17* x * OIL _ iq /'. jl / vo ^ Good Evenin r, tverybody;. m ■. : i . iy 1 If you o out to mail a letter toniEht and find your : ront fatr s mlssin , '■on11 be surprised. Also be careful of the roue tied across In other words, donft forget it's Halloween. I donrt want to be all the been r if thr elders are -S^Si^SSut for their / A* A This is the nirht when witches are abroad, the night, as an anonymous poet remarks in the New York 'a or Id T-: leg ram, of apple-bobbine in brimminp tubs and hearty lauchs for the drippin" dubs, ^ k ! taffy pulls and old kissing games, and maids searching mirrors for da4»J^!w& swain:-., an boy.-, lifting gates from suburban homf s, and playing old tricks from the ancient tomes that tell of the tricks which their uaddics played in the Lon Ago and the Undismayed, tricks that tonight will again seen--for this, rry children, is HalloweSen. On top of the terrl fic unemployed riots in London yesterday when the Bobbies $x± beat back a mob of twenty-five thousand from thr gates of Buckingham Palace, the leaders of the hung^ marchers today issued an ultimatum to the British government. They warned the Cabinet and the police that there will be serious trouble if they are not allowed to present their petition for relief to Parliament. A dispatch to the bertrf>e^>->mv^r>»» r- ports that thf hunger marchers threatened to remain in Lon :on indefinitely if the House of Commons does not listen to them. i’hey will stage repeated demonstrations 7f* like thr t of yesterday so long as they are there, Conespondents report that their present rations ere so much better than they*ve been accustomed to that the leaders of the unemployed are afraid they will desert by the thousands so as to remain in London in the hope better food, ^iomorr w is the day set for the march on Parliament. The Gates of Buckingham Palace and that of itself is a historic symptom. remsint-tf close-., _ 5 ,,. ■ In addition to this trouble, a dispatch to the Mew York Evening Post reports that John Bull Is facing the hardships of a railroad strike. The railway workers had their wages cut two years ago, low the National Wages Board will have to decide next month whether another wage cut of ten per cent shall be made. If this is done, the unions probably will refuse to (A hunger march of proportions almost as serious swooped down today on the famous loop district of Chicago. A dispatch to the Newark ^ews describes it as a boisterous parade of fifteen thousand men, women and children, who carried red banners and shook their fists at City Hall. They were protesting against the reduction ofjinemployed, More than a thousand police stood guard over the marchers v.ho h: d defied regulations in carrying red flags. In spite of this the march vas completed without violence. The marchers converged on the Loop from north, west and south, They included ragged men with drawn faces, well dressed men who parked their automobiles before joining the linrs, women in frayed clothes carrying babies and red umbrellas, and women in fur coats. The police appear to have handled the occasion with rare discretion, as they turned a blind eye to the red flags and refused to be drawn in o < ny fights the Communist element? in the * A terrific struggle between three nations is going on in tne wheat market. A dispatch to the Star reports that the United States, Canada and the Argentine are the countries involved, All three of them are engaged in a race to empty their overflowing bins and el vators of huge grain surpluses. > - ; |» Nil <Xrv< . y\V ^2-c-e _tg-(2 ‘ ^ T/ T ^ LV°rJ*> ' l TirrTTi1* ~Btn nitrinnu infrygr^rf PROSPERITY Here is an item that sounds like a bit of returning prosperity for somebody. American Airways had an operating loss of over half a million dollars during the second quarter of this year. But dun in - the third quarter tb-fas dropped to thirty thousand dollars. In Dther words business during the ax oast three months has been twenty times better. A recent passenger as the smallest marmoset monkey ^ ^named Napoleon, sent by the Countess de Beaumont to Miss Lydia fuller, daughter of ex-Governor fuller of Massachusetts. rJapoleon was all dressed up in aw overcoat. FOOTBALL^ - A The students of the University of Pittsburgh were jj £ SO elated today th: t sensational twelve to nothing victory ov r hot re Dame on Saturday, that three of them were arrested, '..1th all classes suspended for the day, three thousand of th'.. lads oaraded into the downtown district to celebrate. About ‘ v;o thousand crashed the gates of one of the theatres* I'raffic vas tied ud at a dozen points as the boys ouDled trol1 y poles from street car cables, or did a snake dance through tfhe^streets , tell, that game certainly was a sensation. uriwMii .ft*" FOOTBALL -or k I uluz ' v , 1 Oo t ba 1:1~b Ciisa ri-rm- -H i • > ^ 1 -| fQn£^ ar^L^t, i 1 . 