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PAGE MGHT MONITOR-INDEX AND DEMOCRAT, MOBERLY. Ma SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1939 SEEK TO IMPROVE MACEDONIA ROAD Connects With Randolph Line; Report on New Hope Route Corrected A committee of farmers from the Audram-Randolph-Boone community near Macedonia Church visited Moberly yesterday seeking funds for construction of a hard surfaced road there. The road sought begins one-half mile east of Macedonia Church 'and extends west and north about 2Vfc miles, connecting with the Randolph county line at the W. G. Jones and J.

W. Mallory corner. The road also connects with another extending north from Clark, and at its-eastern end with a road extending north from Sturgeon and Pisgah church. The territory to be served by the proposed improvement adjoins that of another road project accepted this week by the Randolph county court, leading from the Middle Grove road past New Hope church. Members of the committee stated they hoped to raise $150 per rnile for construction of the Macedonia route.

The Audrain County court then would provide another $150 per mile and the state the balance. The New Hope Church road, mentioned above, was approved for construction by the county court here Thursday, as part of a J50-mile WPA project. An error was made yesterday in description of the rov'a of that road, and also in listing the order of construction of. other county road projects included in the 50-mile project. One route, that from Darksville to Thomas Hill, was omitted entirely.

As correctly described the New Hope Church road will begin at the Stauterman corner, on the Sho-Boat road to Middle Grove, and extends south past New Hope Church. The road will connect with the Clark Special Road District one mile south of New Hope. Designation of the road completes the county's 50-mile WFA project, and construction will follow other roads aesignated earlier. Construction of the other roads will be in the following order: The Cairo road, extending from Cairo to Route east of Jacksonville, will be completed within a few days. County road forces then will move to Clifton Hill, where construction will get under way on the Roanoke to Clifton Hill route.

Upon completion there, the forces will go to Darksville, for completion of the Darksville to Thomas Hill road; Then they will start work on the route from Darksville out to Jacksonville, and a spur off that down to the Joe Towles farm, to connect with the Cairo 8-Mile district. THE AIR at 5 A.M./ FDR Still Sees Peace Hope Presidetn Roosevelt is shown at a press conference in Washing-ton when he said he did not regard the present European situation as certain to result in war. At the time this picture was taken he had just released a puff of cigaret smoke. In the background are reporters. Anxious Mother Flees with EZRA A I and AUNT FAY A AM Hiram Higsby, Bud and Kit a Kay, Colorado Santa Fe Slim, Prairie Midland Minstrels, I A News of World I A Authorized Live Stock (also 10:20 A.M.

and 12:05 P.M.) Glasses High School, or in the grades makes for longer hours of study causing latent weakness in young eyes to show up. Don't let your child be handicapped by lack of proper care. Consult: A fearful mother, anxiety written plainly on her'face, pushes a perambulator carrying- her child "and a valise through Waterloo station, beginning- a flight from London and the menace of air raids in the event of war. (AF Cablephoto). War the most elective propagandists were England and France and that Germany bungled by making more enemies than friends.

He declined to comment on current conditions. In a sense every navy officer is on the watch for propaganda, and volumes of it file across Captain Monroe's desk. He made a noise like PFHGT and pointed to the waste basket where most of it goes. Of course the President of the United States is the principal out- witter of propagandists. His right hand in this respect is the state department.

The exchange of notes and speeches around Munich-time a year ago was a sample of German-American propaganda sparring. We're 'Aware' Currently the state department is "aware" of German and Italian propaganda efforts in Latin America. We'll talk more about that another time. Thomas Burke, chief of the international communications section in the department, said it was doubtful if foreign propaganda, by radio or otherwise had any serious effect in the- United States. He was talking about Germany at the time so he perhaps did not include England.

As a general blanket summary we would surmise that all of the agencies think England can do and is doing a fair-to-middling good job of keeping this country friendly. Ordinarily it isn't especially England rubbed our hair the wrong way a lot during the World War and we didn't scratch back much not a tithe of the scratching we gave Germany. We have a treaty that binds Russia not to propagandize communism in this country. A couple of years ago a meeting of the Communist Internationale in Moscow exuded a tone of propaganda we objected to, and we gave Russia the fishy eye for several months to remind her of her treaty obligations. Of course don't forget Congress.

The members are fighting propaganda, both phantom and real, at all hours. And like the wary government agencies, they also spread a little, from time to time. Among our favorite town names: Loafers' Glory, N.C, Daybook By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON The United States has at least half a dozen agencies officially keeping an eye out for foreign propaganda. They all worry about it, but privately. They don't worry, to the- best of our knowledge, very, very much.

Most portentous worrier is J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI recently was given the job of coordinating anti-espionage activities. Sometimes it is hard to draw the line between espionage and propaganda. At times a fountain of propaganda may be a clue to a bit of espionage; J.

