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Show BEAVER PRESS . "Why, sure!" antly. LIBERTY SONG T THAYER WALDO M,rnure Newspaper Syndicate. vNU Service. HE man in the officer's chair lit a fresh cigar and angrily flung the match aside. - ne 'Cockeyed, idiotic Dusinessi- whole production tied up while some wop bum Slt here waiting for off the streets. It's to be dragged in I ever heard of!" he damnedest thing y Stuart Booth eyed him contewptu-pasland said nothing. of conciliFiberg made a gesture ation. -Now listen, Nick," he begged; "be reasonable a little, couldn't you? Ain't we got worth anyhow the only chance i try?" Yes; I should think, Hormell," Booth put In coldly, "that after all the over this part, you fuming you've done works oight see how my suggestion out before you start crabbing." The director twisted swiftly around the chair to face him, snapping : here, Stuart; I never agreed to this wild notion of yours, and I Here we have won't pretend to now. an operatic star, i gcene that needs and you talk 'em into going after a heard dago banana peddler you've I'm fodellng behind his pushcart If over that to well, enthuse expected it's a laugh, that's alL" "All right; now we'll just add the rest of It: you want an Italian tenor, yet you can't afford anyone big for such a small role. There's no foreign language singer available on the lot, Stuck. And then bo where are you? when I offer the one idea that may solve your problem, you beef!" "Well," Hormell grumbled, "it simIf he was ply don't sound sensible. going into a chorus. . . . But the man's got to do a solo, and " "Hey, look!" Fiberg had turned toward the sound stage entrance. "Is that him?" The others swung around. Just inside the door stood a little round man In baggy trousers and a gay lavender shirt. His great raop of black curls was uncovered and the olive moon face beneath showed gentle perplexity. Stuart Booth went forward, calling: "Hello, Pietro I Oome right over "Look here." The Latin's teeth gleamed in a wide slow smile. You send for "Ah, Signor Boot'! me, si? Dey no tell me Joost say, 'You Pletro Pasquale? Come to da Btudlo.' I don't know what ees, but here I am." Hormell had approached and was staring critically at the Italian. Before Booth could speak again, he said curtly: "All right, Tony let's hear sing." ' you , The small dark man gazed up with polite incomprehension and replied: "Excuse, plees; da name she's Pietro, an' I don't know Joost what you talk. Maybe you joke, si?" "Keep still a minute," Booth said sharply to the director; "give me a chance to explain to him. . . . Listen, old timer; we're in a fix here; you can help us out and, Incidentally, make yourself fifty dollars for a couple of hours' work just singing." The fellow made a quick little bow and said: "Sure, sure; she's made me very to do somet'eengs for you." The set across the stage, however, happy had caught his eye and he started to wander off toward it The actor grasped his arm as Hormell let out a snort of exasperation and demanded : "Well, are we going through with the farce, or Is this gentleman just sightseer?" "That's what I'm saying," Fiberg greed. "He acts like he was doing us a favor. What's the big idea?" Pletro met the producer's scowl with grave dignity. "Excuse, plees," he corrected ; "she's nly for Signor Boot' I do eet" fiberg gaped Incredulously a moment; then: "Say, what's the matter from you?" fce yelped. "Nobody's asking you should do anything gratis. Fifty smackers you get for just one song even If you don't sing very good, maybe 1" Again that broad calm smile spread 0v?r the swart features. "That ees all right, signor. I'm love to seeng, anyhows." Once more he commenced to stroll ". Stuart Booth cried : "But, Pletro It has to be done this afternoon right now I" The Italian halted at once, a mildly shocked surprise entering his expresI sion. "Ohsi? Excuse, plees ; I'm not un- derstand A y a breath theVJTf A In he1. BU?denly th6re eourd for" a rich of golden melody as "l began an aria from -- r Pagll "frose am3 swelled' and filled the1 room with glorious music. Pe0pl9 from 811 gathered Not a note In all that round. song was less than perfection. f0re h6 had finl8heJdirector were huddled Fiberg together, whispering excitedly Even Stuart. Booth was astonished. At last It ended and the little Italian gazed about him, a trifle startled. Then Hormell and the producer were rushing forward In a dual fever of lngratiation. "Say, that's the finest thing I ever gave a listen to!" Fiberg chattered. And the director: "Marvelous! Where have you been hiding all these years?" In a quick aside to Booth, he breathed: "My man-- why didn't Gd, you tell me about this sooner? He's the greatest