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WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS. TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1916
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Girl," will be just ae distinctive among
photoplays as ‘ ‘Shoes' proved to be
when recently shown upon The' Screen
with, Ella Hall in the leading, role,
woung Harry Depp assisting her in
turning the trend of the plot from Im-
pending disaster to the happiest of
endings, Robert Z. Leonard has devel-
oped a highly interesting story along
entirely original lines, introducing a
novel theme to lend excitement and
add sensationalism to an interesting
love narrative. There is every element
to enthuse all types of theatregoers,
and a splendid .company of photoplay
ers extract the last measure of possi-
bility for good entertainment from the
abundance of opportunity at hand
I the stage or picture ingenue, in this A DATA AOTAIT RI RT A roani A Nr. WAI HI
atrom story of an inher......endetu AGHAMINTAN PINT AFROPI ANE 5 VALUE
Walter Woods, she has theAl ORANHOIAN I LUI HERUS LANL O V ALUL
role ol a child born under a cloud, -.— mas nrpaI
who resolves to dedicate her life to the CCDAANO CAN O CECA DV DIDOHINE
avenging of the wrong-done to her UT ULATMANJ TAILo BEEN DI rcnoninu
mother by the rich and successful1
shipping merchant, who is her unae-r ------- , - -
knowledged father. Alone she plans , .. _.
1 his ruin, in the accomplishment of Unable to Induce Native Rulers To Worth Far More Than Cavalry In
which she is assisted by a group of fo.-, Revolt Against Great Britain Scouting—Figure in Recent
[ sign plotters, to whose interest it is says Report I Maneuvers.
that the shipper of munitions to Europe
shall be brought to destruction. Miss •
Wilson handles the difficult role, with Associated Press Mail Correspondence,
its may emotionalcontracts, like a vet-) London-
• its may emotional contracts, like it vet- London After nearly two years of
I eran, and herwersatility argues well silence regarding the situation
for the future of the girl who has been Afghanistan where if wax known that
German agents had been active in the
less than a year a motion picture act-
820-822 INDIANA,
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' Aksor lated Press Mail Correspondence
i Field Headquarters American Puni-!
in tive Expedition, Mexico. Striking
de monstrations of the value of aero.
early days of the war, the British
government has issued an account of
The Empress
"Sins of Her Parent" is the new
William Fox photoplay which will open
at the Empress Theatre today. Gladys
Brock well, who has supported Willam.
Farnum in several of his, biggest fea-the assistance of the Ameer of Afghan-
tures, is the star of this production. | istan and planned that the uprising
for the first time in her life, in a Miss Brockwell is really a double star | would spread quickly across the bur-
role which calls for more than the con- for she portrays the parts of both
ventional prettiness and sweetness of mother and daughter
The Gem
In’ "The Heritage of aHte." the
forty-second Red Feather Production
showing today at the Gem. Director
Burton George has cast Roberta Wilson
the failure of the alleged German plot
for a great Afghan uprising. The
sponsors of the scheme, it is said,
expected little difficulty in obtaining
planes in the last field manoeuvres
brought forth the declaration by Major'
General J. J. Pershing, commander of
the expeditionary forces, that he would
lather have an aeroplane than aregi-l
ment of cavalry for reconnaissance!
work. The admirable work of u motor!
truck train in transporting infantry to
threatened points also brought warm
com mendat lon.
Just Two More Days
in Which to Do Your
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MAJESTIC THEATRE
TODAY
ELLA HALL
—IN-
“THE LOVE GIRI”
Five-part BLUEBIRD Photoplay written and directed by ROBERT
LEONARD that has elements of excitement, sensationalism, interest-
ing plot and beautiful photography.
. “CRIMSON STAIN MYSTERY”
Is the talk of the town, suppose you drop in and see one chapter to
see what there Is to it.
TOMORROW w
DOROTHY DALTON and
HOWARD HICKMAN
IN
“THE JUNGLE CHILD”
Five-part TRIANGLE Play full of exciting scenes and thrilling mo-
ments, the sensational climax in which MISS DALTON executes an
Indinan death dance is truly wonderful
Two reel KEYSTONE COMEDY is also on the bill.
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The problem which the troops at
field headquarters sought to solve and
in which aeroplanes and trucks were
their plots or their offers. ; used lor the first time involved an at-
The British government’s account, tempt to ford the Casas Grandes river
as given in the House of Commons at one of the three points These fords,
by Austen Chamberlain, secretary of three miles apart were defended by a
state for India, is as follows: ________- - ....'....
