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"MOVIE -TQ1V!" HATES PUBLICITY TW7 Thppnka. Santschi. Thomas'- Santdchi awjte ,a great touring car. "WfienTihbpdy who wants to gt him 6 ialkfdr,publica tlon" happetis 'aioh. )ie1iQq'ts out the backway, jumps 'Into that, ma chine and escapes. . " ,-t But, outside of jBis .extraordinary bashfulness in talking about 'himself, he'll do anythmgjri. the way of a dar ing stunt that the director puts up to him. He plays some of the biggest parts with the Edend'ale Selig Com pany at Los Angeles. He hasn't any mottoes. His system Is to do the! next thing next, whatever that may be, California sunshine is his hobby. o o NEVER A DROUTH Farming over ice is a feature of ranch life in the'Tanana valley, Alas ka. The valley. is three hundred miles long and fifty miles wide! It Is de scribed as a 'vast bowl of solid ice thinly sprinkled with dirt The bowl of ice never thaws save near the surface. But on a foundation of per petual ice, farmers are raising bump er crops Of grain acid gardens are producing, vegetables declared, to bo superior in yield and quality to 'any grown in the United States. The strangest feature of Tanana valley farming is that it is possible only be cause the'sUjjoIl is eternally frozen. When the; sprhjg begins to thaw the surface the" plow turns over the surface of "the earth above the ice, arid as the thaw "proceeds moisture is given off from underground, form ing a perfect sub-irrigation system. v o o CITY OFFICIALS TAKE STAND IN VOTE FRAUD CASES Mayor Han-ison, Peter Bartzen, Iceland. S. Rapp, James Mclnerney and. Pohce Lieutenant M, J. Gallery took, the stand yesterday at the close .of , the hearing pf direct testimony in the.yote fraud cases. The four appeared as witnesses foe tHe defendants, Charles ' Baranov, Thomas tieary, Joseph Gordon and David Rose. Harrison identified a letter written to him by James A. Harris, an 18th ward politician, one of the state's witnesses,, in which the latter denied' he had given any evidence that would reflect on Maclay Hoyne and Peter Bartzen. James Mclnerney said that the mayor .had turned the letter over to him. -Lieut Gallery identified a simi lar letter, that had been written to him and also testified that Harris had told him he would send the four de fendants to the penitentiary. Rapp and Bartzen merely stated that they (Jldn't know any of the de fendants and knew no reason jyhy the men should do anything- in their behalf. THE LAW OF CHANCE May Kissam I'm afraid papa . would make a scene if he came, and found you here. Jack Willing I just left him at the club he moh't be hometvery early. May Kissam Ho wdo' ypU know? Jack Wlllinc He was two hundred 1 fix the hole when-1 lef t.--$ttek.