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Newspaper

Tucson Daily Citizen

Location

Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Date

Jun 24, 1940

Page

4

Tucsonian to Marry Phoenix Resident Soon

Mrs. I. A. Florian of Phoenix hosted a tea on Saturday advising the engagement of her daughter Frieda Florian to Dr. Hubert D. DeWolf of Tucson. The couple and their families are named, with wedding plans anticipated and notes on education and affiliations.

Dr. DeWolf Frieda Florian I. A. Florian Phoenix Frieda Folrian Hubert D. DeWolf Tucson Bobby Woods Edwin Fitzgerald Norman Jamieson Anna Coates M. H. Baskin

Benefit garden party reservations listed for Thursday

Reservations are made by Tucson residents for a Catholic Daughters of America benefit garden party to support the Pima county preventorium. Attendees include numerous local couples and Miss Frances Kohler, Frances Small, Kitty McKay, and others. Tickets are available at 304 North Church Street or by calling Frances Kohler.

M. P. McCarthy Frank Ricke D. Sullivan Walter Senoir Gus Taylor Charles Taylor M. C. Weinzapfel Joe Weinzapfel A. Witz A. B. Seih C. Droeger Frances Kohler Frances Small Kitty McKay Alice Senoir Lillian Leslie Loretta Leary Theodora Reiiwand Jeanette Witz Mildred Corbett Audrey Markley Rose Hourigan Elizabeth Keavey North Church Street

Picnic Held by Homemakers Club at Mallory Park

Homemakers and their families gathered Friday at Mallory Park near Tumacacormission for a 7 30 picnic event. Husbands attended as guests of honor and a short business meeting followed with a vote to discontinue meetings until September when officers will be elected at Mrs Leota Gatlin's home. Attending were Mesdames Gladys Small Jennie Clark Kathryn Casanega Pearl Clark Nellie La Plant Anette Edgells Vernon Gatlin Claryce Massey Virginia Harrison and their husbands plus visitors Mr and Mrs Z Clark Halcyone Clark Mr and Mrs Osie Barkley Tommy Barkley Donna Lee Spencer Ann Pendleton Carmen Watson Ruth Gatlin Marilyn Sprinkle Irene and Walter La Plant.

Suport Mallory Park Tumacacor Mission Leota Gatlin Mesdames Gladys Small Jennie Clark Kathryn Casanega Pearl Clark Nellie la Plant Anette Edgells Vernon Gatlin Claryce Massey Virginia Harrison Z. Clark Halcyone Clark Osie Barkley Tommy Barkley Donna Lee Spencer Ann Pendleton Carmen Watson Ruth Gatlin Marilyn Sprinkle Irene Walter la "Plant

Safford Couple Will Marry At Early July Rites

A shower was given in Pima high school for Miss Verna Cluff of Pima and her fiancé Erven Carter of the Carter family. The event honors their July 4 marriage after both graduated from Gila Valley schools. Carter works at the Inspiration Company store in Miami.

Safford Daily Citizen Pima High School Verna Cluff Vernon Cluff Pima Erven Carter Bert Carter Mildred Cluff Marjorie Smith Louise Green Regina Maloy Edith Welch Ruth Farley Mary E. Mangum Josephine Follett Delsa McBride Bryce Virginia Preston Miss Green Julia Waters Miss Cl

Out-Of-Door Model Sandy Rice Credits Natural Hair Care

Auburn haired Sandy Rice, a top notch model at John Powers' Park Avenue studio, champions natural hair and daily brushing for shine. She blends outdoor girl image with humor about her clumsy moments, health routine, and playful vanity while detailing travel and dating life.

Sandy Rice John Powers’ Model Factory Park Avenue Miss Rice New York Benton Rice

Walter Winchell On Broadway Snippets and Incidents

Walter Winchell On Broadway notes nightlife and theater buzz. Ruth Selwyn no longer producer of Walk With Music after week one. Lois De Fee accused of barroom aggression at Eltinge stage door. Al Smith wears a Willkie button. A disruptive woman at the Stork Club released after promising not to return. Prices for Scotch to rise due to the war. A Life photographer sparked backstage tension at Keep Off the Grass. Giants fans yelled Sit down at A. G. Vanderbilt and Oscar Levant in a backstage moment.

Ruth Selwyn Lois de Fee Eltinge al Smith West 57Th St A. G. Vanderbilt the Millionaire Oscar Levant

American flag pin prompts color options at Bonwit Teller

A ZaSu Pitts type visits the Fifth Avenue store and asks to see flag pins. A saleswoman presents British French and Yankee Doodle emblems. the customer chooses the American pin and asks for variations in color.

