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THURSDAY,
1978
APRIL 1923.
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TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STA 'ION.
London,
April 14th.-
General
Payot,
French
chief
of
transportation
in
the
occupied
area,
narrowly
escaped
injury
near
Castrop
yesterday,
when
a
bullet
was fired at
his automobile,
says
a
Dus-
soldorf
despateh.
The
bullet
shattered
a pane of
glass
on
the
machine
and
a
splinter cut
the
eye
of
the
French
en-
gineer
who
was riding with the General,
The
latter
stoppzd
the
machine
and
made
a
house
to
house
search
for
the
person
who fired
the shot.
Two
arrests
were
made.
Paris.
April
14th.
—~The
French
and
Beigman
Governments
decided
todayv.
at
ta:
confererce
of
their ministers
here,
to
reimburse
tbhemselves
for
the
Rubr
ocrupaiion
€xpz2ns2s
out
ol m srehandise
and
money
seized
from
the
'serinans,
The
two
Allies
again
cupbasized
their
determination
to evacuate
the Ruor only
as
Garmany
piid.
Any balange
left after
the
military
aud
engineering
expeunses
are paid
will b 2 turned
info
the
repara-
tions fund for the banefit
of
ail
the
al-
lies.
:
Wrexham.
Wales,
April
15th.—In
an
International
soccer
game between
Wales
and Ireland today the
latter
won a score
of three
to nil.
I'ne goals
were ali scored
in the first haif.
Nice,
April 16th
—Three
pilots,
Cap-
tain Madon,
M. D 2 Giliard and
M. Picard
took off in their machines
early this
mor-
ning
for
Milan.
the
first
jumpin
the
vou=-d the world
flight of
the “flyingcir-
cud’’, organized
by Captain
Bapt
Madon
and
Gaillard;
however,
soon
developed
mor trouble and had to turn back.
They
made
bad
landings
and
'heir
airplanes
were wrecked.
Picard,
who
was
accom-
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“GEORGE CARPERNTIER”
THEIDOL OF FRANCE
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GEORGE
CARPENTIER,
ths Heavyweight Champion
of [France,
in “'The
Wonder
Man’’ is
not an abaormal
one,
but MAN as
he
should
be,
an
ail around
athlete,strong
in
battling
for what
he deems
right
or just, gentle and
censiderate
in social'relations,
in-
»O>-.-Y
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tellizent
without
permitting
avarice
to
rule
his
mental
attitude.,
Suchis
the
futuvre
MAN of America
and,
so
that
matter,
of all countries.
In
our own,
where
ideals
are
high,
"'The
Wond r Man’’ concretely
represents
not onlv self
aspiration,
but
a
nuationzl
hope
for the generations
to com».
He
is
a fixed
type for
those
of
us
endowed
with
vision,
to be produced
in
the infinite varie'y accorded
by nature,
Furthermere
there
are
siketchy
litt'!
echaracter
studies,
particularly
of childven,
whichi
are
bound
to
delight the
speectat
While
the
cast
13 cood,
it is,
as
a
matter
of
course
dominated
by the personality
of
George
Carpentier.
[t
was
a
happy thought
to
place
him
in contact
with three
interesting
children,
in order
to
bring
out
the
sweeter
side
of what
seews
to
be
his natural
charaecter,
He attraets
all
hearts
by his
winning
smile,
that of
a
man
8t
strong
affactions
and
Kind disvosicion,
At
moments
he is stern-
lv
pugnacious,
with the
“‘pug’’ left out;
therc
15
nothing
of
the
brute
inghis facial
ex-
nression,
but
it occasionally
reveals
that
he has
sensed
the
tragedy
of
beautiful
France,
that
the suffering
of his country
people
has
left
a scar
o1
his soul.
In
movements
he
has
the unconscious
grace
of the
trained
ethlete.
Highly
doveloned
museles
and
nerves
aré
so
~'um;;iuwi_\
at
comman
( his mind
that
he
POSSESSUS
4N
¢ {iortless
poetry
of
mo-
tion.
He is,
in taet,
an accomplished
getor
trom
nuative
inciination and
feom
clear
con-
ception
of thé demands
of his role,
a star pertormer
by virtue of
inherent
merit,
Coo
wne
Well-Ktown
Heavyweight
Boxer.
GEORGE
CARPENTIER
As
He
Is
In A
Captivating
Sovuety
Drama.
They Spurned
tim
and
Thougint
He
Was
a
Crook.
loven
the Giri That
Loved Him Began
Losing
Heaort.
Bat
then
-he surprised
Them
All
Ly Jumping
Inio the
Ring-Cleaning
Up the
Club
Champion.,
Clearing
Up His
Name
ani
Wioning
the
Girl of
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