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Memphis Bartender Poses

Italian Girl's Love Song

Big Irishman to Wed Naples Lass He Courted Only Through Letters

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 18 (UP)—The echo of a Neapolitan love, song reached from Italy to Memphis today as a skyscraping Irish

bartender asked a pretty but poor Italian seamstress he's never!

seen to marry him The bartender is Pat Laxton,

| a 238-pound, 38-year-old bachelor!

who stands 6 feet 11 inches tall and wants a * ‘good housewife. ” The

dressmaker is 25-year-old Anton-, jetta Martellotta of Naples, Italy.

Italy trying to get married. me

Mr. Laxton is one of seven here trying to get married.”

suitors who proposed to Antonfetta after a friend had a letter

Pat said he told her that luxuries in this country don’t mean a

published in the Memphis Press- thing when “two people want to!

Scimiter, a Scripps-Howard paper, saying it was the Italian girl's desire to marry an American and move to the U, 8.

be together.” | He hasn't a lot of money, but] he said he would gladly pay An-

|tonietta’s fare to Memphis if she'd

The whole thing started when marry him.

Clelia ' Church, an Italian war! bride in Memphis,

returned to Presently,

Laxton is a native of St. Louis. | he’s a nickel plater|

Naples for a visit. She found that turning out wire grocery baskets’

Antoniette, her mother,

andifor chain stores,

Previously, he!

seven brothers and sisters were was a bartender, but he doesn’ t

having a hard time.

Makes 85 Cents Daily Antonietta makes 85 cents a day in tailor shops. A sister and brother make less. Their Rather receives a pension of $4.50 month. * “Clelia never said: anything about her plan,” Antonietta said. “Then 1 started getting mail from Memphis.” But thats not the way Clelia described it. “One night Antonietta "came; by,” Clelia said. “She told me sh=s wished she had an American husband and could live here. “So I said, ‘Antonietta, give me your picture and I'll put it in the paper. Maybe you can get a nice American boy that way’. So she ran home and got me her pic-| ture.” Mrs. Church sald maybe An-| tonietta claimed she knew nothing of the scheme because ‘she didn't want to appear too eager.” Had Frightened Others

But that didn't bother Pg J.axton, who sald his towering height always has frightened other girls away. “They. just don't like tall men because they look so conspicuous,” Mr. Laxton said dolefully. “TI sent Antonietta my picture with a letter saying ‘it looks like you are In the same boaty you in

want to go back to servirg ‘em! up.

He said he formerly worked inj Jack Dempsey’s bar in New York|

City, and the Famous Door bar| in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

Speaker to Trace | Red Cross Growth

Jesse 0 Thomas, American Red

Cr "OSS public relations consultant,|

LOV ETT ON RED CROSS WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UP) ~ President Truman today appointed Undersecretary of De-. fense Robert Lovett to be a member of the board of governors of the America | Red Cross.

Amaranth Court to Install Mrs. Henry, Cecil Branham

Mrs. Velma Henry will be installed as royal matron and Cecil Branham as royal patron of the Mokanna Court No. 17 of the Order of Amaranth, at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Sahara Grotto. The court will be chartered with a membership of 116. Other officers to be installed are Mrs. Margaret Clark, asso-|

viate matron; Paul Thompson, as-

sociate patron; Mrs. Eunice Branham, condluttress; Mrs. Frances P. Henry, as§ociate conductress; Mrs. June Pldke,

Mrs. Henry

" Mr. Branham |

secretary; Mrs. the east; Mrs. Laura Smith, mar-|

Vera Mae Moudy, treasurer; Miss &hal in the west; Mrs, Margaret

marshal in

Edwanda W hitsett,

Theodore Simpson Quits Scout Post

‘Theodore H. Simpson,. district executive;~has-announced his re-

* gignation from the Central Indi-

ana Council - of Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Simpson % will become aspistant director at Flanner House after many years of outstanding service in Boy Scout work. He will assume his new duties Dec. i A graduate of Wilberforce University, Mr. Simpson taught school for 18 years in West Virginia. He was in volunteer scout work as a scoutmaster, camp &#- rector and in.other capacities in West Virginia. He has been a member of the professional staff in Indiana for 1 the past five years.

Mr. Simpson

Tighter Credit Curbs

Pansy Wiles, Mrs.

Mrs.

Trobaugh, standard bearer; Mrs. | Frances Steinmetz, prelate; Mrs. Gladys Newbill, chairman of trustees; Mrs. Pearl] Wheatley, two-year trustee; =~ Mrs. Olive Bower, three-year trustee; Mrs.| Emma Branham, historian; Mrs./ Dorothy Berne, truth; Miss Mary Branham, faith; Mrs. Geraldine. Thompson, wisdom; Mrs. Glen: dora Benge, charity; Mrs. Lena Gilmore, warden; Elwyn Liverett, sentinel;—Mrs.-Thelma.. Hendren and Mrs. Freda Mutz, flower girls, .and Mrs. Edith Whitsett, musician. Arlie Binns,

grand royal pa-

{tron of the Order of Amaranth in

Indiana, will be the installing officer, assisted by Mrs. Maryellen| Sones, grand royal matron, as| secretary, Mr&. Lillian P. Johns,

grand secretary and supreme as-|

sociate conductress as marshal;! M. Curtin Johns, past supreme royal patron as marshal aide; Mrs. Marie Steger, as prelate and Mrs. LaVerne Sumner, musician, with William V. Clark soloist. . The crowning ceremony will be| in charge of Mrs: Maryellen Sones, assisted by Mrs. Lillian! Johns, Mrs. Harriett Reeve,’ Mrs.| Esther Cook and Harold Houseworth. The flower girls ‘will be in charge of | Ruth Riley. _ \

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‘with security detachments.

Hit Consumer Buying NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UP)

The stifféning,of credit curbs and

unseasonal ' weather dampened

“consumer buying in the first half

of November, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., stated today. However, the firm said, total dollar volume during the period continued to surpass that of a year ago. While there was a moderate rise in the interest in apparel and gome other nondurables, it was insufficient to offset the drop in consumer durables, D. & B. point-

ed out.

28th Division Troops To Get Yule Furloughs

Soldiers of the 28th ‘Infantry Division will get 10-day Christmas furloughs, Maj. Gen. Daniel

B. Strickler, Division Commander, .

said yesterday. Gen. Strickler said the holiday leaves will be granted all soldiers | except a few needed for duty Effective dates of the leaves will be Dec. 23 through Jan. 1. Soldiers. aiso will get a partial

“December pay before the holiday ‘begins, _he said.

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