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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH ' Parrots, Mice Speaking of Sports Conn Is Sure Of Ability to Defeat Louis Make Circus Out of Radio By ROBERT McSHANE 'Animals Give Headache to ; (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Broadcasters, but Its All Good Fun! D ILLY CONN, a slender, good looking Irish kid, only three or four years away from his pork and bean days, has done more to cap- ture the By HOWARD NELSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Old-time- catch-as-catc- behind-the-scen- es own technique, learning the language of birds, elephants and lions. They well remember when Horace the Hippo made her radio debut with a snort from Jinja, Africa. John F. Royal, NBCs vice president in charge of programs, was crossing the Atlantic when he heard from a how Horace enfellow-passeng- er joyed the e music from Every time a familiar melody was heard, Horace would move his four tons about the golf course at Jinja, making appreciative grunts. Royal decided to serenade Horace with a special broadcast from Radio City. They chose Jerome Kerns The Hippopotamus for this occasion. She Has an Understudy! Canary birds are among radios most seasoned performers. Six years ago one sponsor signed up short-wav- New York. Blue Boy was connatural ones. sidered so valuable that her sponsor engaged another canary as an understudy. First heats in a new Olympic canary tournament were broadcast in December from San Francisco, where 100 birds participated. National and international contests are scheduled to follow. A. A. Schechter, director of NBC special events, once thought a talking parrot contest would be fun for radio fans. When parrot fanciers got wind of the plan their suggestions, warnings, comments and parrot pedigrees poured in en masse. Wrote one Californian : Our parrot is basking in the sunshine ready, willing and able, sans bronchial and pneumonia germs, to chatter, guzzle, whistle and snap at a cracker. Kindly, send prize at once. Mabel Up and Died Final auditions of the talking parrots were presided over by a group of- speech authorities. Secretly, Schechter was passing the buck. He didnt want to hear any more parrot talk. He had received letters from Local No. 9 of the New England - HERE, TRY THIS " The announcer gives suspicious squawkers a whiff of the microphone in order to prevent mike fright during the talking parrot contest. Association , of Parrotcasters and from guys who signed themselves Bob White, R. U. Perroquee, etc. .Then, at the height of this parrot fever, Schechter wrote to his special events men throughout the network: Dr. W. Reed Blair, director of the Bronx zoo, has advised us there is decided danger in holding the contest at this time. Tropical parrots are susceptible to bronchial we will, pneumonia, etc., etc. therefore, postpone the contest to the warmer month of May ... ... I U. S. Exposes Air Secrets But Shhhh!! American WASHINGTON. an impor- tant corner here, authorities agree, with the unprecedented public showing of the United States army air corps most advanced equipment which hitherto has been shrouded in mystery. Conceived originally to inform congress of the latest developments of military avi- ation, the demonstration was so convincing to President Roosevelt that at his instigation it was kept open for three additional days, giving thousands of average citizens a chance to see the results of the between the miliclose of Uncle Sams debranch tary fense forces and the American aircraft supply industries. Held at Bolling field near here, the army air exhibit consisted of two feature attractions: a lineup of ships in which one or more of each type of plane used in the army was featured; and two of hangars jammed with an arrayand camouflaged pursuit ships enough aviation instruments and e tricky equipment to make a would-bspy deliriously happy, despite shrouds of taped canvas which blanketed certain vital mechanisms. Show Mystery Ship. A headliner was the armys mystery ship, the interceptor pursuit plane, said to have flown more than 500 was m.p.h. in test flights. Nearby a garish group of weirdly camou- three-quarter-m- much-discuss- ed ile Air-acob- ra fight-goin- 175-pou- Still interested in singing mice? sensational one in Nieuwen, GET BACK THERE AND SINGF'rln canine language, that's the Holland, sings like a canary. A warning Peggy, mouse singing coach, gives the roaring rodents auditioned white mouse to boot!" for the international contest of vermin virtuosi. Its only a few years since Blue Boy, a virtuoso with a reperensues petting, coaxing, cajolradio held its first singing there h toire of 300 songs. It was the first ing and perhaps a merry mouse contest. More recentcan. Production men assigned bird, according to amateur ornitholly star performers from every avail- to such programs have evolved their ogists, to sing tunes other than its Public interest is responsible, which is the same reason municipalities maintain zoos., A Headache to Radio Men. But while the animal kingdom fascinates radio fans, arrangements have been a succession of violent headaches to broadcasters. The wire and letter correspondence relating to these arrangements look like the legal briefs in a Supreme court suit. Worry No. 1 is animal temperament If a beastie comes into the studio minus microphone manners, Oregons Criminals Statistics kept by the Oregon state penitentiary fail to confirm the popular belief that the criminal class is being recruited more and more from young men. The average age of convicts in the penitenwas 30 years, tiary between 1866-710 months. The average age of those now in the prison is 33 years, two months. g publics fancy than any other boxer since Joe Louis early days. When Conn, present champion of the world, defeated Melio Bettina for the . title, he weighed 170 pounds, Oil Boom for Boys five under the title limit. Falls oil near City, of Discovery immediately conjured up visions of Neb., brought an unexpected fortune Gentleman Jim Corbett who wrested to the towns enterprising boys. The the worlds heavyweight champion- youths took hundreds of small botship from John L. Sullivan when tles to the first gushers, filled them Jim weighed only 176 pounds about with loose oil and sold sample botfour pounds more than Conn weighs tles of the oil and jtwo pictures of today. -the derrick