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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Six Babies in Three Days World's Greatest Terror Another Mild Bad Man How to Avoid Thought President Sacasa of Nicaragua confirms officially the statement that a very poor woman on the "distant shore of Lake Nicaragua has given birth to seven babies." The mother, Mrs. Slnforosa Martinez, had a difficult time. The births stretched over three days-May days-May 3, 4 and 5. The babies' names are, or ' A. . . were, Jose Jesus, Arb" nrM" Ramon del Car-men, Car-men, Maria del Carmen, Socorro del Carmen, Maria de Jesus and Juana liamona. The seventh name was not telegraphed, tele-graphed, for there was no seventh, as it was expected there would be. Five of the sextuplets are already al-ready dead. Only one, a girl, lives. What would population of the earth be If such births were the rule and all lived? At the opening of the Catholic press exhibition In Vatican City, Pope Plus, for the second time within two days, cautioned the world against communism, which he called "the great terror which threatens all the world." For the cpmfort of those that live In dread of final Communistic world conquest, It may be said that thus far nothing opposed to huuinn nature has ever succeeded. By the arrest In California of Thomas II. Hobinson, Jr., kidnaper of Mrs. Stoll, Mr. Hoover and hi? G-men brought Into the shadow of the electric chair the last of the group of dangerous criminals that have recently been wandering about the country. s This "bad man," like others recently re-cently gathered In. shook with fright when he found the gun pointed point-ed at him, made no effort to fight. When the guns are pointed the wrong way, "bad men" often change to good, meek and scared men. Stamp collectors have held a celebration, cel-ebration, grateful to Doctor Eck-ener Eck-ener for a new kind of stamp. How many ways man finds to keep busy and at the same time avoid think IngI Collecting queer things, stamps or tear Jugs ; playing bridge, working work-ing cross-word puzzles, playing solitaire, soli-taire, rushing to the far corners of the world to spend money usually not earned; going to Africa to kill big game animals. Those are some substitutes for thinking and working work-ing constructively, the only occupation occupa-tion worthy of a human being. Mrs. James C. Canlpe of Clovls, New Mexico, as a girl was not able to finish high school, but that did not discourage her. She waited some years. Then she Joined the senior high school class with her son and daughter-in-law, and will graduate with them this month, among the most brilliant scholars. Chancellor Hitler, who -was never married, nevertheless thinks marriage mar-riage a good idea. Young Nazis, In the public employ, have been told that unless they marry by the time they are twenty-six years old there Is something the matter with their "courage and will power." . A syndicate is formed to seek the "buried gold bags of Alexander the Great," containing at least $300,-000,000 $300,-000,000 in yellow wealth. . Alexander the Great's ghost might be surprised to hear about that Alexander was too busy to collect gold, and not the kind of man to bury it in a hole. Encouraged by her father, a sixteen-year-old high school girl walked onto the wing of a small piane, prepared for a first parachute para-chute Jump at 1,500 feet The pilot pi-lot perceived that the parachute cord had been pulled prematurely; pulled her back Into the cockpit in time to save her from death. Without requiring encouragement Mrs. Harriet O. Hague, eighty-six years old, flew the ocean on the Hlndenburg return trip. Tell that to your friend who used to oppose female suffrage "because women are not brave like men." The Italian flag flies over Halle Selassie's palace. He will never see that palace again, but he has boxes of gold bars with blm and has moved to a safer, better climate. The civilized world, whatever Its attitude toward the slave-dealing alleged descendants of King Solomon Solo-mon and the Queen of Sheba, must rejoice In Mussolini's proclamation abolishing slavery throughout Ethiopia, Ethi-opia, where slaves have been the chief cash-producing product C King Feature Syndicate, Iae. WNU Service. |