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-f J. -1 9 Cill Atttry, Zvr and JL' Ct7 VLsa fiy Gtortt Tmcisr Sparrow Hawk Which Forages On Manhattan Pigeons Each Spring Oh Cf Cf City Omar the Swlrcmaker was hitting a jag time tun on the hot electric organ at the Lincoln. But for one Dangerous Dan McGrew wasn't in so I ambled over and said, "Milt" for his name is Kilt Hearth I said, "Milt, bow come you play that thing the way you do?" And he said, "To eat, amigo. BristoL Va. IVnii.

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The name of the author must appear in print at the bottom of the communication. AU communications must be plainly written and on one side of paper only. No manuscript will be returned unless so requested by the author and stamps are Inclosed for that purpose. maxim by which a dog and his owner are absolved from liability for biting a human being, provided it cannot be shown that it is a second or habitual offense. We are fond of dogs, whose average of good temper is extremely high, but in this instance our sympathies are with the originators of the defeated bill, among whom are letter These useful public servants are required to, deliver letters under circumstances which are often hazardous, their occupation being nearly as risky at times as that of the early morning milkman.

It is smtll consolation to a postman, who has been nipped by a dog in the line of duty the postman's, not the dog's to be told that it is the first time such a thing had happened, and that the dog owner cannot imagine what caused the attack. Moreover, if the feud continues, and the dog again samples the mail carrier, it is scarcely an appeasement to realize that the owner is now liable for maintaining a dangerous animal, and subject to some of those majestic processes so much admired by Sir Edward Coke. We think that this provision of the common law, even if hallowed by immemorial usage, is absurd, coming within the view- of Mr. Bumble, who declared that "the law is an ass." It should be removed by statute, or we should not blame letter carriers if they deposited mail at a safe distance and uttered the old army summons: "Come and get it." New York Herald Tribune. NEW YORK, April 17.

One of the tragedies of city life is a sparrow hawk that appears suddenly each spring and forage on the pigeons of Manhattan. Most hawks are wild and unapproachable, but this marauder has grown contempluous of people in the street and pays no attention to the shouts and cries below him. He hangs out around the Grand Central district, an excellent granary for him, and has his fill of sparrows and squab which are to be found on almost every ledge. This is the third straight season I have seen him, but he has been- pillaging New York for many years. Where he winters no one knows probably In the fields of upstate New York or the meadows of Jersey but when April comes he comes, too, to practice his vandalism and wax fat on what the land has to offer.

Several years ago a photographer hid on a ledge and succeeded in gaining a remarkable photograph of the hawk as it perched on one of the grinning gargoyles at the top of the Chrysler building It revealed a bold and Insolent aggressor, his talons deep in the breast of a sparrow. The cop and the shoeshine boys on that corner call him "Hitler." After she celebrated her first anniversary as Paul Whiteman'i vocalist, at which time she received 52 roses one for each week Joan Edwards was invited to a weekend hout party in the country. But before she left she wrote this note to her milkman anc" left it in a bottle at her apartment door: "Please do not leave any milk Sunday. Will be away," Monday af'roon Joan returned to find this reply at her door: "Okay, Have a good time." 4. r--t Cti.

Ij Mia la Alio Spur Cf It Cc: To Gz'JLz too small for Which last itcn suggests a nasty crack which will be omitted here because there isn't a chap around. -town who's kept his hat-size better than Ty Mickey Rooney, who rates in the first ten box-office stars makes $1,000 a week exactly half of what Freddie Bartholomew draws Freddie got started sooner, at tne top in fame, whereas Mickey did a long stretch of Bette Davis's birthday present from, her studio was a $5,000 portable dressing room equipped with everything including hot and cold running water, telephone, built-in Henry O'Neill is "technical adviser" to Johnnie Davis in "Give Me a Child," which Johnnie, a real-life expectant father, plays an expectant father. O'Neill qualifies because his daughter Patricia, now 14, was born in New Jersey while Henry was on the stage in Sacramento and Henry paced the boards instead of the hospital corridors 8,000 miles "Give Me a Child" is the new version of "Life Begins," once made with Loretta Young and Eric Linden Minneapolis (Minn) reader writes in for more musical backgrounds in Says: "Take "The Oklahoma Kid' as an example' of a picture that could have been improved with music. Rosemary Lane, one of the grandest singers in pictures, was in the cast, but did they let her sing even one song? No, Cagney instead sang a ditty. Another example of Hollywood stutpidity' But remember when a gal named Jeanette MacDonald spent a year or so making silly, non-musical comedies and not singing because, the public was tired of musicals?" PILOT CLUBS TOIJEETIIERE District Convention To Be Held Saturday And Sunday In Criatal Spring convention of district of Pilot International will be held in Bristol on Saturday and Sunday of this week, with the local An Exile Return An interesting sign of the times is the latest development in the celebrated case.

