LOWELL THOMAS ■ SUNOCO ~ WEDKESPAY. SEPT. 19 . 19,^4 XJOH good EVENING EVERYBODY:- ' * I Thrills and terror in Richmond, Virginia, today - people By the thousands stampeding for their Jives - a raging lion roaring, charging striking, clawing. Today was circus day in Richmond, You know the 'picture - the circus parade, crowd s lined along the sidewalks, the Blaring sound of music, the flashing of the Band wagon, the elephants, the clowns, the circus riders, the ferocious Beasts in their cages, "he lion going oy. A huge fellow with bristling mane. The kids along the curb were gazing in gaping admiration at the king of Beasts, The cage gave a lurch. The lion bumped against the steel Bars, right against the door. The door flew open. The lion leaped out, — went bounding along the pavement. There was a wild yell as thousands of people Broke into a wild stampede. The great cat aroused, frightened, and desperate, made a lurching charge, and attacked a horse, sank its claws into the horse which plunged wildly. By then the crowd was running in milling panic, a 1 til yachts How is the breeze out your way? Here in New York there isn't any breeze, ana there's still less at Newport, Rhode Island. It takes ekj £ wind to jam a wina-jammer, , and even light, slim yachts need at least a breath of air to till their sail. Skipper Sopwlth, with two British victories ■under his belt, scanned the sky. bkipper Vanderbilt, ± with two American defeats under his belt, also scanned the sky. They scanned it for two whole hours, lootcing for some sign tti-a-w a breeze»i»fcghn >S But there was no sign ana uhere was no breeze. Bo today's contest Hr**? between those sailing swans £* postponed until tomorrow, when the I third lap of tne cup race will be if there's any breeze, !'a - 2 RETAKE^ tempting mark for the great lithe cat to plunge into. There was the sound of shots. The police opened fire. A circus trainer seized a rifle, took a cool aim and firedi He dropped the lion kiliedit outright . Right while the crowd was stampeding. It was circus day in Richmond. It was almost like circus day in a Roman arena. YACHTS How is the breeze out your way? Here in New York there isn’t any breeze, ana there’s still less at Newport, Rhode Island. It takes asus wind to jam a wind-jammer, . and even thciagtag light, slim innaa yachts need at least a breath of air to fill their sail? Skipper Sopwith, with two British victories under his belt, scanned the sky. Skipper Vanderbilt, £ with two American defeats under his belt, also scanned the sky. They scanned it for two whole hours, looking for some sign tn-fr* a l~r r i-- j mihiilrl But there was no sign ana there was no breeze. So today’s contest between those sailing swans £4 postponed until tomorrow, when the third lap of the cup race will be if there’s any breeze, WISCONSIN There are so^ne interesting things to he observed in the figures from the Wisconsin Primary election yesterday. These figures, which are still incomplete, give a general picture of a heavy Democratic primary vote, with the LaPollette Progressive party well behind. The LaFollettes polled about the same vote as the regular Republican ticket. The Democratic vote is much larger than either. The ballots are divided in proportions something like this: three, two, two. Three for the Democrats, two for the Republicans, and two for the LaFollette Progressives, That’s the general aspect. Though Phil LaFollette for Governor, polled nearly as many votes as the Democrat, So it will be a three- cornered election, with the Democrats favored to win. However, there is one other rather surprising angle «- the smallness of the total vote. It isn’t nearly as big as the total in the Primaries two years ago. And that leaves a ®argin to provide possible surprises and upsets lottery movement seems to be sweeping across the mm®*' LOTTERY country. With New York City plumping for a giant civic game of chance to raise money for unemployment relief, voices in Various states are being raised saying, T,Let*s have a lottery too .*1 Father Knickerbocker’s lottery, however, seems likely to have a bit of rough sledding. Sharp attention is being called to some of the odd angles of a municipal gambling scheme to raise funds. In a New York court a policeman appeared v/ith a large colored gentleman in tow. "Wha^s the charge?” asked the Judge. »He 1 s got a policy slip," replied the cop. Then ho 03w 1 aineri fchwwi Jh New York ’’policy” means a lottery. They are always running illegitimately — those policy games — especially in Harlem. ' The Judge responded with some analytical reasoning. "The city is going to have a lottery," he observed. "Why not be consistent? If a lottery is right tax and proper for a city, why people have K their doubts whether prominent citizens of such giltedged renown will be willing to serve on the lottery*^*^ fTilT.EGRAPH POLE The great battle of the electric light pole at Camden, New Jersey, is still in movement, or rather, lack of movement. The lady isn’t moving an inch. She»s not a flag pole sitter. Shers a post hole sitter. For years an electric light pole stood in Mrs. £lsie Barnabyfs yard. The old pole was decrepit and decayed, so the company sent around workmen to put up a new one. The workmen took out the old pole, but before they could put the new one in place, Mrs. Barnaby sat down on the edge of the post hole, with