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FRIDAY, NOV^BEP 14 r I9LQ
It sort of seems as though this dizzy old world
of ours is on a shooting snree. I am not ^oing to give
you all the details of war and revolution today, but I am
going to get the shooting out of my syste . right away so
that we can hurry along to -leasanter things. Here is a
quick resume of the fire works In tonight’s disratches:-
Out In Indie two have been killed and 17 injured
in a clash between ^olice and railway workers. In Madrid,
over in S~ain the cavalry, charged into a labor demonstration
and cut dov.n 67 men with sabers and killed three.
In Peru, cavalry and machine guns have been rushed
into the copper mining regions of the Andes. Underneath tle
romantic nalm trees of Havana, mounted policemen, armed to the
teeth, are patrolling the streets and martial lew has been
declared. On the other side of the globe, In the province of
Klangsl, Chinese bandits have massacred P000 neorle.
RUSSIA
And here’s e startling news flash. The Associated
Press states that revolt has broken out in Russia. The
Bolsheviks are fighting reesnats who don’t went their land
collectivized, that is, they don’t want it taken over by
the government. The dispatch says the Reds are seizing
the Peasant’s crons. Another c-ble from. Riga, the caoitol
of Latvia, on the Gulf of Finland, tells of fighting on the
Russo-Letvian border. Two villages have been destroyed by
bombardments from an armored train, and a number of reasents
have been executed.
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The other dey the Soviet leaders uncovered what
they called a world wide conspiracy to overthrow Red Russia.
Now, according to the Associated Press the Bolsheviks claim
to have discovered e White Russian rlan to assassinate the
entire Soviet Delegation at Geneva,
JAPAN
Hurrying on to Japan, we find the Prime Minister
in a Tokyo hospital fighting for his life. His name is Yuko
Hamaguchi. He was shot down this morning in a railway stafion.
According to the United Press, a curious thing about the
affair is tha* news photographers were snapping pictures of
the Prime Minister, and accidentally got the whole shooting
on their photographic plates. So an hour later, the newspapers
or "‘okyo we e on sale witn complete pictures of it.
Hamaguchi has been known in recent years as the
strong maxi of Japan* He was responsible for his country
ra*lfying the recent Loudon Naval Treaty, A young Japanese
fanatic shot the Prime Minister and then gave himself up
meekly to the police.
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in Geneva *c h e de leaates x o the D i s
armament Conference have not been
pI a n nin g things in a way that suited o u
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novernment in Washington* The conference
has been ta I k i nr' about a plan to limit
Our Government
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FOOTBALL
Saturday looks like the big day of the year in the
football world. Some of tomorrow's rivalries date back for
nearly 60 years. The Associated Press has sent out a list
of some of the traditional games that arson. The list starts
off with Yale and Princeton who have been rivals since 1873,
Among the other games are Williams vs, Amherst; Wisconsin -
Northwestern; Colgate - Syracuse; Michigan - ' innesota;
Nebraska - Missouri; Chicago vs, Illinois; Dartmouth - Cornell;
Harvard and Holy Cross.
According to the New York Herald Tribune, there are
14 leading teams in the country that are still
undefeated,
or
have only been tied. They are:-- Ford ham. Western Maryland.
Dartmouth, West Point, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Marquette,
Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, Texas Christian, Washington State,
Ut ah and 0 regon.
Yes, and here's the latest news of the Army -
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Navy game.
It is to be played in New
York, and the date
set
Saturday, December ttes 13th.
e /.me r i can college football players
subsidized?