Edgar's men watch all these things. Right at this point we might as well add that we can give you no secret inside information as to how these agencies react when a particularly apt piece of propaganda shows up. Recently and in times past we have talked to individuals in everyone of the agenceis we could recall. They as secretive as you might Most busy watchers of propaganda; in addition to FBI, are the state department, the war and navy departments, the coast guard, and the federal communications commission, the latter because it has the best facilities for tapping foreign propaganda broadcasts. The treasury is sometimes interested.

British Suggestion. The treasury gives us our most concrete instance. A fevy months ago England put out a suggestion that it would be nice if she could chisel a little on her tripartite monetary agreement with the trnied States and Morgenthau of the treasury put out a little counter-propaganda to the effect that it wouldn't be such a smart iota for England to try. England didn't Captain Monroe assistant chief of the naval intelligence office, suggested that with a free and unbridled press and radio it was hard for propaganda to do much in this country unless the press and radio let down their guard. "Americans want plain facts and by and large they get them," he said; He --fiPjsfflSStfid jafc dj "Wizard of Oz" a Choice Movie "The Wizard Of Oz." Screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf from the book by L.

Frank Ba.um. Directed by Victor Fleming. Cast: Judy "Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bert Lahr, Jack Haley. Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick, Toto, the Singer Midgets. By BOBBIN COONS (Associated Press Staff HOLLYWOOD--This $3,000,000 production is the season's rainbow of entertainment--a super-super that seems almost worth the money spent on it, You'll have to be pretty old and crochety not to like it, and if you're feeling that way it might, just might, make you feel ten years younger.

When Dorothy, 1 the Kansas kid, finds herself whisked by that cyclone to a never-never land of gorgeous color and incredible happenings called Oz, you'll miss a lot of fun. if you don't go. along with her, whole-heartedly and with joyous spirit. The coior camera never caught more gorgeous sets than those of Munchkinland and Oz with its Emerald City where the Wizard lived; and no camera ever focused on a more engaging set of characters than Garland's Dorothy, Bolger's Scarecrow, Haley's -Tin Woodman, Lahr's Cowardly "Lion--each inquest of a favor from Morgan's Wizard. As this quartet follows a rollicking routine down the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, beset by the menace of Margaret Hamilton's scary, greenfaced Witch with her bag' of dirty tricks, there is whimsy and humor, adventure and suspense, and a generous load of song and dance.

Next Week At Moberly Theatres The technical effects here--the cyclone, the materialization of the good witch Glinda (Burke) from a bubble, the fiery vanish- ings of the bad witch and her ultimate done practically' as convincingly as Disney could do them. Most Disney- ish of all: the talking, moving apple trees. Also Disney-ish: the Singer Midgets as the Munck- kins. Bert Lahr as the Lion takes most of the laughs for his broader role; equally good are Haley and Bolger, recognizable through their weird make-ups, as is Lahr, Judy, of course, makes her biggest hit as a credible, suitably wonder-struck Dorothy. The picture could have been speeded more at its beginnings, especially by the elimination of Judy's first song; a few of the strictly musical-comedy gags may jar the flow of fantasy; but these, handicaps (if others think them so) can be forgiven, "The Wizard of Oz" is a fine beautiful picture.

(But if the very young at your house are subject to nightmares, better see it yourself FIRST!) They say every comedian yearns to play Ka Bob Burns, without forsaking his humorous ways altogether, tries his hand at drama Jn "Our Leading; Citizen" at the Grand. He is a candidate for TJ, S. Senator and a middle-aged Cupid in the film. Raft is the climax of the story. Glib Lee Tracy, still trying to live down that deplorable balcony affair in Mexico, is aided in his current and worthy effort by Barbara Read, Allan Lane, Linda Hayes and Patric Knowles.

"The Spellbinder" 'is courtroom drama in which Tracy takes times off to murder a murderer. "When Tomorrow Comes." Screenplay by Dwight Taylor from story by James M. Cain. Directed by John M. Stahl.

Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil, Onslow Stevens, Nydia Westman. GRAND Bob Burns, America's current favorite native humorist, essays drama in "Our Leading Citizen" (Paramount) at the Grand tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday. "Our Leading Citizen" reflects the contemporary scene, labor troubles and all. But Burns does not shed his homespun iways here. He adapts them to the role of a philosophical and graying lawyer.

The lawyer, besides aiding his town generally, helps a young couple in love, settles a mill strike and gets nominated for U. S. Senator. The sage of Van Buren is supported in the drafna by Susan Hay ward, Joseph Allen, Elizabeth Patterncn, Gene Lockhart, and Charles Bickford. Aside from being America's No.

