BRISBANE
THIS WEEK- ' "
One Big Shot Convicted
The. Many Laugh " I
Roman Triumph, New Style
Storms, Floods, Twisters
The kind of "Justice" supposed to
terrify" crime jn this country Is very
amusing Justice
confined to the na
tional government.
Murderers, kidnap
ers and other rack
eteers are Jailed,
not for their crimes
against society, but
for failure to pay
Income tax. The
felon la Jailed for
failure to divide his
criminal earnings
with his govern
ment.
A change from
this program Is due
to Special Prosecu
tor Dewey, who, before Supreme Court
Justice McCook, In New York city, has
convicted a "topnotch racketeer," as
Mr.Dewey calls him Charles ("Lucky")
Luciano. He and eight vice-ring asso
ciates are convicted on 62 counts, that
may entail prison sentences Of 1,240
years for "Lucky" and each associate.
Arthur Brisbane
This Is an actual conviction for
crime-, not for taxdodglng.
In this world, many laugh and a few
do things. Fultoa said he would run
a boat up the Hudson river by steam ;
crowds gathered to laugh.
When It was suggested early In this
century that men would soon fly, suc
cessfully, millions laughed.
Had It been suggested that an army
officer would cross the continent "flying
blind" In a hooded cabin, 'seeing noth
ing, guided by a scientific "radio beam
the laughs would have been louder; but
that Is what Major Eaker, of the army
air corps, has Just done. 'If you should
say now that giant ships will fly around
this earth, up In the stratosphere,
above clouds and storms, carrying thou
sands of passengers, dropping them at
their various destinations In smaller
ships, "around the world In 48 hours
or less," there would be more laugh
ter but It would be foolish laughter.
What men can Imagine they can do, and
more.
General Badogllo, who was sent by
Muftsollnl to take over Ethiopia, and
did so, celebrated his triumph In Rome,
Mussolini and the Italian king, now
emperor of Ethiopia, assisting. ; -
The triumphant general, named vice
roy of Ethiopia by Mnsaollnl, who sur
- ;ansea me worm wren tbw wnuew y
the tropical sun, under the,Ictory arch.
ef .Constantino to the tomb of the un
known soldier of the big war.
"Storms kill nine in Oklahoma and
Kansas ; tornadoes, floods and lightning
cause havoc," so runs the headline, and
o other headlines have been running
for months past. Hall ruins crops;
lightning bolts kill three; "twisters,",
those powerful, revolving windstorms,
lift up and knock down little bouses.
The sultan of Sulu Is dead on the Is
lan4 of Jolo, now only sultan In name.
Once, as spiritual and temporal head,
he ruled all the Mohammedans of the
8ulu archipelago.
The death of this former ruler, Ja
. malul Klram, recalls an Interesting in
cident following the Spanish war. Ja
maluV good ' Mohammedan, did not
think he should deal with this nation,
on account of Its religion. He was
soothed by an official statement that
the United States had no official re
ligion whatever. v; .
The Black Legion, latest secret mur
der ' organlaatlon, tells candidates:
"Too cannot Join unless you are a na-ttve-born,
white, Protestant gentile;
. willing to proceed against negroes.
Catholics and Jews." To "proceed
against" means to murder. .
The Federal Council of the Churches
f Christ In America, a Protestant or
ganisation, aays It la shameful for the
'; Black Legion to us the word "Pro
testant," and blasphemous to use the
. aame "God Almighty." ;
, tM'-.J-i-iw' "'.V. .
Sir Samuel Hoare bad to leave the
British cabinet because he opposed the
" foolishness of sending a great British
fleet Into the Mediterranean to protect
I Halle Selassie, not ; protecting him In
the least Ci?:-"
NM. HIV KflfnflAI HOUP IB IIHCK in
- the British cabinet, "the king pleased
, to appoint him." This means, ; prob
ably, that the futile League of Nations'
"sanctions' effort to coerce Mussolini
111 ka. aHMiM ' tfoM rhtilM aM anem at
let than coercing Mussolini. ' , .
