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Show MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA. UTAH Scenes and Persons in the Current News STAR DUST HMQE msmmm: EMEOHEE Is so vl V B E t! t P 0 a J v 1 few weeks. Some of Siberian Melodrama bi ' By FI.OTD GIBBONS two-gu- st f I ( t i Sam Was Provost Guard. mo-tio- n Her Infectious enthusiasm hag sent half of Hollywood scurrying to their bosses to ask If they can't have leave of absence too. Bette Davis wants to go, but Warnerg have big plans for her. Josephine Hutchinson wants her annual fling on the stage. And Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone are acting mighty mysterious, reading plays and time tables. dont know whether those things ever happened out tn the West. All I know is what I see In the movies. This incident Im going to tell you about sounds like the West, but it happened way over in the eastern part of Siberia, and it happened to Samuel C. Taylor of New York City. Yon know, we had troops In Siberia for a couple of years after the World war. Sam Taylor was one of them. lie was with a United States platoon of sixty men from Company D., Thirty-firInfantry, atatloned at the Uttle Siberian town of Uglonaya. The town Itself was nothing but a railroad station and a few houses. The soldiers were living in half a dozen box cars that had been taken off their wheels and set on the ground beside the track. But though the town was small it was affording plenty of excitement. the 1 Police shown dragging a striker to the patrol wagon during fight between police and steel strikers in IndianSouth Chicago recently, when five strikers were killed. 2 Wilbur Shaw, right, winner of the apolis Speedway race, 3 Neville Chamberlain, new prime minister of England, who succeeded Stanley Baldwin following the coronation. 500-mi- It was about the middle of January, and for days the Americans had been watching an army go through the town. It wasn't a hostile army but at the same time it wasn't a friendly one either. It was a Bolshevik army moving to attack Vladivostok, not far away as distances go in Siberia. Sam says there were thousands of them, well equipped with machine guns, and lugging enough field pieces to blow those sixty Americans and their box cars to Halifax. But they couldnt be bothered with the Americans. Taking Vladivostok was more Important. On the afternoon of January 18, Sam was acting provost guard at the railroad station. It was a bitter cold day. A cutting wind was sweeping past the station and Private Pat Strong, on sentry go, was stamping up and down the platform. Two Bolshevik troop trains had just pulled in on a siding, and Bolshevik soldiers had crowded into the station where they could buy hot tea and vodka. And as Pat Strong paced up and down the platform a big Russian said something to him in Russian. Pat couldn't understand him. He came to port arms while the Russian stormed and gesticulated, and finally grabbed Pat's gun. Pat tried to pull the gun away, but the Russian was a powerful brute. He spun Duke of Windsor and Wally Are Wed r ' Overjoyed because he struck It rich, George Austin, Nevada mining man and general storekeeper of Reno, is pictured after he received a quarter of a million dollar down payment on the Jumbo gold mine near Winnemucca, Nev. Austin will to ' v: : Nevada Storekeeper Strikes Bonanza j V Add one more picture to the current list of those you (imply have to gee. "Captain Courageous" U one of the finest pictures of all time. There isn't a woman In the cast, but even the young girls who think any plcturo without torrid lovt scenes is a washout, confess that they never even miss the romantic angle In this one. It Is a story of the Gloucester fishing fleet In which Spencer Tracy and young Freddie Bartholomew do the finest acting of their careers. Indeed, it is the first picture in which young Bartholomew has had a chance to show that he Is not just a sweet and handsome lad with pathetic eyes. He is a grand actor. As soon as Ernst Lnbitsch finishes directing Marlene Dietrich and Herbert Marshall in "Angel" he ia going to torn actor for a few days. Long ago when he was an actor ia Germany, his great ambition waa to play Napoleon, and just now It happens that Cecil De Milla ia searching the highway and bywaya for a man to play Napoleon in Lnbitsch got into costume and make-np- , presented himself to De Mille, and waa hired at once. Boo-canee- r. 8am Fired and the Big Russian Fell. Pat around and threw him in a snow bank. A couple more Americans came running up. He threw them into the snow bank too. and made a mad dash for