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I TAD" LINCOLN TO BE ON MOVIE SCREEN 'MRfMSlGeri The love of Abraham Lincoln for his little son, "Tad," has-been told in poetry and prose, and now the films will reproduce Mrs. Margarita Spal ding Gerry's story of "The Toy Shop," a charming tale woven about the quaint little top shop in Washing ton that was so often visited by the emanlcipator and his son o o HE'S FOR IT "Doctor, do you believe in people taking vacation?" "Considering the practice it brings me, I should be an ingrate to decry the custom." Louisville Courier-journaL TRAINMEN SGORE A POINT Trainmen who are fighting for bet ter wages on 98 western railroads were jubiliant today over the victory of Warren S. Stone, grand chief en gineer of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers, in ahving granted his request that the railroads produce train sheets, time cards and payrolls before the federal wage arbitration board hearing the controversy. James M. Sheehan, counsel for the railroad companies, declared that to produce this daata would be a "stu pendous task," and taht the request from Stone was "a mere whim." Stone insisted that through such data alone was it possible to get the whole troth as to whether trainmen as a rule received salaries as large as the theoretical time schedules pre sented by the companies seemed to show. o o BRITISH PUBLIC WANTS IN ON U. S.-ENGLAND CONTROVERSY London, Jan. 27. Fear that the "nefarious system of secret diploma cy" may cause a breach between the United States and Great Britain was expressed in a public manifesto is sued by the executive committee of the British Socialist party today. It called upon the British government to make public a "full and clear" statement regarding the points now in controversy with the United States. AFTER CARNEGIE MEDAL A Carnegie medal may grace the "manly bosom" of Harry Miller very shortly, if the hope of north side friends are realized. Harry, who is in the employ of Ber nard Peterson, 232 W. Chicago av., was dextrous and game enough to snatch and hold the waist of Miss Au gustina Mailly as a runaway horse bore down upon her at Winona and Western avs. last Saturday afternoon. Already a petition for a medal ia .being circulated by Mflbr's frieada, SkiM&S2Sfi&