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BILY THE SE00T SUEEUMBS AT 11 Confederate and Indian War Veteran Had Been in Movies Since 1910. By the Assoclated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 26— ‘Willlam H “Billy the Scout” Teylor, 103-year-old veteran of tlr ™ndénn wars and the Confederate Army, v w8 years one of the film colony's most colorful members, died today. Taylor was born in 1827 in that part of cld Mexico which later became Texas and lived through one of the country’s t=ost stirring periods cf development. federate Virginia close of the war he again jolned the United States Army. He served under Gen. Nelson A. Miles in the campaign against Sitting Bull and was a S for Gen. Custer. He spent 20 years ns. o California ¥ E m:tion pic- tures in 1910, playing in Western two- reelers. Until his 102d birthday he gained a living as a white-haired In- dian fighter in the films. Taylor told a group of Indian war veterans in convention here five years ago that during the Civil War he and four other rebel soldiers came upon Gen. Custer of the Union Army in a ginia woods and cculd have taken him prisoner, but decided against it The decision, Taylor said, was all in his favor when later he served as a dispatch rider for the same Gen. Custer. During his last illness Taylor was ‘cared for by his friends of the motion picture colony. He sald he never mar- ried and knew of no relatives. BRITISH WOMAN M. P. TO LECTURE IN U. S. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Vivacious Politician, to Investigate 2 emplo: Nt ;llszflln which the distribution milk THREE-DAY WORK WEEK GOAL OF NEW SOCIETY Solution of Machine Age Produc- tion Seen in Proposal of St. Louis Group. By the Associsted Press. LOUIS, December 27—Four St. an inventor, a botanist, an contractor are attempt- ST. Louis men, enm'zs and a CHILE’S TRADE STATUS PRAISED AT YEAR END {Former Soviet Secret Agent and. aviniion enfhuostast. —A. P. Photo. CHECK CHARGES HOLD BISHOP CANNON’S SON Prel.imina.ry;earing at El Monte, Calif., Brings Out Evidence in Failure of School. By the Associated Press. S el EL MONTE, Calif, December 27— Unsuccessful in promotion of & military school here, Maj. Richard M. Cafinon, son of Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Methodist Church Sil.uth, cl and bad check charges. Maj. Cannon, at a preliminary hear- ing yesterday, was bound over tb Su- perior Court for trial on three charges ©of issuing worthless checks. ~ George H. Myers, plastering con- tractor; Calvert 8. Wilson, solicitor for Maj. Cannon was launching, SOVIET PRESSES CHARGE AGAINST KOREAN BANK | Illegal Profits Made by Branch Closed in Vladivostok, Says Moscow Official. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, December 27—The Mos- cow nt toda; further CALIFORNIA ORANGES HIT Smudge Pots Burning—Con- tinued Cold Forecast. December 27.— CISCO, Prosts and freezing temperatures, which have already taken Thelr toll in Sacra: to oranges and the gra it crop in Imperial e grapefrul P per THE EvinING 8 PASSPORTS OF U.S. 52 Gives Report to House Committee. By the Associated Press. A report by a former member of the Soviet secret police that members of the service traveled on forge@ American passports has been m: public by Chairman Pish of the House Communist Investigating Committee. The New York resentative, an- nouncing receipt of paper yester- day, said he gave it full crodmc,: It was prepared by G.Agabekoff, formerly an operative on the Ogpu (the name of the Soviet secret force), who now lives in P & ost all of the representatives of TAR. the Third Internationale travel abroad with American which give them entrance into all countries and permit them to carry on Communistic work without arousing suspicion,” said off. These documents, he s: were fab- ricated in a d nt tained by the Ogpu for that alone. Files of Eng- lish and American documents were kept there also, added the Russian, and the Soviet government has secured valuable data unwittingly made available to them through detailed reports of British dip- lomats to their foreign office. WasnalNGTON, permanent source of information to the Ogpu.” POPE PRIZES EDISON GIFT VATICAN CITY, December 27 (#).