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THE COURIER-JOURNAE, COUISVILtE, MONDAY. MORNINC, DrTCESIBErT 2V, SECTION 7ims a Part Louisville Girl, 159 By Drew Pearson and Robert Allen The Washington Merry-Go-Round Kentucky By Sam w. SeTeranf BlirgOO The Burgoo-Master In Beanna Burbin's Next Picture Davis Frustrated When Saito Got U. S. Secret; Motor Suit May Ignite F.D.R.'s Feud With Courts A Southern Kentucky corrsnondnt.

wi shrinking violet, writes that the yarn I printed about the North Carolina moonshiner, who thought $1.50 a gallon was a pretty stiff price for "likker," reminds him of an experience a friend had with another N. C. mountaineer. Inform that th mnuntnxF excellent grade of apple brandy, way inio nis commence with a view to making a purchase; then he hinted he would like to buy some brandy. -xmo, me mountaineer answered, "I hain't got no brandy." "You are not afraid to sell it to me.

are you?" asked the would-he purchaser. "Afeerd?" was the surprised answer. "No sirree, I hain't afeerdj we're jist plum out." "Then," persisted the disappointed gentleman, "how about letting -V w-x vy me have some liquor?" "You mean corn likker?" was the somewhat startled reply. don't make none of that; hit's agin the law." Washington, Dec. 19.

Here Is an inside incident occurring during the late lamented Brussels conference which sheds some light on the Japanese attitude toward the Roosevelt Administration and the Far East. it While the Nine-Power delegates were rowing over what they could or could not do to block Japanese aggression in China, Japanese Ambassador 'Saito in Washington sent the Japanese Ambassador in Belgium a cable summarizing his views on the Roosevelt Administration's impotency. He stated categorically that it could do nothing. Roosevelt was engrossed in domestic affairs, he said. Congress was opposed to Intervention in the Far East, and finally the State Department differed with the American delegation at Brussels and would not let Norman Davis move.

It was a very neatly worded message and the Japanese Ambassador in Belgium promptly put it in good English, and handed it to his ally, the Italian Ambassador. Then the Italians slipped it to the press. This cut the ground from under Ambassador Norman Davis. It made him appear to be a delegate without a Government. Shortly thereafter the Brussels conference folded its wings and Mr.

Davis went home. Far Eastern Frustration What reports Ambassador Saito is sending back to his Government now, are not known. But having lived in this country seventeen years and being a very shrewd observer, he is probably diagnosing the situation better than the Administration itself. Most significant is that Saito cabled that the State Department was at cross-purposes with the American delegation in Brussels. This was not supposed to be known by anyone, let alone the Japanese Ambassador, but it was absolutely true.

And it is extremely important, because It Illustrates the way Roosevelt has marched up the hill in foreign affairs and then marched down again. Some of his close friends have been doing a lot of head-shaking over It. They say it is either because he has been sabotaged by the career boys, or is trying to keep his fingers on too many things at once. At Chicago last October, they point out, the President marched up the hill with his "quarantine" speech against an aggressor. Then In his fireside chat he marched down again.

"Tut, Tut, Japan" Tki Mnr the Brussels conference he gave Norman Davis a Florence Krauss Now On Location By HUGH MORRIS. Almost as unusual as the story of Cinderella or Alice In Wonder land is the way Florence Krauss, 15, of 913 S. 1st landed a job in Hollywood with Universal Pictures. Born in Louisville April 13, 1922, Florence showed signs of be ing interested in music when, at the age of 3, she learned the words and music to "Barney Google," a popular song at that time. "When she was 8," Edward J.

Krauss, her father, says, "she started taking piano lessons and soon learned to play that instrument with some degree of skill. "She was interested in dancing and singing, which she continually practiced along with her piano lessons," Mr. Krauss -contin ued. "Florence also took lessons on the marimba at Wurlitzer's several years ago, and was in the marimba band that went to Washington with the. Kiwanis Club in June.

