a Christmas broadcast to the Netherlands and West Indies today said that "we take up the burden of the New Year in the firm belief that God shall restore true peace to my kingdom and the whole world." "Having followed the course of events with tense attention," she said, "I believe myself to be in a position to tell you that in recent months prospects have greatly improved." She praised the solidarity of the colonial peoples with the mother country. FRANK LAWSON, 74, SUCCUMBS IN' CAR Retired Contractor Victim Of Heart Attack While Riding Frank Lawson, 74, retired Nashville contractor, died of a heart en route to Murtack yesterday, afternoon about freesboro in an automobile with members of his family. The body was taken to Smyrna and then brought to the PhillipsRobinson Funeral Home here. Funeral services had not been arranged last night.

Mr. Lawson lived at 1212 Shelton Avenue. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Eddie Schaeffer, Mrs. Rose Smithson and Mrs.

L. E. Myatt, all of Nashville: three sons, C. M. and C.

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Kansas City "Be-Kind-to-Animals" meal 31 years ago. These are but a few today. Kansas City Horses Live Life of Riley KANSAS CITY, Dec. 25-(INS)The lean and hungry horses which haul the junk wagons about the streets of Kansas City lived the life of a Seabiscuit today due to the Christmas spirit of the humane society. The washboard-ribbed, waybacked nags munched their fill of hay and oats purchased by the society for the benefit of the "underprivileged" animals.

The organizations put a classified ad in the paper saying "horses fed free Christmas dinner." There was quite a stampede. Fascist Press Declares Italy Won't Quit War By ELEANOR PACKARD ROME, Dec. 25-(P)-The Fascist press today made it clear that Italy has no intention of considering Britain's peace offer and the high command reported that Italian warplanes were stepping up their attacks against British mechanized units on the Libyan front. Most of the Fascist press said that if Italy were to accept Prime Minister Winston Churchill's proposal to "quit the war" and overthrow Premier Benito Mussolini, she would condemn herself to "permanent vassalage 'to Britain and lose all hope of attaining her aspirations." The Churchill speech was given to the public today by the official Stefani news agency and was widely commented upon in the press. As the press bitterly assailed Churchill's speech, asserting it was of British habit of looking down on the Italians as a second rate people, the Fascist high command said that I Il Duce's air force was continuing to bombard and machine-gun British mechanized units on the Libyan front.

RITES SET TODAY FOR MRS. MILLER Requiem High Mass To Be Held at 10 O'Clock at St. Patrick's Church Requiem high mass will be said at 10 o'clock this morning at St. Patrick's Catholic Church for Mrs. Johana Sheehan Miller, 77, who died Tuesday at her home, 901 Fifth Avenue, South, after two years of ill health.

Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. Miller was born on a ship from their Ireland to while her parents, were en route their home in the United States She resided in Nashville most of her life. She was a member of the Catholic Church.

Her husband, Ira E. Miller, died about eight years ago. Mrs. Miller is survived by three daughters, Miss Virginia Miller and Miss Josephine Miller of Nashville and Mrs. Barney L.

Calvert of Fordsville, Ky. LIVINGSTON MAN DIES AFTER ROW Walter Smith Fatally Shot By Deputy Sheriff In Scuffle LIVINGSTON, Dec. 25- (Spl) -Walter Smith, 26, shot in A scuffle with a deputy sheriff in Celina Tuesday morning, died in a hospital here early this morning. Smith was shot by Deputy Sheriff J. B.

Overstreet after a scuffle started when the officer was searching the car for liquor. Sheriff George Abney came to Overstreet's assistance. Funeral services for Smith will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the Mills Creek community in Clay County. Smith is survived by his father, George W. Smith, and his widow.

Mrs. Ann Bennington Smith. Because the earth is not perfect sphere, it wobbles on its axis. KENTUCKY'S TOLL SPAN CUT ASKED Farm-Owned Trucks Subject Of Study By Department FRANKFORT, Dec. -The possibility of giving farmowned trucks reduced rates ton all Kentucky's toll bridges is being studied by the state highway department.

Commissioner J. Lyter Donaldson said today he had inquired of the department's consulting engineers. be whether allowed the such trucks passenger car tolls rate, instead He of the commercial truck rate. added: "I'm inclined think our trust indentures (on the bridge bonds which are being paid off by the tolls) would prohibit "The state farm bureaus in asking for the reduction said that since the legislature had recognized farm-owned trucks as being in a different class from commercial trucks and allowed them the same license rate as passenger cars, that all departments of the state government should give them similar lower rates." It was expected to be several weeks before the department's consulting engineers, New York firm, completed its investigation and advised the commissioner. 'HOMESICK' Bride of Two Weeks Swallows Poison, Coroner Says and corn chops are on the Dec.

MADISONVILLE, terms of the Emma A. Robinson of two weeks, died last night after G. B. Thomas, 34, bride Mrs. Robinson, founder of the swallowing poison, Coroner Carl organization, served the first such Hoffman reported.

