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Show frasMuiftn Y PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON CTAH Scenes and Persons in the Current News Hoaxes By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 6 Western N'ewipeper Union. Wolf! Wolf 1 pOR several years, just it 1 UU TiY j;, as regu- larly as winter came around, press association dispatches carried the news about hunters up in Canada having to fight for their lives against packs of ferocious timber wolves. In fact, a winter without such a wolf story was like a winter without Christmas and Santa Claus And strangely enough all of these stories came from the town of ii1 And then when the whole nation had become thoroughly "wolf conscious" (and "Algoma-corseiouJ. W Curran, editor of the Sault Ste. Marie Daily Star, confessed that it was all a hoax. He had submarine tender, pictured like a big mother as she serves as a buoy for her to interest outside newspar s s. Holland, navy the latest and most formidable undersea pers In the resources of the A'goma 'lurks submarines of the F" series, fighters in the world wulderness and had failed feeds her little ones fuel for themselves and supplies for their crews. So he jher ship turned to wolves to help him. The ferocious beasts turned Drops Hat Into the trick. Tiny Tourists were attracted to the Political Ring area in Increasing numbers. Even the discovery there of low grade Gifford Pinchot of Penn-SlaniIron ore deposits as the result of who announced that he is the provincial government's offera candidate for the Republican nomiing a bounty for developing iron nation for governor, and as a sym- - ore beds is credited to the wolf campaign. But after awhile Mr. Curran became tired of hearing his paper called the "Wolf Gazette." He had accomplished his purpose and in an editorial he exposed the hoax He said, "Any man who says he was et by a wolf is a liar Then he offered a $500 reward for anyone who could claim that an Algoma man had been attacked by a wolf. That reward Is still standing for no one has yet tried to collect the $500. There are wolves in that region but it seems that theyre not as fierce ' ? as the "Wolf Gazette" once claimed they were. Skiers Do Their Stuff IX-Go- ,, i 1 His Eminence, Fatrlik Cardinal Ilajes of New York pictured at Coral Gables, Fla., en route to Nassau for a winter vacation. 2 King Carol of Rumania pictured wllh Crown Frinee Michael (left) after the cabi- net crisis which brought Premier Goga Into power and banished Carol's sweetheart, Magda Lupescu. S William J. Kelly, president of the Machinery institute, "ticks off his counts against the New Deal In an appearance before the senate unemployment committee. Dii Pont Heiress and Husband COWBOY LOU PS A W T V TV' A' V fijtf swiW?! i v S The Archko Volume IN 1879 Rev. W. D. Mahan, a Cum-- I berland Presbyterian minister of Boonville, Mo , published a book called rl! w K2 eL ci'i ps: fci I S' tb ;pj ic it" FlE 'ill 'e.3 J7i Fjs tip a The Archko Volume. It purported to be an official report of the trial and death of Jesus Christ, made directly to the Emperor Ti&A berius by Pontius Pilate, governor XytMk g' of Judea, which Mahan asserted he bol of his decision, throws his hat had obtained from the Vatican In ree tiny skiers at Davos, Switzerland, are having some fun of their in the ring. Finchot scouts have Rome. Its authenticity was Immediately Like the youngsters in the Scandinavian countries, the children of been covering the state in recent land are given skis at an early age and are fought the technique months arousing sentiment for the attacked but Mahan defended his work so vigorously that many peoI Invigorating winter former governor. sport. ple were convinced that it was genuine. Later he expanded the book with the addition of other docuWins mpson ments, giving many new facts Angeles about the life of Christ. These, he asserted, he had obtained In the 3 Golf Cup Vatican and In Constantinople. Since that time the Archko Voliny Thompson, professional ume has been reprinted in many S Pennsvlvama, who won the different editions in many different dngeles Open golf tourna-wit- h a low score of 175. The cities; It has been translated into foreign languages and thousands of copies of it have been sold all over the world Despite the fact that Dr Edgar J Goodspeed of the University of Chicago, an eminent authority on early Christian literature, has proved that the book is a fake from beginning to end, many people And still