1 1 Why do Americana swallow eagerly
- anything In the way of foreign-made
goods, especially If they come from the
, friendly Brltlah Islands?
nt ...1t.n. - - - '
"Made In Great Britain." Every Eng-
Ushmaa orges rBuy prltlsb," Ameri
cana seem proud if they can advertise
Made in England" or "Made In
Francs, rernapa our roooi are in
ferior but every American, makes .his
money here why pot . back our' own
' peoplef .' -a: " ;;;
More killing, ' bombing shooting in
" Palestine, Arab refusing to dlscontln
, ae strikes and killings, even at the re
quest of their own leaders. s
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Adventurers'
Club
"The Ghost of San Vito'
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter.
YOU know, boys and girls, for a long time I've been telling the
world that truth is stranger than fiction, and now here comes
Aurehus Menegus of Clifton, N. J., to agree with me. He had an
adventure once and well he admits it's so fantastic that he has
to pinch himself every once in a while in order to believe it could
have actually happened to him.
I warn you right at the start that this is a ghost story. One
of the best ghost stories I ever heard, at that It happened to Aurellus on June
6, 1980, but the beginnings of the yarn go back farther than that, to take In the
history of a room a simple bed-chamber In a little mountain tavern near San
Vito In the Italian Alps. -
The story of that room was this: A year or so before, the curator
of an Italian zoo stopped there with his wife. He had with him a collec
tion of reptiles which he had caught fit the mountains and one of them
a venomous snake had bitten his wife to death. Thereafter, that
room was hoodooed. Four tourists died In It, and all of them had been
found with terrible expressions of horror and surprise on their faces.
The doctors who examined the victims said they had died of fright. No
one In San Vito had the slightest doubt as to what bad caused that fright. The
ghost of the curator's dead wife haunted the room so they said. And a terrible
ghost she must be, to cause people to die from the sight of her.
Amrelius Goes Calling on the Spook.
That's the history of the room. Now let's turn the clock ahead a year or
so to June 16, 1030, and get on with the story of Aurellus Menegus. He was
more than a little Interested In that ghost yarn, for he was something of an
amateur zoologist and taxidermist himself.
8o, finding himself In the neighborhood of San Vito, he determined
to sper.d the night In that mountain Inn if possible in the very room
where five people had died. Ha wasn't superstitious, and he certainly
wasn't going to be frightened by what he considered an idle peasant's
tale.
He asked for the room and got it He had with him five white rats which
ne kept for experimental purposes, and these he put In the room. Then, after
feeding the rata and getting a bite of supper himself, he prepared to go to bed.
White Rats Were Companions on His Weird Vigil.
The room was a small one In the attic of the inn. tt waa lighted by candle
and furnished with a small canopied bed, washstand and a few chairs. There
A, Three-Foot Snake Waa Colled on the Floor.
was a small grating in the floor evidently part of the ventilating or heating
system.
Aurellus let his white rats out of the perforated valise In which he
carried them, to let them run free for the night, Then he slipped on his
pajamas, blew out -the candle on the chair betid his bed, and crawled
under the covers. He was tired, and In a few momenta he waa asleep.
But he wasn't destined to sleep long, for the ghost of the attic room was
to come back te haunt him.
Aurellus bad been asleep for half an hour, when suddenly he was awakened
by a strident squealing. The squealing, he recognized, was coming from the white
rata, which were scampering madly about the room.
Specter Turns Out to Be a Venomous Adder.
Aurellus began to feel the hair on bis bead rising. Some people say that
an animal Is conscious of supernatural things long before humans are. What
did those rata sec that was throwing them Into such a panic?
' : He sat up In bed, lit a match and applied It to the candle. The dim
yellow glow lit the room, but showed no presence other than his own.
He was about to get out of be and search the dark corners where the
candle'a rays dldnt penetrate,' when suddenly, he stopped, pulled his
feet back Into the bed again. There'on the floor waa a three-foot snakel
Aurellus knew enough about snakes to recognize this one. It was an Alpine
adder a deadly reptile that strikes with the swiftness, of lightning and Injects
a venom that kills Its victims almost Instantly. That was the answer to the
mystery of the haunted room. The snake which bad killed the curator's wife
had never been recaptured.
