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The Passing Show
Attempted "Murder"
NEW YORK, Thurs.--Wil
liam R. Carleton, a policeman
at Buffalo, New York State, to
day told this story of how two
dogs apparently were trying to
drown a small dog he rescued
from a river.
"One dog had the little guy
by the head or the ear and the
other grabbed him by the hind
leg and they flipped him into
the creek.
""Then they'd sit there and wait
until the little one crawled back
up on the bank, and the two
big ones would grab him again
and toss him back into the
water.
"It's hard to believe, but they
were actually trying to kill the
little mutt."
Backstage Justice
CHICAGO, Thurs.-James
Petrillo, president of the
American Federation of Musi
cians held up "Carmen" to
night while he settled in an im
promptu backstage trial the
question of whether the New
York City Opera Company's
director (Lazilo Halasz) had
thrown his baton at the con
cert master (Alfred Bruning).
"Is it true, did you throw a
baton at him?" Mr. Petrillo
asked Halasz.
"Of course not, it's ridicu
lous," Mr. Halasz replied.
"If you threw that baton,
would you be willing to apolo
gise?" Mr. Petrillo insisted:
"Yes," Mr. Halasz said, "but
I didn't throw the baton."
"That constitutes an apology,"
Mr. Petrillo ruled, "It's settled."
Useful Collapse
MANJIMUP, Thursday.-ThO
collapse of an 80ft. smokestack
at the Manjimup butter factory
can almost be regarded as a
blessing.
It weighed many tons and it
crashed without warning, miss
ing the main structure and
water cooling tanks nearby.
By so doing it overcame what
must have proved a hazardous
removal job as erosion had
made the stack tissue-thin in
parts.
It was many years old when
it was taken from the Bunbury
butter factory and erected at
Manjimup five years ago.
Its collapse did not even dam
age the brick basement and
already a new smokestack has
been delivered and is awaiting,
erection.
Symbol Of Mace
CANBERRA, Thurs.--The
House of Representatives today
received as a gift from the
House of Commons the first
Speaker's mace it has owned
outright.
The leader of a three-man de
legation from the House of
Commons, Mr. R. K. Law
(Conservative) said that war
rior bishops in the early Mid
dle Ages used to go into battle
carrying a mace instead of a
sword because bishops were Iuot
allowed to shed blood.
"it was found in practice,
however," Mr. Law continued,
"that a sharp blow of the mace
was just as effective and no
blood was spilt."
In a sense, that was symbolic
of Parliamentary battles.
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