Judging From Quick and Numerous Efforts to Board Oregon's 'Gravy Train,' Nobody Can Accuse
THE WEATHER
Humidity 4:30 p. nt. yesterday S6
Highest temperature yesterday 41
Lowest temperature last night 3S
Precipitation for 24 hours T
Preeip. since first of mpnth 2.1S
Preeip. from Sept. 1, 1938 .9.9S
JJeficiency since Sept. lf PJ38 1.76
Rain.
VOL. XL1II NO. 209 OF ROSEBURQ R
Editorials
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
VANY people look upon adver
Using as a Intrude worker of
some sort. Nothing could be
farther from the truth. Advertis
ing is merely a salesman that calls
on more prospects than the seller
could AFFORD to call on in any
other way.
"fcJICARLY every successful sales
manager wiirtell you that the
best salesman is the one that call-i
on the MOST PROSPECTS.
Advertising calls on more pros
pects, and calls on them OFTEN
ER, than any other salesman can
possibly hope to do.
That Is why advertising sells
goods.
TP you are to be a successful sell-
er of goods, your salesmen must
be WELCOME. The unwelcome
salesman makes few sales.
The newspaper is always wel
come. Every day it is invited in
to nenrly every home in the com
munity. Not only Is it invited. It
IS EXPECTED. If it doesn't ar
rive, inquiry is immediately made
as to its whereabouts. When it
Arrives, it is given the undivided
attention of those" who (ire expect
ing it.
Any salesman will teil you that
such a reception provides the
(Continued on page 4)
LONDON, Dec. 20. (AP) Win
ter rolled up a heavy toll of lives
in many European countries today.
A ferry boat creeping through
the icy Tagus - river . at Lisbon
struck a dredge and sank, with 25
of the' 70 ferry passengers believed
drowned.
More than 20 deaths were attrib
uted to the cold, 23 -degrees above
zero in England. A violent north
east wind foiled relief Tor three
keepers at Fastnet Rock light
house, off the coast . of County
Cork, Ireland.
Paris and suburbs counted nine
dead. Hundreds of barges were
caught in frozen northern French
canals. Railroad signals froze in
Scandinavia, delaying continental
expresses. Norway had the lowest
temperature yesterday, 25 below
zero; Sweden was second with 20
below.
In Hungary the cold snapped a
rail and derailed a train, injuring
six passengers. Several ships in
the Ulack Sea radioed distress sig
nals, and at least lin-ee sailors
were believed lost.
Weather forecasts were contin
ued cold.
In Belgium 15 deaths1 were at
tributed to the intense cold. The
mercury fell to five degrees above
zero Fahrenheit, lowest in 50
years. Rivers in the southern prov
inces were frozen, outdoors indus
tries paralyzed ond railway and
channel boat traffic greatly reduced.
SCORES PERISH 111
EUROPE'S ICY WAVE
Oregon Cities Found Favorable To
Proposal to Divert Gas Tax Revenue
PORTLAND, Dec. 20. (AP)
Municipalities visited by the League
of Oregon Cities during a two-week
tour favored transfer of a portion
of gasoline tax revenue from the
state highway commission to street
construction and maintenance.
At virtually every municipality
where a meeting took place, a de
mand for $1.50 per capita diversion
of the tax to incorporated mu
nicipalities was voiced. Mayor
Chartes Huggins, Marshfield. league
president, said the diversion was
needed to counteract a 20 per cent
drop in assessed valuations in the
cities. The shrinkage took place
since 1931.
Most cities, the league discovered,
also favored a law empowering
cities to establish sinking funds for
purchases of equipment.
Pendleton demanded greater uni
formity in roadhouse control laws
2 x :
A
Crash
Perry Lyons,
Noted Mercy
Flier, in List
Ship, Enveloped in' Flames,
Falls Near Highway in
Texas ; Corpses Not
Recognizable.
RAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Dec. 20.
( A PI A f I a min g U n i t ed Still es
coast guard plane crashed at
Boerne, 30 miles northwest of
here late last night, killing four
men, all of El Paso.
The dead were identified ns:
Lieut. P. S. Lyons, unit comman
der of the coast guard.
Rupert H. Germaine, United
States coast guard.
George C. Latham, enlisted man,
Fort Illiss.
C. H. Peague, United States nav
al ensign.
The ship was seen in flames as
it passed over Poerne.
