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Sunday, February 29 Visit Historic | PHILADELPHIA $3.00 Ch.tt.r $3.00 Wilmingt.n $J.7J leave Wcihmgton 7:40 o m and 11 45 a m. Choice of 2 trains returning same day. - -BALTIMORE 11.25 Round Trip Saturdays and Sundays $1.50 Round Trip Daily—Good for 3 days Details from any B & O Ticket Agent or Tglephont Oiofrict__3300._Notjonoj__2^370_^ DOG SHOW Rockville, Md. High School Gym SATURDAY February 27, 1937 Visit Derwood Mill Booth Rockville Community Fair February 26-27,1937 Derwood Dog Food, Feeds and Flour on Display VEX MMIPSON Ex-King’s Friend Resumes Social Activity, but Re sents Onlookers. By the Associated Press. CANNES, France, February 25 — Wallis Warfield Simpson, swinging out into Riviera society, cast oil her title of “the Hermitess of Lou Viei" last night—but not her aversion to being stared at. With Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers, her hosts at the Villa Lou Viei, she dined with Sir Pomeroy and Lady Burton at the Chateau la Croe, near Antibes. Some sources declared Mrs. Simp son might be interested in buying the chateau for a future residence after her marriage to the Duke of Windsor. They pointed out the house, situated on the Cap d'Antlbes. overlooking the blue Mediterranean, has 12 spacious guest rooms, a huge garden and is completely equipped for extensive en tertaining. Sensitive to Public Gate. Friends of the former Baltimore girl said, however, she has become no less sensitive to the public gaze since she started to go around more. They said she seemed to feel more and more that she was being stared at even though Cannes residents were becoming accustomed to her presence. ‘ As an example, they quoted her re mark to Mr. and Mr*. Sidney T. Allen of St. Louis, Mo., with whom she dined Tuesday night at a hotel res* taurant. Seated In the dining room, Mrs. Simpson suddenly became aware of numerous eyes on her and was re ported to have said quickly to her hostess: “I don’t like this. Can’t we have a screen so people won't stare at us? I don't like it.’’ Windows Are Closed. I ‘‘All right," Mrs, Allen replied, or dering a waiter to get a screen, close the windows and draw the curtains, In spite heat—and the other guests. One ev of Mrs. Simpson’s de sire to “l k into the world,” her friends said, was her three-day visit at a house party given by W. Somerset Maugham, British novelist. Her stay at Maugham's villa. Mauresque, * lave ris to reports in Riviera society circles the author might be writing a new book in which Mrs. Simpson's romance with the former British King would be told. Maulesque, gave rise to reports in erable amusement over these reports, saying: "There is neither an atom, nor a shadow, nor a particle of truth in that theory. I am not writing any boolc now." He declined to disclose the identi ties of other guests at his house party. "The entertaining I do is of no in terest to anybody in the world,” he remarked, cheerfully. BUG IN EAR PETRIFIES Kansan Suffered Much Fain in 48 Years Before Operation. TRIBUNE, Kans. (*>).—Forty-eight years ago a bug crawled into the ear of Tom Foley as he was feeding a threshing machine. Periodically for years Foley suffered Intense earaches. Recently doctors operated and removed the bug. It was petrified. • FIVE AWAITING CHAIR IN CHICAGO TONIGHT Two Women Included in Group of Convicted Murdereri—Re prieve Chances Fade. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 25.—Five con victed murderers, two of them women, watched their chances for reprieves fade today as they awaited death in the electric chair after midnight. The women were Minnie Mitchell, colored, and Mildred Mary Bolton, slayer of her insurance broker hus band, who remarked during her trial, "They don't convict women of murder in Cook County.” The others were Joseph Rappaport, convicted slayer of Max Dent, a Gov eminent informer, who was to testify during the former’s trial on a narcotics charge; Rufo Swain, college-bred Ne gro, convicted of slaying a young bride in her hotel room, and Allen Mitchell, husband of Minnie. Mitchell and his wife were scheduled to die at Menard Prison and the others at Coolc County (Chicago) Jail. "I don’t espect any mercy,” said Mrs. Bolton, who, unless Oov. Horner decides to stay her execution, will be the first woman prisoner to be put to death in Coolc County. Mrs. Bolton, who was given the wv briquet "Marble Mildred," because of her calm demeanor during her trial, told interviewers she “sympathized” with the Governor. --- Railway Ray in China. China may have a railway day to celebrate lta recent railway accom plishment*. IT'S EASY AND ECONOMICAL TO BAKE WITH . OAVIS Mot* tfioso aeonomleal prleaa t SMALL.. 