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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939 PAGE 10A. SI LOUIS POST-DISPATCH closed shop contract GAG WRITER SUES JACK BEKNY FIREMEN DENY STORY OF Po were rushing on the "Red liEX-JUDGE SAYS AFFAIR ITALY TESTS DEFENSE vaders. Suing Former Oklahoma Judge Advancing from the direction the Piedmont and France were some 10,000 men of the new Superga 1 BROKE UP HIS HOME OF FRENCH ORDER infantry division, acting as the invaders, while "attacking and "defending" planes droned overhead in mock combat and bombardment FOR USING 1936 WISE CRACKS Seeks $65,000 aa Share of Radio and Movie Earnings He Says Are Based on His Jokes. LOS ANGELES, Aug.

3 (AP). Earry W. Conn, a. writer of jokes, humorous sketches and assorted whimsies, is sueing Jack Benny, radio and movie comedian for charging breach of contract Conn says he became Benny's principal gag-writer in 1932 and remained with him for four and The Milan newspaper II Corriere della Sera has described the ma 60,000 Mock Troops Battle Engaged in Observers Testifies He Lost First Wife and His Fortune in Romance With Secretary. neuvers, which started Tuesday, as a march toward the enemy with for Axis Allies Watch.

the double purpose of not only stopping any invasion but to circum vent or crush, with a powerful counteroffensive, the imprudent AT COLUMBIA TERMINALS CO. A. F. L. Men Replace Six Workers; Wage Rises Provided Under Three-Year Pact.

Six men employed as helpers at the Columbia Terminals 400 South Broadway, were replaced by members of the A. F. of L. Teamsters' Union, as the result of the signing of a new contract, which went into effect July 18, calling for a closed shop agreement with the company for truck helpers. At the company offices it was said the men were temporary employes working for the company during the rush season, and had been employed les3 than three months.

Eight other helpers, who had been with the company for longer periods, were taken into the union. The new agreement, which will run for three years, provides for $1 a week increase each year for the drivers of the lighter trucks. Operators of the large trucks received a $1 a week increase, and will receive another $1 increase the a half years, developing characters and situations which popularized Benny and his program. MISS PERKINS' AUTO BUr Chauffeur Blocked Flrehoase IW With It, They Say, Making Equipment Useless. NEW YORK, Aug.

3 department officials were burned up today over an official port to Congress that Secretary Labor Perkins' car burned on tb, doorstep of the Yorkville fire sts. tion because firefighting chemici, had been exhausted. A department spokesman assert ed that when the car took fire, June 10, Miss Perkins' chauffe drove it 50 feet to the firehoua. The car blocked the entrance that the firemen not only could get their equipment out, th spokesman said, but they had ti shut the doors of the station keep it from catching fire. In reporting on a request for new car for the Labor Secretary Sam J.

Gompers, chief clerk of Uij) Perkins' department, said: "The firemen were out of mat rial for putting out gasoline fire, and somebody went out to get some-but by the time he came back the car was MILAN Aug. 3 (AP). An army OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok, Aug. 3 (AP). Fred Branson, 59 years old, former Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, said today Since he left Benny in 1936, Conn ef 60,000, employing aviation, railways and modern war machinery, hurled its force today against simu maintains, the comedian has continued to use his characters, quips and sequences, and while he has the expressed fear of his ex-stenog lated invadert from the French rapher about her condition forced his wife into divorce court.

Branson, charging that 47-year- frontier region. been paid nothing, Benny has earned $1,170,000 from radio programs and $140,000 from motion pictures. Speaking of "the enemy across the Alps," the newspaper commented: "Of the four states on our frontier one only is frankly inimical, another is friendly and allied, the other two are friendly and neutral." Italy's bordering neighbors are France, Germany, Switzerland and missions from Germany, Spain, Japan and Hungary enjoyed special contacts with the Italian high command to observe the maneuvers. The only foreign newspaper men covering the games on The maneuvers were designed to show the fate awaiting an enemy old Madeline Braniff Branson brought his ruin, financially and Conn says the contract called attempting to enter Italy. otherwise, rested his case against for him to write for 39 weeks in exchange for 5 per cent of Benny's earnings during the time the comic used the material.

her separate maintenance suit. Italian newspapers treated the manuvers almost as though a real war were being waged. Front pages Branson said he was working in bis office one morning in 1928 when Benny's associates said they be lieved he was in Florida. third year. and many columns inside were devoted to describing the dexterity ehA went to him "in hysterics" and the spot were from those countries.

King Vittorio Emanuele, always an active paticipant in the war BRITAIN HAS SECRET DEVICE with which the defending "Blue" told him she wanted to see a doc tor. Tells of Buying Pills. forces Italy's mobile Army of the games, will review the troops, FOR LOCATING SUBMARINES "She had a slip of paper," he re Lord Stanhope Tells Lords Other lated, "on which was written the Countries Are Aware of Value of Apparatus. names of some pills they (the doc 1 UiiinJMjyA LONDON, Aug. 3 (AP).