1936." Practiced Dance Routines. While Florence was In the marimba band she met Jack Starkey, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Starkey, 310 Franck who was also playing one of the instruments. Florence and Jack soon got to gether in their spare time and practiced several dance routines, song specialties and piano duets.

The two embryo entertainers, after many attempts, were given a chance to appear in an amateur act on The Rialto One of the artists on The Rialto stage bill at the time. Jack Pep per, liked the act so well that he encouraged Florence and Jack Starkey to try for higher places. The two youngsters appealed to Boyd Martin, Courier-Journal dramatic critic, who had wit nessed their act at The Rialto, to give them a letter of introduction to someone in Hollywood. Start for Hollywood. Reluctantly Mr.

Martin gave them the letter, addressed to an official at R-K-O. "I thought Jack Starkey was pretty good," Mr. Martin said," but I didn't think Florence would go very far in. Hollywood." Armed with the letter and a Deanne Durbin, 15, left, displays mm skill mt drawing end minting Florence 15, of 913 S. 11, end Jo Ann Ransom, right, mho Music" took on.

fighting pep talk at Hyde Park, virtually advising him to go the limit in censuring Japan. But after Davis arrived in Brussels, the State Department tied his hands. When he cabled back the draft of the first speech he proposed making, the State Department threw It In the scrap basket, cabling back a new text written by Hugh Wilson and the career chorus. Net effect of this speech was to say: "Tut, tut, Japan, put out Everytime Davis raised his hand at Brussels he was stymied by the boys back home wtucn was completely oui oi line wiui rww if nn tjrlk tn the American delegation before it sailed. Now that the United States has turned the other cheek at Brussels, Roosevelt has sounded the belligerent note again against the JananH in the Yanctze.

Note Cordell Hull and Norman Davis, both from Tennessee, both old friends have been getting who sabotaged whom and tony. Flare-Un In Making A flare-uD of Roosevelt's feud result from the latest twist in the the Big Three of the motor industry. This suit is-a result of complaints by motor dealers that they have been forced to do business exclusively with four finance companies affiliated with the Big Three Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. The suit has been taking place before a Milwaukee grand jury, and Is a test case which would affect automobile financing throughout the The Brighter Side lot of self-confidence, the two youngsters started for Hollywood. Theirt letter of introduction got them an appointment for a tryout, but the official rejected the act.

Downhearted, but not discouraged, Florence and Jack looked up Jack Pepper, who was in Hollywood at the time. A few weeks later their act, under the name of "Buddy and Florence Pepper," opened with Olscn's Road Show in Denver, Col. With Olsen's group. Jack and Florence played their act at Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City, Utah. The show finally broke up and the youngsters returned home.

On Amateur Hoar. Last July, however, opportunity again knocked and they were presented on Major Bowes Amateur Hour. The acclaim of both the radio and studio audience won But Mr. Ade never married. It is conceivable that many a snare and pitfall of matrimonial intent was planted along his path of single blessedness, yet he side-stepped them with amazing skill.

Some said he was just plam lucky. Mr. Ade himself is not so sure about that now as he pointed for the seventy-second-year mark, which he will reach next February. "It's all right being a bachelor when you are a young bachelor," he said to us the other day, "but it's a tough life when you get to be an old bachelor and find yourself pretty much alone. You have to marry a club then for company, Yes, I guess if I had it all to do over again, and know what I know now, and could find some- countrr.

December 13, Just a few minutes before the Jury was to ballot on an indictment, Juflge Ferdinand A. Geiger suddenly summoned the Jurors and ordered a week's postponement. In the interim he planned to make a private investigation of his own. Judse Geiger 's unprecedented vigorous protest of Russell Hardy, while Florence Pepper, formerly mppemr with her in "Med About "Mad About Music Florence, at present, is in the middle of the picture and, her father says, wont be able to come home for Christ' mas. "She writes that the picture will be finished about the middle of January," Mr.