the station. That's where Sam came Into the picture. As provost guard, he rated a sentry box down at the end of the platform. He taw the fight Just as the Russian broke loose and started Into the station, and he came out on the run. With the other three Americana at his back he started after him. Picture of the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson taken shortly before their recent wedding at Monts, France. This picture was posed on the lawn of the Chateau de Cande, where they were married. A religious ceremony performed by a rector of the Church of England followed the civil ceremony conducted by the Mayor of Monts. PROTECTOR FOR BATTER eventually receive $10,000,000 from Texas oil men who leased the mine with an option to purchase. The lucky storekeeper immediately divided the down payment equally among his wife, his brother, his daughter, two sons and himself. Great Lakes Exposition Is Opened Executives at the Twentieth Century Fox studio are disappointed that the public hasnt made more of a fuss over Simone Simon, so they are going to put her in a comedy and see If she goes over better. They are teaming her with Jack Haley, who made such a hit In "Wake Up g and Live," in a comedy called "Love at Work. lie Fired First and Got Ilis Man. he. "I went bursting into the station as if the whole United States army were on my heels. That station was full of Bolshies, singLots of them had rifles, some of them had ing, talking and yelling. hand grenades tied to Uielr belts. But I didn't have time to louk over the grenade situation just then. That big Russian had found himself a rifle. I was five feet inside the door when I spotted him, but he must have seen me first because he was raising his gun. Sam had a forty-fiv- e automatic, and it was a question of whether he or the Russian could shoot first. Without even taking time out to think, he whipped that automatic up and let go. The big Russian dropped. For an instant there was a dead silence in the station. "Those Ruskies were surprised. says Sam. and so was I. For a second well I almost opened fire on the whole damn bunch of them, but I caught myself Motion picture stodlo officials always change the snbject when anyone asks if their stars really sing or If some singer substitutes for them, but radio listeners can their favorite voices under any circumstances. They insist that Baddy Clark of the Hit Parade did Jack Haleys alnglng, that Virginia Verrill sang for both Jean Harlow and Virginia Brace, and that in "The Great Banrum" it waa Francis White who sang for Miss Bruce. Sf ' a .i reo-ogni- ze -- just in time. It was a tough spot and Sam knew it. Here waa a whole roomful of wild Russians and he had Just shot one of their pals. If he started out the floor, some of them would be sure to begin shooting. If that happened, thered be general disorder, with sixty Americana fighting a whole troop train full of Bolsheviks. And what was more to the point, it would be curtains for Sam. I had to bluff them. I stood in the middle of the floor, waved my pistol over their heads and pointed to the door. And then happened the thing that probably saved my life. In swinging my arm I tightened my grip on the pistol to keep from dropping it And in doing that I squeezed the trigger too hard. BANG I OH she went again. That bullet struck somewhere behind the bar and down came a lot of glassware. Sam says the falling glass created a terrible racket The Russians must have thought a shell had burst In there. They turned and stampeded for the door, and Sam says they went through it like a Kansas tornado. In ten seconds there wasn't a Bolshevik in the place. "And where were the other three fellows? says Sam. "They were outside, turned Into a rear guard. When they heard those shots Inside and saw all those Ruskies piling out, they ran for camp to tell the others the Russians had eaten me alive and were coming to eat them too. Sam says he certainly did NOT feel like a hero when he went Into that station. He just didn't have time to think about it "It was pnly after I got inside, he says, "that I realized 1 was in a swell, pickle. Ive often thought afterwards, suppose I'd hit one grenades those Russians had tied to their belts. Boy, that WOULD have been an adventure. WNU Bird Lay Eggs on Rock The brightest eggs laid by ish birds are those of the guillemot, found In colonies around the coasts. The birds like a large flat, ledge of rock, and there they may be seen sitting packed close together with their wings and breasts touching. No nest is built; the one large egg laid by each bird is just dropped on the bare