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1922. SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS. 128 COLUMNS. 16 PAGES, TODAY. HOLD TWO AS BRIBE 1 ATTEMPT IS MADE TO FEDERAL AGENT Alleged Deal To Obtain Clemency By Payments To Prohibition Officer Is Bared As Los Angeles Men Are Arrested; Trap Is Laid In Case.

OS ANGELES, July arrest of two men here on charges of having bribed a federal prohibition officer is characterized by Samuel F. Rutter, state prohibition director, as biggest thing for liquor law enforcement that has happened in California since the Volstead act went into The men, who later were ------------------------------------------------on $25,000 bonds each, were Morris Orsatti steamship agent, and J. R. Johnson, formerly a private detective, charged with having given bribes aggregating $1700 to Harold H. Dolley, agent in chief of the prohibition enforcement in southern California.

According to Dolley, he was offered minimum of a month if he would use his influence in prohibition violation charges. Dolley said he pretended to agree and immediately notified Rutter and Joseph Burke, United States district attorney here. Traps were laid with the result that Orsatti was alleged to have made a payment of $750 to Dolley today in a room where jrcutter and two special agents of the department of internal revenue were concealed. Johnson was said to have acted previously. Orsatti Denies Deni.

Hutter came south a few days ago because of the reports on the matter received from Dolley. Johnson made no statement. are sometimes charged with things we do not said Orsatti. have been in business in Los Angeles for 20 years and have always had a clean Paint and Powder Use Is Keeping Bachelors Of British Diplomats ASHINGTON, D. July Why are there so many confirmed and invincible bachelors on the British embassy staff in Washington? There is good reason why this doughty group of nine young diplomats has been able so long to withstand the attacks of the shock troops of Washington debutantes, advancing in waves each successive social season, urged on by campaigning mothers.

One of the bachelors explained, Washington girls use too much paint and powder. They never let ten minutes go by without daubing their face with one or the other. Washington girls do not play are fewer women golfers and tennis players in the capital than in any city of its size in the entire western world. Last but not least the Washington girls do not play the piano, or let a fellow sit around and sing sentimental songs of an evening. Washington social life is nothing but jazz music, automobiles and cocktails.

A fellow never has a chance to make earnest love in the good old fashioned 1922. COLLINS HEADS DEFENCE FORCE OF FREE STATE Richard Mulcahy and Gen. Owen ODuffy Other Members Of Council. UBLIN, Ireland, July the Associated Collins has been appointed com- manderinchief of the Irish national army, it was officially announced today. Collins, Richard Mulcahy and Gen.

Owen will comprise a war council in supreme charge of military operations throughout the country. Mulcahy also is named chief of staff of the army. Collins Rival Of De Valera. Owen has been the officer in command of the southwestern division of the Irish forces. It is in the region covered by this division that the principal position to the free i state government remains.

Collins was one of the Irish representatives at the parleys which framed the Anglo-Irish free state pact, and has been a leader in supporting the treaty against the republican opposition headed by Eamonn de Valera. A republican communique, issued at Cork, says that at Canerconlish, County Limerick, the republicans captured Brig. Gens. Hayes and Connoley, of the free state forces, with their men and 20 rifles. Sniping is in progress in Limerick.

The republicans also claim the capture of a post held by free staters near Clonmel. Tipperary. Free State Is Active. London, July the Associated provisional Irish free state decision to concentrate its energies on overcoming the republicans and establishing order throughout the country before summoning the new parliament is taken to that military operations on a considerable seals are impending. The republicans, since their defeat in Dublin, have strengthened and now are prepared to put up a big fight.

They are reported to have taken a line from Waterford across the country to Limerick as a defensive front, entrenching themselves in preparation for the expected free state assault. 6 DEAD, 48 ARE HURT IN CRASH WHEN SMASHES FREIGHT; CONFUSED ORDERS ARE BLAMED TTANSAS CITY, July 13 Jx white men and four unidentified negroes dead, injured, some of them perhaps fatally, was the toll today of a wreck in the outskirts of Kansas City Wednesday night in which Missouri Pacific railroad Flier No. 11, westbound, crashed head-on into a local freight train, as a result of confused orders. The wreck occurred five miles by rail from the union station, in the middle of the largest park. Shriners Give First Aid.