Bonwit Teller Fifth Avenue ZaSu Pitts

Party guest list on Long Island ends with bank joke

At a millionaire hosted party on Long Island Nan Rae and Maude Davis from Keep Off The Grass attended. They decline smoking and drinking gifts and respond that after each engagement they usually visit their bank.

Long Island Nan Rae Maude Davis Maude

Radio Comic Elopes With Friend's Stooge

A radio comic elopes with his friend's stooge then returns to the Justice of the Peace for a second ceremony. When asked what is wrong the reply is nothing and the note that this one is for the West Coast.

Justice of the Peace West Coast

Weight machine warns hoaxer with career advice

Whitney Bolton relays a tale of a conceited man who dropped a penny into a weighing machine and received a card reading 165 pounds with a warning about his career. He repeats the process, only to get the same warning, then the machine quips that it knows what it is talking about.

Whitney Bolton

Groucho Quips Divorce Offer on Dance Floor

In a new Marx Brothers film Groucho appears as a lawyer trying for clients. He cuts in on a newlywed couple at a dance floor and boasts he can arrange a divorce and make all three of them happy. He slyly clarifies the plan as you two and the other woman.

Montreal Sandy Rice Groucho

Calm Roosevelt recollection of near bombing incident

Intimates recall a 20 year old bombing near the Roosevelt home. The blast shattered glass and damaged the lower house while Eleanor Roosevelt calmed a frightened John and reassured her family it was only a small bomb.

Mrs. Roosevelt John Eleanor

Mrs. Roosevelt Orders Iodine Kept In White House Room

Geoffrey T Hellman depicts a White House moment when a visitor was bitten by a shepherd dog in the First Lady's room as Mamie the maid explains the incident and Mrs Roosevelt replies. The exchange ends with a sharp note about safety measures.

Geoffrey T. Hellman White House

Bugs Baer digs at Hearst parlor with deafness quip

The column notes Bugs Baer roasting a Broadway paragrapher once signed by Hearst papers in the 1920s. Baer quips about a two year advance contract and jokes about insurance against deafness, illustrating pointed media satire of the era.

Bugs Baer Hearst Gazette Bugs

Italian dodges draft with dental ruse ends in flat feet

In a West 48th Street tavern a man claimed to dodge Mussolini's draft by pulling half his teeth at his dentist. He then went to the Draft Board but the physician declared him unfit for service with the remark Dis missed flat feet.

48Th St Mussolini Duce

Quote snippets from wartime pundits and film reviews

Literary lines on propaganda and love are paired with Times film notes. Samuel Grafton likens propaganda to fog of war, Robert Gillham mocks committees by minutes, Linda Brent lauds warm names, a Times line hints at sabotage misdirection, and Jack Tarver notes a weary double feature ending.

Samuel Grafton Robert Gillham Linda Brent Times Jack Tarver

Pythian Sisters Card Party At Mrs Roddy Home

The Pythian Sisters host a lawn card party at 910 East Fifth Street at 8 Friday evening with Whist auction and contract bridge. The Typographical auxiliary No 135 meets at 7 30 Monday in the Labor Temple and asks all members to attend.

Pythian Sisters Lillian Roddy East Fifth Street Labor Temple

Mariposa CES Chapter Holds Regular Meeting

Mariposa chapter No 31 CES will meet at 8 oclock Tuesday in the Masonic Temple. Miss Ada Watwood worthy matron will preside. All local and visiting members are urged to attend the session.

Mariposa CES Masonic Temple Ada Watwood

Women’s Missionary Society Meeting At First Baptist Church

The society holds a 6 30 PM picnic supper on the church lawn with an 8 PM program. Theme is A Searchlight on the Great Northern Convention in Atlantic City and Rev Richard S Beal will share excerpts. All friends invited to attend.

Women’s Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church Atlantic City Richard S. Beal

Juanita Temple No. 6 Pythian Sisters Meet

Juanita Temple No 6 Pythian Sisters will meet Wednesday evening at 8 oclock in IOOF hall Members of the degree staff have been asked to be present for practice.

Juanita Temple Pythian Sisters IOOF

Tucson Women’s Democratic Club Postpones June Meeting

The Tucson Women’s Democratic Club postpones its regular June gathering and announces the next meeting will be held Monday, July 22.

Tucson Women’s Democratic Club

Pigs Need Vitamins A and D, Davis Report Says

Dr E H Hughes of UC Berkeley finds pigs require vitamins A and D and components of vitamin B complex including riboflavin and B-6. Without them pigs develop impaired vision, challenging the view that pigs are simple animals.

