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MUCH m III BABE llll'S LIFE WITHIN HIS FAMILY Conflicting Stories To!d Of Birth Of Child. Adopted Story l.ater. New York World. Nearly ten years ago a piquant faced, blue-eyed woman with a flowered, wide brimmed hat, was first photographed as the wife of Babe Ruth, In the reflected glory of her home run slugging husband, Helen Woodford Ruth was generally snapped by camera men. She was shown clapping her hands ’at the Polo Grounds, applying 'arnica to a sprained hand of the diamond king, and holding the bat the Babe used to smash the ball. But of news reports concerning their relationship there were few, and these surprising fragmentary. It is not known when they were married or where. When Dorothy Helen appeared in published pho tographs is their daughter, both the Babe and his wife gave con f licet mg,.reports of her birth. I.ater flicting reports of her birth. Later adopted. These i: reads of mystery, uncer tainty, and rumor wind throughout the years to the present. In 1920. Mrs. Ruth told newspaper men she and the Babe had been married "six years.” She said she was six teen when she married him. This would have placed her present age at thirty-one. Told Of Four Children. In an interview nine years ago I Mrs. Ruth said they had four chtl- j then, all of whom had died- Site | went on to describe the happiness of their domestic life, how (he Babe ' rante home after the ball game and ate the dinner she prepared. “I guess the bloom is still on the rose for us." she said. In 1922 the photographers stiap ti cl a newcomer to the Ruth house hold. Dorothy Helen was introduced as a daughter, sixteen months old. Ruth said she had be;n born in the Presbyterian hospital on Feb. 2. 1921. Mrs. Ruth said the baby had been born June 7, 1921, at St. Vincent’s hospital. Subsequent de velopments seemed to show Dorothy Helen had been adopted. That same year fugitive reports EXECUTOR’S NOTICE. Having qualified as executors of the will ol T. H. Bridges, late of Cleveland county, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons hav* ing claims against the estate of the raid deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 21st day ot December, 1929, or this notice will be pleaded in bar ot their recovery. All persons indebt ed to the said estate will please make immediate payment. JOHN L. BRIDGES. GEO. O. BRIDGES. Execu tors of T. H. Bridges, Dec'd. I | of an impending separation were I denied by Mrs. Ruth at the Hotel ! Ansonia where they w^re then liv- i | iiig. Injured when her automobile skidded and hit a tree in October, ] she was taken to Pelham hospital, i The Babe visited her. Secrecy Kept At Hospital. When, one month later, Mrs. Ruth was receiving treatment at St. Vin- j cent's hospital, attempts to learn the date of her arrival and the cause of her presence there were met with the statement by the nurse that she had been 6rdercd to main tain secrecy. In 1923 reports of domestic dis order persisted. Mrs. Ruth, how ever, was at the station on Feb. 10 to kiss the Babe good-by when he left for spring training in Florida. Dorothy Helen underwent an op eration in November, and the Ruths were together at the bedside in the Stern Sanitarium. The following year the Babe took Dorothy Helen with him on his Southern training trip, unaccom panied by his v ife. Ruth on April 1G.1925. was taken to Vincent's hospital for an operation. A few days later his wife was admitied to the institution, suffering from a nervous break down. It was explained she had collapsed from worrying over hcri husband's condition. Rupture i ame in Contrary to custom. Mrs. Ruth Tailed to accompany her husband when the Yankees left on a West ern swing in the summer of 1925. The domestic picture was fur ther ruffled when Dolores, a Long i Island girl, sued the Babe for $50, 000 as the father of her baby. Later the girl's lawyer withdrew from the case and the suit failed. It was brought out at this time j that Mrs. Ruth had been a cashier in a Boston restaurant before her marriage. She had waited on the Babe and he had fallen in love with her. In August of 1925 Miller Huggins, the Yankee pilot, fined the Babe $5,000 and suspended him “for gen eral misconduct.” in St. Louis. Mrs. Ruth received the news at the Concourse Plaza hotel. The same night she left in her automobile for an unannounced destination Dorothy Helen was in the care of friends at the time on Ruth's farm at Sudbury home in his wife's name, it was then reported. Forgotten By The Public. It appears that with the disap- i ivarance of Mrs. Ruth the night her husband was banished from baseball, she had steadily sunk into obscurity. No photographs were pub lished of the piquant faced “Hon" holding Dorothy Helen or her lap under the admiring gaze of the slugger. In 1929 there was an item that she was ill with influenza at 1 St. Vincent's hospital. The Babe was a frequent visitor at the bedside. Nevertheless, reports