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LA rest Milline Rate in the U.S. Wichita: Eagle, Morning and Evening, has lowest milline rate in Kansas or in city equal the size of Wichita, Concentrated Eagle Advertising Pays 3. City and Suburban over 20.000 Greater Than Beacon Net Paid Morning and Evening, City 43,269 City Total Eagle Eagle Morning Carrier City 23,244 21,874 A.B.C. 1928 Circulation 9 1932 A.B.C. 22,170 22,879 to Stands Average Mch.

22,420 23,298 5 1, Firm Mos. 1933 03 VIS Wichita Eagle VOLUME XCV TO DEMAND INVESTORS' SAFEGUARD Roosevelt Today Will Ask Congress for Check on Securities Issues WILL FORCE PUBLICITY Project for Federal Regulation of Stock Exchanges in Preparation WASHINGTON, March 28. (AP.) Roosevelt will ask congress tomorrow to throw the cloak of federal regulation over new securities issues in the form bf a general "blue sky" law. A bill giving the federal trade commission extensive authority to enforce complete publicity of security transactions and to aid in the prevention of unnecessary and fraudulent issues will accompany a message from the president. Would Protect Investors This is the first item in Mr.

Roosevelt's program to protect the investing public. A second is in prep-the regulation be of the exchanges--and will advanced to congress shortly." The security legislation is based on the plans outlined by the president in his campaign. Secretary' Roper, who has been working with experts, laid the draft of the bill before Mr. Roosevelt today. The "truth telling" bill requires definite statements to be made to.

buyers in respect to the bonuses and commissions the sellers are to receive; information as to the investment. of principal, the ings, true liabilities and true assets of the corporation itself. Curb Foreign Securities it also is understood the legislation will encompass sales of foreign securities in this country, as proposed by Senator Johnson who investigated the losses in these bonds year ago. the federal trade commission under Huston on Thompson, chairman of President Wilson, has cooperated with Secretary Roper and Charles W. Taussig, one of tine, president's economic advisers, in draft of the sweeping proposal to protect American security investors.

It is expected the legislation will be sent to congressional judiciary committees, and party leaders are prepared to push it. Just how the government will take. control the stock exchanges is still being worked out, but direct action is believed likely. One proposal in the tentative draft of the legislation is federal licensing of the exchanges. ONCE-FAMED QUEEN OF BURLESQUE DIES Ida Siddons, Known from Coast to Coast in '80's and '90's Penniless NEW YORK, March Siddons died They called her queen of burlesque back in the eighties and the nineties -in the days when the gag -was no lady, that was my wife" was new.

From Maine Texas, from the old London playhouse in the Bowery to the Wigwam in San Francisco they knew Ida Siddons. Some called her the "most perfect figure in America" and her specialty, a rope skipping dance, was one of burlesque's brightest offerings. 1883, when New York's bright lights centered around Fourteenth street and the Broadway theater district of today was a cow pasture, Miss Siddons started on burlesque tours with her father, the late "Pop" Siddons, one famous in circus. Soon after the turn of then century, Miss Siddons retired and took an apartment overlooking Times square in New. York.

Twelve years ago, when she was 64, she married Phil Hamlin, a famed comedian of burlesque in her day. -Miss Siddons died at the home for incurables, almost penniless. Woodin Defies Webster BALTIMORE, even March English 28. trary aspects of the deal. language is escaping then arbiThe dictionaries say its "conser-va'-tor" and so do other authorities.

But Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin has decided it should be "con-serv'a-tor" and "con-serv'-a-tor" it is. In answer to a query by Harry Edward Warner, a newspaper employe and lexicographer here, F. G. Ewalt, acting comptroller of the currency, wrote: "Regardless of the pronunciation given by dictionaries, the secretary of the treasury has adopted the pronunciation which places the accent on the syllable.

The official pronunciation used by this cfficer therefore is con-serv'-a-tor. Should anyone wish to justify this pronunciation, he may do so with the explanation that the word has a new meaning under the provisions of the emergency banking. act." Price: In the City, 3c; Outside Clear Way for Beer Importation 1. 0 WASHINGTON, Officials March cleared the way today for of beer from foreign coupertation Following receipt of complaint from Munich that consuls have declined to issue invoices for shipments to America, the customs authorities have decided there was no objection so long as the brew does not reach this country before April 1. These advices were broadcast to consuls the world over by the state department.