find I've ever run across!" Fiberg, an arm about the singer's shoulders, was talking rapidly: "Now, Mr. Pasquale, here's the way I'm figuring it You'll want to do a of couple small parts and then we star you. How about a six months' contract with options, at well, two hundred and fifty a week?" say The three studio men waited, their eyes upon the Latin's face. For an Instant bewilderment was there ; then slowly he looked from one to the other with something very like disbelief. "Joost a rueenute," he said finally; "Maybe I'm don't understan' again. You want that I come here every day and seeng for da peectures, si?" fd 8B. . ""1""i,,tt I "You mean like dees'" WDt h'8 By .!..., . dvioj. savage groan from Hormell Booth," he bawled; "either g get that spaghetti gobbler war-bll"- In the next two minutes, or I Quit. Saviy?" The actor glared sourly at him nn4 inrnf., again to Pletro, explaining: "You sop, there's an e Italian in the picture we're making. vernl of us are traveling along a '"ountuln rond and we come to a small inn' The proprietor's silting on the Piazza, carrying wood and singing "Ir from en opera. Now that's wlmt e want you for! Can you do se-,r- It?" Metro laughed a full and carefree k,I"d with no hint of scorn In It .nfh - They nodded. Pietro Pasquale made a queer small noise in his throat and stepped back, or tne producer's emouumiig ui-brace. "Excuse, plees!" He spoke with a ringing firmness. "She's very kind of you but no!" "You you mean you're refusing the contract?" "Si, signor." Palpably he was In dead earnest. "Listen, plees: When I am a boy een Milano, always I seeng, joost for happiness. Den one day somebody she's hear me an' say, You mus' study for da career I I am young fool, so I do eet. Five, six year I keep on, at las' get een La Scala opera an' pret' soon have da name een Bravo, bravo! But all da Joy she's gone when each night I have to seeng so much, so long. So now I have geeve all dat up an' come here where I can poosh da cart to make enough for Rosita an' da bambinos an' me. Seeng? Signor, I do eet for gladness, but she's not enough money een all da world to buy from Pietro a song ever again!" e ' r BRISBANE Charles Isle Home THIS WEEK of Strange Exiles It's Already Smashed At Last They Got Him Air Wisdom, and Nonsense rorest Made to Order Story of Their Lives Is most Unbelievable. Senator Borah denounces monopoly as the cause of all our troubles, and says "Smash the monopolies!" As it happens, happenings since 1929 have smashed the monopolies fairly well If anybody has a monopoly that you would like to own, you can get it at a bargain. It took 15 federal agents, all gunmen, to "get" Dillinger. And they got him by surprise, thanks to a woman's "tip that he was to be In a ex-pe- rt certain theater," a tip supposed to have been well paid for. It was no "detective work." Dillinger was killed as he had killed others, without a chance of escape, like a trapped coyote, and now he knows, if he knows anything, that as a profession "crime does not pay." The War department's special aviation committee says the army should have 2,320 planes, with corresponding Increases In flying men. It also says there should not be one department controlling all air forces, which is pitiful idiocy. Mr. Baker must remember what happened when he was secretary of war and the flying machines of this country sent to Europe were a joke among our flying men compelled to borrow from France and England planes that would really fly. s, However, the big men In the army and navy are not flyers, and feel that they should have their little separate flying units to play with. From somewhere in the Pacific President Roosevelt sends an order that $15,000,000 be set aside now, $75,000,-00- 0 in all, spent on a "made to order" forest, stretching across this country through the heart of the drouth area from the Canadian border to the Texas Panhandle. Planned as an experiment to counteract the drouth by encouraging rainfall, the new forest will be 1,000 miles long, 100 miles wide, 100,-00- 0 square miles of forest surface. ts. Nevada Marsh Yields Rich' Sodium Sulphate Sodium sulphate, once a plentiful byproduct of nitric and hydrochloric acid manufacture, has become relatively scarce In this country becaifse of recent changes In the manufacturing processes of those acids, writes P. G Rich In Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. Just when It began to appear that the United States would have to depend on Imports for its sodium sulphate, an Isolated desert marsh began to yield this chemical in practically pure form. This strange deposit, where sodium sulphate, or a "glaubers salt" can be scooped up by steam shovel Is known as Rhodes Marsh, and