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CLASSIFIED COMICS MEWS behind EDITORIAL SOCIETY LETTERS Kt v. mm Eagle Daily fePAUL MALLOH ARTIAL iNO, MARITAL) MIXVP It was one of those swank weddings, with ushers, pastel-gowned bridesmaids and all the fix IBM Tlw Brtaklra Dill, Eilf) Ml NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1936 Washington, June 3. ORIENTAL STAGECRAFT The Japanese are getting ready to put on a new act in their Far Eastern Punch and Judy show. They have stolen the script from Mussolini's adventures in Ethiopia and adapted it to the peculiar methods of Oriental political stagecraft. VictorXahten 7fflee iecHbqistete ings and quite a Society News item of the day.

Sames cannot be mentioned even now because that would be as bad as if the original contretemps well, you will see in a moment. When the news account was put into type, the first paragraph duly recorded the essential facts, out the second, which slipped in somehow, began: "In the second round swung a jolting right to Gumdrop's Jaw. Gumdrop countered with a left jab It didn't get Into the paper that way, thanks to an eagle-eyed office boy, but, says our Disturbing advance notices which have leaked to those in authority here indicate that the plot runs something like this: Chinese civil governors will be purchased by the Japanese at cut rates and established as local Independent rulers through North China. They 1 w. bwuu V4 I1U1.

I Os. tne PuPPe Emperor of Man- chukuo. The Japanese will rule Bernard Kozicke He's a Regular Fellow, Tells Stale Jokes and You Can't Fool Him Paul E. Mallon them for a11 practical purposes. To clear the way for this vent, the Japanese are now staging demonstrations against themselves In North China.

At least they are fostering the anti-Japanese demonstrations among the Chinese. These will give them the necessary excuse for doubling their military strength. And the added military strength will maintain the puppet governors against China and the world. The seizure of North China will thus be as complete as the Mussolini seizure of Ethiopia. Note Diplomatic advices indicate that the move double the Japanese garrison at Peiplng already las been begun.

A boatload of Japanese soldiers is supposed to be on the way. liililf sy MAGISTRATE BERNARD A. KOZICKE is a rough-and-ready, tough, strong-minded man who hates pool rooms, likes romantic fiction, can handle his fists in any kind of brawl and would rather play baseball on the sandlot with children than Ml Si watch a World Series game. it He Is very observant, tells stale jokes, is accused of being too talkative at times, is termed a "regular fellow" and swears better than any Ninth Article in a Series sea-going parrot confined to strictly male company. Aside to the women: he Is a bachelor.

Attendants say it is next to im pillfll Ip i Pii YmW i PROLOGUE The plot Is not entirely new. The A Japanese tried purchasing puppets in North China some time back but became frightened by the howls from London and Washington. Recently her military leaders appear to have become emboldened by the ease with which Mussolini defied world opinion. They are not likely to become frightened again, although right now Japanese diplomats are privately trying to find out how much opposition they may expect from the British and the Americans. This opposition may cause them to drag out the process by which they propose to establish complete hegemony over North China, but It is not likely to stop them.

The Western Powers will protest, but so did the League protest against Mussolini. be lenient with a kid who has slipped for a minute, and needs a little help." possible to fool him and that although he'll lean back and seem to be next to the most gullible man in the world, hell suddenly snap to attention and unleash a string of questions that will make the original false story wither like an arctic flower under a tropical sun. informant, it should have, Judging by what was revealed In the divorce courts a couple of years later. THE SEEING EYES It is not true that everything reported In By the Way was personally viewed or experienced by the editor thereof. That sort of story, if It has been spread, is slander, reflecting on the executive ability of Mr.

Muffin. As a matter of fact, he Is aided and abetted by a host of voluntary reporters specially equipped with postcards and a roving eye. What the eye sees (if it Is quaint, amusing and unimportant) they record on the postcard or an adequate substitute therefor and mall to Mr. He, when the mood is on him, publishes their findings to the world, giving full credit. Thus today: FRANK D.

