Li. ,Tt SUNOCO - WKD., july 29 1 X936 mussoldti Loyal Italians in many American cities are drinking an extra beaker of vino rosso today with maybe an additional strega or two. For this is the birthday of II Duce( Benito Mussolini. The man of many frowns - is fifty-three years old. The celebration of his anniversary will be strictly confined to Fascisti outside of Italy* No birthday candles s are being lit in the Chigi Palace. For, Italy*s Premier not only abstained from celebrating today, but all his loyal subjects were likewise foroidden to take any notice of the occasion. In fact, it is verboten to mention Ms anniversary in any Italian newspaper* He does not acknowledge birthdays any more. Is it vanity? On the contrary, it*s political p strategy. The keynote of Fascism© is Giovinezza - youth. A dictator must be young, or at any rate believed to be young. So the Black Shirt leader guards the secret of his age as jealously as a screen star. How does he carry his fifty-three years? This one. 1935-6 has been tough politically, and personally Politically, MUSSOLINI - 2 the war in Africa, his diplomatic war in Europe, his fight against sanctions, and his present fight for recognition of his Ethiopian conquest -- a continual fight, in the privacy of his home he has had to worry over the severe illness of his little seven year old daughter, Anna Maria. But the war is won; sanctions are dead; and Little Anna Maria has completely recovered. So there*s cheer in the heart of Papa Mussolini on his 53rd Birthday. Consequently, they say, he's relaxing. The celebrated, scowl you see so often in the newsreels is being replaced by a smile. He is taking time oft from his huge study in the "Kesgee1* Palace, to have a little time with his family. And he passes hours flying, fencing, riding, and driving his speedy automobile over Italy's highways where they say he slows down to eighty miles an hour on the curves. Physically. Italy’s fifty-three year old ruler is in the pink. Sleeps well, apparently has as much energy as in the daye when a hundred thousand Black Shirts marched on Rome He isn’t celebrating. But, he received a birthday MUSSOLINI - 3 present in the shape of good news from Addis Ababa. An army highway xx that runs from the north of Addis to Dessye. It was under the command of Averra Kassa* son of the Emperor^ War A Minister. But a force of Italian 'soldiers on recoimoisance caught them in the act, Joined in battle,, and drove them off leaving eleven hundred Ethiopians dead on1 the field. The ink was^t dry on that dispatch before news came.of another engagement. This time south of Addis. The official report describes the aggressors as brigands. Whatever they were, theyAwere repulsed with heavy losses. for the new Locarno conference, the impending discussion between John Bull, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy. On this point Mussolini also had his way, prevailing upon Great Britain, France of two thousand Ethiopians had swooped down on the imperial For the rest, Mussolini passed his birthday preparing which they hadn’t originally intended to do. A14r Paris y reluotawtt-though-tho^'>-«gT' SPAIN In Spain tonight the Red Government aeeme to be slightly on top. However, the appointment of a new commander- in-chief for the Loyal troops is significant. It gives us at least a hint of how critical the situation is. Another ominous circumstance is that the outgoing generalissimo held his job only a few days. The new leader, who replaces General Jose Riqualme, is General Bernal, He was so appointed after General Costello, the Minister of War paid a visit to the front at Guadarrama. General Riqualme is not "bounced out slides into the office of Director of Spscfc Public Security. We can visualize the rest of the Spanish scene as a number of Rebel strongholds beleaguered by bombarding government armies, nevertheless, if the Loyal forces were as triumphant as the government communications claim, it would hardly have been necessary to appoint that new commander-in-chief. Reports tell of rebel planes shot down and a government submarine sunk by sky attack SPAIN - 2 "here ia confirmatitm of the report that American property has been confiscated in Barcelona. In talcing over all the factoriea in that great industrial city, the red government forces seized funds belonging to General Motors, also to the Pord Corporation, deposited in three Barcelona "banks* The government*s officers have also confiscated all the finished passenger cars at the plaints. And, the American companies involved are complaining to the State Department in Washington about it. The dispatches also verified the report that an American woman has been sancfaejt wounded; a Mrs. Fernando Gallardo, daughter of a newspaper publisher of Tampa, Florida. She became a casualty during the fighting in