RADIO STATION |
CAUSED FINE
Cleveland — (UPi— Two youth
ful radio operators, whose home
made broadcasting set became one
of the country’s smallest commer
cial stations in defiance of the
Federal Radio commission, have
learned that the law means what
it says.
Marcey E. Hefling, 21, and Mar
ion Weymouth, 28, both of New
Philadelphia, were reprimanded in
federal court by Judge Samuel H.
West.
The judge relented, however
and suspended payment of a $100
fine levied against the youths af
ter they promised to "read the law
and realize it means what its savs.’
The two youths built themselves
a 7*6 watt, 850 kilocycles set in an
abandoned manufacturing plant
In New Philadelphia, although
they had been refused a federal
license.
They used local talent on mod
est commercial programs, and ev
ery Sunday turned the station
over to churches in the vicinity.
A West Virginia station com
plained to the Federal Radio com
mission that its broadcasts were be
ing interfered with. A test, car
traveled Ohio and West Virginia I
roads until the boys’ station, WAIR,
was found.
The youths were indicted and [
pleaded guilty to operating with
out a license.
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Gold Filled Cannon
Hunt Finally Abandoned
Houston, Tex. — (UP) — Back
to his home in Mongomery, Ala.,
has gone A. E. Davis after spend
ing nine years and hundreds of
dollars in a fruitless search for
a legendary Mexican cannon filled
with gold.
According to legend, Mexican
soldiers threw the treasure into |
the San Jacinto river in 1859
when pursued oy bandits.
During the time he searshed for
the cannon, Davis used dredges
and diving equipment. After »
final try he has given up.
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Century Old Ferry
Was Discontinued j
Boston —(UP)— Boston’s penny j
ferry, a century-old institution, is I
no more.
On a recent night, when the
ferryboat Ralph Polumbo nosed
into its slip here after the 10
o’clock trip from East Boston
across the harbor, Capt. Charles
Crocker sounded a couple of extra
blasts on the whistle. That was
the only ceremony marking the
termination of the North Ferry,
on which one crossed the harbor
for a cent.
Municipal economy forced the
discontinuance.
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Ohio Sugar Beet Crop
To Bring $2,000,000
Toledo, Ohio —(UP)— Five thou
sand Ohio farmers will receive
more than $2,000,000 for their su
gar beet crops this year, it is esti
mated by the Farmer and Manu
facturers Beet Sugar association.
More than 8,000,000 man-hours
of labor will be required in the {
growing, harvesting, processing
and distribution of the 1933 Ohio
crop, which is expected to exceed
the 1932 acreage by 12 000 acres.
The total harvest this year is
estimated at 375,000 tons.
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Bootlegging Is Old
Crime, Records Reveal
Ottawa, Ohio — (UP)— Old records
unearthed here recently reveal
that bootlegging was one of the
principal crimes with which au
thorities had to deal a century
ago.
The first man ever convicted in
Putnam county was a bootlegger,
and at the first session of the
grand jury, 99 years ago, four
persons were indicted for selling
liquor without a license.
The first person convicted on
that offense paid a fine of $25 and
costs.
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Children Forced
Mother to Seek Divorce
Denver, Colo. —(UP)— Claiming
that four of her husband’s chil
dren by a former marriage hu
miliated, belittled and threatened
her. and that her husband per
mitted such conduct, Mrs. Char
lotte Finnery filed a separate
maintenance suit in district court
here.
Mrs. Finnery also alleged Fin
nerty permitted his son Jack to
drive her from the family home.
The complaint requested $50
monthly, under - prenuptial
agreement, and t. reasonable
amount in addition her sup
port.
COW INJURED OWNER
Bloomington, Wis — (UP) —
Henry Wegman’s cow will lean no
more, if the fanner can prevent i
It. The cow, which had a habit of !
leaning while being milked, |
slipped on the wet bam floor, fell
on Wegman’s foot, and fractured
Wegman’s heel and dislocated hi*
ankle. .
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Man Becoming Unwilling
Hoarder, Swallowing Coin
Marysville, Cal. — <UP' — W. F.
Allen has inadvertently become a
hoarder. i
Allen accidentally swallowed a
dime. X-ray photographs showed
the coin was lodged in Allen's
lung. Related efforts of physi
cians to retrieve the dime thus far
have failed.
Despite his hoarded coin. Allen
has been able to go about hi*
work without 111 effects. j
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18,457 FLIERS
GET LICENSES
Washington — (UP) — Airplane
pilots holding active Department
of Commerce licenses numbered
18 457 on April 1, according to Col.
Clarence M. Young, assistant sec
retary of the department for avi
ation. On April t, 1932, there were
17.628 licensed pilc4»s.
The department had issued li
censes for 7,004 planes on April 1,
1933, a slight decrease from the
7.476 total of a year ago. The total
number of planes of which the de
partment had record on April 1,
including licensed and unlicensed
planes, was 9,086, compared with
10,672 a year before.