Is located In Mineral county, Nevada. A few years ago, P. S. Williams, a chemical engineer at one time associated with a concern producing sodium sulphate from Carrizo lake, California, came across an old report of Prof. Joseph LeConte, geology professor at the University of California, In which mention was made of an enormous deposit of glaubers salt at Rhodes. In 1928 he was able to Interest a group of San Francisco men who spent con- It will be a long time before anybody knows about the plan's success. The President and those around him will have disappeared, will not see the big forest and before It amounts to much men may have learned to produce rain when necessary. It Is an interesting experiment costing only $75,000,000, a mere nothing In these days. Henry Ford says: Americanism, the pioneer spirit that isn't afraid to tackle anything, will save this nation from its economic and social afflictions." Perhaps Henry Ford, who lives some distance from the fringe of American foolishness, gives his fellow citizens credit for too much of the old "American spirit." When you read that 3,000,000 children are deprived of schooling in the United States, that this country spends for "luxuries" twice as much as It spends on education, you think that possibly something has happened to that "pioneer spirit." The Talmud says, "Jerusalem was destroyed because the schools were neglected." d Conditions in Vienna are bad, with more dangerous riots expected as Nazi terrorism continues its bomb explosions. Nazis In Austria declare that "Roman Catholic priests led Chancellor Dollfuss In his campaign against the Nazis," and a Nazi spokesman declares that Nazis "have determined to kidnap the Roman Catholic priests as hostages." As soon as any Nazi terrorists are sentenced to death, and siderable time prospecting the deposit hanged, their friends will kill the surveying the markets, and Investigat- priests held as hostages. suling processes for recovery of the In was Mr. and Mrs. Peters (he was "night erected first The plant phate. With the experience thus gained roan" in a small Hoboken, N. J., lunch1930. In a sweepstake as a basis, a program of Improvement room) won $25,516 lottery and felt that they should show late In 1932. was Initiated Is a good . I -i .Uniilna In LI. tutumi i" that winning, in a lottery, Rhodes aiarsn is rougm; their collect to drove section thing. They shape. The mineralized car with rented a In money coverea ana In area about 200 acres a liveried chauffeur, and "opened" with 6 Inches to 2 feet of silt. On the champagne. a laysouth half of the deposit, Any expert accountant can show er of glaubers salt is found immedi- them that 4 per cent on $25,510 will ; In places Some ately under the overburden at a not stand that strain. It has been found to be present expert will probably show them depth of 80 feet how to change $25,516 Into $10,000,000 then Mr. Peters will be "night man" Mother at Sven again. a A case of a child born to Hilda Dr. girl, reported by Germany has real troubles, some facZenana hospital, Victoria of closing, hours reduced, because tories Keane British Med- of lack of raw materials. It Isn't that Delhi, l mentioned In the Mohamother countries refuse to sell raw maical Journal. An unmarried to admitted hospital was terials to Germany, but that Germany medan girl Keane. lacks cash and credit Hundreds of on March 18, 1032," says Doctor wa" be added to the Her ge. a B,vcn b her father' was thousands are said to number of unemployed. seven Her general development good,' and she had fair Intelligence. 3 feet 11 Inches Kews that malaria Is spreading In Her height was only 43 She 6,000 cases reported at Santipounds. only Cuba, weight her and A living disturb Intelligent Cubans willteeth. milk ago, Still had her A pounds and doubtless cause an energetic fight child was born weighing from fright against the dangerous malaria-bearin- g 8 ounces. Beyond suffering mother the for the first three days, and was able mosquitoes. recovery Mosquitoes spread malaria and also a made perfect months. spread yellow fever. Malaria Is the nine for child nurse her worse of the two, for it makes life worthless. According to scientists, the Economy man. malaria mosquitoes coming up from a lucky sure are Son-- You marshes, not rude barbarians from the father. north or the vices of the Inhabithe Pad Why so? of ancient to buy tants, destroyed the power ause you won't have Rome. I next year. books me any school C Kins Features SrndJoatt, In. WNU 8rvlc. didn't pass. ' Al- Kansas City. On a burned and blackened volcanic Island that rises precipitously from the sea nearly GOO mi'es west of the South American republic of Ecuador Is gathered an astonishing