A Shriners picnic was in progress near the scene and physicians, members of the order, gave first aid. Other Shriners helped clear away the wreckage. The engines were demolished, half the freight train of 15 cars, was wrecked and four coaches of the Flier were smashed. A wooden smoking car was telescoped by a steel baggage car. Most of the injured were in the smoking car, many of them negroes.

The identified dead: W. A. Rader, engineer of the freight train. He was killed at his post when the engines crashed. J.

F. I.asseter, a passenger. His head and chest were crushed. He died at a hospital early today. The dead negroes were believed to be part of a group of laborers being taken by the railroad from St.

Louis to western Kansas as employes. Many Through Passengers. The wrecked passenger train was the which left St. Louis Wednesday morning, after connecting with a Pennsylvania railroad fast train from New York and Philadelphia. It bore many through pas(Continued on page 2, column 3.) PAYING PARTY SERVES PUNCH, CHECKS PROVES A BIG SUCCESS; DALE.

HICAGO, 111., July two years suffering from the maledictions of angry bill collectors, Mrs. Frank Townslev Brown left Chicago in a storm of praise with a clear conscience, a clean slate and, what is more, with the elite of trade circles, once her contemptuous creditors, now her warm admirers and socially, at least, EDGAR MASTERS, of Charleroi, elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Atlantic City. N. J. The order has a membership of 850,000.

P. J. Brennan, of Denison, Texas, was elected grand treasurer. CHILDREN MANGLED AS WREAKS DISASTER TNT Charge In Three Inch Shell Expands and Explodes On Slight Contact; Picked Up On Artillery Range; Others Thrown In River. ATERTOWN, N.

July are searching this city for artillery shells retained as souvenirs of the world war, after the explosion of a three inch shell Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of eight children. The big shell, believed to be a picked up during the war time target practice of the field artillery on the Pine -1 Plains range, near here, was used HARDING PLAN TO END STRIKE GETS APPROVAL Both Sides Pursue a Policy Which Disturbs Administration Leaders. Colorful Pageant Ends Elk Reunion; Thousands Parade Atlantic City, X. July the 5Sth annual reunion of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ended today with the in- stalation of newly elected officers and the usual spectacular parade late this afternoon. Delegates from more than 1000 lodges, scores of bands, patrols and in colorful costume, will take part in the pageant.

A number of members of congress who are also members of the Antlered Herd, are expected to march, amors them JoeM Cannon. Sales Of Liquors Aboard U. S. Ships Awaiting a Decision Washington, D. July Views of the various interests concerned in the question of the legality of the sale of intoxicating liquor on American vessels on the high seas us well as foreign vessels coming within the three mile limit were sought by attorney general H.

M. Daugherty in open hearings today on the matter prior to tendering a formal opinion. The opinon was requested by internnl revenue commissioner Blair as a result of the controversy presented by the Anheuser Busch Brewing company in attacking the board for selling liquor on American vessels. The shipping board Itself will not be represented at the hearing, that organization taking; the view, it was said in official circles, that since chief counsel Schlessinger of the board already had rendered a decision upholding the legality of the liquor sales at sea, it had no further Interest In the matter until the question was decided by the attorney general. ASHINGTON, D.

July Although the anthracite operators have submitted what president Harding is said to regard as a complete acceptance of the governments offer of arbitration in the coal strike, the situation with regard to the bituminous operators and the miners union continued under a cloud of uncertainty today with both sides pursuing a policy obviously disturbing to administration officials. Evading; Besponse. Declaring the intention is to delay or evade an immediate response, high officials see in the course pursued, a disposition to reject the settlement plan if public opinion would approve such a course. The anthracite operators attached two to their acceptance of arbitration Wednesday, one that a separate commission consider wage scales in that industry and the other that the commission be required to submit a decision by August lO, agreeing in the meantime to pny the wage rate of March 31, as suggested in the proposal. They asked that the proposed separate commission should be required to set up a permanent method by which wages and working- conditions would be adjusted automatically the future and proposed that to assure a nonpartisan adjudication the commission be composed of three representatives of the public and only one miner and one operator.

as a screen door check on the rear porch of the Edward G. Workman house. In the intense heat, the T. IV. T.

charge expanded according to Madison barracks military officials, making the shell liable to explosion at reduced concussion. It Is believed that one of the children, playing; croquet, struck the shell with a mallet or ball. Carpenters working nearby said they heard the children laughing at their game and then a terrific explosion. Bodies in Bits. Rushing to the Workman yard, they found the bodies badly mangled, croquet balls and mallets brown to bits, the concrete wall of the Workman home crumbled to powder and a gray pall of concrete dust settling over all.