Of the total pilot’s licenses re
corded this year, 599 were held by
womn.
Calfornia led the states for to
tal numebr of planes, both li
censed and unlicensed, with 985,
while New York was second, with
946, and Pennsylvania, with 537,
was third. New York was the
leader in licensed aircraft, having
850, followed by California, with
824, and Pennsylvania, with 459.
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Admittance of Woman
Brought Hotel Disaster
San Francisco — (UP) — After
catering to men only in the res
taurant and hotel here for many
years, Herbert’s let down the bars
and admitted women. The very
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Variety Keynote of Season’s New Fashions
Never has there been allowed more latitude in choosing clothes than is permitted milady this season, for
almost anything is permissible—provided it is perfectly done and in good taste. Pique, cotton, silks or
velvets are in order at any time as long as they are correctly styled with harmonious details. Above are
three models of the latest creations to come from the designer’s table. At left ia a white taffata afternoon
dress, with new drape puff sleeves and pleated foundation under the tunic. The collar, jabot and top of
gloves are of black transparent velvet. In center is a bottle green velvet wrap with the new draped sleeve
from the scarf yoke overcire mousseline print with dark green background. At right is a dark green velvet
scarf wrap with fancy ostrich trim. White dots are pasted on the ends of the ostrich fronds which havs
been waxed.
inquisitive Horse
Wrecked Automobile
Bozeman Mont. —(UP*— An in
,ui*jtivc horse which poked hio
rad through ti e window of C. H
Qruinn's automlbile WTccked the
rar and presumably Injured itself
fatally.
Qinn reported he had driven
hrough a bond of horses, wher.
ihe machine suddenly swerved
t hrougvh a guard rail, dropped 18
feet and lit on Its top. He was un
hurt. Hair and blood on one of
the car's windows led him to be
lieve a horse had thrust its head
into the machine, causing the
accident.
Innovation Introduced
In Clinic Operation
Indianapolis, Ind. — <UP) —
^'ith the use of m&nometric I
flames, variable rotators and a
spirometer. Butler University has
introduced an Innovation with
operation of the only college
speaking clinic in Indiana.
JfciUibllshtd lor tiie purpose of
determining • in advance the ability
of prospective public speakers,
Prof. C. W. Walters Is utilizing the
fundamentals of science and me
chanics to determine vocal ability.
He plans to test the voices of
more than 200 students in the
university in the next few months.
The tests will be given any college
student whether he plans to en
gage in speaking or merely want*
to know the power of his voice.
Experts rang the 20 varieties of
headaches as next to the common
cold in causing the greatest loss in
business efficiency.
first day the feminine sex was ad
mitted. trouble developed.
While the restaurant was filled
with women, eager to see the sa
cred bachelor haunt, fire broke
out. The feminine diners had to
flee before they had even tasted
their first dinner in the renowned
Herbert’s.
Now the establishment is con
sidering again banning women
when it reopens for business.
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Bee.? Flows in State
In Spite of Illegality
Hot Springs, Ark —(UP)— Beer
still flows in Hot Springs despite
its sale is illegal in the state. City
officials, however, say the people
want it “and we collect fines from
all those who wish to sell the new
beer.” The fines are used to operate
the city government as are those
levied against operators of gambling
devices and race horse books.
A federal official here recently
issued federal licenses to all those
selling beer. This fee is $20 per
year, or $10 for six months.
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Omission of Clause
Costs State $200 Daily
Ogden, Utah. —(UP)— Failure of
the legislature to include an
emergency clause in a bill per
mitting the manufacture for ex
port only of 3.2 per cent beer is
costing the state $200 per day in
taxes and from $500 to $700 daily
in payrolls, G. L. Becker, local
brewer, charged here.
The beer bill, authorizing only
the sale of the recently legalized
beer outside the state, will become
effective sometime in July when
Gov. Henry L. Blood proclaim*
the effectiveness of 1933 statutes.
Had the measure been passed
with an emergency clause. Beck
er’s brewery, located here, could
have started operating last April.
Youth* Maintain
Miniature Airport
Boise, Idaho — (UP) — A fully
equipped miniature airport is
maintained here by two youths
who have visions of becoming first
rank aviators. ,
The boys, Merrcll Treadwell, 15,
and Stanley Smith, 14, built two
cement hangars and made models
— 52 of them — of all the best
known types of navy, army and
commercial airplanes. The models
are accurate in all important de
tails.
Other boys became interested so
Treadwell and Smith formed a
navy air corps and enlisted six
boys which gave them that many
assistants for the hard work.
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Trial Marriage Exists
In State, Pastor Said
Little Rock, Ark. — (UP) —
Trial marriages exist in Arkansas
the Rev. Thornburgh Workman,
pastor of the Methodist church
at England, said here.
