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! GENERAL NEWS OF DAY f $ The New York Giarits will have a real 1 giant in their lineup next season, if Manuel Salvo, a Pacific Coast league sensation, ! makes the grade in spring training. Hes 1 six feet three and a half inches tall and despite a sore arm won nineteen and lost eight in the Pacific Coast league this year, i He fanned 176, walked 73 and participated in 73 games. Manuel has had two trials with the Boston Red Sox and now comes back j to the majors for a third. j McKendree College at Lebannon, 111., has what is believed to be the oldest bell in the United States. The bell, hanging in the colleges 80-year-old chapel tower, was found in the ruins of a deserted Indian mission ! church in New Mexico by a band of Sante : Fe traders and brought to St. Louis in the 1850s. TheChicago City Opera Company will open the 1938 season October 29 with a non-sub- I scription performance of "Othello." The lead- ing roles will be sung by Helen Jepson, Gio- j vanni Martinelli and Lawrence Tibbett. The grand opera season will continue for a full seven weeks, bringing to Chicago many of the principal operatic artists of the world. The Littlefield Ballet Company, imported from Philadelphia as the offical ballet for the season, will give its first program October 30. The forty-five members of the group are under the direction of Catherine Littlefield, who is also the premiere danseuse. The Littlefield company will present seven programs. A Grimes golden apple tree at the home of Mrs. W. H. H. Reeder, near Fairland, 111., 1 which has a good crop of apples now matur- ing, also has a large number of blossoms ! for another crop. I Greta Garbo returned from Europe and I refused to have anything to say regarding the rumors of her contemplated marriage with the orchestra conductor Leopold Sto-kowski. Giant mosquitoes, hatched out by the incessant rains of September, have invaded Chicago-land and are accompanied bjr the common type in large numbers. All will remain until Jack Frost comes along and nips them. A warning net of civilian observers will strain for the sound of droning motors in the night during the next two weeks, motors of. giant planes intent on "bombing" North Carolina cities in the most extensive air maneuvers in the nations history. The observation posts,- manned by civilians, must report speed, number and direction in tests conducted by the U. S. Army. Recent optical tests of a 200-inch telescope mirror at Mount Palomar observatories proved that the first goal of experts is about to be attained. From Manila comes word that eighteen persons were known to be dead as the result of the typhoon and floods Thursday in central islands of the Phillipine group. All deaths were caused by drowning.
