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Divorced. Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, auto scion; by Martha ("Mickey") Devine Dodge, 31, ex-Vanities girl; after, four years of married high life; in Reno. The settlement (according to her attorney): "closer to a million than $500,000." This brought Dodge's total settlements, after three marriages, reputedly close to three million...
...Brethren Service Committee, which supervises the program from its Elgin, Ill. headquarters, had been in touch with four European governments (Spain, Holland, Belgium, Yugoslavia) which want or will want heifer shipments. War exigencies have prevented any shipments to Europe so far, but the committee hopes that some may go to Spain and France by fall...
...Also publisher in Illinois of the Aurora Beacon-News, Elgin Courier-News, Joliet Herald News, Springfield Illinois State Journal; for six terms (1911-23) an Illinois GOP Congressman, long a utilitycoon...
...Janesville, Wis., the 74-year-old veteran re-enacted his first Salvation Army meeting, recalled with a chuckle that on his first appearance the local paper reported that "the cornet player [Commissioner Parker] was terrible." Then he went on to Elgin, Ill. for a big farewell. It was at Elgin that Parker, then a 16-year-old printer on the Elgin Daily News, first attended a Salvation Army open-air meeting, was so taken by the Salvationists' happy abandon that he joined up then & there...
...best war dramas on the air got its first sponsor last week. The drama is CBS's five-month-old sustainer, The Man Behind the Gun. The sponsor is Elgin National Watch Co., now fully converted to war work (precision instruments) and willing to tell about...