1 native humorist, Burns now is the leading contender to fill Will Rogers' place on the screen. The story of ''Our Leading Citizen" was written by Irvin S. Cobb, who once was regarded the leading successor to Rogers, as a vehicle for Rogers. The screen play was written by City's John Moffitt. The mature romanticists of "Love Affair," Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, return" to the Grand Wednesday and Thursday in "When Tomorrow Comes (Universal).

So does the work of John M. Stahl, who produced both love stories. "Love Affair," the new Dunnc-Boyer romance begins as a flirtation, becomes sincere under dramatic circumstances and leads to a novel denouement. The dramatic factor--a traffic accident: in "Love Affair 1 ricane in 'When -is a hur- The Moslem empire at its greatest extent stretched 7,000 miles from China to Spain, The lovers of "Love Affir," meet in a situation--an impending strike of waitresses--which promises a truly unusual picture: a presentation of Capital vs. Labor.

Before too long, however, Di-' rector Stahl is safe on his home base, tender romance, and the strike proves to have been merely a needlessly prolonged device to let Boy Meet Girl. Once safe, Stahl does not stray afield and the body of his film is an imaginatively told, dramatically moving tale of a hopeless love, Striking performance: Barbara O'Neil's as the "mental case" wife of the hero, separating him from refined waitress Dunne. Comes." The new romance starts when Miss Dunne, a waitress, suspects Boyer of being a labor spy. IB the cast are Barbara O'Neil, Onslow Stevens, Nydia Westman and Fritz Feld. A movie-goer who knows nothing more of Stahl than his work Street," "Only Yesterday," "Imitation of Life," "Letter of Introduction," ''Magnificent Obsession," etc.) should be the producer is sold on the idea that women who see motion pictures like to cry.

Tomorrow Comes" is fine matinee fare. 'Clouds Over Europe," with a title more pertinent than its plot, and "A Woman Is Judge," both Columbia productions, come up together at the 4th Street Wednesday and Thursday. In "A Woman Is Judge," the judge, Frieda Inescort, finds the daughter, Rochelle Hudson, who disappeared seventeen years before with her husband, Otto Kruger. i When the girl is charged with a murder, Judge Inescort quits the bench to defend her, Laurence Olivier (he of the fine performance in "Wuthering Heights), Valerie Hobson, Ralph Richardson and ot: -irs of Scotland Yard fight spies and a destructive 'ray in "Clouds Over Europe," No Western-is the.v.4th Street's Friday-Saturday offering. on the Blackhawk" (Universal), the first non-Western drama to end the week at the theater for a long time, is a slave ship story.

In the action film, the running of slaves between Hawaii and California in 1840 cauges trouble for many persons--among them Richard Arlon, Andy Devine, Constance Moore, Noah Beery, Guijin Williams, Mabel AlbertsoiV Sandra Kane, Thurston' Hall, Mala and Mamo Clark of "Mutiny on the Bounty." COMMENTS ON WAR CRISIS IN POEM Mrs. Rose Voprhies Ridings, octogenarian poetess who keeps abreast of current events by avid newspaper expresses her sentiments in poetry concerning America's position in the present troubled world affairs Her poem follows: "Stand by, stand by, America, As ever for the right. 'Tis not the bravest of your sons Who are eager for the fight. "They proved their worth America, In grim war's flaming dance, When they fell and bled And gasped and died On the bloody fields of France. "Our boys, our boys, America, For you would gladly die.

Shield them now, oh, Mother Land, America, standy WINNERS OF PRIZES AT STATE FAIR Four exhibitors from this vicinity won awards in the household arts and horticulture displays at the state fair at Sedalia this week. The picture cross stitch sewing of Mrs. Lysle Holloway of Fayette won a first place award in the household arts cross stitching and needlepoint display, A collection of apples shown by Charles W. Steiman of Dalton won first in the horticulture show. A collection of fruits by Betty Ann Coulter of Excello was second in its class and a similar display by Hazel Agee of Excello was third.

Texas produces 40 per cent of the world's pecan crop. "Indianapolis Speedway" (Warner Brothers) at the Grand Friday and Saturday is just 'what you think--a speedway thriller. Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien and John Payne head the cast. The plot is of a familiar type. O'Brien Payne are brothers who fall out over racing and Miss Sheridan but are reconciled at a dramatic moment in The Big Race.

Gale Page, Frank McHugh, Grace Stafford, Granville Bates, Regis Toomey and others are in the cast. Eight veterans racing drivers help in the scenes, i 4TH STREET A master thief and a garrulous criminal lawyer share the Sunday-Monday-Tuesday spot at the 4th Street next week. They are George Raft in "I Stole A Million" (Universal) and Lee Tracy in "The Spellbinder" (RKO Radio). Claire Trevor, with her fine flair for slightly-tarnished -drama, is co-featured with Raft in "I Stole A Million," in the role of, the wife who Ms' involved in his numerous thefts, Dick Foran, Henry Armetta and Victor Jory are in the cast. A man hunt for SOSNA Three days starting- tomorrow the Sosna will show the first of M-G-M's popular medic series, ''Young Doctor and a whodunnit with musical trimmings, "Girl From Rio" (Monogram "Young Doctor Kildare" introduces Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Samuel S.