He said Thomas told him his wife had been "homeof the animals to be fed here sick" for Chicago, her former home. The couple came here 10 days ago. ATA MORNING AFTER STERCHIS Walnut Chifferobe With Only Mirror Doors. $1475 CHURCH $6.75 Maple Table Lamps. Sale price Colonial style.

$375 $99.50 Walnut 9-Piece Suite. Dining Sale Room price. $7950 3-Section Folding Screens. Sale Cloth $295 price $154.50 Walnut 9-Piece Suite. Sale price.

Dining Room $9850 $119.50 Mahogany Duncan Phyfe Dining Room 9 Pcs. Suite. $9850 $76.25 Mahogany 5-Piece Dinette Suite. Sale price $5950 $226.75 Cherry 8-Piece Reproduction Dining Room Suite; Duncan Phyfe Table and Chairs and CupPress board China $14950 $52.25 Solid Cherry CupPress. Sale price.

board China $3950 $399.50 "Langley" 9- Piece Drexel Mahogany Suite Dining $19950 $49.50 Bird's-eye Maple Sale price 5-Pc. Suite. $3950 $27.50 Maple 5-Pc. Dinette Suite. Refec- $1 1250 tory top DIES AT ALTAR Illinois Minister Falls Dead Christmas Service LA SALLE, Dec.

25-UP) As the bells of his church pealed' forth tidings of the holiday, the Rev. Quinter Kephart, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, fell dead on the altar during Ohristmas services. Although he had been ailing for some time, Mrs. Kephart said her husband had insisted on conducting today's service personally.

He fell dead as he was administering communion. ARMSTRONG! FASHION CORNER Don't fail To Attend ARMSTRONG; GREATEST After- -Christmas CLEARANCE Of All Winter Apparel And Accessories OFF See Our Ad in This Paper ARMSTRONG'S FASHION CORNER, Observance of Thanksgiving on has added to the demand for turdifferent dates in different states keys. Detour-Please LINCOLN, Dec. 25-UP)An inmate of the Nebraska penitentiary hung up his stocking and left a note for Santa Claus, but old Saint. Nick passed right on by, The note Dear Santa--I don't want much.

Just a couple of hacksaw blades and a road map back to Tennessee." ACCIDENT VICTIM'S FUNERAL IS HELD Scott Baker Killed by Auto Said Driven by Highway Patrolman French GREENFIELD, Dec. 25- (Spl) -Funeral services were held here today for Scott Baker, 65. killed instantly when struck by an automobile driven by State Highway Patrolman C. French, two and a half miles north of here Tuesday afternoon, according to Sheriff, Ret Harris who investigated. Baker stepped from behind a car into one driven by the highway patrolman, the sheriff said.

According to Sheriff Harris, Baker was hurled about 40 feet when. struck by the car. French's car turned over twice and landed in a ditch but the officer was unhurt. Baker is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Fannie McKelvey, with whom he made his home; Mrs.

Beulah Yeargin of Greenfield and Mrs. Flora Chadwick of Gleason; three brothers, Bob and Will Baker of Greenfield and Ed Baker of Gleason. annul AVENUE STORE! $159.50 Solid Wild Cherry 4 pieces Bedroom Suite. $9850 $119.50 Sheraton Mahogany Bedroom Suite. 4 only pieces $8950 $29.95 Emerson Table dio.

Sale price. Model 1940. $119.50 Solid Cherry Bedroom price Suite. Sale $8950 Hepplewhite Bed, Vanity and Chest. In Mahogany $5950 Hepplewhite Twin Bed Bedroom Suite.

4. pieces $6950 3-Piece Maple Finished Sale price Bedroom Suite. 3-Piece Solid Maple Bedroom price. Suite. Sale $4450 5 Colorful Boudoir Chairs.

only Sale price $395 $79.50 Genuine Walnut 3. Piece Waterfall Design. Suite Bedroom $5875 $27.50 Princess Beds. twin sizes Choice of full or $1450 $179.50 Frigidaire. Cubic Foot Electric Refrigerator.

$745 $24.95 Emerson Table Model 1940 Radio. $995 Sale price Pre-Inventory SALE LUGGAGE SAVE ON QUALITY LUGGAGE TRUNKS AND ALL KINDS LEATHER GOODS Starts Today! Only one time a year are these drastic reductions possible -Hurry down today and take advantage of these savings. YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT IS INVITED nashuille. TRUNK BAG CO. 513 CHURCH ST.