Grover Cleveland Berg- doll, most famous draft-dodger in the World War, fled to Germany and re- 'JZ- mained there with the connivance of his family. He had the means to live anywhere he wanted to. Germany has been his home ever since, although he seems to have made an occasional trip secretly to this country. It had to be secret, for he was subject to arrest and imprisonment if he were caught. Now, pretty well along in middle age, with a wife and children, with Europe in a war ferment and an arbitrary tyrant regimenting every phase of life in Germany, Bergdoll is said to be coming back Ur America ready to serve his sentence in prison, spend the rest of his life here and rear his children to be Americans.

Some war veterans have started protesting against this, but their action seems uncalled for. If the offender has learned his lesson-and willingly pays the penalty, that should end the matter. The fact that stands out like a church steeple is that this country, which some of our citizens haven't been thinking so much of lately, is regarded almost everywhere else as the most blessed place on earth. Washington Daybook By Pmton Grovt Don't Worry If Europe Puzzles Yout Even Experts Have Trouble Keeping Up Chinese Traffic Signs A recent issue of Coronet carried a list of traffic signs that one will find throughout China. Here are some of them: "Go soothingly on the grease-mud as there lurks the skid demon.

Press the brake of the foot as you roll around the corners to save the collapse and tie-up. "At the rise of the hand of policeman, stop rapidly, Do not pass him by or otherwise disrespect him. "Beware of the wandering horse that he shall not take fright as you pass him. Do not explode the exhaust box at him. Go soothingly by, or stop gradually by the roadside till he pass away.

"Give big space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway. Avoid entanglement of the dog with your wheel-spokes. "When a passenger of the foot hove in sight, tootle the horn trumpet to him melodiously at first. If he still obstacles your passage, tootle him with vigor and express by word of the mouth the warning, "Hi! These might be compared with some of the traffic signs in this country and in Europe. Then the Chinese signs would hardly sound so funny.

Almost every day some church organization or adver- tising agency devises a new slogan to be' erected for the benefit of the motorists. Some of them are good, and some of them well, the Chinese show much better taste. Montgomery Advertiser. club as host. Delegates are expected at the convention from all the clubs of the district, which includes Mor-gantown, Raleigh, Winston-Salem- Charlotte, Greensboro and tonia in North Carolina, Washington, D.

Baltimore, Md Chicago, 111., and Harrisburg, Pa. -1 ti izzzi tzizi i TK-Y CTHX tAt by tattr. I Before saying a lew hopeful words about "They Still Say No" commentator would like to descr' briefly it author. He is Welk Lewis, son of Sin clair Lewis and an earlier wife than the pontkal MUs Thompson. He will be 22 years old on July 28.

The first three of his years were spent in this country, the next six divided unevenly, among Rome. Hart ford, rontaineblau. Nantucket Switzerland, Wyoming. Custo marily he spent winters at school in America, Switzerland or England. He was four years at a Junior prep school near Deer- ficid, four, years at An- dover; has been four years at Harvard.

He has worked for a finance research bureau in Paris. and has spent summers in Mexi- co and Vermont This, his first published novel, was written on his father's Vermont farm. Because it is ail so typical of 22-year-old and a Harvard boy. So typical, so charming, so naive. Gentle reader, Mr.

Lewis writes about sex. He writes about a rather empty but. quite nice young man who lives (by still another of those strange coincidences) in the same Harvard "house" that Wells Lewis inhabits. The hero is named Crane. As the seasons pass the sap rises but Crane can't seem to get the hang of sexual manners.

