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2 THE SANDUSKY Saturday, February 21, 1953 SPEAKING OF News Vignettes By HARRY STACK OLD SANDUSKY HOUSE A old house is a harbor of memories. It has the sentiments of an old song. In its empty rooms linger nostalgic notes that blend into a haunting melody of yestcr year. Echoes of old laughter and of old sighs sound between the walls. Each niche and cubbyhole holds recollections of bygone days.

Through its old windows once crept sunshine and moonlight, or peered the gloom of storm and tragedy. Romance once flitted through its halls and love stole along its staircase. Even hate sometimes stalked through its portals. Ghosts of the past now hover on the landings, and the fragrance of old flowers cling to the window seats with faint insistence. Parting from an old home is like saying goodbye to an old friend.

There's an ache in the throat and a pain in the heart. One wants to say another last word, (eel another last handclasp, take another last backward glance. But time does not wait; the farewell uour tolls; the shadows fall and the curtain drops. As it is with an old house, so is it with a bygone era. Years roll on; things change.

Just as the old house has been relegated because of its horse- and-buggy aura, so have the olden days been crowded aside by the streamlined demands of new decades. Yet despite all the gleam and glitter of the new, the old cannot be cast aside without a feeling of nostalgia. Poignant memories have a habit of stealing back. There stands in Sancjusky a vacant old house that brings many memories of the past. It looms, time-honored, weather- jtained, alone and aloof on a large landscaped ajid walled plot of ground the southwest corner of vVayne and Jefferson-sts.

11 breathes a refrain of half-forgotten days. It tells a mute story of the years when it stood out as one of the city's highlights, and when it was one of the centers of social life. To view its high contours with its great chimneys, turrets and cupola, and to see its imposing, cupola-topped coach house, takes one back to the days of stately carriages, furbished brass carriage amps, shining harness and spans of high-stepping bays. It revives nemories of liveried coachmen leaping from their drivers' boxes to open brass-handled doors of-their vehicles, of leading their prancing horses to their stables, of shunting their gleaming carriages into the coach houses. This old Sandusky house speaks of high-ceilinged, paneled rooms, French windows and old-fashioned shutters, of sparkling crystal chandeliers, of Sheraton and Regency furniture.

It tells of bronze statues, Oriental rugs and fine oil paintings, of teakwood stands and mahogany banquet tables, of Wedgwood, Doulton and Crown Derby chinaware, of cut glass and decanters, white linen and polished silverware, of antique whatnots, heavy silver candelabra and so many other precious things that eye and mind can scarcely retain them all from one viewing as we tried to do one day last month, before the old houso was closed. We are speaking of the old "Butler home," now vacant and for sale. It is a product of the when the lumber industry was one of Sandusky's main enterprises; when colorful sails of lumber schooners dotted the harbor's horizon, and when the pungency of fresh pine permeated the air. The huge, spacious and multiple- roomed home is said to have been built by Watson Hubbard some years after the Civil War, and to have become the "Butler home" after Jay Butler married Hubbard's daughter. As may be known, the Hubbards and the Butlers were oncejirominent lumher.

dealers of Sandusky. The firms of the It. B. Hubbard Co. and the Jay Butler Co.

of the 1880's. both located on the Decatur-st waterfront, ranked among the leading lumber yards and mills of the day. The Hubbards had great pine holdings in Michigan's Saginaw Bay area, and the Butlers furnished all the pine cross-arms for Western Union telegraph poles. Besides being "lumber barons," the Hubbardu and the Butlers were also prominent bankers of the community. Yet despite their far-reaching business interests, they were people who loved their homes, leisure and ne'ghborliness, and who took active part in Sandusky's social- life.

One may wonder, were their spirits able to return to the old Sandusky home and their other haunts, whether they would prefer today's fast tempo of living to the more tranquil and slower-moving pace of the olden days? STATE Screen comedy reaches a new laugh high when Irene Dunne, starred as an average housewife, discovers five and ten dollar bills growing on two backyard trees in the hilarious "It Grows On Trees" heading the double bill playing Sunday through Tuesday. Dean Jagger and Joan Evans share star illing in the new comedy. The currency crop not only disrupts the home life of Miss Dunne but also involves the U. S. treasury, Internal Revenue and Agricultural departments and temporarily threatens the economy of the entire nation.

