Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1931-12-24

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News of the Week
KlETCHIKAN, Alaska = There
will be Christmas music in the
little Indian village of Metlakatla,
thanks to the fish. Profits from
the fish cannery enabled the citi-
zens to equip the 60-piece town
band with new instruments and
finish paying for the new town
hall, which by the way is the larg-
est in Alaska.
SAULT STE MARIE, Ont
Helen Bohner, who is six, was anx-
ious to know if the Bohner CHM
ney was large enough to admit a
rotund Santa Claus. She went
up the fire escape to investigate,
tumbled three floors and landed
on the pavement. The bruises
should be about all gone by
Christmas morning.
MOUNTRIE, Cav. H. Nc
Cam has some extraordinary
Christmas trees on his farm.
Weeks of balmy weather have
fooled the peach trees into think
ing it was spring and they are in
full bloom.
DETROIT-Countess Vera Grace
de Chappedalaine has her title and
her American citizenship too. She
told Federal Judge Simons she was
born in Cadillac, Mich, and want
ed her citizenship restored but did
not want to surrender her title
Under the law persons seeking
citizenship must renounce titles.
But Judge Simons ruled she could
keep the title as it was not
recognized by any government and
was only social distinction.
COLON, Panama-The band on
DR.. Albert Einstein's Panama hat
is not available as a souvenir. Frau
Einstein made that plain when the
hatband blew off as they were
walking on lock wall. A police
man retrieved the ribbon and
asked if he could keep it. I'm
possible" exclaimed Frau Elm
stein, "the hat was a gift and the
band is part of it,
CLEVELAND = Yaro Novotny
has been wont to serenade his lady
love with sirens and gongs. The
result was just one false alarm
after another. Every night for
three weeks was bit thick so
the fire department had Yaro
arrested.
TUSCUMBIA, Ala.-There is a
bright sixth grade here. An cleo
trio eye on the teachers desk
automatically switches on the
lights when the sunlight is dimmed
by clouds. School officials say the
result is that the pupils in that
room are farther advanced than
another sixth grade where there is
no electric eye.
MOSCOW - Christmas isn't
Christmas in Soviet Russia. The
Communists frown upon it, and
many children never have heard of
it.
LANCASTER, Pa.-Robert Leon
ard, 13, has been discharged from
hospital as cured, tho he car
ries a bullet in his heart. The shot,
fired accidentally by a companion,
passed thru one wall of the heart
and lodged in another. Doctors
dared not operate for fear it would
be fatal. Robert feels all right.
DRUMlHELUER, Alta. - Robert
Tolman wrote note saying his
parents were "the best kid ever
had," then shot and killed his
mother, his sister and himself.
MIAMI, Fla.-What does the
Indian lover Groom to his sweet
heart? A representative of the
Smithsonian institution is down
here with the idea of putting the
Seminols love song in phonograph
records.
BEUGRADE.-Not to be outdone
by the Austrians who sent strand
ed swallows to Italy by air, the
Jugoslav Society for the Protec-
zion of Animals sent a stranded
stork to Istanbul by plane with a
letter asking to the Turkish S. P
C. A. to forward it to Cairo for the
winter.
ROME.-Italy's new penal code
provides Imprisonment up to five
years for "anyone who induces an
other to emigrate and, as recon-
pense for sending this person
abroad, obtains or is promised mon
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