Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-05-05
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Of Ii F;E
(5y The Associated Press)

fence TO see the ClarkSburg base
ball team play. "Official holes"
just big enough to admit skinny"
and "Midge' free, have been or
dered cut in the fence by the club
management.
CHICAGO - William Kurnath,
II, is bordering the adage about
golden silence. Police were ques-
tioning his best pal, John Fuks, Is,
about a robbery when Fuks's
tongue slipped. II don't know any
thing about that shooting" police
said he blurted out. They quizzed
him some more and as a result ar
rested Kurnath for a murder. Until
the slip of the tongue, detectives
said, neither lad was suspected of
the murder.
PERTH, Western Australia -
There wasn't a dry lip in the house
as mourners bemoaned the passing
of John Jones, civil servant. Fol-
lowing instructions in his will, each
mourner received two of the larg-
est and coolest glasses of beer in
Australia.
NEW YORK-"You were a great
help-I don't think" said Miss
Frances Maddux, night club singer,
to Tommy her terrier, as she
picked herself out of the dust. A
woman had snatched Miss Mad
dux's pocketbook and dashed off.
As the singer started in pursuit,
Tommy, thinking it a lark, tangled
himself all up in her feet and she
fell headlong.
BOSTON-Alley cats here may
be tough, but a scrapper from over
the seas took blue ribbon at an
alley cat show. His name is Syrup
and he comes from Syria. The
other entries arched their backs
and glared, evidently hoping to
meet him on a back fence some
dark night.
BELGRADE, Jugoslavia A
playwright's paradise is what Bel
grade is getting to be. Because the
Belgrade illustrated weekly said
Velmoir Yankovich's new play was
Incompetent Twaddle," a judge
sentenced the papers owner to
five days in Jail. The judge thot
it was hard enough to make a play
pay without critics butting in.
NEW YORK-A bridge game
with cards 20 feet high is one of
the things Promoter James john
o plans to put on in a $4,000 seat
stadium building here. The players
would press buttons and a derrick
would play the cards in such a way
that the lads in the back could see
them.
BOSTON-"T won't bother to
lock my automobile" said Garrett
f. Burns to himself, because
there's nothing in it but an empty
bag" When he returned he found
thieves had ripped a hole in the
top of the car to get the bag. They
didn't know the doors were I'M
locked.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Add Will
liam McFee TO those who believe
universities can't create genius. He
said in the Yale news that a uni
versity is incapable of producing a
Dickens or Balzac altho it al turn
out thousands of appreciative
readers of Dickens and Balzac."
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FAENZA, Italy-The free lunch
an old Roman custom-has been
revived here. On St. Lazaro's day
you can enter any house in the
Borgo Durbecco, the most ancient
part of the city, and eat all you
want free. The Romans establish
ed the custom to attract tourists.
NEW YORK-Building a bust
ness with beer bricks is something
the federal agents disapprove.
They hauled two statesmen into
court despite the fact that %custoZ
mers who purchased the bricks
were cautioned not to add yeast to
them.
BOSTON-Gov. Joseph B. Ely is
no embattled farmer but he's going
to fire the shot really heard round
the world. On April 10, anniver-
sary of the Battle of Concord, he
will discharge a firearm in a short
wave station, and the sound of the
explosion will circle the globe.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
w. Va.Jack Ryerson had better
luck 90 years ago. On April Ia,
1912, a nurse bundled him in a
blanket and carried him off the
sinking Titanic to a life boat. On
April Id, 1882, he was eliminated
from the Mason and Dixon golf
tournament. He was champion last
year.