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Smyrna times., 1928-11-07
The Ererett Theatre. Middletown

Wednesday and Thursday Actual
war conditions prevailed when the
Seventh u. S. infantry was moved
from Vancouver barracks, and the
Fourth US. Infantry from Fort Law
ton to Camp Lewis, Washington, to
participate in war scenes for First
Nationals "The Patent Leather Kid," !"
starring Richard Barthelmess. Orders
were issued to move at midnight. The
troops broke camp, boarded motor
transports, and travelled through the
night, in wind and rain storm, to
the old cantonment near Olympia
where the famous 91st Division train
ed during wartime. The Seventh u.
S. Infantry and the Fourth U. S. In
fantry joined the 1000 regular troops
stationed at Camp Lewis garrison for
the war maneuvers, the biggest ever
staged for motion picture camera.
Six hundred civilians and six hundred
members Of the r. O.. t. from the
University Of Washington were also
being used in the maneuvers. "The
Patent Leather Kid" is the epic of the
tank corps from Rupert Hughes great
story of that name.
Smyrna times., 1928-11-07
Arcadia Theatre, Wilmington

AT Jolson's picture, "The Singing
Fool'' will be brought back to the
Arcadia Theatre, Wilmington, FOR a
return engagement the entire week of
November 18th. Popular demand has
caused the re-booking of this famous
talking" picture. Thousands were
unable to get into the Arcadia Thea
tire when the photoplay was first pre-
sented. It broke all house records
for attendance. "The Singing Fool"
gives All Jolson the greatest role he
has ever had. This world famous en-
tertainer sings no less than seven
songs including the now famous
Sunny Boy" and "a Rainbow Round
My Shoulder. He shares honors in
the production with a small boy called
David Lee to whom Jolson sings Sun
ny Boy. The Arcadia is the only
theatre in Delaware equipped with
Vitaphone, the famous sound produc-
ing apparatus that makes the trans
mission of voice to the screen possi-
bic.
Smyrna times., 1928-11-07
STAGE AND SCREEN WRITE-UP
COMING AMUSEMENT EVENTS
The Strand Theatre. smyrna

Friday and Saturday-One Of the
best small casts Of the season has
been employed in the making of Gun
der the Black Eagle" Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayors thrilling romantic drama.
Ralph Forbes, who is featured in
Metro-Goldwyn-M Mayors northern film
epic, THE Trail of '98," directed BY
Clarence Brown, and who appeared
opposite Lillian Gish in ''The Enemy"
and with Lon Chaney in "Mr. WI"
has the leading male role Marceline
Day, who played opposite Lon CLANCY
in''The Hypnotist" and"The Big City"
has the featured feminine role while
the picture serves as the initial star
ring vehicle Of Flash, a remarkably
intelligent police dog now being in
troduced to the screen by Harry
Rapf, who first presented such can
inc stars as Peter the Great and Rim
Tin-Tin.
Monday and Tuesday ~ Famous
Western stars have horses almost as
famous as themselves; Tom Mix and
Tony, Fred Thompson and Silver King
for instance. Now may be added to
the list John Gilbert and his horse
Alexandrovitch. Alexandrovitch is
the beautiful white Cossack pony that
Gilbert rides in "The Cossacks," his
spectacular new Metro -Goldwyn- May
er starring vehicle. He rides the
horse with troupe of sensational
CoSSack riders brought from Europe
Smyrna times., 1928-11-07