Krauss said, "and shell be home to see us then." Florence Krauss, who uses the name of Florence Pepper in the picture, the modern Cinderella girl, is living with her grand mother. Mrs. Florence Bell Krauss, at 5657 Sunset wmton 106. What happened to Jack Starkey? He and Florence will open with their act at The Tro cadero on New Year's Eve. And J.

Johnson Musselman, manager of The Rialto, says "Mad About Music1 will open there sometime in February. By Damon Runyon the Streets and of the Town," and it saw the birth of "Artie," "Doc Home," "Pinky Marsh" and "Fables In Slang." "But why did you never marry?" we asked. "Well," Mr. Ade sr id, "in a time when I might have contemplated matrimony, a marriage license cost S2, and I never had the money. By the time I got the $2.

I had lost the idea of marriage." "Kindly be we said. "All right," he said. "I suppose I lived in hall bedrooms too long, and got too thoroughly undomes-ticated. On top of that, maybe no woman would have had me." We did not ask if he ever tried to find out. However, you never can tell what the Dade County climate will do to or perhaps we should say for a man.

(Copyright.) what worn out by the excitement, they posed for their photographs and then were bundled into their wraps and taken home in their hosts' automobiles. The sorority had gathered the children from the Cabbage Patch neighborhood and had chosen children who had not yet been invited to a Christmas party. Department. Hardy charged that ueiger was acting arDitraruy ana outside the bounds of his jurisdiction and interfering with the lawful rights and functions of the grand jury. Geiger was appointed United a contract for them with the Major, but because of their youth, John Law stepped in and ore- vented their appearing.

Back home in Louisville after many disappointments, Florence and Jack received a letter from Jack Pepper again, telling them to come back to Hollywood. The latter part of September of this year, their act onened at The Trocadero, in Hollywood, and tnree weeks ago, the same act was welcomed at the Cocoanut Grove, in Los Angeles. With Deanna Durbin. In the meantime, a talent scout for Universal Pictures saw the act, and immediately took Florence, whom Boyd Martin didn't think "would go far in Hollywood," to the studios for a try-out. The answer was a contract to appear with Deanna Durbin in body who would have me, rd probably get married." we looked Mr.

Ade up In winter home on Miami Beach, lives there alone. He keeps his He up his writing, goes to all the movies and to the race tracks when the horses are running. He attends the local prize fights. In general, Mr. Ade leads a fairly active life.

His still luxuriant hair is snowy white. His once towering frame is but slightly stooped. He remains a fine figure of a man, and looks better now, physically, than at any time in the past several years. Mr. Ade first rose to fame as one of the greatest humorists this country has ever produced when he was writing a daily column for a Chicago newspaper years ago.

The column was called "Stories of But the majority of the kiddies lugged around their games and the big packages of delicacies and delightedly showed them to everyone. Grouped around the fire, they listened attentively while the sorority girls told them Christmas stories. They had played games and seen their surprises before that Then, happy though some he called on him and wormed his tinue shopping. When her chores were completed and she was ready to go home. Junior refused to budge from the horse.

The usual threats, promises and entreaties failed to budge him. The store manager was called but his words carried no persuasion. Then a child psychologist was summoned. He walked straight up to the stub-r born youngster and whispered into his ear. Junior tumbled off the hobby horse and meekly accompanied his mother.

She was anxious, of course, to know what the psychologist had said but Jinior had another stubborn fit and wouldn't tell her. When his father came home, the mother related the experience and both tried to extract the story from Junior without avail. Then, when the supper dishes had been cleared away and mother had left the dining-room, father, using his sweetest tones, again urged Junior to explain what the psychologist had said. Junior closed the door that led into the kitchen and, speaking back to his father, said: "He said Get off that horses you little hellion, before I knock the hell out of I saw an adv. of erasers the other day which emphasized the slogan: "Blank erasers correct mistakes in any language." It was reminiscent of the gag pulled by a wag who had a pencil that would write, he said, any color.