Double-Barreled Shot Gun Exorcises the Murdering "Ghost"
It had crawled away down the ventilator and had been living there ever
since, killing the people who happened to be lodged lp 'that room; A simple
enough explanation. But Aurellus' plight was a bit more complicated.
; . "I dldnt dare move," he says, "for fear of the adder Which would
spring at the slightest stir., I wondered If the reptile would take a no-.
Won to crawl up on the bed. If he did, there waant much hope for me.
But no.. The adder wasn't Interested In me. "He was attracted by the
possibility of a meal from those squealing rata of mine. It turned to
: stalk one of them, and at that moment, the door of my chamber opened
and the landlord, Giovanni Florlanl came In.".
- Aurellus started to shout a warning, but It wasn't necessary. The old land
lord had heard the rata squealing and scampering about overhead and, knowing
the reputation of the room, bad come prepared for any eventuality. He bad a
rinnhla.harrelad Shot ran In hla hand and ha fired bolnt blank. The renrlte'a
head was blown to pieces, and the white rata gathered round the body and
began completing the destruction.' .The murdering ghost oj San Vito wound up
by furnishing a meal for some of Its Intended victims.
STAR
DUST
Olivia de
Haviland
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17$ Medieval "Monsters" V
Left in French Flanders
A recent census In France reveals
that there are I7S medieval monsters
existing in French : Flanders today,
writes a Lille (France) .United Press
correspondent
They, are the world's biggest' toys.
averaging 22 feet In height and are
one to five centuries old. The Flem
ish populations of France have been
amusing themselves . with these mon
strous playthings alnce the Fifteenth
century. The municipal councils pro
vide communal- shelter for these wood,
cardboard and cloth '. giants -which
emerge once a year to preside at the
town festival aad carnlrala.; "
Gargantua, the historic brain child
of Rabelais, resides at Ballleul and re
ceives the homage or bis subjects on
Mardl Ores. Calais, the seaport town,
is ruled by two glgantle sailors, each
23 feet tall, while Bergues has Its own,
Individual cltisea named Berguemard,
a giant of 1830 who wears a stove-plpt
bat that la Ave feet high. : ,
Goliath Is at Atb. a village of French
Flanders. Mr Goliath lives with him
and tbelr sole exercise la their annual
add hilarious promenade through the
streets of Mh-A':'f:V'i:t!.:.
, The most socially prominent of the
group is Gayang who has lived In
Doual for ,407 years. Dating from me
dieval times, he, la fittingly outfitted
with a shield and lance and Is brought
out every July 6, to repulse an Imagi
nary iBVadetV-.tit- J ,; .vt', V'.-j; ..-,.
, v Be la followed by Mrs. Gayang, who
dresses as a lady of the Renaissance
period, and then come thelr'three chlk
dren, Jacquot, Fllllot , and Blnbla.
There Is even a royal Jester of colossal
dimensions who accompanies the pa
rade. Gayang has still another ad
vantage over other Flemish giants as
be has his own "national anthem"
which Is sung with fervor each year
as he Is paraded through the streets
Of historic DouaL . , ?
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j-TJLovie xvaoio
By VIRGINIA VALE
IT LOOKS more and more like
ly that Paramount and RKO
will merge in the not-so-jdistant
future, which will mean another
of those upheavals that take place
every so often in the motion pic
ture business. It's rather like
shuffling a pack of cards; the same
men bob up over and over,
And, curiously enough, some of those
men are not too competent One of
the big shots who gets Important Jobs,
over and over, has consistently been
a company wrecker. (Incidentally, he's
not among the Paramount-RKO assort
ment!) Yet when one company lets
him out, another one takes him on.
.
