The Memphis Press-Scimitar from Memphis, Tennessee • 6

PAGE 6 il MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR MEMPHIS TENNESSEE SATURDAY JANUARY 18 1947 Victim's Mother Speeds West Wright said Deposits are Insured up to $5000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Women QUIZ SUSPECTS IN MURDER OF ONLY NEGRO BANK IN NEWSREEL Trl-Stata Bank of Memphis 386 Beale Memphis' only negro bank will be featured in All-American News a newsreel shown In over 500 negro theaters Scenes were filmed at-the bank Thursday The bank opened a month ago so far haa been above our most optimistic hopes" Wright III cashier said Cash on hand totals more thnn $806000 with deposits of over $585-000 Many depositors are white Met a Young Man InMemphisWho Might Be Her Son Mrs Elizabeth Cook 401 Washington Street Bristol Pa still has hopes of hearing from her son reported missing action mors than two years Pining thru Mem phi A on a bus Jan 9 she met a young man In the bus station whom she took for her son In their conversation she learned only that he had served in the Philippines and lived near Memphis Hoping the young man might be her son suffering from amnesia Mrs Cook has asked The Press-Scimitar to bring this story to public attention' The young man was slim' wore plaid sport coat soft high-crowned hat whits muffler brown kid gloves COMDR LUIGI DE CIOCIO of the Naval Clinic at Millington will address the Human Relations Assembly at' Graee-St Episcopal Church auditorium at 8 Tuesday night Miss Roberta Carder chairman will preside Election of officers will bo held RALEIGH ROAD REPAIRS Will Work on Asphalt Side When Weather' Permits Repair on the old asphalt side of Raleigh Road will be made soon as weather permits" according to D' Yeary senior engineer of State Highway Department will be no Immediate work done on laying another concrete strip as far as I he added would have to come from Nashville" He attributed recent accidents' on Raleigh Road to reckless driving Road is 22 feet wide" he said four feet wider than Bristol Highway about 10 mllea from town But drivers insist on driving 'on the wrong side of the road (Raleigh) over on the concrete section the cause of those accidents' I believe" he added Work on the Third Street widening project as well-as repair on Raleigh Road has stopped the rosont" because of the weather Yeary said But the 10-foot-wldenlng project which will stretch from Chelsea to Poplar has reached MilL This construction by Lehman St Roberts under a $223000 contract will widen Third to SO feet by removing the grass plots on each side of the street The contract calls for 100 working days Completion ia hoped by April 1 Yeary said 'The Mallory Avenue underpass has been completed and la now open to traffic MU Talapboto Shown leaving -her Medford Mass home last night for a plane trip to West Coast is Mrs Phoebe Short (left) divorced mother of Elizabeth Short' whose mutilated body was found Los Angeles vacant lot 'With Mrs Short is another daughter Dorothea 24 Finest Suburban Theater SEMRRY jaCMSOS tAanMt JOHN UAKFIEUI DLL HKNRR1D Between Two Worlds ihs roiiirn kkkd hoady The Cat Creeps CARTOON IN COLOR 9 PM IIMM rarigst tratee SB0ECC mttttuaau ai iwmwm JOHN HOWARD KMRN DREW TEXAS RANGERS RIDE AGAIN IEE TRACY NANtY KEIIY BETRAYAL FROM THE EAST Nawa 1 Btaagaa Calar Cartaaa PM ISe-SSa NEIGHBORHOOD lAMAR NEAR AIRWAY BLVC DOUBLE FEATURE 1 GARY COOPER i JEAN ARTHUR THE PLAIHSMAH AND NANCY JOHN KELLY LODER THE VOMAH VHO GAME BACK Plata Cartaaa IMahln i WILD HIM FMIOTT la SHERIFF OF REDWOOD VALLEY AND SHE KNEW all the ANSWERS LI A NX Dill II I IIAUKK Trc Kilter Dave THREE