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One advertiser had a hocus-pocus "cure" for varicose veins. That led enterprising Mr. Baker into the "cancer-cure" business. Receipts from using the "cures" of two other quacks-Harry M. Hoxsey of Muscatine and Charles O. Ozias of Kansas City-started with $1,380 for October 1929. reached $75...
Sued for Divorce. John Randolph Hearst, youngest son of William Randolph Hearst; by Mrs. Dorothy Hart Hearst; in Las Vegas, Nev. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Manhattan Hearstpapers did not carry the story.
Robert Esnault-Pelterie, oldtime aeronaut of France, best known for his interest in shooting a rocket to the moon, sued Chance Vought Corp. last year on the ground that every plane it had built was an infringement of his patents. His reason: each of the planes was controlled in flight...
Sued for Separation, Roark Bradford, author of Louisiana Negro stories from which Marc Connolly wrote The Green Pastures; by Mrs. Lydia Sehorn Bradford; in New Orleans. Charge: abandonment. Mrs. Bradford lies abed with tuberculosis in Arizona.
Sued. Max Bilgray, cabaret keeper of Colon, Panama; by David Hutton; for $1,000,000. Charge: defamation of the character of his wife, Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, famed evangelist. In honor of Mrs. Hutton's recent visit to his cabaret under the alias "Betty Adams," gracious Barkeep Bilgray devised...