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STAPS
Tonight is the night of nights.
If you want to see a grand gale distlay of celestial
fireworks absolutely free of charge, just get out your old
grey bonnet and v.re^
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shawl about your shoulders end watch
the sky tonight between midnight end dawn. It*s foggy here,
but probably it's clear where you ere. According to all the
signs and rrornostications so the astronomers tell us th.s
is the ni^ht when the darkness is to be shot with fleshes of
light as shooting stars chase each other across the sky. Rajte,
if they show up.
And while we are waiting for those star flashes,
here are o few news flashes.
BLACK TO!.'
The first is about a damage suit involving two
nations. Forty million dollars were at stake. It took
Iourteen years to settle it. Do you recoil the Black Tom
explosion in New York harbor beck in July, 1916? That was
in tie days when even a tire blow-out was blamed on the
Ks&Ier*s sriea,
Anyhov., the Black Tom was one of the worst ammunition
explosions in history. It hardened in northern New Jersey.
One terrific blest after another shook the locality for hours.
Tons of dynamite, shrapnel, end T.N.T. turned northern Jersey
into e battle field. Warehouses, whole trains of freight cars
and homes were blown to smithereens. (JennaD agents were
accused.
But now, according to the New York Evening World,
a fr'ixed Claims Commission in Jiamburg, Germany, a commission
made up of both Americans end Germens, has announced that there
is absolutely no rroof that the German government was responsible
either for this or for that other explosion at Mngsland, New
Jersey, th^t sene ye r.
Arm then un neer the city of Syracuse,New York, s
lot of motorists are getting free gasoline these days. There
is a hole in the ground with a steady flow of gasoline coming
from it. More than £00,0 0 gallons have been taken out of the
hole by city officials for nurroses of safety end it still
flows. The v.hole thing is a mystery. One theory is that
tanks at Syracuse filling st-tions ere leaking.
That may be a theory but this iK next is e fact.
FOOTBAIL
j-herts isn’t as much weening end wailing in
Tigertown tonight as the experts nredicted. True, the
bulldog is on his way north licking his chops. But he
had a close shave. As you no doubt have heard that treditio^ _
game between Princeton end Yale ended with the score of 10 to 7
in frvor of Yale,
Fordham, undefeated for two years, lost this after
noon to those rampant Irishmen fro Celifornie. I mean St.
Mary's. That's a shock to New Yorkers.
No doubt you have heard about Dartmouth, Holy Cross,
Army and Michigan winning - and all the other scorer.
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1 i - is the season of the yer r
'•■'he n roofbr II, of course, is the ore? x bip
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boxer, maybe a. second bennv Leonard,
but last n i ohx Tony Oanzon/aer i , who
used xo be a bootblack down i n Nevi On.I eans
kn oc ;c sc. h i t
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beaten c . r m p 1 o n t no v; h a s a r e c o r d x o r
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title b v k n o c k i n c; o u t o at mm v L a n d e I I in
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a chance, u i ci the trick in exactly sixtv
six seconds. -dd to that the tact that
Sinner was champion on Iv tour months, and
everyth! nr certainly was short rnci snanpv.
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i h i s e e k 1 © Literary u i q e s t carries a
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gammon cuestion in^calm, analvtic wav.
Nevertheless, there's n u i t e
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bit o f
excitement in the article. The digest
quotes uulian oerome, writing in vanity
hair, and he says that not even contract
bridge is such a cost getter as backgammon.
He rages against the lazy players, mostly
women, who take hours in arranging the
board; and t he cup ra 111 er who drives
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I ina t he dice in the cup tor hours,
i h © n t h er e a r e the slow pi ay er a n d t he
fast p|aver, also the cocked dice shooter
who rolls the dice over on the checkers,
or oft the bo are, or o ti t he table. There
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'7TIKINS
You 'nrobably have reed e lot about that trip Sir
Hubert Wilkins is going to make to the Worth ^ole in a
submarine next year. Well, the New York Mirror says a woman
is going, Lady Wilkins. She is to be the only one. Lady
Wilkins announces that she is to be in charge of the cook's
gallery. Shefs busy practicing for the expedition by cooking
flan jacks and other things that her husband and his crew are
likely to went when they are groping under the ice fields of
the Polar Sea.