IN THE SADDLE Mary Hrh Haxhea la THE LADY CONFESSES HOLLYWOOD At MUUVWOD Mallare at Daabl JOHNNY MACK BROWN LAW OF THE VALLEY RICHARD FRASER la WHITE POHGO llaxb Herbert Caaiedy aad Chapter 8 Crimaea (aht MMON At S8HN ATI NEK 9:99 PM Giant Double Feature AMD 4 CARTOONS 4 FRED HELEN MacMUURAY' WALKER In The Screaming Comedy MURDER HE SAYS ALSO JOHN NANCY LODER KELLY THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK Admlaalea DOUBLE FEATURE Matlaee PM CMtiaaaaa ENCHANTED FOREST fin Technicolor) ith Kdrnaad Uvr Rreada Jayea Harry Daveaparl AND SING while YOU DANCE with KMKN DREW aad KOHKKT 8TANTOJC Selerted Shari Ue-SSa Matlaee at Daabb eatar Ilelmat Daatiae Aadrea Klag SHADOW of a WOMAN CHARLES 8TAKBETT fa Blazing Western Trail Matlaee at 9 Taday DOUBLE FEATURE MANCT KELLY AOUX LODES THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK AND GLORIA JEAN JOHN QCALEN RIVER GANG Tha II rat Chapter Ol Jungle Raiders i end Two Color Cartoons Mattaea at Deabla h'eatara JOHNNY MACK BROWN la HAUNTED MINE llaail Kathbeee Nigel Brace DRESSED TO KILL DICK EOKAN la EMPTY HOLSTERS JANK WYATT JULIE BISHOP STRANGE CONQUEST Chirk Carter Serial Cemedy In the News MBA Telephoto This la 22-year-old Elizabeth JShort whose mutilated body was found in a vacant lot Police psychiatrists said the slaying was plainly the work of a sex maniac that the girl was probably tortured for hours before she was choked to death then bludgeoned and cut to destroy identification marks Picture (above) is from the family album (Medford Mass) WILL BE Britiah movie actress Ann Todd will be among those questioned tor possible background information into life of Elizabeth Short the murdered Dahlia" of Hollywood A TEXAS Betty Jo Knox San Benito Texas was crowned Queen Cit-iiana at this Texas Citrus Fiesta Mission Texas jPHW CIBLS IN These two dancers In glass greeted guests at the pants party" of Kayser Glass House Showrooms New York MADAME Berkeley Cal has a woman tnayor 80-year-old Mrs Carrie Hoyt recently elected by City Council to -succeed the mayor pho resigned been a Council member 23 years NEW MVEDISII ST A Dispensing with usual synthetic affected by lereen stars Inga Landgre 19-year-old Swedish film favorite arrived in New York and presumably tor glamor-land Hollywood Handsome Ex-Marine Seen With Beauty One Week Before Torture Death a i'iim LOS ANGELES Jan 18 A trail of two dozen boy friends accumulated across the country by beautiful Elizabeth Short the "Black led today to a red-haired ex-Marine who police said was the number one suspect in her mutilation murder The handsome youth was seen with the 22-year-old former movie extra in San Diego Cal a week before she was strung up nude-and tortured to death probably by jealously-maddened suitor It was also at San Diego that police first came across her nickname which they learned was given her by friends because of her1 passionr for sheer black dresses and her startling black hair Telegram from Officers said that on Jan 8 the day Miss Short left San Diego she received a telegram from Hunting-ton Park near Los Angeles reading: and Til be down for fit was signed Alex Constance 44-year-old Hollywood hair stylist who said he dressed the hair and sometimes took her out said -she had told him she was afraid of the Marine but was afraid to turn down dates with him because he was so jealous -Constance said he once mlw the man come to Elizabeth's apartment driving a dark colored 2937 sedan Residents near the lane where Mias Short's body was found Wednesday reported seeing an old black sedan stop at the curb Another Suspect Another suspect was an unidentified man who