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ait Sfraitrlaro Exautfarr Oct. 2, 1944 CC Piii-Ult Girls By Patterson' THE BRIGHTER SIDE---- Treasures of Pete the Goat Ueing Ueautifiil ON THE SIDE Alter Sixty By DAMON RUNYON Copyright, 194, Kinf Features Syndicate. Inc. Distributed by International News Service. By E.

V. DURLING- pETE, THE GOAT, has long playful mood, Ketch shot Pete in Copyright, 1944, King features Inc. the leg as I remember. That tine around trying to think of a since become a vague legend name for me when she spoke up of Broadway Pete and safety Ketchel was a bit of a nut with firearms. at girls who wear glasses." Being a stickler for accuracy Dorothy said: "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." and said: "Let's name it Edgar." deposit boxes full of money and jewels he was supposed to have and that no one, not even his wife, Was bad enough to have her refer to a cute, little fellow like me as "it" without also saddling Afterward Pete handled prize rPO ME, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were u-lien first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare. (The above, of course, was prompted by deep love. However, a woman can actually be beauti fighters for Leo P. Flynn, then fo ran the legend, could find af ter his death. me with a name like Edgar.

How took a piece of the fistic interests of the powerful underworld pver. I have forgiven her. She combination of Owney Madden I thought of Pete, the Goat, when I noticed there were no longer steps in front of the store was only 5 years old at the time Q. How did you meet your wife? What was the initial attraction's Pete and I got to be good friends years ago, not only because I deemed him a quaint character (I think he had the same idea of me) but because I learned his word was his bond. At least it was to me.

And in all the years I knew him, Pete was grinding and saving, and displaying a frugality that got him the reputation along Broadway of being very tight. Finally people were saying Pete must have a lot of money saved because he never spent any and then the story got around he was lending money on jewelry. Perhaps he did in some instances I would not know about that but presently they were saying Pete had numerous boxes in bank vaults packed with rare gems. ful at the age of 60 not only to SIDELIGHTS. Sportscribe says Arthur Red-fern was the favorite jockey of the highly successful plunger George "Pittsburgh Phil" Smith.

That's not right. "Pittsburgh Phil's" favorite was Willie Shaw, the riding genius from What Cheer, la. The barber shop of the old Palmer House in Chicago had a floor inlaid with silver dollars. They were Mexican silver dollars. A.

The customers seem to be really digging into my personal history today. My future bride being a smart looker and a smart her loving husband hut to the public as well. In fact, one of the most beautiful actresses on the stage today is over 60. She looks to be about 27.) dresser I asked a friend to intro "If you are in our neighbor duce me to her. He did.

After I had left he asked her: "What do von think of She said: and the late George Fox, called Big Frenchy. Their passion was pugilism, and Pete made it pay for them after he assumed charge. As you can imagine, there was what you might call a slight tang of suspicion in the atmosphere surrounding the stable managed by Pete for a while because of its background. Yet, I think there was less skulduggery in its operations than many another outfit of the day, for the simple reason Pete was convinced there was more money to be made with honest fights than with crooked ones. That is to say, he did not think "He's too fresh.

Much too fresh." hood, drop in and I will make you a fine dish of delicious spaghetti," writes a kindly Chi-cagoan. I suggest subscribers extending invitations like this give the matter careful thought. You know, I might take you up on it. I'll bet the aforementioned Chi-cagoan would be surprised if when her child went to answer the doorbell the youngster announced: "Mama, there's a man here who says you promised to make him a delicious dish of spaghetti." room at the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and Forty-eighth Street, where Jules Broulator had his bank. In fact, I am told, there have been no steps there for quite a spell.

But I reckon it makes no difference now because there is no one around to appreciate them like Pete and me. You could find us sitting there on hot summer evenings because we discovered the cross breezes from off the two rivers met in cooling embrace at that point. When cold weather made the steps untenable, we would ar-journ to the coatroom of the Silver Slipper night club in the basement of the same building where Jules Broulator had his bank. Pete, the Goat, taught me knock rummy, which is practically the gin rummy of today. Pete was dour, uncommunicative or perhaps I should say inarticulate.

You had to figure out what he meant from a few disconnected words. He moved like an automaton, lifeless like. His surname was Stone. I think "Tad," the cartoonist, He died unexpectedly following an operation and next I heard they were unable to locate those wealth laden boxes. At one time Broadway rumor had them containing millions, though how the rumor mongers figured Pete could haye accumulated that kind of dough, grinding and saving, I do not know.

The last news I had of the boxes was one or more of them "had been found and the yield was scarcely up to DIETIOAXS. A rat is an expert dietician. Experiments show when a rat is deprived of salt he will drink a lot of salt water. When an experiment on his body deprives a rat of calcium he will eat a lot of anything containing calcium. In one experiment some rats were given the choice of twenty different solutions to choose a meal from.