assortment of queer human beings, says the Kansas City Times. An account of the lives of these persons ou lonely Charles island furnishes an Incredible, almost unbelievable story. Weird stories of strange happenbit ings on the bleak, of lund that once was a convict settlement have been filtering Into civilized haunts of man. Captains and crews of small trading vessels which put In at the Island have told outlandish yarns of the Inhabitants and their modes of living. So disturbing were the accounts that the government of Ecuador sent officials to the isolated point of land to inThe Inhabitants of the vestigate. Island were questioned and their methods of living were Inquired into. Then an official report of the investigation was filed with the Ecuadorean government and authentic Information about the Island was made available. And, surprising thing, the report substantiates the fantastic accounts that have been coming from the island I Cast of Characters. This barren, jagged, rocky Island whose shores are washed by the equatorial waters of the Pacific has nine inhabitants. The cast of charlava-strew- acters: Frederick RItter, of Berlin, eminent German physician, dentist and philosopher, who left a brilliant career in Germany to seek a modern Eden on the Pacific island. His mate, Frau Dore Strauch Koerwein, who went to the island with him from her German home. She and Ritter forsook civilization to live a life of peace, which, they charged, modern civilization denied them. Baroness Bousequet de Wagner, of Vienna, who went to the Island after Ritter and his helpmate. Soon after her arrival she set herself up as "empress" of the isle and governs her "kingdom" clad usually only In abbreviated pink silk panties and armed with a touch the fish, turtle eggs, wild pig, e. gray-haire- lj d e, ff , ' Romeo and Juliet Enter Lives of Young Russians. Romeo and Juliet, Moscow. Hamlet, King Lear and other Shakespearean characters are taking their places along with Marx and Engles In the literary diet of For some years Soviet youth. after the revolution, only the reading of books which accentuated or gave "class consciousness," technical instruction was encouraged by the state. Shakespearean English Likened to Irish Brogue Prof. Matthew R. of Massachusetts Institute of Technology says the pronunciation ot. English In the time of Shakespeare probably sounded like the brogue of an Irishman. He considers American pronunciation preferable to that of the average present-daEnglishman, who says "flgger" for figure and "leftenant" for lieutenant Boston. e, Anxious Stevensville, Mont mothers can learn how to make children behave by watching a coyote on Carey Phelps' ranch. Phelps said the mother coyote had five pups of belligerent nature. To keep them from fighting, she moved into an old badger hole with five tunnels leading from the main shaft By keeping one pup In each tunnel, "Ma" coyote kept them apart except at meal times, when she and "Pa" saw to It that peace was preserved. Washington. When Dr. Daniel H. Kress and Drs Lauretta Kress began to discuss the guest list for the reception in observance of their golden wedding anniversary. Doctor Laurerta was firm on one point "All my babies must be invited, she announced. "What?" said Doctor Daniel. "The one-roo- pistol Mamma Coyote Knows How to Handle Young Doctors Celebrate Anniversary in Unique Way. birds, wild goats, or other meat which U abundant on the island. Fruits, vegetables, nuts and occasionally a little chicken forms their only food. Everything they partake is mashed into a pulp beA fore it enters their mouths. dentist, Ritter, has extracted all his whole 3,571?" teeth and those of Frau Koerwein. "At least as many as I can find," It Is one of the theories that teeth are a cause of shortened lives. With replied the wife. So it, came about that invitation! their teeth out, he believes he and his companion may attain ages of at to the reception went to more than least one hundred and eight years. 2,000 persons whom Doctor Lauretta, as an obstetrician, had ushered Into However, to assist them la their this old world during a career of mastkation; he has made sets of forty years. Into which rubber teeth they slip They accepted, 500 of them. One tbelr mouths at meal times. The two food enthusiasts live was Mrs. Cecil Ross of Bloomfield, shack built of N. J., the oldest of Doctor Lauretta's either In a "babies." She Is thirty-ninThe rough timber or In a faded tent near a spring. Their homes are remote youngest couldn't come. He Is the and accessible only by climbing a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Falrchild of Washington, and the stony path which winds up a steep, doctor spanked the breath