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Hesitating Blues (Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtimers; Decca). Compelling blues rhythms and rough, torrid blowing from an eight-man combination. Spanier, long venerated in the hot-jazz world, lately smashed attendance records at Manhattan's Arcadia Ballroom, now rates as a name-bander...
Died. William F. Gettle, 54, oil-wealthy Arcadia (Calif.) kidnap victim in 1934; of chronic liver trouble; in Beverly Hills...
...came to depend too much on Pa. She asked him, for instance, to settle a strike of 210 workers making mosquito netting at Arcadia Knitting Mills, Inc. in Allentown, Pa. She dumped cases into the Board's lap at the rate of almost one a day, not counting Sundays and holidays. The Board did what it could, working night & day, sitting for twelve to 18 hours at a stretch. Of 34 cases certified, it ended 28, sent one back to Ma Perkins as out of its jurisdiction...
...Helis family belongs in Arcadia, high in a mountain district which not even the terrible Turks ever conquered and from which come some of Greece's ablest highland fighters. William Helis' grandfather was mayor of their town for 32 years. Young William went to America after finishing secondary school, did odd jobs in New York and Milwaukee. In 1908 he married a Philadelphia girl of Dutch descent, who bore him three daughters and a son. He set up a coffee and spice business in Kansas City, Mo., became a top sergeant in the National Guard in World...
Last week, as it pushed into the central cow country, the Live Stock Special had drawn 19,000 sightseers in 15 towns. This week the inmates, men and beasts, stretched their legs at Arcadia, held a small rodeo. Ahead lay 20 more stops, perhaps another 30,000 visitors. Ahead also, for Florida, lay potential new wealth. Boss of the trip, A. C. L.'s Victor Wallace Lewis, has run such trains thrice before. He ran one through North Carolina in 1930; in the next ten years North Caro lina's livestock traffic increased 400%. Polite, twinkling-eyed...