reportedly paid Mias rent at a Hollywood hotel He was said to own an old black sedan Another boy friend questioned In the case was former Army flier Joseph Gordon Fickling now employed by Twentieth Century Airlines Raleigh Police said he was not a suspect Fickling disclosed he received a letter from Miss Short written Jan the day she disappeared in hich she said she hoped to go to Chicago to model A wardrobe trunk of Miss discovered In Union Station contained love letters from Picking which Indicated he know whether she was more permanently interested In him than in any other of her 20-odd boy friends liked Gay Living Described as lovely and shy In 1943 when she first came to California for her health the blackhaired beauty had lived in four Southern California cities and liked gaiety Homicide officers piecing together her career discovered their list of suspects was as numerous as the men she attracted in Santa Barbara Long Beach Hollywood and San Diego Posed in Nude She sometimes posed in the nude for a Hollywood photographer her friend Constance said He said her main concern was getting a good job to prove to her mother Mrs Phoebe Short Medford Mass that she could get along by herself Her many roommates in Hollywood apartments agreed that she never landed a steady job But they said she somehow acquired periodic funds for groceries and rent The hairdresser said she sometimes played her many men against each other making dates and then breaking them warned her that would get her into he said FINED BY AFL UNION NOW HEAD CIO UNIT Renaldl Larkin Are Officers For Bargaining Group Joe Renaldl and Homer Larkin Southern Central Co employes fined $300 each by an AFL union on charges of assisting a rival organizing CIO union head the bargaining unit now that it is a CIO local Renaldl has been elected president and Larkin is recording secretary of the Southern Central unit of the United Paper Workers The CIO won representation rights in the plant from the AFL Envelope Sk Tablet Workers Union in a recent NLRB- election A new contract has just been completed between management and union providing for wage increases up to ISM cents an hour and an Improved incentive plan for piece workers Other provisions include a modified union shop and vacations ranging from three days for six employment to two weeks after three years (Renaldl and Larkln left the AFL fines unpaid when the unit switched to the CIO) BUTTER SELLS FROM 72 TO 84 CENTS PER Price of butter in Memphis today ranges from 72 to 84 cents since wholesale prices fell off 2K cents on the New York and Chicago Exchanges At one Weona store called by The Press-Scimitar today butter was selling for 79 cents At another it was 84 cents Kroger stores quoted the price as 74 cents for stick butter and 73 for solid A Liberty store reported its price as 72 cents At some Chicago stores butter was being sold at 89 cents pound STARTS RELIEF IN 0UST6SEC0N0S G-t fomoao praooWpWoiHtypo for foot relief from mil aid miseries Enjoy rrculto which hove made MC the ound- hr aillian In roam Cantieni Taka aaly aa directed PREPARATIONS 8A8MTS 08 UQUtD Ekl ORfN 10130 RINCESS sp HomJ of Attlort HU In Nataral Calar MONTE HALE MAN FROM RAINBOW VALLEY SON OF ZORO SCO Boiclingtime Is Funtime For diversion and healthy fun BOWL! Make up a party and come here for en afternoon or evening filled with good wholes6me sport OPEN PLAY FREE INSTRUCTIONS Every Day 9 PM Also Open Play Every Saturday Sunday Evenings! Custom-Fit Balls Shoes And Bags For Sale SOUTHERN BOWLING LANES Food Bowling Billiards "Bowling Palace of America 299 North 7-7 1 77 NK UAMAR TO TOltAY DOUBLE FEATURE DENNISO'KEEFE HELEN WALKER the hilarioue HER ADVENTUROUS NIGHT The Thrilling Mystery UNDERCOVER WOMAN with RORT LIVINGSTON STEPHANIE BACHELOR SON OF ZORO CARTOON BUN: NoTlbXve'nO LOVE aCIRElE TO II IM TODAY DOUBLE FEATURE johntwayne WALTER RKKNNAN DAKOTA A Boy and Dog 8tory Thrill Old and Young THE RETURN OF RUSTY )N or ZORO CARTOON? 