BANTA, Ridgewood: On quite a few blocks in Glendale, I have noted, the house numbers are stenciled on the curb, all uniform. I understand WPA workers are doing the Job. What a break for a guy coming home with a few too many! While lying In the gutter he can tell just how far he is from home. OIS N. QUICK, 808 Lincoln Place: Did you see the sign over a vacant garage near the Nos-trand Ave.

station of the Long Island Railroad "2nd HAND BARGAINS FOR CASH OR UNEASY PAYMENTS." No wonder the garage 13 vacant. SEYMOUR SUSSMAN, 888 Utica This really happened in a court the other day. The Judge was examining a Swedish witness about the size of a stone which broke a plate-glass window. "Was it as big as my fist?" he asked. "It ban bigger," said the witness.

"Was it as big as my two fists?" "It ban bigger." "Was it as big as my head?" "It ban about as long but not so thick." JACK RAMSAY: Have you met the new type of beggar, a living proof that the depression is 3ver? He stopped me the other day and proposed, 'Hey, Buddy, gimme a nickel, will you? I got a lucky number to play." ITAWK SHOO Capt. William F. Brockman of the New York State police Informed us (with a straight face) the other day that he was prowling around Montauk Point recently, on duty bound, when he saw a flsh-hawk perched on the branch of a tree almost overhead. Now the captain, it seems, is opposed to fish-hawks, and so he yelled "Shoo!" or words to that effect, Just to annoy the bird. The fish-hawk flew off In a huff, its beak open with fright.

From the open beak dropped a huge flounder. It landed at Magistrate Kozicke is one of the many people referred to as a "self-made man." He worked his way through high school and college ind spent many years as a stenographer-typist in the Pure Food Bureau of the Department of Agriculture. He's a crank on food cases and Very, Very Observant Magistrate Kosicke with Assistant District Attorney Lewis Joseph. always fines people summoned to court for failing to keep food He Keenly Observant, Traps Boys in Court properly covered or for using substitutes Instead of the real product. He is 47 and was appointed to the bench by Mayor O'Brien in 19,13.

But if Needs lice and making for themselves a reputation as "bad eggs." a Youngster a Chance, He Likes a Good Fight His Concept of Justice "VAST CHANGE Campaign picture time has come to the White House. Every Presidential move has become a campaign picture, and well do the President's advisers know it. For instance, they seem to have effected a slight rearrangement of background for the last two movie news reel appearances of the President. Previously the background consisted mostly of a Presidential bodyguard and friend who stood immediately behind him on all speaking occasions. The wistful countenance of the bodyguard was usually concentrated on the audience and the President's safety rather than the speech.

His face remained frozen during some of the President's most humorous sallies. Theater audiences here have been known to watch him more closely than the President. In the last two news reels his place apparently was changed to a spot outside the camera focus. In his accustomed place appeared Mrs. Roosevelt.

Will See That the Law Is Stretched a Point in His Favor They cite as an example the case of a youth arrested and arraigned before him on a minor charge in Adolescent Court. The boy, who said he was 17, told of leaving a poverty-stricken New England home to help support his five brothers and sisters and starving parents. He said he had never been arrested before and presented such a pitiful sight, spectators were moved to tears. As he was speaking Magistrate Kozicke snapped: "Where were you fingerprinted before?" "New Haven," the boy answered before even realizing he had been trapped. Questioned further, he admitted having been arrested in a dozen other cities and towns on various charges.

He was caught by Magistrate Kozicke who observed him pressing his fingertips along the table top In the manner of a person being fingerprinted. When told how he had given himself away, he admitted his parents were wealthy, that he was only 15 and that he took things for "the fun of it" and not because of the necessity. He was paroled and returned home to his parents and has been an ideal citizen since. treated with kid gloves. I'll kick him as hard as I want when he deserves it.