Hinds, Emma Dunn and' others in the characterizations they have developed further in recent additions to the aeries. It is, however, the best of the scries to date. Movita is starred in "Girl From RJ.O" as a New York musical star w3io forsakes her career to rush to South America when her brother is accused of murder. Warren Hall, Alan Baldwin and Kay Linaker are in: the cast. Four days starting Wednesday the Sosna will show that popular action melodrama Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, "Too Hot to Handle" (M-G-M) and a Bob Steele Western, "Gallant Fool." "Too Hot to Handle," which concerns the adventures and the romance of a motion picture cameraman and a famous aviatrix, is tops of its kind.

With Gable and Miss Loy, at their most entertaining best, are Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo and others. to begin her duties. This is a new project in which the fifty rural schools with which she will work will contribute toward her salary, An 8 1-2-pound son was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carlson, southwest of Paris.

His name is Robert Walter. PARIS (Annie Towles Shaw) ROXY Theatre Huntsville, Mo. 10c and LAST TIMES TONIGHT Double Features "3 TEXAS STEERS" John Wayne, Ray Corrig-an. Also "YOU CAN'T GBT AWAY FROM MURDER SUNDAY it and MONDAY 19 A I I Ann Sothern, Robert Young 1 I5c, Kids LAST TIMES TONIGHT Gary Cooper as "Marco Polo" Also Tim McCoy Western TUBS. Free Beauty ware to Ladies 2 Outstanding- Hits 2 LIONEL BARRYMOBE Lew Ayres Lynne Carver "Young Dr.

Kildare" Plus a New First Run Hit and Warren Hull "The Girl From Also Our Gang- Comedy Ends Tonight I PAUL MUNI BETTE DAVIS in JUAREZ TWATr.F7"7Y OWL SHOW Tonight Starts 11 p. m. Mrs. Minnie Shumard returned from a visit with relatives in Iowa and with her daughter, Mrs. Anna Husted, in Rutledge, Mo.

Miss Ruth Barker has resigned her place in the probate ofifce and will go to St. Louis, where she has employment. Miss Faye Hohimer has returned to her duties as clerk in the Bassett Dry Goods Store, after a vacation; of. two weeks. Arthur Johnson of Hannibal visited relatives in Monroe County this week.

Mr, and Mrs. B. J. Stauffer spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Mulberry Grove, 111. Bill Miller and Post Shearer enter the University of Missouri for the fall semester.

Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. William Robinson attended the Missouri State Fair at Sedalia Thursday. Misses Robert Cain, Ruby Allen, Betty Klein, Jeane Thomson and Frances Trussell attended the state fair in Sedalia Thursday.

John G. Berrey is attending the state fair Oiis week. Miss Aleeta Mae Reser, director of music in the rural schools of Monroe County, arrived Monday Dr. F. A.

Barnett reports birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Musgrove near Florida Tuesday night. Her name is Norma Lee. Mr.

and Mrs. W. Miller and son, Marvin, of Chicago returned home Saturday evening after a visit of two months with Mrs. Miller's mother.Mrs. Chas.Rendegger, and Mr, and Mrs.

Carl Randegger. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Montague of Salibury, N. are the guests of Senator and Mrs.

James H. Whitecotton and Miss Whitecotton. Mrs. Montague is the former Miss Zora Wilson Proctor. FIRST BOONE COUNTY DOG LICENSE tSE An information alleging failure to buy a county dog license was filed Thursday against Sam M.

Pemberton, farmer near Halls- vine, in Boone County. The action was brought by Edwin C. Orr, prosecuting attorney at Columbia, Pemberton surrendered voluntarily to the sheriff and made bond of $100 for appearance at the October circuit court term. The action is the first brought in Boone under the dog tax law apprc-ed bj' voters there last Conviction provides a fine of not less tiian $5 nor more than $25. Attorney Orr has stated several similar charges are to be filed against other persons, constables of the various townships making the complaints.

Under the county dog tdx law, funds derived from the dog licenses arc used to pay claims of farmers on animals killed by roving dogs. Do you do Repair Work? Inform the public. Use a Want Ad. Call 123. Bob's Pinch-Hitting for Cupid "You know kids there's a lot of problems that takes a heap of solvinY', BOB BURNS LEADING CITIZEN SUSAN HAYWARD JOSEPH AlLfN.

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