Officials expect little importation, however, as In addition to the barrel provided in the beer bill for the domestic beverage, the measure provides an import duty of $1 a gallon. CORRAL 200 IN MURDER OF GIRL, SIX Police Find Suspect Unable to Account for Actions During Slaying a SLAIN WITH JUMP ROPE Tot Brutally Attacked in Basement Near Scene of Former Atrocities NEW YORK, March 28. -(AP)-Criminally ally assaulted and strangled to death with her own skipping rope, the body of six-yearold Barbara Wiles was found crumpled beside her doll buggy today. Police, spurred by the recollection of three similar child slayings in the same borough within the last two years, tonight rounding up 200 suspects for questioning. The list of suspects included men questioned in connection with previous cases of a similar nature.

One youth was taken into custody on the spot when he puhed his way through the crowds while physicians were waging a two-hour battle to revive. the girl. Barbara's body was found by mother in the basement of her Brooklyn apartment home, within two blocks of a police station, and within a mile of the cellars in which two other Brooklyn girls, one 5 years old and the other 6, were slain within the last year. In the last two years six Brooklyn girls, none older than 7, have been attacked in hallways or basements. Only two An ironic phase of today's case was that Bararba herself unwittingly furnished the pope with which she was killed.

Yesterday afternoon, after she and a playmate, had finished skipping, Barbara tossed it into the cellar of the six-apartment house in which she lived. This morning, Harold Wiles, the child's father, went to the nearby police station to get his "dole" of a bag of coal. He is an unemployed (Continued on Page 7, column 3) PREDICT DROP IN KANSAS WHEAT Reports Say State Will Har- vest 50,000,000 Bushels; Winter Killing Great CHICAGO, March City, wired Logan Bryan today: "Southwest winter wheat outlook at the moment is for a crop about half of that of 1932. Conditions are worse than they were in 1917 when Kansas made a low output of 000,000 bushels. There are now many more acres devoted to wheat, but one must be an optimist to find a prospect of 50,000,000 bushels this year." James E.

Bennett Co. today said: I. Throckmorton, chief agronKansas State college at pranhattan, reports that he returned from a trip through southeastern and southwestern Kansas and found wheat in much poorer condition than anticipated. The soft wheat prospect of southeastern Kansas relatively poor except in a few places. In the hard wheat section west of the Flint hills country conditions are very poor as a result poor seed bed preparations, light summer and fall rain.

"Winter killing apparently has been far greater than was thought. In Cowley county the cutworms have done severe damage and soil blowing has been severe, with prospects for the county less than cent. In Sumner, Kingman and Harper counties damage severe with great areas where there is practically no wheat. Much the same conditions exist in Sedgwick and Harvey counties, with heavy damage from winter killing and worms. Prospects are extremely poor in McPherson county, from McPherson north to Lindsborg, promising only about 25 per cent of crop." K.

U. ENROLLMENT DROPS LAWRENCE. March H. Lindley, chancellor of the University of Kansas, announced today that enrollment for the spring semester totaled 3,450, a decrease of 8.6 per cent from last year. City, 5c WICHITA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH THE EDITOR SPEAKING: Yesterday Washington announced that it was all right for foreign brewers to send their stuff right along.

But before any is actually admitted somebody should get out an injunction or something against any quartette reviving "Down Where the Wurzburger JURIST BLAMES IMAGINATIVE STORIES AS YOUTH CONFESSES THREATENING MRS. LINDBERGH Will Place 15-year-old Student on Parole Because He Is "Not a Bad High School Student Admits Demanding $25,000 in Extortion Letters. AKRON, March 15-year-old boy accused of attempting to extort $25,000 from Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh by writing threatening letters will be placed on parole because he is "not a bad boy," Juvenile Judge Oscar Hunsicker decided today.

"He just read too many imaginative stories," the judge said after conducting a hearing for the ladProveno "Peanuts" Marcella-behind closed doors. The court expressed the wish that the lad's parish priest would consent to have Proveno paroled to him. Meanwhile the boy will be held in the juvenile detention home. Admits Threats Postal Inspector Ernest D. gett said young Marcella, a high school student whose father, Tony Marcella, operates a store and filling station near here, admitted writing two letters Mrs.