Sheriff Ed Pierschwale sa:d he
believed the pilot headed south
after the plane caught fire in or
der to avoid binding within the
town's limits. It crashed in a pas
ture only a few feet from the he.iv
ly traveled San Antonio-Poerne
highway. . . . .
The bodies .were charred find
torn until none was reeognlzahbi.
Pits of flesh were strewn over a
two-acre area.
LYONS, WALLA WALLA-BORN,
NOTED FOR "MERCY" DEEDS
SALEM. Mass., Dec. 20. (AP)
Lieut. Perry S. Lyons, 34. killed
in a plane crash northwest of San
Antonio, Tex., last night, won
wide fame as a "mercy pilot" dur
ing two and one-half years as com
mander of the coast guard's air
base here.
In dead of winter or in the mid
dle of. the night, the semca'.t am
bulance plane frequently flew sea
ward to the aid of some strlckvi
seaman aboard a slow-moving
trawler, with Lyons at ' the con
trols. He piled up many hours Hy
ing doing rescue work during the
Ohio valley and New England
floods of lflH6.
A frequent crew companion was
Rupert II, Germaine. who dle-d
with Lyons in the Texas crash.
Yyons wos born in Walla Walla,
Wash., April 17, 1!)03. and educat
ed in local schools and Uni
versity of Washington at Seattle.
Before joining the air servjeo, be
served aboard coast guard fillips in
Seattle waters, the Bering sea, the
Gulf of Mexico, and orf St. Peters
burgh, Fla. He came to Salem in
1 May, 1035, after a one-venr flying
course ni t'ensacoia. Ma.
GERMANY YIELDS ON
INHERITANCE ISSUE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (AP)
Germany toitny notified the
United States today all inheritance
credits due Americans on the esti
mates of persons deceased in Ger
many hereafter will be transferred
to the beneficiaries in full.
The announcement brought to
the state department this morning
bv Dr. Hans Thomsen, . German
charge d'affaires, clarifies one of
the lesser points of friction between
the two governments.
Americans, heretofore, have not
been able to miter t their full in-
eritonces on German estates be
cause of exchange restrictions for
bidding money to leave Germany.
between Oregon and Washington:
several towns asked a share in
liquor revenues; a majority of
; them asked revision of the budget
limitation law to permit certain
cities to establish a tax base, and
two towns. Pendleton and Medford,
asked speed limit laws.
I City Commissioner O. R. Bean of
Portland estimated the cities would
get $800,000 annually under the pro
posed gasoline tax diversion.
Huggins and Herman Kehrli. the
league's executive secetary, declar
ed at Astoria that various city of
ficials had complained of intima
tions that the state highway depart-
i ment would suspend projects if the
leamie's program was supported.
Kehrli blamed R. H. Baldcrk.
state highway engineer, for "biud-
igeoning" tactics and estimated the
improvements in question amounted
to $50,000,000.
EDS
of Coast Guard Plane Kills
Several Million Dollars in 1
Musicas' Thefts Sought !!
By Federal Investigators
Mystery of Cash Missing
in Drug Firm Swindle
Unsolved; Suicide's
Kin Indicted.
NEW YORK, Dee. 20 (AP)
Federal investigators suiil today
they were hopeful of salvaging
"considerable cash" of the S10,000,
noo to $20,000,000 which the late
Philip JIuslcii is suspected of
swindling from the McKesson &
Robbing drug corporation.
The announcement followed a
statement by District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey that he already
had uncovered evidence the four
Musica brothers had collected ac
tual cash commissions of $3,903 103
through fictitious sales of crude
drugs.
Dewey said his Investigation, not
yet completed, indicated the thefts
might en nn hiili ne Clcqcnorr
Acting U. S. Attorney Gregory
...,...,.. win several days ago the
losses might reach $20,000,000.
An evtl'Umolv iwtn.nlUn, I I
- .j ..u.,i,!ii.atC UUUt-
keeping system used bv Musica
alias "P. Donald Coster," who kill
ed himself last Friday, has delayed
officials in reaching imm,ii..toi.. ....
accurate estimate of the funds in-
Gift of Knowledge Being
orought i hrough Method
of Psychologist.
lly JOSEPH A. IIAWLI.NTr
CH1CACO. Ile- on ni), a
six-year-old girl who was a waif,
uoin mind and deaf, is getting a
whole new world for Christmas
this year thanks to science and
the patience of Dr. Hubert H. Oault,
Northwestern univerHitv iwr-hnUi.
gist.