Fragments of clothing and flesh were suspended from trees and housetops for yards around, and two automobile tires placed near the shell on the rear porch, wTere found on a roof 200 feet away. The was what is commonly known as a The projectile had been fired from one of the six inch howitzer guns during target practice of the 104th field artillery at Pine Plains reservation Inst summer. It had not by fuse or contact and lay in the snnd, fully chanced, when Mr. Workman found it and brought It home as a souvenir. He kept it in his home during the winter and this summer used it as a weight to adjust the screen door on his risar porch.

Capt. G. H. Schumacher, construction quartermaster temporarily with the first field artillery at Madison barracks, was by police to inspect the remnants of the shell last night. Capt.

Schumacher believes the excessive heat beating down on the projectile caused the T. N. T. charge to expand, and made the shell liable to explosion at much less concussion than normally. Presence of the concrete wall of the house behind the shell, Capt.

Schumacher said, threw the force of the explosion forward and directly against the eight children, almost as if they had been standing directly in the path of thS gun. Police are combing the city for souvenir shells and already have found six, all of which were picked up last summer on the sands of Pine Plains. They were dropped in the rivter on advice of Capt Schumacher. 4000 STRIKERS SURROUND MINE WHERE NONUNION MEN WORK BUT ARE DISPERSED BY SHERIFF Convict On Stand In Obenchain Case. Burch May Testify Los Angeles, July Paul Roman, convict, who recently testified for the state concerning alleged conversations and correspondence he had with Mrs.

Mndalynne Obenchain, took the stand again here today at her trial for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy. He was recalled at the request of the defence, but no explanation was given in advance beyond the statement that he would be questioned further concerning his purported associations with Mrs. Obbenchain. The state planned another attempt to place on the stand Arthur C.

Burch, Mrs. eodefemlant. Another prospective witness was Thomas Haley, proprietor of a hotel where Burch occupied rooms, just across the street from the brokerage offices of Kennedy itnd his father. OKESBURG, July 13 great crowd of striking miners and their sympathizers today surrounded the Wilson mine of the Acme Coal and Coke company, at Wilson Junction, with the announced intention of bringing out the nonunion men who Wednesday w'ent into the pit. The crowd was dispersed by sheriff Luellen, who hurried here from Washington.

Later reports reached the authorities that the crowd was again assembling in the hills, and a guard of state policemen and deputy sheriffs was thrown around the property. 4000 Join March. According to the deputies, it was the most pretentous demonstration since the strike began, fully 4000 men having assembled during the night for the march. They had contpletely surrounded the mine opening when the sheriff arrived. He talked to the leaders and just before daybreak induced them to send the men to their homes.

Wilson mine is the first of the many important properties in this vicinity to attempt reopening and it was conceded that if the move successful other big mines nearby also would start. MESILLA PARK WOMAN TO RACE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR; RIGHTS IN PLATFORM debtors. Mrs. Brown came into national prominence last winter because of landlord and tenant differences with Billie Burke, the actress. There was a dispute about the lease of the Brown residence out on famous and there were lawsuits and everything.

Debt Paying Party. Monday Mrs. Brown gave her previously announced formal paying" party. It was a huge success. Merchant prince and plutocratic plumber exchanged an engraved invitation and a receipted bill for a glass of punch and a check in full.

For two hours a Nteady stream of milk carts, coal trucks, florist and laundry wagons, interspersed with modistes and limousines, deposited the quests at the door, where they were formally greeted by Charles, the footman, and ushered into he tapestry hung drawing room. At the head of the reception line A BOY WITH 50 CENTS Boys with a capital of 50c wanted to sell The El Paso Herald on the streets. 2Yi profit on each paper. Apply circulation department 2 p. m.

Friday. stood Mrs. Brown herself, dressed in a snappy corduroy riding habit with silk shirt and diamond horseshoe scarfpin, dispensing checks and smiles with a true Virginia hospitality. Soft footed housemaids distributed ciga- rets, iced drinks, sandwiches and cakes among tne waiting creditors. There was no unseemly rush among the latter.