The second feature, 'Gold Fever," co-stars John Calvert and Ralph Morgan. In the story, Morgan is an aging desert gold prospector who is grubstaked by Calvert, and who takes the younger man as a partner. Ann Cornell has the feminine lead to save Calvert's life, then to fall in love with him and be revealed as the daughter of Morgan, who had lost all family ties. The adventurous life of a deep- sea diver is brought to the screen in technicolor in "City Beneath The Sea" starring Robert Ryan, Mala Powers, Anthony Quinn and Suzan Ball and opening a four day engagement on Wednesday. grounded in the historic City of Port Royal, Jamaica, which sank THEATER NEWS OHIO Every good movie, says Michael Curtiz, one of Hollywood's great film directors, should have two of tears; sad and happy.

Cjurtiz says he has achieved a perfectly balanced blend of both in "The Uazz Singer," the new technicolor feature opening at the Ohio tomorrow for four days. It co-stars Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee. Danny Thomas, Curtiz says, is a great comedian in the Pagliacci tradition. As an entertainer, he has the talent to make one laugh while you're weeping over the misfortunes his clowning conceals. In the film he plays a stage struck boy of undoubted talent, who is torn between loyalty to his father and love for the girl who encourages his theatrical aspirations and is willing to be his partner both on stage and off.

Peggy Lee sang her way out of the night clubs of the midwest in- ROLLER SKATING ROLLERDROME CLUB Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Nights 8:00 P. M. to 11:00 P. M. Sunday to 4 P.

M. TONIGHT music by JOHNNY MAIANI and His Polka Players THE OLD DUTCH TAVERN (Formerly Gay Nineties) Sandwiches of All Kinds (Under New Management) to the bright spots of New York and Hollywood and the top rank of recording celebrities before hitting the celluloid trail, For Thursday, Friday and Saturday the double bill is headed by "The Stars Are Singing" with such singing stars as Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti and Lauritz Melchior. Filmed in technicolor, the picture is said replete with a full selection of popular and classical songs with a plot running throughout. Rounding out the bill is "The Ring" with Marguerite Chapman and John Archer. It is an off-beat boxing story, played effectively against the background of Mexican life in Los Angeles.

Theaief Schedules Of Ali Baba" 4:05, 7, 9:50. "Untamed 5:45, 8:35. (Sun. through Fever" 3:45, 6:15, "It Grows On Trees" 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50. OHIO "Kansas City Confidential" 2:40, 6:10, 9:25.

"Rogue's 8. (Starts Sunday) "The Jazz Singer" 1, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15. 9:25. PLAZA "South Pacific 3:40, 6:10, 8:40. "Yankee Buccaneer" 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40.

The new comedy, "It Grows On Trees," opens Sunday at the State. Pictured are some of the cast which includes Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger and Joan Evans. The Golden Door By Barf Spacer Copyright by Bart Spicer. Distributed by NEA Service, Inc. XXXVI with my gun or a spare, untie her, "Maybe I'm making everything ut nis un in her hand one in too fancy," I said.

"What happened in and take off. The answei is obvious now that we know how lhen would be that a snooping pri Mia Jacobs planned to get the vat cop got plugged after break money. Who went with Monique in a window. Miss Boone wa Former to California is clear, too. tne Pickup list." Rudi was the stooge and Erich was Grodnik shook his -head sadly, with him to keep him out of "There's one person left out ot trouble.

Mia Jacobs didn't Have a our figuring, Wilde," he mutteret big army, alter all. She had just Who was the woman wl one more man, a scholarly elegant tended to be Mrs. Ogilvie?" gunman. She had Kosi, the mar I know," I said. I shot this evening.

The man who nt Llda Jonas and spoke directly killed Miss Boone by strangulation. 10 her Th is woman was about The man who proposed marriage to 30 She had sort light brown Monique Fornier, stayed with her hair verv wel1 ke fair skin, when she went to Denver, ran lier vei 'y expensive clothes and a con- off a cliff in Colorado and came lng manner. Who would that back, here to wait tor the next 3e step." Grodnik shifted his bulk in the chair and said uneasily, "You clon't really know ai.l that, do you, Wilde?" "No, lieutenant," I said. "Erici 'i knows, don't you, Erich?" covered with both hands. "Kosi asked her to marry him," he muttered.

"She knew he was with a bad passport. She was going to take him to Mexico and then try to get a quota number for him. It was a great secret for her." Grodnik shook his head angrily. "All right," he said impatiently. "But what about that dead girl in the apartment tonight?" "It was a trap for me, Grodnik," I said.

"Early this morning, Mia Jacobs into the Caribbean in 1692 at ame to see meat my apartment. She was all broken up about her Erich nodded, keeping his face nad to her for for stealing." Lida put her hand to neight of an earthquake, "City Be neath The Sea" tells the story of deep-sea salvage experts who are trapped in the undersea city during a twentieth century quake. This is the first time that Hollywood has created an underseas earthquake for movies. PLAZA Playing through Sunday at the Plaza will be "Yankee Buccaneer," husband and she wanted to make restitution for his thefts. I bought tfTe whole act.