His friend Jeff oes out regularly, and to hear hirn tell it in his big, bumbling way, he comes back with scalps crowding his belt. All Crane gets is "I did think you were; a gentleman. Time marches, as is its wont Crane meets a gal with more money than morals in New York, and later goes to Mexico, where he has gone to be secretary to his uncle for the summer. This girl also gets to Mexico But there is no jooint in re- oeating Mr. Lewis.

Hie prospective reader will want to know whether the book is amusing. It is. When the young Mr. Lewis lias put Harvard quite a piece behind him and has resigned youth to its immemorial frustrations, 'he will write something important. Because he Is more interested in the technique of writing than his father, he may turn out the betterf craftsman.

Some day. GOTHAM COPS IIAB DMERSOIi Midwest Bandit Arrested At int In Suburban Queens Apartment NEW YORK, April 17. P) Lieut. James A. Pyke said Claude Dlckerson, 31-year-old midwest desperado who escaped from the Houston, Mo Jail in 1934, was arrested at gunpoint Sunday by New York City and Indiana police at an apartment where he had been living In su ourban Queens.

Dickerson was described by police as the only surviving member of the "Perkins gang," pre-Dilllnger outlaws who pulled a series of bank robberies and murders in the. west several years ago. Dkkerson was arrested on a fugitive warrant charging him with participating in the holdup of a bank at Bloomingdale, March 20, 1936, in which a bank clerk and Theodore Mills, a pal of Dickerson, were slain. Acting on a tip, and Informed that Dickerson would shoot if cornered, the officers lay in wait for him outside the apartment and seized him when he appeared with a neighbor booked as Duard Lytel, 30, his brother-in-law. The two were handcuffed and taken into Dickerson'a apartment where two vomen booked as their wives, Frances Dickerson, 30, and Dora Lytel, 29, were waiting.

An automatic pistol was found in the apartment. The four were brought to police headquarters for questioning. E. A. CCLEMAH VICTIM OF r.OTCn ACCIDENT JOHNSON CITY.

Apr. 17. E. A. Coleman, 5S-year-oid secretary of the Harris Manufac turing Company of Johnson City and a former city commissioner, was fatally injured late Saturday In an automobile accident near Stanford, Ky.

Mr. Coleman died aiver his car skidded off the hlchway, throwing him from the machine and crushing his chest. Mrs. Coleman, their two sons. Jimmy and William, and a girl companion, Miss 'Dorothy Montgomery, also of Johnson City, escaped from the wreck with minor bruises and lacerations.

A resident of SCI West Maple street. Mr. Coleman was a prom inent figure here, naving aerm at city commissioner from U-3 to 18S3 during the eaminiatra- tion of Mayor Een Snipes. One and a half cups of cook ed prunes added to a quart ot partially frozen vanilla icecream makes a dessert mat is economical and different Half a eup of pecans may be added to the mixture. Xtp to SCCt.

Ca ifaalwr. er i kuiM 4 a4 Tr----. A HOLLYWOOD, April 17. Gene Autry, spur-and-jircU) man, la a spur-of-the-moment guy when it come clothes, Walked into his tailor's the o'her day, saw some material be Lked, haa it made up and into a party wearing the Hazel Dlue, he calls it but that doesnt sound bright Gene's next is a story Inspired by the "recent pony express race to the San Francisco Must have been written the day the race began, because it's ready to shoot now. May Robson's door "chime" is an old-fashioned She takes it down Hollo weens.

Since Mussolini muscled in on Albania for "protective purposes," the local flesh-peddlers (agents who get 10 per cent of their clients earnings) have a new name for stealing tiieir rival's They call it Sam Wood says he got a genuine "sneak" preview on his made-in-England production of "Goodbye, Mr, He screened it at Reading on a holiday, to an English audience which came to bee a thriller and never seemed to understand why they were seeing an unbilled George Raft made his first tour of his new studio lot the other day his first although he'd finished a picture there. He toured in a natty spring suit, greeted old friends and new. looked like his usual handbox self. Tour was postponed because during picture he wore convict's stripes and a fella wants to look right when he meets Tyrone Power, who made one of those "best-dressed, best-hat ted" lists, pays $70 per suit and has only three hats, two of which he wears occasionally, the third being sentimental treasure and DORE SUPPORT GIYEIIW! Recovery Aided Cy Lessen, ing Of Fear Europe May Be Plunged Into War NEW YORK, April 17. Wj-A rebound in the stock last week has attracted attention in business circles as' a sample of what might be forthcoming on a bigger scale if industry were relieved of war fear.

