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A6 = THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGLON. D. C, TEXAS GUINAN GETS | -ORDERS 10 RETURN :France Adamant on Refusal| = fo Allow Club Hostess and Gang Admission. . B9 the Associated Press. o | 7, HAVRE. Francs, May 30.—Texas| Guinan and her “gang” of girls and | ° musicians will be sent back to America | on the steamer Paris, saling next | . Wednesday, a sp>kesman for the French | Immigration Bureau said ton!ght. ‘Their return will he by order of the French Government and they will not -Be permitted officially to enter France. A member of the immigration bureau - here said the decision not to permit . the ncted American night-ciub hostess and her “gang” to enter was made on the ground that Tex h»s “no working ' Permit or contract.” Holds Her Talent Differs. ‘The bureau member said: “We have been criticized becauss ouners slipped | through the ports without contracts | * and we refuse to let Miss Guinan do it. | It is sometimes possibie to let in one | * artist to compete with rrench amuse- ment talent, but she is trying to bring | « in & whole troupe.” | The immigration bureau had heard | 7 about parties conducted by Tex and ' her “gang” on bcard the sieamer Paris, | The gecond-class passengers told us about these parties.” he said, “and I © don't think her type of amusement is our type.” Troupers Break Down. ‘The bureau's decision was made after, . @nd in spite of, the receipt of cables from American Legicn officials asking that Tex and her troupe ve admitted | because of her service as an entertainer of the soldiers in France during the | World War. | Tex was forced to interrupt a lunch- eon pt the Hotel Frascati today and to return hurriedly to the H-tel Trans- atlantique because the girl members of her “gang” began to break down under the strain | % Anne Boleyn, one of the “ging' be- came hysterical and ran out of the hotel when a newspaper man attempted . to question her. A member of the I trcupe brought her beck. but other members then began to shed tears, | wailing: “We'll never get to Paris! . to go home!” Still Hopes for 0. K. ‘Tex herself said that she hid not yet given up hop: of reaching Paris. “There are lots of strings to my bow yet.” she said. “I am not licked. | Channing Pollock. the author, offered | « me the use of his house wiile I.was 7 in Paris. His secretary telephoned to- day asking when I would cme. I told | him ‘I can't say yet. I will draw a! couple of more cards first.' " | e calmer members of the party | unanimously declared, “We'll bet on : Tex. She'll gt us to Paris yet.” Tex s2id she was awaiting a call from her manager, John Stein, who now i8 in P:ris, to learn whetier he had gained permissicn for her to go there to plead her own case i 1 want COSTS LESS TO OPERATE PREIIEIIIINIINITINIIT IS TESTI TR TRy, | shortly after 3 o'clock, to make Wash- | be showers and probably thunderstorms | temperature G0N RETREWENT | *DESRE 1 DENED : ;Wants to Make Pictures | Af*er Recovery From Break- down, Spokesinan Says. Funeral Today VETERAN U. S. WORKER -DIES AT AGE OF 51. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD; Calif., May 30.—Clara | Bow wanis to make motion pictures, but | not now. So says Rex Bell, spokesman for the fiim actress. | Miss Bow, sick in a hospital, under physiclan's orders, must deny herself to visitors. Bell, however, siid today she had not talked to Paramount offi- | cials since a week before she suffered a | brezkdown and was forced to go to & | hospital. Bell said she then told Paramount | she would “feel better to be relieved of the contract.” Her contract with Para- | mount, calls for two more pictures. The actress probably will be released from the hospital in two weeks and then 51-year-cld Government employe, who will g3 to a California ranch for a long died Friday, will be held at 10:30 o'clock | rest. this morning at the Chambers funeral| Bell quoted the red-headed star as home, 1400 Chapin street. Mr. Wiggins | saying she hoped to make pictures again was employed by the Government m-re | and make them for Paramount. than 30 years, the greater part of | Paramount officlals said yesterday which was in the capacity of traveling | Miss Bow desired to retire and sug- investigator for the Department of |8ested she probably would quit per- Agriculture, manently. He is survived by his widow, Mrs of Holly Hill, 8. C., his former home, AFTER 33-YEAR SEARCH and three brothers, Judge Gordon Wi | gins and John B. Wiggins f Holly Hill | -+ |Jury Finds Man Guilty of Man- slaughter in Death of and M. 5. Wiggins of Sanford, Fla. TEMPERATURE REACHED o 92 DEGREES YESTERDAY | n; tne associatea prom. ] | \NEW ROADS, L. May 50—_Charies ‘ Allen, Negro, today was convicted o Washington Was One of “""“"n crime committed 33 years ago, and g will be centanced on A charge of man- SpoterinBassctolriWentive . | iiilpiler: Sonidnennon chenity e 20_vears in the penitentiary The jury in District Court deliberated 10 hotire “before reaching the verdict. The State asked the death penalty. The jury heeded the plea of the de- fenes that the Negro, a firm hand, in 1897, killed Dr. John A. Righey. promi- nent physici*n, during a scuffie at the Negro's cabin visited by the physician to coliect, & debt, After the Killing the Negro fied the country and was arrested recently in St. Louis. ERNEST WIGGINS. Funeral services for Ernest Wiggins, Forecast. 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