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INTREPID SAILOR INTO UNKNOWN
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Tho Hon. Kittle Muekuv. wlin ilured lo attempt nil Atlantic crofting
hf air, KiiKlnnil to Ainerira. Willi
:Sets Loop Record
" LicuhMiftnt D, Wv Toniplinnon,
0- S, hiiVy lilrl't'ilft Equailrona, has
net h -tueord ior( outside loipa,
ncgotiuting loui :jn ix row'.' over
San Dlceo, Oali, tjie (list at 10,000
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Secretary of the Treasury An
'drcw Mellon Is shown testifying
before the senate oil investigat
ing committee, at Washington. Ho
- was called to shed further light
on his refusal to accept $50,000
in Liberty bonds from the Con
tinental Trading company, fdr the
Republican campaign fund in
1923. Directly in back of Secr
retary Mellon is William M. llut
ler, Republican nationnl commit
tee chairman, also culled before
the committea. ,
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HARDING'S FATHER TOURS COAST
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Dr. Ccorgo O. Harding, right, father of the into President Warrei)
Harding, snapped at San Diego, Cul., while on a tour of tho Tacilic
coast, Ho's shown with Ct-nsral M. O. Terr)-, rstircd, who ua
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Killed by Buzzard
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'Striking a nylng bu?zard while
in, a ,t,csij iiiriic at ; petal, Nica-
. ruguti,-' Caiitaih William; G; ; Byrd
wan , killed when ' his parachuttj
failed to .open ' when : lie. Jumped
, from n height. of 2D0 foot. : : The'
bujzaid (lew against u 'whig ktrut
of the plane, breaking it and caus
ing the piano to collupse. , . '
ShUs Ocean to Dine
Senator Andre Honnorat, for
mer French minister of educa1
tion and fine arts, now head of
the Cito Universitnire Founda
tion, crossed the ocean just to. at
tend a dinner in his honor in New
York and to confer with an Amer
ican committee that is raising
$400,000 to build h dormitory for
American student i in 1'nris.
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Whipping Tangle'
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F 1 . "J 1 IIummel town- Fa dcsirea thrc- " 1 -
h .4 J l"4 quarters of a million dollars She f y I Wjf ! I I
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4 It ' Vv t ' 7 1 for ?wt Rnar rollefe Sweif a - ter- . II
-.v t 7Jm0r""' " Briar, V, here she's treasurer f IC ' "J
. , y 'ii i a new driv for her Ima v " '"tl
Because pretty 1 0-year-old Lor-
mine Jones, of Kansas City, Kus.,1
11..1UKU WW Jll(l OLIIUUf UIIC IHUril-
ing covi-rcd with bruises, her
mother, Mrs.' 'Charles Woodside,
lias been awaiting sentence for
beating her daughter, und police
and the probate Judge have been
wondering what action to take.
Mrs. Woodside declares she was
exercising her "pjirentul preroga
tive" in whipping Lorraine for
dlsobediene. Mother und daugh
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Finds. Unknown City
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llobort J. Casey, author, ex
plorer and .lecturer, told ship re
porters, updn his arrival in New
I York, that in his travels through
1 the dense jungles of Indo-China,
ho discovered tVi ruins of an im
mense uninhabiti 1 city. Because.
' his native guides deserted i:im and
a deep moat Infested with croco
diles surrounded the ruins he was
unablo to make any observations.
Henderson lVnuington, "S, of
Ilunlinntcn, W. Va., believes him.
sulf to have been the youngest rn-.
listed soldier in the I'nion army
during the Civil wnr. He was a
bugler at the age of 12. Below Is
a reproduction of nn old daguer
reotype showing him in his uniform.
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I Dcwres a MilUon v; (phanges Her Mind I
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To .persons .who declare' thai
funning is not a paying business,',
jstlopp, 19, of Jones, Klo., rises
up in protest. In seven years hi
has won 460 -ribbons- and-$l, 160
jH cash prizes for his exhibits at
various (fairs. He has shown 31
different' farm crops, three breeds
of chickens, pigs and sheep,
; Says He Buried Girl
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j Wallace AndrewsT23, serving a?
six-year term in the Oklahoma
penitentiary for burglary, says
that Myrl Sizer, missing Mount
Vernon, Iowa, school teachex,'
committed suicide following a
quarrel with him and that he
buried the body near Pierce, Neb.1
A search has failed to disclose the'
grave. , Miss Sizer disappeared
Nov. 5, 1926.' .Andrews was re.
ceived at the penitentiary Oct,'
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Bonnet In Ring
Here is the latest of Mrs. Gif
ford I'inchot, wife of the former
governor of Pennsylvania, who,
according to an announcement in
a rcnnsylvaniaQiaper, will run
for congress from the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania district
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fen
. iiecause it is a woman's pre
rogative to change her mind, Miss
Frances Hopkins, daughter of Col.
