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HRANAHEE! A pandemonium of sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
...Depression and a benefactor of mankind." While Greek cheers and hand-clapping by Insull sympathizers rocked the court his three lawyers jostled each other in their efforts to be first to kiss his sunken cheeks and the close of Presiding Judge Panegyrakis' decision refusing extradition was lost in pandemonium. "I am very disappointed," said rueful Hunter Harness. "I am sorry for young Mr. Harness," cried generous Quarry Insull. "These Greek judges are ideal! I am more than satisfied. I shall stay here the rest of my life. Greece is a small but great country!" Back in Athens' Hotel...
...last week Luis M. Sanchez Cerro had been shot just 16 times. At Santa Beatriz racetrack last week he had just finished reviewing 20,000 young recruits for Peru's undeclared war with Colombia when up stepped a little man in black and shot him through the heart. Pandemonium. Aides, police, guards lining the way, all opened fire at once. Two soldiers were killed; six soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the scrimmage. The assassin, one Abelardo de Mendoza, member of the suppressed Apra revolutionary party, fell riddled with bullets and pierced by a lancer's spear...
...vote of confidence 348 to 243. The Chamber voted 400 to 181 to sit all night and began to vote sections of the budget, voted 65 of the 150 sections. Suddenly up popped an item of 5% reduction in the pay of civil servants. Socialist objections touched off pandemonium. "My heart is torn," cried stringy-haired Socialist Blum, "but I am unable to vote with my friends!" In an incoherent scramble all sorts of Deputies, eager to curry favor with civil service constituents, followed the Socialist bolt. The Paul-Boncour Cabinet fell at 6 a. m. by a vote...
...dying by inches" in Mafeking while a relief force is on its way in an attempt to raise the seige. The ballet and chorus are reaching their height when the manager stumbles out onto the stage and stops the performance to make the announcement that "Mafeking has been relieved." Pandemonium breaks loose. The effect is one of the greatest climaxes in motion picture history...