8UNDAY: NOTORIOUS iftHlllilM SOS' TO II TODAY DOUBLE FEATURE ROY ROGERS DALE EVANS GABBY HAYES MY PAL TRIGGER SIDNEY TOLER as Charlie Chan in SHADOWS OVER CHINATOWN CHICK CARTER AND CARTOON Sun: One More Tomorrow Born For Trouble EAmiOIl 1:18 TO 11:88 TODAY DOUBLE FEATURE ELLEN DREW ROBERT STANTON Sing While You Dance and ciiarLie tog les PORTER HALL Parson OffPanamint SON OF EOKOAM CARTOON Bun: Holiday is Mexico 9:18 TO 11:89 TODAY DOUBLE FEATURE JOHN PAYNE MAUREEN SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY and ALBERT DEKKER EVELYN ANKERS FRENCH KEY BQN OF CARTOON Sun: Black Beauty Earl Carroll Sketchbook RIALTiO 1:18 TO 11:89 TODAY DOUBLE FEATURE JANE DAUWKLL EDGAR KENNEDY Capt Tugboat Annie THE EAST SIDE KIDS BOWERY BOMBSHELL JUNGLE CARTOON Sun: Make Mine Musie A Lucky Day HIGH COURT DENIES WRIT IN COTTON SUIT The State Supreme Court today denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in the Berryman Henwood Trustee et al vs McGallum St Robinson Inc case Decision is of especial Interest to railroads and cotton shippers the' litigation being something of a test case involving the for cotton shipments Henwood as trustee for the Cotton Belt Railroad sued fob $790 and Interest on alleged due in' connection with shipment of cotton from Houston to Memphis The complainant represented by Canada Russell Sc Turner won in Chancellor Sweps ton's court and this decision was upheld by the Court of Appeals Shepherd Owen St Heiskell represent McCal-lum St Robinson PROMINENT BELGIAN VISITOR COMING HERE and Mme Charles duChateau of Antwerp Belgium workers in the Belgian underground during the war are to arrive in Memphis tomorrow night from the East It is a business trip duChateau one-time chief of the Belgian Economic Mission to Washington is associated in Ambcll Co Inc of New York export-import and is also a director of John Best Co European shippers He has a meet-led at Plough Inc and will also see other Memphis firms Sam Wolf president of Am-bell is also in town a guest of Ben Goodman Plough attorney CAMERON WILL TALK AT KIWANIS LUNCHEON Charles Cameron will address Kiwanis Club at 12:15 pm Wednesday Hotel Peabody on Accepts the Challenge" Mr Cameron of Meridian Miss Is past governor of Louisiana-Mississippi-West Alabama Kiwanis District MRS EUGENE MAIIAFFEY Mendenhall Road was to enter Baptist Hospital today for treatment She has been ill for several weeks DINE and DANCE NIGHTLY AT THE CASABLANCA Btcaki ttaaSarlehra Bad Mexieaa IM Mania Patarday Night Dy JOHNNY WHITE AND HIS MELODY KNIGHTS Highway 78 Oppaalta Driva-Ia Movies STEAKS-CHICKEN RAVIOLI RIVIERA GRILL JACKSON AT WATKINS DANCING' THE NEW DREAMLAND 188 JEFFERSON COB THIRD BENNETTS ORCHESTRA Daaelny Wad Thar Frl Bat Adarloeiaa SRa Tax 17a TONIGHT AND EVERY Friday and Saturday Nights Fourth and Court ICmpm Hall IM fVmrt) THE DIXIE NOTH' HAND DELICIOUS Home-Cooked Meals CHICKEN DINNERS 4-Course Sunday Dinner $1 Plate Lunches 50c Open Daily Except Lida's Tea Room 1533 Overton Fnrk Ave 2-5112 REAL MEXICAH DINNER Cooked by a Mexican We Invite you to Inspect our kitchen and see how food is prepared We appreciate your trade and you will appreciate our CHIQUITA CAFE 1622 Broadway Phone 797 West Memphis Arkaaaaa Closed All Day Monday DINE DANCE AMERICAN and CHINESE FOOD MUSIC BY