W ..... ” ■ V ; W‘Wi _ g ,hs. . Th« during the last few months. ^The production of electfical energy consumedelaiaBedj Is an important index of 0 business activityj J.a&ULL ^he Chicago prosecutor today telephoned the police a* Toronto, Candda, asking them to arrest Martin Insull, the brother or Samuel Insull. Later in the day the prosecutor took an airplane and flew to Toronto in order to bring Mr. Insull back to the States. A dispatch from Paris where Samuel Insull has been A, living since the crash vp of his two billion dollar concern, • * YW reports that he has disappeared his hotel. Reporters have A been unable to find any trace of Samuel Insull* a FOREST. FIRES Forest fires are ragins in Oregon. A report to the Nashville Tennessean states that four toms and six hamlets have been wiped right out. Villages, logging camps, and ranches are encircled by a furnace of trees. People fleeing from the flames have taken refuge in streams to escape the streamers of fire booming through the treetons. The dispatch adds that other towns are threatened. The railroad tanning the territory has been cut off, and a locomotive and numerous logging engines have been melted to twisted scraps of steel. i-UHIQ Americans living in Tokio are worried over ttw relations /\ between Japan and Uncle Sam. Ihey hope the^explanatlon issued by the State Department has cleared matters up. A to2i2a.u^ A dispatch to tn^ Detroit Newsthat Americans in Japan are more sympathetic toxward the program of the MikadoTs government in Northern Asia than toward their countrymen at home. At the same time they do not consider the actions of the Japanese Army since September, 1951, justified. They believe the most important phase of the Manchurian question has been the struggle between the Japanese government and the army. FOOCHOW More news cropped up today to worry the authorities at Tokio. A fresh outburst of anti-Japanese agitation is A reported from Foochow, a city on the Chinese coast in the proYince of Fukien. Officials of the Japanese Legation at Shanghai way there are a thousand Japanese residents in Foochow^ no Japanese gunboats thereto protect them. A A*. - SPAIN Once upon a time It was a grand thing to be a Grandee of Spain, Aecording to a story In the New York Evening Post those Grandees today are In a sad plight. Spanish aristocracy was one A of the most colorful and had one of the richest historical backgrounds in Europe. And today It looks as though It were better to be nobody 'V than to be a Spanish Grandee. The Republic has stripped them not only of their titles but of their land. After the monarchist uprising on August tenth many of them were Imprisoned. Some of them have been deported to the most unhealthy parts of the peninsula. The Agrarian Reform Law has seized their land without giving them any A compensation. They used to be among the wealthiest nobles in Europe. One Spanish Duke had an estate so large that it took ten miles of railroad track to cross It. Another had properties valued at eighty million pesetas. twvu “fej? I r 10 r mmik Here,s a story of, what a dispatch from Moscow calls. the Odyssey of a roll of calico* If tells of the travels and troubles that roll of calico went through before It reached Its destination in the land ruled by Mr, Stalin* What Is remarkable is that the story was printed in a Moscow paper. In fact, the Moscow paper promoted the journey^ It shipped this role of calico from Moscow to a point barely five hundred miles south. The railroad employees knew nothing about it, so treated it like any ordinary piece of freight. It took twenty-nine days to reach its destination, during only ten of those days was it in motion. For the other nineteen days it was a in station warehouses. Enough documents were filled out about Jl it to make a fair size book. It was loaded and unloaded four times. One of its stops was at a wayside station right outside Moscow where it lay over several days The story adds that by the slowest of ordinary freight this journey which took nearly a month, should have been accomplished jJU in three or four days at the outside. All Russia, saje* the dispatch, A is chuckling about the incident. BASEBALL Bpforo wp nut the grand old rame into winter A. Quarters there* s an Interesting bit is£ by Westbrook Pegler in the New York Event nr Post. It * s about the late World Series games at Chicago. When T tell you that it concerns the old fc>"Hian of Swat, Babe Ruth, maybe you won’t mind hearing it even if the season is over. At one time In the third game of the Series, a Chicago olaver hit a short fly to Rut h. The Bambino muffed it and the batter reached second base. At that the old Babe stood up, straightened his can, and shouted at the Chicago Players. Pointing towards Earl Coombs in center field, he cried: "hey, my dogs ain*t what they used to be. Don*t hit them out to me. Hit to the young guy there who