Olivia de Haviland, who has climbed
to the top so rapidly since she ap
peared In '"Midsum
mer Night's Dream,"
remarked the other
day she had tied up
her Income in a trust
fund, allowing her
self only $250 a week,
(wise girl!) and that,
furthermore, she'd
spend her spare time
between pictures In
her home town, Sara
toga, Calif., because
there's nothing like a
small town where you
know everybody to
deflate your ego. f
A girl who'd grown up with her In
that same small town declares that
Olivia has always been one of the
grandest girls alive, an opinion shared
by every one who knows that very
lovely young actress. And what a
break for her that she's to play oppo
site Robert Montgomery In "The Mar
riage Clause." Working together they
should make a team that movie fans
will talk about for a long time to come.
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"Show Boat" may be pretty hard on
your pocket book, because you're going
to want to see it over and over again.
Compared with the stage play and the
screen version made years ago, It
comes out on' top. A hardened movie
goer who had never liked Helen Mor
gan, a man who had seen her at night
cluba and on the stage, capitulated
when he heard her sing "My Bill." An
other one said he felt as if he'd never
heard "Old Man River" till Paul Robe
son sang It this time. And Irene
Dunne's dance to "Can't Help Lovln'
That Man-' Ir worth" the price of ad
mission all by Itself.
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-,A new series of historical shorts Is
under way, and it's about time! Most
of ns remember what we see on the
screen, so this ought to be the best
possible method of teaching children
history. The first one, "Song of the Na
tion," dramatizes the writing of "The
Star Spangled Banner," and it's fin
ished. Some of the other subjects are
Lincoln's boyhood, the fall of the Ala
mo, the drawing up of the Declaration
of Independence, the Louisiana Pur
chase and the duel between Aaron "Burr
and Alexander Hamilton.
Anna Sten, whose movie career went
up like a skyrocket and came down like
the rocket's stick, has returned from
Europe, where she made a picture.
No announcements yet about her mak
ing any more over here.
, : , n
A lot of the movie stars of earlier
days will be seen in the picture, "Hol
lywood Boulevard" ; some of them have
been slowly coming back to pictures,
others have merely wanted to. Leat
rloe Joy had a test the other day. And
one' company haa been dickering with
Theda Bara, but she wants lots and
lots of money.
8peaklng of old-timers, Douglas Fair
banks, 6r, has Just about decided not
to make pictures any more; all the
talk about "Marco Polo" has come to
nothing. He admits that he's been
away too long, that picture-making has
progressed too rapidly for him.
;,.;;. ... .
Fred Astalre has finally got things
fixed to suit him. From now on he'll
. - t . make Just two pic
tures a year. And Gin
ger Rogers (who's
had some very smart
new sandals named
for her. Incidentally,)
will have a chance to
go dramatic in some
of The ones she makes
without him. She In
sists that she doesn't
want :. to be nothing
but a dancer, and
Tred Astalre ' rbt. She should
. - . have a chance to show
her other talents la acting and to de
velop them further In pictures;
: ODDS AND ENDS . '. BmUtBUlivi
will arevei la California soon to fimy ewe
of ikt (rad is "Count Fetm" . . , Ginger
K of erf hot written tong " Cant I
aWMond Vkr You Can't Vmdentmnd
Afe"; did hoUt ttordt and mutic . . , Syl
via Sidney's making a pictttr in, Eng
land, and baint urged to stay and muk
mm more . . . trral Hynn alia a got
departed Oecnue Ae forgot te ranam kit
vita ... Sine James Carney jutt won't
mtaka nam picture, kit old anat are 6oS
king up again, and they're sltZI good 1 1 .
Edna May Oliver it having a grmnd rasa
stew, her firm as m long suae. ' ,
WaMara Kcnaaaar Ualaa, "
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Squeeze Into a tumbler the Juice of
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If lattices for rose bushes and vines
that grow on the house are put on
binges It will be easy to lay them on
the ground when painting your bouse.
The ribs of an old umbrella may
be used as stakes to tie plants to.
They are not conspicuous in a gar
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ture wash well with warm water and
white soap and dry thoroughly.
Fruit juices and ginger ale may be
frozen Into cubes In s mechanical
refrigerator and used for iced drinks.
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