3 . - .tai^rfrg—aboi.it--t oh ay—h? d i na i-y v-;<--t,nr^ ers oV^WETirTTSTre-T^^ ^jr— The tightin,! Irish 1 ram tiouth Jiend were supposed to htts 9 & been an invincible team, a real Juggernaut, as Joe Vila says In the Hew York Sun. From all accounts the^Panthers weary igu­ ana staggering For three periods of the game, A failed to score. And when that tired battered Pittsburgh team came back in the fourth to roll up a score of twelve to nothing and hold it, that must have been a sight worth traveling a long way to see. For my part, I got thrills aplenty Saturday afternoon watching Michigan trim the Princeton Tiger, fourteen to seven. But as the celebrated coach. Chick Meehan, observers, great credi id is due to Princeton for holding that high class Michiga down to such a small score. The wew York ^^ disgrace to be beaten by such a team as the Ann Arbor boys ^ : I m FOOTBALI j - s 1 m ■. Col^«te still ‘icib a clsaii slat© for this s©ason, i m v- 'f. Colurabia * s excellent team is also unbeaten, having trimmed both Princeton and Cornell. The &e\*: York Evening Post points out that Saturday1 s games shov. that Pittsburgh and Colgate are THE 1 leaders of all the eastern teams, Ttcsa. Brovm1 s victory over Harvard is listed as one of the best performances of at I ' m m il pa [ t Thr whiskers of a dead man played an Important part in a Texas court today. A dispatch to the Atlanta Journal 3 «swp^the t a lady in Fort v.orth was suing to collect one hundred thousand dollars on her husband*s insurance policy. The husband, a banker, disappeared in 1920, after tSS accounts showed a nice little shortage of two million dollars. The insurance company produced witnesses who swore that they saw the missing banker in 1929. One he was clean shaven, another who saw him two weeks later duo la he wore- a mustache and Van Dyke. The jury decided that a man canned grow*s©= 3 B**ei»kwhiskeps in the space of two weeks. So the lady won her hundred thousand dollars by a shave. f Spinach of a different kini. not the kind that grows on the cam, t*^:t.trr-cw• tm»^a law case in Los Angeles. A dispatch IX&U vc4 to the Louisville -imc*s saanr that a lady was suing her husband for divorce. The trouble between them arose because her husband tried to make the children eat spinach. The children would have none of it. So instead they were given a diet of spankings. To this the wife objected, saying that spankings were not nourishing. Evidently that'judge doesn!t like spinach, I iul juiro i|e gave the lady her divorce decree. litli ,i4i*Ui:dl LiliB A picturesque conference began yesterday in the town of Corn, Oklahoma. is coraposed of Mennonites from all parts of the country. They are having their 57th annual conference of the principal body of their church in the United States. ^ ^ A dispatch to the Atlanta Journal that most of the delegates came from Kansas where the principal colony of the sect settled sixty years ago after their migration from Russia. Delegates came also from Texas, California and Nebraska and other states The principal article of faith of the Mennonites is pacifism. They were founded in Switzerland more than four hundred years ago. In the 18th century a large body of them left Germany to colonize lands which the armies of Catherine the Great of Russia had won away from fur Key. Frederick the Great allowed them to go on the condition that Russia would jjj.-U.j.U'i i- x - i - j O _ O - 1 guarantee them religious liberty In 1870 they left Russia and came to the United States to escape military service. One of their contributions to American life was bringing over a hard red winter wheat which up to that time was unknown in Kansas. It grew so well £«* that it is now the principal crop in a large part of the state. It is also grown widely in S js Oklahoma and -SO*-*, OPERA 1 iU; r 't}i 02 * n' rii 1 nassed along a story about an amusing thing that happened in an opera house in Italy, a yarn r l&ted by Imoresario Fortune Gallo ^ the San Carlo Grand Opera Company. And now I get a comolaint from Impresario Gallo. 