SPAIN A H today, The Madrid government issued a tell-tale war bulletin i % ^ It says — the battleline is now Madrid, This from the Socialist side makes it unanimous -- that General Franco*s regiments have circled the city so closely that they are now on the outskirts, ( The Fascist artillery is bombarding the suburbs of the capital of Spain, I’he great government airport to the south of Madrid has fallen to the Nationalists. Another Left Wing flying fiel d is commanded by rebel artillery on a nearby hill. The Madrid radio station near the city is in danger of being captured,y Maddened by the fiery doom that Is closing in on them. the Left Wing fighters surged against the rebel lines south of the city. Their numbers tB fury took Franco's mechanized legions X by surprise. Madrid does not tell us how the fight turned out. but Nationalist headquarters declares that the surgedKmasses of half-armed, half-crazed men were mowed down by machine guns and driven off by x tanks. Spectacular scenes from the sky were witnessed today over streets and buildings. Nationalist and Socialist planes SPAIN -a fought it out* They circled and zoomed in the dizzy, deadly manoeuvres of fight* Two of General Franco's sky craft were brought down in flames. One said to have been an Italian Jl plane, the other German, A Nationalst daredevil took a dive right down into the Grand Via, Madrid's Broadway, sprayed the streets with machine gun bullets, then zdomed back up into the sky. Everywhere, ©specially over the embattled suburbs of Madrid, the Nationalist planes swooped witTi crashing bombs and spattering machine gun bullets. Madrid is in desperation, its people in terror, the enemy at the gates, death awaiting the red,fighters, death in battle or by the firing squad. Food shortage, starvation threat­ ening. ^L’he government has been changed again, the reddest of /[ the radicals taken into it. These will make the last ditch defense. .'they're digging trenches across the very streets of A Madrid itself. tlie rebels announced — the fj-fth ^column. They have four columns In the field and theyt» been claiming in the capital ^ A These itself their sympathizers have been waiting to rise. ^Sier they A SPAIN -3 call -- the Fifth Column*^) General Franco’s radio declared today that the rising in Madrid has already occurred -- the Fiftlh Column alreadjr fighting. This the Left Wing government denies emphatically, "ifonly t*1© briefest statement of the facts are needed, no elaboration of phrase, no.purple rhetoric — to show Madrid tonight, a modern city of a million, gripped by an advancing tide of war, , - t C l JZJ&Jt't*- EDEN t1 s wonderful when two people are In harmor^ with each other, two hearts that beat as one. It Is still more wonderful when two statesmen are in agreement, seeing eye to eye. And when we find those two statesmen to be Prime Minister Anthony Dden of Great Britain and Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy, the impression of sweetness and light becomes intense. Dapper statesman Eden and scowling bro'iT'^ictator Mussolini have been two duelists in the affairs of state - ever since Eden led the League of Nations opposition to the Duce’s successful adventure in Ethiopia • H of late there’s been more frowning between London and Rome. What do we find today? A We observe Foreign Minister Eden almost repeating Mussolini’s words. In the House of Commons today, he replied to the Duce’s of declarations.last week-end - that,Roman speech presenting an A .-w— olive branch on a bayonet. (today} His Majesty’s Foreign Secretary declaredYthat Great Britain had no desire to attack Italian interests in the Mediterranean. Mussolini had said that Italy had no desire to attack British interests in the Mediterranean. EDEN - 2 Eden announced today that the Mediterranean was part A Ox the lifeline of the British Empire. Mussolini had said that the Mediterranean was life to the Italians. In one case life. and in the other lifeline - Eden spoke of Britain1s determination to protect Britain's interests, while Mussolini had said that Italy was determined to protect Italian Interests. Eden today predicted that Britain would soon have the biggest airforce in Europe. Mussolini had mentioned ItalyTs eight million bayonets. Eden proel»*aodf nWe want poaooia^—cehstog-Mwoolini1 a So UncEXx theyfre in perfect agreement those two harmonious statesmen, echoing each other*s words. Such as one fellow saying: nI»ll sock you”, and the other saying: nI*ll soc* you." 