"In the spring of 1915 the German a battery of field artillery and a squad
government decided to send a mission ron of cavalry. The defenders also had
to Afghanistan. .For this purpose they
selected from among a number of
Indian anarchists in Berlin a young
landowner from Oudh, who posed to
them as a ruling chief, and as such
was received in audience by the em
ders into India The Ameer, however
dismissed the German emissaries, re-
fusing to have anything to do with
regiment of infantry at war strength.
the use of a truck train of 27 cars.
Each side had one aeroplane.
Flying about 2,500 feet above the
earth, a distance considered ample
since the forces had no anti-aircraft
guns,('apt. Davenport Johnson, for the
,_______defenders, w as able t < > follow t he move-,
•‘This person was accompanied by , ments of the cavalry from the moment
a party of German officers, some they left their base twelve miles from
1 Turks, and another Indian anarchist, the river, to the point where a squad
a Moslem. The principal German ofiron was detached to n ake a feint at
ficer, Lieut Von Hentig. wax the the south ford while the main body !
bearer of a letter from the German I dashed toward the north passage. His
chancellor to the Ameer, in which work enabled the commanding general
the latter was invited to advise the to mass his infantry at the lord threat,
pretended Rajah how best India ened by using the motor trucks.
might be liberated from British tyran- The aero scout for the attackers,
n.v. Capt Maxwell Kirby, had a more diffi-
"Vol Hentig was also charged to cult task. His objecstives were sere.......
make important revelations to thesby the trees along the river Move
Ameer regarding the relations which ments of troops also were more or less
the German government hoped would cenfrused with those of ■ rganimtions
in future exist between Afghanistan, in headquarters camp, which backed
Germany. Austria-Hungary and Tur the fords. In spite of this io- was able
key. j to locate the artillery where It had
"The mission broke up in Persia, been concealed under the trees and to,
and succeeded in making its way in, fix definitely the points where the
j small parties into Afghanistan in the main bodies of infantry were posted
late summer They were arrested on Both aviators were in the air four
arrival and eventually conveyed to hours with only a few landings to rest
Kabul towards the end of the year them Messages were suit by means
There is reason to believe that the of parachutes and smoke bombs The
Ameer and his people quickly appraise tack of piloting an aeroplane in puffy
ed these Germans and the Indian ad-hir nhcarving and writing messaveS
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peror.
i air, observing and writing messages
itaxed the pilots to the utmost. At one
'time there was considerable excite -
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TODAY
GLADYS BROCKWELL
— IN— . —
“SINS OF HER PARENTS”
If you like the .style of story that made JACK LONDON famous,
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panied at their true value.
-It is true that the intervention of ment for it was thought the airmen
Turkey under German influence, rea were staging fight above the . louds.
led a complication, and placed his The impression was the result of the
Majesty the Ameer in an exceedingly closeness of the machines and the fact
difficult position. .I that both were firing smoke bomb t
'But at the outbreak of the war
his Majesty gave the Viceroy of In-
dia the most solemn assurances of
his intention to preserve the neutral-
it of his country, and it is with great
satisfaction that I acknowledge on be.
half of his Majesty’s government the
loyalty of the Ameer to his pledged
word as sacred to the true Moslem
as to ourselves.
"His—Majesty has firmly refused the
indictments as seductive as they are
Perfects Invention
to Make Aeroplanes
Safe as Automobiles
Dayton, Ohio. The aeroplane made
as safe as the automobile that 18 the.
unrealizable held out to him to il dream of Orville Wright, who with his
duce him to forsake his ally and has brother Wilbur, now dead, gave man
itsed his influence to prevent disturb-dominion over the air a decade and
ancea on the frontier.a half aso That dream is said to havel
- . , , a half ago That dream is said to have
"The estates of the Indian land- become a reality with his new applied
owner have been sequestrated by the for patent.
government of India. . When the aeroplane first took shape
-Letters were also addressed by in the brains of the famous Wright
the German chancellor to a number brothers, years ago, they knew they
of ruling chiefs _ faced two problems. To get their craft
-- off the ground and to keep it in the
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assorATEO
* venter of the first heavier-than-air fly declare that difficulties of transporta-
leg mac thine was perfecting his invention and high freights form the chief
„ce.......... lion in a series of flights on the avia-heter and that there dimienitiesar
air until it was the will or the pilot toltion field east of Dayton.
