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Married. Cinemactress Judy Garland (Frances Gumm), 19; and Band Leader Dave Rose, 31, ex-husband of Martha Raye; in Las Vegas...
...William Willett, the sun-struck Briton who fathered daylight saving, died in 1915 as warring European nations adopted "summer time." Willett argued for an 80-minute setback. U.S. Daylight Saving Father is Robert Garland, 78, of Pittsburgh, who last week opposed the President's plan for year-round daylight saving, said it would work hardship in winter...
Meanwhile Charles Garland had run into trouble with April Farm. There were six men, six women and three children in the colony near Allentown, Pa., including Garland's son Mowgli. When reporters asked which belonged to which, Garland said: "As to unmarried people living together, this is a matter of individual inclination, and not understood by the common run of social fabric." A daughter was born to one of the women, without medical care, died three months later, without medical care. The undertaker refused to sell a coffin, because there was no death certificate...
Life on April Farm became nightmarish: When Garland tried to organize the colonists into an association, the charter was refused on the grounds that the colonists' views on marriage were "detrimental to the public welfare." All sorts of stories about the dead baby began to circulate; the women fled, taking the children with them. Garland was arrested on a charge of adultery. The dead baby's mother helped with the prosecution. He went to jail, served his sentence, dropped out of sight...
Last week the directors of the Garland Fund held a last meeting in a Manhattan cafeteria, decided to dissolve the fund. All the money was spent, except $2,000, which was returned to Charles Garland. Reporters found him living quietly in a New York City suburb. Said he: "I don't give money away any more...