'Eu*r ^ ^ UJ^it ■tr'u-ul xXUo It looks as though v»e uiight pick out a nice, convenient shelf and and place politics on it for the next tew weeks. A good place^for that noisy, cantankerous subject, after the overdose we have had. President Hoosevelt apparently is not going to follow up his immense victory with any immed&te $ burst of activity in Washington. Today1 s ggpgyt^cr:o r&£a§ A fccrilnlited-d^gesm tells us that he is going to se% — meaning an __ ocean trip. And he is going to sea in another sense — d^\ :HP see bouth America. -goinp-—t<» visit Buenos Aires and attend K * A ^ the big Pan-American Peace Conference^ that pow-wow of the nations of the western Hemisphere. will consider a plan for a Pan-American fceague of* Nations*— so we heardl, A. Today the President was in a happy mood — as who L A wouldn’t be in his triumphal* shoes. He receive# a number of A A visitors including Cardinal Pacelll, the Papal Secretary of otate who had luncheon with ilr. Hoosevelt. Anything His Eminence the Cardinal does is-a subject for rumor, questions about Father Coughlin and what not. But today’s visit was merely _ congratulations. That’s what they’ve been having so much of at Hyde P^rk ^ congratulations DUTCHESS COUNTY There's one belated election return I was determined to get straightened out today - the figures from one county. It's Interesting, because it's the President's county. And It's inexcuseable for me to make a mistake about it, because ItTs my county. Dutchess - which has never gone Democratic since the election of James Buchanan, before the Civil War. ( It has been a national phenomenon that President Roosevelt, in all his great triumphs, has never been able to carry his own home county - nor did he do it this year^ Today's tabulation was that he won the nation by ten million. /V A but he lost Dutchess County by four thousand, four hundred and seven votes In his greatest triumph, the most stupendous In American history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not even carry his own town, the place of his ancestral home - Hyde Park. He lost Hyde Park by one thousand, two hundred and thirty-three votes to one thousand forty-nine. But he did carry his own district. Hyde Park is not merely the village, but also a stretch of territory extending some miles along the Hudson River. DUTCHESS COUNTY There’s one belated election return I was determined to get straightened out today - the figures from one county. It’s interesting, because ltrs the President's county. And it's inexcuseable for me to make a mistake about it, because it's my county. Dutchess - which has never gone Democratic since the election of James Buchanan, before the Civil War. ^It has been a national phenomenon that President Roosevelt, in all his great triumphs, has never been able to carry his own home but he lost Dutchess County by four thousand, four hundred and seven votes.J In his greatest triumph, the most stupendous in American history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not even carry his own town, the place of his ancestral home - Hyde Park. He lost Hyde Park by one thousand, two hundred and thirty-three tabulation was that he won the nation by y02^JL mora Haxm IK A. ten million. votes to one thousand forty-nine. But he did carry his own district. Hyde Park is not merely the village, but also a stretch of territory extending some miles along the Hudson River. DUTCHESS COUNTY _ 2 The Presidents home is in the third district, and he won it by twenty-nine votes - three hundr.ed' and thirty-six to three hundred and seven. These figures from thfe POUGHKEEPSIE EAGLE NEWS do point up the Biblical adage about a prophet being not without honor save in his own count s, ^ y voters likewise put a new interpretation on that other Biblical saying "love thy neighbor." ■ ■ ~ Tr* v-I' - .'U/UU' lju J Jstn/. c? ___ T STAKLE2 RINEHART and L.T. * Everybody who reads books knows the name of Rinehart, Mary Roberts Rinehart probably has written one long series of best-sellers. Her son Stanley doesnft write them, he publishes and sells such books as "Anthony Adverse^ He is also President j of the National Association of Book Publishers of America. X j brought him here tonight to tell us about the National Book Fair that New Yor^s Mayor formally opened last night at the International Building, in Rockefeller Center. Stanley, tell us the purpose of this carnival of books. Wha^s the esoteric reason? MR. RINEHART;- p- t t i * t n ^ j - Under the leadership of the NEW YORK TIMES, seventy-two American publishers have opened their safes and brought out rare manuscripts,: costly bindings, letters from famous authors. We also thought it would be interesting to let the public see how books are made. | so we show the whole process STANLEY RINEHART and T..T, _ g Whatfs the rarest thing on display at this National Book Fair? MRj—RINEHARTs- For one things the J. Pierpont Morgan Library has loaned us the famous Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed from moveable type. It1s insured for three hundred thousand dollars. Its estimated worth Is five hundred thousand dollars. In the Doubleday, Doran booth youTll see a copy of a volume called nThe Mint” by Aircraftsman Ross. And he, as you so well know, Lowell, was T. E. Lawrence — "Lawrence of Arabia.” g*nnBy±tfiripyty L.T.Oh yes, thatfs the mysterious Lawrence book that cannot be shown to the public until 1950? RINEHART;- Thatfs the one. Though the book will be on exhibition at the Fair, nobody can look at its contents. It shown in an especially constricted burglar-proof case, the mechanism so sensitive that a touch of 'he hand will set off an alarm. Only STANLEY RINEHART and L.T. - 3 twelve copies of ”The Mint*' have been printed. Ten are for sale, if you have the price:- five hundred thousand dollars each. ?