Film Week Opens With Walking Back and Lindbergh Show
The Fair screens Walking Back with Sue Carol and De Mille’s Walking Back. Mission plays The Yellow Lily with Billie Dove. Vitaphone program features Mischa Elman performance and The Lemon. Tillie’s Punctured Romance at Rialto. more Hollywood notes and studio gate crash economics.
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Sue Carol
Billie Dove
Vitaphone
Deandi—*Tillies
Chester Conklin
Nat—Bromley - Frederick
Rupert Julian
Twelve Million Dollar Oil Suit Ended by Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court refused to review a $12 million oil land dispute involving 18.9 acres at Spindletop. The case, arising from a 1926 suit, upheld by the circuit court in New Orleans, confirms B. BE Quinn and the Yount Lee Oil Company as rightful owners.
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Associated Press
Beaumont
Tex
Spindletop
Yount-Lee Oil Company
United States Supreme Court
Th Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Federal Crude Oil Company
W. Lee Estes
Eastern District Federal Court
Estes
Circuit Court of Appeals
B. BE. Quinn
Yount-Lee Company
Ladies' Dress and Blouse Patterns from Globe News
Patterns offered in 1928 for Ladies' Dress in six bust sizes with fabric and facing yardage. 1 yard dress width with plaits. A Ladies' Blouse in seven sizes with fabric and contrasting material. Price 15c. Send 15c for Spring Summer 1928 Book of Fashions from Globe-News, 11 12 Sterling Place, Brooklyn NY.
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Globe- News
Sterling Place
Brooklyn
N. Y
London Tourism Crisis Sparks Debate on Attracting Americans
London debates emulating Paris to lure American tourists. Night club access is restricted by membership and curfew laws, with raids by plain clothes police and strict liquor rules. Americans joke that prohibition is harsher in Britain than at home as authorities enforce curfews and fines.
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International News Service
London
Paris
Europe
Great Britain
New York
United States
America
Midlands
France
Gayety
183 Second Lieutenants Made at A and M College
Commencement at College Station Texas honors 184 Texas A and M graduates with commissions as second lieutenants in the army reserve corps. Col. B W Buck presided at the presentation. The Association of Former Students elected Owen Sherrill president and named officers. The board voted to name the Cherokee county state forest for late Senator J J Cairchild for forestry service.
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Associated Press
College Station
Tex
Army Reserve Corps
Texas A
BW. B. Buck
U. S. Army
Owen Sherill
Georgetown
G. W. Barnes
Bryan
J. D. Reyer
San Antonio
Tyree
Art Model Attracted By Artist In Mock Trial Of Torture
Mrs. Margaret Smith a 26 year old model was lured by a man posing as an artist to pose as an Indian captive to be burned at the stake. He bound her to a tree and waved a hatchet before fleeing. She escaped and sought help at A A Lasker mansion in Lake Forest Illinois.
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Lake Forest
June H
Margaret
Poland fires hangman for getting intoxicated
The Polish official hangman Anton Maciejewski was dismissed for failing to maintain official dignity after repeatedly getting drunk. His duties were assumed by his former assistant. The note then shifts to a discussion of tourism and nightlife in Europe, contrasting Paris gaiety with restrictions elsewhere.
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Serviece
Berlin
Anton Maciejewski
Poland
Anton
May permits surge to nearly a million in Animrille
Building permits in Animrille rose to about 1 million for May, the highest in eight months, with a total of 14.016. The surge is boosted by the Santa e's new Idestory general office building project at Ninhard Park. Brennan Construction and Vermita won major permits including 764 400 for a 40 foot structure, with related work by contractors to be opened June 1. Yearly total by June 1 reaches 2,080,065 per inspector A W Shmiles.
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Animrille
Tas
Santa E
Idestory
Ninhard Park
Atreets
Brennan Construction Company
Steel and General Contracting
A. W. Shmiles
Spector
Moy
Muri
Oklahoma U Seniors Receive Diplomas at Graduation
Norman June 6 United Press reports the University of Oklahoma awarded diplomas to 607 graduating seniors marking the end of their school days.
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United Press
Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
S P to Stop One Train on Branch Line
The Texas railroad commission granted Southern Pacific’s request to discontinue one passenger train between Fort Worth and Ennis and the return trip, pending approval from towns along the Fort Worth Ennis route. The commission also acted on other SP applications and approved discontinuance for the Pel Rio to El Paso train if towns along the line consent.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Texas Railroad Commission
Southern Pacific Railroad
Ennis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Pacific
Pel Rio
el Pape
Antiseptic Liquid Promises Quick Relief for Skin Eruptions
Advertises Liquid D. DD as a pure antiseptic that penetrates skin to soothe and heal irritations including eczema rashes pimples and blotches. Claims instant itching relief and stain free drying with a trial bottle and money back offer at drug stores.
Railroad Seeks Route Changes Spark Local Consent
The text notes towns Sanderson Marathon Valentine and Sierra Blanca consent to an application. It includes adding a second Houston to San Antonio train if the existing train is discontinued. It also mentions a request to remove the Spofford to Eagle Pass service which the railroad temporarily withholds.
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Sanderson
Marathon
Valentine
Sierra Blanca
Houston
San Antonio
Spofford
Eagle Paxn
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