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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17r 1950
From all four corners of the compass comes a
whirlwind of news, and
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lot of it’s about the weather. In
the South doctors and nurses have been rushed to the delta
country of Mis:issinni and Louisiana, the region that has been
swe^t by a tornado. The hospitals of the city of Natchez are
crowded with victims. Dozens of nlantation buildin-s are
flat as a result of the tornado. The United Press says that
one woman was Mclced u~ by the cyclonic wind and hurled into
an onen fireplace.
Out West old man winter is blowing his icy breath
tonight. A blizzard has swept down into the Dakotas and
Minnesota, and the Associated Press reports that the storm
is sweeping across the Middle .'Vest.
From the Pacific Coast come disnatches telling about
violent geles that have taken a toll of several lives at San
Francisco.
Back here along the Atlantic the International News
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Service reports that a number of boats have gone aground
m the fog rnd that many shins are waiting outside New York
harbor for the fog to lift.
xhis week’s issue of the Literary Digest has an
article which takes us back to those dry, blistering days
of last summer. The escessive heat did a few freak things,
and the Digest quotes Science Service in telling about © few
of them. For instance, there were two draw bridges over
the Harlem River in New York. They kept expanding end
ex"ending from the heat. They exranded so much that two
inches of steel had to be burned off with an acetylene torch.
In boston the glass of a skylight was thought to have acted
as a lens and set fire to a Yacht Club. While in Missouri,
automobiles were set on fire by sun shining through wdnd
shield--. In Pennsylvania ten per cent of the apples hanging
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sugar and cream and they would have been ready to serve.
In Europe, too, they’re having stormy weather.
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seaplane, the DQ--X, may not cross the Atlantic until next
soring, on account of bad weather.
METEORS
ilnd that celestial show billed for this week, end,
the one with the shooting stars, - well it was a fIon;
at any rate it was so far as this rart of the country' was
concerned. The weather man wrecked it.
The Associated Press reports, however, that Rev;
Orleans had a good view of the celestial visitors. The
shooting stars armeared at about the rate of forty an hour,
one every minute or two, and they were of dazzling brilliance,
as they zi-red across the night.
Like the weather, politics over here are slightly
disturbed.
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i-h^t close hermony dovm in 7/ashington is a bit out
Ox tun- today, and the one who Is singing in a key all by
himself is Senator Borah. You will recall how, after the
election, prominent Democrats advocated a policy of working
hand in hand with President Eoover.
7/ell since then a few other Democrats have said they
didn't feel quite so harmonious. Insurgent Republicans have
also been slightly discordant. But now the mighty Mr. Boreh,
says the United Press, is going to bring ut> the subject of
Perm Relief, The dispatch adds that this may cause an extra
session of Congress.
There may be fireworks during the accroaching session,
but the real interest will be in the new Congress, a year from
now. Control of Congress says the Associated "Press may
fluctuate between the Republicans and the Democrats. In the
House for a week the meeker may be a Republican and then for
a week a Democrat may be the sneaker and so on, with the job
massing back and forth. A situation like that has never been
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knov.ri in We shlngton.
In the big State, War and 'Navy Building down there,
a new men is taking an important desk.
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Jnc16 Rem's Pegulers are going to have a new chief.
.Her • e-y, i me: n. Of course, President Hoover is the
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Commr.naer of e.ll our military end Naval forces, hut he has
rlenty of oth■■ r things to do, end the real heed of the Army is
Chief of Staff. And now there is going to be another one.
Major General Douglas McArthur. That’s his name. Yes, and
he is going to be the youngest Chief of Staff that our Army
has had since the World War.
This weeh General McArthur is to arrive in
",'eshington to take over his new duties. He ought to know a
lot about army affairs, if there is anything either in heredity
or environment. Not only has he devoted his life to the Army
but his father was a general in the Civil V'ar and he comes
from a long line of soldiers. It would, take several minutes
just to read off a list of the American and foreign decorations
he has received. Did you ever hear o.. the Rainbow division?
Well, General McArthur is the man who during the World War,
corcim&nded the Ha inbow Division.
Commanding the Army is a quiet job just now - but
it’s different in S-ain,
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came out with a majority, says the Associated Press# And
he's now in control of the Polish Parliament.
And then, about that disturbed situation in the
Holy Land. England Is trying to do something about it.
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Great Britain Is getting, ready to srend a lot of
money in Palestine. The Under-Secretary of State for the
British colonies announced in the House of Commons today
that $12,500,000 will be set aside to help 10,000 settlers
in the Holy Hand.
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Revolutions are not confined to Eurone and South
Arteries. According to the United. Press, there's one out in
Montane. The co-eds of Montana State College have gone on
strike. The faculty laid down an eleven-o'clock curfew law.
The girls gave that idea what is ponularly called the raspberry.