The recovery in stocks, aided by a market structure which had undergone extensive purging of weak speculative accounts, proceeded against a background of returning hope for maintenance of peace in Europe, climaxed by President Roosevelt's plea to Hitler and Mussolini Saturday. wiwi millions of men under arms in Europe and the Mediterranean bristling with demonstrations of naval might the revival of peace, hope was a relative affair for Wall Street. But the Roosevelt message to the dictators and the possibility it might open the way for negotiations-made a contrast with the alarm in financial circles the previous week-end over the Italian Invasion of Albania. Brisk Demand For Textiles The rise in listed share values was the largest for any week since October 1. A "peace rally" parallel was seen by market analysts, who recalled the "peace in our time" Munich pact last September temporarily blew away the war clouds 'which had de pressed markets and business, and touched off a jubilant recov ery in stocks.

To the Wall Street eve. there have been many points of similarity between the present crisis, It effects on American business and the war scare last summer. As in the Aurust-Sentember European flareup, Hitler's "ides of March" coup this year caucht domestic Industry In an expansive mood following a winter letdown. The first half of March saw. various symptom of spring revival in business; including bride demand for textiles, heavier buying of raw materials, expansion in steel production and strenri'-anins of key commodity prfexa.

mere were many in Wall Street who shared the belief of T. M. Girdler, chairman of the Republic Steel who told stock holders in t.e cor-nr's annual meeting: "If war rumors would inn think we would have a nrtiv good year In 1K2." Mas. ncc: IVLLT WILL N'XT Brlstollans who clan tn tn tn Johnson City on nexf msfli, April to near Ura, Franklin D. r.doseveU.

First Lady of the land, In an a54m at the municipal auditorium there, will have through Weineslay to obtain their reservations. The dcsillne on the tickets originally hd bva fixed lor today, but I Nat Ccrmhaver announced last night that the extension of time had -n granted. VJ.1CJ r-? s-i Mr i i a 1 like to eat. I'm a married man and my wife likes to eat I When I itoo Dlavina thia 'thins' las you caU it, the manager stops 'paying me. And when hi stops paying me, I can pay the landlord and the clothier and the grocer and the hatter and the shoe man.

And when I stop paying the landlord and the grocer and the rest of them they unite against me, "The landlord says. 'Omar, you will have to move, because times are hard, and if you do not pay me then I can not pay And the grocer says, 'Milt, if you do not pay me then 1 can not let you have any more beans, times are hard, and I 'can not pay the And my wife says, 'Honey, If you do not play the hot electric organ then the manager will 'stop paying you, and if he stops paying you then you can not pay the grocer, who In turn will let you have no ravioli, and in which case I shall "That is what will happen to me I stop playing this and if there is anything else you wish to know I will tell you. Note: By all means go in and I listen to Mr. Herth play the hot electric organ. But do not ask i him any questions that is, do not ask him any questions un less you have several hours to spare.

When you ask questions 'of Mr. Herth you get answered world (and not for fun.) The immediate guess down there was that Germany would move next in the direction of Danzig and perhaps the Polish corridor. But they were admittedly guessing, on Capitol Hill we met Sen ator Borah. He recalled the tele-1 phone conversation between Hit ter and Mussolini before II Ducs'g legions crossed the Adriatic Into Albania. Ki Borah's Version "I'll venture the conversation went something like this," said Boran.

"Hitler: 'Say, Benito, go over and take Albania tomorrow. I'll announce I'm backing you up, ahd we 11 see how serious Mr. Cham berlain is with this pledge to tight to save the little And Mussolini ups and does It And nothing happens, immedi ately. A White House spokesman reflected the President's mind In warning, the country that contin ued advancement by the dicta tors would mean America must choose perhaps one of three courses: 1. Whether to bottle ourselves up ana live on our own fat 2.