btlieve it authentic. strangely enough an original printing of tins fake is now considered a rarity and a valuable piece of Americana, and several copies have been sold for as much as $50 each. Not Jack Dalton, but Lou Gehrig, Iron man slugger of the New York Yankees, is shown above, as he appears in his first picture, "Rawhide." Lou portrays a westerner hot on the trail of a gang of cattle thieves. And while his guns are cooling off, Gehrig rolls himself a smoke two-fiste- d Cliiltlrens Hour in Naziland Presiding at Utility Trial W Or? re-iO- A m pi r.e is shown checking over rter ttle victorious finish. country's most noted Participated in the tourna- - but to Dr. Joseph Goebbels may be a dictator to the German press, is valer. minister just his young daughter Ililde, the propaganda when he attended Goebbels is shown with Hilde on the recent occasion broadcast throughwas which address an a childrens party and delivered of the out the country. Goebbels, who is one of the most fiery lhc n uch leaders, controls all forms of public information, c an studios and motion picture papers, radio stations Pauline Louise duront, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ilenry Francis duPont, and her husband, Alfred C. Harrison III, New York lawryer, shown in their car as they left the Christ Protestant Episcopal church Wilmington, Del., after their marriage. V; w J ff l v M solution would be used. The story, printed in all the papers, was picked up by the press associations and carried all over the country. Immediately the columnists and newspaper paragraph- American Patriotic League. By a strange coincidence it was the same address as that of an advertising agency handling publicity for a soap company that was ready to put a new soap product on the market! tssrji . i ssi d s?pS.st has only U.ooo m lh?.!?rade- with a population equal to that of Turkey, has an army of a minion. EP' s? i X h When United Slates "Lost a War What is sad to have been the earliest Incident in the history of the United States where the government fought a war and negot.ated peace of the enconceding every demand In return, la nothing emy, exacting hislinked with early South Dakota with the signing occurred It tory. the Red of a peace treaty following won a Cloud war. Red Cloud had his every demand victory, complete defeat havmg been granted, despite ji battle. ' t ' 4 i 1 ! mm&mm Jl 6- United States Circuit Justice Florence Allen, 6hown as she presided y court hearing the recent over the three-judg- e company case at Chattanooga, Tenn. Judge Allen was prominently mentioned for the vacancy on the Supreme court of the United States for which President Roosevelt nominated Solicitor General Stanley Reed. TVA-Ltilil- Alongside the reeord of the mad head at Edward with the tick-toc- k Hines, Jr., Memorial hospital near Chicago now stands the case of the man with the whistling eye. He is Ilenry L. Baker, pictured above being examined by Dr. Edward Wagner. A stethoscope applied to the low moaning sort of eye records whistle. Doctors at the hospital said a tumor behind the eye caused it. New Yorks Auto Dead for One Year is Miss Libertys bath and one of the leading topics of the day. But when an inquiry about the proposed bath was made at the War department which then had jurisdiction over Bedloe's island, officials there said they knew nothing about the matter. Then one New He York editor became suspicious. announcement the original dug up and looked at the address of the - j? &)' EYE WHISTLING j & Bath for Miss Liberty city editor of every New TO THEnewspaper several years ago came an announcement from the "American Patriotic League that the Statue of Liberty was going to be given a bath It had been decided that the film of dust and smoke from passing steamers must be removed from Bartholdis famous statue but in order to avoid possible injury to the metal, the announcement said, a new supersuds about ed began making wisecracks It became h. IIAS r S' - r 9 i '? jf 7 rti ge fv 4 f . l r r r t .'A r i j ' -- 1 .. k, fh ps-j -- pF - -- 1 r . V How that huge area of New Yorks Central park known as the "mall" would look If all the persona killed by automobiles for the year of 1937 were buried there is visualized by the above picture. The crosses were painted on this photograph to Impress motorists and pedestrians alike of the enormity of the death toll. Police figures show that in 1937 a total of 943 people were killed by automobiles la New York. finest AJi |