rock. Each bird knows its own egg, and the same applies to the young when tpey appear. If strange baby tries to take food from the beak of an old bird it receives a violent peck, and the food is not parted with until the mother finds her own offspring. Most eggs laid in open nests in hedges or on the ground are colored with various markings. Srice. Wally Moses, outfielder of the Philadelphia Athletics, Is shown at batting practice wearing a polo helmet, an adaption of which is suggested as a protective measure against possible beaning of a batter by a pitched ball. The recent accident to Mickey Cochrane of the Tigers Inspired the idea. r , .fc-'V- : iV ,, . - U 9 i;;l .. f-- An ordinary door key was the v ' ? ' IS. - -- ' ) ' ry V , 8 fii fr?. rATi? -- I W ' with Kay Francis. ... h It f Murray always dresset most eomarv when he shows for e broad-cas- t, but around homaup he goes in for the dtzx lest colored jacket and lounging ,0bet . . tmoking . Motion producer ere mildly enthusiasticpicture over rmalt earuinf XWC of Rosa. 9nnounce Mru RoosJv Tit-Bit- r Warner Brothers have arranged to borrow Miriam Hopkins for two pictures and it looks as if It would keep the entire studio Fi busy for weeks finding stories to which she wont raise a violent objection. Scheduled to appear with Errol Flynn in "The Perfect Specimen. she flatly refused. Instead she will make a tearful little romance called Episode supported by Ian Hunter and Charles Wmninger. After that, Warners would like to have her In "SisODDS AM) ENDS Jo Penner doesnt menuon duck even once in RKS)FaC'ji hLich heing fUmd JuTthermore he appear in bleck face for the frit time .WKen i'- ? Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., has decided that he likes the United States better, after all While he was in England, he realized his ambition to become a producer, and felt so grateful to the countrymen who backed him that he thought he would live there always. Coming back to Hollywood to make just one picture, "The Prisoner of Zenda," he found when It was finished and be was free to go back to England that he just couldnt bear to leave all his childhood friends. ters" - firrsr. I 'V I tl ' 4 " i I James Roosevelt, son of the President, is shown, left, as he cut the ribbon on the gates of the Great Lakes exposition In Cleveland, officially opening the show for the 1937 season. W. T. Holliday, center and Mayor Harold Burton of Cleveland look on. Construction Speeded on New Unit of TVA Key Conductor first lightning conductor. Benjamin Franklin was making experiments to prove that there was a difference in the latent electrical power at different heights at all times, clear or stormy. He flew a kite made of a silk handkerchief, two sticks, and a piece of wire extending a foot above the frame. One day a thunderstorm came up suddenly, and. the whole kite and the wet twine becoming electrified, several little shocks were felt by Franklin. He hung a key near the base of the twine, notes a writer in London s Magazine, and so obtained a stream of sparks. At that moment the Idea of s metal rod to act as a lightning conductor was born. we say ., And although visit, minds sr blank, Pie with our minds else and w. do not At 1L -- Th al Impulse carried the optic organs s : , H -- mind. MostofltJiJJ! tog exists only fa Like bones of some huge prehistoric monster the skeleton of the TVA dam at PickwkkTI lower Tennessee river rises Into the air. showing the recent progress of the work. tt dthat,'he"u dmarUy beautiful yoteTrl 7e t If m we are sorry f wish that we might harsh and bitter words D fnnlran t).A as We know that they hsvssu, impressions and that s b been wounded. Pese a the result of that L W l. A Wrestlers fuuw No athletic heroes of nation are so worshipJj wrestlers of Japaa A gnJ bushels of fan enough to feed, cloths, him. In one meal he eats f as the average man hiw wrestlers, through'ttfcir,J frequently retire sad houses. 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Color, Standard, Earip A color Is a flag carried k. mounted units; a standard by mounted" or s xr Is a flag A units; an ensign ships. First Artificial Ip The first artificial eyes ufactured by Pierre Gouged 1851 on Van Dam street, ! N. Y., from glass imparted ( France. Oxford and CamWdp Oxford university is is ft that name about 52 mil don; Cambridge university town of Cambridge, 5fi London. ! '0 $ W Early Automobile , The first automobile a depressed by r warning signal tor stsrw butt k the came next ( trians vsd-bells- "D Better and world Is growin , bet Uncle Eben. "but fum hear it certainly growin pains. do M j UCay |