for the new production, which George
Hill directed with a huge cast. Renee
Adoree plays the heroine, and Ernest
Terrence, Neil Nicely, Mary Alden,
Dale Fuller, Paul Hurst, Yorke Sher-
wood, Joseph Mari, and others of note
are in the cast. 1t is a vivid drama
Of the Russian steppes, with Gilbert
as young Cossack soldier in an
amazing adventure and romance set
against the background of the Rus
sian warfare against the Turks. From
Shy youth with a poetic soul, he be
comes a swashbuckling warrior.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Cameramen are called upon to per-
form many exciting stunts in making
motion pictures but, according to Bur
ton Steene, the most thrilling eNper-
ience was that, when, from the "bom-
boy" of a huge bomber, he filmed
twelve full service charge aerial
bombs as they were dropped on a re-
constructed French village, all twelve
scoring direct hits. Steene perform
ed this feat in the photographing Of
"Wings" III believe | drew one Of
the most difficult assignments in the
filming of Wings, says Steene. 81
was hoisted and squeezed in the
bomber compartment, containing l, 200
lbs. of TINT. l was in a space so
small that | could scarcely move my
legs in a kneeling position and / kept
thinking what might happen if any
thing went wrong with those bombs
or we had to make forced landing.
"A thin rope was fastened to my left
arm and led to the cockpit where
Capt. S. r. Stribling was in command.
A signal of two sharp pulls was the
word to tell me that the bombs would
be released. | could not see what was
coming, hence the signal, and natur-
ally the scene would be a short one
as the ship was doing 30 miles an
hour Capt Stribling gave the two
sharp tugs. Looking through the
finder in my camera, it was my job
to pick up the bombs rs they fell. |
could neither see nor hear them until
they came into the finder
Smyrna times., 1928-11-07
New Dover Opera House. Dover

Wednesday and Thursday-Antiques
valued at hundreds of thousands of
dollars and furniture that was used
BY great statesmen during the early
Colonial days, are playing important
roles in "The First Kiss" Paramounts
first co-starring vehicle for Fay Wray
and Gary Cooper, which was filmed on
Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. Director
Roland v. Lee insisted that every
property in the production be authen-
tic and this il one of the reasons an
entire company was dispatched from
the Paramount studio to the location,
some 5000 miles away, to film the pic
ture. Not one "set" in 'The First
Kiss" has been constructed. They are
what are called "naturals' in the in
dustry. The homes of residents Of
st. Michaels and Easton, Maryland,
were used for the interiors while
most of the exteriors are being made
on Chesapeake Bay. Residents volun-
teered the use Of the antiques for pur-
poses of the picture. Included in the
list is U spinning wheel nearly 200
years old, a candelabra which was
used by the first Governor Of Mary
land and chair which has been in
use for more than 100 years Sup
porting Fay Wray and Gary Cooper
in ''The First Kiss" are Lane Chand-
ley, Leslie Fenton, Paul Fix, Malcolm
Williams, George Nash and Monroe
Owsley. The screen play was adopt
ed from the original story, "Four
Brothers." BY Tristram Tupper.
Smyrna times., 1928-11-07

Teacher Associations of the schools
held meeting in the Betterton High
School to discuss plans for the relief
of the pupils.
Smyrna times., 1928-11-07

Dissatisfied with conditions existing
in the transportation Of pupils from
the Betterton, Still Pond and Ken
nedyville, Nd, Schools, the Parent
Smyrna times., 1928-11-07
FIRE WOOD FOR SALE

Apply to
DEL. REAL ESTATE & ms. co.
1913 If Phone 239 Smyrna, Del.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04

DC shut up insane asylum where / could no
longer experiment No would believe me yet.
~ 1t is. work under tremendous dfiiculties-I am
Eidiculed and spied upon and in constant danger Of
having my instruments meddled with. For my own
safety must keep this a until can give
some convincing proof that this is hoax--that
am actually in communication with Mars But there
comes the worst difficulty of all. l have no means
OF raising funds to develop further. 1t has taken
almost my last cent to this sending device
according to your instructions and do nothing
without money
There quantities Of questions would like to
ask about the people conditions on Mars and
sfout your scientific discoveries, but time presses:
may be nterfered with at any moment, and it might
be years before could get in touch with you again
Out Of your store Of knowledge so far ahead
OF ours, can you not give me some cheap and easy
formula for making money at that I may
be free to work without worry or restraint"
In due time Mars answer.
I'VE had forgotten you earth still dependent
that puerile medium of exchange-money! We
shall be glad to help you We, too. anxious to
ask questions but wise in first safeguarding
what you have already accomplished. There will be
time later to exchange information. AS for the for
mula, along what line would you like to work?"
Rayburn then asked if Mars had solved the prob
lem Of utilizing atomic energy
"Oh. yes" came the answer. We solved that
100000 years at the end of the steam age. We
cannot only send you the formula and for
harnessng atomic energy, which you patent with
all earths rights, but will also tell you how you
may get power from the earth's revolutions. extract
fuel, food and light from the atmosphere divert the
flow of the currents to allocate the earths
heat equitably, communicate thought over vast
distances, read minds like book, make the home
lest woman rare beauty "-Rayburn smiled as he
heard this" transmute metals attain healthy lon
Eevfty, not to mention many other useful things
which now, with your limited comprehension, you
would consider impossible"
After flashing his grateful thanks. Rayburn then
asked for q certain formula which Immediately
sent in minute detail. BY means Of this he hoped
to insure quick and adequate working capital essen
rial to the vastly greater things to follow.
ITO be coMttnUed1
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04