the Guadarrama Mountains. We don’t know yet how serious her injuries are, but she was moved to the American Bmbassy in Madrid. The Americans did not get away from Madrid today as had been expected. And the city of Oviedo is now mentioned as a new danger spot for marooned Americans* STORM Life in the Caribbean this week seems to be just one dam storm after another. Uncle Sam’s hurricane service is working overtime issuing as warnings to Floridians to board up tneir windows, fasten down anything that’s loose, and glue on tileir whiskers. So far all the warnings have been unnecessary. The storm that was on its way yesterday blew itself out pretty much at sea and did no damage. It struck Everglade City but found the residents all prepared, boarded up, and ready for anything. And- only a fringe of the oig wind lashed at Miami. -- 0 -- There’s still concern over a group of fishermen on the Coral Islets just south of the mainland. These bits of land are barely above high water level. So it is feared the hurricane may have been strong enough to sweep them off with the roaring waves. Now - there’s another potential hurricane on its way to the West coast. The government sent out warnings to all Ships and to all people living within reach of high tide, -he latest report had the revolving storm moving northwest. MILLAR The dead hand of a humorous millionaire is stirring up an amusing hubbuh in the fair and hustling City of Toronto. In fact, all Canada and quite a number of people in these United States have been observing with amusement the race to produce babies which that millionaire^ quaint Last Will and Testament iaril precipitated. The race is^in its last lap^nd there are strong chances that it may finish in the lower courts of Toronto or possibly even in the high court at Ottowa. The late Charles Vance Millar, in his working hours was a famous and highly successful lawyer. But he wasn’t working at that. He was busily engaged^being Canada’s most eminent^oker. He was fond of sport, fond of a laugh. mattei1 is believed that he made a considerable portion of his millions at the racetrack. But that’s probably one of the apocryphal legends |V that grow up around rich sportsmen. £ My own racing friends tell me that nobody ever, made a fortune betting on the ponies not In all the Lord knows how many thousand years that men have raced horses against each other for sport and a bit of worldly goods on, the side. MILLAR - 2 However he made his millions, Millar had them. Outside of racing, one of his favorite amusement was drawing up Wills. One day he would leave thousands of dollars to some friend or maybe,somebody who was not a friend, fle would then send a carbon copy of that Will to the beneficiary. .The next day he would draw up another one, leaving l^rge to somebody else. But one day he joked once too often. He drew up a Testament with three jocose clauses. One of them left all his brewery and distilling stock to a prominent Canadian prohibitionist. Jhere was a string tied to this gift. The condition was that the prohibitionist gentleman must not give away or otherwise dispose of those sinful shares. What was the poor blue-ribboner to do? On one side his job and his famous principles. On the other side a handsome income of many thousand dollars a year. What did he do? He threw up his prohibitionist job and took the millions. Another victim of that same Will was a prominent churchman who had spent years of his life trying to put down gambling. To him Charlie Millar left h all his shares in the Ontario J^ey Club. The iw reverend gentleman resigned from MILLAR - Z if his pulpit and took the stoek. It was not until he had given up his occupation that he discovered what Charlie Millar had dona to him. £x For those shares in the Jokey Club, though worth a lot of money, paid no dividends. So the Reverend was minus both job and income. The third joke in that Will concerned race suicide. With ■ i SI this Charlie Millar, himself a determined bachelor, left half a million dollars to the Toronto woman who bore the largest number of children in the ten years following his death. * This Will, as Ifve mentioned, he intended as a joke, intending to revoke it eventually and make another one. . But before he could cancel it. he up and died, died on October-* Thirty-First, Nineteen Twenty-six, Ever since then the race has beien on* And at this present moment sever 'a\----- N first under the wire Toronto ladies are vicing with each other to I Incidentally, when one thiUts of large Canadian families, one necessarily thinks of the Dionnes. £The Dlobnes of**eouvs. do not live ito Toronto.). The principal candidates are a lady who says she She*s a little woman, not much bigger than 1 t: I i ^ I'i rll Hr has sixteen children. MILLAR - 4 a midget. She declares twelve of the sixteen were born since the death of Charles Vance Millar. But there*s a fly in that little lady*s ointment, as she omitted the little formality of obtaining birth certificates for three of those children who were ^ill-born. Her closest competitor has a family of seventeen. Of those, eleven were born since October, Nineteen Twenty-six. But some of those sh^ also^ failed to register at the bureau of vital statistics. That leaves it up to a third candidate, who has ten, all of them born in the required time, all of them registered. But a dark horse entry is coming down the home stretchl a woman who had. nine tab babies in ten years. I and at the present moment is hopeful and prayerfully awaiting the arrival of twins.”