1923-06-19 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL.

TUESDAY, JUNE 19,

A person twenty miles away from the scene of this fire could have read a paper by the light it cast. The picture was taken while millions of gallons of crude oil were going up in smoke in an oil gushèr.

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Miss Catherine Louise Littauer,

daughter of the multi-millionaire society man, Colonel W. E. Littauer, has returned from France,. where she was much in the public eye, because her father asked for a Paris injunction to prevent her from marrying Robert E. Doeller, a motor car salesman. The courts refused fo act on the ground that

Miss Littauer was of a legal age

to wed. The parents then por- suaded, ber to postpone the wed- ding, and it is believed she has

returned to America to marry.

This is the latest photograph of Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, who has been elected President Gen eral of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in a stormy

convention scene in Washington.

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Despite the fact that her sweet- heart, First Sergeant Claude Fos ter, is on trip! for murder, Miss Frances Buhi yows she will marry him regardless of the verdict of the jury. Poster is charged with murdering Private Martin Miller, who was shot and killed Eye witnesses declare Miller, while drunk, attacked Foster and was

killed in self-defence.

Mrs. Mae Davis, divorced wife of a theatrical man, shot Mrs. Eliza- beth Britten, sister of Frederick A. Britten, during a quarrel in Mrs. Britten's apartment over a debt of $365, owed by Mrs Davis to Mrs- Britten's mother, Mrs. Charles Peach, Mrs. Britten is recovering frons a wound in the head. 'Her demands that I pay, when I couldn't, forced me to shoot," Mrs. Davis told the police:

Despite reports that Mrs. Harding Prince, had been married, in France, to E. V. R. Thayer, both denied it when they returaed on the same steamer, though they would not deny they intended soon to be married

Professor Elton R. Darling has produced synthetic wood, sugar and - other valuable-products from otherwise wasted comcobs. The wood, which will not crack, can stand a strain of 10,000 pounds to the square

inch. He also makes xylan from the corncobs. The gummy substance is used in the manufacture of dyes and can be converted into syrup, which, when mixed with alfalfa, becomes valuable as a food for cattle.

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Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, widow of the late Lord Mayor of Cork,

who starved himself to death in

Sir William Orpen, noted por- prison, told 5,000 sympathizers that trait painter, declares be has never the Irish Republicans would yet seen a perfect model, and, or for triumph over the Free State forces.

to held that matter, he has never seen a The meeting. really pretty woman. He asserts memorate the seventh anniversary that women used their motor cars of the birth of the so-called Irish

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A jury failed to agree in the suit for $173,000 brought by Tammany Boss Charles F. Murphy against Louis N. Hartog. Murphy alleged that he invested the money with Hartog in a glucose deal, but that he wanted to get out because, he alleged, Hartog was a war pro fiteer. It was alleged Murphy was brought into the company merely that his political influence could get glucose for Hartog during the time in bis 20 war. For the first

Furfural, which he also extracts, was hitherto produced at a cost of so much that their legs become too, Republic, in 1916, cheered when years as a political power Murphy features in the river pageant given to celebrate the opening of the in $35 a pound, but it will now cost only a few cents. It is used in the thin, and their feet and arms look, she demanded a boycott on all severe grilling from Hartog's 10,000 tons of freight at the lowest cost per ton mile ever achieved. The

manufacture of vulcanized rubber.

artificial.

English goods.

went on the stand and withstood

attorney.

The new craft of the Mississppi Barge Line were the central dustrial canal In Mew Orleans. These modern cargo movers are un- like the old type of Mississippi River steamers, handling, as they do. freight in these eight barges would fill 800 20-ton cars and would. completely load two ordinary ocean-going steamers.

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