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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1937
NUMBER 250
(Eight Pages)
BOMBS DAMAGE AMERICAN LINER AT SHANGHAI
Legionnaire Arrives For Big Meeting
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destroyers and a torpedo boat off south of the Yungting river, was
were
the
nation's 4,000,000 world war vet- purse and hitting her over the head
tire neutrality act, authorities said
and Tientsin.
A similar raid put to flight a I
short-
group
United States Senator Royal
Copeland, writer and radio talker
North China front.
ha, 11,020,000.
to Japan during the six-month
The Mediterranean For the Orient
name on the Democratic ballot.
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farmer, surrendered to county of- phasizing the need
shooting occurred at the victim’s of foreign wars.
as a black coupe (license 84-460)-.
of the quartet at Riverside and
paign for highway safety.
left the jail with Rhom, testified
But neither England nor France with President Roosevelt’# order
his
in
continue
economic rehabilitation.
ingness to cooperate in a new arm-
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United States Hopes to Share Lead
In Halting World Armament Race
Unbalanced Boy
Admits That He
Unload Bombing
Planes Destined
Britain, France
Rush Vessels to
Salesman Bonded
In Man’s Death
Conservation of
Water Is Tonic
Farmer Gives Up
In Fatal Shooting
Accident Seen in
Death at Terrell
Forced Out of
U. S. Department,
Attorney Says
Heavy Cotton Loss
In Hillsboro Fire
Legion to Make
Drive Against
‘Junking’ Vets
Madrid Pounded by
Insurgent Shells
New York Mayoralty Elec-
.tion Preceded by Wreck-
ing of Candidate’s Store
Miss Gainesville
To Be Introduced
At Ft Worth Show
residence
Corsicana.
Shipment Aboard U. S.
Owned Freight Vessel
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Men Over 40 Valuable in
Gainesville Day Will Be
Observed Tonight at the
Frontier Fiesta
along the coast between Swatow
and Hongkong, the Chinese said.
Japanese reported today the
center of the Chinese battlefront in
North China had been shattered
and Gen. Wan Fu-Lin’s Manchu-
Tammany’s Fate
In Politics Is
Staked at Polls
open
the
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north
force
their
• and
s Ja-
has
from
hospital window. Yesterday morn-
ing Miss Regal was found dead, a
two inch cut and bruises over her
right eye.
those
have
from
city.
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New Deal policies.
Senator Copeland is also, ‘as the
for extension of “government pro-
tection” for widows and orphans
of these veterans.
suasion anti in every act of policy provided it is convinced of the night and Friday; warmer in west
within the limits of our established good faith of other world powers, portion tonight.
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said
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about 300,000 words.
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Hunt Quartet Who
Escaped From Jail
Circulation Men
To Meet Saturday
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Sectors of War-Racked
City of Shanghai
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Terms of Maturity of
Judgment Says Booklet
NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (AP.L Youth Arrested Shortly Be-
fore Finding Body of
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Harry Landsberg of Milwaukee, first from his state to register, for
the .American Legion convention in New York, receives his credentials
from Elvera Dowell of the convention staff.
plague
in the
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to 740.
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by the Maritime Commission of major parties.-
the" case of the government-owned Primary bitterness brought vio-
Former Chief Counsel for
the Internal Revenue
Bureau in Statement
erans are in the age groups above with an iron stake when she turn-
40, Cooper said the legion “believes ed over in bed and appeared to be
it is unfair to junk a man, to call awakening.
him obsolete, to say he is not । Mrs. Gerald Burke, mother of
needed, when he passes the age of the youth, said he had not been
40: _ normal since he was struck by an
‘This battle,’’ said Cooper,” will automobile at the age of five, and
be waged unceasingly until indus-
try recognizes the fallacy of dis-
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (AP). independent foreign policy.
Secretary Hull has conveyed to government is exerting itself in
a VOLUME XLVII
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Cholera
The question was raised in cbn-
nection with the recent bombing
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One of five bombs dropped by Chinese airplanes o n the President Hoover near Shanghai August 30 hit
squarely on the boat deck near the after funnel. P. W. Reeves, a passenger, on deck after the bombing,
looks over the damage. (This picture was flown to San Francisco on one of the Clipper ships.)