The child la Tnii.i IT!.,,!.,..
times called Mii "llnln iii,. fi
ller gpnerntimi " jnwi ilin i-
one she'll remember as long us she
lives an opportunity to study
Braille, the language of the sight
less, under the sclent irir mnM,, ,,.
of Dr. Gault.
IJl. Cilllll flil'Ootni- nt A i
can institute for the deaf, disclosed
this unique gift today. Simultan
eously he revealed Joan had al
ready begun her studies and had
in One .thm-t mnnth In,, .-.,,..1
read the Ilraille characters for the'
woros:
"Wool." "nnnbiA "...,ln "
"milk." "girl." "irnnil " "hull" ,,',l
"walk."
Thus Joan Ik fpnelviinr l,.,i
intinv ediicalnrs ,-.,. .....
one of the greatest, if not the
greatest, gifts wllhln the power of
man to bestow Die f.ln nt b,,n.i.
edge.
Method Explained
Dr. Oault hiirl Dm rri,w!..ti,... .
her Ilraille studies by teaching her
a spoken vocabulary of nearly Itm
Words in lU-n vnni.u -n-i,i n
comnlished hv uap'nr Ihn .l,nnt..,.
tor. a device something like a tele
phone which he developed in 1!):!7.
a year after Joan was brought to
nis clinic. A loud speaker trans
mits vibrations f the instructor's
voice, and Joan, holding her tiny
fingers against the machine, can
(Continued on page (it
PIONEER DOUGLAS
TEACHER PASSES
Word has been received here of
the death Dec. 11. near llurns.
Oregon, of Penelope Jane Smyth,
m. native of Douglas county. She
was born near Itoseburg. July X.
daughter of Watson It. and
Susanna Mynatt, who crossed the
nlalns in lsr,:i. she attended Wil
bur academy and taught school in
Douglas county for several vears
prior to her marriage lo Darius H.
Smyth. Oi l. 5, IsSO.
Surviving are her husband:
three sons, Claud H., Corey K..
and Darius, Jr.; two daughters,
Mrs. Pearl Hamilton, and Mrs.
Myrtle Moore: two brothers. It. It.
Mynatt. Img llcarh, California,
and L. R. Mynatt. Ko;-ehurg. and
two sisters. Mrs. Ada Ellliitrer.
Riddle, and Viola Mynatt Harrel
fcon, Salem.
SWEGtmS'CBMCElES 1
MDHFCIDi OFFER Tffl
THrDOUGLRS COUNTY DAILY
ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1938.
Philip Musica-Coster
voived.
Dummy Firms Created.
Dewey, who obtained grand jury
indictments charging the three sur
viving brothers with grand larceny
(Continued on page (it
54 on Advisory Board Wish
to Test Policy of Man
, Succeeding Roper.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. (AP) .
The fifty-four prominent industrial
ists and financiers on the com
merce department's business advi-.
sory council proposed today to re
sign to test tile business-cooperation
policy of the next secretary of
commerce.
It was learned they regarded
their attendance nt monthly meet-,
ings without salary or even ex
pense money as compliance with
a personal renuot;t of Secretary
Daniel C. Roper, who leaves office
Friday. They propose to ipilt lo
give bis successor a free hand In
selection of business advisers.
The resignation move was not
aimed at Harry D. Hopkins. WPA
chief popularly rumored to be the
president's choice ror the cabinet
post. A person close to the council
said many of Its members, although
possibly disagreeing with Hopkins'
views, ravored Ins appointment on
practical grounds.
These council members were
said to believe Hopkins' closeness
to the president would give weight
to any advice lie might relay from
Hie business council to the White
House. The majority of members
are republicans.
Although the possibility Hopkins
will be appointed hinted at changes
in commerce denarltnent pollcv. it
was understood Richard Patter
son. Jr.. assistant secretary, would
remain in the department.
Organization of the business ad
visory council was begun by Itoper
in shortly after he took office.
Sillier on governmental or Its own
Initiative. the council studied
scores of problems taxes, social
security, patents, labor laws, etc.
FISHERMEN OPPOSE
COASTAL RIVER BAN
ASTORIA, Ore., Iec. 20. (AC)
Oregon fishing Industry spoke
through 1) delegates yisifrd;iy,
opposing a wild life fi'dfiation rc
c o in m e n d a Hon that cbaniit1
strfiiniH be closed to commercial
finhlng.
The federation asked the
streams be put under jurisdiction
of the gamp commission.