“It is possible.” he said, “for a
couple, resident in Arkansas, to
be divorced and remarry between
luncheon and dinner, and to have
a brand new honeymoon every
Thursday — the day the chancery
court issues divorce decrees.”
To become a resident of Arkan
sas one must live in the state at
least 90-days.
Tales of Real Dogs-By Albert Payson Terhnne
Turk was a swaggering, almost
enow-white smooth fox terrier of
the oldfashloned kind. He belonged
to A. H. Acton, who lived in the
London suburb of Holland Park.
This was some years ago, before
there were so many stories of dogs,
printed in the newspapers, as now
adays.
Nevertheless, the English pa
pers told of his exploits, to con
siderable length as you shall see
Nowadays, much more space would
have been given to him.
Turk was the kind of a dog
that takes possession of his own
er's home and considers it his.
He was obedient and playful, but
he had a high sense of his own
importance as a member of the
household.
For instance: sometimes, in that
dog-loving suburb, a neighbor
would ca'l and would bring along
a dog. Instantly, a wholesale quan
tity of trouble would set in.
Turk resented loudly and fierce
ly the presence of any other dog
in the house, even for a brief social
call. And his resentment took the
form of immediate attack.
If the visitor’s dog were gentle
and timid, its howls and shrieks
mingled with Turk’s furious snarls.
If the newcomer were warlike,
then the whole house was liable
to be turned topsy-turvy by a dog
fight which raged from room to
room until the intruder ran yelp
ing and defeated from the premises.
Of course this kind of thing did
not tend to make Turk very popular
in the neighborhood. For more
trouble can be stirred up by pet
dogs in a community than by al
most any other cause.
Finally, the Actons’ friends either
stayed away from the pleasant
home, or else they left their own
dogs behind, when they called there.
Turk had no further need to drive
out visiting canines He had the
house to himself, as far ns other
dogs were concerned. And there was
an aftermath of neighborhood
grievances, which troubled the hu
mans of the family, but which
annoyed Turk not at all.
One morning, the Acton house
maid came into the living room to
dust. There was a low couch at one
end of the room. On this couch a
right miserable looking cur was ly
ing, covered with dust and blood.
Close beside the strange cur,
Turk was nestling: licking the
other’s bleeding and broken fore
paw.
The housemaid came forward to
Investigate. Turk flew at her in
virolcnt rage and would not let her
come into that part of the room.
The living-room windows were
long. One of them had been left
open by mistake, during the night.
Evidently, Turk had wandered forth
through the opening.
Somewhere, somehow, in the
course of his nocturnal ramblings
he had come across the injured
little street dog, and he had
brought the sufferer home with
him. This, in spite of his lifelong
anger at any visiters’ dogs that
chanced to be brought thither by
their owners.
As the housemaid stood hesita
ting, Turk heard the door of Mrs.
Acton's room open, «on the floor
above. Instantly, he left his Injured
guest and raced upstairs to his
mistress.
He caught Mrs. Actn by the hem
of her long shirt, and tugged at it
in a frantic effort to make her
come downstairs with him. Laugh
ingly, she obeyed the vehement
summons.
Trotting Just in front of Mrs.
Acton, and turning around at every
few 6teps, to make certain she was
following close behind him, Turk
led her to the living room.
There the maid pointed out the
stray dog to her and told her she
had happened to find it on the
couch. Turk took up his place close
to the stranger. His expressive eyes
and wagging tail begged Mrs. Acton
to come across the room and ex
amine the invalid.
A veterinarian was sent for. The
bleeding and broken paw was set.
A bath removed the clotted blood
and the dust from the victim's
coat. All this time, Turk stood
guard close beside the stranger, not
interfering in any way with the
proceedings, but watching every
move.
When the hurt cur was tended
and washed and combed and fed,
it was put back on the rumpled
couch. Turk Jumped up beside it,
there, and lay protectingly on
guard.
For two weeks, this went on. Day
and night. Turk watched over his
new friend, superintending his
feeding and his brushing.
Whenever an outsider appeared
in the doorway, Turk would growl
in hideous menace. But he wagged
his tail vigorously when the vet
erinarian or Mrs. Acton came near.
Meanwhile, the story had spread.
The newspapers printed it. People
came from everywhere to look at
the valiant little canine nurse and
the stray dog he had adopted.
When at last the broken paw was
strong enough to enable the Invalid
to hobble out into the garden for
exercise and to sit in the sun, Turk
went with his new friend, keeping
close at the guest’s side, as if to
support the latter’s weakly limping
steps.
When the day’s outing was over,
Turk would steer the sick dog back
to the living room and boost it
onto the low couch and lie down
there beside it.
