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Show SUN PREVENTS I BREADJOLT Laughable Scenes Take Place in Spain Following Strike of Bakers MADRID The sun prevented what threatened to be 8 serious outbreak in Madrid during the recent bakers strike. The first two days of the ir. ml scarcity were dull and threatening and the hungry poor were so affected j hy the low. rmy skies i'nd the lack of food that the paraded the streets in groups uttering shouts and menacing storekeepers who kepi their establishments establish-ments open. On the third day the sun shpn ! and although till hungry and compelled j to wait indefinite hours for the loaves to be doled out. the people did BO pa-1 llently and i-ven cheerily. All kinds of laws and police regllUl- lions were broken by the men. women! and childre n forming the almost hoU-. less bread-lines, but the authorities took a lenient view of what occurred. When an old man brought 8 camp bedstead, .set It up on the sidewalk! and stretched himself on it. a police- man arrested him and led him to the station house with his bed. The police po-lice caplain first looked grave, then began lo laugh when the offender explained ex-plained he knew he might have to wait anything from twelve to twenty hours for his bread and had merely provided against fatigue. He was released and returned to his place in the line with his bed amid the applause ap-plause of the crowd. Another group hired a barrel organ or-gan whose own. 1 played popular melodies mel-odies while the people waiting .lth! growing appetites find hollow stomachs stom-achs danced merrily. On the Calle de la and Magdalena a cobbler arrived carrying a stool, his tools and a pair' of shoes, which he was able to sole! and heel before his turn came 10 obtain ob-tain a loaf. Similar scenes were enacted day aft- er day amid general hilarity until the, municipal authorities decided to, break up the big bread-lines by distributing dis-tributing louves from a larger num-; ber of centers. . The dange r was then over. |