Miscellany: Feb. 11, 1924

In Budapest, the police ruled that the Hungarian text of the famed Banana Song is immoral and must not be sung in public, ordered a jazz band in a popular cafe to cease playing the melody. The indignant musicians asserted that a melody cannot be immoral, filed a protest with the Department of the Interior.

In the Bronx (borough of New York City), rival factions of ice-dealers fought a pitched battle in the streets. Ice-picks, ice-tongs, blocks of ice and iron bars were wielded. Six icemen were injured, eight arrested.

In Chicago, Mrs. Florence Alberta Sarno, aged 30, applied for a marriage license, declared she had been married the first time when less than ten, had been mother of a son when eleven and of a daughter when twelve, had been divorced when thirteen.

From Shanghai, the National Christian Council of China protested against the playing of Mah-Jongg by church people in the U. S. “Chinese Christians consider Mah-Jongg wicked and are appalled and upset by the example of their American brethren.”