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LOSS I SLEEP
Baby Had Red Spots on
Face. Cuticura Heals.
TOMORROW
AT YOUR
well-known ladle* referred to in
term* of the prism who hies her-
"Beyond the Horizon” were sched-
uled at the Little Theater satur--
VICTIM OF BOMBING
TO GIVE TESTIMONY
MARIK
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Picture* of
the year
Bones of prehistoric men dis-
covered in East Africa covered 41
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‘Beyond the Horizon”
Ends Run Tonight
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ordered
SIAMESE
TWINS
Janet Gaynor in
“Two Girls Wanted”
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Palace to Get
“The Noose” Sunday
STOLEN CAR
FOUND WRECKED
TEXAS DOCTOR GETS
LIFE FOR SLAYING
lege, stands with
in his hands.
Olive Borden and Antonio Mor-
eno are the sweet young thing*
They sing, danca play the pi-
ano.
Hap Hazard, former navy fly-
er, will do an act of comedy jug-
' Odeon will stick to its double
program idea thru the new week.
"Ladies Beware," with George
O’Hara, and "The Obligin’ Buck-
He
ize
praised by Richard Bennett, fa-
mous actor in Dallas -sweek, as
the finest play in which he had
'appeared.
in San Quentin penitentiary.
Imposition of the life imprison-
Worth today.
"Sadie Thompson” •was "Rain
BEM ronELLIS
ronIs
Midway tent.
The 16-year-old girls are known
FLOOD CONTROL
FAC NG DELAY
et
Gloria Swanson As
“Sadie” at Worth
Critics everywhere are agreeing
TODAY
Mat. Prices, 10, 20, 80
-Night Prices, 10, 80, 50
.AMERICAS
" ONLY
NATIVE
RIE“APBATA42SCLNaay
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Plenty for Money
At the Odeon
I Hs own auto on Van Zandt Via-
' duct by man he had picked up
ALsO
RICHARD TALMADGE
A u t o i s t Gives Stranger
“Lift”; Loses Car
J. L. Miller, 1216 Stella, no-
tified police at 3:45 a. tn. Satur-
, GLOP/A SWANSON IN
SADIE THOMPSON.-WORTH
wife and subsequently sent to the
j asylum, claims he is sane nd is I
State mine officials today began
an Investigation into the explo-
sion at the Mamma Mining Com-
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victims, trapped in the wreckage
of the mine shafts, were not all
b.d^‘rX%» Chaney picture, is
We----
sincerely hope
you are not
going to miss
“THE
ENEMY”
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A First Xntiomairieture
os the Asms Program
“DAD’S CHOICE”
A Comedy Featurine
ED W AMD KVUNETT
HORTON
XKWS EVENTs
OncRESTNA
Margaret and Mary Gibb are at;
the
have a surface area of 712 square
miles, slightly less than 1 per
cent of the state’s area.
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Teacher Expected to Tell Story Of :
Love Affair With Illinois Youth.
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By United Press.
WASHiNGTON, Feb.
By Unitea Prens.
| LOS ANGELES, Feb, 25, — Dr.
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JACK HOXIE
IN HIS FIRST UNIVERSAL SUPER SPECIAL
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played from Cape Hatteras, to
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H/PPOOffOME.
ARTHUR AND MORTON HAVEL
1Featuring Helen Lockhart
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MON.
BETTY SPOUSE
m'THE OPEN
ment sentence, recommended by a
| jury of eight men and lour wom-
A young boy, just out of col-
4 smoking gun
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“MEN OF DARING”
FICATUKING
HID
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“Sadie Thompson”
Dased M th. Mont Talked ot
Bier, LCver Written
“RAIN”
Overtwre
WORTH URANO
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MACNICE cemdnetiug
atler, her
towns If.
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1928.
that nth
wn* will
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clothing and start* her job hunt
anew. Subsequent events are such
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""The Eugene O’Neill piece is the j highly unusual ‘picture.
ftret staged in Fort Worth. Helen u ,
Gertrude Sparks and William NO Shortage OT
with flying colors In "Sadie
Thompson," the picture at the1
recovered until late last night.
Gas generally was believed to
j have caused the explosion, altho
» । Claude Spiegel, state mine Inspec-
Sadie is one of the tor,in charge of the investigation,
; refused to make any statement
until complete details were obtain-
pAlaGE
zame9I,
'Siamese
to be
ran
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». which
reak.
