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AUGUST 27, 1935. PART TUESDAY HORNING. DEATH CALLS! Career Ends Broker and Fiancee File Application BARRYMORE OPENS FIGHT k--v MACK SWAIN John Enters Ttvo Demurrer Player of Stage andScreen Against Divorce Actions Filed by Wife AMERICA DECLARED FIRM BEHIND PROTEST TO REDS Hull Awaiting Moscow's Answer; Soviet Envoy Gives Promise of "Satisfactory Reply" WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. (Exclusive) Secretary of State Hull today said this country is standing firmly behind its vigorous protest against Communist meddling with domestic affairs.

as the State Department awaits a reply from Moscow. Stricken Fatally in North, While on Way Here TACOMA, Aug. 26. (P) Mack Swain, 59 years of age, pioneer stage and screen actor, died at a Tacoma hospital late last night after an ill John Barrymore, world-trottinj film and stage actor, yesterday madr the first move in his own name toward defense in the divorce suitJ filed against hini by Dolores Cos-tello Barrymore. Barrymore filed two demurrers, one each for the two suits brought by Mrs.

Barrymore. The second ac- ness of but a few The veteran actor, who was MWmtSm prominent in Pacific Coast stock ap To all questions on the signif Communist party should support the pearances when he was a young man, and later was in the early election of President Roosevelt be tion was filed oniy ior me purposo. Keystone Comedies with Charlie cause his defeat might enable forces now opposing our forces to give us a body blow." of including Henry woicnener, uo actor's business manager. Chaplin, arrived at Gig Harbor, a Mack Swain, veteran of stage and screen, dies in suburb of. Tacoma, Saturday from Similar sentiments expressed by SUITS HELD INVALID "First.

Rarrvmore. reDresented Chicago, en route to Hollywood. Reds in this country have worried the political minds of the adminis fore the days when the screen had tration. They foresaw a strong at Attorney William H. Neblett, raised the contention in the demurrers that neither suit contains sufficient tarts tn constitute a cause of.

ac "stars," and among those who played nameless in his films twen He was accompanied by his wife, Cora King Swain, who also was well known in early days as a stock company actress. DIES AT HOSPITAL tack against the New Deal thrust in the hands of Republicans and have been urging the President to placate a citizenry strongly opposed to the recognition of Russia when the ne ty-three years ago wfere Mabel Normand, Wallace Beery, and a tion. Then in each document set forth the unusual assertion that host of others who since rose to The two visited at the home of, gotiations were swept along before Mrs. Clara Lamb Gates at Gig Har stardom. "MR.

AMBROSE" OF PAST the administration popularity swung into ebb tide. bor. Swain suffered an internal the other action is invalid. As to the earlier suit he main tained the action is of no force be cause of the pendency of the later suit. Then on the later suit hs argued that this is untenable be cause of nendency of 1 the earlier Those who recall the nickelodeon hemorrhage yesterday afternoon.

eWsa-ySS i nil wci He was taken to the Tacoma has WASHINGTON NOTE RECEIVED IN SILENCE In Drenaration for their wedding Friday: Richard William Fewel, socially prominent brok lcance of the sharpest diplomatic note delivered by this country since the severance of relations with Germany in 1917, Secretary Hull quietly answered he had "no comment." He said he is awaiting the soviet reply, adding that the estate Department has no Indication of the time or nature of the expected Moscow note, REPLY PROMISED After a day of silence Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky announced that his government will give "a satisfactory reply" to the United States. Until the reply is given him for presentation to the State Department he said he did not care to make any statement of the protest. "I wish to refer only to a campaign which has been conducted by ome persons in this country against our government and against our form of government," he said. "I call attention to the biblical injunction: 'And why beholdest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, but perceiveth not the beam that is in thine own eye." PROPAGANDA CITED "Anything said in Moscow by Amrican citizens about the United States is very insignificant compared to continuous propaganda in the United States against the soviet union," he continued. "I have even seen suggestions that our government should somehow stop the activity of American organizations and American citizens of the United States.