her legs dangling dvwn la it. And she*s been sitting there ever since^ legs dangling vhygn la it. An The company has a legal right to put their electric light pole in Mrs. Barnaby* s yard, but .they have no legal right to lay hands on Mrs* Barnaby. She fix could sue them for all sorts of damages if they did. That’s the dilemma. Mrs. Barnaby declares they*11 have to pay her before she will get out. She says she has six children. Her little girl was sick. She needed light. The electric bill was due. Her husband was out of work; she couldn*t pay. She begged for time. TELEGRAPH POLE The great battle of the electric light pole at Camden, New Jersey, is still in movement, or rather, lack of movement. The lady is^t moving an inch. She's not a flag pole sitter. She's a post hole sitter. Barnaby's yard. The old pole was decrepit and decayed, so the company sent around workmen to put up a new one. The workmen took out the old pole, but before they could put the new one in place, Mrs. Barnaby sat down on the edge of .the post hole, with her The company has a legal right to put their electric light pole in Mrs. Barnaby's yard, but .they have no legal right to lay hands on Mrs. Barnaby. She fitx could sue them for all sorts of damages if they did. That's the dilemma. Mrs. Barnaby declares they'll have to pay her before she will get out. She says she has six children. Her little girl was sick. She needed light. The electric bill was due. Her husband was out of work; she couldn't pay. She begged for time. For years an electric light pole stood in Mrs. £lsie legs dan And she's been sitting there ever since^ telegraph pole - s But the company shut off the lights. So now she*s shutting off the electric light pole. And she claims if they donft pay, it will stay shut off. The Company relates that Mrs. Barnaby is angry because she wanted the old electric light pole, to cut it up for kindling, and they wouldn*t give it to her. Anyway, when the lady began her post hole sitting act, the neighbors rallied around her. They put up a canvas tent to shelter her. They have been bringing her food and blankets,and & keeping a watch fire burning. All the company can do is keep a gang of workmen on the Job, waiting for Mrs. Barnaby to weaken and get up, so they can slip the pole into the hole. And the gang of waiting workmen is costing money. Another one of those judgments of oolomon! When the two mothersf both claimed the baby, bolomon ordered the baby cut in two and one hall given to each .raatner# Vifhat would Solomon have said if it had beenynot a baby, but a house? Ho doubt the great Law Giver of Israel I would have commanded? 51 Cut the house in two!*1 11 That's what Julian Laskovvski did* It ‘happened in Seattle* II Julian Laskowski built a house in partnership with another fellow. 4; Each put up half of the money. They both lived in the house, until Julian Laskowski finally decided to move. And he wanted to get back ! the money he had put into the house. His partner refused. And there was a wrangling argument. Then Julian Laskowski solved the problem in that Solomonian 11 way. He got a big saw, olgimbed on the roof and started to saw i the house in two. His partner protested, got the sheriff, swore out ik I a complaint, charging malicious destruction of property, and he appealed to the Justice of the Peace. I |f J I I I The authorities, upon looking up the law, decided they had no grounds to interfere. Each man was entitled to hall of that I III house and Julian Laskowski was getting his half. It's the wisdom of Solomon all right, with one man carting half a house away ana the other left with his half ^six rooms and hath. . ^ CROOK A new and modern method of criminal disguise came into prominence with the Diliinger case - I mean the practice of crooks haviqg their faces lifted so xxxraotfci they won’t be recognised. It’s a reversed version of the old green whiskers, which disguislied the detective, lace—lifting, while it may produce satisfactory results in ladies among certain age, doesn’t seem to work so well with the wily criminals. It didn’t work with Diliinger and others of his gang#||nd here’s a fresh instance of how the beauty specials failed to save a crook from detection. thousand dollars to a coupxe of con men, who trimmed him with a x fake game at the races. face-lifting done in Minneapolis. A police official at Aurora, Illinois, saw him and didn’t recognize him - not exactly. .He seemed like one of the fugitives whose photograph was on iile, only he was different. The policeman knew all about this face-lifting and took it into account. He considered rne face in the photograph and Two years ago a Long Island butcher dropped twenty-five away and proceeded to have a neat job of figured out what a beauty specialist might be able to do with it. crook - £ Ies, that was tne man. The crook was brought to New York and once more, in spite 01 the face-lifting, he was identified - by the victim whom he had swindled. In this next bit of news there's a tragedy, not of a mm person, but of a race of people. One of the most ancient nations is homeless, no place to go, "’heir case is now before the new session of the League of nations, but the latest developments have made it difficult indeed, What ancient nation is it? The Assyrians, They claim to be the last lingering remnants of those ^inevites of Bible days, that