| About 10 percent of the total is
used in making the writing paper
in general use.
The mills of the Brown company
are located at various places but
1.-THE big sulphide mills where the
materials to go into the films and
! the rayon are manufactured, are
llocated at Berlin, N. II. The
forests from which the spruce is
cut are located chiefly in Canada.
Indicating something of the inn
portance of this particular COM
pany it owns more than 3,O0O,O0
acres of spruce forest in Canada
and half million acres in New
England and while it is constant
ily cutting timber from the land
it is also carefully practising re-
| lforestation methods that results in
practically perpetual source Of
the raw materials.
Payroll $6,OOO,OOO Year.
The Brown company employees
something more than 5000 per-
sons in the mills and hasJ a pay
roll of more than $6,0OO,00O a
year. 1t sells more than 5000
tons of sulphide fiber annually to
the Eastman Kodak company alone,
and furnishes the DUPONT interests
l15 percent of the sulphide fiber
that they use in the manufacture
of rayon silk.
The sulphide fiber used in the
two processes, making films and
making silk, are quite similar, both
reducing the fiber to a jelly-lil1e
mass in large vat In making
the film, the mass is rolled into
the films while in the making OF
lrayon it is placed under hydraulic
pressure and forced against plates
iin which are fine holes through
which the sulphide is passed. This
reduces it to the shape and SINH
llarity in character to the staple of
the cotton fiber which nature pro-
duces in the boil of cotton.
Natures WOr8 loil Cotton.
1t is interesting in this con-
Inection to consider the two--cot-
ltcn and sulphide fiber The cot
is the result of plant growth. The
suIphide fiber is the same SUBJ
lstance extracted through the pro-
cesses devised, by man from the
other substances into which it was
woven by the act of nature, the
original form in which it is found
being known as wood. Nature
irefined the fiber in the cotton and
gave it OF the human race almost
ready to be spun. The spruce log
requires work to reduce it to the
! form that the same element may
be taken from the mass. And so
| the reduction of the spruce log to
the mass from which the sulphide
fiber is extracted results in getting
the same general type of material
that nature develops in the boil
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04
II love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hills,
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above"

Old Glory was floating from the
pole at the Gadsden school ground.
The Gadsden school is in White Tail
canyon only short distance from
Hilltop mine, something like seven or
eight miles from the old mining
camps of Paradise and Galeyville.
The school building is neat frame
structure. There are two teachers
employed. There are 81 pupils en-
rolled. There was an average daily
attendance of 20 and fraction until
about the middle of February when a
hint of the flu kept some of the
pupils out of school, All of these
facts were discovered when the writer
travelled into the canyon the other
day to see some of its beauties placed
there in the beginning of things.
This canyon looks out upon the San
Simon valley end viewed from there
one can see the most beautiful sun
sets that eye has ever witnessed
The Gadsden school accommodates
the children of several families some
of whom have lived there for some
years. The school was erected almost
a score of years ago. There are men
of families living in the district whose
means of supporting the family come
from employment in the mines. Others
cultivate crops, some trap and some
have little herds or own an apiary.
They live there in one of the beautiful
corners of Arizona where parents and
children can sing with verve the lines
of the national anthem printed at the
beginning of this little story. sThy
rocks and ril1S, woods and
tempted hills" connote a literal truth
to them Those rocks and rillS are
a part of their very existence. Most
of the children attending the school
were born there in the beauties OF
that rugged country and to them it
suggests home.
Mrs Martha " Wilderen has the
grammar school grades and the first
year of high school work Mrs. Will
deren is teaching her first year at the
Gadsden school, having formerly been
a teacher in the city of New Orleans.
There are four boys and seven girls
in her classes, of high school work.
Miss Ida Gentner teaches all the
grades below the seventh, but this
year Miss Gentner has only grades to
the fifth, there being no pupil for the
sixth grade. Miss Gentner is now
teaching her second year at the
GadSden and there are seven boys
and three girls in her school. She
resides at the teacherage and Mrs
Wilderen resides at the next house.
Most. of the pupils reside within a
radius of two or three miles of the
school, but the holland family lives
five miles away over the mountain
This is A. S. Noland's family and his
daughter, Frances, and son, Van, ride
to school over the mountain on their
horses every day. They cross over
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04
PAGUE HAS 26 TALES
RESULT FROM ONE.
WEEKS TRAPPING WORK