The girls refused to attend classes, and sang, the famous old
"Prisoner's Song" in protest. They held mass meetings, built
as bonfires, end even appealed to the governor of the State.
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Ladles rre w in arms. Ishbel MacDonald, the
British Prime Minister's daughter, announced that she didn't
like the term srinster. She wanted to be called a bachelor
girl. The discussion is now raging on this side of the
Atlantic. Miss Lena Phillins, who used to be president of
the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's
Clubs, says she doesn't mind the word, spinster, but she does
object to the term Mold maidff. And Helen Havener, the editor
of the Independent Woman”, says what we need is a new
name to define woman’s new niece in the world.
What shall it be? Old maid, spinster, bachelor
girl, or what?
FOOTBAIT
Jumping Jovv Savoldi was the star fullback of the
Notre Dame football teem. lumping Joe has dived over the
goal line for the sake of deer old Notre Dame for the last
time. Xnute Roekne is losing one of the best football rlayers
he .ver coached. Junming Joe is leaving the university, says
the International News Service. He was secretly married some
time , end the dispatch adds that by getting married
Jumping Joe ±2± violated one of the unwritten lews of the
teem.
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TOBACCO
Yesterday was the 400th birthday of the god-father
of tobacco. he was Jean Kicot, French ambassador to Portugal
In the 16th century. He Introduced tobacco Into France by
getting some tobacco seeds, v.rhich had come from Florida.
He sent the seeds to $ueen Catherine di Medici in France.
Catherine turned them over to somebody, who dented them.
That began the cultivation of tobacco in Furore.
In Paris, according to a United Press disnatch, a
rarty of smokers celebrated the birthday amid clouds of
tobacco smoke. They elected a Queen of Tobacco.
Meanwhile, over here in America there was at least
one celebration too - although the reonle celebrating may not
have known anything about the birthday. Do n in Atlanta,
Georgia, at a religious Conference e minister of Brockton,
Georgia, was anr lying for
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w' s about uarewsk i f a coniposer o t jazz
music in London. He was conducting an
orchestra tor a dancing act, v/hen he saw
an apparit ion of a warrior pass across
the stage. ..el I , it turns out that the
apparition was a London rireman. Just
a rireman in one of those swanky
helmets the firemen wear over there. he
was making his rounds, and he happened
to get in the way of the stage lights
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fireman's helmet made him look ^x just
like an ancient warrior.
1 he news dispatches stated that
this composer was the writer ot the
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and this morning got a hot correction,
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writer Jeffry O’Hara, K-K-Katie certainly had a characteristic
American flavort and I should have known that an American had.
v^ritten it. So, here's to Mr. O'Hara, may he continue to
write clever ditties like K-K-Katie as long as the old moon
continues to rise over the cowshed.
NEWS ITEM
Some of you may have heard the name of Dr. Tselh.
He is a gentleman from China who has visited more than 3,000
cities and towns in North America. He also is said to know
more words of our American slang than we know ourselves.
Well, I met Dr, Tselh on the street, and I commandeered him
to oick my News Item of the Day.
"Here’s one," he said "that knocks me for a row of
ash eansj Just give this the once over, my hoy." And here’s
the yarn he picked.
The old German war fleet, those battle shirs that
the Kaiser once was so proud of, the ships that startled the
world when they met the British at the battle of Jutland, are be
ing turned into iron and steel to build movie houses and to make
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used by their enemies, they opened
sea cocks and the ocean came in. They
sou111ed e very last one of t hose s hips
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Since then the British have been
salvaging those ships, and breaking them
j p; and selling t hem for 6 Id i r on.
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a!vagin o • The giant ba111e sh i p ,
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the surface. It is now being broken up. It and
of the once mighty wer fleet are being put to the
other vessels
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movie theatres and ash trays.
Kow the mighty have fallen.
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their thrones right
Now he ref s another
bobby Jones, w o rId1s
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gi ve up tournament
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sinti ! eft these days,
who 1s stepp i ng down.
greatest go!f player,
announced his intention of abdicating.
He says he's through--that is, almost.
Bobby said that at the end of the 1930
golfing season he will
golf once and for all.
The Associated ,-ress says that Bobby
announced his retirement through the
executive Vice-President of t!-e United
states Golfante Association. He is giving
up his throne as king of golf for two
reasons, so that he can devote more of
his time to the practice of law, and so
he can make a series of motion pictures.
I.jf. —;. ri i; r-'-cTT^ri-t^rs . The International
Mews Service tells us that these movies
iv i I I be of an educational nature. They
will explain the Bones golf technique.
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I can just see all of you golfers getting
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off the radio and starting for your bag of clubs, to
nractice the old swing on the living room rug. And here's
haring you win Bobby Jones’ crown. Go to it boys. Tee off,
and,
SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.