He got by with the quip all right until he met a super-wag who stumped him by asking him tor write ecru. By O. O. Mclntyre millionaires and the Broadway chorus girls depicting those mad scenes none of which was complete without the inescapable slipper filled with Mumm's extra dry. The stunt dinners are no longer given in public restaurants because of the fear of tabloid backfire.

Such didoes are staged in the pent houses. Among metropolitan evanish-ments is the Greek hand-pull candy kitchen with the window display of a giant mustachioed fellow looping enormous ropes of candy over a huge hook. There used to be one up a side street near the Globe, and its best customer was Charles Dillingham. Also one near the stage entrance of the Winter Garden. Always near large theaters, their best patronage was among matinee goers.

Shame Follows Cruelty. Some of my happiest hours were spent watching the Saturday matinee of vaudeville at the old Columbia in Cincinnati. My seat was a 35-center in the first" row of the balcony and I was. fortified with a 10-cent bar of Mullane's taffy. Taffy and vaudeville! Many acts I knew by as did most regulars.

It was at the Columbia Elbert Hubbard' made bis only and heart-breaking' vaudeville appearance. After his first few a gentle razzing started in the gallery and grew, into such a demonstration that Hubbard in bewilderment fled not. only from the theater, but took the next train out of town. It was the first and only time I had ever seen such cruelty in the theater and most of us who loved vaudeville left the playhouse a bit. sheep-faced and ashamed.

Next to the Hubbard incident the coolest reception in the theater was at old Hammerstein's, following the appearance of a couple of high-jumping ladies billed, after pistolling the millionaire W. E. D. Stokes, as The Shooting Show-, girls. They walked off in dead silence not a single handclap, (Copyright.) Well, I'll Tell You By BOB BURNS.

I don't understand all these political upsets over the Politicians are using the same methods they always did, so I- guess it must-be the people that are gettin new ideas. My Uncle. Orchie ran for County Tax As-. sessor this year-and when I. asked him how he come out he 1 took a little book out of his pocket and he said, "Here's the history of my campaign.

I lost 1,214 hours of sleep thinkin' about it; lost 2 front teeth and some hair in a personal encounter; donated 1 cow and 6 sheep to county" barbecues; gave away 2 pairs of suspenders, 4 calico dresses and $5 in cash; kissed 126 b. bies; put up 4 stoves; walked 4,076 miles; shook hands with 9,508 people and told 10,101 lies; at- tended 16 revivals and was bap-T States District Court Judge by Taft in 1812 and is noNew Dealer. Justice Department officials are irked at Geiger. They attribute his action to his secret disapproval of their own negotiations with the Big Three for a consent-decree settlement of the suit These were carried on through Donald Richberg, boss, and William Stanley, ex-Assistant Attorney General, on behalf of the motor companies. The latter proposed to change their method of financing if the Government would drop its suit.

However, the parleys got nowhere, and the Milwaukee grand jury proceedings continued until Judge Geiger, presumably miffed at the Government's out of court negotiations, suspended the jury's vote, then ruled that the Government's attempt to make a "deal" with the companies invalidated the inquiry. Mystery Man A secret feature of the Milwaukee Motor Company suit is the fact that G-men, assisting Hardy, uncovered a mystery man compiling a daily report on the operations of the grand jury. He was discovered in the press room of the court and under questioning admitted that he was working for the counsel of one of the accused finance companies. He claimed that he was obtaining Miami Beach, Dec. 19.

George Ade says if he had it all to do over again, he probably would get. married. This statement may be taken as in the nature of an Important confession from the man whe for many years ranked as perhaps the most eligible bachelor in the United States. He was young, rich, healthy, handsome and famous. He was tall, slender, romantic looking.

He was a celebrated writer -of stories and plays. He was a nifty dresser. He had a fine background. He was the type that attracted attention. The ladies said "oo-oo" when he went by.