NEXT TO PRINCESS THEATRE 'TWAS A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS-BUT-OH! -OH! The great "after Xmas" headache is descended upon us! Seven enormous floors cluttered with Odds and Ends, Floor Samples, must be CLEANED UP! So -here's grand chance to "cash in" on innumerable "left-overs" in the form of desiryour able merchandise at drastic "Morning After" prices! Doors open at 8 A. No Quantities Guaranteed! First Come -First Served! Pay for Your Choice on Easy Terms $49.95 Apex Washer. Sale $2750 price only $59.95 Apex 20-Gallon price Washer. only Sale $3495 $84.95 Apex 22-Gallon price only Washer. Sale $119.50 Crosley 5 Cubic Foot Electric Refrigerator $3950 $169.50 Frigidaire.

tric Cubic Foot Refrigerator. Elec- $115.50 Cherry Bedroom Suite with 4 Poster Bed $8950 $39.95 Emerson Table dio. Sale Model 1940 $58.75 Sheraten Mahogany Desk. Knee Sale $2950 $73.75 Barrel Chair. Modern style.

Rose tapestry $2950 $51.50 Solid Mahogany Chair. Sale price Chippendale $1750 $59.75 Duncan Phyfe Sofa. Small figured tapestry. Only. $4950 $35.75 Barrel- Back Chair in damask.

Sale price $1950 $29.50 Barrel Chair ion. Choice colors with loose $39.50 Chinese Chippendale Occasional Chair in velvet antique $2450 $22.75 Hepplewhite Mable. Sale hogany Lamp Ta-! $1195 $54.75 Valentine Seaver Sheraton Chair in rose color Brocatelle $3950 $26.75 Solid Mahogany Chair. Sale price Ladder Back $1395 $179.50 Victorian Reproduction Sofa. Solid mahogany frame hand-carved $9850 $65.00 Chippendale WingBack tapestry Chair.

Rich $2975 $22.75 Louis XV Walnut Lamp. drawer Table with $24.75 Beautifully Carved Mahogany Occasional Table. Sale price $1750 $48.75 "Valentine Seaver" Hepplewhite Chair in gold Only tapestry. $2975 $127.50 Chinese Chippendale Sofa, by Dunbar. Sale $8950 price $98.50 Genuine "Gone With the Wind" Chair.

In tapestry $6950 $199.50 "Gone With the Wind" French Sofa with down cushion in taffeta, tufted button $10950 $123.50 Chippendale Sofa in antique velvet. Ma frame hogany $6950 $29.50 Block Linen Wing Chair. Sturdy colorful $1985 $6.95 Square Yard Twisted Weave Carpet. Square yard $395 $44.50 Axminster Rug. All wool, 9x12 size $3450 9x15-Ft.

Burgundy Axminduster design. Rug. Leaf $38.70 Blue 9x9-Ft. Axwool minster Rug. All $2750 $19.75 Oval 4.6x6-Ft.

Wool Rug. Sale price only $995 $38.75 Axminster Rug. Sale price 9x12-Ft. Size. $2975 $14.75 Oval 6x9-Ft.

Braided Rugs. Sale price only $750 $17.50 Oval 4.6x6.6 Fringed only Rug. Sale price $975 $34.75 Oval 6x9-Ft. Fringed Rug. Sale price only $1750 $57.50 Twisted Weave Broadloom Rug.

Sale price $2950 $34.50 Blue Axminster size. Rug. Sale 9x10-Ft. $2500 and 9th $44.50 Adjustable Back Chair. Sale price.

Maple, Easy $2450 $117.50 Red Velour 2- Piece Living Room Suite. Tufted back, choice colors. Only $8950 $79.50 Modern 2-Pc. Living Sale price Room Suite. $5450 $44.50 Studio Couch with back and arms.

Choice colors $3950 Kroehler 2-Piece Living Room Suite. Guaranteed tion 2-Pc. Charles of London Knuckle Arm Tapestry $3950 Lounge Chair. Complete Sale price with Ottoman. $1475 Walnut Knee Hole Desk.

Small $995 size $6.95 Occasional Chairs. Only six to $495 sell $189.50 Grand Rapids Sheraton Bedroom Suite. Four pieces $12950 $14.75 Chaise Lounges. covers. Only.

Assorted color $975 $250 Solid Mahogany Twin Bed Suite. Dresser. Twin Beds and Chest $15950 $34.40 Hook Pattern Rug. Sale price 8x9-Ft. Size.

$2450 9x12-Ft. Fringed Living Room or Only Bedroom One Group of Rug Remnants. Various sizes. To go at PRICE $29.50 Upholstered Maple Living Chairs. Only Room $139.50 Genuine "Lane" robe.

Maple Sale Chiffo- $8950 Jenny Lind Spool Beds. Choice finishes. Only 4-Poster Walnut, Mahogany Beds. or Only Maple $500 Innerspring Mattress sale price After Christmas $12.75 Ivory Baby Bed. Full size.

Sale price $895 Foldaway Bed with Rollers. Sale price only $975 Blanket Chest With Roller. Sale price only 98c AT 316 CHURCH UNION AT STREET NINTH Furnishers" 5-6393 6-6603 South's.