Life — May 17, 1928 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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The Newspaper Make-up Man Does His Best To Arouse a Little Public Interest in the Oil Scandal “Tue Yankee-Brown tussle at the Stadium yesterday afternoon furnished more thrills than a six-ringed circus. In the first frame, with the sacks loaded, Babe Ruth came up, swung madly at two that cut the heart of the pan and then Senator Caraway (D., Ark.) charged that Will H. Hays knew that Harry F. Sinclair's $260,000 in Liberty Bonds ad- vanced for the Republican deficit in 1923 was part of the price for Teapot Dome and that Hays acted as ‘a fence in peddling these stolen goods’ which reached the hands of ‘at least four mem- bers of the Cabinet’ and the Yanks chalked up two more markers in the sixth when Lazzeri reached first on a beautiful bunt, stole second, and came home when Senator Caraway’s charges went unchallenged by the Republican members of the Senate. “In the eighth stanza things suddenly began to look dark for the Yanks when the Browns became enamored of Pen- nock’s southpaw slants. Hits crashed and zoomed across the diamond with omi- nous repetition until Senator Norris, in- dependent Republican from Nebraska, demanded Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's resignation for withholding the fact that Hays had asked him to become one of the dummy contributors to the Republican Campaign Fund who were used to conceal the fact that Harry F. Sinclair, alleged briber of Albert B. Fall, had put up $260,000 for the Republican deficit. in 1923 and after the demon rescuer Wilcey Moore had fanned Wil- hams for the side out, the Bambino put over the biggest blast of the day with a home run over the right-field wall, scoring Durst and Koenig ahead of him. “The Hugmen and the Browns lock horns again tomorrow when Senator Walsh will resume his grilling of Hays and Mellon.” Tupper Greenwald. GLORY “I was talkin’ to Bob McSwatt the other day.” What? Bob McSwatt of the Yankee- Giants? You know him?” “Sure I know him. Him an’ me was in the squad over in France.” much. He was just tellin’ me all over again about the time he stood in mess line next to Sergeant York.” —American Legion Monthly. “Wny did you get up and leave the theater just as handsome Ramon Mascara was knocked flat by the villain? There was more to the picture.” “I know, but I prefer happy endings.” —Detroit News. With her dainty Silhouette Douglass, Lois Wikion snaps a light for Richard Dix. Her Douglassis silver ended, covered with ostrich shin. It sells for $12.50 ‘First of all its automatic Features are many in a Douglass. Sturdy build; dependableness; sheer good looks! But because it is automatic,a Doug- lass thrills its owner as no other lighter can. Press the trigger, there's your light! No soiled thumb or glove, no complicated technique ««. just a trigger press. =_ Si The Silhouette Douglass «sslike the modern watch Sponsored by HARGRAFT Wrigley Blig., Chicago Douglass Ligh ter And have you seen the watch-thin Silhou- ette Douglasses? A scarce 379 thousandths of aninch through, without a change in the patented Douglass construc- tion. Cases of gold, silver and leathers «Styles to match yourslightest whim. Your better shops offer Silhou- ettes at $10 to $1000; Standard Douglasses from$ 5. Douglass fluid also, in convenient cans. Canada: A.W. W. Kyle Co., 3 St. Nicholas St., Montreal comicbooks.com