A
lot of our leadina sports
writers have .some rather sensational
remarks t :? s--a.y- on the subject. Joe
, - i I I i am s, in the 3 c r i p p s - H o w ar c! p ao e r s ,
and Arch '.'ard, of the Chicago Tribune,
are among them. If.you want to read a
sizzling article on American f oo tbaI I,
one that every American who is keen about
the game will find mighty fascinating,
ook at this week's Literary
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fear you
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ou another red hot nev/s item. AI s aac
ashdan, of New York, has just won the
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chess tournament, w
xiuol-jii-iiai^Y as runner-up. How's
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INSURANCE
Down in our* American Southwest a big insurance
swindle has been exposed. Ten thousand people in Texas says
the United Press, have lost half a million dollars. Other
people in other stages, too, have been hooked by the scheme,
T e ope ators ot the afiair did a land office business with
a kind of mar•iace
and
birth insurance. People who bought
the policies were usually promised a thousand dollars when they
got married or whey they had a child. Thousands of young people
fell for the swindle. The Post Ofiice authorities have arrested
six of the operators in Forth ’Worth and four in Dallas.
WILD HORSES
r art her west in Texas, the icing of the Wild Mustangs
is now rauncning his oats in a stall like any tame horse, and
I suppose it won’t ce long before they'll be giving him to
fat men to ride on some Dude Ranch* An Associated Press
dispatch from San Angelo, says that he was the last wild horse
in western Texas, His stamping ground was around the foot of
El Capitan Mountain. For fifteen years he roamed the range,
.and he never once had felt the whis+le of a lariat dropping
round that handsome neck.
But this week they decided the King of tne Stallions
should be free and independent no longer* Five cowboys trailed
him for three days and three nights in relays. Finally they
cornered him. He bit the first rope in two. They roped him
again., and there was a struggle over half of the mountain side.
Tne King of the Stallions finally had to give up, and they led
him in. ^hey’re breaking lim now, and soon he’ll be - just
another horse
GRASSHOPPERS
The other evening 1 told you about thousands of
grass.aop ers impaled on cactus spikes down in Arizona, and I
wondered how they got there. Well, I have a couple of letters
here explaining the strange phenomenon. One is from Mr,
Loring of Owego, Hew York, The second letter is from Kenneth
Clough o* Springfieldt Mass. And both of these gentlemen tell
me that it is the butcher birds or shrikes that put the
grasshoppers on the cactus spikes, "These birds have a habit
of hanging up their meat just as you see it in the butcher
shops," says Mr. Clough, "they eat grasshoppe-s, crickets,
other insects and oc^assionally a mouse or two. They let them
han« until they have reached a state where the quarry suits
their taste. Out in Arizona where there are plenty of cactus
spikes, it is only natural that they should use the spikes for
Their butcher shops
LI^KRA^Y
tip in Canada they have built a dam on dry land,
and ha4" certainly does seem like a useless performance.
It is just about the oddest piece of engineering on recoid.
A bund red and forty odd miles north ot Quebec they wanted to
dam the Saguenay River for a big hydro-electric plant. Well,
they built the dam out on dry land, and dumped it into the
river. How? Well, they erected a huge column beside the
river. That was tne darn. They simply stood it on end. One
side was shaped to fit the river bottom. Then they blasted
away part of it at the base, and it tell right into place
across the river - damming the wa^er just the way they wanted
it. The wh le story of how this rax&jutxi&x was done, and two
remarkable pictures of the operation are in this week's
Literary Digest. One of the pictures shows the dam hitting
the water, and it certainly is some splash.
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around down a densely populated hill.
B ui Idin n s piled up in r ^ awnine h a 11
hole. Mccord ino *co the united press, vou
can blame the ancient riomans
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landslides were caused by ancient ^omrn
tunnels
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uatacomtos, in other words. Tiese, tlooued
b'^ recent rains, suddenly caved in.
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According to the New York Evening
World,
the Pan
American airways and the Imperial Airways of
England,
are
joining force? in order to establish a three day passenger
mail service across the Atlantic with just long enough jta
stops at joer’'',.tda and the Azores for passengers to ma*. a
few souvenir postcards.
And speaking of flying boats, the biggest one in
the world, that German DO-X, hopped off on the next leg of
its journey *oday. It started on the flight from England to
Southern France, but according to a late dispatch from the
International News Service the hu, e DO-X has come down in
the Bay of Biscay and has put in at La Rochelle for the night
on account of fog
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(TKe y h av e w h a t
3 a I I their nIhoc!e I Army11. But it
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jnitec' Press, the Model Army has been
■'emoral i zed as a result of the dope habit.