Whether to tax and tax and tax and subsidiza and subsidize and subsidize our foreign trade. 3. Whether to lower our stand ard of living, pay lower wages and work more hours so our goods, costing less to produce, couia compete abroad with total Itarlan tradesmen. Nobody around here has the answers. FIVE DIE III SUICIDE PACT Iowa Parents Slay Three Children And Then End Their Own lives OGDEN, April 17.

() The Ray Platter family of five persons for whom the father and mother "planned to find peace togetner" was found shot to death in their home here. Coroner Harry Schroeder of Boone said the parents, both about 40, entered a suicide pact! and killed their three children as they. slept I The children, Dwayne, 14; Joyce 12, and Kenneth, 10, were discovered lying in their beds, shot with a .22 caliber rifle. Platter, a Doultryman who had been In poor health, and his wife were lying arm in arm in their bed. They had been shot throukh the head with a .32 caliber revolver found beside the father.

The coroner said a note left by the mother read in part: "I love Ray and I don't Intend to live without him. We plan to find peace together." 1 WtagXY KILLS NIGRO KINGSPORT, April 17. Poison liquor claimed a victim tn Kingsport Sunday. He was Sard Henry, negro, who was found dead at the home of Dave Lollis, another colored man, on East Sullivan street Dr. C.

Cox, examining physician, said the negro death was apparently caused by whiskey which ht hd drunk. Officer Ei'l of the U.rxpart ps t'-" nl, in-' f. of Flags Over Hollywood The public may have noticed that Hollywood has been going patriotic late- ly. Patriotism hasn't altogether replaced romance we have both flags and girls but there's certainly a change of em-phasis. Theatrically, the Red, White and Blue banner in the past has been largely lithe property of George M.

Cohan, Now I several producers have awakened to its box-office value and started waving it with energy and success. The public responds to this appeal, of course. And there are doubtless other factor! involved, along with the natural desire of movie magnates to please the multitude. International quarrels and the fears now running people' souls everywhere stir the patriotic depths. At such times, people's response to anything reminding them of their historic past and their present need of unity naturally brings a quick response.

And as long as there is no unnecessary drum-beating, no unwise stirring up of popular passion, it is a wholesome thing. There's one good thing about That War Over There, anyway. Republicans and Democrat can mostly agree about It. In Lighter Vein Some years ago Mr. Winston Churchill was traveling on the Tralee-Listowel-Ballybunion Railway.

For no good reason, apparently, the train stopped in a station for half an hour. Mr. Churchill, being in a hurry to. reach his destination to dine with Lord Leitrim, who wa the chairman. of the railway company, informed the porter of his identity and also of his date that evening, presuming that this might have some effect.

But not a bit of it 1 "Your Honor," said the porter, "if ye were the son of the stationmaster himself, it would not make any difference." Charles Graves in Daily Mall. WASHINGTON. April 17, If things are happening so fast in Europe that you can make head nor tail of them, be not chagrined. The State Department, War Department, Navy Department and other departments are equally at sea. Perhaps more so.

They must not only try to determine what it means, but more trouble somewhat to do about it. if anything. Don be ashamed to run to the library to read a book about it. They have to at the State Depart ment, we rambled into one of fice while the Italian guns were still booming on Albanian shores. Two worried scholars on central European affairs were buried to the ears in books.

Plenty of Material Thev knew Drettv thnmtiahlv the background of Albania. But a suDerior official wanted a de tailed report. Including exactly what Mussolini had said on the subject a couple of years ago. They had volumes and volumes of Mussolini speeches, both in me original Italian and the Eng lish translations. (In 8 Dinch.

aomehodv or nthr deeply hidden In the State Department probably could translate Saruklrt or, ancient Egyptian if he had to, especially if it In volved some diplomatic matter.) At the War Deoartment we n. countered somebody speculating wnai win come auer Albania. (Not all the atudvlnff ffnM nn In the State Department. There are U. S.