The gioup met v.ith tho n!;tle
fish commission and tormi-d a pro
gram to combat ihe move at I ho
legislature. I
CLOTHING CAUSES I
DEATH OF TRUCKER
KLAM ATH FALLS. On. . Iii-f
2o i Al rlotllhm rnuaht lu
ll chain, John li. Slorkint's. ::!.
truck (trtvt-r, was draUfd Id his
li'Hl!i uri'ler a lo;ul or loys lu- -atir j
'lumping hi thf C.'raiif Lumber rom- j
pany mill ai Illy j-cstppluy. I
L i a
Sentiment Qn
Tax Diversion
Plan Divided
Roseburg Chamber, County
Urhcials Not in Accord;
Cities League Will
Hold Meet Here.
By CHARLES V. STANTON
-A conflict of opinion regarding
the proposed diversion of state gas
oline tax funds nppears imminent,
u the city of iliosehurg and other
municipalities of the county follow
action luiten quite generally by
cities throughout the state. Already
there is a division of sentiment be
tween the Douglas comity adminis
tration and the Roseburg chamber
of commerce. A meeting to be held
in the near future under sponsor
ship of tho League of Oregon CitioB
is expected to add still a third voice
to the clamor which will plague
Ihe next session of the state legis
lature. The Roseburg chamber of com
merce directors nt their regular
meeting last night unanimously re
iterated their stand opposing any
diversion whatsoever of gasoline
tax funds away from primary stale
highways.
Highway Project CitoJ.
The Roseburg chamber of com
merce for years has been waging a
determined fight lo obtain every
possible cent of available money-for
the purpose of ' rebuilding tho Pa
cific highway in southern Oregon,
particularly the lotlie-nec:c be
tween Roseburg and CJ runts Pass.
Any diversion of funds to counties
and municipalities, it is contended,
delays the ultimate completion of
that project, which Is considered
bv the chamber of commerce to be
all-important.
Fur inuiiv years efforts have
been 'made by counties and cities
to obtain a share of the gasoline
tux money. Recently tho counties
succeednd In securing an enlarged
appropriation from that fund for
(Continued on pago 6.)
TGI
LIMA Peru, Dec. 20. (AP) A
resolution expressing the deter
mination of Pan-American states to
defend one another against aggres
sion was sent lo the Pan-American
conference delegations today, with
the likelihood It would be acted up
on before the week-end.
The draft was prepared by
Franco, the Hra.iliau chairman,
and represented a compromise he
tweon the United Slates wish for
a declaration against incursion by
non-American powers and Argen
tina's Insistence upon condemna
tion by any aggression.
l'he compromise was said lo he
merely a stronger wording of the
1 !:: Iluenos Aires conference
agreement, which provided Tor con
sultation if "peace of tho Ameri
can republics is menaced."
The f:nb-eommltiee of communi
cations yesterday approved a reso
lution urging governments lo
.-peed ratification of the Pan-American
highway, which when com
pleted would run in.npf) miles from
Alaska to Patagonia
Alfo approved were regulations
for intcr-Americau automobile traf
fic', even to assigning license plate
letters lo the countries "I-SA"
was given to (he United States.
The conference put over until
the V.ii" assembly consideration of
a league of American nations, an
inter-American court of justice, and
unification of existing peace agree
ments. h
BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS
Political Job Seekers of Not Doing
I
ll
Council Acts
On Sidewalk
Needs in City
New School Approach Will
Be Supplied, Other Spots
Listed; Sound Truck
Law Presented.
Sidewalk problems, which for
several months have been before
the Roseburg city council, contin
ued to be one of the chief issues
at the regular mooting last night.
Construction of now walks along
tho oast side of Corey Ave., leading
to the new Fullerton school, is to
be authorized, it was decided last
night, and necessary ordinances to
force such construction were ord
ered by the council, while, In the
meantime owners of the affected
properly will bo contacted in an
effort to have the walks built with
out the necessity of legal pressuro.
The council nlso was urged to
speed improvement of walks along
Second avenue. South, to provide a.
way for pedestrians to avoid .mud
and water. Present walks fre
quently are flooded and are full
of dangerous holes, the council
was told.
Residents of Kast Sixth street
also requested that gravel walks be
provided on the section between
Second avenue, South, und Flcser
str.eot.
To Dedicate New ,Routo
The" city council, preparing to
officially dedicate tho new route
of the Pacific highway as an ex
tension of Stephens street, author
ized City Kngineer 11, L. Kppstein
to prepare the necessary maps and
will contact the slate highway de-i
partment to have the plat officially!
dedicated by both the city audi
state.
