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...building completed. As his succes sor the Y. M. C. A. chose "the luckiest man in the War." Lieut. Waldo Huntley Heinrichs. A onetime Y. M. C. A. man in Honolulu and in India, Lieut. Heinrichs went from theological seminary into avia tion. He saw Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt shot down in France, had three escapes from death in mid-air himself. In the Battle of St. Mihiel he fell 3,000 ft., got off with ten wounds. He won a Croix de Guerre with palm, bars and citations. "Luckiest Man" Heinrichs, dapper and kinetic, has won to his side...
Next April Thomas Mooney will be once more on the stand in his own defense to fight the old indictment for the 1916 bombing, now being pressed anew. Mooney, as is well-known, is serving a life-sentence in San Quentin jail after a much-disputed conviction in 1917. The opinion of all but Californians is that the prisoner, if not plainly innocent, is at least the victim of an atrociously unfair trial, in which State's witnesses gave perjured testimony, evidence for the defense was suppressed, and the issued clouded over with hysteria. Now the case is going...
Stories of this type hold expansive possibilities for romantic tragediennes. Ruth Chatterton makes the most of them, particularly throughout the carefully built-up climax sequence at San Quentin prison, in which she bravely refrains from telling the district attorney the secret that might save her. Typical shot: Frisco Jenny watching the 1926 Stanford v. California football game in which her son plays for Stanford...
Clara Phillips, famed "hammer murderess" doing 35 years in California's San Quentin Prison, lost a chance for parole when caught flirting with a Los Angeles burglar who delivered dental supplies to the women's quarters...
...Quentin. Calif., two doctors fed goldfish beef muscle, fed other goldfish ground-up ram gonads. discovered that gonad feeding discouraged goldfish obesity...