Expected a But many a guest who had come to scoff remained to ingratiate. a hardened grocer w-as heard to remark to a druggist, glad I came. 1 thought it was going to be a Near the apparently plethoric checkbook was stationed a man dressed in the conventional blue, and behind him two in plain black. These, however, it was explained, came to watch and not to prey. Invitations to this party were sent out by Mrs.

Brown a fortnight ngo, following the settlement of her estate in the probate court. Failure to achieve earlier settlement had so entangled Mrs. finances since the death of her husband in 1020 that it was only by the most clever maneuvers and constant pleading that she kept her creditors at bay and remained half a step ahead of the sherif. The invitation list to Mrs. ranged from the executives of large downtown department stores to the owner of the corner grocery.

The individual bills ranged from $10 to 1922. Pecos Valley Man Dragged To Death; Caught Wild Mule Boswell, N. Jnly P. Beck, who makes his home on the Pecos river, 30 miles northwest of this city, was dragged to death when he became entangled In a rope after he had caught a wild mule. Beck was found by his wife, horribly mutilated, after he had been dragged over a mile.

In some manner the rope became wrapped around lee and he was dragged over the rocks. AS CRUCES, N. July M. C. Mandell has announced for United States senator as an independent.

She is the first New Mexico woman ever to announce for this office. She has lived for 48 years within two miles of the place where she now resides, on a farm two miles south of Las Cruces, and has reared a family of six. Her three daughters are teachers, and her sons follow farming and mining. Her platform follows; I stand for strict enforcement of the Volstead amendment and gambling laws. For compulsory arbitration in all labor disputes.

For a constitutional amendment for popular election of the now appointive offices, Including judges, cabinet ministers and postmasters. For national insurance for all crops planted by the farmers. For national warehouses for storing all foods, where the producer can have insurance and use his storage receipt to borrow on. Such warehouse I deem essential for the safety of society should our country become famine stricken as Russia is today. For unemployed compensation act.

Why should a willing worker starve when willing to workf For old age pension. For pension. For revision of our spelling. Why should a child spend one- fifth of its school life learning to spell words as some Ignorant person misspelled them centuries ago? For national divorce laws. For national tax laws, making it impossible for any tax sale other than to our government.

For inheritance tax to meet past war debts. For a popular war vote. For government loans to farmers, develop electrical power from our dams, thereby enabling farmers in these projects to pay for construction. For New Mexico I am for conservation of all water for irrigation. As agriculture is the foundation of all wealth and prospertiy, it should have at least a chance.

For the Rio Grande project the liquidation of the national debt, as our government canceled its obligations with Mexico thereby; we farmers see no reason why we should be called upon to pay a national treaty. For these principles I pledge my untiring efforts and submit them to the people, asking only a square deal. AN HEIR AT LARGE A NEW form of illustrated fiction devised by the world- famous cartoonist, John T. Me- Cutcheon. He has made it so popular that no hero in fiction is so widely talked about as those created By this masterly humorist and cartoonist.

a happy, laughing story full of breathless interest. Read the first chapter in The Saturday-Sunday Herald. Miss The First Chapter. Lots Of Entertaining Reading In The Magazine Section THE LIE-METER ON YOUR Ring Lardner suggests, 1 explaining in the Magazine Section of the next Saturday-Sunday Herald how blood pressure will act when the golfer, poker player and bridge fiend do their stuff. And here are some other features that will make the Magazine Section pleasant summer reading: YANK, DROPPED ABROAD, LANDS ON HIS a graceful, humorous narrative of the experiences of some of our consuls.

Written by Frederick Simpich, oLthe state department. AND PERLMUTTER by Montague Glass. They discuss exercise in connection with longevity and the liver. WOMEN AND OUR another of those good articles by Kathleen Norris, noted authoress, who is making American women think. MUST BE HAR1 ing how it mav set one into all sort RED is the ti wee.

The EIGHT PAGES OF COMI Herald readers the very best of be had anywhere. says Beatrice Fairfax, tell- ications. rt W. poem for this papers have but four) give of reading and entertainment to QUELL STRIKE DISORDERS BY USE OF TROOPS Author Has Original Fleece Of Lamb and Book To Prove It ACOMA, July Laura B. Downey Bartlett, local author and pioneer of the northwest, has a piece of wool from the most famous lamb that ever the lamb responsible for the rhyme about Mary and her little lamb.