into him mountainous way. At the foot of only the day before. the path Is a bell with a sign Through the spacious residence chance visitors to ring It of the Doctors Kress pressed the Hermitbefore they approach "The There were mature men and age," which is the title they have throng. women, lanky youths, debutantes, Is to home. The their signal given warn the two exiles, as, when they little iirls shedding their first teeth, are alone they wear no clothing. It smaller toddlers banging to their Is only when visitors appear which mothers' skirts, and quite a number who hadn't yet learned to walk. happens on the average of from sis "I remember them all," said the to eighteen months that they don a bit of covering. At other times doctor. "But, goodness, how some of them have changed since I first they go absolutely naked.! knew them. And wasn't It wonderful that the reception wasn't Inter rupted by a call to take care of anVELVET BERETS other eligible for the guest list." NICHOLAS CnEKIE By Dr. Daniel Kress, who is seventy-onIs a specialist in diseases of the stomach. lie asserted that he and his wife, who Is seventy, were never busier in their lives and Intended to keep on practicing. The couple have been married nearly ten years and had two children of their own bofore they were graduated in medicine at the University of Michigan in 1S94. er Philipson, Alonzo and Arends, men companions of the "empress" who came to the island with her. A German t couple, name unknown, and their Infant child, born soon after their arrival on the desert Island. Will Not Touch Meat. Ritter and Frau Koerwein were the first inhabitants of the Isle. They landed there with a pick and shovel and a bag of seeds and perhaps a frcore of books, among them a volume of Lao-tsthe ancient Chinese mystic. Ritter refused an offer of a professorship at Freiburg, and left behind a brilliant career as an experimenter In nutrition when he left Germany seeking a lonely spot to "live his own life." He and his woman companion landed on the island in 1929 and have lived there since. They are vegetarians and will not ASK 2,000 "BABIES" TO GOLDEN WEDDING Do It nowl Buy a black velvet beret to wear with your midsummer frock. It's a very latest fashion gesture, this of topping your sheerest of dainty summery gowns with a dashing black velvet beret. The new beret models are beguiling in What's lines. their picturesque more, they are entirely different from the berets of previous seasons. Either they are big, floppy, dash lng affairs or they assume amusingly eccentric lines that have lots The proper of style about them. thing Is to tip these modern velvet fantasies over one eye even 'unto a If you take deperilous tangle. light In the unique and extreme, the beret with peaked crown a la Chlno-ise- , will be sure to strike your fancy. The sketch at the top tells its own story. The picturesque pancake berets are also good style. Some are squared off like the model sketched below in this sketch. Note the pose of the quill. The placement of feather novelties on the new berets does much, so milliners will explain to you, to accent the titled lines of the hat Copi-thor- Clock in Deserted Cabin Runs 8 Years Calif. An eight-daclock In a vacant mining cabin has been .kept running for eight years. , When the mining company abandoned work In 1927, eorae one tacked a sign, "Plpase wind the clock," beneath the time- riacervllle, y , piece. Fishermen and hunters using the cabin for overnight headquarters have been faithful In following Instructions. Enough of them visit the cabin during the spring, summer and fall to keep the clock running. During the winter, Ed Ramsey, who lives three and one-hamiles away, makes a weekly hike to the cabin. Winding the clock has become a sort of tradition. lf Historic Old Fort Niagara Has Been Restored 15-fo- j,mm.WKu seven-year-ol- d - Son-Bec- I Governmental, military and ecclesiastical personages from both sides of the Atlantic are to participate In a dramatic commemoration of two centuries of heroic warfare and more than a century of perfect peace dur"Three-Natiocelebration," financed by the federal, state and Niagara Fulls municipal goving the four-da- y ernments, which Is to be held at Niagara Falls and at nearby Old Fort Niagara September 3 to C Dedication of Old Fort Niagara, completely restored to Its Seventeenth century plcturcsqt08.s after seven years' labor and at a cost of $."00,000, and the unveiling upon Its lake-fron- t redoubt of a memorial to the Itush-BaEfrontier has. remained unfortified for 110 years, will supply lt treaty, under which the American-Canadia- n occasion s contrasting motifs of war and peace. An air view of the old fort is shown' above. n - |