Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 279, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 12, 1938 Page: 4 of 22
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‘ The Kid’ Sues His Mother
For Earnings as a Child Star
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Given Pair Admitting
Theft of Aulo
For C. C Hightower,
Pioneer of Oklahoma
Democratic Party
Control at Stake
As Illinois Votes
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the sport coats Sizes 6
to 16 years. 2.98 ta 4.91
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match or con-
trast for boys 4
to 12 years of
age.
1.98 to 2.49
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Easter Greetings
Made tram Tow Own Negatives
Photo Card with tovilspi
10 for 98c
MacArthur Phate Service
1M1 Ltawoed 9-5919
Delivered to Your . Home Free!
Call 7-4661 for Particulars
PATTON’S 323 N.W. 10th St.
The Kid . . . Looeo Ost
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Famous Germantown
YARN SALE!
Beautiful soft 4-fold
Germantown Yarn in
every desirable color.
Ideal for baby things. Reg. 29c
Brown’s Yarncraft Shop
Second Floor, First Street
59c
Brown’s First Floor, West
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around the dairy .’til he fell in
love with one of the milk-
maids. He says now his boy
keeps the milk cans shined as
bright as a silver dollar.
perfect wash material.
Sizes 5 to 16.
8.91 to 4.91
Bob Burns:
There’s no question about it,
love is one of the greatest
moving forces tn mankind. Its
influence goes so much deeper
than the mushy sentiment you
hear about in songs. It in-
spires men to do bigger and
better things.
My uncle said that his own
1 boy was one of the laziest men
Jackie Jumper outfits are
tailored in good looking,
sturday fabrics in sizes 4
to 16.
ep WO much chastened New Or-
1 lean* boy* Tuesday were bask-
ing in their first sunshine in near-
C. Sport coat in plain
flannels or the new
checks. Sizes 4 to 16
years. 4.98 te 6.98
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bernstein. Jn«ei, Jackie Coogan.
LO8 ANGELES April 12.-(IF A bitter legal fight loomed
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Officers Elected By
Student Christian Group
Next years officer* of the Student
Christian association at Oklahoma
City University were elected after >
chapel Tuesday morning They will be.
installed by Dr. A. O. Wllllamaon,
university president, in the chapel
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Mother make your boy the well dressed
• young man in a Jackie lumper outfit, Easter
morning We are sure we have just the
right suit or ensemble for him.
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I says, ’'Well, what has hl*
bein' in love got to do with
his keepln* the milk cans ao
shiny?” My uncle says, "Well,
he hasta look at himself every
10 minutes to see if his hair
is layin' down.”
Long Illness Is Fatal
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{ A Beer Dtatribatar
I Bernstein, financial adviaor to th* 4
^ate Mr. Coogan, continued after his J
death as administrator of Jackie's ’
I property. In December, 1934, he 4
married the widow, Just a year before d
Jackies marriage to Mua Grable.
Young Coogan charged that: 4
Bernstein is operating a beer die- 4
tributing business and charging the 3
overhead to Jackie Coogan Produe- 4
tions. Inc.
Bernstein once told him. when he 4
A. Light weight wool suits
in checks and Herring-
bones. Sizes 6 to 12.
6.59 te 8.98
flee*. the legtolature and county of-
fice*.
The Horner organisation Indorsed
Rep. Scott W Lucas for the senate
to aucceed Senator Dieterich. The
Chicago organisation backs U. 8. Dis-
trict Attorney Michael L. Igoe of Chi-
cago, a veteran in state politic*.
Opera'* Greatest Satan
I Aa a basso cantante in the role of
Aphtotophetos he became one of
Ipera’s greatest satans. It waa gen-
frnlly conceded Chaliapin a voice st-
ained it* peak in that role.
Russian liberals of the old. pre-
jvolution days never could forgive
Shaliapin for what they considered
be affront to their cause when, at
oe of his performance*, he was
aoved by patriotic emotion to fall on
da knees before Csar Nicholas H.
toging the Russian national anthem.