Turk, by the way, had a comfort
Fishermen Start Drive
Against Giant Catfish
Horatio, Ark. —(UP*— Old Rip.
a giant Opelousas catfish credited
with great cunning and strength,
has become the object of a con
certed drive by fishermen who fre
quent the shady pools of Little
river.
Veterans of the rod and reel
declare the huge fish weighs be
tween 75 and 100 pounds. Strange
tales are told of him He has
broken scores of trot lines, and
once dragged e 30-pound weight
able basket-bed of his own In *
warm corner of the room, where he
had slept every night for years. Bat,
during the convalescence of bis
new friend, he never once went
near this formerly loved bed of Ms.
Instead, he lived and slept on tlie
far less comfortable couch, where
the other dog lay.
Thanks to the newspaper noto
riety, a man came at l.ist to elate
the hurt cur. He was an Irishman
whose pet dog had been lost in ttoo
streets. He had been looking for ft
for weeks and had been guided to
the Acton house by reading the tale
in the papers. The description of
the waif seemed to fit his loot
chum.
At sight of the man, the nearly
well dog went wild with joyous e*
citement. Turk looked earnestly for
a moment from his protege to the
owner. Then he seemed to under
stand,
For he did not snarl at the Irish
man as he had snarled at other
human Intruders. Instead, he step
pod down from the couch and
walked sndly out of tlie house.
He realized his work was done,
and that his new friend was going
away. He was wise enough to see
that here was a glad reunion be
tween a dog and Its master, and
that he himself had no part in ft.
Turk’s long vigil as a nurse and
comrade was at an end. He had
lost his beloved new pal; the dog
he had found writhing and scream
ing In the street where a careleaaly
drlven motor-car had evident!*
struck him; the dog he had brought,
home with him and tended so care
fully for weeks.
Out into the garden Turk strode,
and thence to the street. He did
not stay to say goodbye to his de
parting pal. Nor did he come baefc:
to the house until several hour*
after the Irishman had canted hla
newly-recovcred pet home witft
him.
Tlie next time a visitor brought,
a dog to the house, Turk flew tit
the Invader with all his olden furyu
FRANCE PLANS
NEW AIR BASE
Paris — (UPJ— France’s deter
mined effort to improve her lore®
of the air will take a new step
forward when a skeleton air ba*
is established at Salon-de-Pro
vence, 50 miles from Marseilles.
The base will be used strictly
for army and navy air force ex
periments and is to become France^
chief air .raining school by tire time
the government's program of devel
opment and reorganization is com
pleted. This Is to be not later thaw
135, according to the air ministry 1b
plans.
Corollary to the Salon air scboril
will be the land plane base at
Istres and a new base, for sea
planes, either at Berre or Mar
ignane. At the same time the ale
bases of Thionville and Stras
bourg are to be abandoned by thr
army, leaving these fields, like Be
Bourget, free for civil aviation.
The military air bases are to to
established at Bordeaux, at Tob
louse and at Orange, according tm
the air ministry.
Justice of Peace
Fined Self $5
Wilkinsburg, Pa. — (UP) — Jus
tice of the Peace George R,
Shields adheres strictly to tho
penalties listed in the traffic code
for motor violations. So strict la
he that he fined himslf 5 I«r
driving through a red lght.
Enlisted in Burgess William H.
Turner’s campaign to check mo
torists driving through a certain
borough red light, Shields inad
vertently drove against the Dgtafc
himself.
When a passenger in the ear
called the fact to his attention
Shields returned to his office
pleaded guiltp and paid the fine.
Arizona Antelopes
Counted from the Air
Flagstaff, Ariz. — (UP) — Ari
zona’s unnumbered antelopes has*
been counted — most of them.
Robert Monroe, assistant super
visor of the Coconino NatioraM
forest, flying as observer in a»
airplane, counted 1,848 animals In
11 herds. In 2 hours and 30 min
utes of flying over the Andaman
Mesa country near here.
Monroe estimated that when
the count is complete, more Uiaa»
3,000 head will have been observed
from the air.
Convictions in Cases
Increased 5.4 Per Cot
Detroit — (UP) — The percent
age of convictions in all ease*
taken to court in Wayne county
was 79 6 per cent the Last six
months of 1932 as compared wttti
74.2 per cent the first six months,
according to Prosecutor Harry &
Toy.
Of 12,723 cases prosecuted dur
ing the six months ending December
31, 10133 resulted in conviction. In
the preceding six months pend
13.978 prosecutions resulted m
10,373 convictions.
downstream before freeing him
j self.
A few anglers talk of ordering
a special hook from the load
blacksmith, and baiting it with a
yearling’s carcass ia a desperate
effort to land Old Rip. Amatrwr
flshermen, however, declare sue*
talk a little •'tan.’*
Not for Her.
Prom Tit-Bits.
"He told me he could Pve on my
kisses forever"
“Are you going to let him?"
"Not until I And out what ■’*
going to live on.”