Li • .1 . d U t JU w Q i JX ju JihOiliJ'JADi' _ 9/3/32 UrU U'ij i-i V x..rJ I iJ vj ^ jj v . x OU.. j. I 7" — *■ -■i'4------ t ____ ^ tAy^ ^y{ypKJOf ? c^->§4^ajyxyi High winds of gale dimensions are reported from ^ places. A dispatch to the fficrrem^ Star from Hamilton, A A 3 Bermuda, that a terrific tropical hurricane is moving northward in the vicinity of Bermuda. Itcausing grave A A anxiety among the inhabitants of Wem Bermuda who spent an aaSIsSS* night because the exact position of the storm wasn’t known. Uncle Sam’s Weather Bureau ordered yfcoffar warnings A hoisted all along the Atlantic ^oast. /Sm gale was moving A rapidly northwest along the Atlantic from Cape Hatteras A to East Port, haine. The temperature in New York City and Boston fell to 54 degrees. In Brooklyn large trees were blown do?:n. In New York harbor ships were torn lose from their moorings, E A Munson Line freighter lost a propeller three hundred and fifty miles southeast of Frying Pan Shoal3^==Sfcw drifted helplessly for twelve hours in the hurricane. At Atlantic City the velocity of the wind was so GALE - £ tremendous that an excursion steamer was unable to return to its mooring. There are 240 passengers* many of them women and children, aboard. The seqs are so high that it is not safe to try to land them at Atlantic City. So the master of the vessel is heading for Delaware Bay, At Saranac Lake, in the Adirondacks, the temperature fell so low lastnight that frost was reported, i T One of the topics of the day is the health of Babe Ruth. Rather, one should, say, the illness of the Babe. He arrived in New York this afternoon at th^ end of a sudden and completely unexpected trip from Detroit. He left his team mates there in order to consult his own docto 1fthen his train got to Albany he told a reporter ^ A bit of a mystery was made about ^abe1s departure in Detroit. It seems that he told none of his intimates cbn the team about his pain*, that's more he xi^±n±Xx didn’t consult the club trainer or tell the road secretary of the club that there was anything wrong with him. -a o -the t—r~o of raid— of the Albany Evening News while he was playl A /A* * while he was playing a double header in New York a * If the Babe doesnft play in the World% Series it's going to be just too Lad. Too bad both for his team and for the ^harfc A ,,orld c. ries with the Yankees playing the Cubs and no Babe Ruth In the field 'would certainly be a disappointment. Soon aos after the Babe arrived at the Grand Central wvTt?4> he was exs ETined by his physician^ H bl ordered the Bambino to bee and then made public his diagnosis from the office of the Yanks. He sale .hat he had found slight symptoms of appendicitis. in" But it is cheerful to relate that he does not think A A an operation v;ill be necessary at this time. On the other hand* -js J2&C^T3W-' he cannot yet say whether or not the H4g-hai» will be able to A swing his old club in the World Ceries. . mi Official report isued in Ottawa today .makes it known tnet Canada is the second greatest producer of gold in all ■ir unl/itiuti tjf t:.- world. A story in the Toronto Otar says that this was made -a^iu-cir in a booklet issued by the Dominion Department f of lines. It seems that gold pro .action in Canada continues to increas'. In June the Canadian output was two hundred seventy A f- thousen-• 'ive hundred tv/enty-six ounces. This is a new record A for one month’s production. In 1858 Canada produced niy thirty-four thousand ounces valued at ± seven hundred five thousand collars. Last A* year she contributed over two and a half million ounces valued at fifty-six million, dollars, The leader among the gold producing countries of the world is Couth Africa. United States comes third uere's an ionic aftermath to those thrilling rescues achieved in the rough waters of Lake Erie Monday afternoon by Angus LcLawghlin, captain of the Champion Rugby team of Canada. Of all the people whose lives he saved in that fierce undertow, only one thanked him. And that hue was a twelve year old $irl. All the others, most of them grownups, rushed away without saying a word. saver, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving more than £00 lives, told meAthat out of all that number only two or him bitterly for taking so long to pull them out. And the wife of one man whom he worked over for