military and naval attach In almost every country in the CLIPPER ENDS FIRST FLIGHT Huge Flying Boat Back In Baltimore After Trans-At-Untie Hop To Europe BALTIMORE, April 17. UP) The 74-passenger flying boat Yankee Clipper arrived at 12:41 (EST) Sunday from Ber muda, completing Its round-trip transAtlantlc flight to Europe. The 42-ton carrying 22 men, left Horta, The Azores, at 11:10 a. m. (EST) Saturday and arrived over Bermuda at 3:13 m.

after flying against winds which held its speed to an aver age 119 miles per hour. It landed in Hamilton harbor at 4:35 a. m. but two hours and eleven minutes later was back In the air on the last leg of the flight to its temporary home port a peiimg rain spattered the giant's wings as It settled to the Patapsco river in a rouUne ending to what Pan-American officials termed a routine inspecUon flight to European bases. A small umbrella-carrying crowd was on hand for the arrival.

Since the clipper lifted nto the air here March 21, it covered 11,071 in 84 hours flying time, A veritable winged hotel, the clipper soon will be Inaugurated In regular transatlantic flights to Europe, Its luxurious equipment is complete, even to nnaai sur Individual pastry cases should be reheated before they are served. After they have been stored a day or so they have are likely to absorb a little moisture which tends to V'tm tough. Heating remedies tile toughness. International officers who wil attend the convention include Mrs. Belle Bend, of Atlanta, past international president; Mrs.

Ethel Cooper, of AW lanta, past district governor; Mrs. Dorrette Wood, of Winston-Salem, district governor; and Mrs. Carolyn Servers, of Atlanta, the international secretary. The principal business session will be held at Hotel General Shelby after a breakfast Sunday morning. Mrs.

Fay Barrett, international president, and Mrs. Annie Lou Brigman, international treasurer, both of Atlanta, are endeavoring to arrange their schedules so as to attend the convention here. Grow a few new flowers this year. Kimulus, also known as monkey flower, is a beautiful porch box annual for a shady situation. If it is new to you, grow a fw plants this year, but stare them early in a seed box lrtors.

as tne seed is fine and slow to terminate. 1, 3 rrmrTATz ICZT T.C-S W. t'ti li. Ir-a CI r- 1 sMa eot r- i woe 4. -t" tKf a4 1 i oi I I tl i -A Jt mf do a no the amount tiztzzzzry fay AU overdue eni return the meney to us In small payment.

amoumts to s-e UAQC 0,7 lit A i A CO) 0 Mother: "You see, Anne, this is the armor that knight wore in the Middle Ages." Anne: "Ohl It must have scratched the Montreal Star, Domestic Free Trade The representatives of 44 States and four territories who met in Chicago recently to discuss the matter of trade barriers between states approved a general program. They proposed 1. To encourage repeal of trade barrier legislation already adopted. 2. To foster enactment of uniform laws and adoption of reciprocal trade agreement designed to reduce trade barriers between states.

3. To discourage adoption of any retaliatory legislation by states which feel themselves harmed by legislation of their neighbors. 4. To call regional hearings tor carrying out conference recommendations. States with trade problems standing between them were urged to arrange a parley through the Council of State Governments for the purpose of solving them with mutual fairness.

A return to the "traditional policy of free trade among the states" was recommended. Transportation efficiency and equitable freight rates were also discussed and urged upon Congress for action. If the program is carried out, it ought to mean better feeling as well as better trade back and forth across the country. So They Say It is not the strength of the totalitarian countries that wins their battles, but the weaknesses of the democracies. -William Patrick Hitler.

The world is now at the parting of the ways. Either it will yield to the might of American gold or it will accept the new methods of young, vigorous, striving nations. Walther Funk. The United States boasts of its democracy and feels itself authorized to combat all threat against democratic principles, but governs Puerto Rico like a fascist and unlike a republican nation. Rafael Martinez Nadal.

I think that all working men and women in America wish with all their heart that we' might re-establish an or- ganized, solidified labor movement. William Green. r-w One Bite Still Free The law, which, according to Sir Edward Coke, ts the perfection of reason, but which, from various causes, has declined somewhat in public esteem since that pronuoncement, has just been reinforced ly action of the State Senate at Albany. That body, by a decisive vote, defeated an attempt to repeal an ancient.