The great basso was honored with
te title of “people's artist” by th* so-
let government but waa divested of
in 1127 and a year later his sum-
*r estate was converted into a borne
c red pioneers.
loot Yews in Retirement
Ke bad been in virtual retirement
Dee an attack of influence at Parts
i1995. Ria last concert tour in the
lotted States was tn 1932. At that
ime he said he would never sing in
lusaia again but expressed the wish
• be buried in hie homeland when he
Chaliapin waa twice married In
is biography. “Pages From My Life.”
I described hi* wedding to an Ital-
« ballet dancer, Julia Tornaghi. in
M. in Russia.
The dancer bore him eight children
nd was divorced in Moscow in 1927
I proceedings brought by the stager
trough the soviet consul tn Parts,
b second marriage was to the former
IB*. Maria PatshoM, daughter of a
usaian landowner.
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Sketched is a peach color rayon taffeta, with light blue
organdie collar and sleeve trim
Brown's Shop for Girls — Second Floor, Center
ones Sulu to Lift
)mce Ban on Restaurants
The city council Tuesday ordered a
Mdy of dance hall regulations with
»tew possibly to redrafting ordin-
ncea premitting restaurants to allow
anclng between dinner course* with-
at a regular dance hall permit.
“There's a big difference between a
Iblic dance hall and a restaurant,”
ild Percy Jonas, ward two. “Restau-
uit operator* who have no dance
all permit cannot permit a couple to
ance while in the restaurant, and
2000 GALLONS
—of Pure, Soft. Conditioned Water . . water that is
clean And healthful, water that washes clothes whiter,
and makes food taste better—
MFi-QUia-SOeTHIK
Mt! AH One Stunt
Brown’s
>p for Bogs
cond, Floor
Center
I. White Longie suit In
Key West suiting, thg
The Flurry of Bright
FLOWERS
Add a touch of gaiety to your
Easter suit with a bouquet of
bluettes. lilies of the
valley or daffodils.
ever measured does not weigh
much as the moon We are told.
(Mficeni are Mlsa Carol Shaw, pre-
““ **' ‘ j treasurer
Miss France* Ray bourn, secretary
Hsrvey Jones, music chairman; Mim
Erma Le Chambers, publicity chair-
man; Mia* Frances Long, social chair-
man; Hubert Manire. worship chair-
man; Miaa Beatrice Willis, program
chairman; Miss Dorothy Munn, mem-
1 chairman, and Benjamin
’ Ford, forum chairman.
*
_________I Caaap Fir* Chief Speak*—Mrs Lou
B Paine, Camp Fire Girl* executive, i
h* • acriee of talks to Camp Fire
it which brought
mat which blood
a huge vote. Batimatas ranged from
2.000.000 to 2,500.000 The registra-
tion in the Cook county metropolitan
area—1,971.102—was the largest on
record.
The balloting was for the nomina-
tion of Democratic and Republican
candidate* for United State* senator
27 congreaslonal aeata. three state of-
asked to look at the books, to "get 4
out and atay out. You can't see the a ’
; book* and you’ll never aee them—” “
Bernstein induced him to sign away 4
his rights to the 97,000 insurance -
policy.
Wear* Jaekto’a Watch
Bernstein now to wearing a 9X500 .
platinum watch that waa sent Jack* 4
by an admirer when he waa a child d
star.
Saying she waa “deeply hurt** by 4
her eon's actions, Mrs. Bernstein told A
an interviewer: "
"I am aura he has been misguided 4
HELP
15 MILES OF
KIDNEY TUBES
Te Raab Aside and Other
FeiMMmWaM*
ggagss-s <
MOOMo * poUrtiifl Of a A
jyssai *r seaasr M***ps* with aasrtia* 4
in* omy money rve drawn from
i Jackie Coogan Productions, Inc., is
«. L-rsX" w*£
with my salary to my own businaae.
^ROTHSCHILD'S BASEMENT^
THE LOW-PRICE DEPARTMENT OF A HIGH-TYPE STORE
■ soviet Russian
republic*. ,
Tuesday over Jackie Coogan's suit demanding that hla mother „ JV .
