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GENERAL jfoPetmburtj Ttmei, Sunday, August 18, 1943 Wisconsin House Fire Suffocates Six Persons Ed Gardner, Radio 'Archie, Dies At 62 West Lashed, Freak Storm Dunks Phoenix By The Associated Preae A freakish downpour sloshed Phoenix, with its worst flood in years yesterday, and tertained guests until about 2:30 NIAGARA, Wis. MV-Six per Cancer Fatal To Richard Barthelmess a.m. Firemen theorized that a sons, Including paper company executive, four members of his cigarette had been left on a 4 family and a neighbor suffocated early yesterday when lounge chair in the living room and that it smoldered for more than an hour. The alarm was turned in about 3:45 a.m. HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Come violent storms lashed portions of fire broke out In the first floor of a home in' this paper mill dian Ed Gardner, who won fame on radio in the role of "Archie" Earl Lake, a watchman at the on "Duffy's Tavern," died yester Kimberly-Clark plant, which is community.

The six bodies were found on the floor of upstairs bedrooms in the home of Howard Comstock. The fire was confined to the first day at Good Samaritan Hospital at the age of 62. across the street from the home, reported the blaze. When firemen arrived, flames had engulfed the Cause of his death was listed am front porch and living room. as liver disease.

mar' tmm The bodies were found in four floor of the seven-room frame home, which was filled with smoke. Gardner was on radio with Duffy's Tavern" for 20 years ED GARDNER of "Duffy'a Tavern" bedrooms after firemen brought the blaze under control. A 19-year-old son, who had de and the show also had a year's Richard Barthelmess: In 1922 And In 1963 cided to spend the night with the West. The thunderstorm which lashed Phoenix measured only .42 inch in the rain guage, but the fall apparently was much heavier in the immediate locality. Some houses in the northwest section of town were surrounded by three feet of water.

One death was attributed to the storm: a youth of 16 was electrocuted when he leaned against a power pole. Completes 'Dry Run' MEXICO CITY tfl A Yugo-slav Air Force plane has arrived from Belgrade on a "dry run" orientation flight for the approaching visit of President Tito to Mexico and South America. run on television. As Archie, Gardner portrayed a blundering bartender. friends, was the only survivor in the family.

The victims were Comstock, 41, mess as a star. old "Duffy's Tavern" show Included "Miss Duffy," "Eddie the waiter," "Clancy the cop" and Saskatchewan Seeks 50 British Doctors REGINA. Sask. Two of "Broken Blossoms" opened in The veteran radio and televi production superintendent of the Finnigan." who used the stage name of Caroline Harris, from the wings. WHEN HE WAS 18, Barthelmess joined a summer stock company which toured Canada with "Mrs.

Wiggs of the Cab sion comedian was born in Astor New York in 1919 and was widely acclaimed by critics and the public. Barthelmess returned to Gardner was a soldier in World Kimberly-Clark Co. plant in Niagara; his wife, Marjorie, 39; ficials of Saskatchewan Prov ia, Long Island, on June 29, 1901. their children, Paula, 15; Chris War a member of New York's famed 7th Regiment. New York for the premiere and ince's Community Health Services Association plan to leave Au.

24 for Britain to recruit tine, 10, and Peter, 7, and the became one of the city's most He developed the character of Archie while he was a producer and director for a major radio bage Patch." That fall he en During his career Gardner sought-after bachelors. He fell in neighbor, Mary Jo Schelfhout, 9. Robert Comstock, 19, was stay tered Trinity College, Hartford, doctors, hoping to get at least said that producers did not "beat love with Mary Hay, a Ziegfeld network in 1939. But it was not 50 this year. a path to my door with job of ing at the home of the plant until 1941 that a sponsor signed girl, and they were married at a fashionable Fifth Avenue manager, Robert Thompson.

the "Duffy's Tavern" show. fers. "With a humility rarely found in Hollywood, he added, and spent several summers managing summer stock companies. A troop of Hartford comedians organized a moving picture company in 1915 and he Robert, who was In shock after Church on a June day in 1920 maybe they think I stink as an actor." GARDNER was a tall, gangling comedian was in semi-retirement learning of the deaths, told au thorities that his parents had en after playing together in a film "Way Down East." earned $25 for his first film role. during the last five years.

