Show NEWS QUIZ Know your ricus One OTIC hundred is perfect score on the following qui quiz Deduct 20 points from each question yon Oll miss Score of 60 or more is acceptable ac ac- ac to excellent c L 4 1 Above is the firing cannon-firing P P- P 40 Curtiss pursuit ship one of three new army models which France and anti Britain asked permission permission permission per per- mission to buy Did the army grant or refuse such permission I 2 Each part of the following counts 10 points Why were the following movie stars in the news a Dorothy Penny Singleton Singleton Sin Sin- Singleton gleton b Bob Burns 3 True or False Reprimanded Reprimand Reprimand- ed by the state department after delivering an German anti anti speech U. U S. S Minister l to Canada James II R. R Cromwell resigned in a huff 4 What shattering record-shattering event I made residents of Syracuse Utica Utica Uti- Uti Utica ca Rochester and other upper New York cities stay home against their will 5 Choice The new explosive of Lester P. P Barlow demonstrated ed cd before congressmen is made of a liquid oxygen and carbon earbon b T. T N. N T. T dynamite and carbon carbon car car- carbon bon c e glycerin and rosewater N News Quiz Answers 1 Permission was gr granted 2 2 A Penny Singleton was hospitalized hospi after alter an auto accident B Bob Burns Bums and others were sued by man who said he was and forced to sign signa a denial that Burns h had d stolen his wife's wilc's affections 3 3 False He refused to resign 4 The biggest blizzard rd since 1888 1883 blocked all roads and piled drifts drits up to 30 feet In depth 5 A is correct S AVIATION S t J Skies were overcast but radio reception reception reception re re- re- re was good Pilot A. A F. F Olson nosed his Northwest airliner into the night toward Billings Mont Just west of Helena a bolt of lightning appeared from nowhere ripped the fabric from the right aileron and nd gave Pilot Olson his two fellow crewmen crewmen crewmen crew crew- men and 21 passengers a good scare When Pilot Olson landed at Billings Billings Billings Bill Bill- ings he also brought t home the bacon That night the nations nation's 21 commercial airlines completed a full years year's operation flying almost miles with not a single crew or passenger fatality While operators slapped themselves themselves themselves them them- selves on the back actuaries figured figured figured fig fig- this record made it safer to fly than to walk UNAl A i Back into the headlines after his vacation in Florida went Texas' Texas Rep Martin Dies and his un- un Americanism investigating commit commit- tee Current enemy Russia and Communism While Chairman Dies announced plans plans' to summon witnesses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses as fast as we can locate them his operatives swooped down on Pittsburgh Communist headquarters in search of a Red who used the name Franklin D. D Roosevelt on his party membership membership member member- membership ship card Also hard at work was New Jerseys Jersey's Rep J. J Parnell Thom Thom- Thomas as a Dies aid who told reporters that any number of school textbooks textbooks textbooks text text- books used in the U U. S. S contain one subversive passage right after another Taken with the surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding material they may mean little but when they are put with other selected passages they fit together together together to to- gether perfectly and the result is amazing COURTS Sherman T Vengeance At Washington last year an A. A F. F of L. L teamsters' teamsters union allegedly conspired to make concrete mixing mixing mix mix- mixing ing companies hire union teamsters to drive mixer trucks About this time the trust anti-trust division of thede the de department of justi justice e began casting casting casting cast cast- ing a suspicious eye at the sorry plight of Americas America's building construction construction construction con con- field Taking a long shot Trust Buster Thurman Arnold slapped a charge of Sherman act violation against Washington's teamsters The allegation That this squabble interrupted building operations therefore the union had restrained trade Protesting loudly th that t unions do donot donot donot not fall under the Sherman act A. A F. F of f L. L cooked up a demurrer and a motion to dismiss the in in- In late March Federal District Judge pe Peyton ton Gordon surprised surprised surprised sur sur- everybody y by upholding the indictment maintaining the Sherman Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man act applies to unions where their objectives are not legitimate legitimate legitimate mate Day b before fore it struck at labor the Sherman act floored a capitalist 7 A unanimous Supreme court ruling held t patent owners may not extend their legal monopoly to con con- control control I the their r prOduct after it t reach reaches s the dealers an and I specifically may not impose price-fixing price restrictions Case on which the ruling was made was that of the Ethyl corporation which has licensed refiners to manufacture knock anti-knock gasoline with its patented tetraethyl lead lead fluid and amI in turn h has s made the refiners refiners refiners re re- re- re finers license dealers who vho sell self it to the consumer |