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• n ci h e r e 1 s one a b o u t a n o t h a r
r d v e n c u n o u s wo in an, a flash! n a e d
i- r e n c h n i r I whose lire story is wilder
than nne wildest fiction. In the New
York tveninr host, Louis Sherwin, the
Roving Keporter, tells about iitayna.
ihatTs the name she goes bv, her real
name is unknown,
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iitayna says she has a peculiar
amusement. She likes t o sh oc k b ar-
fa a r i a n s
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v te I I i ng t hem the truth about
the manners and habits at civilized
people, ltTs great sport, she says,
to 'cell A,sit Khan the Baluchi, or
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h w e - y o t h e S h a n a bo u t t h e wa y p e o p I e
behave at gay parties almost anywhere
in Europe or America, and then to see
how baalv Asif Khan and Shwe-yo are
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hooked.
|n a fIv i ng t o 11 r ot au rope
s e v e r a I vears ago, i h n. p p e n e d c o i u n
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across this same daredevil, unconventional Titeyna and she
told me all about a trir she had just made. it was a tour
deep into the Sahara, with one lone companion. And that
companion was a Mohammedan holy man, the Grand Mufti of
Morocco.
We1v e pot a few noli ties 1 items from the other side
of the uond.
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3 ome t ing else that's n ew, and t his t ime
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11 a I i an Jev/s , says the associated Press
are being bro ught under the direct control
o f t he h a s c i s t
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dec r e e just
issued directed that
a
council of rabbis
oe formed, and this counci la is to mm
'‘epresent the various Jewish communit
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t s. [ y in their c! e a ! i n g s w i t h t he
: overnr.ien'c
in the decree ancient rights
Df the Jews have been guaranteed, rights
granted centuries ago with the permission
Df the Pope. In some cases these ancient I
■> j ghts allow the Jews to form separate
nunicipa!ities and impose their own taxes,
.eac'ers of the Italian Jews have telegraphed
to ,V.usso I in
them to a T
saving the new decree suits
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accord inc; to the associated tress, the
Soviets b e a a n v, h a t t n e y call u t e n d a v s
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defense.11 This is, fro rn n o w u n t i 1
November 25th the Kussians vn 1 I go through
the rou
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have these "ten days of defenseH every
\/ear , bu t this t i me th er e 1 s a lot of
exoitemeni behind it all.
The
Moscow
newspapers are ru II of v/ar scare, and
are runninn streamer headlines about the
supposed intention or the western p o we r s it?
invaue^e .n.issia, tel 1.4-n:
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FAST 'VARSHir
In Fr£.'nce, they’ve ju. t launched the fejteet
warship in the world. A nev; destroyer for the French navy
named the Bj.(vt>n, with engines of 66,000 horsepower that can
send it 7ir ing over the ocean at 2? knots an hour. The
United Press says there isn’t another ship in any navy under
the sun that can touch it for speed, '.Veil, maybe there isn’t
now, but if I know Uncle Sam and John Bull,
I’ll be dollars
to doughnuts it won’t be long before there wi11 be.
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o er t a i n I y st an d 3 o u t as the we i r d e vS t.
11 1 s a ghost stop jj an d I \m aw and i ng it
cne distinction of 3±gta=d-irr^ y-n— t-rm News
Item of the uay.
Cver in 1n gI and ther e ® s a c om poser
of music who has the high-sounding n ame
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f Darewski. That makes us think of
Daderewsk i and highbrow concerts. But
this Darewski composes popular songs.
-!e 1 s a jazz composer and one of the top
io to her s along London's Tin Pan
Alley.
Smong Darewski rs long list of compositions
some are wor I c! f amous .