Barthelmess' next role was his Gardner is survived by his most famous, the title role in During his junior year in college he worked as an extra in a Billie Burke film at the now famous "Tol'able a Griffith pro widow, Simone, whom he mar ried 21 years ago, and two teen ECHOLS THANKS YOU Biograph Studios in New York. duction in which he played a southern mountain boy who saw age sons, Edward Jr. 19: and Later he appeared with Francis SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (LTD Movie pioneer Richard Barthelmess, a silent film matinee idol who also became a successful producer, died yesterday of cancer. He was 68.

Barthelmess had been ill for about five years, according to his physician, Dr. William Gay-nor, who was with him when he succumbed at his lavish estate here. Barthelmess won a special Academy Award in 1928, the first year they were presented. One of the most celebrated stars of his era, Barthelmess was nominated for the "best actor" award in 1928, but lost out to the late Emil Jannings. THE SPECIAL OSCAR was given for distinguished achievement in two films, "Patent Leather Kid" and "The Noose." Barthelmess was a motion picture pioneer and one of film-dom's most celebrated stars.

More than any other actor of his time, Barthelmess represented the clean-cut American hero not strikingly handsome but good-looking, gentle yet masculine, modest, unassuming. He made 76 pictures and a sizeable fortune over a period of 27 years of exposure on the screen. IN THE LATE 1950s, the still-handsome Barthelmess developed throat cancer and underwent numerous laryngectomies which robbed him of his voice. His last years were limited to his Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan in winter and his shore front estate in exclusive Southampton on Long Island. The comfortable life of a New York socialite suited Barthelmess, who was always a gentleman.

He was born May 9, 1895, on New York's Central Park West, son of Alfred Barthelmess, a prosperous importer who died when Richard was one year old. His mother, daughter of a physician, went on the stage and placed her son in private schools. On vacations Barthelmess often watched his mother, Stephen, 15. X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne that the U.S.

mail got through Barthelmess and his wife drift in "Romeo and Juliet" which ed apart after the birth of their Biograph filmed at Coney Island His first wife was actress Booth, to whom he was for 13 years. They had no daughter, Mary, in 1923, and they Barthelmess was a fan of the were divorced in 1926. film industry's first genius, pro children. ducer director D. W.

Griffith. THE TALKIES ARRIVED In Gardner and Miss Booth were All Day Sunday Special! divorced in 1942. 1927 and Barthelmess, unlike On learning that Griffith was ar riving in New York in 1918, Bar many less fortunate stars, had IN RECENT YEARS Gardner thelmess went to Pennsyvania to meet the director's train and no trouble making the transition His first talkie was "Weary Riv had lived in semi-retirement, at ask for a job. Griffith was er" and his voice proved just though he did some occasional and brief "Duffy's Tavern" 1 25 Baked Chicken Dinner right for his sincere personality sketches on NBC's "Monitor" ra terested in the earnest young man and asked actress Dorothy Gish to see "Bab's Dairy" and Barthelmess enlisted in the Navy in 1942 at the age of 47 dio show out of New York. It was on the same radio network report on Barthelmess' talents and never returned to acting.

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BARTHELMESS made his made into a movie. folk, commandant and later staff aide to Admiral Leary, com When he embarked on the film version, the comedian remarked mander of the Eastern Sea Fron BAKED YOUNG CHICKEN RICH GIBLET GRAVY CRANBERRY SAUCE CHOICE OF TWO VEGETABLES ROLL BUTTER CHOICE OF BEVEkAGE SELECTION OF DESSERT tier, with the rank of lieutenant own way to Hollywood, the new scene of film activity, and found young romantic leads were in in typical ungrammatical "Arch ie" language: commander. demand. Soon he was acting op He was discharged in 1945 and turned his attention to managing "I am going to produce my own movie perversion of 'Duffy's Tavern' with sawdust on the floor, beautiful society tomatoes and a murder or two tossed in posite Dorothy Gish, who didn't seem to mind his stature after all. Griffith saw Barthelmess' work for himself and gave the actor a leading role in Lillian ECHOLS MATTRESS MFG.

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