He was everything you would think a gal would want in marriage. 16 Cabbage By RICHARD RENNEISEN. Sixteen tousle-haired youngsters from the Cabbage Patch neighbor- hoc opening their Christmas presents with mixed glee and wonderment, had a grand time at the party the Sigma Kappa Sorority gave for them Saturday at the Women's Building on the University of Louisville campus. JAMES L. CLARK, Franklin, thinks the examples of college slang we have published are not so hot; he sends along some ex amples of Simpson County spicy talk: SKATE: to impose on some one.

SWING: to steal. ROCK CITY: the county jaiL TIGER TEA: whisky. SMOKE STALK: a pistol. TIGHTEN UP: to sober up. A Western Kentucky Judge was hearing attorneys on a motion for a new trial in a criminal case, their chief argument being that the interests of their client were prejudiced by the jury beginning its deliberations with prayer for heavenly guidance.

The Judge listened patiently a few minutes and then "squelched them with this statement: "If the prayer were not heard in Heaven, how has your client's in terests been prejudiced? If the prayer were heard, who are you to dispute the dispensations of the Almighty?" BEN T. COOPER, attorney, Benton, offers this as a better story of child psychology than the one I recently related from my personal experience: A mother and her young son. Junior, aged 6, went to town around Christmas to see the toys and do some shopping. In the toy department of a large store. Junior became enamoured of a hobby horse and was permitted to ride it.

His mother in the meantime seized the opportunity to con New York Day By Day New York, Dec. 19. Diary: A spitting of snow and nip in the air. And came a crate of apples from Lucius Beebe's orchards and a brave letter from John T. Mc-Cutcheon.

So for a turn of Tudor City befdre squaring off to a platter of Col. Frank Jones' Ken tucky sausage and fried apple rings. Then to see some of Fred Det-weiler's fine canvases and came upon the new Congressman from our district, Bruce Barton, whose greeting was "Good afternoon, constituents!" And along the highway passed George Arliss, the play actor, -mincing along in that stooped-over walk of his. Dined at Lindy's on a meat ball soup, watching the crowds, in especial Harry Richman, who seemed utterly woe-begone with life's hanky-panky. And of all the town's restaurants Lindy's has most vigor and quality called human interest To bed, re-reading some short tales by Kipling.

Elevator Girls Pretty. It used to be the most beautiful girls in town could be found at the glove counters of large department stores. Nobody knew precisely why. But today many outstanding beauties are the ele vator operators in the same establishments. Chicago's Marshall Field's was first to exploit them in their mens department Dor othy Lamour was once one.

What with all the good lookers, the mon- ocled lady in the book depart ment at Macy's and the several stunning redheads at Wanamak er's, prowling around a depart ment store is becoming increasingly interesting day by day. The Dining in Old New York exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York rates a visit Espe cially to see the photograph of the famous horseback dinner at old Sherry's, given by the late C. K. G. Billings.

The photo shows the diners in the saddle and formed into a circle around the festal board. About that time, too, all the Sunday supplements were packed with pictures of Pittsburgh Heiress and Valet Elope In Maryland Girl Confined to Home Away From Spouse Baltimore, Dec. 19 (INS) The valet who is the kissless bridegroom of the 23-year-old daughter of Baltimore's "first family," the wealthy Keysers, got orders today not to come near the home of his bride, Jane Keyser. The husband, Donald Crane, 32. who eloped to Rockville, with the girl Friday, was grumpily viewing the situation from his home in nearby Laurel.

Jane was confined to her home in Green Spring Valley, heart of the swanky hunting colony. A distant relative of the family said that an annulment will be asked. Jane is the daughter of the late William Keyser, banker, real estate owner, and director of many corporations. Crane had been employed by the girl's brother, William F. Keyser, and was discharged a few weeks ago.

Jewish Mission Head Dies. New York, Dec. 19 The Rev. Leopold Cohn, 75, founder and president emeritus of the American Board of Missions to Jie Jews, Incorporated, died today. Patch Youngsters Enjoy Selves ms taiormation trom reporters covering the case.