Hoer license applications by Moth
Schemer, A. ('. Faulheree, Karl
Met 'own. O. C. Collins, Hot el Ump-
qua and l-'agles club were approved.
The application of Muriel Mabley
(Continued on page .)
Harold K. Dnl'ree, a traveling
salesman for an extension course,
was arrested by state police at
Grants Pass last night and return
ed to Roseburg to answer to a
barge of obtaining money by false
pretenses. hePree, according lo
Sheriff Percy Webb, was accused
nt representing that he had author
ity to cash clieckH written in favor
of the company he claimed to re
present, and that he wrote and
cashed Iwo such wort bless chocks
amounting in all to $20.
He waived preliminary examina
tion In Ihe justice court ill Is morn
ing and was order, ;l held lo the
grand jury with bail fixed in the
sum of it Son. Tho sheriff reported
Del 'roe also had waived grand jury
Investigation and would plead In cir
cuit court to a district attorney's
lulormatlon.
-o -
HANGING CORPSE OF
LOGGER IS FOUND
K DA MATH PALDS, Dec. 20
( A Pi Chief of Police Hamm last
night cut flown (he frozen body of
Carl Meyers, (io-year-old logger,
which apparently had been hang
ing from iho rafters of his Mroad
street cabin since last Friday.
Netgiihois said thov had seen
nothing of Meyers since Friday but
that a light hail beep hurtling
fteadlly in his cabin since that
time.
1 lam m hoHeved Meyers was a
suicide, although nothing was
found lo indicate a motive Tor bis
act.
TILLER-TRAIL ROAD
WILL BE IMPROVED
Grading and surfacing of near
ly four miles of the Canyoiivi'iie
section of the Tiller-Trail cut-off
highway is to be undertaken next
year, according to an announce
ment today by the Htale highway
commission. A 1 local ing y.i'Vt.ii-ut
nt federal road funds to the var
ious, projects sponsored jointly by
the highway cum misn (nn, hurcaii
of public roads and loieni cei vice,
the sum of $75, 'mo wan eu. mark
ed for the Tiller-Trail road. Woik I
is to start in the spiing.
Yule
VOL. XXVII
4 Men
Ex-Governor, Once
U. S. Convict, Dies
Warren T. McCray
KKNTLANU. Intl.. Dec. 20.
(AP) Death from a heart attack at
dinner put nn end In tho career of
Warren T. McCray, 73, successively
millionaire farmer, republican 'gov
ernor of Indiana and federal con
vict. McCray died 'last night on
his 2,Gi(i-acre livestock farm near
here.
lie boeamo governor in 1!)2I and
resigned in April, 193-1, after he was
convicted of using tho mails to de
fraud in misrepresenting bis hold
ings to banks from which he sought,
loans. lib was ' sentenced "to TO'
years In Atlanta federal prison.
Ho was paroled after three years,
and In 1930 President Hoover grant
ed him a full pardon.
'DEB
Rublee Will Discuss Plan
to Remove Abused Race
From Nazi Reich.
LONDON, Doc, 20(AP) Klold
Marshal Hermann Goerlng today
invited George Rultleo, American
director of the International refu
gee office, lo visit Merlin lo com
plete (Ik German financial plan for
gelling Jews nut oT Germany.
Kubiee is iho permanent execu
tive In charge of tho international
committee assisting refugees, a
group whose principal efforts In
the past mouths have been sent
toward aiding German Jews.
The invitation from Goerlng.
chief of the nazi four-year economic
Holl'-Hulflcency plan, came on Ihe
heels of Ihe visit lo London hist
week of lljalmar Schucht. president
of Ihe Reiehsitank, on an unofficial
mission attempting In arrange the
financial end of Jewish emigration.
It also came after Prime Minis-
ii-i v ciuiiiu"-) nun, ni ciimiiionH yes
terday, said he was "still waiting
for a sign from (hone who speak
for the German people" that they
were ready to make "their coiilii-
(Continued on tinre t
(My Ihe Associated Press)
High Powered Safe
HOZF..MAN", Mont. Murglars slip
ped Into the Uoenian Feed com
pany. Intent on cracking the safe.
I'naware the company's circuits
carry twice Ihe usual voltage, Ihe
burglars hooked up their electric
drill.
Tito safe was saved.
Artistic Safe
DKNVFR Niirht Watchman
Uoyd Wilson, making his rounds,
stopped to peer through a window
at tin; Save-a-Nlckel store's uffico
safe.