It is obvious that my gov complaint. MOSCOW, Aug. 26. UP A United Besides his widow the actor leaves days may remember the wild antics of Mr. Walrus and Mr.

Ambrose. Chester Conklin, with the great mustachios, was Mr. Walrus. Swain was Mr. Ambrose, great hulking and usually ferocious 300-pound, six-foot-two character, whose wild er, and Mrs.

Mary Kathryn Reticker Robinson, widely known in social circles, as they appeared yesterday to file application for license. The ceremony will be at the Wilshire Crest Presbyterian Church. photo a brother in Salt Lake City and two States protest against "the interference by foreign countries in brothers in Montana. In earlier years Swain was lead their internal affairs" was received in silence today by soviet officials and the soviet press. ing man of a number of stock com GIRL VICTIM COUPLE KNOWN SOCIALLY WILL BE MARRIED FRIDA chases usually ended in disaster before a custard pie, a mixing panies.

He appeared with Charlie Official quarters had absolutely Chaplhv in "The Gold Rush." trough of cement, or in a lake. SCREEN CAREER CHARGES BY WIFE Mrs. Barrymore In both suits accused the actor of drinking to excess and of leaving their horne travel without making proper provision for her and their two chflr dren; Dolores, 5 years of age, and John, 3. Recently Hotchner filed an answer for himself in which he accused Mrs. Barrymore of having kept her husband prisoner aboard their own yacht more than two months.

OF JABBER When Ford Sterling started his Keystone Kops, Swain was the 308 North Sycamore street. Mrs. For three years associated with Robinson gave her age as 25, She largest and clumsiest of them. STAGE FAVORITE Chaplin, Swain acted in many early resides with her mother. comedies with such notables as nothing to say in answer to questions regarding the note delivered yesterday by Ambassador Bullitt of the United States protesting activities of the recent Congress of the Communist Internationale.

These questions included whether any other countries had taken action similar to that of the United States. In preparation of their forthcom-i ing wedding on Friday, Mrs. Mary Kathryn Reticker Robinson, widely known in social circles, and Richard William Fewel, socially prominent broker, yesterday filed their notice The wedding is to be solemnized Swain came to the films from a Oriental-Looking Attacker Mack Sennett, Roscoe Arbuckle, at 5 p.m. Mrs. Robinson's brother, long successful career on the legit Mabel Normand, Chester Conklin Roland Wilson Reticker, will give and Wallace Beery.

Hunted in Glendale; Needle Hurts Neck the bride away and the groom's of intention to marry. i In recent years he was less active tmate stage in the West. With his wife, whose professional name was Cora King, was a favorite in such plays as "East Lynne," "Hu The couple announced the cere brother, Alan Fewel, will act as best man. than at the start of his film career, mony will be at the home of Mrs. LOOPHOLE SEEN It was stated "at the ForVign but appeared in such films as "Gen Mrs.

Robinson attended the West- man Hearts," "La Belle Marie; and "Way Down East." tlemen Prefer Blondes," "The Howard Bonnom Reticker, mother of the bride, 938 Bel-Air Road, with Victim of a weird attack by a lake School for Girls and the Cum Ofllce that Foreign Commissar Max Cohens and the Kellys," "Marianne" nock School here and Miss Finch's man believed to oe an onenwu, He played the part of Marie Dressler's father in what Hollywood and "The Last Warning." Rev. Thomas Holden, pastor of the Wilshire Crest Presbyterian Church, im Litvinoff is on vacation and not in Geneva, as previously had been School in New York. Fewel is a long considered its most famous Gladys Hildebrandt, 16 years of age, of 1330 East Broadway, last night graduate of Stanford University. officiating and only members of the ernment will not interfere with the reported. It Is understood that he Is in Czecho-Slovakla.

comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Ro immediate families attending. CHAPLIN MOURNS PASSING OF COLLEAGUE Mr. Ambrose is dead. sought to aid Glendale police in The reaction in foreign circles Both Fewel and Mrs. Robinson mance." His last screen appearance with Chaplin was in "The Gold the The man struck her sympathetic to the soviet was that have been married once before.

