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■ Wej&nesday, Sept. 8, 1926 mm |Pfl■lf MB rii ■ 1 -r A* JbGtt&l* fj Ajggjp fff lw>w 0g bV irHOMAk «. jciib&VN Internationa) New* Swrttto Start ; -,Cl|SWsNp*NNl|taf" Ixw Angeles, Sept. B.—A motion. K cture bandit hunt. with the ~ titteramen left behind, was taged f Col. Tim McCoy, Metro-Goldwyn iayer western star, and a "movie” , oose of fifty Apache and Shoshone on a picture in vyomlmg. Whim two train robbers plundered l registered mail ear between ttavr-1 ns and Wamsutter, Wyo., Tim Me-' l oy and his company of Indians,! mny of them expert trackers, took p the trail of the fugitive robbers in ! le notorious Jackson Hole country; f Wyoming. McCoy was elijjitly wounded in le neck hen a. gun carried by one I F his Indians Was accidently dis larjped. Novels, short stories y and plays ive been rpnsacked for screen ma rt*# ■; the next course of- supply 11 be poetry. John 8. Ivobertson, now directing Ilian Gish in ‘'’Annie Laurie,” pre ■ted that his production will Start avalanche of picture plays taken >m poems and songs. “I'petry is practically untouched.” tbertson explained, "and nearly ery famous poem of any length has i idea that will furnish the- grqfunfi" >rk for a real story. Scott'S ’Lady the I-ake' would make a beaiiti il picture, as would Keats' ‘Jj»e of . Agnes'; I'oe's 'Anabolic .Lee-; I core's ‘Ministrel Boy’; -Wh&tier’s ilivude Muller’; Scott's 'Young sK-hnivar.’ Tennyson's ‘ldyls of the ling’, and many, many others. , Even the great heroic epic jioems f Homer and Virgil would furnish licture material.” ' ' r , » M I '. Syd Chaplin will soon start on 'The Missing Link,” his next pie ure. Chaplin, “Chuck” Keioner, his lirector; and Darryl Francis Zan u-k. scenario writer, speut a month >n the Santa Cru* Islands working up comedy Situations for the piny, 'i Harry Carey, famous Western star, will wear a white collar for the first time in years before the camera *“ “AVex Smith,” -hidu "first picture for jQctro-GuMwin-Mqyer. Owcy will support Claire Wind sor ahd William Haines.,., Later on. Carey will probably re vert to western pnrts as M-G-M re cently announced its intention to meet the growing demand for pic tures of the wide, open, unfeuecd spaces. - , ; Changing his mind, Dick Barthel mess started work on “The White Black Sheep.” instead of “The Four Feathers,” which had at first been considered for his next picture. May McAvoy, the tiny v motion P-cture actress who is now free lancing. will be able to resume her work before the camera days in a very short time, her physieinns de clare, Miss McAvoy recently suffered a nervous breakdown. * Marion Davies, Charles Ray, John Gilbert, Mae Murray, King Vidor, Lew Cody, Fred Niblo and Lon is B. Mayer have formed a committee to "get out t;hc vote” iu the motion picture colony. , j The committee members aren’t in-1, —Z ■■ ,T -' ~ -l - , - : ■ TILLIE THB TOILER TILLIE JUSTIFIES TttE fc ALL <Jt NvAc- i Mfc'-f ‘TMfe'"be i A:eß , r| fj ———-—j. JEBBV ON THE VOU^ierKKI’ A GDfllt MAN j gentation of the screen industry. j Evend Oade. noted Danish dircc-! tor, doer everything except turn the cameraman’* crank during the film ing of hik pictures and Gade knows how to do tbaf, “too.' He assists in writing the adapta tion.''and continuity of his picture*, selects the players in the cast, ohoowuLodßlumcH for them, and paints and. designs his sets. John T. Murray, for yearn an tprpheum headliner, will support Louise Fageoda in a. comedy scries for Warner Brothers. /, George Medford, dean of motion pieture directors and the director of Miracle Man,” will direct Bes sie Love in "Going, Crooked,” his first picture for Fox. Traflc Delayed By French Heel. French heels have been denounced • and defended by various health auth orities and voluntary keepers of public morals. But when a French heel ti«e up traffic on n bnsy street , in a big city at the peak, of the rush hour if is time to come to a definite , conclusion. , j A dainty bionae attempted to .dodge across the street and her heel I became wedged in a trolley slot. , Street car gongs clanged, motors • honked and chauffeurs yelled. The I traffic cop did bis bet to clear away | the obstruction' but was unsucceta ' ful “It cost Alfi.!ls-at a fire sale and II don’t want to ruin It,” said the fair maid qp she tugged at the nlip fe- ' ; Fimit’y a motorola n pried the trol ley slot apart with a crow-bar and released the slipper. Then'the Young lady went gajnty on her way's-and traffic was resumed. The first' educational association in the United States was formed at Middletown, Conn., in 1790, under the name of the' “Middlesex^ County Association for the Improvement of' Common Schools.” ' | Thornton Fisht ' AihatSs!wtL - ?N v -J ' A /^'tenw\ ; ) • OKVKiTTBe r J J - \ / M6WO6 OF \ ( WMWSYOOW.eW* T L_ir?