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of the Week in Pictures DESIRES TO LIVE NOW FOR LOVE Gopher Trapper Boys' Tragedy . Set for Dem Meet' Miss Hickman Held' KANSAS CITY-BOUND BOOZE SEIZED o I" 7Z c3 ' 1 r t 'ii-i r '! ie a,' t . ws'' us 23 jl j "Btautiful life, sunshine, love," are words whispered over and over by Miss Helen 1). Owens, University of Chicago medical co-ed, and daughter of Professor Frederick Owens, of State College, Penn- sylvania, who tried suicide with a potion of mysterious acid when the was unable to decide between a career and marriage. As She poison slowly began working, her parents told her to try to live -ind Choose both and she begun a valiant fight for Ufa with students gtvlng blood transfusions. PLEDGE FRIENDSHIP TO THE LIMIT AtW -t' t "VIS A i ? & William P. Kenny, left, New-York contractor, and William Todd, right, wealthy shipbuilder, backcm ' paign for the Democratic presidential nomination, snapped at New York with the governor, center, as he saw them o(T on .a trip to M Europe. -The two, in testifying before the senate campaign funds committee, declared that every penny of their wealth would go to ; Governor Smith if it were necessary, because of their friendship for him. In backing him for the presidency. NEUTRAL SPOT IN : o I ,r f 1 5S' Recent disturbances in China hnvo increased tho importance of tho American legation In Peking. f; RANKS OF GRAY 1 - yj BfiXv sea v t 4 '?,y.;'; rr Back In 'Ct Portsmouth, Va.', -nt nearly 1,500 men to the battle VSslds In the uniform of the Confedenlcy more soldiers than she haS nhlo to attend Confederate memorial serv. olc"-- v.f "... .u..-. (cs there this year, ana man u ic trlo present at the exercises : 1 My rH tfs 1 of Covernor Al Smith s lam- WARRING CHINA Above, the minister'u quarters. THIN RAPIDLY 4 -r$ r . SUV! .. .. liv.. Al.v. un ...... are, tapi. v.aiy n. vw. - 4 i 4 H 4 Alvin Hess, lfl, abnvn, of Pitts burgh, Pa., has been convicted of, and Robert Stevens; 14, Ins com panion, goes on trlul charged with the murder of an unidentified man on the banks of the Monon gahcla river last Scnlcmbcr. Hess has been given life imprisonment. Ho Is said to be tho youngest per son ever convicted of first degrco murder in Allegheny county. ' Above, is a samnle of thn I strarigo wheat grown on tho farm 1 of Mrs. J. J. Miller, of Dukcr, I Uritish Columbia. Several of the I heads attain a length of six inches I and are eight rowed to the top. I It is difficult to be sure of its va I riety and even experts admit I thomselvcs baffled. I I Hair Pays Price When Georgia StriefT brok her engagement her hair paid tho price of a boy's wrath, she says. Her angry cx-Jorer cut off most of her hair and left her looking this way, sho told the police in a ompUint which caused fail nwst m . 1 rf . . I ! mystery . vy neat ET71 3 &i -Li l i v i . .i i trim v (? fix v V I 1 Hr f V, f Actress , t I 1 - n, n 1 iitii.atsj : .. ... - .. ta Kob.'i t Be'r'be, of Wichita, Kas., holds tlic Kosher trupping clinm-)iion.-.hii of his statr He aver iiK(? a v.'eek in bounties, his lui;i'.t haul this season being C12 of the pt-xU in a period of four days. junior League Head Mrs. Allmand M. Blow, daugh ter of U. S. Serator Charles S. Dcncen, of Illinois, society leader nml nnst nresident of the Tulaa, Okla., Junior League, has been elected regional president 01 tne southwest district of tho National Junior League. Mary "George'' Miller, 78, has posed as a man and done a mam work since she was 18. Mary worked as a farm hand near Iowa City, In., until recently when, taken sick, her sex was discovered. Another transatlantic east to west flight, with Johnnn Ristics, above, German flyer, as pilot, and l.illl Dillens, Viennese actress and owner of the plane, is expected to stt soon from Rudolstadt, Germany, Sixty Years a Man 1 k x a 2 " t. "4 9 1 Two former national political characters are members of Okla homa's delt-gation-at-large to the Democratic national convention