The small bunch of wool from lamb was handed down to Mrs. Bartlett, who has a tiny book that tells the full history of the episode and explains how the celebrated ovine happened to take such a prominent place in juvenile Pterature. The book contains pictures of the original Mary and of the barn in which the lamb was born. Mary's lamb, according to the narrative, was one of a pair of twins. Its mother kicked it aside and refused to have anything to do with it.

Mary found it, stiff writh cold and well-nigh starved, and begged to have it brought into the house. There she wrapped it in a blanket and nourished it on warm milk and catnip until it grew into a great pet and an inseparable companion. Could Move Mails With Motor Trucks, Is Report Of Work Washington, D. July (By the Associated general Work today prepared a letter to president Harding notifying the executive that a survey prepared by all departments of the government showed that a thoroughly organised fleet of 50,000 motor vehicles could be mobilized within hours should the railway shopmen strike further interfere with the movement of I'nited States mails. The results of the survey were forwarded to the president as a matter of Information, but there was no official indication that use of motor trucks to carry mail was being seriously considered.

The prevailing belief in Washington was that should the warning against Interference with the mails be disregarded stronger measures were contemplated. The postmaster general planned to notify the president that a fleet of motor trncks could be set at work transporting the malls at short notice, and that the governors of the different states would be asked to arrange matters so that every state owned machine nnd government vehicle wonld be placed at the command of the postal authorities. Daylight Saving Plan Of Harding Will Be Dropped Washington, D. July 13. President Harding has informed the federal union that the executive departments of the government have made their last experiment in voluntary daylight saving.

The union asked that government employes be allowed to vote on continuation through the summer of the existing plan whereby the department would begin an hour earlier and close an hour earlier, but the president refused the request, saying: executive branch of the government was committed to the plan and there will be no ceneral order changing; it until the latter part of August. Then it will he put aside, not only for this year but for all time so far as this administration is The voluntary plan was put Into effect early In the summer at the reijuest of Washington business men and a number of government employes, but after a few trial both started an ngltatton to return to standard time. ORDERS TO FEDERAL FORCES MAY GO OUT WITHIN FEW HOURS Regular Army May Take Part In Putting Down Disorder and Insuring Safe Passage For Mails; Weeks Holds Parley With President. D. July may be issued by the war department some time today for the movement of federal troops to certain localities where disorders have occurred in connection with the railroad strike, secretary of war Weeks indicated at 1 oclock as he left the white house after a conference with the president on the situation.

Definite announcement, the secretary said, would be made within a tew hours as to whether troop movement orders would be issued. TROOPS TO PROTECT PROPERTIES. Washington, D. July (By the Associated Weeks today instructed Maj. Gen.

John L. Hines, commanding the 8th army corps area at San Antonio, Texas, to prepare a sufficient force of troops to protect properties of the Missouri, Kansas Texas lines which are in the hands of receivers appointed by the United States court. 50 SHOTSARE FIRED IN ATTACK UPON SHOPS QROVILLE, July strikebreakers and guards were injured, several seriously and one perhaps fatally, when about 75 men, speeding into town early today in automobiles, charged the Western Pacific roundhouse here. The attacking party then motored away. Four guards are missing and were believed to have been kidnaped.

Many of the assailants were masked. They fired about 50 shots, but apparently aimed them only at the windows of the roundhouse, which were shattered. All of the injured had been clubbed; none had been shot. removed to hospitals. aroused by the Invasion in the Trainmaster Badly they COBnted 12 mobiles, Tom ilkenson, the Donald Stevenson, of San Francisco, was head, suf fering a employed at the roundhouse, was se- Buys Bible and Rosary With Bad Check, Claim Of Merchant Man Held Tacoma, Steinholdt, under arrest here today, Is charged with having purchased a Bible and a rosary with a bogus check.

The complaining witness, the proprietor of shop, told the police he accepted the check without question because of the nature of the purchase. possible fracture of the skull. The masked men appeared at the roundhouse without warning and the guards and employes, overwhelmed nnd beaten, were forced into the open. They fled In every direction. In a short time the assailants had completed their work and left town.