■°^'and stepfather turn over to him $4,000 000 he said he earned as bre*kf»»t
the a child screen star. ln«
of Charles J. Katz, counsel for the stepfather, Arthur Bernstein,
characterized Coogan's charges as absurd. i
‘The young man has received everything he Is entitled to, and, to pick a good mother-in-Taw tno" a
more," he declared. "His mother was entitled to all his earnings I fstber-in-law isn't to important."
Unde Ray s Corner
II—Danger From Comets
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■ TN time* gon* by, many people were
IA much afraid of comet*. They
■ feared some terrible event wa* ahead
■ when they saw on* in th* *ky.
I* Now w* know a great deal more
■ about comets than waa known a few
■hundred years ago. Giant telescopes
■ have been turned on them, and many
■ facts have been learned about their
Istoe and their orbit*.
I About 1,000 visit* of corneta are on
■record. This number include* tome
■ which have been coming back every
Ifew years, and which are to be teen
■ on.y with the help of telescope*. Dur-
I tag the past SO year*, astronomer*
I have observed an average of five or
I six comets per year.
I The most famous comet seen during
I the present century to Halley's. It
was a great sight tn the sky In the
year 1910, and no one needed a tele-
9eope to aee itl The next vtolt of
Halley * comet to scheduled for 19M.
Many persons were worried about
the coming of Kelley’s eomet in 1910.
They feared It would strike the earth,
and reports came from Europe of
people taking their own lives because
of fear,
wasl
As It turned out. Halley’s cornet did
I Do harm to anyone. Neither ha* any
ether comet hurt a single human be-
tag. ao far u our records go. ■ . _
Comet* differ a great deal in stee. met*or*- Million* of meteors have
RomeUtnes the front part, or head, is 8^ruc^ earth without doing any
| Mm than 10,000 miles wide. In other i 8re,t harm, so why worry about a
08*** the head baa a width of a mil-
Bon mile*. Holmes' eomet which ap.
“ x*a* 1.900,000
IMUes wide.
The "nucleus" of a comet to the
■ore solid part of the head. We
■tight call it “the real head not
•ountlng the hair.” Usually it is
Has than 190 miles wide, but some-
<>■■■ * has a width of <00 or 500
The tails of comeU also differ,
•ane hare wy abort tails, or none
M all Others have tails stretching
Mt about 190.0MJMO miles
Although some comets are of huge
they are not made of heavy
Muff Careful tatea by astronomers
to prow that the targeet comet
4 Special EASTER Sale!
1.300 Fine Wool Worsteds. New Herring-
bones. and All-Wool Tropical Worsteds!
MEN’S SUITS
198 1. 898
playing the horse race*.
He reviewed hi* career as a child
actor, beginning in 1919 with Charlie
Chaplin, when he played a bobbed-
haired, dark-eyed little waif. Hi*
family at the time, waa having “a
struggle to get slong" cr. the meege' ! — —-
earning* of hi* father, who was a haa nothing and that I refused to leaden Tuesday in Tulsa
J vaudeville trouper. , »lve him any part of the eatate No i ■—
there’s always some couple jumping
up to dance
ought to make
tween this type of dancing and that ’ reived was an MOo'sutomoblle. a M25 spectacled? nattiiy-dreased"husband '
wlae*ma vs*Wz\»a i a t a 1 a* i *a 11^%**.* aa a—a*, zxaa <*resa^A — O , - -■ - - ■ - •• a— a 1
dancing.”
A. L. Jeffrey, municipal counselor,
was directed to study the matter and
report next Tuesday.
Dresses to make the most of your young, young charm,
your coloring, your endearing figure. The spirit of
Easter is captured by these clever frocks in five styles.
Plain colors and printed rayon taffetas, sizes 4 to 12.
Death ended a long illness Tuesday
old iiioneer Oklahoma aettler and fa?
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They Look and Fit Like $30.00 Clothes!
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New Green, New Foudre Blues, New Greys,
New Tan. >-Button Single and Double
Breasted Full California Drape Models.
BASEMENT STORE
Use Your
700 Will Honor
Fords at Wedding
Anniversary Party
Celebration Planned
In Reproduction Of
Independence Hall
DETROIT. April 12——Seven
hundred guest* have been invited
to Tuesday night’s celebration of the
golden wedding anniversary of Henry
Ford and Clara Brvant. the woman
who believed in him when he was *
*35 * month mechanic tinkering with
gasoline engine*.