But I told her something about Miss Boone and that broken bottle of perfume. I was turning it over in my mind at the time. I knew it meant something and I sort of casually mentioned it to Mia Jacobs to try to take her mind off her husband, give her the idea that maybe he starring Jeff Chandler, Scott wasn't really a thief. But what I Brady and Susan Ball, and the; lold ner casually was vital to her. outdoor thriller, "South Pacific Mis Boone left her apartment that Trail," with Rex Allen, Estelita morning and someone called for and Slim Pickens.

lier in a car. That was maybe Starting, Friday, Feb. 27, and ,8:30. Mia Jacobs had plenty of playing through Sunday will time to gather her mob and get "The Prisoner Of Zenda" one of down there and pick up Miss the great romantic adventure sto- Boone on her way downtown." ries brought to the screen in a Grodnik groaned. "It's too com- spectacular production filmed in jPlicated." technicolor, with an all-star cast headed by Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason and Greer.

In the second been playing tag with the Whip Wilson's bull whip, a trusted' Nazis and Russians for yearn. They weapon in his skillful hand, is know that if you rig a scheme it put to good use on the side a to be complete right down to "For normal people, I agreed, "but all these people the law in his latest starring pic ture, "The Gunman." Supporting Wilson are Fuzzy Knight, Rand Brooks and Phyllis Coates. On the same program is a cartoon festival with the latest cartoons, and a stooge comedy, "Jents In A Jam." Ralph F. Koch Agency Realtor 1022 W. Ph.

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Berlin Ohio FINDLEV BENNETT Auto Sales 2039 W. State Fremont, Ohio the pattern on the wallpaper." "All right, all right. But why did she want to knock you off, anyway?" "The first reason is that I was around at all. I was hired to find out what happened to those cards and it was just a bad break for Mia Jacobs that I was also working for the Jonas Store. Then, I wouldn't let her bully boys scare ine off.

I was tied up with investigating her husband's death and she could have heard me tell Jack this afternoon that her suicide plant was a Hop." "And why do you figure they kept the Boone girl in that Grodnik demanded. "She gave the show away, in case you in and found her alive and able to talk." "It was a chump trick if you iook at it that way," I said, "but suppose you saw it like this. 1 was hired on a routine divorce problem. I shouldn't have expected violence. There was no reason for me to armed, except that I was jittery.

If I'd come to that open window and been knocked off right.in the bathroom doorway, it would have taken Kosi about four seconds to shoot Miss Boone PLAYING thru SUNDAY Open Saturday-Sunday numbly Lida stared 'back "Jeannette Barnes?" Jack nodded grimly. "Jeannette was a Mend of Mia's from Danestown," Lida said. "She worked at the office before she married a few mbntlis ago. Mia her mouth in a convulsive movement. again.

We'll have to find out." We could find out what part Jeannette Barnes had played, and how willingly she had played Mia Jacobs hadn't already killed her. Grodnik stood slowly and walked toward Erich. "Let's see what this ape knows." Erich sat hunched over in the chair with his face hidden. Grodnik's touch moved him slightly and he began to fall. Erich's shoulder dipped very gradually and his thick solid body rolled limply out of the chair to the floor.

I had one finger on the swollen artery in Erich's neck. There was no movement, no throb of lite at all. Rudi's eyelids fluttered. He whispered in a light thin tone that I barely heard. "Poison he said faintly.

I couldn't hear the rest of it. I think Rudi was r.sking us to let Erich alone, now that he had crunched down on that thin capsule that almost every partisan lighter carried when he was in enemy territory. "I should have thought of that," Grodnik said thickly to me. "Well, Wilde? "That's all, lieutenant," I wearily. (THE END) said What'i RIGHT? You hear thai a friend of yours is ill at home.

WRONG: Go to visit her without letting her know that you are coming. RIGHT: Telephone first, to see if she feels like having a visitor. Refugees Flood West Berlin In Monthly Record BERLIN, Feb. 21 estimated 1,000 East Germans asked for political asylum today in West Berlin setting a new monthly record in the flood of refugees to the West from the Soviet zone in Germany. West Berlin refugee officials said today 24,688 refugees had fled out of tne Russian zone to the West up to Friday midnight.

They said approximately 1,000 waited to register today to top the previous record set in January of 25,434. Communist police on the East- West Berlin city border Friday opened fire on refugees in an attempt to the growing flight out of East Germany ot the West. The refugees were racing over the border in automobile convoys and tx'ucks. 1,600 Friday Others wee pouring into West Berlin on foot and by subway and elevated railroads. Approximately 1,600 refugees crossed into the West Friday.