"On the other hand, I'll be lenient with the kid who has slipped for a minute and needs a little help." When he speaks, he interjects numerous phrases not permissible in a family newspaper. "If I had my way. I would close all poolrooms because they are breeding placts of crime. There are pool rooms where one can rent a gun or park a gun if they want to. They are the filthiest, rottenest, bloodiest places one can imagine," he said.

I Cleans Out 'Joints' I He likes a good fight and respects people who assert themselves. Once he had before him a boy who was called "Incorrigible" by police and social workers. He berated the youth, then started to harangue the boy's mother for not raising him properly. The boy stood still while he himself was beint; attacked. When his mother was lashed, the boy dashed from front of the bench to where the Judge was sitting, doubled his fist and shouted: "Take that back or I'll smash your face." "Sit down and control yourself.

You've got some good in you and I think I can help," the judge said. In a milder tone he spoke to the boy and his mother, explained how the boy was heading for disaster if he kept on going down the crooked road. Then he showed how easy it was to go "straight." The boy chose the latter. "I helped that boy because he had the manhood to spring to the defense of someone he loved and that was enough to show me he wasn't all bad," the judge said. Which Indicates that he is not vindictive and is really what they say he is, "a regular fellow." The leader and three others were arrested by a department store manager, brought Into court.

Magistrate Kozicke made them name all their friends who belonged to the gang, then had those named brought into court. He then summoned their parents, and for about four hours showed each father and mother what his or her son was heading for. He explained the situation to the boys. He placed them all on probation, sent the leader to a CCC camp and, upon his return, obtained for him a job in the very department store he so frequently raided. The boy is now a trusted employe, Is well liked by his boss, frequently calls upon the judge to thank him for what he has done.

The others have never since been arrested for any charge. Magistrate Kozicke dislikes gambling in any form and is one of the Judges who frequently hold bookmakers for the action of the higher court. "As soon as we show people how they can obtain something for nothing we are heading for trouble. I favor strict enforcement of our gambling laws." He has one suggestion to make about the Adolescent Court. "Our present scope brings under our jurisdiction people who have committed crimes who are more than 16 and less than 19 years old.

Since our civil law states that a man is not liable for any contract or goods he purchases other than necessities until his 21st birthday, I belieye the same should hold true of our court. "We should receive power to deal with boys up to the age of 21, because those are the real formative years in a youth's life, and it is with them that we can do the most work." A court attendant tells of a case involving a young boy on his way toward being a gang leader. At the age of 17 he already had organized a youthful gang of hoodlums who preyed upon the department stores, stealing petty objects, lighting po SCENE SHIFT The vacation picture also is being arranged with an eye to improvement. There will be no battleships as a background this year, hnd no Astor yachts. The President will go sailing up to Campobello after July 4 on a small sailboat, with his sons acting as sailors.

They Call It Human The adjectives he used in describing these places have been omitted. He has on occasions directed policemen to go into a pool room of known disrepute and wreck it, smashing tables, chairs, cues and mirrors much like the pre-prohibl-tion day umbrella-wielding reformers. "I'll stand in back of anything that may arise from this," he has frequently told them, "but I want this place cleaned out." Magistrate Kozicke is alternately hard and soft on offenders. Like many Judges, hell aid the first offender and punish severely the habitual criminal. "I have no maudlin sympathy for the tramp who comes into the Adolescent Court and expects to be PRACTICALITY Intimates of Joe Martin, the Massachusetts Congressman chosen as London's floor manager for the convention, consider him a very practical politician.