The party will be held in the repro-
duction of Independence hall in
Greenfield Village, the vast Ford proj-1
ect devoted to early American*.
About 100 early friend* and school- )
mate* of Mr. and Mr*. Ford will be |
among Tueaday night'* guest* ;
A reception for 500 gue*ts wm held '
Monday night at the home of Mr and
Mr*. Ed.se! Ford on Lake 8t. Clair, j
Among the 500 guest* were manv rep-
resentative* of Detroit’* first families,
executive* in the automobile industry
and leader* in public Ufe A cake
weighing 125 pound* was cut.
Ford disclosed that on the fiftieth
anniversary of his marriage he arose
at < 30 a m and went to work after
; on a tractor he 1* develop-
A.^ked about his view* on marriage.
Ford said one should “stick to on»
model " He added, “of course you have
he declared. "His mother was entitled to all his earnings i f»tber-in-law ton t ao important."
up to the time he became of age.” ~ *
* * * - ' ”” ” y”” * Freed by Judge, \
Home by Easter
- | family came
[ Oklahoma
Georgia in the
early days snq
settled in Jack-
aon county. High-
tower moved the
first building, a
small frame one, from Frailer to Al-
tua. He waa instrumental in secur-
ing for Altus and Jackson county the
Frisco and Orient railroad*.
Survivors include his wife; * daugh-
ter. Mrs. Brodie Hamilton, and two
are Alphonse Decareaux other aona. C. C. Hightower Jr. and
and Alvin Howatf. bothyear* E. H. Hightower, all of Lai Angele*
It to my Intention at year-old Oklahoma City boy, were by plana"’ Tuead*y” morning~7or Loe
b th At vnv nrrtthwF wnri i fllVfn *tffht«v*faF Anealaa
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would not weigh a* much aa the
moon.
would have made a proper accounting
to me long ago.
Receivers Appelated
"If my father had lived, no con-
troversy of thia sort would ever have
arisen '•
Superior Judge Emmet Wilson set „ , r
April 20 for a hearing of the suit, ap- robe complete for the first time program at N a. m. next Tueadpy.
pointed a temporary receiver for the aince one of hi* cellmate* left for , C“ __~ ;
assets of Coogan and Mr. and Mrs. Granite reformatory about the same , sident. Pershing Hunter
Bernstein and issued a temporary or- time that Howard’s shoes vanished. — - -
der restraining the defendant* from Barron House], insurance man. who
disposing of any property. »•» sitting as a Juror in another
Coogan set forth in hi* complaint noticed Howard’s embarrass-
that he believed Bernstein had dis- ment and sent around a nearly new
slpated considerable of his money by P*lr 01 trouaer* and a new pair of
—- - ahoes.
The boy* said they left Algiera. berahip
west bank suburb of New Orleans. “~-J *
March 2- and met Moore In Okla-
homa City.
morning for C C Hightower. 15 year*
(.J . . ... i
ther of W E.
Hightower, vice- '
president of the |
First NationsJ
bank here. High- I
tower died at hto ■
home tn Los An-
gele*. Calif.,
where he has
I been living the
last several years.
j The Hightower
to
from v
Heavy Ballot Forecast
Aa Result of Bitter
Campaign
CHICAGO, April 12 —oPl—Control j
of the Democratic party In Illinois ,
was the big prise at stake Tuesday I
in the state-wide primary, the na-
tion's first off-year election.
The contenders were the Chicago
Democratic organization headed by
Mayor Edward J. Kelly and National
Committeeman P A Nash, and the
“downstate” force* of Gov. Henry
Horner.
Fair weather and the bitterly fought
campaign were expected to stimulate
Coogan, now 22 year* old, and
tmarried to Actress Betty Grable, filed
' hi* suit Monday, charging that hi* (
mother and Bernstein withheld hi*
money from him. He quoted his
mother as having said, when he asked la
her about the matter 18 1 OllUlB AlUl
“You haven t got a cent. There never
haa been a cent belonging to you.