Davis Cal. U.pr E. H. Hughes University of California’s Agricultural College

Early play preferences differ by gender in toddlers

A study finds boys and girls aged two and three choose similar toys, yet girls show more interest in drawing painting and clay modeling, indicating early gendered preferences in creative activities.

Day Camp Closes Season With Pageant And Arts Show

Tucson Girl Scouts wrap up their All States clubhouse day camp with a puppet show three wishes and a theatre skit program. The highlight is the Magic Fountain pageant with Grecian costumes directed by Charless Hinds. About 75 girls attended with 58 achieving perfect attendance and many knitting for the Red Cross.

Tucson Girl Scouts All States Brownie Scouts Clements Bailey John Ransom Charles Doyle Charless Hinds Tucson Margaret Mayes Red Cross Carol Anne Biggiestone Sally Dixon Jean Sharon Lorena de Santos Patty Tidmarsh Jeanette Ruggles

Homemakers Hear Conference Report At Recent Meet

Members of the A mountain Homemakers club met at Mrs. Jeanette Sparks home to hear Flo Mowrer, the club delegate to the country life conference at the University this month. Charles Greller was elected reporter to succeed Ruby Ormsby. The group sewed on the club quilt during the afternoon. Present were Bonnie Heller Juanita Evans Fay Grayson Maxine Peugh J M Green Frances Miller Rosa Cazee Edna Heller Betty Heigle Florence Mowrer Dorothy Mathews Jeanette Sparks and Charles Greller. Visitors were Gloria Henreich and June Heller.

A” Mountain Homemakers Club Jeanette Sparks Flo Mowrer Charles Greller Ruby Ormsby Mesdames Bonnie Heller Juanita Evans Fay Grayson Maxine Peugh J. M. Green Frances Miller Rosa Cazee Edna Heller Betty Heigle Florence Mowrer Dorothy Mathews Charles Gfeller Gloria Henreich June Heller

Flavoring Added To Cake Mixture As Final Step

The guide notes flavoring can be the last ingredient or stirred into the creamed sugar and shortening mixture for better cake texture. It suggests a few more stirs are acceptable before baking.

Jean and Rupert confront a dangerous triangle

Jean survives a night crash with Green a drug addict linked to a night club. Rupert, alerted by Captain Murphy, learns Jean was with Green as Laurel confronts truth about Gaby and a planned marriage. Tension rises as Jean faces her stepfather about family secrets and loyalties.

Guests from New Mexico Attend Western Wheat Conference

Mrs. Walter J. Wakefield and her niece Miss Mary Anne Adams stay at a Tower hotel in New York City. Prof. Arthur T. Bartel leaves Tucson for Pullman Washington to attend the Western Regional Wheat Conference, planning a ten day trip.

Walter J. Wakefield Mary Anne Adams Paseo Redondo A Tower Hotel New Yorkty Arthur T. Bartel Tucson Pullman, Wash Bartel

Dr. Carl Riesen Enjoys Stay At Beekman Tower New York

Dr. Carl H. Riesen son of Dean and Mrs E R Riesen at 621 North First Avenue is spending several days at the Beekman Tower hotel in New York.

Carl H. Riesen Dean E. R. Riesen North First Avenue Beekman Tower Hotel New York

Mrs Van Atta Returns From Kansas City Visit

Mrs Thomas Van Atta and her young son Tommy have arrived back from a trip to Kansas City where they visited Mrs Van Atta’s sister Mrs Arthur Hardgrave in a mid western town.

Kansas City Thomas van Atta Tommy van Atta Arthur Hardgrave

Dittman Family Welcomes Barbara Home For Summer

Miss Barbara Dittman of El Encanto returns from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to spend the summer with her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Dittman. Allen Dittman will depart for Berkeley later this month to attend summer school at the state university.

Barbara Dittman George Dittman el Encanto Ann Arbor Mich University of Michigan Allen Dittman Berkeley Calif State University

Fairgrieves Leave Tucson For Eastern Tour

Mrs Russell Fairgrieve of the Southern Arizona School for Boys and her daughter Miss Beverly Fairgrieve depart Tucson for a vacation. They will visit eastern points travel in Canada and join Captain Russell Fairgrieve in Pennsylvania before returning home.

Tucson Russell Fairgrieve Southern Arizona School For Boys Beverly Fairgrieve Captain Russell Fairgrieve Pennsylvania Canada

Fulton Family Heads to Balboa for Summer Stay

Mr and Mrs William Frayden Fulton Jr and their children Nancy Rose and Duncan have left for Balboa California to spend part of the summer there in the coming weeks.

William Frayden Fulton, Jr Nancy Rose Duncan Balboa Calif

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