..................1 For the first time in more than three
to solve The second remained for years Mr. Wright made an aerial flight
Assoc lated Press Mail Correspondence. i Orville Wright to achieve.’ I Almost daily for a period of t wo weeks
Geneva, Switzerland. “It is a verit.I His solution, lie believes, will mark ; he made flights and continued tests
able financial absurdity,” says the another epoch with the aeroplane. With Time after time he brought the ma
Tribune de Geneve commenting on the its efficiency established, he believes j chine to earth to make some slight
low price of the dollar In Switzerland, 1 absolute safety will be secured with change in the mechanism of the stabil-
which is now worth five francs four-his new device - iter. One time it was the tightening
teen centimes, whereas the normal Never prone to talk much. Orville of a bolt, another the losening of a
price is five francs eighteen centimes, Wright is even more reticent than wire and still another, the overhaul
while Swiss money is at a great prem-insual on the topic of his latest inven ing of the entire device -
1 turn in Paris, London and New York. tion. With patents not obtained, natur* It was following the end of one of
in Paris, for example, a loo franc ally he will not divulge secrets until these flights that he exclaimed. I'm
i Swiss nolo Is worth 114 to 118 francs It is assured that he will reap the re more than satisfied with its work now
today. Americans living in Switzerland wards of the service. On the question1 All I had to do was steer the machine
are losing by the exchange rates. The of what it will do, however, he is not. The stablizer gave me a perfect, bal-
Tribune adds that the situation is ex so secretive. He believes air craft will ance during the entire flight. It did all
traordinary because, whereas America be as safely and easily piloted as the the banking' on the turns and righted
I is full of gold and lending millions to most humble "flivver." the machine on every dip '
belligerent nations. Switzerland Is sur Mr. Wright met almost as many <11"-. When asked if the new stabilizer wastcric as The marvellous internal or
rounded by fighting nations and has couragments and disappointments with in any way similar to the one patented 1 ganization of navigation and transpor-
contracted a. d-14-4---1′4445 2 hi ***** van **** H
over 700,000,000 francs but its credit and his brother developed their first device
is increasing as the war progresses He perfected his work while harassed ne w one
The Swiss government intends short by business cares, including and cost ..................... .............. ....
iv to raise another loan of 100,000,000 ly litigation to protect what he had de aviator to do but steer the machine.”
francs for mobilization and other pur i veloped. More recently he has beenthe declared
I poses tehnsi—1 ... Nia --------th " *aiefnl - * **
FINANCIAL ABSURDITY ---------- .
NOTED IN SWITZERLAND desc end, the first problem, both lived
due largely to the failure of the gov.
Fernment to have ever carried out the
! projects for interior navigation which
were urged by de Freyeinet. Baudin
and Airtiffred years ago in the op
lulon of these same economje author
ities the failure of France to realize
these canal projects has been respon
sible for her anomalous position in
the world carrying trade
Although some 200 to 500 miles
j nearer America and from two hundred
lo two thousand miles nearer the ex
trente Oriental markets than Antwerp
lor Hamburg, the French port of Mar
' seilles before the war was surpassed
by those Belgian and German ports in
central European trade to the Orient.
I while Bordeaux, Havre and other
French Atlantic ports were fur be-
hind them in trade with the two tin i
When asked If the new stabilizer was’eric as The marvellous internal or
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debt since the war of his, most recent invention as.when, he some time ago, he replied that the first tation in Belgium and Germany en- i
was not to be‘compared to the Tabled them to drain toward their
ports nearly all the foreign bound 1
"It leaves absolutely nothing for the trathe of central Europe though 1
( lengthening the route and increasing
. .................the time of delivery.
confined to his home with amainfuler! Strong chemicals in the .batteries Geneva, for instance, is further
-) n disorder, whic h developed from a , * hich furnished power for the automat from Antwerp than it is from Bor
fall he suffered years ago in tryin Tie electrical device were thrown upon deauxa yet DL1912 Bordeaux received
out an aeroplane for the government the canvas’ pla nes and other parta of 1 almost not bing I rom Sw itzerland
His new stabilizer substantially r I the aeroplane at the end of this trip while Antwerp received 31,000 tons
jects the, gy rowepe, heretofore always Even before the acident could be rem to be shippe I by its longer route to
deemed hecesay, as a fundamental, edied the chemicals had eaten through European ports In the same year,
importation of knitted goods will prob-instead enters the domain of elee; the big wings and cut through the Bordeaux received and forwarded to
rahly prove to be a great blow to the ed bran FSECUTA I wood "f some of the metal wires A Geneva only 4,500 tons while Ant
Japanese knitting industry. During the batteries, augmented, by a pendulum bucket of water thrown on this part of werp was a way station for 44,000
ten months ending October 31 the to-swinknE in a dathaand a.minor the machine stopped the damage a tons gomi quo Switzerland AAFY P . .=..
