Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 43, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 March 1933 — Odd Request Phoned From France to U. S. [ARTICLE]

Odd Request Phoned From France to U. S.

St. Louis, Mo.--What is believed to be the strangest request ever made of an industrial organization came

over transatlantic telephone to St. Louis from Marseilles, France. The request came from Howard Y. Bary, business manager of the Hagen-beck-Wallace circus, to Paul Ryan, advertising manager of the Shell Petroleum corporation. The circus man asked for assistance in getting 20 inland natives out of the Indian mountains! He is leaving for India immediately and asked that letters of introduction be sent Shell representatives in Calcutta and Rangoon that would help him obtain co-operation from government .officials in taking the natives out of the country.