11 That story was all right,” he'declares, "but the funniest things in opera don’t hapoen in Italy. They happen ±xt?<ny£t~ cJUUp "n few years ago,” he ”1 brought a new basso A. over from Italy. He joined the company at Omaha. That big basso always liked plenty of fun. The first night at Omaha he started out to find some amusement. He saw a crowd lined along the sidewalks. Then he saw a. parade marching through the street. It was a long line of people wearing nightgowns. Over their heads they had pillow cases. "The big basso knew just enough English to get into trouble. JU. ”’Looks-a-like have $ d^nce, ’ he said to a man A. A standing beside him. 'Looks f'like fclfciW have a masquerade ball. Where ees de dance? I like to go I’ - £. »Th,. man looked at him strangely and edged away. The oi§ basso was all hot and bothered about that masquerade ball. do he strolled up to the 1 el lows in the nightgowns and pillow cases. He had never heard of the IQu Elux Elan. H' Ihei e ees de dance?1 he demanded. fl liluL-to- go to de masquerade ball.1H A few minutes later the big basso came dashing into muddy his hotel. His collar was torn off. He was somewhat aaeUtjc, and he had a black eye. Well, as Impresario Gallo says, that's the way thingsgo in the Grand Opera business. The San Carlo Company is about to start on a long tour. Signor Gallo believes the mood of the country is about right for a more serious kind, of amusement, something more thoughtful. But just the same, he expects a peculiar thing or two to happen, to his flock of tenors, bassos. contraltos, and sopranos. nuuVi:^, I i President Hoover certainly will be well guarded when he makes his speech at Kadison Square Garden in Hew York tonight. In addition to his usual bodyguard of secret service men a CX special Corps six hundred New York coppers have been assigned to Hi protect the president.^Republican leaders p ss.y they have information that a hostile demonstration has been planned. So the authorities are on their toes to prevent it. Today*s tour by the president is quite unprecedented in the history of the United States. Within the scope of twelve i >d* hours Mr. Hoover &ss tour?jTi§ five states making ten speeches, / i * £ q Two of them in Mew York City. He***, already spoken in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 4s>y--si3€--rT*M8^ 1 at Madison Square Carden at nine o*clock, and when his discourse there is over, he will be rushed over to Carnegie Hall where he will address the overflow meeting. The President will be I a^uv.-r. _ 2 back in Washington ! omorrov; morning. Meanwhile ^ovesnor Franklin D. Roosevelt has been no less strenuous ^ *#014. touring New Ingland--awi* spoke today A in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine. Tonight heAwill make one of the most important of his campaign at Boston, A- /\ LrlirtU' Visitors from all over Europe are constantly telling us that American wives have a soft time of it. This is a land of women worshippers, and the little woman, so far as they can see, has much the best of it. j I I I ! But, says the woman’s page e*fri4io» of the New York World Telegram, that’s not true of unmarried women who live in large cities. Her unwritten book of rules is full of Verboten signs. Most of the spinsters in big cities live lonely^aaai drab lives. That is the point of view of the woman’s page editor of the World Telegram. The writer points out, for instance, that one man can sa.y to another: "1 want to meet some girls". Within « day or so a party is arranged, and the first man has & bunch of ne > if he is really lucky, attractive acquaintances. But how about the unmarried girl from out ol If she says to another girl -> "Why don't you trot out some ol your men for me?" - she's apt to be treated «ith a in nwiMifl11 m l*i— * "”w|WWfe - WsXlj ’.v0 i. i .j 11 y It sounds like D ig old story woman’s inhumanity to woman. It’s a tough world, ladies. Well, here's something to cheer the ladies. bj *. Onlcind physicians have frequently made the observation thet most women are bowlegged. "Tain’t soM, says an eminent chiropodist. A dispatch to the Pittsburgh Press relates that an Illinois expert in this line says it*s all because of high heels. "Present day high heels”, says the^docfcw, ”cause the shins of many younr women to run outward, rotating the it^k knees. This 'ives the impression .they have bowlegs. Correct shoes”, he adds, "will bring back to normalcy again.* y-wy Ct K^rv) ‘ H •^ucik'to Y jsj ^^SU^ ; ^ 1^1 ^ & •—- . D ia . ~ -Y — ' c- ^ VO ^ »