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• CORSICANA, Tex., Sept. 16 welfare program, and a strength-
(AP).—W M. Hunter, about 50, a ened Americanism program em-
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charges fired at close range. The laws to keep the United States out loss
pursuit planes, the report said, at- The capture of Gen.
tacked a Japanese cruiser, three headquarters at Kuanhsien, just
a brief statement saying that he
and his assistant, Russell J. Ryan, firmed Canton dispatch asserted,
had been given "the choice of par-
ticipating in the presentation of
the names (of alleged tax evaders
American Legion headquarters to-
day announced a concerted cam- i
paign against the "junking” of
men over 40 in the nation’s em-:
ployment aim.
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three miles south of the disabled, and an intensive cam- I bales of cotton and part of the
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (AP).
—Morrison Shafroth said today he
had been forced out of his position
as chief counsel of the internal
revenue bureau because he refused
to join in the recent investigation
of tax avoidance and evasion.
Shortly after Shafroth’s resig-
nation was announced by Secre-
tary Morgenthau. Shafroth issued
। may serve to bring nearer the
The business sessions
believed Garrett picked up two
men and a woman at a tourist
camp four miles from Crockett
shortly after Etheridge spotted the
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Managers Association will
NEW YORK, Sept 16 (AP).—
Tammany’s fate as a political
force may be determined today by
the vote of 1,000.000 enrolled Re-
for national
rian divisions were in full retreat. [
Latest Japanese advices from
the front 30 miles due south of
here said the 100-mile long Chinese
line had been split and its left wing
was being driven to the west by re-
WEATHER
Gainesville and Vicinity—To-
night and Friday. partly cloudy.
Today noon, 88; high yesterday,
91; low last’night, 61; high for
year, 109; low for year, 16.
land avoiders) or resigning.
As a result, Shafroth said, “we
tendered our resignations on the
28th of June, 1937."
The investigation into tax eva-
sion and avoidance brought a pa-
rade of names high in the finan-
cial, theatrical and social world
before a joint Senate-Hpuse com-
mittee.
The investigation was requested
by President Roosevelt after Mor-
genthau reported to him that mil-
lions of dollars in revenue were
being lost by tax dodging.
here Saturday morning
Plaza hotel and will
HONGKONG, Sept. 16.(AP). — prated hammer blows from the
The claim that a Japanese pursuing Japanese.
cruiser had been sunk by Chinese. Japanese headquarters described
air bombs off the South China the advance as the greatest offen-
coast was made today in Chinese sive undertaken by the Japanese
reports from Canton. army since the Russo-Japanese
Three Chinese bombers and two war.
the district. four men armed with
axes knives and pistols having
wrecked a bar owned by a partici-
pant last Monday.
Major Candidates
There are three major candi-
dates :
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
Fusion. pro-New Deal incumbent,
Is a candidate for the Republican
of the
Epidemic
Serious
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GENEVA, Sept. 16 (AP). — The
League of Nations council put Chi-
na's appeal against Japanese ag-
gression in the hands of a revived
advisory committee today and
asked the United States to take
part in its deliberations. _
Quick dispatch of invitations to
Washington and 22 other capitals
made it certain the United States
must decide if she will cooperate
with a committee on which her rep-
resentative formerly served.
By its action the League also
pushed into the background any
question of sanctions against Ja-
pan—at least for a time. With
China's conditional approval, the
council shelved her appeal under
the covenant article 17—the sanc-
tions section.
Taking Testimony
In Sheriff s Trial
Wichita, a freighter nearing the lence before dawn, when a mob
west coast for refueling on its wrecked a lower East Side drug - -----
scheduled trip with 19 airplanes store owned by Benjamin Brown. I empioyer in the United States'
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CORPUS CHRISTI. Sept. 16
(AP).—The twenty-fourth annual
WACO, Tex., Sept. 16 (AP).-
R. F. Hammack, salesman, was
under $1,000 bond today in con-
nection with the death of J. W.
Brock, insurance man, last night.
Brock was knocked to the pave-
ment in a fist fight and died in
an ambulance en route to a hos-
pital. Hammack told authorities
he had been menaced with a
screwdriver.
_■ _* “- . it. ment. ability and dependability of Piel said Pawlowski admitted
This was the second outbreak in world war veterans,” Cooper said, entering the attractive brunette's
Most Veterans Over 40 bedroom early yesterday mom-
Pointing out that most of the ing, taking 60 cents from her
wants to join an “anti-piracy” pa-
fugitive. Their car was identified i trol in the inland sea.