Gloria Swanson has come back
polite allusion, "abnormalitles,"
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. death.
SNIPER IENEWS ATTACKS
By IInited Pre...
VINELAND, N. J., Feb. 25.--
Southern Jersey's "phantom sni-
per" has switched his activities
to the Vineland district and four
motorists today reported wind-
shields of their autos had been.
drilled by slugs from the niper’s
gun. The sniper’s attacks now
number 50. '
LON CHAN^^lN^NDON AFT[f!\
MIONICNT.-CAPITOL
a* the American-born
IN
“THE BLUE STREAK”
NTICKY had never known a
IN girl like this. He felt
unworthy of her—and to
think that she loved him.
But an hour later she de-
serted him. He, had killed a
man! — the only “white”
thing he ever did in his life!
And now . . . SEE
RICHARD
BARTH ELM ESS
“THE NOOSE”
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warnings dis-
REMVS BACK TO HOSPITAL
LIMA. Ohio, Feb. 25.—George
Remus, former king of Cincinnati
bootleggers, returned to the rou-
: tine of the state hospital for
rge of As-
A. R. But-
nd Deputy
i Antonio,
they came
ness,
oming into
other oil
inity, car-
» of r. s.
student who objected to military I
‘ training, was expelled in 1926
They found him . murdered! . Three dnggers in hi*
heart and pinned to the body of the Pony Express Rider
three cards—Ace, King, and Jack—what did it mean? See
the amazing sequence with a cast of thousands
IN
The state charges
more performances
McMillan Convicted of Killing
Wealthy Chicagd Woman
SON
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universities has been started by j dynamite bomb Tn the schoolhouse ! Tuesday. The Jury was given the
students at the University of Cal-, stove in an attempt to kill the, case late yesterday and deliberat-
tfornia. I voung teacher who had demanded ed less than two hours.
The body of Mrs. Appleby was
Ifeb calendar
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Nebraska's rivers and
ed.
Only two of the 16 men trap-
ped in the two shaft* were taken
from the mines alive.
Spiegel and W. E. Templeton,
president of the Mamina Mining
Company, led the rescue workers
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635 ,
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until all of the bodies
brought to the surface.
Shows Baturday.
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bloc" insists strongly that their
streams be included, and the r r r a ry y
group headed* by Chairman Reid, ■ III 1Z •
of the Flood Control Committee, I A I I ■ . F% *
Including moat Democrat* and —4 • —
madge will be rival headliners at
the Ideal Sunday..
Hoxie Is starred in "Men f
Daring." Talmadge Is "head man”
of "The Blue Streak.”
In "Men of Daring,” Hoxie is
seen as the leader of a modern
physically united. The girls re-
will arrive Wednesday in com- ci:.___ . ,,
pany with "The Fighting Texan," Shivers and HOW
featuring Wallx Wales. With Cap Film
ASiamese TWins2 at W-w-w-whatwasthatt
Siamese i wins at Midnight. Deep shadows.
The Majestic |.......
stories he wrote for a campus fight the pink boll worm in Tex:
. publication.
weather bureau
northeast storm
sanctification procees that fol-
low*/ the reformer not only for-
gets his wife but most of his
more treasured dogmas on human
decorum as well.
"Moonlit Waters” will be the
stage show for tho week. Feat-
ured performers are Fauntleroy
and Van, rube comics; Rose Mar-
ino, toe dancer; the Boris Petroff
Dsncers; Mario and Lazarin,
"Two Strolling Troubadours," the
Jsnton Sisters and the Dean
Brothers.
i The blast occurred early yes-, the criminally insane today pend-
terday in mines No. 3 and 18, ing resumption of his habeas
where nearly 150 miners were J corpus hearing Monday.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—An
working. The bodies of the 14]
AMOUS TWINS
IT MAJESTIC;
GLORIA'S BACK
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different type , but none of them,
I was of what is known as the Ne-
bill to be reported out next
wek." Texas Congressmen met
yesterday to discuss the boll
worm situation. . They agreed to
seek any additional funds needed
and to take up compensation
questions after quarantine regu-
lations are lifted.
found tied in a burlap sack near
San Fernando laqt Dec. 26. The
skull had been crushed.
Desire to gain possession of the
Appleby estate, which he manag-
ed, was held by the State as Mc-
Millan's motive for the murder.
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after three years of training.
“My baby had great red spots
come on his face and they worried
him so much he would cry and
scratch his little face until it would
bleed. He was very fretful and
caused me to lose rest at night. I
was told it was eczema.