for 25 cents to the curiCorbett was looked upon as an ous thousands. Impudent upstart when he challenged the mighty John L. According to West Indies Castles There are several romantic casgamblers, Jim lacked the weight, the punch and the intestinal forti- tles In the West Indies, notably the tude to make even a dent on Sulli- one built by Ponce de Leon in Puervan, who held the same opinion. He to Rico, Christophes castle in Haiti, ht A able genera and species have been invited to appear, lest mice gain a monopolistic grip .on the microphone. Todays list of animal performers reads like the index of WPAs book, Whos Who at the Zoo. Everything from a boa constrictor to a cuckaburra bird. problem by giving it a different wallpaper treatment and furnishing it with an Eighteenth century mahogany desk, chair and bookcase. The arch made the alcove a pleasing picture from the living room and it gave comparative peace, if not isolation, to the family book lover. 6 YORK. Ordinarily the European war is more important than a singing mouse. That was why without reflection on the vermins qualifications the National Broadcasting company recently answered No to the following radiogram: NEW Alcove Problem Spot The small alcove in older houses is often a decorative problem spot. One ingenious decorator solved the the buccaneers castle in St. Thom-aand the Morros of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Santiago de Cuba and Havana. s, Spectators looking over a standard Douglas bomber with special armament equipment, during the army air corps exhibit at Bolling field. New equipment still in the secrecy " or experimental stage was concealed by tarpaulins. President Roosevelt spent 50 minutes at the field. ON PARADE flaged pursuits, including the 9 which has a tricycle landing gear. Some were covered with blobs of dark, dusty green and foggy gray; others were black and dull .green, while a flying fortress was a nightmare of shocking pink, and weary blue. v Certain to have a salutory effect on future support for Americas military aviation was the evidence of the publics keen interest in understanding many of the features which hitherto have been regarded as in P-3- telligible only to most advanced aeronautic engineers. Both government officials and the public took ample time to digest information presented to them in the form of animated displays, charts and cutout models. Newest methods of testing wing strength and stress and the famous Goodrich an indevice which genious officials said hqs done more than any other single development to make and winter flying safe, were presented. de-ice- high-altitu- de r, ' Automobile Vapors Water produced by the autos in this country in the form of vapor, from the exhaust annually amounts to 17 billion gallons, or enough to fill a canal 25 feet wide and 6 feet deep running between New York! and San Francisco. i I Gasoline-Aut- o CONTENDER BILLY CONN was ridiculed by those who knew him best. Even Patrick Corbett, his father, thought it was blasphemous for him to point at the great ring god. d when SulThe world was livan fell before Corbetts blinding speed. That was natural no one knew that for three years, day and night, Corbett had been a slave to the thought of unseating the champ. He concentrated on it so much that defeat, to him, was absolutely unpop-eye- thinkable. Points for Louis Ratio About 60,000,000 gallons of gasoline are consumed daily in the United States, according to department, This is of commerce estimates. equal to approximately two gallons for each car and truck on the road. Denmarks Buried Church One of the sights for tourists in Denmark is an old church in the sand dunes, south of Skagen. Buried by a sand storm in the Eighteenth century, today only its tower is visible. Ventriloquist Minister The Rev. G. E. Bonney of Randolph Centre, Vt, a ventriloquist, uses a dummy, Jerry, to illustrate stories of the Bible and to drive home moral lessons, says the Amer- ican Magazine. In the same way Billy Conn has been pointing for Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. He is obsessed with the idea that he has Joe Louis number. He doesnt sound-of- f for the press and call Louis a bum, a pushover and a setup. But hes quietly confident that he will be the next heavyweight king of the world. There are a large number of Conn men who feel that critics ring-wis- e Conn lacks the weight and punch to be a serious contender for the Louis throne. They feel that he hasnt got, and never will have what it takes to beat the Brown Bomber. Even more authorities, however, have confidence in Billys ability to beat the champ. They know him to be a' rangy, clever, fast boxer, who loves to fight. He is yearning for a crack at the title and is absolutely sure that the outcome of the hoped-fo- r bout would see the coronation of a new heavyweight king. Yyhen Louis won the heavyweight title, wise men of boxing were almost unanimous in their opinion that only a slugger would topple him from his position. Now theyre not so sure of it. Sluggers have proved easy game for the champ. And after watching Louis take far too much time to dispose of Bicycle Bob Pastor, many . of them feel that speed and not power will defeat Louis. Speed Is Unquestioned B-18- rs Late Indian Claims late as 1911 the Tuscarora Indians of New York state laid claim to a vast expanse of farm land in North Carolina, which they had occupied before going north to join the Five Nations in 1766. As CREAM!' ' N says the majority! This DOUBLE-RICwhiskey is the largest H selling straight Bourbon whiskey in the world. MntED - Theres no argument about his speed. He delights in slapping his opponents around particularly if theyre big. His speed and accuracy have accounted for far more victories than any punch which he possesses. 4Conn remembers that Jack Dempsey weighed only 185 pounds when Willard he fought Jess Willard. 'scaled at 260. Many fans thought it was criminal to send Dempsey against such a giant. If you remember, Jack the Giant Killer flattened Willard in three bloody rounds. He Billy isnt unduly cocky. knows he must pick up 10 or 12 pounds. But when he has tucked away enough steaks he figures on brewing up a storm of trouble for Champion Joe Louis. Conn realizes that it isnt the easiest thing to gain weight. He is small boned and even now may be at his best possible fighting weight. AT THE (jlSTIUERY |