Frank E. Hopkins, U. S. A., has
announced her engagement to
Robert' Wickes, of Washington,
D. C, is off and her new choice
is Lieut. Irving Arthur Duffy, sta
tioned at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.,
Where her father is'.commnndant.
Probiem'for Leagued
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Workmen destroying some' of
the machine guns seized in the
little village of St. Gotthard on
the Austro-Hungarian frontier,
and subsequently sold as scrap
iron by the Hungarian govern
ment against warnings of the
League of Nations. " The three
governments comprising the Little
Entente demanded an investiga
tion of the "affair," causing a
problem for the league council.. ,
Valuable, Nameless
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1 Hrod on a Canadian chicken
farm, petted, doctored, fed, mas
saged, worth $500, and ith an
cestors high up socially, as far as
chickendom goes, this prise
rooster, owned by Albert M.
Simpson, of St. Claircsvillc$3.flis
without a name. He's one of
three brothers of Music, world's
record egg producing hen of
British Columbia, v ' Simpson is
casting about for ajjtme for his
beauty.
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DIES IN RESCUE
William H. Cashman, acting
guard station, was one of those who gave- his life in the rescue of
passengers on the Robert E. Lee, New York-Boston steamer which
went on the -rocks off Manomct Point, Massachusetts. Brought
ashore after a surf boat capsized, Cashman is shown being given a
fur coat by a woman. He died a few minutes later from exposure:
LEADERS IN FIGHT ON DISEASE
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Dtv.Frajik ..SnuthicS,: : Jtfftj "pf CJhicago.- outgoing -president of the
American College of riisjcians, congratulating ;Dr; Chmtcs F. ;Mar
tin, of Montreal, Quebceiitlcw president, at twelfth-annual Clinical
session of the collegej 'holdjlh New Orleans, La.f?M-r'!r!.'!!i';li; .-i t
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FORDS AS GUESTS
Two of America's best known families snapped together at Thomas
A. Edison's estate at Fort Myers, Fla., where the "electrical wizard"
is wintering, and where Henry Ford and Mrs. Ford were recent
visitors. Left to right in the photo are Henry Ford, Mrs- Ford,
Thomas Edison and Mrs. Edison.
NEW U. S.-MEXICO
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Another new international.' bridge, crossing thclio Grande from
Presidio, Tex., to Oijanago, Mexico, has been completed. This photo
shows a view of the bridge, which is the only span for 250 miles in
either direction inJhacenteioftheBig Ben country of Texas.
OF PASSENGERS!
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.aptain of the Manomct Point coastj
OF THE EDISONS
BRIDGE OPENED
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Two-Gun Girf,
Myrtle Foust, 34, of Logans
port, ind., it a two-gun girl, but
nobody has accused her of being
a flapper bandit. ' Garbed as a
man, she was arrested, charged
with "sticking up" a Logansport
artist, and is now behind the bars
awaiting trial. Myrtle is shown
above in her dual role.
Flu Hits Royalty
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An , epidemic of influenza,'
sweeping Japan, is no rcspectar
of persons or rank. In the royal
family the Princess Hisa, six-month-old
daughter of the em
peror, is dead, following an attack,
and the emperor himself has been
convalescing from the : disease.
Photos above are the latest of the
emperor and the empress, and
have just been distributed to
schools and government offices.
No Campaign Fund!
Louis J. Wardlaw, Fort Worth,
Tex., attorney and ranchman, has
announced his candidacy for the
state's governorship, declaring
that he will pay his own campaign
expenses and refusing all contri
butions from friends. Wardlaw
has declared himself In favor of a
reward for criminals the same as
predatory animals, all the schools
money will allow, ajiireductionj
vf taxes, i
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