- ^Uiii Odiid 9/21/Sg Good Evening, Everybody: $t seems that the beautiful land of Evangeline was not the only part of Canada to suffer from those storms. A special story in the Montreal Ctar from Quebec brings the news that the peninsular of Gaspe was also devastated by a furious gale. In fact, the Star described it as one of the most disastrous storms in the history of the Province of Quebec. This will have special significance to fishing fans in the U.b.A.^ a]_2. of whom have either angled or hope to angle some day in the lovely rivers and streams of Gaspe. Fishing craft were destroyed, boat houses were swept away, livestock carried off. Barges were suniv at their moorings, ’wharfes v/ere carried away. Retaining walls weie battered. In some parts of the peninsular everything that was not nailed down was swept away. - -()- - 1he news from Paris seems to indicate that France will be due for a change of government soon. A cable to the New york Sun reports that it is generally anticipated that the present Herriot cabinet v/ill not last much beyond November. At that time Parliament v/ill be in session again. France is faced with a deficit in its budget of two hundred and eighty million dollars. This, it is expected, v/ill make the downfall of Mr. Harriotts cabinet inevitable. nUjblA Wot only Germany, but Soviet Russia is going to boycott the Y.orld Disarmament Conference at Geneva. When the steering committee of the conference convened today, there were no delegates from Germany. Chairman Arthur Henderson of Great Britain also informed the cotamittee that the Russians have decided not to send any representatives. At least not until the conference has made decisions which promise real disarmament. iiaUDl There*s another ghost story in today*s news. This one, too, comes from Pennsylvania. A physician of the town of Paoli, in the Keystone state, was walking home last night, when a shadowy figure came flying by on horseback^ It passed the Doctor on the Darby Hoad a mile south of the Lancaster Pyke. What astonished the doctor is that the rider was clothed in a long blue military jacket, the tails of which flared out in the wind. An old-fashioned saber swung at his side. V/hat was still more eerie is that the pounding hoofs of the horse made no sound whatsoever. Suddenly it came lo a stop, and just as suddenly it vanished from sight. It was then recalled that there is a historical ghost in Paoli. It rides evory^»i*h>fc eve of the /V. anniversary of what historians call the Paoli massacre. That was the fifrht'^eSfthe American ^evolution in which a A large force of British and Hessians fell unexpectedly upon ra^the famous Mad Antony Vvayne and his Chester County militia. Fifty Americans perished at the end of the bayonet. A story in the Pittsburgh Press relates that according to the legend the ghostly horseman resents people approaching. If you happen to be in Paoli, Pennsylvania, and see the Paoli ghost and -‘A , nd. out t.o th the mystical cavalier ‘f ~ * A is likely to take off his head and hand it to you. fhe person who receives the head dies the following year. The witness of this spectacle last night is ^•br. Antony '»ayne Baugh. He’s not only a thoroughly reputable physician, he’s a teetotaler. Dr. Baugh adds that the rider did not try to hand him his head. GtJL aiuilrl It looks as though s tremendous shipment of grain were going out from Canada during the next few days. A dispatch to the Brooklyn limes relates that thirtfcr-three vessels are now loading in the Port of Montreal. In the past twenty-four hours seven Lake ships freighted with wheat came down the St. Lawrence River to transfer their cargo. In addition to this, twenty-three tramp steamers have been chartered to carry grain out of Montreal. The total amount received in the Canadian port this year is nearly seventy- four million bushels^ This is open season for baseball prophecies. Experts are busy comparing the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees and doping out which will vin the World Series % next week. % As far as I can make out from reading all the baseball professors1 opinions^ the conclusion to be drawn is something like this: On one hand the Cubs are sure to win. On the other hand, it is obvious to any sane observer * that the Yankees cannot lose. At any rate, itTs sure to be an exciting series. The rivalry between dev/ York and Chicago is as keen today as it Cubs used to meet the Giants to the accompaniment of pitched battles on the fielo and in the bleachers. RAILROADS As oredicted the other day, a dictatorship has just been recommended for the railways of Canada. The Royal Com­ mission made public its report today. After nine months1 invest! gation the commission urges that a board of three members with absolute oowers shall henceforth run the Dominion railroads, both the orivately owned Canadian Pacific, the world-famous C.P.R and the publicly, frovernm^nt-owned Canadian National. This means that the two roads, instead of competing, must coonerate. A mild bombshell was thrown into Tammany ranks in New York City this morning. Tammany, you may recall, wanted to hold an election for mayor to succeed the festive Jimmie Walker, and to renominate Jimmie himself. Partisans of Acting Mayor Joe McKee asked the courts to declare this illegal. And this morning the Supreme Court ?ave the decisic to Judge McKee. ) According to this decision the next election fo1” Mayor in -New York cannot be held until 1933. Consequently Judge McKee holds his job, in which he^ already made quite a spectacular record in these few short weeks — and he’ll hold it until January 1, 1934. That seems to nut the kibosh on ex- Mayor Jimmie’s hone for any immediate vindication by the people WISCONSIN There has been quite an upheaval in the Middlewestern political world. (^For the first time in thirty-two years the regular Republicans wrenched the control of the—eta&e away from i A / the LaFollette family. The nomination for the governorship was won away from Governor Phillip LaFollette, younger son of the late Senator Fighting Bob. uis successful rival is none other than Walter Kohler, the bathtub king/and a charming gentleman. A dispatch to the Buffalo Evening News relates further that Senator Blaine, a LaFollette man, was defeated for renomina­ tion, The conoueror is a young editor named John Chappie. Editor Chanple had made an interesting campaign touring the state in a battered old car, talking about what he called the LaFollette racket. At any rate, the upshot seems to be that good old