Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-08-17
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(By the Associated Press)

1874 pounds, and casey" kaZan-
jan. 210 pounds, wrestled to one
fall each, broke, glowered, lowered
their heads and rushed. Their
skulls klinked together and both
went out.
New York.=Vending machines
don't tell when lead nickels are
foisted upon them, but detectives
who stand nearby do. That is why
Leon Leflin is going back to the
Dekalb county Jail in Illinois. He
confessed to the detectives that he
had sawed his way out, said his
conscience had been ~bothering him,
anyway.
Havana.-Not because of tenn
perance, but because the taxes
hadn't been paid, the treasury de-
partment broke up $4,000 liters of
rum, whiskey and other alcoholic
beverages and let them flow for
twelve hours down a busy street.
Passersby looked, shrugged their
shoulders.
Denver.-William C. Patton's
life sentence for murder is about
to expire. He remarked the wife
who divorced him in 1922 follow
ing his conviction so that she may
collect his war risk insurance as
soon as the ravages of tuberculosis
take him from the hands Of justice
"A matter of a few hours.
Camden, N. William Cross,
who lost $50, is going to get it
back-if and when. The nan who
found it has written Cross saying
he is at present jobless and is
borrowing" the money, but that
he will repay it with interest at a
more propitious day.
Folkestone, Eng. - Proceedings
in police court were solemn, SER
ious. Alderman Stainer, the chair
man, listened to the case against
a Japanese charged with lodging
the customs. He fidgeted with a
little black box. Up popped a me-
chanical bird whistling a right
merry tune. The Japanese was
fined $25.
New York. - Mrs. Franklin
Roosevelt who, by the grace OF
enough votes for her husband,
may become first lady of the land,
has eaten a two-cent luncheon
and liked it. She sat down yester-
day to a bowl of soup Zone cent?
and topped it off with a piece OF
pie tone cent?. 1t was at the new
penny lunch on Broadway. Had
she felt up to it, Mrs. Roosevelt
could have had a five course DIN
ner for ten cents.
Wilmington, Del.-Charley Cur
a has decided Jail is better than
a dance marathon. AS long as ne
footed along in the marathon
he was shuffling through for more
than 800 hours-he could keep out
Of Jail where his wife decided he
should go for alimony inconsist-
encies. The marathon promoters
paid the alimony as long as ne
danced. But Charley got tired,
tho payments stopped and the jail
has Charley now.
New York.-Isidore Renner is
getting to be an expert window
smasher. 1t is disastrous to the
window but efficacious in other
respects. Six years ago when OBJ
beers entered his jewelry store he
saved SITS, 0O0's worth of jewels by
poking his fist through the win
dow, frightening them away. Yes
terday robbers tried to repeat and
the Renner fist went crashing
through the window again; and
the robbers took it, as they say,
on the lam.
New York.-The mackerel are
on a rampage. They r so thick
around the quarantine pier that it
is no trick to catch a hundred an
hour. They eat matches, cigaret
stubs-anything. The mackerel
experts avow that the fish have
been frightened to the pier by
blue fish, who love mackerel.
Sonora. Calf Mark Twain
overlooked a bet, maybe, when he
was living at Jackass Hill here. A
prospector reports finding a chunk
of gold worth $1,000, and a total
of $1,000 in two other lots taken
from the shaft of an abandoned
mine in the hill.
. . .
Los Angeles-A doctor put Mrs.
X. Mccain, suffering from cancer,
on a plane at Shreveport, La,
bound for Los Angeles. When
they lifted her from the plane here
she smiled and said: "The doctor
said I'd never make it-but I'll
outlive him yet"
New York-Arthur Sullivan, 8,