can run." At, another point in the game somebody in the bleachers threw a lemon which hit the Sultan in the leg. Some ball players would have,’ been neeved at that. Others would have ignored it. But not so the Babe. With graphic gestures the hambino asked them to olay fair. _ 2 to- "Don*t hit me on the legs*1, he cried, 11 my legs ain*t any too good. Hit me on the head. My head’s solid,w At another time in the game the Babe added to the humiliation of the Cubs by calling his shots. Guy Bush, the Cub pitcher, had been razzing Ruth loudly and angrily, Ruth retorted: "Just wait. Mug, and you’ll see the pay ball," A strike went by and Bush shouted another jeer at Ruth. The Babe held up one finger. Then another strike. The Babe held up two fingers. Then a couple of balls. Before the next pitch Ruth called out to Bush: "Now then, this is the one. Look." And sure enough, the old apple went riding way out into the bleechers for a home runj Westbrook Pegler adds that though ho? lickad- the A, A* Chicago Ball Club, he left the people laughing when he said goodbye, And^Ruth today, could be elected to almost any office ta#-wa»%A by the Chicago fans, ^amm.. y r BUKGLAK Now for the tale of a sadder and wiser burglar. Last night he invaded the dormitory of Pembrooke College, a women’s college near Providence, Rhode Island. But he had no luck. No sooner had he stuck his head and k shoulders through a window of a room on the third floor th^n he was swatted in the by a pillow. The pillow was wielded by a young lady of Springfield, Massachusetts, Though thewould-be burglar & b - a husky six footer, the vigor with which the young woman belabored him with that pillow was too much for him. He ran down the fire escape right into —y, » _ i j the arms of a policeman who had been attracted by for help, _ A t V-a. U/ <yvv4\A ■ lay MB^is calcuiatlng that: ib^^s~daicky ^foiir Today h±S that pillow wmins^ loaded with FlQiihhiUD Out in Michigan a small band of modern pioneers are /) a jh K/r-C4t starting a community such as^est&hlish#^ by the Mayflower pilgrims more than three hundred years ago. Only colony is in the midst of as*established civilization. (pi A These Michigan pioneers have pitched their tents in a wooded section near Johannesburg, Michigan. They’re starting a homestead colony on land owned by the state. They’re going to survey, claim and settle ±M six plots 160 acres each, of hard wood Ml land owned by the State Department of Conservation* git»yl-gwylMrmw Their leader is a one armed eapfMa&fees:*- Q As soon as they arrived they set to work immediately to establish their home! With axes and cross-saws just like the Mayflower pilgrims, they felled timber for their first log cabin. Until they are established their supplies will be furnished them by the state. But they expect to be earning their own living from the soil by next year Fruit trees seem to—beha^nff in eccentric manner this year. Some days ag° 1 mentioned an apple tree in a Pennsylvania orchard which bore both fruit and blossoms at the same time. In KiHingworth, Connecticut, the other day, a wild cherry tree put out new flowers. Kink Killingworth, is the town Inspired Longfellow to tti « poem. In the same neighborhood more than half a dozen apple trees are bearing blossoms while the apples on the boughs are so numerous that the limbs have to be braced to carry their weight. Then there*s a story in the Pittsburgh Press of an orchard near Allentown, Pennsylvania. The^e^not only an apple^but a pear tree burst into blossom soon after the first crops of fruit had been picked. Tree experts at Xale University say this unusual condition is due to the long midsummer drought. hoover ^ Reports from President Hoover's special train say that he was so encouraged by his reception at Des Moines last night that he's going to continue his campaign. Several members of his party are trying to persuade him to make an extended swing around the country. They believe that the twelve-point program which he offered to aid agriculture K±i±xkm has helped his whole cause a great deal.) This, of course, is the G.O.p. view of the situation. j 0 -A- J T U-xT SMITH Democrats are A excited toctey over that reunion. last night betweiiji Governor Franklin ^• Roosevelt and ex—Governor Alfred E. Smith, It must have been a dramatic sight when A1 walk< across the platform in Albany, grabbed Mr. Roosevelt's hand, and exclaimed "How are you,^old potato?" ^he words happened to be significant because this is his ^ ^ ~ the greeting that Ai reserves for s real old friends. The crowd/ A A K& roared with delight when this feud which threatened to disrupt 1 the Democratic party was ended in that^fashion. The New York Evening Post today eay^ tnat one result of this reunion may be that Tammany will push Al Smith forward as Its next candidate for Mayor of New York. That is, in case the v mayoralItv, Court of Appeals decides that