The safe didn't look quite right.
Wilson invent f gated, discovered :
Iturgliirs had carted off the orig
inal with ilM i't.r.no con ten is.
Wilson was looking at a clever
cardboard replica.
Sound Sleeper
MIN'NKAPOIJSFor Ronald Ab
rahauion, double feature nun ten
are sleep producers at least,
when they are seen twice, at. one
sitting.
Ronald slept undisturbed through
n couple, of shows unmindful his pa-
I
Oddities Off Hie Press Wire
S-hopping Early.
MUSICA-COSTER '
Follow developments In the probe
of one of the most amazing swindles
in the history of American crime.
Kamiffcutions touch on inteination
ui episodes. Head the daily NEWS
ItEVIEV, .."-.
NO. 119 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Anfi-Trys
American Medical Assn., 3
Local Societies Named
Also By Jury ; Co-op
Setup Involved.
WASI!lNnTOM, Dec. 20. (A P)
The American Medical associa
tion, three local medical scVile--
and 21 Individual phvieians wore
inflicted today by a federal grand
jury for violation of the Sherman
anti-trust act.
The societies named wore tin
Medical Society of ihe District of
Columbia. the Harris Cou:ty
fTex.) Medical socloty. and t';e
Washington (D. C.) Acudomy . nt
Surgery.
Among tho 21 phvrflcian;' indict
ed were Dr. Olin W'ost, secretary
of tho American Medical, associa
tion; Dr. Morris FlshueU. .editor
of the American Medical Associa
tion's Journal; Dr. Arthur C.
Christie, prominent Washington
radiologist and Dr. Prentiss Will
son, who recently cooperated in
filing a suit against, tho Washing
ton Group Health association.
1 charging group health physicians
had injured his practice Jn rurni sh
ine: medical service thinntrh I hi
I association.
Others indicted am officials of
tho American Medical association,
or its affiliated, society. :
Tho department, of justice insti
tuted proceedings awlnst . tjio
American Medleil association hist'
October, charging it wag acting
In restraint of trade, in violation
of tho anti-trust act. ,
i--T.nnnnon.ry"H:-i)iiui V.e.l . I tl.tr. H"""
(Contlnued on pago (!) .
LI GU1RDIA FELLED :
By GRUDGE HOLDER
NFW YORK, Dec. 20 (AP)
Mayor F. It. Da Guardfa was
punched and knocked down today,
as he was entering .city hall, liy
a man identified by police ps
James I lagan, -18, a former WPA
superintendent In tho Pelhnm hay
shops of Iho city park depart
ment:. Hagan, beaten p,nd subdued by
spectators, was taken first into
an office in the city bail and lalor
to a police station, whore he was
charged with simple assault.
Investigators obtained no coher
ent story, but believed, they said.
Hagan held a yx udge because of
his layoff from tho park job.
Tho mayor was unhurt, pave for
a red well under the right eyo
whore Hagan's fist landed.
The assault' upon the little may
or was made In full view or hun
dreds of spectators who had gath
ered in city hall park to watch the
demolition of the old federal build
ing. Da Guardia. hit us he mounted
Iho city hull slops, recovered
quickly. Jumped to his feel, and
squared off, but Ihe police and
spectators intervened.
The -mayor Mtfd, after the confu
sion had died down, he never had
seen Hagan heforo but had hoard
a muttered epithet about "four
vefirrt more.
rents and police? wero mwehtng
for him.
Ronald's father, on his fourth
(rip to the theater, finally located
him just as the last customer was
leaving (lit- playhouse.
- Ronald, who is five, was asleep
underneath a row of seats.
Fussy Shopper
KVAN'STON; Ill.The now wo
men's hats, it seems, has loft nt
leant one man baffled rather than
a mur-ed.
He entered an Fvanston women's
hat store, but couldn't find ono to
his .(or his girl's) tasto.
j He uncovered every box marked,
if Ize 22 in his vain search and then
left the way he came through a,
hole out in a metal panel of, tho
, b;iVk door.
Futile Thrift " !r
WKST CHESTER. Pa. Nine
; ear-old Nicholas Connolly saved
hi: nickels and dimes for a year tot
buy a clarinet for Christmas. When
. ho had accumulated SS, he gavo it
lo his father for safekeeping. Then
i burglars stole the money from q
safe in his dad's office.
t
Law Breaking"
'Charged to 21