Wisconsin of the Wisconsin primaries has had enough LaFoi1ette in ■’ts d-?et for the time being. MJRRAY Our nicturesque friend. Alfalfa Bill Murray, is on the waroath again, with his walrus mustaches waving in the breeze. The Oklahoma Governor today pasted a decree of martial lav/ on the Oklahoma City oil field. It affects the entire field except private residences. He has taken this step because there has been what amounts to an insurrection against his determination to curtail the oroduction of oil in Oklahoma^) Alfalfa Bill issued a warning that any attempt of oil field workers, lawyers, or any­ body else, to interfere with military control will be stonoed by armed troons. Few people realize the extent to which Uncle Sam competes with private industry in his own country. A committee of the House of Hepresentatives has been investigating this matter. The Chairman of the committee announced today "V. s. that this coraoetition on the part of the Uni ted--States- A government costs the country^ industries some five hundred million dollars a £ year. The government, it seems, is in the dairy business. It conducts cafeterias, food stores, clothing stores, and other concerns. s f^s ,, letters Two letters that reached me in the mail recently form an interesting contrast. One of them is evidently from a Reoublican. he says: "You almost amused me tonight by saying »I am non-nartisan on the ainT" Then he asks ironically: "Is that what you call it?" He then proceeds to accuse me of being a rampant Democrat. Another letter from an anti-Hooverite of Newark, N.J., accuses me of being a Hoover partisan and putting out what he calls Republican deceotion, G.Q.P. hocus pocus. So there vou are. As the London cockney says:- "You pays 3rour money and you takes vour choice." This reminds me somewhat of the old Aesop Fable of the aged man with his two sons and the donkey, Th^y were so zealous trying to olease all their critics that they finished by drowning in the river they and the donkey. Anyhow, if you think Ifm prejudiced, just forget it if you can -- and I'll do my level best to oe neutral which means of course, that I’ll satisfy neither side-* STOjH Herefs a story that came 1n my mail today. An English guest in the world-famed Waldorf-Astoria Hot el was asking a clerk for some examples of American stories. The clerk replied that he couldn* t think of anv stories, but he propounded a conundrum to the Englishman, and the conundrum was thiss- My mother gave birth to a child. It was neither my brother nor my sister. Who was it? The truest,after deep contemplation, reolied: "I jolly well give It uo. Who was it?” And the clerk renl 1 ed: nIt was me.n That’s the way he said it, according to the varn. The Englishman memorized it, and this is the way he told it to a friend when be got back to England: nT say, old chap. X heard a jolly conundrum in America, My mother rave birth to a child. It was nyther me brother nor me sister. Who was the little blighter?0 Of course Ms friend said he didn't know, t'Ha ha,*1 guffawed the Englishman, "That's one on you, as they say in the States, Ha ha ha. It was the clerk in l< the Waldorf Hotel, CUiUj i.1 The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported today that employment in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania increased ten and a half per cent from July to August. Pay rolls, on the other hand, increased almost twenty per cent. interesting survey of the taxes that have been plastered on the WHial motor cars has been compiled by Alfred Reeves, Vice-President of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Mr, Reeves points out that your car is now the most highly taxed piece of property in the country. It is taxed twenty per cent of its average annual value during its seven year life. And thatfs something worth thinking about. % There seems to be substaace to the reports that the hoarding of money in the United States has stopped. The Federal Reserve Board announces that savings are coming out of hoarding in substantial quantities. This can be by the government U - . S judged/by bw * amount of money in circulation. The A. A Federal Reserve Board says that between July 6th and the end of August some eighty-five million dollars returned into circulation^ ^ SQUIRREL Here1s another one of those squirrel stories from Ohio. To be precise, this one comes from the pages of the Cleve­ land Press. A Cleveland gentleman named Reynolds shot his first squirrel yesterday. ae out the animal in his back pocket. Then he went hunting for more squirrels, and was biding behind a tree to soot them. Another hunter saw the tail of the dead squirrel protruding from Mr, Reynold1s oocket, but did not see Mr. Reynolds. The other hunter fired and potted Mr. Reynolds in the southern exoosn^e, and out him in the hosnital. T don1^ quite know what the moral of that story is. Tail lights for 0h*o hunters, I suppose. Trihiiounij nllUl Xt seems »«re cion^t need, to look as far away as Europe for treasure hunts. This very day in the waters of the Delaware, two modern ships are criising in a search for Spanish pieces of eight. So says a dispatch in the Baltimore Evening Sun. These ships are looking for the wreck of a British sloop of war which went down on May 31, 1798. She carried ten million dollars in Spanish gold. This was the loot of two Spanish galleons v/hich she had captured after i ' «« leaving the nest Indies. The place where she was sunk is near the quiet little fishing village of Lewl>s, Delaware. Treasure hunters have been looking for her remains for one hundr d and twenty-seven years. Recently an old map was discovered which filled the with A A new hopes. It is believed to be the oldest chart in existence^ i of hrrr* Delaware Bay, amd—braatovaimr. It was found in the archives of the British Admiralty. The boats now hunting tor this old treasure laden ’wreck belong to a Baltimore company. have serious hopes of finding^the -4reaT«»rp. 0 Their sponsors PRINCE A ten-year-old lad figured orominently in the headlines today- His travels, his clothes, his ideas are being described as prominently as if he were a grown-up, in fact far more Drominen,,•1 y than if he were a learned mao. The boy is the youn*? Crown Prince Michael of Roumania. He arrived in Paris last nivht On his way to school in England. They dragged little Mike out of bed to face a cohort of renorters, * though it was long past the royal bedtime. And it may be your royal bedtime — so maybe I1d better say — SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW. 4