a aaqraaKkfryc election must take place next month. / The nomination of Herbert Lehman^against the wishes of Tammany and the reconciliation between Smith and Roosevelt have put Tammany in what Broadway calls a tough spot^ The Post sajsc that the Tammany leaders returned to New York with their power considerably weakened as a result of the State Convention. SMITH Democrats are excited today over that reunion /V last night betwean Governor Franklin Roosevelt and ex-Governor Alfred E, Smith, It must have been a dramatic sight when A1 walk* across the platform in Albany, grabbed Mr, Roosevelt's han^, and /\ fcocclairaed nHow are you, old potato?" The words happened to be significant because this is his ^ '‘o&J the greeting that Ai reserves for x real old friends. The crowd/ roared with delight when this feud which threatened to disrupt I that fashion, the Democratic party was ended in The New York Evening Post today that one result of this reunion may be that Tammany will push Al Smith forward as ^mayorality. Court of Appeals decides that a xagKXKWjyc election must take place its next candidate for Mayor of New York. That is, in case the take pla Lehman^against the wis* of Tammany and the reconciliation between Smith and Roosevelt next month. / The nomination of Herbert Lehman^against the wishes have put Tammany in what Broadway calls a tough spot.) The Post^-^ sayx that the Tammany leaders returned to New York with their power considerably weakened as a result of the State Convention, bPliUi, If you've ever read the stories of the building of the famous transcontinental railroads in America, you must recall how the Joining up of the links was supposed to have been celebrated by the driving of a gold spike. A dispatch to the Detroit News mmnUrinr that A. A recently several curious people have been hunting for these spikes. For what purpose I don't know, unless it might be that a gold spike Is a gold spike, and might be valuable. At any rate, nobody who has Joined In such a search has been able to find even one golden spike. One of these Is supposed to have been hammered In by Governor Deland Stanford of California when the Central Pacific Joined up with the Union Pacific some sixty years ago. Nobody has been able to find that spike. Another on* is supposed to have been driven on the Northern Pacific near Gold Creek, Montana. Nobody has been able to find that one either. The best^the hunters have been abl^to find in a silver spike driven at a point on the boundary between North Dakota and Montana. H ri, A ^ <s~xiry—<rv^:r* ■^h^n there^ an Enoch Arden story from real life <«—40^ Ai newspapfiE^ today? I-fc-cosK?* from Vidalia, Georgia. A ^ In 1898 a Vldalian named £1^ Chaevls went off to Cuba to fight In the Spanish American War, saying goodbye to his young wife and his baby boy. Well, the war ended, but t<sL El£ didn’t come home. In fact ttm didn’t come home the following year. Nor the next year. Nor even the^next thirty-four years. ^ ^ Evidently his absence didn*t worry Mps# Eljr, because /7 L c U-J-**3 she married again. She re-married not only once but twice and 'itiruzjz. Bn.db* ' 'a*v thought herself a three times widow. The other day EI^ Chaevis , vje ^ j utx-^# came back home. There he still found a young wife and a baby boy. \ But it wasn’t his young wife nor his baby boy. It was his grandchild and daughter-in-law. % In short, Elj- found himself vary much in the same position as the famous Enoch Arden. But in his case there were no complications. His wife’s fourth husband had been buried for two years. So came booit to find himself a ready-made grandfather. * A lUhlLh What would you do If you were walking along and came across a two-headed turtle? If you are a little girl nine years it old, jam/ probably wouldn1! worry you so much as It might some grown-ups. A dispatch to the Boston Traveler says that one such turtle was found near a Schenectady lake by a daughter of a General Electric official. The find was considered so interesting that the *w±wm±±mMTc scientists in the laboratories of the General Electric Company are raaririftmgMiBly going to considerable pains to examine and observe this fHk phenomenon. This turtle had two mouths to feed one stomach. A Ih±* doesn11 seem to affect its health. xhe animal Is in excellent condition and wall*#' about the laboratories quite unashamed. The & only thing that seems to bother is that sometimes it wants to travel in opposite directions at the same time^ ^ Then too, <?*%{ V sometimes one head will be awake while the other on©' w±Ttl~ bai. asleep. xya^dfei - 2 That seems to be quite a useful arrangement. If a man had two heads he could work twenty-four hours in the day. A That is, twenty-four hours of work a day^appeals to him. 5 cl vtv *, ,-w ,Jr m .- h "B— when- the turlrle ^-Aa the water ■ sometiiaea oao head- -wi-ll—be undernoafeh whjAe the-ethop i-a^abovo. the-surfaoo >