Lindbergh demanding blackmail. Neither of the two letters, however, reached the wife of the famous GERMAN FASCISTS' BOYCOTT OF JEWS TO STRIKE APRIL 1 Nazis Hit Back at Atrocity Stories with Campaign Against Semitic Merchants, Doctors, Lawyers BERLIN. March specter of a nationwide boycott against Jews hung swordlike over Germany tonight with publication of the extensive detailed plans of Adolf Hitler's Nazis to clamp down the lid on all Jewish business and professional activity at 10 a. April 1. In eleven points the Nazi followers were advised how, why the boycott would be "inaugurated like a blow." Unless the government prohibits it, no phase of Jewish life, judging from the proclamation issued at National Socialist party headquarters in Munich, will be spared.

Bar Children from Schools de Jewish merchants, doctors and lawyers will be targets of the campaign as well as Jewish children, to whom the Nazi pronunciamento would bar certain professions and even would (Continued on Page 7 column 1) WINS $4,000 SUING SON FOR DAMAGES Mother Cites Scar on' Forehead as Result of Injuries Suffered in Crash WASHINGTON, March court battle in which a mother sued her son for injuries in an automobile accident ended here today with, the Keren, award of of $4,000 Washington, to Mrs. by Justice Jesse C. Adkins of the District of Columbia supreme court. Mrs. Keren brought suit for $5,000 against her son, Barney J.

Keren, because of injuries she suffered when an automobile driven by him in which passenger crashed into automobile near Richmond, on July 5, 1931. She said broken glass had caused a permanent scar on her forehead. The Weather KANSAS-Partly cloudy, probably showers in east portion Wednesday; Thursday somewhat unsettled and ccoler. OKLAHOMA Scattered thundershowers Wednesday; Thursday cloudy, thundershowers in east portion, cooler. The first was intercepted here, the second at Washington.

The first note, addressed to Mrs. Lindbergh at "Delaware, New York," directed her to send the money to "Dad" at the Bluebird inn, a roadhouse near here. Signed with, a ened Mrs. her crude skull and crossbones, it threatand bragged of a "gang of 30." It was mailed here February 27. Recluse Gives Tip Next the lad wrote a note to C.

S. "Dad" Burris, 75, a recluse living at the inn, saying he knew the old man had received the money. Alarmed, Burris turned the note over to police. Then, police said, he had the youth write Mrs. Lindbergh again, requesting her to assure Burris she knew he was not involved.

Burris denied any part in police said. 7 Detectives late last night took the boy to Burris' room. There the lad was confronted with the two notes to Mrs. Lindbergh and samples of his own handwriting. He quickly confessed, Claggett said.

MEXICAN REDS FLAY DANIELS ASSIGNMENT AS U. S. AMBASSADOR Posters in Capital Charge He Is "Murderer of Azueta and Uribe" in 1914 Invasion of Vera Cruz MEXICO CITY, March Posters attacking Josephus Daniels, the new American ambassador -to Mexico, appeared on walls in Mexico City today. The posters were captioned "Out with Daniels" and they called him "the murderer of Azueta and Uribe." These men were Mexicans who were killed in the fighting when United States forces landed at Vera Cruz in 1914. At the time Mr.

Daniels was secretary of the navy. The posters were signed "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Mexico Section of the Communist International." They called upon workers, farmers, students, soldiers and sailors and "all anti-imperialists in general" to rise up and force Mr. Daniels from Mexico. The overthrow of the present Mexican government for permitting Mr. Daniels to serve as ambassador was urged in the posters.

Mr. the authors of the posters asserted, is coming to Mexico to organize the a Mexican army war for the United States. and a navy to fight an imperialistic The president of the American chamber of commerce here recently protested in a telegram to Secretary of' State Cordell Hull against the Daniels appointment. It was learned today that Communists stoned the American embassy last Friday night in a demonstration against the naming of Mr. Daniels.

Several windows of the embassy were broken. Policemen who guard embassy away from the building by one group while others rushed in to stone the place. Arthur Bliss Lane, charge d'affaires, reported the incident to the foreign office and to the chief of police. The police have not yet the matter public and it could not be learned whether any arrests have been made. SHERIFF COMMITS SUICIDE IN LOCKUP TRENTON.

March -Rush Campbell, 50, sheriff of Hitchcock county, committed suicide today in the county jail, shooting himself through the head. Authorities said he left several notes directed to Mrs. Campbell, his son and a brother. He suffered from ill health. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S CRACK MOVES FILM ACTRESS TO TEARS Ann Harding Leaves for Dressing Room to Weep; Alice Brady's Hat Arouses Writer's Disgust; Forced Landing on Beach Fails to Disturb Aplomb CULVER CITY, March 28.