several hours before he brought him back to life, scolded him angrily oecause^ne was treating the husband roughly. keeper who ever Since he was saved has insisted on filling Captain Scully full of spaghetti. Captain Charles Scully, the famous American Life three thanked him Iiry Many cases the persons he saved upbraided One of the few exceptions was an Italian restaurant .HAHLOffl The ekxile e or onerT s inquest into the death of Paul hern, the two months1 husband of Jean Harlow, the platinum -&r4. pSe-cf blonde, today. with Executives of the movie firm/ftar which Paul, £%rn was, associated, were among the first witnesses. Jean Harlow herself, who is ill in bed, was excused from testifying^ todays I'he verdict of the Coronerfs inquest definitely established the death of a—jn^shaiadL as suicide. The v,'orld1 s tennis stars had a shivering day for the Quarter finals of the National tennis championship. The spectators were huddled up in blankets as though for a football game in mid-November. There were several upsets today. Wilmer ^llison of Texas, defeated Sydney hood of New York in four sets. One of the most suprising matches was that in v/hich Clifford Sutter of New Orleans beat the formidable George Lott of Chicago e ten in eight, six - love, six - love. George Lott is No. two of the national ranking players, and for him to go down to defeat to a comparatively unknown player was a bit of unexpected drama. < I blnlryj^ ^hat cotton strike in England begins to loo' x s< rious again. A previous report was that the British government had hopes of settling it. But today a dispatch w ■* to the Star ;has it that the strike is spreading. The dispatch continues that the situation begins to look ugly. \ The cry of terrorism is being raised. The strikers are using ms forcing masked picketing This is/stwxtsx more and more mills to close. A On the other hand, the pickets donH do anything i definitely illegal, kart-Rr the most parts the crowds content themselves with booing the workers who refuse to join the strike. In other cases they have tried the tactics of keeping absolute silence* These demonstrations of silence are sometimes far more effective than hooting and rock throwing. The cotton spinners today voted to join the strike by an overfrhelming majority. M a RKI 2 ^King Cotton, c id a dance of a different sort today. The price of cotton broke nearly five dollars a bale. This was the result of a report issued by Uncle Sam's Department of Agriculture. The price of wheat also declined slightly. ocks went u^: A. feature of trading on the Mew York Stock Exchange but the price of stocks went up. In fact, a remarkable A. was the large blocks of shares which changed hands. this afternoon the ticker four minutes behind the mark^Jtl A 4 1-jLL‘j.jJU.l'i Scientists in ^n.^land have made a curious discovery, London is sinking. Yes, they mean literally sinking. The building which houses the Bank of England, - the Did Lady of Threadneedle Street, as it is called in London, has subsided seven inches within the last sixty-eight years, St, Paul1s Cathedral has sunk two and a half inches since 1885, Both St. Paul’s and the Bank are tilting over. We’ve all been hearing for quite a while that London Bridge is falling down. But we didn’t know that it came so near to being true, A dispatch to the Brooklyn Daily Lagl relates that this news was made public by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It is not alarming Britishers to any considerable extent. They figure that if xxx it takes sixty-eight years to sink seven inches, there’s plenty cl tifne to worry. uiaiju^ ^hcref s go In-:; to be quite an event in East Pittsburgh,, Pennsylvania, Saturday afternoon. This will be the dedication of the George Vestinghouse Bridge, one of the most beautiful of the many bridges that have been put up in the United States lately save travelers on that highway twenty minutes traveling time. beautiful examples of architectural design. The bridge was named for the late George Vestinghouse. His brother, Herman Yvestinghouse, will cut the ribbon as the signal for traffic to move. Among the speakers will be Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania. The ceremonies will begin at half will be removed. The bridge is a The bridge is fifteen hundred feet long and its approaches are The bridge towers two