They say he chose the Landon bandwagon methodically, that he did a lot of talking with average voters around the country before making his decision to toot the Landon horn, pEARr The AAA was always popular with Con- Women Who Ruled the Hearts of Rulers gressmen for one reason, it provided liberal sub- The Love Story of -Carol, King of Hearts, and Madga Lupescu, Who, Rumanians Think, Is the Original Wild Deuce Brockman's feet, uninjured and still flapping around. He picked it up and there was an excellent flounder dinner at the Brockman table that night. The captain did not add that a bigger flounder got away with the flsh-hawk. HUMAN FISH The other day, we hear, there was a swimming race between Louis Beer of 145 Lincoln Place, builder and social registerite, and George Hlchborn, traffic manager of the United States Rubber Company. Both are beyond their teens and neither swims except occasionally and for fun.

They met in Florida, got to talking swimming, and challenged other to fight it out in Brooklyn. Friends of ooth laid substantial wagers, we are informed, and accompanied them to the Crescent Club to watch the contest. The Crescent pool, however, happened to be empty of water, and so the contest moved on to the Central Y. M. C.

A. The race was two lengths of the pool, an even 50 yards. Formal starter and timer was George Beer, brother of Louis. He reported: "They hit the water together. Hichborn went Into the lead at once, although the manner in which he got through the water sent all clothed sidles for the farmers.

There is a fear now in the Congressional heart that the tsoil conversion act will not be so Latest example: A Nebraska Congressman has Introduced a bill to authorize the payment of soil conservation subsidies to farmers on public lands. In other words, the Government gives a man land at a very low rate and then pays him for living on it. By Jane Corby. First Article of a Series. ALL THE world loves a lover, with the exception, apparently, of Rumania.

High-powered romance, represented in the love-lived affair between King Brain Teasers One lovely fZS Kt-irincr Slindflv' Carol and Magda Lupescu, leaves ably) absent from Rumania, sometimes she left, or was about to leave because she wanted to do right by her king. Just Vagabond Lovers For about live years after Queen Alexandra's funeral, Carol and Magda wandered about the Continent, giving Rumania a wide berth. They tried Venice and Milan and France. Carol's father had signed a decree taking away all his rights to the throne and Princess Helen had obtained a degree of absolute the peasants of that particular country cold. The latest proof of this attitude is the mobilization of Rumania's In church a man's head bowed gently forward in restful slumber.

His Indignant wife, sitting behind him, rapped him fharply across the back of his neck with a silver pencil which she had In her purse. The man's peasant party, which developed into a protest divorce, and it really looked as if I Carol and Magda could have their against Mme. Lu-pescu's power behind the throne and included a demand for her called by the King, may go down In History as a flashing affair between a handsome sovereign and a red-haired siren. Certainly it would have done so had it been staged a few generations back, before wires and wireless made it possible to disseminate such annoying truths as these, presented by a detective hired by the Rumanian Government to watch the lovers: She is not beautiful. Her teeth are uneven; she is fat and has thick ankles." Magda's own account of the romance is Idyllic enough and distinctly reminiscent of the Dante-and-Beatrice episode, immortalized in picture and story.

They Met at a Lawn Party The present King Carol II of the House of Hohenzollem-Sigmarlgan was only a prince of 15 and Magda Wolff La Lupescu's maiden name was 9 when they met at a chil-drien's party on the lawn of the palace in Bucharest the same palace where Carol now reigns as monarch. As Magda recalls the Incident, the king-to-be came to her saying: "What beautiful hair you have." That was the end of Act Scene I. Act II was slow in being staged. Carol was, in fact, about 30 and had married twice, once morganatically before he and the owner of the famous red tresses met again. His unofficial bride, whom he married Just before the close of the World War, was the black-haired, black-eyed daughter of an army officer, Zlzi Lambrino.

They were forcibly separated and the marriagt was an- andra of England died. Carol was sent to the funeral and stopped off for a rest in Paris on the way home. Meanwhile Magda Wolff had married a lieutenant in the army and had run away with a colonel and finally divorced the lieutenant and happened to be in Paris just when Carol arrived for his vacation. And now the curtain rises on the second act of the modern love drama. The scene is a reception in Paris, where Crown Prince Carol, as guest of honor, is wearily shaking hands with an endless line of people he doesn't know and doesn't want to know.