-(P)-Still not noticeably impressed by his recent "discovery" of America -a continent about which he at odd times has expressed some dubietyGeorge Bernard Shaw, seeing the world, came to southern California today and had a look at the movies. He gave some advice to the actresses about what kind of hats they ought not to wear. He moved one actress-Ann Harding-to secret tears with a passing remark. He left a tentative promise to 1933 ASK U.S. TO NAME OIL CZAR Conferees at Capital Fear Company state Cooperative Plan Will Fail MAY SEEK DRASTIC LAW Bolt of Independents Nips Possibility of Voluntary Proration Plan WASHINGTON, March -The oil industry through spokesmen representing the men who produce most of the country's petroleum turned tonight to the federal government with the request that it take charge to bring order out of chaos.

A committee of of 13 fifteen, oil representing governors states, the major companies and many of the independent groups, late today drew up a tentative program for stabilization of the industry which included the request for drastic government regulation. The plan was submitted to Secretary Ickes, who said he had approved it as yet and would not indicate his attitude. He has participated, however in many of conference called with discussions. administration The meeting was proval. State Control Failure The committee did not reach an agreement until late in the day; and Secretary Ickes outlined to newspapermen some of the "highlights." He explained the oil industry had reached a conclusion that their situation could not handled "effectively" by cooperation between state authorities and individual producers.

"They want the national government to help out temporarily in the (Continued on Page 7, column 3) JAIL TWO SUSPECTS AS SOONER DEPUTY IS FOUND MURDERED Officers Nab Brothers Living Near Liquor Cache, Yards from Which Body Is Discovered SALLISAW, March (P)-The bullet-torn body of Tom Hood, Sequoyah county deputy sheriff, was found in a remote hill section of northeastern Sequoyah county, hear Short, late today, and tonight two suspects were being held in jail here. The body was found within 50 yards of a liquor cache by the dead man's brother and Edwin Burrow, who started a search when the officer failed to return to his home at Short last night. Sequoyah county officers soon afterwards arrested Jim Tune and his son, Jess Tune, farmers, for investigation. Additional arrests were expected tonight. Hood left his home late yesterday afternoon, telling his family he was going to "the bluff," near where his body was found, to look for moonshiners.

A family living in the vicinity of the bluff told investigators they heard several shots last night. Investigators said Hood apparently was shot as he took the lid from a barrel of mash, and crawled about 50 yards before collapsing. The body was found within 200 yards of the home. The deputy's Tuistol had been fired three times, but officers said the weapon might have been tampered with after he was slain. FAIRBANKS ANSWERS DIETZ'S BALM SUIT Denies All Allegations of Engineer That He Stole Love of Latter's Wife LOS ANGELES, March Branding the $60,000 alienation of affections and a false imprisonment suit filed against him by Jorgen Dietz, Los Angeles chemical engineer, as a conspiracy extort money.

from him, Douglas Pal Fairbanks, today filed an answer to the suits in superior court and denied all Dictz's charges. The actor's answer asserts that Dietz's a part of a conconducted by Dietz and his present wife, the former Lucy Doraine, to extort sums of money, and relates that the couple demanded $6,000 from him on the threat of publicizing an account of Fairbanks' asserted alienation of affections of Dietz's former wife, Solveig, who is now in Denmark: In the suit charging false imprisonment Dietz charged Fairbanks threatened him with imprisonment if he made any claims against the actor and also said he was compelled to go to office of the district attorney, Buron Fitts, where he was restrained from his liberty for two hours, and later taken to a hotel room, where he was forcibly held for four hours. TI PAGES Boy Chokes Attacking Eagle to Death March ELKHART, winning battle with an eagle which attacked him is the intriguing account which Jack Nordlund, 15, of the North Fork neighborhood, is repeating to his admirers. He said the eagle swooped down snatched his hat as he was riding on a pony. He dismounted just in time to dodge an attack by the bird.

Then, he relates, he stunned the eagle with a blow and choked it to death. ORDERS FEDERAL PAY CUT President Puts Slash into Effect Under the Economy Measure CANCELS FURLOUGHS Bases New Schedule, in Effect Till June 30, on Reduced Cost of Living WASHINGTON, March -A flat 15 per cent cut in the salaries of government officers and employes-the maximum permitted under the recent economy bill -was ordered today by President Rooseto begin next Saturday. It is to continue until June 30, the end of the present fiscal year. What action will be taken at that time will depend on whatever change has taken place in the cost of living. Cancels -Furloughs In ordering the new salary slash, the president automatically did away with the present 8 1-3 per cent cut brought about by the furlough system force by the Hoover administration.