James Orch NO mVKK PHHIGE NO MINIMUM CHANGE EXCEPT ON SATURDAY PARADISE II 1618 UNION AVE 38-9883 DINK DANCE TONIGHT IN BEAUTIFUL TERRACE ROOM Ila inflow Lake Dinner 7:30 Dancing 9 Till PAPPY GRAVES And Hie Orchestra Real Italian Spaghetti OaU I HEATRE POP LAR-ANB IVIRCBttN Frlees: Matlaee 40e Evening SO Children 11 Aartlme HELD OVER Sad WEEK! TOMMY KELLY An it GILLIS avia aMttaica rggsr Featara NEXTt "Aitkfsi a My Tam Drake Daaaa mnyco AT -10 ML 1NTEKNATI0NAL PiCTIinS punti MERU GEOdSE OBEROtr Bin CHASMS PAUL KORVIN LUKAS LENOUE ULRIC LUDWIG STOSSEL ARNOLD MOSS Calar Cartaaa Warld Newa NEXT! Alan LADD Hriaa DONLEVY Year Refer the Maaf STRAND NOW! BEGINS TODAY! FIRST MEMPHIS SHOWING! INTRUCOLOR I ACM if Pfl11 COME and THRILL to the ACTION and OUT CALIFORNIA WAY 2 More Calls In Loss of $2000 Pin Two more mysterious phone calls added to the anxiety today of Mrs Katherine Jones 278 McLean who lost a diamond-brooch valued at $2000 Monday Her daughter Mrs Ed Thomas 2734 Garden Lane said a woman phoned yesterday asked you found your brooch?" -and then hung up Later on a man phoned saying think I know who has the brooch Have you received it yet?" When told the brooch -with 14 diamonds in the shape of a cross had not been returned the -man also hung up Mrs Thomas said A reward of $100 for return of the brooch is hieing offered It was a wedding gift to Mrs Jones her daughter said Mrs Jones1' home phone number is 7-5682-W Bhe works at Enjoy Our Special ISUNDAY DINNER! Tsrkar er la Siva Southwestern Grill Dine and Dance1 TONIGHT THE CRICKETT Highway 78 GEORGE PURVIS AND IIIS CRICKETTEERS Enry lVcdaaaSay aaA Saturday Nlsht DANCE TONITE CLUB "61" EVERETT ORCH Paatarlag KR WRB WAMBLE aad HI WEDNESDAY TH HOUGH SUNDAY Cm Chary $154 ampler Km tax except Saturday Na earn charge for dlaacr yaectc Highway dl Boats Thcas MOH TJ7U TONIGHT i A SKYWAY MUSIC BY HAY IKOnniNS AND nil ORCHESTRA Fcatarlay Levely Blende' NITA NANCE HOTEL PEABODY POPULAR PRICE LUNCHEONS FROM 11 AM De Luxe Dinners FROM 5 PM OPEN 11 AM TO 11 PM CLOSED MONDAYS Ceil 48-101 for Keservelleoo The Shangri-La Your Restaurant of Tomorrow 3502 Summer at Highland Starts Wed! THITHFUl mFMOff MGM HIT WITH DONNA REED TaM DRAKE RITZ THEATRE fc POPLAR AND IVISCOeiN dohaay Wataameller In SWAMP FIRE Albert Dukkcr Evatya Aakme FRENCH KEY Nawa aad Navatty MISSISSIPPI STYLE HOME-COOKED MEALS Ha SabatitaMa Hat Blaealta Cara Hama-Mad Preserves aad He Driaklas Wilt's Grill UNDEN at WALNUT HOW OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS Colie Stoltz Orchestra Daaclajr ta I Ceaplea Daly Adm SLM par Tax lad HEAR ARNOLD BATTILINI aad his Orchestra Festering ANITA GRILLI Open Every Nita Exeept Monday! New saver charge 01 JTA Wed' aad FrL aaly wltdU Caapla Bat Kites 834S Far Cenple Clcarpool Club Lenar at Wise he star 48-1713 SILVER SLIPPER Present? a Terrific New Orleans Floor Show Nightly ARTIE JAXON ONEILA D1NOUX Freach Cd Caa TUCKER KEK Magician DINING DANCING 8 PM TO AM LES BRUCH'S SOCIETY ORCHESTRA 1 1188 Cloud Mondays' The New WARNER achievement one of the greatest of all! Joan Crawford JOHN GARFIELD ffltawresqver OSCAHEVANTjaa aa xmmouukx) NOW PLAYING WARNER! liSHp 5P HOW 1 THURSDAY "GALLANT BESS" MUIIMU 1 waas vaaias i i vans" Ttl tht BIG ONES Corns to Lotw's i(d $jfi HO 1 lAOSa- ST A ITS THURSDAY WALT DISNEY'S nnc uvRcNm miwuii TONG 7 SOUTH" IN TECHNICOLO Idlewild Presbyterian Church Presents THOMAS WEBBER Jr Organist In Free Organ Recital Assisted by Marjorie Lee Contralto Sundays Jan 19 4 PM Idlewild Presbyterian Church Paal Lakaa Saiaa Hayward DEADLINE AT DAWN Gaaa Aatry Radley Barantl RED RIVER VALLEY Chapter Han ef'Earre I I.