The rats selected a perfectly balanced diet in accordance with the most up to date nutritional knowledge. FIRST TRIP. On arriving at Le Havre our forces found the steamship Paris still lying on its side at the pier where it sank in 1939. The Pari3 was one of my favorite transatlantic liners. My wife and I made our first trip to France on BING'S FAVORITE.

Ding Crosby's favorite of all the ditties he has sung is "Pennies From Heaven." In London recently Bing was dining in a restaurant in Soho. A crowd gathered outside and started chanting: "We want Bing to sing! We want Bing to sing!" So Bing went to a window in the restaurant building, stuck his head out and sang: "Pennies From Heaven." The crowd went wild with joy. ASIDES. So far I have never been a collector of anything. However, I may shortly take up the collection of sporting prints and old sporting magazines.

Who re you could fool as many of the public with the barn dances as you could draw in with the square jobs. I never saw a man behind a fighter in the ring as listless as Pete, but it was because he '''iC i-O-l- 1-H. KIM; Tl 1 1.. I-. II -S 1 l1 1 ir i 1 -ii ii I figured the time for excitement I do not know that this is true and preparation was when you were making the match.

but in any event there are many Jack sent it from Australia to replace the gardener!" persons along the Big Street you I observed, however, that just will never be able to convince that SAYS SHE. "Speaking of the deal girls get in the change of names by marriage you stated it wasn't right that a young woman with a nice name like Stevens be saddled with one like Diddlebock orMuck-enfuss," writes a feminine subscriber. "Before marriage I was called Miss Curtis. Now I am referred to as Mrs. Muckent'uss.

What do you think of the deal I got? Still it really isn't so bad when you love the guy," before the bell rang Pete usually whispered in a pug's ear, and I asked three or four of them what Pete said to see if his words of Pete the Goat did not have a whole flock of boxes scattered around the community under various names, for once you get a gave him the title of Pete, the Goat, when Pete was a handy man around the camp of the great Stanley Ketchel. Once, in wisdom differed in each case. I learned he said the same thing to all: "Belt 'im out." story rolling on Broadway nothing can stop it or keep it from growing. members a baseball game toy invented by the old time ballplayer, Chief Zimmer? I had this when a kid. Was a wonderful game and the adults had as much fun with it as I did.

Soldiers would really enjoy this game. Too bad it is no longer manufactured. Get It right. Dorothy Parker did not say: "Men never make passes this beautiful boat. And how we enjoyed it- Our room steward was a highly efficient, quaint and comical fellow.

In the dining-room we had a table on the balcony and were served by a couple of jovial waiters. The first transatlantic trip is listed by most people as one of the thrills of a lifetime. How about you? ASKING. Queries from clients. Q.

How did you happen to get the name of Edgar? A. My sister suggested this name. The family was sit- NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS Where Hitler Got 31 anpower By PAUL MALLON- Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Reproduction In whole or In part prohibited Puu-ilit Xames Candidates WASHINGTON SCENE Oct. 1.

What nidy prove 10 oe no more formidable than a road block, to be swept away. The fighting of By GEORGE DIXON- fooled us on the Siegfried Line and in Holland were the surprising results of the general mobilization Hitler undertook Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited. the next few days will give a better understanding of future prospects. The disaster to the British publicly more than a month ago, paratroopers in Holland, Jamen That far back he apparently yASHINGTON, Oct.

1. Mr. Cole E. Morgan, who has an infinite capacity for taking pains which naturally makes him a genius has just completed an exhaustive study of nominees for the Seventy-ninth Congress. tably tragic as it was, cannot be began planning his current fight, considered militarily as impor By his desperate drain of man retreating to the homeland, were able to create the Arnhem pocket in which we lost 6,200 with only 1,800 escaping.

But he even appeared with an air force there when he had to have it. We were overly optimistic also in estimating German morale. Their defenses have been spotty. At some key points of their choice they fought fanatically, but in France, after the break through, their troops indicated distaste for fighting except in the suicide squads at the Channel ports, and even these troops were far less anxious than their officers. If our estimates on any of these three points morale, man power for his home stand he was able to maintain his border front tant as the less advertised developments southward showing Hitler had man power.

The ex after the best half of his armies in western Europe had been tent of this defense in depth could not be known definitely destroyed in France. nowever, until lully probed by When our authorities ran into lighting. Mr. Morgan alone. I'll shoot him myself!) "Both sides expect to have close shaves in' November (this one will kill you I hope) so the Republicans have Wilson D.