In other words, it has taken to drugs,
r he i.ode I Army is coni landed by General
ren Hsi Shan. He is the genera! who
sstablished a Model Government in the
jrovince of Shansi. And both the army
and the government were models for a long
time. Then the General got mixed up in
China's civil war, and his Model Army
invsc’ed Shantung. Ihere it got into bad
a-'e, and retrected. ..nd now the trouble
is~ a_Lc ■-cur^sr.
is said to be ooiun
NEWS ITETii'.
As I came in here toni:ht I lai^ my sheaf of news
dispatches down for a moment, sued then I saw Frank looking
through them. Who is Frank, Well, Frank K.is the gentleman
of Scottish ancestry who operates the control board here.
M5ay," he said, pointing to one story. "Why isn’t
this Of.e your News Item of the Day?*
Well, why wasn't it, I had pick-d somethi.-ig else,
but F. K. Judgment wasn't so far off. The story he recommended
as the most interesting has a touch of smile and a touch of
pathos. F. K. is a hard boiled Scot, but a warm heart beats
under the sur^a^e of Caledonian
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There is ?. happy ooy in this
councrv toni
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he is
blind.
Out there in the Colorado Ochool tor the
je?T f n o I i nd x. ie v 1 re ail conaratu I at i nq
him, the t e a c her s an u the o the r blind
chi I dr e n.
fhev're savinq, "Ree, [v.ervin, I
tola vou that was a swell storv.”
For Larvin ...ilsn, according
to
The
New York c.un, has won a short story prize.
ever'/ year ror rour years now
the
New York association tor
The
b I i na conducts
a short story con Test r or blina children,
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first prize is a r iftv aollar Liber’cy
bona. ^nd today
The prize
winners were
announcea, . na
the
top honors
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Marvin
Milan, of oolorado. he is sixteen now,
and he was tour years old when an accident
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,ell, l.iarvin worked herd on
chat short
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I'll bet it's a swell story. Anri I’m sending my
congratulations
out
to
Larvin.
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ion hear a lot about how faithtul
a cior can be to his master. but here is
a story from bov/n in Gladstone, Virginia,
about a boon dog named “Red.11 Every day
tor a week he was seen carrying tood
QTT down the road. finally his master
tol lov/ed him to a stone ruarrv. ihere
he tounu a bo I I ie don named “Peten that
had taIlen into a hole forty feet deep,
every uay “ued11, the boon doc , had been
bringing food and dropping it into the
pit. I saw that item in the uew York
evening ielenr?m ana in another part of
the same paper I read a aor storv from
Australia.
^ pet dog named bharlie was
injured in c n a u t om obile accident. his
.jaw v/as broken and most of his teeth were
knocked out. 3o his aster hirea a
dent a. I surgeon to make a special plate
of t | se teeth tor bharlie a,nd he uses
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gnaw bones just ns succeosi ul I y
as he u i ci v/ i th his original tee ch .
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Judge otein, out in Detroit, was a telegraph
operator once upon a time. The Associated Press tells us
that a telegrapher by the name of Christopher Denny was
brought before Judge Stein on a minor charge.
“So, you’re a telegrach operator," said the judrre.
"Well, let’s see what you know. Take that pencil and tap out
a messa e to me on the desk. Tap out one tell, me what to do
with your caae,’’
"P-l-e-a-
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1-e-t m-e g-o," tapped the prisoner.
Judge ’tein took his gavel ind tapped out four words
that ended the trial. Those four words were "G-e-t o-u-t o-f
h-e-r-e."
Well, I think I’ll take my cue from that prisoner
and tap out a short news dispatch to all of you who are
lis*ening in.
"T-h-a-t-s a-1-1 t-h-e n-e-w-s t-o-n-i-t-e."
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LOiiG UNTIL
TOMORROW.