^y^ / wrsi\ ) r - r l( Bur h* - ] " ' I wo<^».jy6 lg^. l^S' 3 y A V voutow 1 . \ snea tu iwcrl, y . iMnMFff < --—-- ' ' -' • ■>m ~] UTTLt JULIUS Sfittm ■ - i - whbw-- '-i VWYVaOf»WM,T»E 8W tms A arWMLfejJM fpoNTaa.mwwl r wur wovyapays - W sAo-ro&tr | vou eovs know M*|§pll|gg y Age 0000 FOR NOTHIN') " OUT ANO v<o«c! I ■IIIINI •yj VNHST MEEPtn TilllglWWl I f /f x, I L -i >• - 1 VOU MUST OF i ase cee whiz g f T *l **Z° y j f \goßg-Howt! "* | ■ - - * .^ Have You Heard ! fl* One? Mood Stories That Are Going tbs Bounds 1 lll “ ,m ‘ *■' 1 .; .y ' ' iii Parent—Now on tfie question of money—cab you keep going? Daughter’s sir, you see —er —I'm afrui<l Parent—Precisely. Wen, If you can’t keep going, don’t keep coming. Father—Last evening, young man, 1 saw my daughter but there. sitting ■on your lap. What explanation have you to offer? t\ Xoung Man—None, sir, except that I got here early, before Jhe others. Flm Actor—l rode a very sure footed horse in my last film. Friend —How did you know he was sure-footed ? Actor —Well, he kicked me in ex actly the same place three timea. “Going far?” asked the chatty littie man of the stranger in the cor ner of the railway carriage.. “Oh, no, only to New Haven,” re plied the other, who hated talking to strangers, and who wished to snob this one. “I’m a commercial travel ler. My age is forty-six. I am mar ripd. My jiame is Henry Brown. I have a son nineteen. He is m busi ness iii New York.- t have a niece with red hair. Onr charlady’s name is Mrs. Jones. Is there anything else ” The chatty Utile man smiSed af fably. "fVhat oil do ypif use for. your ton gue?" ■i The earth receives lessthan WUe tbousandth part of the energy poured out by the sun; the frthit part of it goes into space. When a ddor feey Ik hung up out side a -house in Sweden it is a sign 1 that the family is not' at home. THE e&fK&ftD DAitV Tribune MECK, S»^S» Com |log,ooo.—Cbtten MHIs Again Start tip.—-To Honor SB*. Shep ard, v C’aarlotte, N. C., September 6. The Meqklenburg county tuberculo , sis sanatorium buHt at a cost of SIOO,- 000, twelve miles from Charlotte, near Huntersville, will be formally opened with special exercises starting tomor row afternoon dt 3 d’elock. Dr. /ohn B. Donnelly, of Charlotfe, is resident physician in charge of the sanatorium ami reception of patients will be start ’ ed, this week. The sanatorium has ; accommodations for 120 patients, 06 white and 24 negroes. - • Building t’.ie hospital was made pos sible by a special bond issue of |IOO,- 000 approved by the voters of the county late in 1024. A special three cent tax levy voted at the same time* provided funds for maintaining and. operating the institution. After a lapse of about five years ' loom* will again hum in Mecklenburg cotton mill* here within the next sixty days, 'it was indicated in a statement received hyre from Allen Jones, of New York, general manager of_jder cury Mills, Inc., which company has taken oler the Mecklenburg mill and re-named it the Mercury mill. Bepair work on the building and machinery now is underway and as soon as that I* completed he intimated thqt the wAeels would begin to turn. I The mill will manufacture fancy cot-1 ton goods. Resumption of operations by this mill leaves only one of the old chain Qf Mecklenburg mills idle, the Nancy fit Tuckertown, in Montgomery coun ty. The Newton and Clyde mills at Newton now are operating under the name of the Clyde mills. Mrs. Eliza London Shepard, of So nora, Calif., national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, will ar rive here tomorrow morning at 8:30 I q’etoek. it was announced todjiy. Mrs. I Siicpard, a sister of Jack London, the I famous writer, pomes here from Wash- j ington, D. C., making the trip at the mNtatorniMaaßtomMnraaaMm^au special invitation of thw-local unit of the Auxiliary. Early Wednesday i morning she ’leaves for Pennsylvania ! to attend a department convention. | The outstanding feature of the pro gram arranged in honor of Mrs. Shep ard will be the luncheon at I- o’clock , tomorrow afternoon at the .Hotel Charlotte to which a number of lead- . era in legion and auxiliary work have] been invited. Miss Annie Lee, of’ Monroe, former president of the auxil iary 4B this state, will serve as toast-, mistress at the luncheon. Woman avenges murder OF SON AFTER 81* YEARS Waits in Rain on Street Corner For. Hours Until Victim Appear*, and Then -Shoots Him Five Times. New York World. In the rain, at the deserted corner of Dtetenccy and Goerck