"I saw an advertisement for Cu-
ticura Soap and Ointment and sent
for a free sample. I bought more
and I only had to use one cake of
Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuti-
cure Ointment when he was healed."
(Signed) Mrs. F: P. Thomas, 324
B St. S. E., Miami, Okla.
Cuticura Soap. Ointment and
Talcum are all you need for every-
day toilet and nursery purposes.
Soap S«. Ointment 2; and Pa. aleum z- Sotd
ererywhere. Sample esgh free Addrers:
-Cudieuurs Leboratorter, Deps. R, Maldom, Mnee‛‛
a" Cutieura Sheving Stick 25e.
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Vietim May Be wel Known Hopi
Indian Dancer
GILA BEND, Art*., veb. 25.
A coroner's jury to prove' the
death of a man bellered to be
Robert Atoto, nationally known , M
Hopi Indian dancer, will be call-
ed today or Monday.
The body was found In e
clump of cactus on the desert
near here yesterday. The man ' J
had been dead about two years.
Atoto has been missing about the
same length of time.
Atoto traveled over the coun-
try giving tribal dances before
many Masonte lodges. In a de-
composed pocketbook investiga-
tors found the cards of Fergus .
D. Todd of Dallas, Texas, and L.
Ewing Jones of Columbus, Ohio.
Beth are prominent Masons.
gling. Hazard, makes his hop*
"from town to town in his own atr-
plane
Oh, Unele," a revuette; Marie
Vero, vocalist, and Bee Torelli!s
Circus are the other turn*.
Twin*." They are sald
HngAoE
A
Gg
self off to Pago Pago in the
South Seas to escape a jail sen-
tence In San Francisco. More
specifically, she is known as the;
sweetheart of the marine detach-1
ment on the island.
A reformer of the holier-than-
thou stripe attempts to bring our
Sadie back to the,fold. In the
t as the result of a row over appropriation of $687,800 to
—AND ON TIE SCnKKN—
“COME TO MY HOUSE”
I - • A Wm. Fox Pleture with
OLIVE BORDEN
Ta
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MAMAAHGIBB
They Sing-DancemPlay.Pianoim 1
Preston have the leading parts. Heroes Here. Giris!
"Beyond the’ Horizon'* was , ’
Follies dancer. She plays the
same part in the picture.
"The Latest From Par!*” will
be along Thursday. Norma
Shearer and Ralph Forbes share,
the spotlight.
fated here, Lewis Russell, a
ANOTHER ’
smasinsa HIT I
The show thnt s
breaking attendance
records all over the
country.
OTTAWA, III., Feb. 25. —Tola! LOS ANGELES, Feb, 25. — Dr.
Bradford, young school teacher, । Charles McMillan, 57, Texas phy-
MILITARY TRAINING .“sl!SSGSS
c ... . describe the explosion at Pleas- ----• ---------- - - ...
Cajrornia Students Start Fighti ... . . "
on Compulsory Soldiering j ant Valley schoolhouse, which dis-
I figured her and almost caused her j
ummerly Players to
| Break Camp at
I Pantages
By JACK GORDOX
I A come-back by the Glorious
I loris—
I Richard Barthelmess’ newest,
The Noose"—
I Those American-born "Siamese
twins" you've heard about—
I With these events impending,
here’s little likelihood the spring
Iras* will get much of a start
[long Show Row next week. "
| Pantages will revert to a
Atraightmovie house with the re-
liremen of the Irene Summerly
Players tonight.
. • s •
Barrymore Star of
"Thirteenth Hour”
Lionel Barrymore tops the cast
of "The Thirteenth Hour," mys-
Lery chiller at the Hippodrome.
Barrymore ib seen as Neville
Leroy, a mysterious professor in-
erested in the occult sciences.
Napoleon, police dog who prom-
ises to give the better-known
strongheart and Rin-Tin-Tin a run
‘or their money, is an interesting
addition to the cast.
The film opens with a spiritual-
istic seance. The seance is a fea-
ture of a party. The lights have
been doused. Suddenly there is
a scream. When the lights are
witched back oa, a guest lies
lead on the floor. Solution of
the murder keeps the onlookers
interested after that.
earlier in the evening. The auto
was found wrecked in the 3100
block West Seventh Street
Miller said he picked the man
up at 10:30 p. m. Friday and
His victim is a huddled, shape-
less heap on th* other side of the
room.