would not down that the Ruths had separated. Her association with Dr. Kinder in the past three years had never been made known. To I»I®ST IM-PORTA3TT GROUP OF MOTOR CAR RIJYEHS ... V - Certain American people are getting on in the world. Many of them are just starting. But they’re headed up the ladder. Their ideas of luxury and beauty are expanding. They want liner homes, finer furniture, finer automobiles. During the past three years, hundreds of thousands of these progressive Americans hare been buying the Pontiac Six. Some of th-m have bought it as the first car they ever owned. But to most of them, Pontiac has represented the first big step up from the lowest priced field. For this progressive group, Oaklandhas now created a brand new Pontiac Six. It repre sents an even greater advancement over every thing else in its field today, than the original Pontiac represented in 1926. It will take its buy ers farther than ever up the ladder of motor car quality in one step. Watch for the PONTUC BIG at *745 t. •. fc. fmctmry A. B. C. Motor €t Tiro Co. South Y\ ashington St root - Shelby N. C., Starts Bootl g Drive County Solicitor P. Cleveland Gardner (above) yester day started a drive here against the sale of extracts as an intoxicating beverage, and against prohibition law violations by issuing subpoenas for 50 witnesses tb appear before a court of inquiry here next Wednesday at which time they will be questioned about liquor law violations. By DOROTHY HERZtj^G (Copyright, 1929, Premier Syndicate.) (Foreword—The boss took the day off so I'm slipping Minniehokus' communication! That strolling Juliet m:ist be suffering from galloping dyspepsia if the manner in which she slings the ungrammatical toma hawk can be taken as a criterion.) New York ,N.Y. H OW! Go visit*you Hollywood. Landlady say: “She gone. She owe rent. Mebbe no come back.” You in plenty wrong. Eime by see you jail. Bebe Daniels have luncheon Montmartre. Ben Lycn put on waiter clothes. Serve guests. Everybody ha ha. One guest no savvy. Ben grab cake away. 8fie tear him with look. Say: “No been served." Ben grin. Then she savvy who he is. Plenty ha ha. Bebe and Ben goin’ together. Ben bcaucoun fun. Beaucoup furrin lingo. Mean much. Doan think Bebe serious. Ben not. One time Ben Love Marilyn Miller. Big love. All over. Sometimes brave got only one love in system. Ben young. Bime by mebbe have big love two. fsuvs Maine Hear yummy yum. Hear Mae West meet George Walsh. Hear “Dia mond^iil” buy Gccrgie horse stable Long Island. That make him swell bit and pull stepper. Heap sorry Fred Thomson die. Fred swell brave. No play round. No sihoke. No drink. Mind own biz. Leave million dollar Fred, jr. Leave one dollar to squaw. She Frances Marion. Fred Young. Have big idea talky fillum. Much friend to Gene Tunncy. Hear he and Tunney mebbe do something fillums together. Now r leu gene. ratuuc squaw seu wig wanv Cost plenty. Cost thousand or two run every week. Frances make lotta, dough. Three thousand come end ?very week. Mebbe live small house now. Only she and papoose. AH Mqist. You see Davy Lee pass on. You wrong. Davy much alive. Have flu. Get over it. Davy make fillums Warners. No stop. Mebbe play Al Jolson in ‘Mammy" Al find him. Al love. Give Davy swell Christmas present. No remember. Lillian Gish here. She still fillum Duse. She come train cr.e morin' nine o'clock. Mary Pickford meet her station. Max Reinhardt come too Direct Duse in fillum, Mary good friend Lillian. Like eeleb too. Marv no fool. No let cclcb slip through digit. Mary swell. Big regular her fam ily. Lottie Pickford no like Mary Lottie hittum pace. Go in for giggle water. Like whoopee. Team with Jack Daugherty. He fiance. One time marry Barbara LaMarr. She get di vorce. One time marry Virginir Brown Fairc. She get divorce. Btmc by mebbe marry three time. Like vaccination. Sometime take. Some time nope. —11 rr .jsb BEBE DANIELS The White Horse ° Catchum cold. See Tom Mix. Say: "Tom, feel bad.' Tom say: "Minniehokus. you need horseback.'* Tom gave me horse. Gj ride Bev erly Hill bridle path. Meet Hobart Bosworth. He ride swell. Sit straight iai saddle. Like arrow. Have white horse. Wear eye shade. Hobart, not horse. Many year ago, doctor tell Hobart he sick brave. Say mebbe he no live many moons. Hobart take it on chin. He buy horse. He ride long hour in afternoon. He take good care himself. Bime by feel swell. See doctor. Doctor open eye wide. Say Hobart well. He still ride. Every aft ernoon. Marry beyutiful squaw. She young. They heap happy. ■viewing Along Jack Gilbert got new gag. Jack and Gus Edwards make lopsided French lingo. Go visit Lily Damita. She work M. G. M. lot now. They speak. Lily listen. No savvy their French. Her eye dance. She come back. Speak lopsided U. S. lingo. All body laugh plenty. Lily whoopee papoose. Got plenty “11.” Like to make laugh. Give freshies cold shoulder. Well, gotta run. Keep date big gasoline brave. Mebbe get Hisrnnia Squeezer. Mebbe. Slong. Mellon Tells Why He Objects To Big Prohibition Fund Additional Money Can Be t'sed To Other Departments Allied With Prohibition. Washington.