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...must to all fleas, Death came last week to Paddy, famed trained flea of "Professor" William Heckler's famed Manhattan flea circus...
Habitual patrons of Maestro Heckler's West 42nd Street establishment well knew the star performer who jumped through hoops, pushed a toy train, danced, juggled, kicked a ball and ended every performance by waving the flag of the Irish Free State in the manner of George Michael Cohan waving the U. S. flag. He was a bright red flea with black, roguish eyes, much larger than most male fleas. Few of his admirers knew that Paddy was not an Irish flea: he was found on a German sailor in Hoboken. Last week Dr. Heckler exhibited his fleas in Carbondale...
Impresario Heckler told a newshawk that Paddy at the time of his death held the all-time record of 52,850 consecutive performances. Said he: "Paddy never once threw me down. . . . Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind attention I will exhibit Paddy...
Secretary of War Hurley carried his campaign for the Hoover recovery program flamboyantly into Tennessee. At Johnson City he was heckled and booed because of his opposition to the Bonus, his treatment of the B. E. F. When a policeman started to oust the heckler, Secretary Hurley exclaimed: "Let him alone. Let him earn his money. Such demonstrations are prompted by reports of the American Legion convention broadcast by a Boston ward-heeling politician who never saw the inside of a U. S. uniform. . . .? Yes, I'm opposed to the Bonus and I've got nerve enough...
Next day Mayor McCloskey hustled out to Camp McCloskey, popped a heckler in the jaw, exclaimed...