hundred feet over Turtle Creek Valley. It is a historic location because it^st George washingmsde his caniD when he was on his way as an envoy fro m Governor ft ruiCivi.,! / The Nev; York Evening Post has discovered a new racket. It is exposing this racket in a series of articles, the first of which was published today. It is called the Sharing-Expenses-Auto-trip-racket. Once upon a time this was a legitimate device. It was employed by thrifty owners of motorcars so that they could lessen the^expeases when they wanted to make a long trip. They would advertise for people with sufficient funds to share the expenso-s of journeys of varying length, sometimes across the A continent. down to i lorida, or /t Well, according to thCfl series in the Evening Post this device iitf■ hHiag twisted into a racket. In the first place A it seems that you pay your full fare before starting. However, yon get no receipt for it ita^ if the racketeer were to give a receipt he could be hauled up by the law for carrying passengers without a license. No receipts then are issued, that frequently happens is the racketeer lets his passengers stop niiu^L.j. _ 2 somev/herr Vo:' cupper on the way, "hile they’re eating, he ;oec to hie car pretending to raake some adjustment. The r—-T-n-T* —t n t j first thin r they know iv goodbye^eswer , The-ge^ thoy are1 A stranded with no wanc of getting home. x'nat gasoline whopper I related from Goshen, New York, the other day seems to have stimulcited some of the Sunoco fans. Mrs. : . G« McWilliams of Brooklyn sends me in an account of an experience she and her husband had in Connecticut. As they got near Westport they needed gas, Mrs. icWilliams told her husband to be sure to get Sunoco as they had some six mountains to climb. Well, sure enough they soon got into the mountainous distrlet^»-nst=**o* to one terrifically steep hill. In fact, is it was so steep that they observed several other cars stalled on the roadside. Hovrever, the McWilliams^ car :ept on :oing and kept on going and kept on /oing and after they got to the top of the mountain they still kept on going. All of a sudden Mr. McWilliams observed to his wi 'e, "Good heavens, vre’re off the ground!" Mrs. McWilliams looked over the side and sure enough they were twenty fast feet up in the air. Their car Veil, .hat did they do? TALL STORY - 2 Mrs. Mc*»i1 1 lams cried to her husband to ston the car. nbe cannot ro on like this,n said she,nwe will have to stoo and back down.And that is what they did do. They had to back down out of the air, very carefully, until the wheels of the car touched the earth again. And If that one isn't tall enough for you, let's see if you can beat it. Just send your bunoco tall stories to Tall Story headquarters, the tallest building in the world. ^trange stories about the eclipse continue to find their way to my desk. One of th^alTriiiijiiwj h I found In the Pittsburgh Press. The heroine of this yarn is named Dot. Sh£? hm. a hen, f: * y i the property of little Betty winter of Bloomfield, Pa. V.ell, the day of the eclipse it seems that Dot, who : Ion *; l - the white rock ribe —& fowl I mean, not mineral v-ate • — Dot did no s put on he}- . mcked glasses during the eclipse. At £:-r0 on the afteineon of the eclipse hxr papa V.inter made the round of all he nests and removed all the er.;;s. V.hcn t,he eclipse v.: s ovc]-, he made the rounds again. There in Dot's nest he found as strange an e-g ax as ever escaped being scrambled. For the egg that Dot laid when the moon threw her shadow on th<; earth bears an almost perfect eclipse on one side of its shell. It is extraordinarily similar to pictures of the eclipse being published in the And that's what £ hen gets for not wearing her smoked gla s sts Oh, by tne v»ay, I*ve been asked to inrorm you that the Mewwpaper Club of New York is having its annual beSui A. tonight. It rill take place at Arrowhead Inn on Uppvr Riverside Drive« The Newspaper Club’s party this year is a benefit for the relief of newspaper men who are out of luck. Last geeks. the Club succeeded in getting some eight hundred jobs for unemployed ..riters. There’s going to be a tremendous gathering at Arrowhead Inn. In addition to newspaper men there’ll be celebrities from the theatrical, musical, moving picture and enough talent to put on an all star performance in any to_. ^ 1 -