at Houston, . Tex., in June. They are Thomas Pryor Gore, above, former U. S. senator, and Charles N. Haskeli, below, tho state's first governor. Haskell is for Al Smith for the Democratic nomination, while Gore stands for Senator James Reed. Flapper Justice Law violators don't mind being caught in Harmon county, Okla homa, for they are hailed before tAlma Short, 21, new justice of the peace at Hollis. The first eleven violators to face her have pleaded guilty V. of O. Oo-cd Honored Kdilh Poilae, of Ashland, was thli year awarded llie Gerlinger cup, pre ented aiinuallr to the vomia stu- ! dint of the junior class nt the Unl I rrily of Dragon who has showa ; (lie grealost development in char i nlor, scholarship and personality I during her college . career. Mlts ! Iodgy has hern n.'tive In many cam pus affairs, pnd has j"t been elected ; prosldcut of the Woman's league. t she was also chosen a member of I Mortat Board, scaior 900i society. SCl '' ''' Physician Honored Miss Mary Hickman, 18, sister 'of Edward Hickman, sentenced to die in California for the murder of Marion Parker, has been held in Kansas City, Mo., J or investiga tion and examination for sanity. Police saifl she admitted obtaining clothing from stores under false pretences and added they feared she was developing kleptomaniac tendencies. ' Hickman's prosecu tors fear liia lawyers will use tho incident in ait insanity plea to save him. . . .; Miss Mother Goose . Miss Bernice Kent, of Mount Morris, N. Y., snapped arriving at San Francisco from the Orient, is credited with having popular ized Mother Goose' tales in Ja pan. .Miss Kent was in charge of kindergarten work in Tokyo for five years, ' - Pastor Police Chief The city council of Marion, 111., .ins named a pastor as chief of police for the city. He is the Rev. Clyde Bailey, above, serving his eighth year as minister of a Marion church. He has run fer mayor of Marion and .'or state senator from the Fiftieth district. .Dri'john H. Musscr.'of New Orleans, has been named president-elect of thd American Col lege of Fhysicians, taking office In 1920. j A professor of medicine nt Tulane university, he was a major in tho army medical corps and j? the editor ef medical text bsokav' e Bound for Kansas City, Mo., apparently for use during the G. 0. P. convention, this carload of liquor, valued at $10,000, was seized by dry agents in the railroad yards at Birmingham, Ala. . The shipment originated at Lakeland, Fla., and was concealed in drums bearing the label, "phosphate." . .. REPUBLICAN "OFFICIAL BOUNCERS' & -ft V . ? wa t Making preparations for the opening of the Republican national convention at Kansas City, Mo., the "official bouncers" are shown here on arrival at the convention city. They are Lee Nixon, center, sergeant-at-arms ; Richard Paul, of Boston, left, his first assistant, and James S. Stanley, of New York, right, second assistant. " A veteran campaigner, Maj. of the marine corps, and Brig. Gen. Logan Feland, once more tak ing command of tho marine corps in Nicaragua, are seen studying maps in Washington, preparatory to sailing for Nicaragua. Liquor Czarina A woman reigns as the "czarina of liquor permits" in northern and western New York. She is Mrs. Etinah McKinloy Lee, hold ing the title of revocation judge of the third prohibition enforce ment district and is one of the few women "rfrv" inrlmia ;n tk. country. Mrs. Lee conducts hcar--J ings In various federal districts on evidence presented against drug stores by dry agents. X 1 Ha off" , 1 ' K. T' 14 Gen. John A. LeJeune, commanaaW- To Wed Doorman Miss Eunice Swetman, daugh ter of a bank president of Biloxi, Miss., is engaged to wed Arch Benge, college graduate and door man for a New York City movie palace. ,t Bonge is more than a doorman or at least he's only doorman by night, J Daytime he s an artist, and he acta as a doorman to enable him to eon-, tinue his art career. Mi., c-...' suaa nas appeared on tfc. 4 til - -i if n ;5i