— Among the most prized Christmas gifts received by the Pope was an apparatus for recording dictation, sent by Thomag A, Edison. ‘The pontiff experimented with the machine and today sent a message of appreciation to the inventor to whom Pe ;lwsl% awarded the annual papal medal in 5 D. C. SATURD\Y. DECEMBER 27, 1930. NEW YEAR EVE FESTIVITIES TO OPEN PALM BEACH SEASON Nearly 100 Members of :Colony Sponsor Play House—White Most Popular of New Style Innovations. By the Associated Press. and Greenwich, Y P. Hutton, New York City; W. L. Kingsley, Rome, N. Mrs. John Sargent Pillsbury, olis; Addison Mimer, Palm Beach; B s sy | ST TR, T 3 2 s By g and dne: as the W] will | water t, Ardmore, Pa. s the Palm Beach season. Sosen: Jaste 11 Wesks, Nearly 100 members of the Paim| The Play House will open Tuesdsy Beach colony n:m-cmg :. p?mu for | evening, January 13, with a repertoire th}:l :flmmneuh Play House, Xx;c.. of ?fi?'x,“,’;“f“‘”" ‘Mr. Pim ru"u‘: which Miss Muriel McCormick of Chi- continng or u"fln‘mfi. The season cago is president. Among these are Mr. 299 and Mrs. Hugh Dillman, Detroit; Mr.| Alohg with -its Christmas shopping, to Palm Beach. During holiday festivities held Christmas a matter i ! £ g £ 7 g | J il k 5 0 g i i : z s i § i i 1 i H i g i 5 R g i £ i % § i EE; 2 E & i 2 : i 5 : g Thomas L. Chadbourne, and hirs. - The Bread With The Triple Appeal NET WEIGHT 115 POUNDS Price Quantity Jumbo Bread ® : Quantlty weighs a full pound and a half and is the practical size loaf for most families. Price There is very little to say about the price ex- cept that it is 10 cents for this large pound and a half loaf . . . making your bread cost you exactly six and two- thirds cents per pound. Quality Jumbo Bread is made of only the very finest quality materials in one of the most modernly equipped bakeries in operation anywhere—and by only expert bakers. We state with con- fidence better bread than Jumbo Bread cannot be baked. Unemployment Not as Bothersome as in Other Spanish-Ameri- can Nations. SUSPECT IN KIDNAPING OF MINE MAN CAUGHT | American Who Escaped From ! Captors in Mexico Reported Safe at Home. By the Assoclated Press EL PASO, Tex., December 27.—One | By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO DE CHILE, December | 27.—Surveys by both foreign and Chilean financial experts incident to the end of the year agree that Chile is possibly the brightest spot on the Span- ish-American business map, despite downward trend in local conditiol ns. Excellent Christmas drive of importers to obtain sales before the higher tariffs bicome effective February 7 _have considerably aided the situation, the survevs say. The country is not particularly both- ered with unemployment conditions such as exist elsewhere. Of 14,000 m:n thrown out of work on the nitrate fields, 8,000 were given immediate employment on public works and another 6,000 have been slow in asking for jobs. Only 600, men thus far have answered the adver-. tisement of a construction compeny for 1,000 men. e e U. S. MISSION CLOSED Chinese Nationalist Regulation Held Violated by Baptists. CANTON, China, December 27 (#).— (Ajmn' the institution was teaching tianity contrary to Nationalist regulations, Kwangtung closed the Primary | C «:{ m"fim i ationalist government had pro- hibited religious instructin in foreign mission schocls in Chir.. One bundred | 1plls sttended the runcol. Headquar- m‘ the mission % at !'uchm:.“vn.. SPANISH FLYERS FREED and | suspect ua the kidnaping of Hugh M. Cralgie, 30, American mine foreman at Santa Barl Chihuahua, 3 was expected be taken today to| hua City, PFrancis H. Styles, American consul at Chihuahua, tele- phoned the El Paso Herald last night.' Craigle escaped last Wednesday after | being held captive in a mountain ren- dezvous by the bandit gang. Styles sald he was informed Craigle, employed by the American Smelting | and Refining Co., was safe at his home | in Santa Barbara. . Personal tax assessments in County (Chicago) totaled $704,000,000 | in 1918 and approximately $400,000,000 10 years later. ENTERPRISE SERIAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION 7¢h St and La. Ave. N.W. 65th, Issue of Stock Now Open for Subscription Mones losned to members on easy monthly paymeats James E. Connelly lames F. 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