horse to bring it to his place from
where he trapped it and that the
horse didn't act like he was proud
to carry such a, load. Pague has the
skin of the lion which he caught in
January The killing of the lion
was a service to Stockmen, Pague
says, because the lion can easily kill
the largest COW or horse if it deter
mines to enjoy that sort of feast.
The skin is well marked for noun
tain lion for this section and Pague
has in mind getting it tanned foIt a
rug.
His game bag for the six days end
| ing Feb. 27 contained these animals:
20 foxes, five coyotes and one lynx,
or bohcat Pague says that he has
been getting an average of about So
for his fox skins, So for the coyote
skins and he figures the lynx skin is
worth at least $3.50. On that basis
of prices. his bag of game for that
week was worth $3.50, so it is prob
ably conservative to estimate it as
low as SIS.
Pague and his family reside not far
from the Gadsden school in Hilltop
canyon, but the trapping late in
February was done on the ranch of
Will Glenn. 1t is said the foxes
there are exceedingly thick and quite
bold in going, after their prey which
includes poultry and small domestic
Ianimals,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04

$4,000 and the manager called me
and handed me the check and told
me to take it to the bank. 1t was
my understanding from the converse
ton that the check was to be cashed.
Getting to the bank, handed the
draft into the window and the teller
looked at it and asked How do you
want it?' I studied moment and
replied Give me gold that being
about the only thing in those days We
considered money
There was till made something
like a dish that was just large enough
for 10 rows each way, or 100 in all
and each row was 10 pieces high,
each piece a $40 gold coin. That
meant 1000 pieces of gold each worth
$40 and the cashier looked again and
said How will you carry it?'
Again I frankly told him I didn't
have bag with me but remarked
Cant you loan me sack for it?'
He got one of the heavy sacks used
for that purpose and had me hold it
open and he slid the whole tray of
gold pieces into the sack and 1 walked
| proudly out of the bank and with the
! $4,000 in gold on my shoulder in a
bag that any tough character could
/ have had with small effort, because
he could have taken it before could
have prevented it, I walked back to
the office and deposited it on the
desk of the manager. 1t caused him
some agitation when he discovered it
and he made some sarcastic remarks,
ending with the Injunction to get the
gold back to the bank instanter. AnG
that injunction was promptly obeyed
exactly as the gold had been gotten
| to the office. put it on my shoulder
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04

and walked the distance with never q
thought of being bothered.
"In those same days, no one thought
of locking mis- home. Property right
was a sacred thing with everybody
The ethics of the community made
property rights reality and every
pody respected them One did not
have to nail down a small article to
keep it on his premises. But today
things are different. The lock and
key are not even respected and moth
ing in the form of property rights is
respected. In some places, where they
have pay toilets they some years age
fitted them up with combs and brushes
but today those articles are absent
because even when they were anchored
with chains the people using the
toilets would break the chains and
carry the combs and brushes away.
mo, it cannot be said that civiliza-
tion moves always in the proper
channels for it seems to me to be
established beyond cavil that there
has been actual retrogression in conf
munity honesty, as measured by the
standards of the days of the pioneers
in the great west"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04
CADSDEN SCHOOL, HIGH UP
IN CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS
SHOWS FINE ATTENDANCE
Two Teachers Direct the Studies Of the 81
Pupils, Carrying the Work into the First
Year Of High School Campfire Girl Or
ganization and Sunday School, Activities
Of the Neighborhood-NoIand Children
Ride Five Miles to Their Work.

