AMERICAN LIFE

Evening Star, Issue 19712, 12 November 1927, Page 15

AMERICAN LIFE

EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERS AH UMPIRE OK THE Ml A thoroughly scared umpire fleeing before the attack of 2,000 angry negro cricket fans at the New York Oval, 150th street and Gerard avenue, Bronx, Now York, and a police call which drew the reserve squad from Morrisania station to the field, gave the ancient British game a distinctly American touch. But the tear bombs the reserves had were not brought into use. 'The umpire had made record time ,to the fence on the Gerard avenue side of the field, and was last seen dropping over the wall. Realising the futility of further pursuit, the disappointed crowd returned to the stands, and tho game continued under protection of sis patrolmen and without an arbitrator. The near riot began when the umpire, who departed without leaving Ins name and address, made a decision favorable to the West Indians, who were 50 runs behind their opponents, the Bermudians. Aftca booing, the crowd, on masse,,left iU seats and set out after tho arbitrator. Ho left without further ado when the score stood 147 to 97.’ LOOKING FOR THE STORK. Army airmen have been assigned the figurative task of scanning the skies for storks, lu answer to a letter to the War Department from an eight-year-old girl of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, requesting a baby, the Assistant Secretary of War, Colonel Hanford MacNider, replied as follows: —“ I have delayed answering your letter because I have been looking all over the War Department trying to find you a little baby brother or sister. I sorry to have to tell you that we just cannot spare any of those we now have. The stork leaves us only enough to go around, and to send you one would deprive some little boy or girl of its playmate, which 1 know you would not have us do. I have instructed the army aviators to watch the skies when they are flying around, and if they see a stork delivering a litttle baby to toll it of your desires.” SECRET BRIDE IN WINDOW.

When her fellow employees at Meech and Stoddard, Inc., Middleton (Connecticut), learned that Miss Angie Scory, of Higganum, was secretly married to Elliott Dittman on Labor Day, they bound her hand and foot and put her on exhibition in the show window, with a wreath on her head and a bouquet in her hands. JUDGE TRIES HIMSELF. Justice Robert B. Williams, of Summit, New Jersey, will try a case against himself when he holds court. The judge is a stickler for seeing that the law is obeyed, and ho generally fines motorists who violate the law. Flo was caught red-handed violating the parking law in the business centre. Ho left his automobile in Springfield avenue while he held court. He was gone longer than he expected, and when ho came out ho found a m. ticket on Ids car, put there by Traffic-policc-nian Egan. The summons commanded him to appear before Police-justice Williams. When ho looked at the ticket ho said: “I guess I’ll have to pay.” THRIFT TIP FOR THIEF. A thief threw a brick through the window of the Franklin Society for Home Building and Sayings, in Vesey street, New York, where an alluring display_ of 54.50d0l in_ cash was laid out, with the information that this is what lOOdol will earn_ in 10 years if invested with the society. The thief took the 54.50d01. _ The Franklin Society sent out a statement yesterday concluding as follows: “If the culprit deposits the 54.50 dollars immediately, In's money will have earned, 10 years from now, at the same rate of dividend, 30.80 dollars. So that, if apprehended, lie will have a nest egg of 85.30 dollars to begin life anew.” DANCING PARTNER SUED. Katie Smith limped into Small Claims Court at Los Angeles and filed suit for 10 dollars damages against Artie Gardner, who, she charged, injured and insulted her by dancing all over her feet, instead of all over the dance floor. The itemised account mentioned shoes damaged to the_ extent of 6 dollars, and sensitive spirits to the amount of 4 dollars. WHAT IS SUNDAY? If one’s Sabbath falls on Saturday, what is Sunday? Answer; A day on which motion picture bouses may be operated, despite Sunday blue laws. At least that is the interpretation advanced by a Jewish theatre lessee of Arkansas City, who was arrested for operating a picture show in defiance of a city ordinance. TJio theatre is leased only for Sunday, and is operated only on that day. The lessee’s stand is based on the constitutional provision for religious freedom legalising any day of the week as the Sabbath. No communicant of a religion observing any other day, ho argues, can be forced to alter his normal activities on Sunday. All of the theatre’s employees are Jews or Seventh Day Adventists, holding Saturday to be the ordained day of rest. Nevertheless, the city officials are proceeding with plans for prosecution. The case will bo heard in district court. FIVE TIMES WED AND DIVORCED. Five times married and five times divorced, Flossie Lane, 21 years of age, of Sioux City, lowa, still believes in marriage. She obtained her fifth divorce yesterday, and then announced that she expected to marry again. She was married the first time when 12 years of age. BABY OPOSSUM AS MODEL. A baby opossum recently captured on Mount Saint Alban will have his likeness carved into stone on onb of the bosses of Washington Cathedral, and thus go down to posterity as representative of the type of animal which inhabited tho grounds of this monumental Gothic edifice in tho twentieth century. Partridges, doves, tiny ground squirrel, and other timid wood folk also will he immortalised in the enduring stone of tho cathedral. It is all part of the plan of foliation of the bosses and keystones of the massive Gothic arches to utilise tho flora and fauna, the birds, animals, and other living things of tho cathedral close in the decorative scheme. The opossum and Iris comrades will be used as living models by the stone workers. PEDESTRIAN'S OTHER CHEEK. ' August Frey, 47 years oj age, of 12 Mercer street, Newark, N.ew Jei'sey, was struck and knocked down by an automobile as he was crossing Market street last night. He got to his feet, brushed his clothes, and as the driver of the car, who had. stopped his machine, approached him, Frey said: “ It’s all right, old man, I’m not hurt.” Tho motorist walked np to Frey, said; “Oh, it’s all right, is it?” and hit him on the nose. Frey fell. “ Maybe that will teach yon to keep out of the way of automobiles,” the motorist said, getting into his car and driving away.