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Taxi Driver B Becomes Proxy for Dan Cupid in West Virginia.

WELLSBURG, W. Va, (NEA).—Marriage by mail is Cupid’s latest device to preserve a famous Gretna Green. Wellsburg ‘has a population of 6000. Last year it licensed 10,000 marriages. The $100,000 spent in the city incident to these elopements makes marriage one of the principal industries. This year, beginning June 13, a new law goes into effect, designed to put a crimp in these nomadic nuptials. It provides that three days’ notice of intent to marry must be filed before the license may be issued. Most of ithe restless Romeos and

jittery Juliets who fly to Wellsburg are from Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Pennsylvania has a three day lmi- |-

tation and Ohio a five-day notification’ period before licensing. Therefore Wellsburg’s advantages seemed to fade with advent of the

new law passed by an -unromantic |

Legislature. Already the marriage license trade has begun to fall far below normal percentages.

Found a Loophole

But the legislators reckoned without H. J. McGlumphy.: He runs the Blue Cab taxi service, and part of the business incident to the li-

cense trade fell to him. So MecGlumphy went into a huddle with Cupid .and devised the “marriage by mail.” He noted that the new law didn’t provide that eager candidates for matrimony appear in person to file notice of their intentions. Who, then, would be more eager to serve as a proxy for Cupid that Mr. McGlumphy? Practically no one. McGlumphy had cards printed, thousands of them, and distributed them to prospective benedicts in Ohio and Pennsylvania. If prospective candidates for married bliss simply fill them out, send them to Mr. McGlumphy four or five days before the intended marriage, Mr. McGlumphy will take care of filing the advance application, he says, and everything will be all set when the eager couple hit town. Governor Holt. of West Virginia saw the loophole in the new marriage law, and therefore refused to sign the bill, but it became law without his signature.

Many Turned Down

McGlumphy is not alone in ‘his desire to keep a share of the lucrative marriage business. Broadcasting is expected also to advertise the liberal provisions of the new law, and means for circulating more widely McGilumphy’s “marry by mail” cards. Miss Charlotte Calderwood, clerk of the Brook County Court at Wellsburg, has \smiled her consent or frowned her refusal to some 35,000 couples during four years’ service in the marriage license bureau. She turns down at least 500 couples a ‘year, she says, because one or the other is obviously under age. “There comes a border time,” says Miss Calderwood, “when a girl looks to be anywhere from 19 to 23. When they swear they are 21 there 1s nothing I can do to disprove it.” Hundreds prcbably do get licenses, Miss Calderwood admits, by swearing falsely to their ages. Applicants between 16 and 21 must be personally accompanied by parents or guardians, but if they look to be 21, what can a license clerk do, Miss Calderwood asks.

Keeps Deadline

Despite apparent casualness of the procedure in most respects, Miss Calderwood is firm on one point: she won't issue a license on Sunday. She never has. Tear-brimming eyes move her not, though on several occasions she has taken disappointed couples to her home and entertained them until the clock struck twelve on Sunday nignt, and it was Monday. The “marriage by mail” . plan being furthered by the enterprising Mr. McGlumphy. carries the further inducement that “This application will not be published.” Some of the customers are shy that way, avers Mr. McGlumphy.

May 13.

gress today.

“Marriage by mail” is Cupid’s latest device, acting through H. J. McGlumphy, Wellsbury, W. Va., taxi man. McGlumphy will file the advance notice now required at the famous Gretna Green, he adver-

Gretna Green Preserves Popularity With Loving Couples by ‘Mail Order’ Marriages

WEST VIRGINIA

Name Name

Where born

IMPORTANT NOTICE— After June 3th in person to file 3-Day Notice for Application to Marry. Mail your appli. cation by U. S. Mail 4 or § days before intended marriage.

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1937, not necessary to appear

Age

Where born Where Reside

Where Reside

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These statements are true to the best of my knowledge and belief

tus day of.

May sign and acknowledge by either one of applicants

Taken, sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned Notary Public

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1 can file your application H.J. McGLUMPHY 1910 Claarlpe 3 Street Wellsburg. W. Va.

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National Group Opens Drive To Cut HOLC Interest Rates

By NED BROOKS

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 13.—A new pressure group moved upon Con-

The United Home Owners Liberty Corp. opened headquarters at the

Mayflower Hotel and prepared for a national campaign to induce Congress to cut in half the interest rates of the Home Owners Loan Corp.’s million borrowers and provide an indefinite moratorium on foreclosures.

title varies from the Government's HOLC by the addition of a single letter, is attempting to enroll a national membership among HOLC borrowers at $ 3each, plus dues of 25 cents a month. In charge of the Washington office is Robert Chase, lobbyist and former secretary of Rep. O'Connor (D. N. Y.), chairman of the House Rules Committee. Chartered three months ago in New York as a “nonprofit” corporation, the organization claims authorship of the bill introduced by Senator Copeland (D. N.Y.) and Rep. Curley (D. N. Y.) The measure provides for: 1. Interest reduction from 5 to 2%2 per cent. ' 2. Reopening of the lending program through issuance of $1,600,000,000 in bonds. 3. Elimination of deficiency judgments against delinquent borrowers. 4. A moratorium on foreclosures “until appropriate legislation may be passed to adjust the status” of indebted home owners and “extend additional relief to them.”

Lower Principal Aim Seen

The last provision was regarded as the forerunner of a drive to scale down the principal of HOLC loans. HOLC investigators have looked into the organization but have discovered no way -to curtail its activities. The HOLC has resisted all efforts to reduce its interest rate to borrowers although it pays as low as 1%2 per cent ‘on some of its bonds. A reduction to borrowers of 2!'2 per cent, officials have esti-

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His application blank, Court House are shown above. Charlotte Calderwood, veteran court clerk, grants a license to an eloping couple.

in spite of everything. Consequent-

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Some Leaders Expect Two Changes in Officers at ‘State Meeting.

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Mr. Van Auken’s financial status was approved on the basis of construction of a $25,000 station. Site and equipment must later meet with FCC approval, neither having yet been determined upon, according to the Commission order.

License to operate radio equipment. for blind landing experiments at the Indianapolis airport has been granted to International Telephone Development Co., Inc.

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