The "shoot to kill" orders apparently issued to the border police, were the latest in a long series of moves by the East German Communists to bottle up the flood of refugees. Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee are in "The Jazi Singer," the new technicolor film opening Sunday at the Ohio. Not A One-Way Welcome Ease Of Margin Needs NEW YORK, Feb. 21 nancial circles today praised the Federal Reserve Board's action in easing margin requirements on stock market transactions as "a long overdue move in the right direction." The board reduced the margin requirement for stock purchases from 75 percent to 50 percent Friday night, putting purchase requirements back on the prc-Ko- rean level. G.

Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange, said the action was "a long overdue move in the right direction" and a most encouraging development." M. F. McCarthy, assistant managing partner of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane, said the action would "probably increase sales volume on the New York Stock Exchange." Half Cash The board, in announcing its decision, said the 50 percent margin on stock purchases would become effective when the stock exchanges resume operations next Tuesday after Washington's Birthday holiday. The board's action means that a person who wants to purchase stocks, or sell them short, needs to put up only 50 percent of the money in cash. The rest may be credit.

Henry McClusky, 20, Escapes Injury As Meat Truck Crashes Henry L. McClusky. 2(1, 221 Wayne-st, Sandusky, escaped injury Friday when a refrigerator truck owned by Grill Meats Sandusky, skidded 132 fceet before After a long silence, he turned trikingfa Dickinso sl at me. WPII wnrio9" I Fremont. The body of the truck was torn from the frame and some of the meat was spilled on the road.

Another company truck salvaged the meat load. Yalta Pact Gave Russia Islands North Of Japan BY PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign News Editor One of the tneories behind our defense of Korea is that Communist control there constitute a dagger pointed at Japan. The Russian-held islands immediately north of Japan may not constitute a dagger but at least they're stones in Josef Stalin's slingshot. It came as a coincidence last week that U. S.

Thunderjets drove off Russian aircraft over Japan on the same day that President hower and his Congressional leaders were discussing his decision to junk the secret agreements made at alta. The decision giving the southern half of Sakhalin Island and the Kuriles to Russia was one of the Yalta agreements. So was the decision to preserve the Communist status quo of Outer Mongolia and to internationalize the China port of Dairen. As of now, Mr. Eisenhower's dc cision has explained as oTfe not necessarily to invalidate previous agreements but rather as one which would remove any idea that this country agreed to suppression ot freedom anywhere in the world.

As such, then, it would be designed to encourage Russia's unwilling subjects to seek their own freedom, and also as another step in the President's plan to seize the diplomatic initiative from the Reds. It might go further nd serve notice on the Russians that the subject of negotiations is not a one-way street. That, for example, if Dairen is to be an open port by international pgreement, then it should be truly an international port open to visits by the U. S. Navy.

It might even suggest that Russian occupation of Southern Sakhalin and the Kuriles is open to negotiation, or, in any event, that we don't recognize them as permanent Russian possessions. The Russians took over those islands in August. 1945. 'Meanwhile, soviet planes made regular reconnaissance flights over Japan, while no Allied planes were permitted over Russian territory. It wasn's until Jan.

13 of this year that the Japanese and the Allies declared that What's good for the gander also is good for the goose. The Russians were told that, unauthorized planes over Japan would be shot down by U. S. fighters. Jelke's Attorneys Prepare Defense NEW YORK, Feb.

21 for Minot F. (Mickey) Jelke, charged with compulsory prostitution, prepared their defense of the oleomargarine heir today before the trial resumes Tuesday. The prosecution rested its care against the 23-year-old playboy Friday after blonde Pat Thompson of Portland, completed her tony. The harbors of Tyre and Sldon, famous Near East cities of Biblical times have been silted up. JAMISON'S For the Best in TV and APPLIANCES 902 Fourth St.

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Phone 3417 ENDS Two Technicolor Action Hits TONY CURTIS PIPER LAURIE in "SON OF ALI BABA" JOSEPH COTTEN SHELLEY WINTERS UNTAMED FRONTIER" in LAST DAY- KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL and ROGUE'S MARCH WARNER BROSV OHIO STARTS TOMORROW WARNER BROS-. NEW PRODUCTION SUNDAY thru TUESDAY And a story that's almost too good to be true! IRENE DUNNE DEAN JAGGER JOAN EVANS and HEY KIDS! NO SCHOOL MONDAY! SPECIAL KIDDIE SHOW at 10:30 A. M. Regular Admission 20c Doors Open at 9:30 A. M..