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In making a plea to Gover- nor Park of Missouri to commute the death sentence of Walter McGee (below). Mary McElroy (above), kids napping victim, admits she "likes" the man who awaits the gallows for her abduc tion
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert bat, our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling. such as harbor, plow, and altho.
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¡Aircraft, Carrier Ranger
Slipping away from their anchorages at San Pedro, California, under sealed unders; the United States feet moved into the Pacific Ocean toward a secret rendezvous where the mightiest concentration of naval warcraft in American history are holding manoeuvres. lasting six weeks.
More than 5,000,000 square miles of rolling rea will be covered by more than 160 skips, including the aircraft carrier Ranger and some 150 planes. The vast fleet operation will be under the command of Admiral Joseph. Mason Reeves. base force will be under Rear Admiral W. T. Claverias and the battle force will be commanded by Admiral Harris Laning Admiral A. J. Hepburn heads the scouting forces and Vice Admiral H. V. Butler, the air forces. When a cry of protest arose over the locale of the manoeuvres, the Secretary of Navy, Mr. Clande Swanson, announced that no operations would be concluded within 2,000 miles of Japanese territory. The Japanese, however, say that operations near the Aleutian Islands, shown on the map, will bring the feet wear to the Kurîles Islands, which belong to Japan.
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Vice
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Pres, Taft
Naplón
June
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Agapenor
Ternikuni Mara
Agapenar
Sui Sang
Changle Menestheus
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·June
June
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FOR STRAITS
June
Hawaii Maru
FOR INDIA
June
Rampura
D'Artagnan
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Bringing Up Father
MR. BEN ZEEN IS IN THE PARL
GO IN AND ENT
The illness of their quintuplets, with common colds, has stir- red anew the animosity between Ovila Divane (r.) and his wife. and Dr. Allan R. Dafoe (L), the babies" physician. The worry of Mrs. Dionne (above) over the condition of Marie, the tiniest and frailest of the quints, led to the demand by Dionne for a specialist to examine them, and the Dominion Premier granted his request.
The latest reported fiance of Merle Oberon, beautiful screen sensation, is David Niven, the Scots actor and son of the late Lady Comyn-Pirtt. They are shown out for a stroll at the beach, of the £im capital,
NOY ME?:
Mrs. Marjorie Tilley Switz, of Montclair, New Jersey, aughs gayly as she leaves the Paris court on being freed the charge of being a member of an espionage ring. With aband, Bobert Gordon Switz, she was in the French for more than a year and won her freedom by testifying against other members of the spy ring.
President Roosevelt bestows his broadest smile on 8-year- old Charlotte Louise Biddle as the youngster sells him, the first poppy in the Veterans of Foreign Wars zumiał poppy drive, Little Charlotte's war veteran father recently died in a govern- - ment hospital and she is being cared for at the VFW home for
orphans.
WHO WANTS.
TO KNOW?
LOOK
The two-purpose gown.
for appropriate
either
sports Year or for * stroll down the avenue. It is of dusty bine crepè. with dark blue patent leather patch pockets and belt. Patricia Ellis in the lovely wearer.
Mary
A. srind-daughter of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Miss Adeline Prentice leaves the New York physi... hian's office where she is employed as a U.S.$25 a week. The young woman left her wealthy parent's home to make her own way through the world
(FEELINE-MY
SECRET OF GOOD HEALTH AND A LONG LIFE IS TO EAT PLENTY OF GARLIC EVERY DAY-
LISTEN-OONT THINK FER ONE
MINUTE THAT IT'S A SECRET-
HORIZONTAL Reduce in rank BA German atthor
15 Tortures
16 To utter
· HORIZONTAL(Com); VERTICAL"(Cont)
57-Any method of
procedure
159 Put
|60-Day-book (abbr)
17-Money order (abbr.) 61-Adature
18-Harvest
19 Fling
20-Long meter (abbr.)
21-Consumed
23-Caustic remedial
agent
25-One thousand two
25-Liquid measure" -
28-Undressed kid
EZ-To sound a horn 64-Musical note
165-One who elects
67-An-alarm
122-Girl's name
24-Scotch river
¡25 Fleshy part of an
animai
27-Mountain range in
Syriz
129-To go over again
31-River in W. Africa 133-Hearts
69-Breathe in and out 35-Portion 170-Alphabet symbols.
29-Dress material (pl.) 2-One imbued with
30-Prussian city
32-Look
33-Stop
34-Stationary
36-Stained
28-Past
39-Arrived (abbr)
40-01d" musical instru
ment (pl.).
41 Originates
49-Boy's name
51 SCARDE
•VERTICAL
Impairs
self love
3-Depart
4-Royal Naval
Reserve (abbr.)
137-Parity
41-Short religious
allegory
42-A wading bird. 43-Gengine
44-Chief city
45-Makes lace
46-One who enters
5-American Institute (47-Gold coin of ancient
of Electrical
Greece (pl.)-
Esgineers (abbr)
50 Rodent
6-Darlings 7-Marry *-Retreats
Silly
*3-Price
(abbr.) 13-Dim brightness of
153-Tacte
54 Tzily
S7-An evergreen shrub
$$-Carbon from wood
smoke
71-Small rude dwelling 61-Royal College of
12-Measure of weight ·|
¿56–National Academy of 14-Released, as by
Physicians (abbr.)
163-An interjection {66-Pleral suffix 168-A. compass point
(abbr.)
The solution of the above" with a new crazz-word puz will appear in Monday's issue.
52-Ireland
53-Breaks suddenly
55-Girl's name
Sciences (abbr.)
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Silver Jubilee Stamps
complete set
used on cover, of First Day Sale 6th May, 1935
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