General & Beasts

In Eastern Europe it is not unusual for packs of hungry wolves to invade towns in search of food, a fact which frequently provides U. S. newspapers with exciting items. Last week in the most thickly populated part of the U. S. occurred the following incidents: 1) In Brooklyn a bear wandered away from Richard Herrold's pet shop, entered a nearby house and rifled a refrigerator, frightening a Mrs Christine Schubert and her 13-year-old son Emil. 2) In Manhattan a pet fox bit Policeman Henry A Bosel. 3) In Washington, D. C., Congressman Fiorello ( "Little Flower") Henry La Guardia continued a Congressional attack upon the bulls & bears of Wall Street (see p 45) 4) The continued Seabury investigation of Tammany corruption filled the Press with references to cartoons of the Tammany Tiger." An alert deskman for the New York World-Telegram put 1 2 3 & 4 together and produced the following dispatch, purporting to come from Riga notorious (like Winsted, Conn, and Evanston, Ill.) as a source of outlandish stories:

Famine conditions in the United States are much worse than has been generally admitted, it appeared today, when through the rigid news censorship established by the Washington government leaked word that ferocious wild animals, driven by hunger, have deserted the forests and invaded towns looking for food.

"A number of bears have been driven by hunger into the frontier community of Brooklyn, and one even invaded a house, the dispatches reveal. Packs of foxes run loose in the streets of New York.

"The federal government at Washington has started an investigation of the situation, other dispatches indicated in veiled terms, and General La Guardia was reported to be seeking funds to lead an expedition to exterminate the bears.

"General La Guardia is one of the leading huntsmen of America, having made a single handed fight recently against tigers roaming the jungles and menacing the lives of inhabitants."

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