—Secretary Mellon's objections to the proposal to make an additional $25,000,000 immediate ly available for prohibition enforce ment are based on his opinion that it would result in the extravagant use of public funds' unless the money could be allocated to speci fic uses. His disapproval of the proposal, put forth by Senator Harris of Oeorgia is detailed in a letter to Chairman Warran of the senate appropriations committee. "The problem of prohibition en forcement lias many ramifications and its successful solution depends not only on ample appropriations for the bureau of prohibition put on the activities and situation of other departments and bureaus of the government,” the secretary wrote. "For instance,’* lie wrote, "c«ic [ of the major difficulties encount ered in making the prohibition laws truly effective is the congestion in the United States courts occa sioned In large part by numerous pending prohibition cases, n would seem desirable, therefore, it congress deems it advisable, to appropriate an additional sum of $25,000,000 for this general purpose, that some consideration should be given to whether a part of this sum at least, should not be allocated to the dc- j partment of Justice. “The problem of smuggling ts an ; important one. Its prevention is j largely dependent, in so far iu> om sea coast is concerned, on the, adequacy of the fleet maintained by the copst guard and in part on adequate customs force at our va rious ports: and in so far as out land borders arc concerned, on an effective patrol of the borders, “In so far as the bureau of pro hibition funds'could be advantage ously used at the present time in increased investigational activities and in a well-considered educa tional program. Looking to the fu ture, it will no doubt, be advan tageous to provide additional funds for Increased border patrol of the customs service and an increased equipment for the coast guard.'' ATLANTIC CITY. MI).. IS FINE RESORT—FOR FISH Baltimore.—'"Atlantic City. Md.” lias been discovered. After fishing around lor several months post office inspectors found it, a four-tnlle strip of sand, several feel under high tide, about seven miles belAw Ocean City, Aid It is more appropriately known as 'Waters The sftuMdus that led to the search came from inquiries recetv ed from people all over the country | who had bought ocean front loti at i the resort. The most persistent was Mrs. Mary Dodzek of Schulter, Okla.. who said she had been ^ pay* ing taxes on her lot since ^1917. As ! to dreams of palatial hotels v and gay piers, they were dispelled'^hen | the inspectors failed to find a house within several miles of the place. At low tide the land might be seen peeping through the water. Try Sar Wants Ads. WEATHER FORECAST For Shelby and vicinity: Unsettled next Monday. Snow and sleet on clotheslines. Bad weather general ly for home washing. Don’t worry about the family wash— CALL SNOWFLAKE LAUNDRY -591 and your clothes will be called for 'iid delivered promptly—free from iu germs. Charges moderate. yCHEVRQlE.y Never Before Achieved in a Low-Priced Automobile Of ail the exceptional performance qualities re sulting from the advanced design of the new Chevrolet Six, none is more impressive than its remarkably smooth operation^ Although the new six-cylinder motor develops 32% more power with higher speed and faster acceleration ; : a although it delivers better than twenty miles to the gallon of gasoline— — its outstanding feature of performance is a de gree of smoothness never otyore achieved 'in any lou -priced automobile. Whether you are flashing away from a traffic, stop with the accelerator to the floor, whether you are rolling alone at twentv-five miles an hour or doing well above sixty on the open road—the power is delivered easily, freely and without annoying vibra tion. To achieve such remarkable per* formance in a car of such low price, Chevrolet spent years in develop* ment work. Over 100 different engines were de> signed, built end subjected to over • miHwa miles of testing at the General Motors Proving Ground before the present motor was adopted* The new power plant has many unusual fea ures, such as the new acceleration pomp, the new gasoline pump and filter, and the new auto* made lubricati&h of the rocker armsi The four>wheel brakes have been newly de signed to assure positive, quiet action. Steering has been made easier. And tne new Fisher bodies with their new lines, new colors, adjustable .driver's seats and new appointments, represent 'new heights of style, distinction, comfort and outstanding value. We extend you a cordial in vita* tion to see and drive the new Chevrolet Six. We want you to know how finely the new Chev rolet Six is built and how smoothly it performs! 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