what is known locally as High Lone
some mountain
One of the nearest patrons of the
school is w. K. Morrow, who owns an
apiary of several scores of colonies Of
bees and it is said that he sells a lot
of honey during the year
The teachers do not give all their
time to the simple and old-fashion
Three Rs" They have. organized a
Camp Fire Girls unit and they keep
the boys and girls interested to high
degree by bringing them into touch
with many other ideas than the old
fashion reading, writing and arith-
metic. The boys are given something
of the news of athletics and the girls
are encouraged in the things that it
is believed will better equip them for
service in the home.
The boys and girls jointly are given
practical instructions in tree culture
and they have already developed bear
ing fruit trees in the canyon so that
their instruction in those lines may be
carried into practice in their parents
orchards Perhaps no school anywhere
has given more serious thought to
such topics as fire prevention as has
the GadSden school, Fire protection
has genuine meaning to them. Fire
in the forests in the canyon would
mean actual menace to the lives OF
many of the people including those
boys and girls of the school and SO
when they hear their teacher talk
about fire prevention they listen with
interest.
Leaving the Gadsden school and
travelling toward the valley as the eve
ming shadows were spreading over the
mountains in the distance, the trip
afforded opportunity to witness one OF
the most beautiful and also colorful
sunsets that was ever spread before
an Individual From the deep purple
at the sides and in the distance to
the effulgent center where the last
rays of the setting sun were being re-
flected, there was range and rich
ness of tints that defied description,
so delicate and so beautiful that they
impressed one with the Subllmlty OF
nature as it is displayed to man in
the evening sunset. Viewing that sum
set, a picture easily common to those
attending that school, it was not hard
TO understand that those children
could and did sing the quoted lines OF
the national anthem with hearts filled
with joy because those hills and
rocks and rills to them tell of the
dearest word in the language-Home.
Out in the mountains, as is the
Gadsden school. where the things
in nature proclaim the majesty Of
crnatinn If is not SURPRISING that
the religious side of the people
should receive attention and here
at this same school house they
have successful Sunday school.
They have been carrying on the
work of the Sunday school quite
successfully all of the school year.
1t is not a part of the school but
! it is a part Of the community life
that centers at the school building,
J a community structure.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04

Working in the mine is Ben PagueS
usual vocation, But he has a side
line which, using the parlance OF the
present day, has real kick" to it.
He runs a string of traps in the
Chiricahua mountains. During Febru-
ary he gave some attention to the
traps and the six days ending Feb. ~,
he brought home fine bag Of game.
1t ranged all the way from fox to
a bobcat and when the total was
added up he had more than two
dozen of the predatory animals ac-
counted for, and skins of cash
value, upon a most conservative basis,
exceeding SIS.
Pague lives in White Tail canyon
not far from Hilltop mine. He, at
times. works at Hilltop. If there is
no work at that mine, he secures
employment elsewhere and if there
is no mine work he has place in
the canyon where he works or else
goes to his trapping activities. First
and last, Ben Pague has wrought
havoc to the foxes and other animals
of that kind in his section of the
county. He has a fine string of traps
and he is sure of getting the animal
if the trap ever closes on its pedal
extremity
One of the biggest animals he has
ever caught was a mountain lion
He says it was so large it raised the
sweat on HIM to get it aboard the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04
THEY SHORTEN COAST CHICAGO
EXTRA-FARE TRAIN RUN BY los
MINUTES ON The S. P. RAILWAY

irving at All and stopping IL
minutes. This, as will be seen, is
an earlier arrival.
West-bound, the Argonaut, No.
103, arrives at 3:16, seven min
utes later than the old schedule
and tops but eight minutes COM
pared to the former stop of 10
minutes.
Copper City Special schedule re-
mains unchanged both ways.
Speaking of the changes, w. w.
Windham, Douglas agent for the
Southern Pacific, said:
"In keeping with the policy of
the Southern Pacific company, 20
provide its patrons at all times
with the best service, extra fare
trains from California points to Chi
cago will be speeded up one hour
and As minutes in order to make
connections with early morning
trains from Chicago to further
eastern points or to permit the
use of the full business DAY at Chi
cago.
Golden State No. will leave
/ Los Angeles at 600 p. m. instead
lof 500 p. m. and will arrive Chi