Suddenly he sees red. Love Rekindled in 1924 In an instant all the efforts of the Rumanian Government, plus the efforts of Carol's royal relatives, in the cause of domestic harmony are rendered null and void. "Is it possible Carol leans over the white hand he has clasped to look Into the blue eyes that are very blue against the background of flaming hair. "Yes, it is comes the breathless whisper and Maada Lupescu, for it Is she, makes a date ther and then with the klng-to-be; That happened 12 years ago and though it may seem like yesterday to the two principals, It seems to the Rumanian populace 12 years too many for a love affair to last. Oh, it isn't that they haven't tried to break up the affair.

The banish-ings that have occurred! The partings forever that have been solemnized with comic opera regularity! Sometimes it was by popular request that Lupescu was (presum- banishment and for an overthrow King Carol Lupescu watchers scampering for cover. At the turn he had a half-length lead. As he turned he sneered at Mr. Beer In a manner which made us all think latter would redouble efforts, maybe improve his position. "But, settling down to a dolphin-like stroke, Hichborn flashed through the water so fast that he almost hurt himself as he hit the finish line.

He won by two lengths." (Of swimmer, we suppose, not pool). The winning time was 51 seconds. That compares favorably with the world record, held by Johnny Weissmuller, something under 23 seconds. Mr. Beer, fighting right to the end, finished in 57 seconds flat.

The cheering was terrific, and the winner hal been challenged by Fred Schnibbe, who wil meet Beer at Jones Beach a.s soon as arrangements can be made. love affair and welcome, for all the Rumanian peasants cared. Ferdinand died In 1927 and Michael, Carol's son, became the "boy king." But in 1930 the peasants' party, which mistrusted Queen Marie, the boy king's grandmother, began to think that Carol might make a good king, at that, if only he would lose his girl friend. She Turns on the Tears As a result of this afterthought Carol was in Munich, just about six years ago today, and boarding a private plane, which later' turned out to be under charter to Lady Mendl. the former Elsie de Wolfe.

Her pilot had requested permission to use it for a "little excursion." Emissaries from the homeland had taken up the matter of a financial settlement with Magda meanwhile, and Rumania was sure that they Continued tm lit Classified Phf head jerked convulsively ana ne siumpea aown in his seat, dead. A psychology professor, shortly afterward, speaking to his class about effects upon the human mind, related this story and said that he knew the wife of the man very well. He quoted her as having told him that the man had seen, shortly before his death, a moving picture of the French Revolution and had read several books about it. The wife of the man said her husband had been dreaming of the guillotine when she rapped him on the back of the neck with the metal pencil and the psychological shock killed him. The professor was interrupted by one of his students with a cry of protest as he told this story.

What did the student say? YESTERDAY'S ANSWER Fill the 13-ounce vessel from the large one. Then fill the 11-ounce vessel, leaving two in the 13. Fill the 5-ounce vessel twice into the 13 thereby letting 12 ounces in on vessel. of the Cabinet. The situation is deplorable, and on two counts.

First, it had to be Rumania that failed to react in the traditional manner toward undying love when this country happens to be the setting of the only unconventional royal love story of our modern world. And second, it had to be the Rumanian peasants who are congenitally opposed to love without the law, when the peasants in Rumania comprise 85 percent of the population. Siren. Not Beautiful The romance of Carol the Sudden a name given the present king by his father when Carol was only 8 and Bibl, Magda la nulled, though a son was born to them. Good for a Time Carol's official bride, whom he took in the Spring of 1921, was, as everybody knows, the beautiful Greek Helena.

For a few years Carol, not yet a king, lived sedately beside his royal wife. The little boy who was later to rule, fantastically, for a short period, as "King Mickey," was born, and Rumania, especially the peasants, were Just beginning to draw a long breatu of relief when Queen Alex.