^So, there's excitement on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario."^Some irrevereraj souls are sinfully betting on the outcome of this unique marathon. i ! life guards I’ve a bit of sad newa tq ? young ladies who like to go down to the seashore, whether l^or..swimming or other purposes. If they don’t leave the life guards^dUone they’re going to be punished . So far this cruel prohibition applies only to Ocean City, New Jersey. But the condition it is intended, to stop prevails pretty much everywhere* In Ocean City, as at other beaches, the tall, bronzed forms of the young life-savers gather sweet young things around them like flies around a honey pc t. All of which brings grey-hairs to the whiskers of the chiefs of the beach patrol. The life savers haven’t got their minds on life saving. The chiefs have tried punish­ ing the life guards, suspending them from duty without pay* But that demoralizes the force. So now the authorities of the Jersey resort are going to1 take it out on the gals* Thej 'll be sent to ha jail if they don’t let the life guards alone. The girls will have to confine their attentions to the narrow- should ered . sunken-chested clerks on vacation* SPORTS W>len tlle pi0Uft P^tifB of the Olympic Conmittee , dropped the beautiful Eleanor, they explained they were doing it for the good 0f the team. They said if they had overlooked the tacchic adventure of that young Venus of the waters, they would have endangered the discipline, the morale, of the other athletes under their paternal supervision. But somehow their stem paternal policy seems to have missed fire... We learn today that soiBe of the remaining, members of the team were far from intimidated by the rigors meted out to the swimming aphrodite, A couple of boxers appear to have sought sweet dalliance with the gay life of Berlin, Maybe just wanted to see what it was like to train on that gaseous brew called Weissbier, Two seidels of that are enough to make any normal person feel that he is swallowing the HIEDESOURG, But, the Berliners like it and if you can stand it, it*s not bad, with little hot sausages. Whatever their tipple, those two hoxers have now- felt the « axe on their heads, the sharp, cruel executioner's axe swung by Mr. Avery hrundage who took umbrage. The V SPORTS - 2 pufiiliets were put ou a train ^ th(Snce conducta3 tQ ^ liner k/^KAT AN, on wMch they are now sailing for house — seeing Eleanor Holm, Their substitutes, it is explained, wil.i box in their place. If this keep© up. Uncle Sam. will enter the arena represented entirely by a team of subs, Fot suds — subs* There' s si gr.ashwg of teeth anor.g the Detroit Tigers tec ay. rot secai:sc the team is at the bottom of the first d I t i ci cr. either — rhich it is. It was ever an evan more hare .and pracaatie natter. It’s a tale that I hardly knew new to tell tears in my Toiee* It started with an invitation. Mickey Cochrane’s '3J3 boys were asked tc ce guests at a banquet, a banquet of the Autorstiie r eal ers ’ Association, 'Mow personaliy, I can’t find It in my heart to blase Mickey’s athletes for dodging any banquet, I dodge ther. all the time. Of all the dreary pleasures in life banquets, are tops., * generally. And on that most of the letruit ball players eTid mtly agree. They stayed away from the func*i :r in large numbers. Only six attended, Howerer, those that went had a surprise, o + those sis: fo.nd at his plate a handsoosely embossed mm ©sverepe.. Fnsi ipaced each found inside a piece of paper which entitled sir t: a brand-ner, span king. with-aU-the-mod err^gad gets au 11 r c b i i e ,* T« , iatt..* -.he glee ct 'h*' TIGERS - 2 for practise th.is morning waving tho&e autortio'bile certificates? The lucky fellows were Schoolboy Rowe, Goose Gcslin, Xarvin Owen, Gerald Walker, Jack Bums, and Salty rarker. And can you imagine the feelings, the chagrin, the mortification of those who did not attend, and ' ccnsequa-.tl: rn> KCT receive the gift of a brand-new-spanking mod err. 193 "’ automobile. And among those who didn’t attend liras Hank Greenbtfrg pride of the Brcnx. Ci Yci — and. 3 C i:rc- TOMORHOV/