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Show BRISBANE 1 THIS WEEK He Used His Other Chance Two Big Birthdays England, Rich, Worries The Elephant's Pulse New York's Titterton murder mystery mys-tery turns out not to be "the perfect per-fect crime." --- The murder- I er, an upholster-1 upholster-1 er, carefully took away the tj cord used in il llls triule- with " x- which he bad x rl bound the tin- 'i 1 fortunate worn- ,.1 I an, but forgot ; - j that he had left i j some strands of ' . ' I twine under the "V ' iT" 1 body, nnd those I ix pieces of cord, thanks to excel- Arthur BrUbnne ,eIl(. poljce work, trapped him. The sentimental who say, "Give the poor criminal another an-other chance," will note that the murderer was a convict on parole when he killed the woman. He had "another chance" and made use of it. Berlin reports a great Hitler forty-seventh forty-seventh bithday celebration including in-cluding a fine display of military power airplanes, war tanks, fighting fight-ing men, apparently enger for a fight. They were young and could not remember the last war. Particularly Interesting were two lines in the song sung by storm troopers : "Today we own Germany, And tomorrow the whole world." The day after Hitler celebrated his forty-seventh birthday old Rome celebrated her two thousand six hundred and eighty-ninth anniversary. anniver-sary. Mussolini'celebrates by launching launch-ing two new Italian cruisers and speeding up airplane production. He tells Italian fathers and mothers he must have 00,000,000 population for Italy not later than 1950. In 1921, when Mussolini took charge, Italy's population was 3S,000,000. There will soon be room and food to raise more Italians In Ethiopia. Easy for all but the mother. England, doing well In a business way, with more than $2,000,000,000 worth of Bank of England notes circulating cir-culating among tradesmen, is collecting col-lecting gold and depleting the French reserves. While England tries to keep down the price of her "no-gold" pound, France is afraid she will not be able to keep up the value of her gold franc, already devalued by SO per cent of its 1914 value. What becomes of the "magic of gold?" Our dear old dollar Is worth only 59 cents, and only dealers deal-ers In exchange know it. Doctor Benedict, of Carnegie laboratories, lab-oratories, finds that the adult elephant's ele-phant's heart beats from 22 to 30 times a minute, less than half the human heartbeat, and the elephant heartbeat is nine strokes faster when the animal Is lying down. Man's heart beats more rapidly while he stands because then it must raise blood the full height of the body. Old poets, with tired hearts, should do their writing lying down the blood flows horizontally hori-zontally with little effort. England Is pleased; Sir Robert Hadfield, who makes tough steel, announces an-nounces a shell for British naval guns that can pass unhurt through armor plate twelve Inches thick and explode on the other side. "One shell of this kind fired In the region of the magazine would probably cause destruction of a modern battleship." bat-tleship." England is manufacturing the shells rapidly; others are manufacturing manu-facturing airplane bombs that might make old-fashioned naval guns and shells useless. In Miami, a lady, first name Lois, and married, has husky triplet babies. Two gentlemen, the official husband and another, demand custody cus-tody of the triplets, each calling himself the real father. The alleged "father" who Is not the husband would submit to any blood test, his lawyer says. How would King Solomon decide that? Clarence Darrow, one of the country's coun-try's most convincing lawyers, says on his seventy-ninth birthday: "I say that religion Is the belief In future life and in God. I don't believe In either." The hoptoad beside the track, watching the express train go by, might say, reasonably enough : "I do not believe in such a thing as a locomotive engineer." - Moscow has returned to the Japanese Jap-anese government In Manchukuo, with full military honors, the bodie of three Japanese killed in a fight with Soviet guards. The military honors will not console the widows, and, repeated often enough, such Incidents In-cidents lead to war. Europe envies our fortunate country, coun-try, which gives only paper dollars and inflation paper bonds to Its citl zens but has burled In the ground, the biggest lump of gold on earth. Klnr Features Syndicate, Inc. WNU Service. |