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onetime wife of millionaire Indian Jackson Barnett, for the widow's share of the $4,000,000 estate which the Government seized after Barnett's death two years ago. On the grounds that she and two men forced the demented old redskin to wed her, her marriage was annulled two months before Barnett's death. Since then, lower courts have held that she cannot share in the rich oil estate. Last week, in Los Angeles, frustrated, 50-year-old Mrs. Lowe published a lurid booklet named Truth to air her grievances. Twenty-three pages long, Truth...
...Anatolia, of Greek parents, christened Zacharias Basileos Zacharoff. He spent part of his youth in Constantinople, where he seems to have been at one time a fireman, at one time a pimp. Whether he also went to Russia for a time and married there (his alleged son, Hyman Barnett Zaharoff. is still trying to prove his paternity), Neumann leaves an open question. Less questionable is the tale of Zaharoff's absconding with 25 boxes of gum and 169 sacks of gallnuts from the Constantinople shop where he was employed, hot-footing it to England. (Neumann thinks that some time...
...HATTIE BARNETT...
...modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife and two débutante daughters, 20 & 21. Said the Baltimore Afro-American of Minister-designate Walton: "His indorsements for the position come from a cross-section of American life . . . Senator Robert F. Wagner, white . . . Claude A. Barnett, editor-in-chief, Associated Negro Press . . . Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom of the African Methodist Episcopal Church . . . Dr. R. R. Moton, retired principal, Tuskeegee . . . George Foster Peabody, banker . . . Dr. Mary F. Waring, president, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs...
...Schwartz and Peck first queried the most revered pharmaceutical chemist in the country, Frederick Barnett Kilmer, 83, head of Johnson & Johnson's laboratories at New Brunswick, N. J. since 1889. Mr. Kilmer told them that, as the result of his investigations, he considered the ingredients of adhesive tape not irritating as such; that the skin secretions are retained under the moisture-repellent coating with a resultant maceration of the epidermis. This, rather than idiosyncrasy, said Mr. Kilmer, is the most frequent cause of the irritation...