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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 31

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TUESDAY, APR. 4 1M(MqrtII and to round, cylindrical, or other irregularly shaped pieces or packages. WHAT IS WRONG WHEN PRAYER FAILS? BATTLE OVER CHILD OF ACTRESS BEGINS Mother of Missing Jean Spangler Upsets Girl, Father Contends in Court Hearing Christine Benner, 6-year-old daughter of missing Actress Jean Spangler, yesterday again became the object of a court tug-o-war, as her father, Dexter Benner contested with her grandmother, Mrs. Florence Spangler. Easter Postage Warning Given It now takes a 2-cent stamp to mail an Easter greeting in an unsealed envelope, Postmaster Michael D.

Fanning warned yesterday. The former rate was VA cents. He issued some more advice. If you're not sure of addresses, better stick on a 3-cent stamp. That way you get directory service.

Fanning also said that cards less than three inches wide and four inches long take 3-cent stamps. The 3-cent rate also applies to other third-class matter which exceeds nine inches in width, or 12 inches in length; pi 1 1 Mil hi in ii nun mi nil I -yfc v- I 5 I ffsA v-, -v 1 lf I A' it 1 i i i daughter visited her. She denied. Beware of Clogged Colon TUG-O'-WAR Dexter Benner, father of 5-year-old Christine Benner, whose mother, Actress Jean Spangler, is missing, shown in court with present wife Lynn as they Tour tolon was never Intended to become trap for storing food-wastes. The normal colon is a canal through which food residue should pass without delay.

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Brown to Talk Joe E. Brown, stage and screen star and honorary mem- Times photo ber Of the American Legion, is I scheduled to speak today at a Legion luncheon club in At. Thirty-nine years aeo in forbid den Tibet, behind the highest moun tains in the world, a younjr English man named Edwin J. Dingle found the answer to this question. A creat mvstic opened his eyes.

A creat change came over him. He realized the strange power that knowledge gives. That Power, he says, can transform the life of anyone. Questions, whatever they are. can be answered.

The problems of health. daath. poverty and wrong can be solved. In his own case, he was brought back to splendid health. He acquired wealth, too, as well as worldwide professional recognition.

Thirty-nine years ago, he was sick as a man couia De ana live, unce his coffin was bought. Years of almost continuous tropical fevers, broken bones, near blindness, pri vation and danger had made a human wreck of him, physically and mentally. He was about to be sent back to England to die, when a strange message came "They are waiting for you- in Tibet." He wants to tell the whole world what he learned there, under the guidance of the greatest mystic he ever encountered during his 21 years in the Far East. He wants everyone to ex perience the greater health and the Power, which there came to him. Price Reunion Picnic Set Former residents of Oregon and Washington will gather in Sycamore Grove April 15.

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One of the 48 States! 7m however, that she had mailed a valentine to her daughter. Judge Doyle continued the hearing until today, when he will question Christine, about her care and treatment. The child will be taken to court by agreement of both attorneys, who made the suggestion as testimony of Mrs. Spangler touched on the fitness of Mrs. Benner to care for the child.

Goldstone declared that Mrs. Benner, the former Mrs. Lynn Lasky, had given up custody of her own children during her divorce and is not a proper person to rear Christine. To Mrs. Benner's statement that she and Benner had been married three years, she said they were wed only last October, and again last December.

Performance I III Within ten years, he was able to retire to this country with a fortune. He had been honored by fellowships in the world's leading geographical societies for his work as a geographer. And today, 39 year a later, he is still so athletic, capable of so much work, so young in appearance, it is hard to believe he has lived so long. The essentials of his strange methods are explained in a little book that can be read in a few hours. Its title is "The Magic of Self-Maatery." The entire book is offered on credit.

The publishers say, "Read the book a lew nours, appiy us meinoci for two weeks before you pay for it. If not delighted, simply return it within two weeks and we 11 cancel the charge. If you decide to keep it. send S1.00. which will pay for it in full.

No one need rfv rr reading it tinless he keeps It longer than the two week trial period." The publishers are The Institute of Mentalphysics, 213 S. Hobart Dept. TC. Los Angeles 4, Calif. They will be pleased to send the entire book on credit to any responsible adult reader of this article.

Send no money, pay no C.O.D. charge. Simply say. in a letter or on a postcard, "I accept your two week approval offer. Send along the book." This liberal introductory offer may later be with drawn; so order today, on credit, The Magic of Self-Mastery." headers Now of New Lower Prices! BALL-TYPE STEERING Benner, 30, plastics manufacturer, charged Mrs.

Spangler with upsetting his child by constantly referring to her missing daughter as the little girl's "real mother." He asked that Mrs. Spangler's semimonthly visitation right3 be terminated. Mrs. Spangler, on the witness stand in court of Superior Judge Elmer D. Doyle, denied that she had been "argumentative" or that she had tried to poison Christine's mind against Benner or his present wife, Lynn.

Cohen Angle She also denied, under questions of Benner's lawyer, Paul R. Matthews, that her daughter, Jean, had ever had a sweetheart "henchman" of Mickey Cohen. Where i3 your daughter?" Matthews demanded, a3 Mrs. Spangler's own counsel, A. A.

Goldstone, objected to the line of questioning. "I only wish I knew, Judge Doyle," she said turning to the judge. Mrs. Spangler's Shreckengaust, sister of Jean, also testified that neither she nor her sister was acquainted with "Mickey Cohen, Mike Howard, Dave Ogul or any other of Mickey Cohen's living or missing" associates. Says Address Found Benner, however, said that Mike Howard's address had been found in the purse of his missing former wife and that there had been something in the newspapers about, her being seen in company of one of the missing Cohen henchmen.

Benner also testified that he had been questioned by Sheriff's investigators regarding Miss Spangler's possible tie-up with Cohen associates. Matthews questioned his client, Benner, regarding Christine's "confusion" which resulted from the grandmother's visits, and the father said the child wept and asked him if he was her "real daddy." Christmas Doll There was much testimony regarding a doll Christine received for Christmas from Mrs. Spangler, which the child named Jean Elizabeth for her actress-mother, who disappeared mysteriously last Oct. Mrs. Spangler denied that she had suggested that the little girl so name the doll, or that she had told the child to think of her mother every time she held the doll.

The grandmother told of sitting on the floor to work jigsaw puzzles with small Christine dur ing a visrt to the Benner home, and of helping the child make valentines when her grand- Bids Opened on Homes in Damsite Area Sealed bid3 for seven dwellings In the Whittier Narrows dam-site basin were opened yester day by the Los Angeles Corps of Engineers, which stated that the offers will be accepted or reject ed by tonight The structures must be removed from the dam site to facilitate construction, now under way. Altogether, some 600 dwellings In the area, which is about four miles north of Whittier and between San Jose Creek and San Gabriel River, face removal over the next three or four years as the project progresses. Property owners were given an ODDortunity to bid in the buildings at the appraised figure or to make sealed bids. If the sealed bids are unsatisfactory, the government may reject them and enter into informal negotiations for the disposal of the Improvements, it was stated. HEADACHE RELIEF SEED IJ 1 Ml or a a 1L Capudint is the choice of thousands to relieve fimpls htadacha and neuralgic pain.

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