The present reduction is from the basis enjoyed before the previous cut. The pay cut--to aid government in balancing the budgetestimated to save $30,000,000 the remainder of this fiscal year, or at an annual rate of $120,000,000. Is Maximum In his executive order, Mr. Roosevelt said he had determined the cost of living since the first six months of 1928, taken as the base period. It is specified, however, the slash must 15 per cent.

The cost-of-living index figure for the six months ending June 30, 1928, was determined by the labor department to be 171, while the the half year terminating on December 31, 1932, was 133.9. The year 1913 was taken as 100. In deciding what action to take after next June 30, it will be necessary under the law to ascertain the cost of living for the first six months of 1933. WOMAN BEATEN TO DEATH IN BED Gash in Head Fatal; Body Is Found by Husband, Returning from Yard DALLAS, March Ora Anna Christie, 49, wife of William Christie, 69, a cotton mill worker, was beaten to death today as she lay in bed at her a home here. She was found by her husband! who had been working in the back yard.

A two-inch gash in the back of her head caused her death before physicians, called by neighbors who answered his calls for arrived. Christie was last seen alive by friends earlier in the day when she went to a nearby mail box to send letter to her daughter, at Knoxville, Tenn. of Christie worked three days a week at the mills but was off today. Bloodstains on a pillow indicated might have been struck the blow on her head while on the bed. There were no signs of a struggle.

Christie told police he had been in the house some time before and his wife had told him she was going to write a letter to her daughter, then mail it. 12 ESCAPE DEATH IN GASOLINE BLAST Explosion and Blaze Wrecks California Compressor and Storage Plant LONG BEACH, March 28. -(P)-Twelve men narrowly escaped death or injury and $25,000 damage. was done when an explosion and fire wrecked the compressor and storage plant of the Standard Gasoline corporation here today. Officials said the blast probably was caused by the dropping of a compressor bottom.

The fire for a time threatened adjoining storage tanks and oil wells but it was soon brought under control and extinguished. The explosion heard over a wide area. NUMBER 97 SENATORS PASS JOB MEASURE Give Big Majority to Plan for Putting 250,000 Men to Work in Forests HOUSE WILL ACT TODAY Upper Body Ready to Go into Project for Halfbillion Grant to States WASHINGTON, March -President Roosevelt's bill to work in the forests swept through the senate to da without even the formality of a record vote and was sent to the house where leaders forecast its approval tomorrow. The senate then prepared to take up tomorrow, if the chief executive desires, the second part of his broad relief program a unemployment $500,000,000 fund for direct grants to the states. Approve Grants to States This broader plan for aid to the destitute swiftly was approved by the senate, banking committee earlier the without a dissenting vote.

The necessity for: its quick approval was somewhat lessened, however, when the senate adopted an amendment to the reforestation measure removing restrictions on relief funds already authorized. Passage of the Roosevelt reforestation measure marked the fourth of the president's emergency measures to get through the senate this session. The others were the banking, economy and beer bills. is only the first of a series of steps planned by the chief executive, however, to relieve the nation's millions of jobless. Plans Public Works In addition to the creation of the $500,000,000 rehef fund the president plans also a huge public works pro- (Continued on Page 7 column 2) NICKERSON, BANKER IS HELD IN $85,000 THEFT T.

J. Tucker in Texas on Accusation of Irregularities on Books of Closed Institution HUTCHINSON, March Reputed defalcations of more than $85,000 in accounts of the closed Nickerson bank were said today by E. F. Turbush, receiver, to be the basis of charges for which T. J.

Tucker, former cashier, is under arrest "somewhere in Texas." Reno county officers were in Texas today seeking to extradite Tucker. He first was reported under arrest at San Antonio. Authorities there said he had been taken to Austin. Austin officers reported he had passed through there in custody of Texas officer who presumably was on his way north to contact Kansas officers. Citations in the affidavits prepared against Tucker include: The absence of $47,027 in notes since December examination of the bank; use of bonds and warrants, left for safekeeping, a pledge to get county deposits; appropriation of $24,000 in government bonds left for safe keeping on deposits in safety deposit boxes and cashing of them under forged signatures.