"The Noose,” Dick Barthelmess’
newest picture, opens with a
punch that is echoed thruout the
film.
First, there is the night club—
then th* death house of Sing Bing
i—finally, th* Governor’s mansion.
Th* story of "Th* Noose" is
the story of a young man whose
bed fortune is th* company he
picks. Lina Basquette, Barthel-
nee*’ leading woman is a former
meemeg show"on "l’Eereen
snow on me Dereen
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me
i
as--ae=m
"London Aftep-Midnight," the ‘ , । .
j just ifornta. . young teacher, who had demanded
cluttared up with' spooky doings A group of students Eave form-j that he marry her.
like that. Its at the Capitol. ied an organization, electing Stan- States Attorney Russell O. Han-
Chaney is seen as a master de- ley G. Bryer, varsity debater, as'son announced Miss Bradford
Majestic today instead" of a tective. His operations in the plc- president. The movement has would tell the complete story of
ture are confined to a mystery 1 the backing of the student paper, her love affair with Reed,
house. ‘ There are two factions among She. also was expected to de-
Mario Prevost cavorts thru the students. One urges an 1m- [ scribe Reed’s actions on the night
“For Wives Only," under way for mediate and energetic denuncia- before the explosion and to testify
Wednesday. tion of Die system. The other cd- he promised to procure a wedding
—----------!_____ vocates a thoro study of the ring the next day and arrange for
situation before determining a, an early marriage to assume re-
INVESTIGATION MADE course of action.—, . sponsibility for their unborn child]
OF 14 MINE DEATHS "-‛ons*en*h --------
Only Two Workers Eacaped Alive
From Arkansas Workings.
, By-Untted Pen,
JENNY LIND, Ark.. Jeb. 25 -
ITT HEN directors of
V V physical education
recognize a sport valuable
enough to give college
credit for it—the sport is
all right. This is being
done here.
Pks
I a 0 eh ll
1 2*2
(p /
/ *** Spmeqlan. /
I Storm” York i
ested were
and viola-
laws.
Irink par-
ng housen
iPon* o'
over the
es, were
some Republicans, Insists that the
government pay the whole cost, ]
A gun used in German East
Africa during th* World War was,
actually made in 1680; It is to be
seen in the Imperial War Mu-
seum, London. *
Janet Gaynor, the winsome
miss who was the talk of the
country as a result of her work
in "Seventh Heaven," emerges as
a full-fledged star in "Two Girls
Wanted,” coming to the Rex Sun-
day. Glenn Tyron is in the sup-
porting cast.
The picture is based on the play
by Gladys Unger. It tells the
story of two sisters who are strug-
gling to make a go of things in
New York.
The younger sister falls ill.
The older can find no work for a
girl. Desperate, she dons boy’s
that they drove around for a
■ while. Miller was told to get out
country around Deadwood to return. Miller notified police.
Dick goes to Mexico to find out The auto was pulled into Lewis
,"2- Huttalo fE-H: ncrons Garage._____
collegians oppose
anrring turyarn tor eustomers at ihe
| ’’Madame Wants No Children” • • •
gents Also
up
men and
in whole-
at Wink,
town, by
on agents
iday pight,
Adminirtra-
De
EXTRAI
EM Exclusive motion plc.
}2% turen of Central Iigh
K(9)V) School, Rea your
A’ frlonds of Central
EP High on the screen!
on Wink
flux of
anhan4l-
the Plate
in towns
Winkler
Legislation This Session
May Be Limited
"wasuzNorox, Feb. 26__Mis-
sissippi hood control legislation of
this session of Congress appears
likely to be limited to appropria-
tions for emergency measures to
protect the lower Mississippi Vai-
lay, with decision on such contro-
versial Issues as local contribu-
tions and tributary work post-
poned.
President Coolidge has made
public his compromise financing
proposal, sailing for an economic
survey to determine bow much the
states should pay, and in doing so
he disclosed his feeling that a de-
cision on this controversy might
well be deferred by Congress at
this time. The financial arrange-
ments, he thinks, could be settled
later.
In addition to weight given by
the President’s view, the prospect
of postponement of any compre-
hensive legislation is further
strengthened by the disagreement
in Congress over flood control
legislation, with a wide rift be.
tween various groups.
The Administration group holds
there must be local contributions,
tho they should be deferred in
serious cases. The "tributary
. MN ; 6
Jack Holt
“THE WARNING”
end
Larry Semons in
“A SIMPLE SAP”
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