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Late News Events
WASHINGTON.—The Senate Fri
day night confirmed the appointment
of Nellie Taylor Rosa as Director of
the Mint. Mrs. Ross, former gov
ernor or Wyoming, is the third wo
man to be given an important place
in the Roosevelt administration—
Frances Perkins in the Cabinet as
Secretary of Labor, and Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Omen, who has been named
minister to Denmark.
PRAGUE, Slovakia.—“May those
desiring Czecho Slovakia to yield her
territory come with arms to take it,”
Foreign Minister Eduard Benes de
clared in a speech in parliament to
day, when he assailed advocates of
peace treaty revisions.
BERLIN.—Prince Wilhelm, son of
the former Crown Prince, will be
married to Dorothea von Salvitai in
mid May, the newspaper Tageblatt
said today. Their engagement was
announced last week, and the Crown
Prince, through his adjutant, made it
known that Prince William had con
sulted neither him nor the Kaiser.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Captain Lyna
L. Phillips, reserve Bier, and Private
Minor C. Hamilton escaped injury to
day when their plane ground-looped
and crashed into a budding at Cristy
Field. The plane was wrecked.
HOLLYWOOD.—Greta Garbo, the
exotic “Ay tank Ay go home” girl of
motion pictures, returaed from her
native Sweden today after an ocean
voyage that left her pallid and nerv
ous. A crowd of five hundred gath
ered at the dock, saw a pale and
sotnewhat-bored-looking young wo
man in gray clothes hurry down the
i gangplank and enter an automobile,
| assisted by a lively chauffeeur. Cap
1 tain Holmberg, skipper of the Annie
| Johnson, said she was the only pas
! senger who didn’t get sick. “She was
a good sailor ;she was an awful nice
girl, as nice a girl as you will ever
she. She was very upset at the idea
of having to face cameramen and re
porters here. She was upset by that
for the last two days.”
SAN FRANCISCO.—Whether the
, Dollar Steamship Company will enter
the Mexican-Central American trade
in competition with the Grace Line
on its New York-San Francisco run
will be determined within a few days.
Following a special survey of several
months, Ernest E. Johnson today was
preparing his report on the Central
American situation for Dollar execu
tives.
LOS ANGELES.—Mary Pickford.
screen star, toaydha wyrlr—DAP m
screen star, today had on Ale a suit
to regain $25,000 she charged wag in
vested by her as a result of deceptive
claims. She named several invest
ment and realty firms as defendants.
LOS ANGELES.—Estelle Taylor,
actress, today held a $20,000 judg
ment against Frank Joyce, theatrical
agent, for injuries suffered in an au
tomobile accident.
LOS ANGELES.—Joan Crawford,
motion pictture star, today filed suit
for divorce from Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr. Also of the screen, she charged
him with mental cruelty. Miss Craw
ford’s complaint said that a preprty
settlement had been made nut of
conrt, indicating that young Fair
banks had agreed not to contest the
action. An asserted jealous and sus
picious attitude was the chief mental
cruelty complained of by Miss Craw
ford.
LOS ANGELES.—-The letter of an
eye saved the life of A. M. Ridgeway.
He wag pronounced dead and the
body given into the care of a morti
cian. The undertaker noticed an eye
lid flicker and summoned a fire de
partment inha later squad. Ridgeway
was revived.
WOODLAND, Cal.—A hen belong
ing to Herman Debban made her nest
on the seat of an unused truck. When
the truck was finally used the hen
refused to move. Now the truck is
.iised daily and the incubation goes on.
SAN FRANCISCO.—An estimated
2500 persons will parade here to
morrow when labor groups and or
ganizations affiliated with the Third
International observe May Day, po
lice said tonight. Police, expecting
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Except t Few Weeing Lfada
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W. T. VANDEHPOOL
PROP.
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FIB& INSURANCE
You should carry a liberal amount of fire insurance
for the sakevhf jour credit and jour peace of mind,
Needless tasay this insurance should be of the very
highest quality. '
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Alaska Insurance Agency
FAIB8ANK8. ALASKA
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no dSrifeultiea, said, no .more men
would be assigned to special duty
than is usual far .parades of similar
size.
WASHINGTON—.President Roose
velt, after candmding 'the strenuous
week long series df international dis
cussions, today declared a week-end
moratorium on visitors, conferences
and statements 4tnd arranged to
cruise down the Potomac Sunday on
the yacht Sequoia.
SANTIAGO, -Chile.—An intense
epidemic of influenza raged in San
tiago tdqya. More than fifty thou
sand cases were recorded.
PASADENA.—The First District
of the California Congress -of Parents
and Teachers today was on record as
favoring legalization of information
pertaining to birth control- In a res
olution introduced by the Santa Mon
ica delegatiifi, and passed by an over
whelming vote of the 7&J delegates,
the mailing of birth-control -literature
and supplies to physicians and other
approved groups was advocated.
HAVANA.—Cuba’s army of 12,00®
officers and soldiers .was 'held ready
tonight lar instant action as the gov
ernment prepared .for possible oppo
sitionist activities which Saturday
cost the lives of seven rebels, two sol
diers end the .chief >of police of San
Luis. Government officials feared
that the complete suspension of busi
ness activity tomorrow (may Day)
might afford the opponents of Presi
dent Gerando Machado an opportun
ity to spread revolt throughout the
island.
LONDON.—Death <of Sir .Henry
Alfred MoOardle, justice of the king’s
bench diviison of the high court and
Britain’s most celebrated jurist, was
recorded today as a suicide.
I WBYPMPLKcBMlLE. |
Tourist—Why raise my rent when
I am only occupying this miwrahlo
little attic?
landlord—Well, you use the stairs
more than Anybody else.—Hummel
(Hamburg).
HWhom does your little son . look
like?”
“His eyes ace mine, his .nose is nty
wife's, and the voice, I think, he got
from our motor horn.”—-Titr-Bits.
Wiggs—Let me have, a dollar, will
you?
Biggs—'Certainly. Here.'you are.
Wiggs—Thanks, old man. 1.1. hope
you’ll be down an’ out some .day so
that I can repay your HuHw —
Daily Eagle (Brooklyn).
St. Waggle—So that is a aeroplane
man, eh? I used to be pretty reck
less m’self once, lid risk njy life any
time.
Lew Darts—You would?
St. Waggle—One time Ipiayedero
quet in the rain with the rheumatism.
—Daily Eagle (Brooklyn).
Clerk—I would like to nuurvy, Mr.
Broker, but on my salary I cannot.
Junior Partner—Well, I eanld on
your salary; hut 1 cant on my dhare
of the profits,—Daily Eagle . (Brook
lyn). _ _
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