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DESIRES TO LIVE NOW FOR LOVE
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Boys' Tragedy .
Set for Dem Meet' Miss Hickman Held'
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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
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& 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.
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5S' Recent disturbances in China hnvo increased tho importance of
tho American legation In Peking.
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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.
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Above, the minister'u quarters.
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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.
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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
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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
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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'
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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.
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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.
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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-...'
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