But later, from scraps of paper found in a wastebasket, G-men discovered that facts in the possession of the undercover agent were of a nature not known to the newsmen. By this time he had disappeared. Ordered to return the next day to snow up and nas not been heard of since. (Copyright.) Music Soothes the Weary Travelers In Chicago Station together the last few days to see with the Federal Judiciary may Government's anti-trust suit against move was made despite the special assistant of the Justice for further questioning he failed of departure has worked all too wen ior some travelers. "Two Iowa farmers, with in hour to wait, were so wrapped up in the music thev fortrnt shout time," Browne said.

"They missed the 6:25 p.m. train for Ames, Iowa, and had to wait until 11:45 for another." Senator Soaper Says: A nieht nhoto shows all win dows "lighted in the State De partment Building. The boys working on the Panay case had mislaid the apology for one of the apologies. Two Japanese I Lieutenants, in a race to kill the most i.mnese, were tied the other day at 106. This war is becoming as beautiful as voun? Mussolini's.

The dreamy Slav has trouble adapting himself to machinery; Dut, ooy, what those Russian poli ticians could tell ours about steam rollers. A committee for verse and prose recitations in public houses is now active in London. Late-comers will please not walk on the face on the barroom floor As Italy Is to have no delegate henceforth at Geneva, how about repairing that carpet, where he used to turn on his heel? The general feeling fa the war in SDain nears a concluding staee. The world, we, believe, is just strong enough to stand a good peace scare. Texas growers are arming to thwart thieves who spirit tons of cotton across the Mexican border.

So simple a solution of the sur plus problem will be over their They tore open games, bounced rubber balls, held up their heavy red stockingsful of candies and sweetmeats and squealed with joy at the thought of their new possessions. "My mother told me to bring my presents home," said one grim-jawed little guest who wouldn't open the package which Santa had left with the sorority for him. Of 0 tv'l 9 'f -f I Chicago, Dec. 19 C4) There's music in the air, as well as noise and smoke, at one railroad station here this Christmas season. The cathedral tones of an organ penetrate the far corners of the building and resound in the vaulted ceiling and cavernous passageways.

It is the railroad's soothing "Merry Christmas" for holiday travelers and they like it. Several hundred persons listened tonight as the woman at the organ. Miss Norma Ballard, played Christmas carols and popular tunes. More than fifty men and women stood near the organ in one end of the waiting room of the Chicago Northwestern station. Scores of others sat on the benches, as if in church.

The faint strains of "Silent Night" were muffled now and then by the snort of a locomotive or the scraping of many feet Once, after "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," a passenger agent called out: "Streamliner, City of Denver, now ready, leaving at 6:20 on track five. All aboard." Railroad men report seeing more smiles and happier faces since the organ music began. "It sooothes them," said Frank Browne at the information booth. "People who come into a railroad station are usually lost. Either they're excited in trying to catch a train and don't know whree to go, or they're bored by the prospect of a long wait.

"The music helps them to relax." There are numerous requests from waiting travelers for songs. Miss Ballard plays "Happy Birthday" on the average of once a day. "A surprising number of requests are for classical selections," she said. The railroad tried out "piping in the passengers" during the Thanksgiving travel period and had the organ installed again for the Christmas holidays. The idea of taking the sting out rr tized 4 times; made love to 9 widows; hugged 40 old maids; got bit by 24 dogs and lost tht election by 353 votes!" (Copyright.) Delighted with the gifts which they received at the Sigme Kappa are, left to right, Edna Larimore, Johnny Anderson, Thrlma Ken Members of the sorority, left to right, Miss Garnette Bell, Miss Vh look om Sorority's party for them mt the University of Louisville Saturday dolt, Cliffy Alvey, Mel tin Brown end his twin brother, Marrin Brown.

inn Borgerdlng, Mrs, J. M. Feirteigh, srni Mrs, Matthew Allgeier, happily. dead bodies. (Copyright, 1937, by N.

A. N. A Inc.).