propeller- placed almost directly over the chemicals bubbled up like soda. The new necessities created by the
I he pilot’s he ad. absolute. unsw erv inE. w at er. It brought an end to further war, however made I tordealix the U
automatic stability is said to be main- flights that afternoon, however port for 35.000 tons of cotton and
tained. “ That was a crude battery,” said Mr. srain and other commodities en routeWe pay the highest Cash prices for
Mr Wright 1- nor prepared to say Wriht “or its contents would not have for Switzerland in 150 Eeonom . all kinds of Junk Rubber, Copper,
how soon he will give his invention to , scape a - authorities THEY* That with • Tope’ Brass, Lead, Aluminum, Zine. Bones,
he world He wants to be assured be - .— ---facilities four years ago Borde aux Belting and Old Books Magazines and
would have received a lion's share of Papers of Every Description, Aute
noT nr I IVINA the 75,000 ton of ingoing anil qutgo Tires and Tubes.
ing Swmes traffic in 1912 Country Shipments Solicited.
91UE 1-0099 I The question is one of the Rhine
With the n« roplane itself, he feels . A. A ' against the Rhone so far as . oncerns Write for prices,
that his work is finished. What remains) DANCE I A 1 A 1 central European tramie for which
RANUL ULTIVID Swit zerland acts as a sort i if “turn 0
.......Xes ..... ,......., table and with it are connected inti w w PCTEPCCL J LETZE Oe
With the aeroplane In peace, as in war, —* mately the long discussed projects of
he feels that his work is done Because Ahnaranu praht the Rhone canal, the canal from Mar
M "f this, he has not applied for a renew-Appegenti), Advance in Trie Prevent ellies to the .....and the canal
workmen [al of extension of the British patents Steady Advance‘Prices from the Rhone to the Gironde with
sun nuNun m.amun, covering the a reoplane. Neither willCCCBS ex Marseilles and Bordeaux as the terri
′, OF CAPTAIN FRYATT he apply for similar extensions in oth-1 ____minal [ __________________- ____________
---------- ter countries where patents are held. The - De Freyeinet and other far seeing continue the system from Havre and
- Associated Press Mail Correspondence says, But the stabilizer will be patent-Associated Press Mail Correspondence statesmen who elaborated these ca- Paris to Marseilles by way of Lyons
Amsterdam, Netherlands—The Dutch ed and in the future be part of the Faris- Nothing has availed to check nal projer its fell from power before: and will enable the Rhone to ____
branch of the League of Neutral Coun-’equipment of all aeroplanes, it is be-lthe increase of the cost of living in they were realized, but economic au pete with the Rhine for Swiss trade
tris s has presented to the Great East- lieved. " j Prance Bread only has escaped the ■ thorities believe that the era of re to the Mediterranean. another con-
ern Railway Company a marble mem I Weather conditions of early Novem-tendency. Everything else considered construction after the war will see necting the Rhone with the Dorgodne
oriel plate, with a bronze medallion ber were excelled for flying and while it costs at least 7a per cent more to France turning first of all, in the that is to say connecting Lyons and
portrait in relief, in memory of the Aviator Victor Carlstrom was driving live in France today than it did three matter of public Improvement, to the Marseilles with Bordeaux—will give
shooting bv the Germans of Captain his big 200 horsepower machine from years ago War, of course. is the question of transportation. Switzerland a shorter route to Ameri-
Fryatt, of the steamship Brussels. Chicago to New York, Mr. Wright in-ifrst explanation but economic experts. Two of the most important pro-can ports than that by the Rhine.
BRITISH ORDER IS BLOW
TO JAPANESE INDUSTRY
| Associated Press Mail Correspondence
Tokio. - Great Britain's war ban on
tal value of this line of goods exported |
to Great Britain reached $9,000,000
In addition contracts entered Into call'
for delivery of additional goods up to
next June, amounting to $6,000,000
I Exporters have held conferences
1 urging the Japanese government to; . .. . . that nothin Ms is
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and that I- will injure the friendship thetihis .ork.ie.neztexted
, between the two countries. It is also
feared here that similar bans will af is merely a question of manufacturing
fore. orheimmasate errent or TINT BAR wd. reaping the commercial profits
i ish order will be the suspension of
many factories and the throwing out of
employment of thousands of
DUTCH HONOR MEMORY
Fryatt, of the Steamship Brussels.
... Rehatdo Mined wt
=Z 2
Especial attention given to
five gailon oro.rm. Rural
shone 9001. ring 14
Wichita Falls, Texas.
$12 Indiana Ave. Phene 2240,
i jected waterways remain to be built:
one of them lateral to the Rhone will
com-
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