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Sued for annulment. Mrs. Anna Laura Barnett, of Los Angeles, wife of Jackson Barnett, multi-millionaire Okla homa Indian, ward of the U. S. Government; by the U. S. on behalf of its protegé. The U. S. alleges that by the use of ''petting . . . seductive smiles" Mrs. Barnett kidnaped her husband, married him twice (in Kansas, and in Missouri) in expectation of the $500,000 gift of the government authorized by Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall for Barnett...
Died. Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis, 62, Canadian banker, tobaccoman (Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada), sportsman, father-in-law of famed Actress Rosie Dolly; of heart disease; at Cannes...
...considerable length on Latin America, the sea, revolution and a wop sailor with an O. Henry ending which is even less convincing than the rest of the story; and finally an essay on one of the minor incidents in the life of Alexander Pope, "Vendetta," by J. E. Barnett, which is probably the high light of the entire issue. It is a straightforward, readable account of Pope's literary feud with Lady Wortley Montagu--an account which is attractive chiefly, perhaps, because its pretensions are modest and the reader is pleasantly surprised to find them more than fulfilled...
...Keepers of the Light", contributes an exceptionally good story: swift, idiomatic, colorful, with a good deal of sense of character. His style is perhaps too nervous and choppy--the sentences too persistently short and periodic, but it is a sound story, and a vivid one. And Mr. Barnett gives us some extremely readable, and sometimes witty, theatre-notes. Both of these contributors write as if they did it with pleasure, and as if they weren't afraid of being "literary". Of the other contributors, not quite so much can be said. They play safe, they do not aim so high...
...Department of the Interior published a report by Geologists C. E. Dobbin, V. H. Barnett and W. T. Thom Jr. of the U. S. Geological Survey. They said that the 75-foot coal seams near Minturn, Wyo., are only part of huge system of seams embracing Campbell, Crook, Weston, Toniobrara and Converse Counties, which contain some 14 billion tons. Some 17.8 billion tons is the U. S. coal mining total to date...