Turbush signed affidavits at the (Continued on Page 7 column 1) CONGRESS APPROVES POOL IN WHITE HOUSE Authorizes Acceptance of $13,200 in Gifts to Build Swimming Tank WASHINGTON, March gave its approval today to the construction of a swimming tank at the White House for President Roosevelt from private funds. The senate adopted and sent to the White House for the chief executive's signature a house resolution authorizing acceptance of a fund for the project raised by the New York Daily News and other newspapers. Senator Wagner N. who called the resolution up in the senlate. said the president was willing to accept the gift provided he was The New Yorker lauded Joseph authorized to do by congress.

M. Patterson, publisher of the Daily News, which originated the plan for gathering public subscriptions. He said $13,200 had been raised in cash and aggregate fund including services and equipment totaled 000. "In its beginning the movement was a home state enterprise," Wagner said. "Before it had gotten very far under way it had become nationwide in its appeal." "The contributors whose subscriptions made the fund possible came from all classes of society," he said.

great many children participated in the enterprise and the size of the individual contributions indicates that the man in the street was an active participant." NAB KANSAS BANK THUGS WITH PLANE Sheriff Aloft Leads Posse in Pursuit After Raid by Pair at Mercier $1,100 LOOT MISSING Posse Sends Slug Through Gas Tank of Car; Victim Identifies Two HIAWATHA, March Pursuit by airplane and automobile. ended in arrest late today of Sam Bowman, 23, and Noah Bowman, 20, brothers; at their farm north of Oneida as suspects in a $1,100 bank holdup at Mercier at 1 p. m. No loot was found. a dent Justin of the Sullivan, robbed son of institution, the presi- the Farmers State bank, told Sheriff J.

H. Mellenbruch that the two were the robbers. The brothers, who were brought to the Brown county jail here, denied implication. Sullivan was in bank when it was robbed. As two unmasked thee bandits fled to a waiting motor car after the holdup, Sullivan changed shots with them and then pursued them in another machine.

Pursues by Plane Meanwhile, Sheriff Mellenbruch took off by airplane after being informed of the robbery. For 'a long time the plane followed a car which he said later he was convinced was occupied by the Bowman brothers but at the time he paid little attention to it, being misinformed as to the color of the machine sought. But posses on the ground soon picked up the trail and succeeded in firing a bullet into the gasoline tank of a speeding machine. Later, officers were told at Woodlawn that a machine occupied by the Bowman brothers had stopped there for gasoline and a hole was noticed in the leaking tank. Trying to Change Tank Mellenbruch, who later abandoned the air search in favor of.

pursuit by car, said that the brothers were attempting to change leaking tank for another one when they were arrested on their rented farm where they lived alone. First reports were that when the robbers exchanged cars during their flight. a companion was seen in the second machine. Sheriff Mellenbruch said, however, he had no evidence of a third man being involved. The sheriff was informed that one of the brothers had served a reformatory term at Hutchinson, but he said tonight he had not learned which one.

KANSAS INDIAN FIGHTER PASSES Joseph W. Sykes, Who Freighted Over State in Early Days, Dies at 95 dian team war KANSAS CITY, March W. Sykes, 95, time Infighter, gold prospector, OX team "freighter" driver and Civil veteran, died here today. After coming west from his birthplace, Elizabeth, N. Mr.

Sykes drove a freight wagon between Leavenworth, and Denver. In 1859 he went to Buckskin Joe, mining camp later abandoned, and prospected for gold. He joined Company of the 2nd Colorado cavalry in the Union army during the Civil war and participated in the battle of Westport. During Indian troubles of the early days, he was a scout near Fort Dodge, Kan. Mr.

Sykes saw the first Santa Fe lccomotive launched on rails at Atchison, Kan. He served five terms as treasurer Park county, Colorado. Survivors include two daughters. Held for Shooting turn some time and "show you (Culver City and Hollywood) how to make pictures." A forced landing on a mistshrouded Pacific ocean beach in the airplane in which he flew from San Simeon, this morning seemed to have left untouched the aplomb of the dramatist and critic. "I didn't land," insisted Shaw.

"It was the pilot who landed." And the proud, white whiskers Britain's most trenchant man of (Continued on Page 7, column 5) J. H. BROCK bank in (above), Headrick, president was jailed in Altus, in connection with the slaying of W. C. Ernest, an Oklahoma state bank examiner Press Photo.

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