Reports indicated that in the surprise of the attack there was no forceful resistance. The roundhouse was badly damaged. Police and Sheriff In Conference. Later in the morning the sheriff of Butte county conferred with the local police over the situation. The town was quiet by the time the authorities had been notified.

T. F. Coyle, division superintendent of the Western Pacific, expressed the opinion that the attacking motorists had come from Sacramento, probably out of the Jeffrey shops of the system. Ilesidents of Oroville, who were verely beaten, chased to a point one mile away and there stripped of his clothes. He was found in a serious condition and removed to a hospital, where it was said he would recover.

Quiet After Denison Bloting. Denison, Texas. July ruled throughout the railroad yard.s and strike district early this morning and little trouble is anticipated. Thirty special deputies are on duty, and additional forces are expected by noon. Protest Salary Decrease.

San Angelo, Texas, July ployes of the Orient railroad here, many of whom are on strike, telegraphed the interstate commerce commission on the eve of its conference with Orient officials relative to a better division of joint freight rates, requesting that it investigate the efficiency and competency of the Orient management. The employes meeting resolved that the in(Continued on page 2, column 4.) JOHN SHELL, AGED 134, 5 1 BOONE WHEN A BOY. DIES IN MOUNTAIN HOME By GEORGE R. NEWMAN. OUISVILLE, July Shell waited for a century and then a third of a century more to become famous.

He remained in obscurity until he had gone 50 years beyond the Biblical three score and ten. At the advanced age of 125 John have felt that he never would become prominent. But he patiently bided his time and FEMINISM IX CHINA. Peking, China, July the Associated is a factor in the conflicting forces at work in China. Chinese newspapers in Peking are displaying prominently appeals of Chinese women for recognition of their right to participate in the formation of the new government.

organizations, led by girls educated in America and Europe, are demanding equal rights and representation in the forthcoming session of parliament. CONTINUE OBENCHAIN CASE. Los Angeles, July presentation of testimony given by Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain at her first trial for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, local broker, occupied all of a whole court session.

Mrs. Obenchain sat with her head in her hands during most of the reading, apparently still suffering from the effects of her sudden illness which necessitated an early adjournment of court. years ago the spotlight of the nation was played upon him because it was then discovered that he was the oldest man in the world. Now' he is dead and laid in his grave in the Kentucky hills at the ripe old age of 134. Things Were Just the Same.

On Grassy creek, in Leslie county where as he was known to the people around him, lived in the old cabin in which he was born, life moves on today as it did in the 18th century. The dwellers in these remote nooks of the are as sequestered from telegraph, telephone, railway, motor or mail as was Daniel Boone, whom John Shell claimed to have seen as a boy. Four ago a party of Lexington people who had attempted a jaunt through the mountains heard of the old man who claimed to have lived more than a century and a quarter. They visited him skeptical regarding his reported ngp. They examined all of the evidence that It was possible to obtain and returned satisfied that he was correct when he said he was born In 1788.

When they repeated their story to the outside world they started a controversy that has raged ever since. But the weight of the evidence was all in favor and in 1919 Kentucky state fair brought the old man to Louisville to attend the fa and meet his fellow Kentuckians. It was the first time that he ever made a trip by railroad, yet this man demanded a trip in an aeroplane enjoyed ft thoroughly. Physicians Agree In Examination. Proof as to age rested on two things, the testimony of physicians and the simple, circumstantial evidence which Shell himself offered.

While in Louisville he patiently submitted to examinations by leadi physicians, some of whom came from as far away as Chicago to see him. They agreed that he was well over the century mark, while most of them accepted his statement that ha born in 1788. He was born in Tennessee, the son of Samuel Shell, a gunmaker. He showed a tax receipt dated 1JA9. showing he had paid to the sheriff that year.

He 21 the he acquired title to property, he s-and old. neighbors told of their parents having known John before they were born. He remembered the national mourning after the deaf of Washington and said he was to go to the Mexican war. Devotion to the truth is a passion with the Kentucky mountaineers and this fact weighed heavily when his claims were considered. His first wife died when he was more than 100.

He married again when he was 125. At his grave were a son 90 years old and a son of 1922. At Local Theaters MOTION PICTURES Own Varied program. Those We "Get-Kich-Quick Cave (For details see amusement advertisements on page 5.).