Charles Chaplin paused in his Rush." the protest leaves a loophole for Tax Fight Lost by Pasadenani SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 26. CT) The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined today to disturb the status quo in the suit of nonresident Pasadena taxpayers brought to fores the city to make good funds they assert were misappropriated from improvement district bonds. The appellants, L.

H. Fox, Kath-erine L. May and J. E. Clifford, took the case to Federal Court a nonresidents, but their suit was dismissed in the District Federal Court, and they appealed.

Fewel, 34 years of age, resides at settlement, inasmuch as the "seri and jabbed a needle into her neck as she was proceeding unaccompanied to her home from a theater. Internal affairs of the United States in this or any other matter." Meanwhile official circles speculated on the political implications behind the blunt note carrying a thinly veiled threat of severance of diplomatic relations with the soviet union. In addition to riding the tide of swiftly growing sentiment against the maintenance of diplo studio work to express a pang of sorrow at word from Tacoma of the death" by hemorrhage of Mack CLIPPER HOP POSTPONED ous consequences" mentioned, in the next-to-the-last paragraph of Oakland Store HONOLULU, Aug. 26. JP Pan Swain.

the note, were declared to be an American Airways officials an As "Mr. Ambrose" Swain was one Justice Preston Quits October 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26. (Exclusive) John W. Preston, associate justice of the Supreme Court, today said his resignation from thai position will be effective October 1.

He is to represent the Federal government in litigation over Elk Hills oil leases. His intent to resign was announced several weeks ago. Gov. ticipated if the soviet government Safe Blasted JABBED IN NECK Miss Hildebrandt told Glendale police that she was near her home nounced today the take-off of the of the colorful figur of the pioneer was unable to take measures to Clipper airplane for Alameda, Cal days of films when custard pies and wild fast action were the had been postponed until tomorrow "prevent further acts" in disregard of the soviet pledge to the United when a man stepped from an alley, Ion instructions from Alameda head- OAKLAND, Aug. 26.

MV-Robbers blew up the safe of the Maxwell matic relations with Russia, President Roosevelt was seen as making a disavowal of Communist support In the 1936 campaign as a gesture struck her with his hand and then vogue. Swain was a featured player be 1 quarters. Jabbed her in the neck with a States. PRESS SILENT It was pointed out in these cir Hardware Company over the weekend and escaped with several thousands in cash, police reported today. toward anti-Red votes.

UNDESIRED SUPPORT sharp-pointed instrument, believed to have been a hypodermic needle. The store Is diagonally across the Merriam has not yet indicated who cles that the Seventh Congress of the Third Internationale now is ended and it is likely to be a long street from Central Police Station. This undesired support was flung behind the Roosevelt administration will get the post. by Comrade George Dimltroff, key OLIVE- noter of the Third Internationale time before the next assembly. Newspapers did not even men tion the protest.

AT She screamed, she said, and the man fled. OTHER ATTACKS Similar attacks have been reported by several women and a man in the Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont avenue sections of Los An-eeles. In each instance the attack meeting at Moscow which ended last week. The keynoter urged that "the BUVO OTHER NATIONS MAKE PROTESTS TO MOSCOW CLEANED LONDON, Aug. 26.

UP) Reports er has been described as of swarthy were received here today that Eng I fi REPAIRED Pi ADJUSTED land, Italy and Latvia had protested complexion and of oriental appear once. NEW INK SACK inrormaiiy to Russia over the ac Other than leaving her neck stiff and sore, Miss Hildebrandt suffered tivities of tha Third Internationale before the United States protest no serious consequences. was made Moscow yesterday. 3 7, To you dame! of that sophisticated ase many think most attractive of all S. IE.

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