-L~ Didn1! I hear something about the famous ^Boswell Papers," discovered by Colonel Ralph Isham at the ancestral home of the Boswell family? MR. RINEHART:- Yes, you mean the original manuscript of Boswell’s nJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Dr. Samuel Johnson.11 The Colonel found that manuscript at Malahide Castle in an old croquet box. Then there’s the manuscript of John Brown’s Body, and of Anthony Adverse. Another feature of our Fair is the talks by more than a hundred literary celebrities every afternoon and evening. And, by the way, Lowell, don’t forget you promised YD AY to speak a week from t£Vflwrpr111. L.T. Thanks for the reminder. President Rinehart BASEBALL Fi The last of the spitters.returns to the limelight and the big time. In referring to saliva, I donTt mean to be indelicate - not around dinnerI mean the science of slippery elm as applied to baseball. The younger generation fans know nothing of the old-time spit ball, the moist delivery. Yet not many years ago, it was a characteristic sight on the diamond to see the pitcher put the ball to his face, and apply to it the juice of slippery elm which he was chewing, and then the ball would slip easily out of his hand, as he tossed it and would wabble in a bewildering way as it passed the batter. So, when I speak of the last ajdt-spitter - I mean Burleigh Grimes, dprx&dt*' i artist* with slippery elm, and the last one permitted A to use it in big league baseball. old jiaaiB »o manage"!*. It was back in Nineteen Twenty that the rules of pitching were revised - the spit ball forbidden. But - the pitchers who were already using the slippery elm technique, were allowed to keep on with it, as long as their baseball BASEBALL - 2 careers lasted. No new moist ball artists were admitted into the big show. Soothe old race died gradually out of baseball. In Nineteen Twenty, £k Burleigh Grimes and his slippery elm won twenty-three games, and were the principal reason why the Brooklyn team captured the pennant. He was a veteran then. In Nineteen Twenty-seven, he and his salivary ■nSe^ pitching were traded to the Giants.. traded i^ to other teams. In Nineteen Thirty-Four, the old master was still pitching - the of slippery elm. .s last season. He became a manager of minor league teams. The managerial capacity is slippery 'enough, but It has nothing to do with elm - except maybe to raise elm. Now^it's back to Brooklyn for Burleigh, to succeed Casey Stengel, once his team-mate and fellow star.. There he111 live up to his name as he has always done - Burleigh, *±*toc* husky, hustling, with GLJ l Ct scrappy, a battling will to win. v~l£ -iJU UIMIiBY From the African jungle comes a booming of war drums. From the Liberian bush comes a wild shout, "The king will di^ but we will not surrender and boom, booming of war drums* From the equatorial forests comes a mad wail, "The king will be hanged, but we will never surrender," and a boom, booming of war drums. That chorus of tropical sounds is the latest word in a weird tragedy of the black tangle, where wild men fight. And we hear the murmur of those familiar syllables - the League of Nations. Itfs the tragedy of Chief Nimley, the black lord of the Kru tribe. Somebody told him about the League of Nations. That peace and good-will society, exercising its magical spell even in the "heart of darkness"^-as Joseph Conrad called it. For several years there has been a war to the death in Liberia, the troops of the blacje republic fighting to suppress the Kru tribe and its leader. Chief Nimley - terror of Liberia. NIMLEY - 2 lMPdEtaPC^^tlryX3CfRfatwTlfXg±g^iLkjiC3c3ryan^BryTfi-wYfearfeir3rg;ypryy^ifl^YV^-xtft^^TMi^T{y He saw his tillages burn, his people starve, five thousand of his fighting men killed, but he still resisted, - because some mysterious white man told him about the League of nations. In Nineteen Thirty-Two, eighty of his sub-chiefs deserted him. They surrendered to the government on a promise of safety, but they were hanged. Chief Nimley fought on, because he didn*t want to be hanged - and because the white man told him he would get help from the League of Nations. . The regiments of the government drove him and his surviving tribesmen deeper into !! the Jungle. They starved. They ate roots and grass. But they : fought on. 0hief Nimley still believed in the League of Nations. One day recently, a gaunt and emaciated savage appeared I ! out of the bush at the camp of the Liberian army. It was Chief Nimley. They took him before the Liberian generals, and he said I he wanted to surrender. NIMLEY - S I" seventeen sons,** he i&wg’^'g related. MThey were killed one by one. Now the last, the youngest, has been slain In battle. I no longer have anything to live for. So I am here# J \ , Chief Nimley surrenders." They took him away to await his fate. He will probably be hanged. He doesnft care. So dispirited is he^ that he made his final gesture of defeat - by sending a command to the remaining handful of his warriors, saying nsurrender". The king orderrf his kingless tribe finally to yield. m \n Today in Liberia they heard the^answer - No. The war drums of the Krus gave thdtreply: "Our king will be hanged, but we will never surrender! " That - and a boom, booming of 5<\\ war drums (Zj( »v»C&? 'tevvMyvwwr-