Show ka NEWS THIS WEEK a 4 by lemuel F parton paron L EW YORK just about two N NEW years ago judge townsend scudder who presided in the ier der gray sash weight murder trial ot of 1927 retired as a owns a dog justice ot of the new for each of Y york rk supreme court at the 1 ag e his hi 70 years year of seventy 11 he said the world is getting better all the time he was happy to get back to his connecticut estate on round hill to his dogs his gardening books and music there were 70 dogs his thirty years in the shadow ot of human tragedy and contention understandably had increased his love ot of his friendly and honest cocker spaniels sp aniels he began breeding them 51 54 years ago and has won first prizes with them now the law says he cant have them A controversy 0 I 1 bev several eral months issues in a rul ruling ing of the greenwich conn selectmen that all but ten of them must go powerful and important residents of the neighborhood indict them tor for excessive C barking judge scudder ought fought with all possible legal resources to prove that the barking was not excessive he proposed that he be allowed to introduce a strange dog at night which would provoke his spar spaniels sp aniels liels to the utmost that a watchman be stationed near the kennels to count the barks estimate their volume and report to the selectmen but the selectmen did not accept the proposal and the battle continued judge scud defense of ders lawyers dug barkers Is UP a nice point of tricky T r one law aw in m the conten tion that each dog must be identified and his offense established but even that avail the selectmen and the neighbors are unyielding horace get any peace on his sabine farm because he get clear of politics judge scudder shook off all that without any trouble he has been happy digging in his garden in an old khaki shirt tan flannels and a crumpled old leghorn hat until this dog trouble started the scudders came to this country in 1625 and the judge was born in the old family manor house still standing at southport southwort South port L I 1 he was elected to congress in 1898 serving two terms and to the supreme bench in 1906 retiring he said this was a grand country and the only trouble with it was that the people want too much protection from their government ISS jacqueline COCHRAN M MISS who recently made a new speed record in flying from new york to miami in four hours and twelve minutes Is 13 speed flyer the wife of floyd Is wife of odium the young youn 9 utility rr rrth tr ace A financial wizard I 1 who made a lar speed record in building atlas atla corporation up to a firm in five or six years the tau tall slender blonde aviatrix has been steadily on the uptake up take ever since she was eleven years old at that age she was art an orphan in pensacola fla earning a week at fourteen she was earning 35 a week and at nineteen she was running her own beauty shop in 1932 working in the beant beauty y department of a new york department store she made a bet that she could win win a flying license in a three weeks vacation she did in 37 hours of instruction in 1934 she entered the london to melbourne race but was downed in rumania last september at detroit she established a womans comans speed record of miles an hour at indio calif 20 miles east of palm springs she maintains a model orphanage in memory of a wise and friendly teacher who helped her in her childhood of prince charles of ARRIVAL belgium count of flanders in london is said to have a romantic import second son of the late king albert thirty tour four brother of year old broth brother er belgian king of the present seeks bride king leopold he it is is not the widowed monarch who according to london gossip will be the husband of nf lady cavendish bentrick rumor as will be recalled had associated the name of the belgian monarch with the lovely english lady now it appears king kin leopold and his mother came t to england not in behalf of any kingly romance but in the connubial interests of his brother in all of which are the bones of a fiction tale or film drama replete with heart interest nor would prince charles be out of place on the silver screen more than six feet tall with the chest and shoulders of a football tackle the waist of a russian dancer and the w wholesome holesome blonde pulchritude of an anglo saxon childe harald he is the darling of king leopolds subjects acts hero of all sorts of athletic enterprises in his native land he has mingled with his countrymen shared in their toil as coal miner and other laborious occupations Q consolidated news features service |