Streets, five Mock* from the East River, stood a woman yesterday afternoon, a ’ shawl over her head, waiting. The infrequent paswer-by eyed her curiously, not knowing she had been waiting six years for the chance to kill the man who killed her son and that neither rain nor delay could dis turb her now- E’.evcn-year-old ChristfDpher Lor enzo, playing iii a nearby doorway sawVa man, walking hurriedly, ap proach the woman He saw her shawl slip suddenly from her head and herj hand thrust forward holding a re-j I volver. The woman fired, not once. | but five times. And Andrew Fica-! rello, counterfeiter and petty thief, I a bullet in his jaw and another in ! his head, fell to the sidewalk with in a half block of the spot where Sirs. Joseph Cognino, who shot and killed her son, Ignazio, more thau six years ago. > “She ,Ju*t Shot Him. “ He hadn't done nothin’ .to her,” said Christopher,' the only witness found by the police. “She jusk shot j him ax he walked by. Then she picked up his umbrella and busted j it across her knee and went and iajd |it on his faee and stood there, i laughin', kind of. Ait’ somebody, a 1 man I. think, ran up an' picked up; [the gun an' ran away.JTherc was a •lot of peddle. She started' to walk | away toward a fence, an’ two men 1 stopped her pn’ thpn the eop^eame.” I “He. kill my «ofl six yeans ago,” !ghe told the policemen. “I kill hint.' '.That* all.” She shrugged and folio*-1 ed him oSediently. j ] Records Confirm Story. ( In the Clint&i Street station she coultl add little to that. suqeinet ac count. In broken English, inter- I spersed with queer little moans, she J told Detective Schneider thgt on ' April 17, 1020, she had stood in front of her home, then at No. 56 Goerck Street, and quarreled with Fjcarello. The cause of tjie ’quarrel she could not explain .coherently. Ficarello, she said, insulted her, whereupon her tiventy-six-year-old son—"tall, big fine feller” —inter- ; sered. Ficarello she insisted, shot him. TODAY’S EVENTS. j .♦| . ■ Wednesday. September % 1926. j Sunset this evening ushers in l the i observance of the Jewish - New Year. 1 Centenary of the birth of Addison Pctt|e Russell, noted Ohio editor and author. i , . . . " j Sandwich, historic English coast towp, today begins a celebration of its seven hundredth anniversary. The Rt. Rev. Thomas JI. O'Leary j today celebrates his fifth anniversary :as bishop of the Catholic dioeeee of Springfield. Mass. i United States Senator Walter F. | George is standing for renomination , jin today’s Democratic primary in Georgia and has as his chief oppon ent Richard It Russell, chief jus tice of the State supreme court. Four candidates are engaged in a spirited contest for the governorship. The, Democratic nominations are consid ered equivalent to election. Indians Have a Noah. Many of ihe lini.au ‘ tripes of North America have a' tradition that resembles the Bible story of the Hoof. An old legend tells them hn;v their ‘-Noah” Was' seved 'when ..,JBte earth was destroyed. But the oNoab in their story is named WisaW He was the son of the virgin daughter of old Grandmother Earth, and himself j a god. An the legend goes, old Brand mother Earth lived in the world alone for a long' time. Then in some mysterious way a daughter was born to her. In due time the daughter be came the mother of Wisaka. The evil spirits became jealous of Wisn ka’s. powers,-pnd wfcd'im and destroy ed the earth/ But he took some air and made a huge bubble into which he betook himself and with him all sorts of living animals and muu. When the] new earth was formed they came down ans Wisaka taught the dwellers of the earth all their' eustems. Although a god, the legend say.*, Wisaka was human in appcnrl ance. Soon afterwards he withdrew to the North, where he now lives. MEYER’S Fresh Water System We are now Authorized Dealers for I MYERS FRESH WATER SYSTEM Put RunningAfyater in Your Home Yorks & Wadsworth Co. 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The name aiid exploits of Wioaka vary among the different tribes, but t#e essential" phases of the story are the sa ate- The ' Indiapp .also thipk it was Wisaka . who discovered the. sweet smoke ot tobacco and appropriated it,for the* ’use of his uncles And aunts. 1 t** . f ' Switzerland- was probably the first country to require that alcohol used ■ for industrial purposes' hgf denatured so to be unfit for-drinking. This it did in 1887, when the sale op spirits was made a static monoply ‘ in Switzerland. Tennis is the game most played in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, and King 'George is very fond of it.
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