5* MEDIUM.. 10* LARGE.. 15* You can have success wary time if you fol low recipes carefully and use Davis, the dtptndabl* baking powder. Get a can today—highest quality at lowest cost I Its doublo raising action novor tails! \ I'M A BRAND-NEW OLD-TIME BEAN SOUP! ■WITH WHOLE BEANS AND SAVORY BACON! - ■ > HEARTY APPETITES WILL 60 FOR ME! L I'M HEARTY AND THICK WITH FINE VEGETABLES AND MEAT! ._ I'M SCOTLAND'S OLD FAVORITE! AND IN JUST A FEW MONTHS I'VE MADE FRIENDS WITH MILLIONS OF [AMERICANS! BEAN $S«SOUP SOMETHING NEW IN GOOD EATING OF THE REAL OLD FASHIONED KIND—This soup proves that Campbell’s know what hungry folks like to eat. First there is the enticing aroma of beans slow-cooking in a familiar old-time kitchen. Then you can see that it is good eating, for there are whole beans in it—whole beans in a delicious thick puree. And finally when you taste it the keen tang of fine bacon thrills your palate. Plump munchy beans. Savory bacon. Serve a thick and wholesome soup that’s made of these. And lady, you have something to set before the heartiest appetites you know. Campbell’s Bean with bacon Soup is something new in old* fashioned good eating. Treat your family to it. Put it on tomorrow’s shopping list. KIEWC f Until now, this brand new soup has been intro duccd and adrertised in one city only 1 one of the largest in the United States. Its success there Was so immediate and spectacular that it is now being offered across the oountry. % .A SCOTCH BROTH EVERYBODY LIKES THIS NEW SOUP BECAUSE IT’S SO HEARTY AND NOURISHING—When you want a soup that’s thick and substantial and teeming with good things to eat, then Campbell’s new Scotch Broth is your “dish”. It’s a full-bodied meat stock crammed full of luscious vegetables and tender meat and made coaxy with delicate seasonings. It’s a soup that you can “get your teeth into”. And will want to—often! Since America first tasted Campbell’s Scotch Broth just a few short months ago it has made friends in so many homes that today it’s the table-talk of the town. But talk is one thing and tasting is another. If you haven’t tasted Campbell’s Scotch Broth yet, ask your grocer for it now. |k| pule f In the short time that Campbell’s Scotch Broth llEvVSi has been on sale, it has been a sensational suc cess the country over. There’s something about its hearty good ness that people take to instantly. And you will, too. PROSECUTOR PLANS PEGGY GARCIA QUIZ Few York Diitrict Attorney’i Of fice Wants to Know Who Instigated Suit. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 25—Peggy Garcia's $500,000 breach of promise suit against Dave RubtnofT was switched suddenly from a civil court to the district attorney's office yester day. An assistant prosecutor, Eugene J. Finnegan, said he would invite the beauteous blond from Virginia to do some explaining at his office after he had studied the charges she made before a Supreme Court Jury against the violin “maestro.” "I want to know,” said Finnegan, “whose idea It was to start and prose cute this suit.” The trial was halted shortly after Miss Garcia and her attorney re turned from a melodramatic trip to Virginia, where they sought to straighten out her marital history. In discontinuing the action. Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo held that Miss Garcia technically was a married woman at the time she claims Rubin off swept her off her feet with his “big beautiful smile” and seduced her with a promise of marriage. 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