Naval Activities Virtually Embargo
on Wartime Basis; Italy
Must Make Next Move
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sept. 16
(AP).—Defense testimony is ex-
pected to open today in the trial of
16, Sheriff J. A. “Art”
should be adjudged an implement
of war—and automatically banned
as cargo for government-owned
vessels—is up to the munitions
control board, they said.
That board, it was specifically
added, has undertaken no study
Which could lead to such a deci-
sion. i
Secretary Roper had spoken yes-
terday of a Commerce Department
survey to determine what part the
staple is playing in the Sino-Ja-
panese conflict. Cotton can be used
in the manufacture of munitions.
Roper's remarks brought imme-
diate reaction among exporters,
who sold $54,826,000 worth of cot-
ton to Japan and $570,000 worth to
China in the first seven months of
this year.
Exporters’ Problem
Exporters have been perturbed
by the problem of how to dispose
profitably of this year’s bumper
cotton crop, much of which must
be sold in foreign markets.
President Roosevelt’s decree that
government-owned vessels can no
Introduction of Miss Gainesville
from the stage of Casa Manana
by Paul Whiteman, famous orches-
tra leader, will be a part of the
recognition given local citizens in
connection with observance of
of Japanese
eluding II Duce’s demand for pa-
trol parity, would be “considered.”
o Order Prevents
designee of Tammany, a candidate . , _ .
for the Cemocratic nomination, American Legion convention open-
where his only opponent is Jere- in here Sunday night will be com-
miah T. Mahoney, president of the 1 paratively peaceful, with a mini-
A. A. U., choice of the four pro-I mum of controversial issues to be
New Deal Democratic borough I debated, inspection of more than
leaders of the city (Tammany is 600 resolutions received at national
restricted to Manhattan), headquarters indicated today.
mem.
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Japanese troops were pouring. flict. [
across the Yungting river. Some 1 Exports of wheat flour to China
60,000 were said to have taken part for the first six months of 1987
in the rout of the eight Chinese ; were valued at $179,000. (The same
divisions — about 100,000 men — exports to Japan were so small the
along the western 70 miles of the department did not list them.)
Shipments of oil and oil prod-
ucts to Japan for the first six
months of 1937 totaled $19,016,000
j and to China $3,040,000; of copper
to Japan, $9,470,000 and to Chi-
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became the “eyes” of this fleet.
Destroyers En Route
The first contingent of destroy-
ers to reinforce the vast Anglo-
French piracy. patrol sped from
England toward Europe’s trouble-
fraught “backyard.”
Britain was building her Med-
iterranean fleet up to 90 ships,
counting the 42 on regular duty.
She and France, as her co-partner
in the unprecedented job of polic-
ing main sea lanes, will have more
"than 150 vessels on guard against
the undersea threat to European
peace already menaced for 14
months by war on the Spanish
peninsula.
Navy yard sailors worked day
and night, loading tons of muni-
tions on Britain’s sleek fighters.
Other Ships To Sail
The job was completed in the
early morning aboard four de-
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tentatively estimated
foreign governments his hope that the effort to safeguard against
the United States can share lead- having the armament race eventu-
ership of a movement to halt the ate into catastrophic war.
world armament race “when and -"Barring such a calamitous
if" an agreement appears possible. event, the constant increase in
This was disclosed today by pub- armament must be halted either
MADRID, Sept. 16 (AP).—In-
surgent shells pounded central
Madrid at 5-minute intervals to-
day, killing several persons.
The bombardment came after
two weeks of artillery inactivity.
It began about 11 a. m., and there
were some casualities before peo-
ple in the downtown district
could take cover.
Government guns replied to the
fire, which came from nearby hills.
There the insurgents have laid
siege to Madrid for almost a year.
Government authorities said the
shelling had little military import-
ance. It followed upon last night’s
bombing of Valencia, the tempo-
rary capital.
CONSUL ESCAPES INJURY
COLOGNE, Germany, Sept 16
(AP). —- A grandstand jammed
with 5,000 spectators, collapsed
today during a military parade at
Guskirchen, near here, resulted in
a narrow escape for the American
consul general, Alfred Kleiforth,
and his wife. Many persons were
injured.
Not one of the 600-odd resolu- _ _
tions from state departments, con-1 for observation.