It's all mine and Arthur'a, and so far
as we are concerned you never will
get a cent.”
Waited far Accountin*
Explaining hi* action, Coogan, the
“kid" of ailent picture*, aaid:
“I have waited patiently tor some
time for my mother and Mr. Bematein ly a month and laying plan* to be
to make an accounting to me of my back "under the levee" by Easter.
property. I owe a duty to my wife They are Alphonse Decareaux other aons. C. C. Hlghtower jr" and
and to myaelf not to wait longer. and Alvin Howard, both 19 year* E. H. Hightower, all of Los Angeles
“It to a course which I deeply re- old. who, with Delbert Moore, 17- W. E. Hightower toft Oklahoma City
gret to take, f* ‘--- ---*l---“ --L ~ '• - — -
all time* to see that my mother and I given eight-year auspended aen-
my little brother are amply provided tences late Monday by Ben Arnold,
tor. I am aatiafied If ahe were not diatrict Judge, after they pleaded
under the influence of Bematein ahe I guilty to stealing an automobile.
Moore, who live* at 727 West
Reno avenue, wa« back home Tues-
day. The other boy* were instructed
to keep in touch with the court until
arrangement* are completed for
sending them home.
Howard was reveling not only in
his new freedom but also in a ward-
rotm-TUtSDAY, APRIL », 1838. OKLAHOMA ClTY TIMES
|)eath in Exile Ends Vivid Career of Chaliapin,
Joie of Satan
J to see itl TL
Halley’s comet to scheduled for 1999
r:
Je coming of Halley’s comet in 1910.
and reports came from Europe
What a foolish tiling that Halley’s cemet on night of May IS,
1919. The bright spot al tire right
ta tiie planet Venae.
The head* of comet* are believed to
contain solid object* probably like
-.-v meteor*. I“”’ ;____ ;___
head, is ’gtruck the earth without doing any
comet sinking u*7 Even if it ram*
"head on.” it probably would amount
to no more than a heavy etoowor of
meteors,
(For general tatereat er science see-
yew scrapbook.)
_ UNCLE RAY.
Tomorrow—The Bright Star Vega
(Copyrieht, IM*, for OXUhom. co )
pi Soviet Charges Drove
'] Artist From Homeland
k] On Volga's Shores
“PARIS, April 12.—“Ti—Feodor
Rhaliapin. the great Russian
Maaso, died Tuesday at the age
jj£ 64.
P Death resulted from a kidney ail-
!*gent which brought on anemia,
transfusions
were unavailing.
Death came in
his Paris apart-
ment ills home
ta exile.
Chalinpin was
bom in 1873, in
* one-room peas-
ant hut at Kazan
on the middle
Volga, now capi-
tal of one of the
He |
fame and for-
tune only to be
accused by L..
soviet pres* <
having "sold his
soul to Mam-
%on." Interviewed in Pari*, he once
hid:
| "I left Russia without a cent, and
ms obliged therefore to aell my soul
b the devil. Yes, I sold it, and it is
Jot my fault . . . Pay no attention
these accusations, as I have been
gullied by the press on ail aorta of oc-
"The only money I’ve drawn from
| surance policy.
Aa for the million dollar “trust1 my aalasy ”
fund" supposed to have been
him. it never existed. Coogan asserted.
He expressed belief that hi* father,
killed in 1935 in an automobile acci- x
dent, had been unselfish in wishing a
him to live, not as a boy with a huge 4
income, but as any other child. I 4
When he became of age, he said, a
even his small spending allowance "
was stopped by his mother and Bern- 4
u stein and he has since been depend- .
_ in 1 fnt uP°n occasional stage and screen 4
fact, that a hundred of them together fn8*8ements to earn hi* living. 4
would nnf. AB ma Ik* 4 Rmt n^ta4k*Bi*ar’
• •’■w ****** reaaj no
Ne MUto. Dollar Trust ' W#r* to «‘v« him
beturen course* We From “the kid" and 17 hit picture* Mrs Bematein. plump and matron-
some difference be-1 that followed. Coogan said, all he re- ly. read over the suit with her be-
at places whose principal business ta weekly allowance, and a <7,000 in-
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