He wrot e the song
that had everybody stuttering. I mean,
<-k-k-Katie. You remember.-- i ' II be
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composed TTRazzle Dazzle" and "Whispering11
Well, last night, according to the
s s o ciat e d V ress. Dare ws ki was at U o v e nx
3arden Cpera House , and ne was conouc t i ng
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me archesma for a jazz dancing act. On
tne stage tne dancers were stepping along
to tne measures of a syncopated modern
r a 1 t z . 0 ar ewsk i w as be at i n g the t i rn e
with a jazzy swing, T he n he s aw t he
f eI !ow at the kettle dryms starin g « The
dr umrne r hac! his ey es on the stage as
though he saw something to frighten him.
Jarewski looked, and his eyes began to
oop. Above the dancers a vague ajqoarition
floated, and slowly it became clear. It
was the bright, shimmering figure of a
warrior with a glistening helmet and a
so ear. And jarewski recognized it as
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the
egend ary hero who appears
in several of the profoundest and longest
Doeras of the great composer Wagner. And
*/h i I e the band continued the jazzy waltz,
that a' ast f >3 i egf r i ed f 1 oated s i ow I y
across the s t age , an o o i s a,p p e ar e d .
Darewski collapsed. & Sank into a
r. The dancers stopped
dancing, and the orchestra stopped playing
ivervbody stcred at the composer, who sat
there oa
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was ill* -cut he told what he had witnessed. Noboby had seen
the a- ~arition, nobody but the drum nlayer and Darewski.
We1!, there’s one worried musician in England today.
Darewski has an idea that the ghost of Siegfried appeared
before him as a nrotest against the age of jazz and blues.
Maybe Wagner sent the snook of his great hero to reproach
Darewski for writing E-E-Estie, When the M-Tioon shines over
the C-cow shed.
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Out
at bridpeport, Uebraska, They
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an d U a n d i d a t e
s ..ebb, democrat, had exactly the same
e number of votes.
i he election officials
? were puzzled, natural ly. ihen they got
a ;a deck of cards, and pave it
to the two
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settle it
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that way. do, the candidates cut t he
deck. ihe Democrat won, and was given
the certir i cate of office. but now the
heDu b ! i can sf ys 1
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was all wr onp , and
that he Ts noing
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CATS
All of us have met the irate chap who hoists his
window at two oTclock in the morning and fire' a boot or
a milk bottle at a tom cat on the back fence. Well, there’s
a fellow here in New York who has his back arched end his fur
ur over the way people are treating cats. He is Bobby Cole,
the nerembuleting cat soecirlist for the American Society
for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. And he ai asserts
categorically in the New vork Telegram, that the cats are
not getting credit for all their feline virtues.
"Then neorile say cats are selfish and hard-boiled
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and faithless and quarrelsome, like as not it’s themselves
they’re talking about. Peonle just use cats to blame their
own faults on,” says this famous cstologist.
"I've known cats that wouldn’t leave the side of
a sick person, who was their friend, until that ^eraon
recovered.”
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a farmer ou 1; in 0h i o who hadn't been
to town for nigh onto 2C years. But
curiosity got the better of him. So he
got outythat there gosh-danged old buggy
and hitched up the old gray mare, and
drove right into town. Yes sir, and when
he come to Iviain Street he found a lot of
funny new-fangled gimeracks, seen as
traffic lights and all that sorter thing.
But was he bothered b’' them? No, by
gum. He jes
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spring buggy of his right through them
there red traffic lights. And when he
come to a No U-Turn sign he said "giddap"
cracked the old buggy whip, swung right
around it, and hitched the old mare to a
fireplug! Yes sirree, them city slickers
smf them there new-fangled automobiles,
they never saw nuthin like it before.
Good for you. Si, and I hope they
lad the right brand of chewin' terbaccer
n that cigar store.
■pll that o i tchfork,fulI of news
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wish, by heck, that I could get in one
of t hem there gosh-dinged old buggies
myself, and crack my whip, and drive
past all these red traffic lights -■h—S:
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on 5th Avenue on my w ay home t onig ht.
But
guess
3 o -1 o n g
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ca in Tt be done.