Gillette, in Pennsylvania, whom they are pitting against a couple of Democratic razors, Lester Gillette and Guy M. Gillette, both Iowa. You will note I refrained from asking either party 'Why don't Gillette well enough "All these barber tools, of course, could be applied to Dennis Bushyhead, of Oklahoma, and Howard K. Beard, of Pennsylvania. Both these hirsute fellows that means 'hairy' you mugg are Democrats so they had better use the Iowa Gillettes and leave the one from Pennsylvania alone." rii rii Thank you.

Mr. Morgan, for all 'We prefer to tell our customers their dentures are ready this unexpected show of strength, some of them threw up their This is not the first time we -not 'Come and get your hands in pessimism and started have been fooled. When the Ger Although a serious-minded soul, Mr. Morgan has his moments of playfulness. I do not know what mood he was in when he concluded his researches but 1 have dark suspicions.

Anyway he put together quite a cast and scenario, using the list of congressional nominees as his working material. We will now hear from Mr. Morgan: "The Republicans deserve to man line broke in Normandy predicting no end of the war before spring. ONE WOIII) LED TO ANOTHER power and the opportunity in France had been realized the war would be over now. If just This is the focal explanation of the perplexing fluctuation in reports from the battle line the a single one of these lively pros pects had turned our way, the By ARTHUR 'BUGS' BAER- Distributed by King Feature! Syndicate, Inc.

l'en Was Enough for Me past ten days. Where he got so many troops Is yet something of a mystery. Officers were taken out of ad there was an excellent prospect the war could be won in France by complete annihilation of their western forces. While more than half were rendered useless, Hitler was surprisingly able to preserve the military organization of those retreating armies and some of these troops now augment his last drain of home man power. The Nazi forces in Holland, and many stationed in Belgium were never in the French fight.

These, rOT a letter from a very pleas pitching, heavier batting, terrific fielding and incredible base run ant lady in California who other two could not have saved him. Now it all depends on who has the greatest force at this battle line or how long it will take us to get more power there. The situation is about as in Normandy after the initial landings. It can still turn either wav. ning.

The better the game the wants to know which side I am your time and trouble. At least I will have one reader today you! crats in goodness. They have Homer D. Angell, Oregon; C. W.

(Runt) Bishop of Illinois; Ralph E. Church, Illinois, and James B. Abbey, California. "The Democrats are trying to counter all this righteousness with J. Percy Priest, Tennessee; Adolph J.

Sabath, Illinois, and Charles A. Chappell, Nebraska." (Editor's note: You know! Angell Bishop Church Abbey Priest Sabath Chappell!) (Note to editor: Nuts (o you, editor!) "The Rep-blicans realize politics is a game of chance so they have Ralph A. Gamble of New York. But they are far from dispirited with Clifford R. Hope of Kansas.

"The Republicans trust they are not pulling one with George W. Boner of Kentucky, while the Democrats expect the welkin to ring with C. Jasper Bell of Missouri. "The Republicans think a Representative in the hand is worth two in the bush to they have put up T. Millett Hand in New Jersey.

And they'll bet a dollar on Ellsworth B. Buck of New York." (Editor's note: Why don't you all go home and quit hanging around here?) "The Democrats hope to collect in Ohio so they have John L. Cashin and they want shelter from the dements in Ohio under Roy Warren Roof. "Speaking of weather, the Democrats have Albert Rains, in Alabama, which they hope will not overflow Overton Brooks, of Louisiana, nor Mendel Rivers, of South Carolina, thereby causing a Daniel J. Flood, in Pennsylvania." (Editor's note: Very subtle stuff that! Rains Brooks -Rivers Flood!) better I write.

on. As I am not a pat of butter 1 Lady, I'm on no side. I'm astraddle that barbed wire fence know the lady was not inquiring ministrative cnairs. ooiaiers were drawn from garrison and police duty. Even tradesmen and workers in key industries were called upon to fill home gaps left by the military going to the front.

To the vacated places of these workmen at home he forced more foreign workers. Boys 16 and younger were called to duty. The physically disqualified were fitted in. about my location on a piece of toast. As I am not.

playing check ISraiii Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc. ers she isn't asking about my king row. What she means i whether I'm for the Republocrat or the Democan.s. -hile these questionn are ur ranged order of difficulty, It seems that this year you lose the battle for control of the House of Representatives in November because they have only one Cannon. The Democrats have mounted three.

"The GOP Cannon is Quayle Cannon Jr. of Utah. The Democrats already have Pat Cannon of Florida, and Clarence Cannon of Missouri, both renominated, and have added a third, James J. Cannon of New Jersey. "The Democrats are trying to get there.

They have Robert W. Ready of Vermont, Stephen Pace of Georgia, Chase Going Woodhouse of Connecticut, and Josiah W. Gitt of Pennsylvania. In this election-hunting, the Republicans have only Margaret Chase Smith of Maine." (Editor's Note: Ready-Pace Chase Gitt. Get it?) (Note to Editor: No!) "The Republicans, however, have the edge on the Demo- questions seven and eight are galloping Hades bent for a referendum and recall.

