Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-03-10
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reached the status, technically, OF
a good old fashioned war. SO de-
clares Quincy Wright, professor Of
international law at Chicago uni
vers;ty, but he comedies the pos
sibility a state of war may develop
if things keep on.
KANSAS CITY-Kermit Roose-
welt enjoys being the exception to
what has become almost an in
variable rule in his family. No pol
itics for him, he stoutly asserts.
He'd rather run steamships than
governments.
BANNING, Calif.-Tens of thou
sands of truant trout, slipping slyly
away from their flooded hatchery
into newly formed desert pools, are
being gathered up and taken back
to their schools" by wardens who
fear the piscatorial escapade might
end d~isastrously for the fish when
the pools dry up.
NEW YORK-Frank La Forge,
the pianist-composer, has a novel
way of summoning his secretary.
All he does is play the Walkuere
motif on the piano and the secre-
tary arrives.
FORT OGLETHORPE, Ca
There were no prize "army'' babies
born in 1881; they were all good.
That's the way the bachelor judges
decided the baby show here recent
ly. Each contesting baby scored
1916 per cent. The bachelors found
most of the infants had some twice.
or other - meaning crib-biting,
thumb-sucking and such.
NEW YORK-Charity begins at
home and the fashionable st. Bar
tholomew's church therefore has
reduced by 10 per cent the salaries
of it's entire personnel of about $50,
including that of the Rev. DR.. Rob-
ert Norwood, rector.
DETROIT-In Detroit a patrol
man stands in front of every one
of the 981 known sp~eakeasies. The
idea is to question everyone who
would enter. This form Of "pick-
citing" has reduced the number of
known speakeasies from 1861 list
ed last August. Half a dozen cab
arets already have closed from de-
clining business, customers declin-
ing 10 run the gauntlet OF police
questioning.
SHANGHAI-Their c~ountrymen,
embroiled in battle, scroll death
with booming guns that lend err
ratio tempo to blaring dance hall
strains, but that doesn't mean a
thing to pretty Japanese and Chi
nese girls engaged as dancing part
ners at ST. Georges cabaret. The
girls amiably rub elbows as they
circle the floor. To eat, they must
work. War mustn't interfere.
MIAMI BEACH-Pegasus had
nothing on Phantom, the air.
minded horse owned by Miss Betty
Rand of Houston. Phantom trav-
eled from Paris to London by plane
a couple of years ago and since
then has taken numerous air trips.
Now they're fixing up a ship to
take him from New York to Ha-
vana for the there.
NEW York; Senator Huey
Long of Louisiana had fumbled his
text in reeling off Leviticus to re-
porters at the Waldorf Astoria he
could have blamed it on a hotel
guest with taking ways. He reached
for a Gideon to back up a press in
terview by the guest occupying his
room before him apparently had
appropriated it as a souvenir.
NRONTO-A boomerang did
just that all the way back to Perth,
Australia, from whence it came,
but a mixup in the postoffice here
was responsible and not the law of
physics applying to surved sticks.
NEWCASTLE, Pa.-Bily Sum
day is by no means sanguinary but
he would willingly volunteer for
firing squad service if abductors of
the Lindbergh eaglet are dealt with
properly" he announces.
NEW YORK-Defense counsel
tried unsuccessfully to make TroC-
tier, an obstinate terrier, show its
bridgework in COURT during a $685.
900 dog-bite suit but the jury de-
cided sight nseen the terriers
mOlars could not have caused more
than $500 damage to David Duffy's
leg.
TOPEKA, Kan.-The boys down
on the farm are learning to say
"Gee" and "Haw' again. More
horses will be drawing plows and
harrows this season and there will
be fewer tractors putting thru the
burrows. Gasoline and spare parts