conquering race who swept across the face of civil­ ization in western Asia - the Assyrians of Sargon, Senneckarib and Aahurbanipal, Then mighty Nineveh fell. And ever since the Aasyrlans have lingered, a fragment, a more relic, scarcely more than a memory* There are only ten thousand of them now, who claim to be descendants of the spearman of those Assyrians who came down like a wolf on the fold. They are Christians, Nestorians - i : ■ and there's a story in that too. They are still lingering followers of that famous Nestorian heresy of nearly fifteen hundred years ago. As Christians, they sided with the Russians in the World War. The Turks rounded them up and tore them from their homes. The British Army rescued them and provided for they* When the War was over, their homeland was turned over IEB - 2 f 1 to the kingdom of Iraq, whion is Mohainsiedan those Christian Assyrians* Since then they have been living as refugees, by sufferance, by mere permission of the I raj government, which wents them, to go. For a while it seemed as though they might find homes 1 I in the wide spaces of Brasil, The League of Nations negotiated with the Brasilian government and the project seemed to be agreeable all around. But matters lagged, things dallied and delayed. And now the Brasilian Legislature has passed a new law - a new law against immigration. And that automatically leaves the Assyrians on the i* If outside. And now the problem is being pressed before the League of lations again, the task of finding a home for tne Assyrians, who once were the terrorA of conquerors of Babylohjjand. Jerusalem^and lords of the world, nearly thirty centuries Ago, ITALY From Italy comes a statement that rings with the clangor of war and a clashing of arms, Mussolini, in a formal declaration, tells that the Fascist idea is to give Italian boys quote "a passion for military life," He says the lads must have '♦frequent contact with the armed forces, ^ and speaks of a rival of warlike glories and traditions. This has a sinister sound these days, tout a philosopher may reflect that our mild morality of glorifying peace is quite a recent thing, and that the many long centuries of western civilisation rang and resounded with the admiration for warlike deeds and the love of war. That Italian plan, just announced, of putting all boys over eight years old through a course of military training, making soldiers our of them as they leave the cradle, is even more significant than it first sounded. Because it won't toe a mere matter of drilling and parading and learning how to handle weapons, Mussolini's philosophy goes deeper than that. The I announcement now is that the juvenile military training will consist largely of a study of military culture. And that culture we are told, consists of military history, the strategy of famous battles, and a special study of the military characteristics ^ a regular school year in Italy from now IIAL1 - fc of the Italian frontier, on will include at least twenty hours devotee to this military culture. This puts Fascist Italy in a category with imperial Japan. nr i 1 Nil Japanese education is designed to intensify the knightly chivalrous spirit of the old Mussolini from the first has talked of reviving in Italy tne antique martial spirit of Home. That sounded I Ir 1B rather stately and oratorial at the time, but now he is turning the 1 words into detailed actualities in the Italian school system^r 111 II •o WU/WVA, iwCx is raising her son to be a soldier. AKMY _ BNDI'ffO Anu your Unele 6am is sounding a military note these days. Sounding a note is right — a shrill note on the piccolo, a tooting note on the trombone, a booming note on the base drum. Your musical Uncle is recruiting musicians. He needs them to play melodies to the palm trees in the tropics, and serenades in the moonlight the South Seas. The s sent'out the following notice: "The Army needs forty-two musicians for its infantry band in Hawaii and six for its field artillery band in Banama." So if any of you fellows can make sweet sounds on the base tobtaa, saxaphone or snare-drum - here’s your chance. You can tootle with If If! jnj m p ill 1 '-j the infantry in Hawaii or. -^L&dU -Ate with the field artillery in Panama. 0r -tfW- . , fcct maybe your mother didn’t raise her shim to be a piccoxo A * player. bridge Wo, women can't play bridge as well as men, They haven't the card sense or the gambling instinct. Of course, it's true that a woman has just finessed her way to victory in the most daszling contest known to the world of dummies and grand slams, Yes, Miss Elinor Murdock takes top honors in the individual masters championship of the American Bridge League. She won out by a naif a point over her nearest rival, a man. So the bridge champ now is a woman. And your wife will probably talk back even more vigorously the next time she's your partner. Miss Murdock may have won the championship, but she sure has lost the argument. She has always said, with expert emphasis, that women could not possibly play bridge as well as men. "They haven't the card sense”, she explains, ”or the gambling instinct,” Well, if she's the bridge champion? It's all as puzzling as trying to trump a lead when you haven't got any trumps left, I haven't got any news left and haven't got any time left. So, SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.