Old Ring Lardner said he didn't care who made the laws so long as I wrote twice a day. I feel the same way about it myself. I've been attending to that infinitesimal detail ever since Noah shoved the third monkey off the gangplank of the Ark. There arc some folks who wish the third monkey bad been me. Sometimes I agree with especially so.

In scoring, there must he meat, fowl or good red herring. I want to state this is one campaign in which feelings mately 788,500 miles of railroads in all nations of the world what per cent of the total would you say is in the United States 10 per cent, 20 per cent, 30 per cent or 40 per cent? 2 A lead pencil is not made of lead. What is it made of? 3 Molokai is one of the Ha fore, give yourself JO for each are running higher than dud correct answer through question comets. I was very much intrigued with the suggestion of Miss Vera Zorina that tired businessmen should take up ballet exercises to relax after a hard day's work. I understand Miss Zorina is in the dancing line herself.

They tell me she can tiptoe around and suddenly kick out in all directions. This being the case. I can't understand why she has never been appointed to head a big Government agency. Her qualifications would seem to make her a natural. She could replace Secretary of the Interior Ickes on a minute's notice.

And she would add a great deal more to the landscape, although there are many admirers including Mr. Ickes who contend that Mr. Ickes has a very neatly turned calf. The idea has infinite possibilities. But I must restrain myself! st.r, 'y cacti or the remaining I think Dewey and Roosevelt two qucstio)is.

For each Incor are both Rood men. Otherwise These recruits are naturally not of the best. But some good troops were called in from the Russian front and from Denmark (which has been virtually a fighting front since the uprisings started months back). Piecing these together he was able to get a line. But the very nature of these troops makes the current popular pessimism tenuous.

The line they wouldn't be chosen by their rcct answer subtract fire points waiian Islands. Do you know for what it is chiefly noted? 4 Zeebrugge, Ostend and Nieu- from your final score. Any score fellow citizens. I do think it's about time for Franklin Delano 65, or higher, is excellent. 1 The United States leads all port are ports along the North to step out and give us a chance to see what is causing the lumps countries in the develop feea coast ot a certain country under the White House hall car them.

I have been called everything under the sun and some things over the moon. But every once in a while a letter from Maine, California. Texas or Oregon comes along and smooths things out like sleep does wrinkles. I am not aiming to choose up sides at any time. I'm in the grandstand rooting for better ment of railroads.

Of the approxi suitable lor the landing of supplies for the Allied armies in their pet. Of course, I said it would be assault on Germany. Is this coun awful if Mrs. Roosevelt came try France, Belgium or Holland? back from one of her long trips 5 Suppose you own an acre of land. How much does it amount WELL.

HOW FAR IS IT IF THE DARNED CROW HAS TO WALK AND ROLL A FLAT TIRE ALONG and walked in on a stranger. Quiz for Juniors (Note to editor: Xou leave to? II 6 There are two main cavities 1 What three States have names beginning and ending with the same letter? in the human body, the dorsal and the ventral. What does each contain? 7 It would be difficult to find any one who cannot recite first verse of "Mary Had a Little 2 The emperor of Japan claims descent from a mystical divinity. What other reigning emperor traces his descent io King Solomon of the Bible? but can you remember the last verse, the one which contains the moral? 3 If you cut two corners diag onally off one square how many corners will remain? 8 From which English king 9 bv was the Magna Carta forced? 4 What fine group of build ups recently under fire in Paris ANSWERS. has been in turn a fort, arsenal.

1 Thirty per cent is correct Di-ison. emncror's palace ana a ft i i i i i 2 A form of carbon called museum? graphite. a In reading Dickons' "Pick wick Papers" whom would you pick as the hero? 3 For its leper colony. 4 Belgium. 5 One hundred and sixty 6 Cashmff a checK lor 543 at the bank arnan received twice as many $1 bills as $5 bills and then square rods or 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet.

ten times as many $1 bills as $10 6 The dorsal cavity contains bills. How many of each? the brain and spinal cord, the 7 In what direction must we look to see the center of the solar ventral contains all the organs of the trunk. ystem? ANSWERS 1 Alabama, Arizona and Ohio. 2 Haile Selassie, of Ethiopia. 3 Six.

4 The Louvre. 5 Pickwick. 6 Ten ones, five fives and one 7 "And you each gentle ani mal In confidence may bind, And make it follow at your will If you are only kind." 8 From King John, brother of Ccpr. 1144, Kir. Futures Syndicate, Inc.

World rijhtj mtrvti. ten. "If you wanna save face, ya hetter wipe that grin off it and successor to Richard Coeur de Lion, 1 ''Look, Offisherno 7 Toward the sun..