Lord tors) sueeested. This defendant and Stanhope, First Lord of the Ad IMHUKSK 33HaK went into the drug store miralty, announced yesterday that bought the pills. "That's what this defendant 6th Pine corner Great Britain had a secret apparatus for locating submarines. means wnen ne speans ui me He told the House of Lords oth tragedy in this case. That is what Score On Again We 6253 Nat'l Bridge .821 N.

Jefferson Corner ef Franklin 3900 W. Florissant Grand at Olive has been going on since 1925 and uranu ai uaies 6212 Easton 1000 Franklin 9th I er countries were aware of the value of the device and added, "I do not think they have got this apparatus or anything like it. that is the weapon that forced this defendant's wife into a divorce court." Associated Press Wirephoto. MADELINE BRANIFF BRANSON The plaintiff is seeking $500 a FREE DELIVERY CH. 6345 (CONSULTING her attorney, HAROLD THURMAN, in court in month for support.

Branson con tends their marriage in 1930 was AJ CI 4.1 It A "When this country declared that if submarine attacks in the Mediterranean continued we should be justified in sinking any submarines in that area, submarine attacks promptly stopped." illegal because it took place within HAPPY six months after his first wiie, OLD HAPPY AGREEMENT TO STOP SELLING W. H. Kettig, Banker, Dies. JACKSONVILLE, Aug. Eula Branson, divorced him.

Taking the stand in rebuttal, the HOLLOW LISTER1NE AS DANDRUFF CURE (AP). W. H. Kettig, 76 years old, Used Washing Machine Part VRiriGER ROLLS, 49c of Birmingham, financier and plaintiff declared the doctor's visit which Branson described "just AGED 4 YEARS BARREL WHISKEY former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, died didn't happen." Lambert Phannacal Co. Also Promises Trade Commission to Quit Say Branson summoned 11 rebuttal early today of a cerebral hemor WASH MACHINE CO.

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The How Aged 17 3 Years vl 11 Mellower than I I Qt' ever, because it's now aged 3 years. in the last 15 years and left him on the financial rocks. PICCADILLY Happy- Lambert Pharmacal Co. of St. Louis, manufacturer of Listerine, Tells How Fortune Shrank.

Distilled joior Delivering an autobiography from has entered into a stipulation with the Federal Trade Commission to stop its claims that the product London Dry GIN the witness stand yesterday, Bran but you can still buy it at the same low price. son asserted a $350,000 fortune either cures or permanently re made in the Texas oil fields had lieves dandruff, "kills the dandruff on II hSS 85c V2 Pint, 35o Pint 65o shrunk to $700 in bank accounts germ," "attacks the cause of dand and land of only potential value. Gallon, $4.50 Irregulars of Better Shirts From 2 Noted Manufacturers Distilled Inn 100 American grain. ruff," "gets at the cause" or "at the seat of the trouble" or pene His wooing of Madeline Braniff before and after the marriage was trates the hair follicles or "annihi on a lavish scale, Branson testified, lates" the dandruff germ. and dry wells in Texas added to his WESTON'S imported SCOTCH The company has further agreed financial difficulties.

to stop representations that the "The tongue of luxury," he said. PRIDE of ST. LOUIS NOW 3 YEARS OLD ft 25 it. could not exaggerate his treatment 8 Years Old 12 Years Old product has "marked curative properties due to certain ingredients in a unique combination shared by of her since she became his ste 7 nographer at the Capitol in 1923, a $029 SQ79 no other antiseptic." few weeks after he was inducted into office. In all.

since 1923. he said, he FIFTH FIFTH showered more than $60,000 on her. The stipulation resulted from disagreement among physicians as to whether dandruff is always a disease, it was said today by John L. Johnston, president of the Of this amount, $32,990, "by the adding machine," was expended rVS. I II (thj since the marriage.

IMF' Speaking of her first trip to New York in 1923, Branson said INDIAN GIRL FOUND DEAD "The defendant paid $900 for the 4 trip and $500 for clothes alone. The IN NEBRASKA; 3 MEN HELD same amount in 1924 and it was One Admits Assaulting and Striking $1200 in 1925 for the six months stay jn New York. "Just Before the CASH CARRY 0 "In 1926, it was $900 and after the big escapade to New York just prior to the tragedy (their 1930 marriage The overwhelminq accept to which he had alluded as such before) clothing, trips and rings cost $2200. "All the time she was in New Sanforized- Shrunk York and North Carolina (after their marriage) studying music, this defendant was down in the dust and mud of Texas trying a make Her; All Tell of Drinking Party, But Deny Killing. GORDON, Aug.

3 (AP). A newspaper carrier boy found today the body of Nellie Yellow Thunder, 19 years old, Pine Ridge (S. Indian girl, who had been missing since Monday night. Police said the girl had been criminally assaulted and that Irving Tail, 17, had admitted assaulting and striking the girl. Taken to the Sheridan County Jail at Rushville for questioning with the young man were his father, Daniel Tail, 35, and Levi Black Bear, 38.

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