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What disposition would be made , have custody of the prisoner in
of the planes, whether they would question, Edward Rhom, who had
be stored here or loaded on another | been convicted of a felony.' He dis-
ship bound for the Orient, could appeared from the jail Aug. 21.
not be immediately determined. | Ruster Nelson, who allegedly
The action was in compliance left the jail with Rhom, testified
No reason was advanced for the ■ Campaigns for national com-
trouble. ! mander already were underway
Seven children survive the slain today the first avowed candidate
farmer. ( (Continued On Page Eight)
Norman Thomas is unopposed '
Exports of scrap iron and steel for the Socialist nomination. 1___-_______________________
to Japan during the six-month A last minute development was cerned a proposal for a general At 8:20 p. m. Tuesday Pawlow-
period were valued at $26,831,00. the sudden growth, admittedly in pension for world, war veterans., ski, clad only in a hospital night-
------------— Tammany strongholds, of a move- Demands will be made, however, gown, jumped from a first floor
— _ " ment to write in La Guardia’s.* --**
__ _ _ Trinity but the fugitives failed to
Gainesville Day at the Fort Worth < show up.
“Through every source of per- ament limitations conference—
TRINITY, Tex., Sept 16 (AP)—
Officers in a 60-mile radius of this
city were on the alert today for
three men and a woman who have
kept a jump ahead of searchers for
three persons who escaped from;
the Waxahachie jail.
Deputy Sheriff Mode Ethridge
reported he recognized one of the
men as Bill Garrett, one of the
fugitives. Back-tracking officers
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (AP).
High government officials passed
along the word today that there is
no present prospect of an embargo
on cotton shipments to Japan and
China.
The question of whether cotton
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a comparatively small group of
.. 0 _. - - . . . .. vessels. Should Mr. Roosevelt ex-
the port of Swatow, said to have exposed his right tend the arms embargo to private-
“Three large bombs struck the • flank and threatened to fold up alldi-owned ships by invoking the en-
cruiser, which sank.” an uncon- Chinese forces between Peiping tire neutrality act authorities said
p--gau. ann, DETROIT, Sept. 16 (AP).—Po-
The plans were disclosed by For- lice claimed today a complete solu- -
to asp Em: amhphherzaritmtemmrinatmn
be laid before the annual Legion youth who escaped from a hospital
convention here next week shortly before the 40-year-old
- The legion will furnish "every spinster was found slain in bed.
ypiyye ii Unvea Staies" a Chief, of Detectives Henry W.
consigned to China ' j Assembly candidate, who is in- booklet showing “the economic Piel said the youth. Robert Paw-
The presidential edict applies to .volved in a bitter district fight be- value in terms of maturity of judg- -oWSkf, bad confessed the slaying. _
-Ls -— tween rival Tammany factions.
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cently to all diplomatic and con- haustion and mutual consent.
sular agents in a new effort by the “I think that the maintenance of
secretary of state to promote the most zealous insistence and
world peace through international emphasis upon economic questions
nomination. His opponent
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Question Up to Munitions
Control Board, Word
Emanating From Capital
.. .. . publicans and Democrats in a
longer carry implements of war to mayorality contest of extraordin-
the two countries named no raw. ary bitterness.
The outcome of their election
Goolsby never personally received
them in jail nor turned them out.
Nelson said he did not know
Rhom’s whereabouts now.
Other state witnesses, including
deputy sheriffs and jailors, testi-
fied Rhom had left the jail on sev-
eral occasions to work on county
automobiles, to buy cigarets, and
on one occasion had gone to Mex-
ico.
• that he had been confined to in-
- - stitutions since he was eight years
on’medical subjects, foe of manyorrdingsworser.inthevery primejold.
netful sessioms Foreseen AAssistant hPwoousutorekAenar:
rant charging first degree murder
as soon as he could get juvenile
court authorities to waive jurisdic-
tion in the case.
Pawlowski had been in custody
at Henry Ford hospital prior to
the killing. He was held for inves-
tigation of purse snatching, and
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had any intention of addressing this week forbidding government-
further requests to Rome for col-1 owned vessels to transfer arms or
laboration. implements of war to Japan. The
Thus, the Italian demands for freighter is under lease to the
equality in the new Mediterranean Fastern-Pioneer line,
patrol scheme remained in a tense
diplomatic impasse.
Weighted with powerful depth
charges and torpedoes, a mighty
Anglo-French armada was mobil-
ized to stop for good all Mediter-
ranean pirate submarine attacks
on neutral shipping. War planes
LONDON, Sept. 16 (AP).—.
