Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-01-28
Flashes of Life
From the
News of the Week

hearing Is not acute. Police were
deluged with complaints about the
noise. They charged him with IN
~toxication.
SAN DIEGO-Oscar F. Tucker
had seen the world once with the
u. S. navy and wanted to see it
again. He hitch liked here all the
way from Norfolk, Va, to re-enlist.
He was rejected by a recruiting Of
fieer who looked up his old record
and found he had become 35 years
old on Thursday-making him a
day late for re-enlistment.
PALM BEACH-Just like moth
ers make their children mind, so
should women enforce the laws of
the nation. That's the opinion of
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody, prominent
dry crusader, who approves of
man-made laws. But leave the
rest to the women.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A
son committed suicide upon discov-
ering that his father had embez-
zled 100000 kroner ($57,000). A
few days later the father, Judge
Holger Hansen, became conscience
stricken and ended his own life.
The youth wrote his father he
could not live in shame.
NIAGARA FALLS-This pussy
willow weather has set a record
here. For the first time in "a
years no ice has formed below the
falls. The huge ice mountain usual
ly is one of the chief lures that
brings tourists. But there's no ice
and consequently few visitors.
NEW YORK Mayor Walker
would if he could, but he can't.
He'd like to appoint John Ringing,
circus owner, to the park commits
sion and thereby get a good zoo in
the bargain. But Ringing is a res
idept Of Florida and that squelches
the plan.
CHICAGO-Unless icy blasts
foist themselves on this city today,
two years of zero-less weather will
be celebrated. On January %, 1880,
the mercury slid to four minus and
hasn't been down there since.
NORFOLK, Va.-Residents had
to look at the calendar twice to
make sure it was January. A ripe
8-pound watermelon was picked;
ripe tomatoes were found in gar
dens and fishermen reported catch
ing herring and shad. On January
"a, ut that!
HORNELL, N. Y.-Here is news!
Dippy, a puppy owned by three
year-old Clarence Mason, is nurs-
ing a badly bitten vs. Little
Clarence explained the injury with
seven words: 'fDippy bit me and
me bit Dippy." Short and to the
point.
WASHINGTON-Cornelius Van
derbilt, Jr., isn't as proud of his
watchdog as he used to be. Things
are different now. He left his full
blooded police dog in his automo-
bile to watch over two ~overcoats
and some baggage. When he
emerged from q hotel the clothing
bags and dog were one.
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WARREN, Pa.-The first fatal
ity of the 1882 baseball season oc.
Cured in this town yesterday. A
youngster, Clare Springer, was
struck across the stomach by a base
ball bat which slipped from the
hands of a boy and died. The batter
was ~exonerated.
Extraordinarily mild wea'
Their during the late months OF
1891 has prevented the usual mum
her Of fatalities in great lakes
shipping. There have been no fla
talities involving lake boats caught
in ice or storm during the year.
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NOBLESvILLE, Ind.-With the
same delicate hands that she use'
to play the piano and organ 1ol
the n~eighborhood church choir
Mrs. Darran Higbee husks wagon
loads of corn. She has husked moAv
than 500 bushels Of corn this year
DELAWARE, O.-College pro
fessors rarely make mistakes If the
number of erasers used by then
indicates anything. An enterprisinf
student at Ohio Wesleyan Univer
sity has found that professors
there require only one eraser .
year.
OAKLAND, Calf. Airplans
service between here and Hoover
dam, on the Colorado river, ha'
been inaugurated. A new thru ser
vice from the San Francisco BAY
district to Boston on a S4-houl
flying schedule also has been es