Great Britain and France rushed
their Mediterranean naval activi-
ties to virtually a wartime basis
today and intimated that Italy
must make the next move if she
today, American trade would begin
~ J ‘ The fall of Kuanhsien opened the to feel the “pinch” immediately.
destroyers way for a wide wheeling movement Powers
to thewest along the highway from Under the broad given;
Peiping te Paotmgfu, the Chinese Mr. Roosevelt by the Act, they said,
general headquarters. Such a Japa- he could declare any commodity
nese move would drive straight as munitions of war, as well as
across the center of Hopeh prov- j prohibit the extension of loans or
nce- ’credits to either side in the con-
meeting of the Texas Circulation lication of instructions sent re- by agreement or merely by ex-
Principal resolutions expected to
be approved support the legion-
sponsored universal draft law, now
before the national house of rep-
resentatives. an increased child
.. . ... The two powers took the stand
Officers lay in wait for appearance that any Italian suggestions, in-
Oklahoma: Mostly cloudy to-
night: Friday partly cloudy,
warmer in west portion.
East Texas: Partly cloudy to-
night and Friday. Light to moder-
ate northerly to easternly winds
on the coast.
West Texas: Partly cloudy to-
Cotton
Ban Not
and Traders Compress Co., were
__ Other resolutions propose ade- taking stock of damage today
yesterday by several shotgun dis- quate national defense, neutrality after a fire last night incurred a
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HILLSBORO, Tex., Sept. 16
(AP>.— Officials of the Exporters
AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 16 (AP).-
Conservation of Texas’ under-
ground water will be discussed by
the planning board’s water re-
sources committee next Tuesday.
A reported alarming fall in the
sub-surface water tables in some
sections of the state will receive
attention.
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rehabilitation of $250,000. Approximately
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This Country Requested to
Take Part In Considering
China’s Appeal to League
through Sunday. F. E. Bulloch,
president of the association and
circulation manager of the
Brownsville Herald, will be in
charge of the meeting.
A number of guests speakers
have been arranged for, including
David H. Smith of the Portland,
Ore., Journal; William McIntosh,
publisher of the San Antonio
Light and Harry B. Adsit, special
commissioner from Texas.
Officers will be elected and the
1938 convention city will be chosen
at the Sunday afternoon business
session.
The circular suggested that .the time when the armament, race can
department’s representatives make be halted. It should serve to
every effort to impress America’s awaken and to strengthen all of
economic, policies on foreign of- those in every country who are
ficials and stress the importance aware of the terrible sacrifices be-
of adoption by individual countries ing required for armament.”
of a similar program. I Observers generally said the
Describing as “ominous” the pronouncement constituted the
growing importance of interna- most direct assurance yet pro-
tional trade in war materials, Hull claimed of this government's will-
TERRELL, Tex.. Sept. 16 (AP);
An inquest verdict of accidental -
death had been returned today by
Justice of the Peace Frank King,
in the death of J. L. "Weetah"
Eason, 20, whose body was found
yesterday near a shotgun He had
gone hunting Tuesday in a pas-
ture of the state hospital. King
said the charge of birdshot that
struck Eason in the heart appar-
ently was fired as he crawled
through a fence. '
I structure destroyei by the blaze
were covered by insurance.
The fire, which fire fighters
brought under control after a
three-hour struggle, did not reach
the main engine room and the
press. Origin of the blaze was
unknown.
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Chinese Claim Jap
Cruiser Is Sunk by
Aerial Bombardment
Frontier Fiesta tonight.
Miss Gainesville is Mias Mar-
garete Clark, who participated in
the beauty contest at Fort Worth
last spring in connection with the
selection of Texas sweetheart No.
♦ 1 for a part in the Fiesta.
A large delegation of Gainesville
citizens planned to leave by auto-
mobile at 5 o’clock this afternoon
• to attend the Fiesta and Casa
Manana.
Timetable for the shows is as
follows: {
6 p. m.—Gates open, free admis-
sion.
7 p. m.—First Puppet Show in
Firefly Garden.
7:45 p. m.—First Pioneer Palace
Show.
8:30 p. m.—First Casa Manana
Revue.
4 8:45 p. m.—Second Puppet
Show.
10 p. m.—Second Pioneer Palace
Show.
10:30-p. m.—Third Puppet Show.
10:30 p. m.—Second Casa Ma-
nana Revue and Jamboree.
Midnight—Last Pioneer Palace
Show.
Astor House—Open from 8 p. m.
to 3 a. m. with free dancing before
9 p. mn. and after 2 a. m.
g ) “How to Undress”—New con-
Einuous show in the Fire Hall on
Sunset Trail.
Admission to the Fiesta Grounds
is now free.
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